One of my nieces is at Stagecoach fest. Her IG story said she enjoyed Maren Morris
https://www.billboard.com/music/country/stagecoach-2022-day-one-highlights-thomas-rhett-maren-morris-1235065213/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 1 May 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
Chxckx Eddyx says YEA: Miranda Lambert: Palomino (Vanner/RCA) 8; Priscilla Block: Welcome to the Block Party Mercury Nashville/InDent) 7;
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 12:42 (two years ago) link
riyl Jason Molina / Songs:Ohia / MEC
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/mj-lenderman-boat-songs/
― Indexed, Monday, 9 May 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
one of my favorite albums of the year so far ^^
― alpine static, Monday, 9 May 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
stunned/happy to see it get BNM
On Billboard Music Awards tonight a Miranda Lambert & Elle King raw ( or sloppy depending on pov) duet; Dan & Shay; and Morgan Wallen first appearance on an award show since before his n word incident. He did a 2 song medley
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 May 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
Wallen also won an award for best male country singer
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 May 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
bleuch
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 May 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
Wallen's thank you speech was bland and made no mention of remorse or learning anything from his recent past.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 May 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
Sean P-Diddy was the host and he insisted that Wallen and Travis Scott both get to appear and perform
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
Discovered via Spotify algorithm, so I feel a little dirty, but I’m enjoying this new album by S.G. Goodman.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5fXIv2d6FP5hSTYThKREZH?si=D40IRlq2Tz2gY90gFJB4Fg
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
can relate to that feeling
sounds good
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:13 (one year ago) link
Thanks - didn't know there was a new one. "Space and Time" from the last album floored me on first listen.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
I'll search that out, thanks Indexed
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
"When You Say It" is the one that's really getting me on the new one.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Yeah, looking fwd to new alb---here's my RC comments added to blogged version of Scene ballot re 2020:
Good'uns Added After Ballot Deadline/Subjects For Further Study:S. G. Goodman: Old Time Feeling---Appalachoid high lonesome--associated pitch and power rising bullseye from the persistent and fully occupied folds of fog-smog topography: like The Croz before him, on Joni Mitcherll's debut, Goodman's co-producer Jim James refrains from loading this launch with heavy big-name guests---just close mics That Voice and jumps back. Oh, it gets a bit of echo sometimes, and the swirl of low-reflective resonance also brushes by reverb-y guitar (which can come apart sideways when appropriate), pedal steel, bass, drums (she told Rolling Stone she was inspired by Link Wray's '71 s/t, one of his chicken coop sets)---but mainly That Voice, which is youthful but also one of experience, like debut Joni, with plenty to remember and offload, seeking some relief, but not miserabilist nor wrecking ball, just personalised fragments, scenes, phrases coming toward the brink of clarity---somewhat like early Neko on Bloodshot, when she was covering and writing between Loretta Lynn and Scott Walker. Could imagine Goodman working with Brandi Carlile, the Highwomen, whomever, though for now is still Murray KY collegetown-based apparently. (Before this solo, worked as The Savage Radley with a collaborator who was also a drummer; she's gotta have a drummer, as do my ears)
S. G. Goodman: Old Time Feeling---Appalachoid high lonesome--associated pitch and power rising bullseye from the persistent and fully occupied folds of fog-smog topography: like The Croz before him, on Joni Mitcherll's debut, Goodman's co-producer Jim James refrains from loading this launch with heavy big-name guests---just close mics That Voice and jumps back. Oh, it gets a bit of echo sometimes, and the swirl of low-reflective resonance also brushes by reverb-y guitar (which can come apart sideways when appropriate), pedal steel, bass, drums (she told Rolling Stone she was inspired by Link Wray's '71 s/t, one of his chicken coop sets)---but mainly That Voice, which is youthful but also one of experience, like debut Joni, with plenty to remember and offload, seeking some relief, but not miserabilist nor wrecking ball, just personalised fragments, scenes, phrases coming toward the brink of clarity---somewhat like early Neko on Bloodshot, when she was covering and writing between Loretta Lynn and Scott Walker. Could imagine Goodman working with Brandi Carlile, the Highwomen, whomever, though for now is still Murray KY collegetown-based apparently. (Before this solo, worked as The Savage Radley with a collaborator who was also a drummer; she's gotta have a drummer, as do my ears)
― dow, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Also, she sent this out in 2021; hope it'll be on the album:
My Townes Van Zandt cover of "Lungs" is now available to stream everywhere!I'm not normally one to do covers, they often scare me. I feel it's easier to do a cover poorly than to add to something that was already probably perfect. So when the good folks at Amazon Music offered for me to take part in their Amazon Music Origial series, I was honored, but at a loss for what to do, I chose Townes Van Zandt's "Lungs" because of the odd connection he has to where I live.Like all small towns, we have our legendary stories, and one story from Murray, KY could be found in a little lemonade stand in the middle of town. You'd drive up to Mr. Jimmy Gingles, ask for a Ginger (Fresh squeezed Lemonade, Orange Juice, and Lime) and you would see a picture of Townes hanging over Jimmy's head while he made your drink. Mr. Jimmy and Townes were friends and running buddies. He's often tell you about all the times Townes vistied him in Murray and how he'd passed out on that very floor in the lemonade stand. Townes also play a few times in a bar where I cut my teeth as performer. It was a thrill to record this with my band and Matt Ross-Spang at the legendary Fame Studios. Hopefully I added to the story of Townes and my home with this cover, but like I said, it's hard to put your spin on something you've always felt was perfect.
