RE: Clip: New Faces Show
Bottom line for me is that Jon Randall Stewart's a talented guy, and she's a talented singer (she flat out tore up that "I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can Stand," which was, BTW, written by Bill "I Get The Fever" Anderson), and either their marriage will work out or it won't; it doesn't make much difference to me either way. I met Randy when he was touring with Ms Emmylou. They changed his "official" name from Randy Stewart to Jon Randall to avoid comfusion with all the other Stewart's out there. Hell of a nice guy, Hell of a guitar picker as well. He is quiet well known in the Nashvillian Bluegrass Circles, and not due to his relationship with Ms Morgan either. He also tours with Sam Bush's band "Man-Boy" from time to time. It's going to be difficult for him to step out of that Mr Lorrie Morgan typecast. As for Ms Morgan's enabling of Mssr Whitley. I have heard rumor that Ms Morgan has taken steps to deal with the effects of Alcoholism in her life. Whether this be co-dependent treatment, Ala-non, or shaving her head and selling flowers at the airport, I am unsure of. Jeff Wall http://www.twangzine.com The Webs least sucky music magazine 3421 Daisy Crescent - Va Beach, Va - 23456
** Thanks For the SXSW Updates! **
BIG thanks to all who have been providing SXSW reports "from the field." Have been enjoying all of them. Keep 'em comin!! Any word on Cisco yet?? He had to have been great! Kate
Re: ** Thanks For the SXSW Updates! **
In a message dated 3/20/99 8:09:44 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any word on Cisco yet?? He had to have been great! cisco is playing this afternoon at the No Depression/Miles of Music party cohosted our own Weiss brothers. Hayseed is also on the bill. Before that Cornell Hurd is hosting a big bash at Texicali Grill, with the Hollisters, Ruthie, Hank Thompson and Johnny Bush. Simultaneously there are shows at Yard Dog - Checkered Past records party, and the Green Mesquite - lots of Chicago artists. Tickets are being distibuted at 10:45AM for Tom Waits' first performance in 8 years. I am outa here. Choices. ACK!!! Slim - a study in sleep deprivation PS: I LOVE Australian women!
Clip: rock critic weirdness (NY Observer)
Much bad craziness, aka A Small Circle Turns On Itself... == From Off the Record, New York Observer 3/22/99 A few weeks ago, several rock critics, music journalists and a publicist got an 11-page photocopied manifesto in the mail. Called The Rock Critical List, the homemade screed had one point, which it hammered for about 3,000 or so words. To wit: Music scribbling out of New York-based national publications at this exact moment is unnecessarily lifeless, artless and idiotically panglossed, useless even as a consumer guide. Signed by one Jo Jo Dancer, a.k.a. The Gay Rapper (a requisitely hip reference to a forgettable 1986 Richard Pryor film, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling), the self-hating analyst takes apart a bevy of pop music critics, backing the invective up with such pointed inside information, and in some cases, potshots at their personal lives, that those assaulted are wondering which one of their friends wrote it. The manifesto first appeared on the desks of a chosen few: Vibe music editor Sacha Jenkins, Spin senior editor Will Hermes, Spin senior contributing writer Mike Rubin and Girlie Action publicist Felice Ecker. Most got it the last week of February, when The Village Voices annual Pazz Jop pollor, as Jo Jo so assiduously puts it, self-serving year-end wankoramacame out. The hand-scrawled nature of [the envelope] kind of freaked me out, said one recipient, who said he thought about dumping it in the sink. As it turned out, it was fairly explosive, albeit only in the tight little world of people who