― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 5 November 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 5 November 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061104/ap_on_bi_ge/hispanics_country_music
"I do think a huge portion of the Latin American population loves the same themes: meetin', greetin', cheatin' and retreatin,'" said Eddie Wright-Rios, a Vanderbilt University professor who specializes in the cultural history of modern Mexico.
Where to begin? And the Jeff Walker quote about tapping into the market...No hay negocio como el show.
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Sunday, 5 November 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 5 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
What Is Latin Country Music?
Latin Country music is an entirely new musical genre that celebrates the Latin influence in Country music. In essence, Latin Country music is a hybrid of both the Latin and Country musical genres and cultures (as culture relates to lifestyle, music, and values).
Latin Country music as it pertains to Country music is Country music that incorporates Latin sounds, words, instrumentation and rhythms. Equally, Latin Country music as it pertains to Latin music fuses traditional Country instrumentation, sounds and lyrics with a variety of Latin sub-genres (such as Norteño, Banda, Duranguense, Pop, and Rock).
Latin Country music is produced and performed by U.S. Country artists of Hispanic descent, Country artists from Mexico, Spain and Latin America and by American Country artists in the U.S. The music is performed in English, Spanish or a fusion of both languages.
Latin Country music emanates from a rich, historical background in Country music dating back to the early 1900s. Artists such as Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Buck Owens, Marty Robbins, and Bob Wills have all fused Latin music and celebrated the Hispanic culture in their music. The Country influence in Latin music is also historically rich. Early Tex-Mex artists of the 1960’s such as Freddy Fender and Little Joe created Country music with a Latin twist. Later, artists such as Johnny Rodriguez, Linda Ronstadt, Emilio Navaira and Rick Treviño continued on the path of producing and performing Country music, always remembering their cultural roots and incorporating a Latin blend in their music.
Today, Latin Country music is a prominent and successful style of music performed by cutting-edge artists such as Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, Brooks and Dunn and Big and Rich. The Country music industry continues to celebrate the Latin culture in its song-writing and musical productions with songs such as “Stays in Mexico,” “That’s Why God Made Mexico,” “My Heart is Lost To You” and many more. Moreover, Latin Country music is a steady growth market with the rise of artists such as John Arthur Martinez, Victor Sanz, Anthony Rivera, Fidel Hernandez and J.R. Castillo. Equally, Country music is enjoyed all over Latin America and performed by artists such as Ha-Ash, Jimena, Coyote Dax and many more in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Brazil.
The power of Latin Country music is that it reaches all people regardless of race, language or ethnicity. The U.S. Hispanic Country Music Association is devoted to uniting Country music artists, musicians, songwriters and fans for the purpose of celebrating Country music in its authentic and universal form – whether in English, Spanish or a fusion of both languages. Together, Latin Country music is the bridge that unites Country music enthusiasts everywhere while acknowledging and appreciating the beautiful and rich Latin cultural influence in Country music. [
― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 5 November 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― pinkmoose (jacklove), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
kinda really liking the new darryl worley, which starts off with a great kiss-off to his old label and the n-ville establishment, and ends with one of the better iraq-war songs by any country artist, "I just came back from a war," which strikes me as very no-bullshit and real. I guess he does for blooze-country what dierks b. does for meta-grass outlawisms. I need another listen but so far, so really good.
haven't heard the womack yet.
great old stuff: ray price's "night life" and "marty [robbins] after midnight." got 'em burned on one CD, and enjoying them mightily, just smooth as hell, I mean marty does great by shit like "september in the rain" and ray seems to know plenty about "bright lights and blonde haired women." just the kind of thing I need right now.
and the stereo mixes of gene clark's one truly great and essential record, "with the gosdin brothers."
finally, anyone else know the beau brummels' '69 recorded-in-nashville "bradley's barn"? a fine record that really brings san francisco into mt. juliet, actually, and full of unexpected touches. very even-handed, a good version of the everly brothers song "turn around." a real lost moment of a real gone era, and just impeccable sound.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
ooo, I beg to differ. The reissue of "White Light" with the bonus tracks is also great and essential.
