Archive for the 'country music' Category
Eddy Arnold 1918-2008
I was never a huge fan of Eddy Arnold (although Uncle Fucker covered his hit “Tennesee Stud”), but the guy was a bona fide legend of country music. He started out as a cowboy singer/yodeler, but after a few years in Nashville he became a super-slick balladeer in the Nashvegas style: lots of strings, [...]
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Waylon Jennings puts in a massive performance of “Honky Tonk Heroes”: this is just awesome.
And from the same show, “Lonesome, Ornery, and Mean”:
My Favorite Love Song
SuperSuckers: Hungover Together Again
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Gladiola
Seriously, if you read this blog and live in Philadelphia, you should come see this band.
Shotgun Party
Listen to Shotgun Party.
Then come to the Tritone TONIGHT, November 14 2007, and see them live. The Tritone is located at 1508 South Street, and the show starts at 9:00 PM with two other bands (including my own, the Ida Reds). I saw their early gig last night at Fiume and they were [...]
The Return of the Grievous Angel
I have such mixed feelings about Gram Parsons and his music.
I remember the first time I heard a Parsons’ song: it was the classic Blue Eyes, followed by Luxury Liner. The lyrics were perfect, the arrangements compelling, and the production nothing short of stellar.
Then I read Hickory Wind, Parsons’ biography, and I wanted nothing [...]
Porter Wagoner: Rubber Room
A short clip of Porter singing “Rubber Room” with Marty Stuart. I’ve actually never heard the album its on, but the song acquired a cult following:
The studio recording features a lot of weird vocal effects and choruses that make it considerably freakier than what he could have done on stage. You might call the [...]
Porter Wagoner: 1927-2007
Porter Wagoner, country music legend, died today of lung cancer.
I’ve been a huge fan of Porter Wagoner for years: he was known especially for his garish nudie suits (Wagoner probably kept the rhinestone industry around an extra 50 years on his own), and more importantly for giving Dolly Parton her start. He was a [...]
Proof that Pop Country is for Idiots
Martina Macbride wrote a song about Rick Santorum’s crying daughter
You know the one:
I’m still not so much convinced she’s weeping for his loss so much as she’s bemoaning the fact that now Crazy Dad is going to spend more time at home, where she’ll have to listen to an endless diatribe about the Islamofascohomocomunists.
But anyway, [...]
A Gig in Philly!
If you live in Philly, I’ll be thumping the upright bass this evening at the Tritone with Skip Heller opening up for Radio I Ching and supposedly Tommy Ramone (though I don’t see that name in the listings, so caveat emptor (I’m just the bass player, what the heck do I know?)
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