I'm not normally one to do covers, they often scare me. I feel it's easier to do a cover poorly than to add to something that was already probably perfect. So when the good folks at Amazon Music offered for me to take part in their Amazon Music Origial series, I was honored, but at a loss for what to do, I chose Townes Van Zandt's "Lungs" because of the odd connection he has to where I live.
Like all small towns, we have our legendary stories, and one story from Murray, KY could be found in a little lemonade stand in the middle of town. You'd drive up to Mr. Jimmy Gingles, ask for a Ginger (Fresh squeezed Lemonade, Orange Juice, and Lime) and you would see a picture of Townes hanging over Jimmy's head while he made your drink. Mr. Jimmy and Townes were friends and running buddies. He's often tell you about all the times Townes vistied him in Murray and how he'd passed out on that very floor in the lemonade stand. Townes also play a few times in a bar where I cut my teeth as performer. It was a thrill to record this with my band and Matt Ross-Spang at the legendary Fame Studios. Hopefully I added to the story of Townes and my home with this cover, but like I said, it's hard to put your spin on something you've always felt was perfect.
― dow, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Thanks, really liking this. All My Love Coming Back to Me puts me in mind of the Gun Club.
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
Pitchfork review by GHC: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sg-goodman-teeth-marks/
― Indexed, Friday, 10 June 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
Thanks all for the rec. I'm playing the shit out of it this morning.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
The Brennen Leigh (songwriter for LAW, Rodney Crowell, Sunny Sweeny) album with Asleep at the Wheel is as good a traditional 40s/50s western swing revival as you're going to find.
“I’ve been obsessed with western swing music since I was a kid and it’s always been an influence. My records in the past have ranged from bluegrass to country music to folk, but I’d never fully explored swing until now.” So says genre-busting Fargo-born, Austin incubated, Nashville resident Brennen Leigh, whose new collaboration with the kings of modern-day western swing, Asleep at the Wheel, Obsessed with the West (Signature Sounds, out May 6th, 2022) is a showcase not just for The Wheel or Bob Wills fans, but for anyone who’s ever curled up with Lefty Frizzell, Billie Holiday, Willie Nelson or even Louis Armstrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R7CzT4vikQ
― Indexed, Monday, 13 June 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
Always feel like I have to caveat before posting...not a fan of the guy and his writing, but his nose is undeniable.
Haven't heard most of these:
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/the-best-country-roots-albums-of-2022-so-far/
― Indexed, Friday, 17 June 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/a-rising-country-singer-tries-to-win-over-nashvilles-gatekeepers
― Heez, Friday, 17 June 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
Thanks, will read. I like her. Punchy, well-written heartland country with real sticky melodies. Her vocals are pretty thin though and can grate after a dozen tracks.