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Sunday, 5 November 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
wtf
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Sunday, 5 November 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― don (dow), Sunday, 5 November 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Nah. I'm guessing that Country music probably needs the Hispanic demographic in the future more than vice versa (which isn't to deny it would be cool if Latin and Country really did find common ground.)
I was wrong about Kellie Pickler's album -- the second half (esp the proggily souped-up California-rock ballad "I Wonder," "Wild Ponies" with its waltz chorus melody that sounds like a bubblegum version of "Wild Horse" by the Stones just like the title says, "Small Town Girl" which I underrated, "Girls Like Me" where she smells the Magnolia trees and remembers kissing football stars) is every bit as much fun as the first half. And lots of it (esp "One Of The Guys" and "Gotta Keep Moving," which I swear starts out echoing "Roll On Down The Highway" by BTO) sure does boogie hard for bubble-country. Plus, at least three songs ("Red High Heels, "Things That Never Cross A Man's Mind," "One Of The Guys") refer to clothes and/or getting dressed and/or going shopping. "I Wonder" seems to maybe be a confessional-teen-pop-style dealing with abandonment by dad song, but maybe I'm hearing it wrong. "I'm On My Way" might be about her dad, too. And I agree -- "Pickler" is a great country singer name.
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― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=nickel+creek
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― don (dow), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I dunno, charley patton always struck me as the real essential delta blues guy, pre-war. he had the rhythmic thing down, he is really funky and rocking, and robert johnson sounds affected by comparison. steve calt's bio of patton could scarcely be improved upon. the thing is, what world was uncle dave macon living in? he was farming and so forth, owned his own land or what? patton, though, what did he own? he lived a tough life--that would seem the big difference, that and patton's music seemed to reach forward and uncle dave macon was a relic of the past--not that there's anything wrong with that, but seems to me the diff between "rock and roll" and, you know, that opry shit. which is of course is slightly unfair to the opry, but it makes me feel good to put it that way. I like all that old weird country stuff fine, but I honestly never felt the emotional connection to it that I've always felt to those old blues guys.
g. himes wrote about the mammals, well, for No Depression, a while back. having heard donna the buffalo, duhks, mammals, nickel creek, and as I like to call 'im Surfin' Stevens, I kinda find the whole thing tiresome. I actually dug the weird sound and *muffled yet angry* thing the mammals did on "departure," and admire ruth ungar's songs. the duhks doing fraser & deBolt was very cool, a stroke, but for my part, Cuban/Brazilian instrumentation does not make a Cuban/Brazilian rhythmic aesthetic, far from it. their last record was really accomplished and while I respect them--I had a great conversation with Scott Senior, and they all seem to be fine people--their music isn't for me, it's for people in Boulder or something. having lived in Boulder, I know about what that whole thing is about. nickel creek is just plain boring, and I never could work up enough enthusiasm to even comment on them. donna the buffalo have some verve, some skank, even. the next step for these bands--brad mehldau is a very fine pianist who covers some, er, interesting pop songs, just like cassandra wilson fell asleep during her attempt to do "pleasant valley sunday" a decade ago--is to make a Big Record here in N-ville with Edgar Meyer and Jerry Douglas and Emmy lou and all them. avant-bluegrass or whatever. all I can say is, there must be some weird folk scenes in canada, and that it's a long way from where I live.
and yeah, roy, I'm a gene clark fan and you're right about "white." it's good. I also quite like "no other" and those great demos he did, like "los angeles." but I love "with the gosdin bros."
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
He did? I thought that was me. :)
I pretty much agree with xhuxk on NC, save the part about the Sufjan comparison. I mean there's a long tradition of boring, non-rocking newgrass/bluegrass/mathgrass (© Edd Hurt), so who needs indie rock to explain why Nickel Creek is crippled?
But they can be decent live--not that that redeems much....
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
and I mean that's just my take on those bands. there's some part of me that kind of digs it but in the end I don't. it's sort of a good idea, what they do, and perhaps it comes down to the material, which is why I probably like the mammals the best, because their songs seem better.
and, I just checked out that memphis commercial appeal link that don forwarded, on george soule. fascinating. that's one I need to hear, since I've been steeped in muscle shoals/memphis white soul this last week, seeing donnie fritts and cropper and all them here.