write about Blur, Britney Spears and Biz Markie for a living. The bile comes pouring out in a top 10 list of rock criticisms worst offenders. Leading the pack is The New York Times Neil Strauss, a balding, dickless imp, writes Jo Jo, who has become the most craven, punch-drunk phony in the business. (Reached by Off the Record, Mr. Strauss had no comment.) The apparently once virtuous Rolling Stone music editor Joe Levy has morphed into an unabashed, self-righteous propagandist for pop musics ephemeral pleasures. In other words, indie-rock was over, he had a reservation at Union Square Cafe with Elastica, and hey, were a winner, baby! Venerable Village Voice critic Robert Christgau is taken to task for his sadly clotted prose, populist autism and total lack of feeling for todays most important youth musicship-hop and electronic dance. And New Yorks Ethan Smith has the profitable ability to prattle on like a mid-40s patrician (therefore pleasing his mid-40s patrician editors), yet still front like he relates to the wounded, channel-surfing troubadours of his generation. Understandably, reviews from the critics mentioned were mixed. I thought it was moderately witty, said Mr. Christgau. He slammed people who were asking for it, people I dont like either. Mr. Christgau thought he came out all right, though. Its extraordinarily rare that you see something that demonstrates this much intelligence and this much poor reasoning, sniffed Mr. Levy. Matt Diehl, who freelances for Rolling Stone, was summed up by Jo Jo, along with the writer Tour, thusly: No matter how you dress em up, a bitch iz a bitch iz a bitch. Mr. Diehl called it more of a drive-by than a critique and added that he was more concerned that this person went out of his way to humiliate me and then mail it to the people who I make my livelihood writing for. In the small, tightly wound subculture of pop music critics and the publicists who feed them, the list has caused a lot of internecine finger-pointing about who the real Jo Jo is. (Copies of The Rock Critical List are going for $1 at See Hear on East Seventh Street in the East Village.) Its obviously a white person obsessed with hip-hop who at the same time doesnt read any African-American writersor very few, said Mr. Diehl. Another editor noted, its such a small pool of people who could have written it. Not that many people know the detailslike that Boz Scaggs son fetches coffee for Mr. Levy at Rolling Stoneor care, and are as barbed, as funny. It seems like most people are obsessed by who it is, said Spin senior editor Charles Aaron, who received the Average White Man Award in the list for his cultural studies blood-letting in a recent Spin article defending white rappers. Despite his being slagged, Mr. Aaron has become the prime culprit in many of his fellow critics minds. One writer pointed to the apparently Aaron-ish phrases tiny lives and satori as textual proof. Mr. Aaron said he is not the real Jo Jo. In my circumstance, it would be really insane for me to do things like that because it would hurt people who are my friends, he said. I dont know who did it, and its not me. Besides, he added, the information thats in there was not privileged, its basically stuff that writers talk about. On top of that, he said, the list was apparently postmarked from California.
eerie quiet called SXSW
Unbelievable whatdifference a bunch of P2ers at SXSW can make. Mike Hayshttp://www.TwangCast.com TM RealCountry 24 X 7 Please Visit Then let us know what you think! Mike Hays www.MikeHays.RealCountry.netFor the best country artist web hosting, www.RealCountry.net
Re: eerie quiet called SXSW