― Indexed, Friday, 17 June 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
I guess I'll listen to it at some point, but prev Whitters I rated Less Than Half Good and said why in Scene ballot comments:
Hailey Whitters, The Dream: Unless Musgraves is increasingly your go-to guru, and/or The Golden Hour is your touchstone or wellspring or Sgt. Pepper's, I'd say not to waste time with most of this---although "Red White & Blue" is a keeper: here she actually seems to push back against her chronic sluggishness, in a way I don't think I've ever heard (that wordless, rec cry is not a hook in the usual sense, but keeps me waiting for its return), and "Dream, Girl" is a little sneaky, and "The Devil Always Made Me Think Twice" has that stalkin', smokin' beat and riff, the kind of thing she needs way more of---or a sax solo, steel guitar, hick-hop beats--anything to distract from the drab vocals, trite tunes, triter advice, that the people who might possibly benefit from are not likely to hear, because not enough sweetening for the pill to go viral---also, does she really listen to herself? "Happy people don't cheat"? Well, maybe if the cheatee has already made them happy and ready to take things further---but then, also, just to touch all the bases, "do whatever makes you happy"---so that includes, I dunno, cheating, mass murder, shoplifting, gtfo Some say RIYL: Maren Morris, Miranda Lambert, Lori McKenna, Brandy Clark, etc I do, but this don't...But if'n you really like recent Musgraves and that side of McKenna's writing, Whitters is okay, although we agree on the thinness of her voice, the need for more production solutions.
― dow, Friday, 17 June 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
"we agree" re that year's RC and some email conversations.
― dow, Friday, 17 June 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
This song got my attention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beeJoKpqldM
― Indexed, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
that’s a good tune there
― blame it on the modelo (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
lately i’ve been doing some country writing on the site i moonlight for and bc the audience is predominantly not country fans sometimes i gotta get a little elementary but people seem to kinda like this dolly parton primer i put together, check it out if you’re so inclined https://www.treblezine.com/dolly-parton-best-albums-beginners-guide/
― blame it on the modelo (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
Has anyone heard the Randall King?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 June 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
xp thanks for sharing -- have never listened to Hungry Again and will give it a spin
― Indexed, Thursday, 23 June 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Awrightawrightawright yall
Caught up with @nodepression and talked about reissuing and remastering my album ‘Balls’ 15 years after its release! Check it out! ✨ https://t.co/cs49CrATsw— Elizabeth Cook (@Elizabeth_Cook) June 27, 2022
― dow, Monday, 27 June 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
Oho----Stoney Edwards finally added to a bunch of streaming services:https://stoneyedwards.lnk.to/Stream?utm_source=dotmailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=217444_UMe%20Newsletter%20-%206%2F27%2F22_231803_US&dm_i=4YUZ,4NS4,9J3W9,MLOJ,1
https://linkstorage.linkfire.com/medialinks/images/64f92cae-864e-4ebd-b2f0-bb665e117cdf/artwork-440x440.jpg
Edd Hurt turnt me on to his LPs----here's xgau, with too low a grade for the second album, but fair-enough takes on both:
Mississippi, You're on My Mind [Capitol, 1975]Scandalously underrecorded, which I'm sure has nothing to do with the fact that he's black, Edwards remains firm in his allegiances. "Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul," he announces, and though he sounds more like Lefty than Hank and more like Merle than either, he's got a right. The voice has Haggard's swing and melismatic burr, but it's more powerful, an advantage except when it gets too thick. And though Edwards literally can't read or write, he makes up good songs and picks better ones. Between "We Sure Danced Us Some Good Ones," a believable account of a good marriage in a music that reserves its honesty for the bad ones, to "Summer Melodies," about innocent fun, he touches all the bases without sententiousness or whoop-de-doo. Country soul indeed. A-Blackbird [Capitol, 1976]In which well-meaning producer Chip Taylor provides Edwards with a wonderful title tune about "a couple of country niggers/Stealin' the rodeo" while nudging him in a rockish, folkish direction, probably in the belief that he has a better shot at an audience over there. The results are hardly disgraceful, though Joe Cocker didn't get away with six minutes worth of "Bird on a Wire" either. But the straight country album Edwards did last year was a lot tougher. When people in Nashville get serious, they have a tendency to fall for pretentious schmaltz--that's the story of Mickey Newbury's life. A lot of this, straight country and folkish-rockish both, is too damn close to the edge. B+