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― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
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― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Memphis Jug Band are one of the great bands of the century, though I would assume anybody familiar with my second book should already know I think that. And anybody who can't find Double Album (is it in print anymore? I'm guessing not) should track down the '01 Yazoo CD The Best Of The Memphis Jug Band. Better yet: own both, like I do. There's some overlap, of course, but less than you'd think, as I recall (someday I'll compare them track by track.)
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― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link
And right, the Memphis Jug Band's stuff is among my very favorite music, and damned if I don't have my double-LP, the one with the Crumb drawing, any more. Steve Calt gave that to me years ago. I made a tape of that with some Cannon's Jug Stompers and the prime Rev. Robert Wilkins stuff. So that's one I need to get on CD, and thanks for reminding me.
I've known Calt since around '93, when he got me to go down to Bentonia, Miss. and interview a blues singer named Jack Owens. He's always been a good friend and I believe his heart is in the right place; I don't agree with him about a lot of stuff, and his whole take on the blues always seemed like a strenuous effort to place blues into a...framework of the Larger Culture, to analyze it like any other artform. Which should work, but somehow doesn't. Because it's just too strenuous, and you don't get anywhere kicking yourself over and over about your youthful idealism that has now flown.xps
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― don (dow), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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― don (dow), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Dude. Did you interview the Jack Owens? The one album I own, It Must Have Been the Devil, is astonishing. All I know about him is David Evans' liner notes.
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― don (dow), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link
however, even better is the comp cd that comes with the book, just a little sampler, but a really well curated collection of semi obscurities.
― pinkmoose (jacklove), Thursday, 9 November 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link
= big butts? (though only for the athletically inclined women, i'm guessing.) anyway, anthony, what's it called? (the cd and the book?)
― xhuxk (xheddy), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Interesting reissue of Terry Manning's "Home Sweet Home," a real curio from 1970 on which the Memphis producer/musician (he runs Compass Point Studio in Nassau, a very great studio indeed, and the man has truly done it all, producing ZZ Top and Led Zep and Big Star and lots of others) does a 10-minute version of G. Harrisong's "Savoy Truffle," a maniacal Jerry Lee pastiche, and even a fine twisted version of Jack Clement's "Guess Things Happen." It's a parody of heavy 1969-era rock and a parody of the historical impulse as it is writ in Memphis. Remarkably solid and one of the funnest things I've heard in a while.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, Herrmuth Bronson does Musicians Spotlight, this month Charlie McCoy. "Of the musicians that you haven't played with, who would be the three you would most like to work with." "Allison Krauss, Alan Jackson, Diana Krall." The cover of this rag has a circular "violator" that says "#1 when you Google on 'Nashville Music'," but damned if I can figure out how a publication devoted to Music City can't get a little spell-checker going so they could spell Ms. Krauss's first name correctly.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
the big butt classicism is from art and beauty, no i mean tehy are mostly from the chest up, faces in great detail, with out much background detail...
the man can draws i tell yah
― pinkmoose (jacklove), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― don (dow), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link
here is the list:On The Road Again Memphis Jug Band Sobbin' Blues "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (W/ Louis Armstrong) Kater Street Rag Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra Dark Night Blues Blind Willie McTell All Night Long Blues Burnett And Rutherford Minglewood Blues Cannon's Jug Stompers High Water Everywhere Charley Patton R. Crumb's Heroes Of Blues, Jazz & Country Folk Wild Cat Blues Clarence Williams' Blue Five w Sidney Bechet Little Rabbit Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers Sugar Baby Dock Boggs Mineola Rag East Texas Serenaders I Got Mine Frank Stokes Somebody Stole My Gal Frankie Franko & His Louisianians (W/ Ernes "Punch" Miller) The Peddler And His Wife Hayes Shepherd I'm Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan – Some O' These DaysJaybird Coleman Kansas City Stomps-Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers King Joe Jimmy NooneMojo Strut Parham–Pickett Apollo Syncopaters (W/ "Tiny" Parham & Junie C. Cobb) Big Bend Gal Shelor Family Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues Skip JamesGreenback Dollar Weems String Band
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