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― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 October 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
Yes, repurpose this thread or yes, start a new one? Leaning towards the latter.
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 October 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
By the Time I Get to ILX: Good Books About Country Music
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 October 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
Okay Lefty Frizzell singing Jimmie Rodgers’s “Brakeman’s Blues” on the official Spotify playlist for episode 1 of this is totally reminiscent of Dylan’s country voice.
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
I don't know if this happening elsewhere, but Houston PBS is re-airing this starting tonight in weekly installments.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 January 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
mr veg got me the book & the soundtrack for christmas #ahHAH
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 January 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
yup i saw a promo abt this re-air whilst watching antique roadshow xp
― johnny crunch, Friday, 3 January 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
Oh, I hope it’s on near me. I had dvr’d some episodes but missed the first one. They are selling them but not otherwise making them available for free online. The 1960s and 70s episodes were very interesting
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 January 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
Although yes those episodes didn’t give Glen Campbell and others their full proper due
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 January 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
I'm in a bar for a Clash Day thing, and the TV is running the Kristofferson ep on mute, and even then, that bit where Charley Pride goes over the lyrics to "Loving Her Was Easier..." is worldbeating.
Where's his movie?
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 February 2020 03:11 (four years ago) link
...and of course there's a Charley Pride American Masters that aired afterwards.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 February 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
Charley Pride was my aunt's favorite singer. That era of country was the music I heard in the cradle.
― earlnash, Saturday, 8 February 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
Via re-airing, finally saw more of the one about Outlaw etc.: Good that they slipped Freddie Fender and Flaco Jiminez in there for a second (FF's bilingual "I'll Be There Before The Next Teardrop Falls"=soulful starpower), somehow thereby mentioning them as Texas Tornadoes, but not Doug...)Can see why Alfred was querying whether Emmylou really loomed *this* large for people of the 70s lol--my impression at the time, without hearing much of her post-GP work 'til later decades, was of her as good ambassador from outside world (post-counterculture, for inst?), and contributor to the country and countryoid community, learning from and creatively responding to tradition, esp. with her bands, trying for albums of distnctive focus (with signature sound, but also striving for records you could tell apart). Still, my more recent impression, of 70s-80s concert tapes, is of a big proto-Americana jukebox/CD carousel on random (if often gorgeous) shuffle.Several excerpts from Heartworn Highways--the DVD I have incl. an hour's worth of bonus footage, and the color edition is worth seeking, though black and white would prob be pretty effective. The mercurial Townes segments certainly demonstrate that he wasn't always dark-to-stark, as some of this doc's commentary claims. HH has other dynamics I won't spoil, just git it and see.
― dow, Sunday, 16 February 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
Can't remember if this was said upthread, but I believe one specific example of Emmylou Harris's influence was having the CMF release The Louvin Brothers' Radio Favorites, for which I think she wrote the liner notes, when almost everything they did was out of print at the time.
― He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 February 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
Cool, didn't know that!"Gram Parsons also recorded 'Cash on the Barrelhead.' And the biggest favor that Gram Parsons ever did for The Louvin Brothers was when he introduced Emmylou Harris to the Louvin Brothers sound. He played this song for her — I don't know exactly which song it was — but her remark was, 'Who is that girl singing the high part?' And Gram said, 'That's not a girl. That's Ira Louvin.' And so Emmylou did a big favor for the Louvin Brother music catalog. I guess it's about 500 songs in all, and she recorded five or six of them, which I appreciate. I know Ira would've, too."Good interview:https://www.npr.org/2011/01/27/133246237/charlie-louvin-remembering-countrys-harmonizer
― dow, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
Parsons also brought "The Christian Life" to the Byrds for Sweetheart.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 01:08 (four years ago) link
"Muh Good Friend--Mistah John Denvah!"
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
Damnit Ken, where was the discussion of this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPfxI0BO98
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 September 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
Minnie Pearl Doc Coming Soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBbHN1_FNg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
Episode #9: TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 August 2023 22:06 (seven months ago) link