Blackbird [Capitol, 1976]In which well-meaning producer Chip Taylor provides Edwards with a wonderful title tune about "a couple of country niggers/Stealin' the rodeo" while nudging him in a rockish, folkish direction, probably in the belief that he has a better shot at an audience over there. The results are hardly disgraceful, though Joe Cocker didn't get away with six minutes worth of "Bird on a Wire" either. But the straight country album Edwards did last year was a lot tougher. When people in Nashville get serious, they have a tendency to fall for pretentious schmaltz--that's the story of Mickey Newbury's life. A lot of this, straight country and folkish-rockish both, is too damn close to the edge. B+
― dow, Monday, 27 June 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
Jake Blount's Spider Tales got a good RC reception---The New Faith(9/23) takes his kind of tales further:
This record features ten reimagined and reinterpreted traditional Black spirituals across twelve tracks in addition to two original spoken word pieces...The album manifests our worst fears on the shores of an island in Maine, where Blount enacts an imagined religious ceremony performed by Black refugees after the collapse of global civilization due to catastrophic climate change. Most importantly, it snaps us out of our tragically limited historical vantage point to better understand our actions and culture as they exist in deep time..."I have long felt a powerful draw to the old spirituals passed down in my community," writes Blount. "I am an unlikely devotee; I only rarely attended church as a child, declared myself an atheist at the tender age of eight and developed a strong antipathy toward Christianity when I began to understand my queerness. Nonetheless, spirituals are the songs I bring to communal singing events. They are the songs I teach. In moments of homesickness, sorrow and fear, they are the songs I turn to for solace.""The destruction of a way of life entails both loss and growth. The traditional songs I adapted for The New Faith originally developed among a people who had but recently been robbed of home, history, family, culture, and society. The unique history of African American people made our musical tradition an ideal candidate for my ambitious task. The New Faith is a statement of reverence for our devastating, yet empowering past; of anticipation and anxiety toward our uncertain future; and of hope that, come what may, something of us will yet survive.”
"The destruction of a way of life entails both loss and growth. The traditional songs I adapted for The New Faith originally developed among a people who had but recently been robbed of home, history, family, culture, and society. The unique history of African American people made our musical tradition an ideal candidate for my ambitious task. The New Faith is a statement of reverence for our devastating, yet empowering past; of anticipation and anxiety toward our uncertain future; and of hope that, come what may, something of us will yet survive.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3p20tC2k-w
https://folkways.si.edu/jake-blount/the-new-faith?mc_cid=f5a7e542c8&mc_eid=b45ecb38a9
His and other tour dates:https://folkways.si.edu/tour
― dow, Monday, 27 June 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
From New West, Sept. 2:
Recorded live on September 15, 1981, Live At Gilley’s captures Kris Kristofferson at a time in his career where he and his band were firing on all cylinders. Kristofferson was with a full band out on the road that featured Stephen Bruton, Donnie Fritts and Billy Swan. On this night, the band stopped by Gilley’s Honkytonk in Pasadena, Texas to deliver a once in a lifetime performance featuring the hits, “Me And Bobby McGee”, “The Pilgrim” and “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down.”“What a great album this is! Classic Kristofferson songs throughout, and live!! Kris was in his prime and his vocals were outstanding and very soulful as always.” - George Strait
“What a great album this is! Classic Kristofferson songs throughout, and live!! Kris was in his prime and his vocals were outstanding and very soulful as always.” - George Strait
― dow, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
His vocals, hmmm.
― dow, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
More about that album, from No Dep---don't think I've ever heard a live album from Gilley's, although
“Gilley’s could hold several thousand people, but the club was very intimate. You were right there on the stage with people all around you. You could bend down and shake hands with people,” recalls Mickey Gilley in liner notes written a few months before he died last May. “Right next to the club was the recording studio, and we recorded everything that was done onstage. We could record onto the 24-track machine that we had in the studio, then we would do the mixing … We booked a lot of shows around that time, including some people I didn’t think would want to play the club. We got some acts that made me think, ‘Are you kidding me?’ … Kris Kristofferson was one of those artists that I didn’t think would want to play Gilley’s, because he was such a big name and a tremendous talent.”
Me and Bobby McGeeHere Comes That Rainbow AgainCasey’s Last RideYou Show Me Yours (And I’ll Show You Mine) / StrangerNobody Loves Anybody AnymoreDarby’s CastleIf It’s All the Same to YouThe PilgrimFor the Good TimesSunday Mornin’ Comin’ DownThe Silver Tongued Devil and ISmile at Me AgainSame Old SongLoving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)Why Me
― dow, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
Of all the dumb things I’ve seen on the internet today, and it’s a very competitive group, this is by far the dumbest. pic.twitter.com/DBPaZbmmXK— Trey Wilson (@treywilson757) June 29, 2022
― Indexed, Wednesday, 29 June 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
If you’ve spent time in rural sub Saharan Africa one thing that might shock you is the popularity of American country music to the point where you can’t go to a bar, party, or wedding without avoiding it 🧵 pic.twitter.com/gpYC7fdq78— The Zimbabwean (@RisenChow) June 30, 2022
― dow, Friday, 1 July 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
Up close and personal at the @sbBowl!! 😆 Thanks for hanging out with us Santa Barbara! We'll see you tonight @ShorelineAmp!!! https://t.co/XClILe0u7u#CHX2022 pic.twitter.com/BD8MoccKHP— The Chicks (@thechicks) July 30, 2022
― dow, Sunday, 31 July 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
@thechicks you did not disappoint Santa Barbara ❤️ pic.twitter.com/RonYaUvNMx— Nick Smay (@nicks4445) July 30, 2022
― dow, Sunday, 31 July 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
When the Newport Folk Festival approached Black Opry founder Holly G last November about curating a set at the 2022 fest, her initial response was disbelief. At that point, her organization only had one live show — the first-ever Black Opry Revue at the Rockwood Music Hall in New York — under its belt.“It felt like a very big deal, especially because we were new,” she says. “That was a lot of trust they had to put in me, based on very little information that they had about who I was and what I was doing.”A lifelong fan of country music who did not feel safe going to country shows, Holly created Black Opry in April 2021, envisioning it as an online space to celebrate the music she loved and offer a refuge for like-minded fans. Almost immediately, her website began attracting the attention of artists from all corners of the country, Americana, and roots world, and Holly became determined to create real-world opportunities for artists who had been tokenized or outright excluded.Last September, the Black Opry hosted invite-only gatherings at an Airbnb in East Nashville dubbed the “Black Opry Outlaw House” during last year’s AmericanaFest, and the ideas and camaraderie there led to the first Black Opry Revue in New York. Less than a year later, Black Opry has put on more than 30 live revues across the country, featuring dozens of artists, with as many more events scheduled through the end of the year and a spot on next year’s Cayamo roots music cruise.
“It felt like a very big deal, especially because we were new,” she says. “That was a lot of trust they had to put in me, based on very little information that they had about who I was and what I was doing.”
A lifelong fan of country music who did not feel safe going to country shows, Holly created Black Opry in April 2021, envisioning it as an online space to celebrate the music she loved and offer a refuge for like-minded fans. Almost immediately, her website began attracting the attention of artists from all corners of the country, Americana, and roots world, and Holly became determined to create real-world opportunities for artists who had been tokenized or outright excluded.
Last September, the Black Opry hosted invite-only gatherings at an Airbnb in East Nashville dubbed the “Black Opry Outlaw House” during last year’s AmericanaFest, and the ideas and camaraderie there led to the first Black Opry Revue in New York. Less than a year later, Black Opry has put on more than 30 live revues across the country, featuring dozens of artists, with as many more events scheduled through the end of the year and a spot on next year’s Cayamo roots music cruise.
― dow, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
Reminding me I still need to check out those Dirty Laundry comps recently received
I wrote this month's @guardian music essay on African country music, Jamaica and my family's history with country. With shoutouts to @dustyandstones Uchenna Ikonne @lloydbradley @SoulCountry1 @BlackOpry @outsidechild13 @NTSlive and more. https://t.co/svHUFc63yD— Jamal Khadar (@khadarfi) August 13, 2022
― dow, Sunday, 14 August 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
Live Forever: A Tribute To Billy Joe Shaver, out Nov. 11 on New West:
TRACKLIST:Willie Nelson Feat. Lucinda Williams - "I’m Gonna Live Forever"Ryan Bingham Feat. Nikki Lane- "Ride Me Down Easy"Rodney Crowell - "Old Five And Dimers Like Me"Miranda Lambert - "I’m Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Someday)"Edie Brickell - "I Couldn’t Be Me Without You"Nathaniel Rateliff - "You Asked Me To"George Strait - "Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me"Amanda Shires Feat. Jason isbell - "Honky Tonk Heroes"Steve Earle - "Ain’t No God In Mexico"Margo Price Feat. Joshua Hedley - "Ragged Old Truck"Willie Nelson - "Georgia On A Fast Train"Allison Russell - "Tramp On Your Street"
Willie Nelson Feat. Lucinda Williams - "I’m Gonna Live Forever"Ryan Bingham Feat. Nikki Lane- "Ride Me Down Easy"Rodney Crowell - "Old Five And Dimers Like Me"Miranda Lambert - "I’m Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Someday)"Edie Brickell - "I Couldn’t Be Me Without You"Nathaniel Rateliff - "You Asked Me To"George Strait - "Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me"Amanda Shires Feat. Jason isbell - "Honky Tonk Heroes"Steve Earle - "Ain’t No God In Mexico"Margo Price Feat. Joshua Hedley - "Ragged Old Truck"Willie Nelson - "Georgia On A Fast Train"Allison Russell - "Tramp On Your Street"
― dow, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
oh shit that looks so good
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
YEAH Hello in There is a SAD SONG, but what YOU don’t realize is it’s actually a crushing indictment of the AMERICAN DREAM- the couple did everything you’re SUPPOSED to do, but at the end they’re LONLEY & FORGOTTEN! It’s really a more cogent takedown than The Great Gat pic.twitter.com/XK55if6gt2— OH BOY Records (@ohboyrecords) August 17, 2022
― dow, Thursday, 18 August 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
All Roads Lead Back To Red: A Pedal Steel Mixtape / Volume 2 https://t.co/A7GnO8pUs5This mix picks up where All Roads Lead To Red: A Pedal Steel Mixtape left off, delving deeper into the sessionography of the Velvet Hammer, Orville “O.J” “Red” Rhodes. pic.twitter.com/XJGyRlyhnq— aquarium drunkard (@aquadrunkard) August 20, 2022
― dow, Sunday, 21 August 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
from Omnivore:
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Buck Owens And The BuckaroosBakersfield Gold: Top 10 Hits 1959–1974Release date: September 2, 2022 Forty six Top 10 Hits (including 19 #1’s) on double-CD, triple-LP, and Digital.Buck Owens is a country music icon. As one of the best-selling artists of the 1960s, he accumulated numerous Top 10 hits with 19 of them reaching the #1 top spot on the charts. Now all of Owens’ Top Ten hits from 1959–1974 have been compiled on Bakersfield Gold: Top 10 Hits 1959–1974.Collecting 46 tracks, this release is available as a double-CD, triple-LP, and Digital release. Featuring new liner notes from Grammy®-nominee, Randy Poe (author of Buck ‘Em: The Autobiography Of Buck Owens), this is the first collection to compile Buck’s Top 10 hits on vinyl, with a limited edition gold vinyl version for independent retail.Bakersfield Gold is the ultimate collection of Owens’ biggest hits, with The Buckaroos, Rose Maddox, Buddy Alan, Susan Raye, and more. With its availability across all formats, this is a perfect introductory collection for the new fan, and an incredible ride for those who already love the magic of Bakersfield. 2-CD / 3-LP / DIGITAL TRACK LIST:DISC 1:UNDER YOUR SPELL AGAINABOVE AND BEYONDEXCUSE ME (I THINK I’VE GOT A HEARTACHE)FOOLIN’ AROUNDLOOSE TALK – Buck Owens & Rose MaddoxMENTAL CRUELTY – Buck Owens & Rose MaddoxUNDER THE INFLUENCE OF LOVEKICKIN’ OUR HEARTS AROUNDYOU’RE FOR MEACT NATURALLYLOVE’S GONNA LIVE HEREMY HEART SKIPS A BEATTOGETHER AGAINI DON’T CARE (JUST AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME)I’VE GOT A TIGER BY THE TAILBEFORE YOU GOONLY YOU (CAN BREAK MY HEART)GONNA HAVE LOVEBUCKAROOWAITIN’ IN YOUR WELFARE LINETHINK OF MEOPEN UP YOUR HEARTWHERE DOES THE GOOD TIMES GOSAM’S PLACEDISC 2:YOUR TENDER LOVING CAREIT TAKES PEOPLE LIKE YOU (TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE ME)HOW LONG WILL MY BABY BE GONESWEET ROSIE JONESLET THE WORLD KEEP ON A TURNIN’ – Buck Owens & Buddy AlanI’VE GOT YOU ON MY MIND AGAINWHO’S GONNA MOW YOUR GRASSJOHNNY B. GOODETALL DARK STRANGERBIG IN VEGASTHE KANSAS CITY SONGTHE GREAT WHITE HORSE – Buck Owens & Susan RayeI WOULDN’T LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY (IF THEY GAVE ME THE WHOLE DANG TOWN)BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERRUBY (ARE YOU MAD)ROLLIN’ IN MY SWEET BABY’S ARMSI’LL STILL BE WAITING FOR YOUMADE IN JAPANBIG GAME HUNTERON THE COVER OF THE MUSIC CITY NEWS(IT’S A) MONSTERS’ HOLIDAYGREAT EXPECTATIONSCat: OV-485
Forty six Top 10 Hits (including 19 #1’s) on double-CD, triple-LP, and Digital.Buck Owens is a country music icon. As one of the best-selling artists of the 1960s, he accumulated numerous Top 10 hits with 19 of them reaching the #1 top spot on the charts. Now all of Owens’ Top Ten hits from 1959–1974 have been compiled on Bakersfield Gold: Top 10 Hits 1959–1974.
Collecting 46 tracks, this release is available as a double-CD, triple-LP, and Digital release. Featuring new liner notes from Grammy®-nominee, Randy Poe (author of Buck ‘Em: The Autobiography Of Buck Owens), this is the first collection to compile Buck’s Top 10 hits on vinyl, with a limited edition gold vinyl version for independent retail.
Bakersfield Gold is the ultimate collection of Owens’ biggest hits, with The Buckaroos, Rose Maddox, Buddy Alan, Susan Raye, and more. With its availability across all formats, this is a perfect introductory collection for the new fan, and an incredible ride for those who already love the magic of Bakersfield.
2-CD / 3-LP / DIGITAL TRACK LIST:DISC 1:UNDER YOUR SPELL AGAINABOVE AND BEYONDEXCUSE ME (I THINK I’VE GOT A HEARTACHE)FOOLIN’ AROUNDLOOSE TALK – Buck Owens & Rose MaddoxMENTAL CRUELTY – Buck Owens & Rose MaddoxUNDER THE INFLUENCE OF LOVEKICKIN’ OUR HEARTS AROUNDYOU’RE FOR MEACT NATURALLYLOVE’S GONNA LIVE HEREMY HEART SKIPS A BEATTOGETHER AGAINI DON’T CARE (JUST AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME)I’VE GOT A TIGER BY THE TAILBEFORE YOU GOONLY YOU (CAN BREAK MY HEART)GONNA HAVE LOVEBUCKAROOWAITIN’ IN YOUR WELFARE LINETHINK OF MEOPEN UP YOUR HEARTWHERE DOES THE GOOD TIMES GOSAM’S PLACE
DISC 2:YOUR TENDER LOVING CAREIT TAKES PEOPLE LIKE YOU (TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE ME)HOW LONG WILL MY BABY BE GONESWEET ROSIE JONESLET THE WORLD KEEP ON A TURNIN’ – Buck Owens & Buddy AlanI’VE GOT YOU ON MY MIND AGAINWHO’S GONNA MOW YOUR GRASSJOHNNY B. GOODETALL DARK STRANGERBIG IN VEGASTHE KANSAS CITY SONGTHE GREAT WHITE HORSE – Buck Owens & Susan RayeI WOULDN’T LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY (IF THEY GAVE ME THE WHOLE DANG TOWN)BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERRUBY (ARE YOU MAD)ROLLIN’ IN MY SWEET BABY’S ARMSI’LL STILL BE WAITING FOR YOUMADE IN JAPANBIG GAME HUNTERON THE COVER OF THE MUSIC CITY NEWS(IT’S A) MONSTERS’ HOLIDAYGREAT EXPECTATIONSCat: OV-485
― dow, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
Ken Tucker on the ff reissued, heretofore elusive ,except as quickly removed playlists and and pricey eBay-bait, A Trip In The Country: Roger Miller bomb in 1970, when audiences were expecting more like "Dang Me," "King of the Road" and so on. None of the other excerpts quite come up to the level of the best-known track, "Invitation to the Blues," maybe because his singing isn't quite as strong as his writing, at least in the more serious, trad country vein, at least not in excerpts, but good coverage, and the album seems worth checking out: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1117092882/this-reissue-proves-roger-miller-was-more-than-just-a-novelty-act---Although the 37-track King of the Road: A Tribute To Roger Miller is the best place that I know of to get into the full (or at least a good) range of his writing.
― dow, Thursday, 25 August 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
We apparently don't have a Maren Morris thread — which we should! — so I'll just post this here. She and Cassadee Pope calling out Jason Aldean's wife for anti-trans bigotry, with Candace Owen piling in in predictable ways.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jason-aldean-wife-brittany-transphobic-post-reactions-1235131821/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link