In a message dated 3/20/99 10:24:50 PM !!!First Boot!!!, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unbelievable what difference a bunch of P2ers at SXSW can make. Mike Hays Yeah, but in a way, it's kinda nice. Sort of like sittin' on the back porch with your guitar and a bottle of Southern Comfort. Mitch Matthews Gravel Train/Sunken Road
Playlist: The Boudin Barndance - 3/18/99
The Boudin Barndance - 3/18/99 Dan Ferguson WRIU-FM, 90.3 Kingston, RI Thursdays 6-9 pm A low key night as far as special stuff tonight on the Barndance. Previewed Deke Dickerson's appearance at Johnny D's in Sommerville by spinning a bunch from him. Getting first-time Boudin Barndance spins this evening was the Meat Purveyors "Madonna Trilogy" 7-inch, new Sugar Hill releases from Terry Allen and Jimmy Murphy (reissue), Farmer Tan from out Southern Cal way, Old Joe Clarks, Jon Dee Graham, and a bunch of Norton stuff including 7-inchers from The Novas and Gene Vincent and a foot-longer from the good 'n' beery Church Keys. Butt-Shaker of the night? For the grapplin' fans out there, "Crusher" from The Novas. Onto zee goods Buck Owens, et al/ Buckaroo / Box Set / Rhino (intro) waco fallout from last week's pint-hoistin' Hoboken gig.. Waco Bros - Outh There a Ways / Cowboy in Flames (Bloodshot) Sally Timms - Seminole Wind / Cowboy Sally (Bloodshot) John Anderson - Trail of Time / I Just Came Home (WB) Charlie Sizemore Band - Don't Just Stand There / Gravel Road (Rutabaga) Earle McCourys - Carrie Brown / The Mountain (E-Squared) Louvin Bros - Ruby's Song / Close Harmony (Bear Family) Meat Purveyors - Burning Up - Madonna Trilogy 7" (Bloodshot) Meat Purveyors - Lucky Star - Madonna Trilogy 7" (Bloodshot) Devil in the Woodpile - Some Day Baby / (Bloodshot) Shelly Lee Alley - Women Women Women / Western Swing Vol. 3 (Old Timey) Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Time Changes Everything / Salutes the Majesty (Bloodshot) Billy Jack Wills, et al - Jazz Me Blues / Crazy, Man, Crazy (Joaquin) Hardrock Gunter - Raggin' the Guitar / Country Guitar (Nashville) Jimmy Murphy - Electricity / Electricity (Sugar Hill) Terry Allen - Southern Comfort / Salivation (Sugar Hill) Jerry Byrd - Wang Wang Blues / Steel Guitar Favorites (Mercury) Old Joe Clarks - Rising Fences / Metal Shed Blues (#Past) Josh Rouse - Lavina / Dressed Up Like Nebraska (Slow River) Hadacol - Poorer Than Dead / Better Than This (#Past) Jack Smith - King of the Show / Can't Help Myself (Run Wild) Planet Rockers - Spin My Wheels / 26 Classic Tracks (SpinOut) Red Sovine - A Kiss and the Keys / Giddy Up Go (Starday) The Corvettes - You Don't Want Me / Soma Records Story Vol. 2 (BeatRocket) Deke Dickerson - This is Ecco-Fonic / 7" (Ecco-Fonic) Dave Deke Combo - Deke's Hot Guitar / Hollywood Barndance (HeyDay) Deke Dickerson Eccofonics - What's That Cookin' / #1 Hit Record (HMG) Deke Dickerson Eccofonics - Sparkin' / #1 Hit Record (HMG) Deke Dickerson Eccofonics - Can't See the Forest for the Trees / #1 Hit Record (HMG) Untamed Youth - Kapo / Untamed Melodies (Norton) Deke Dickerson - Diggin' It / 7" (Ecco-Fonic) Rosie Flores - Funnel of Love / Dance Hall Dreams (Rounder) Fleshtones - Gentleman's Twist / More Than Skin Deep (Telstar) A-Bones - Steady with Betty / Crash the Party (Norton) Benny Joy - Rollin' the Jukebox Rock / Rockin' Rollin' With (Collector) Cheek-O-Vass - Bo Peep Rock / Bison Bop Vol. 6 The Novas - Crusher / 7" (Norton) Church Keys - Who Drank My Beer ? / Work With It (Norton) Faron Young - Country Girl / Live Fast Love Hard (CMF) Gene Vincent - Lonesome Boy / 7" (Norton) Cesar Rosas - Struck / Soul Disguise (Rykodisc) Texas Tornadoes - Laredo Rose / (Reprise) Farmer Tan - Big Room / (Foothill) Mark Insley - Fast Train to Nowhere / Good Country Junk (Country Town Music) Jon Dee Graham - Black Box / Summerland (New West) Kim Richey - The Lonesome Side of Town / Bitter Sweet (Mercury) Vic Chesnutt - Until the Led / The Salesman Bernadette (Capricorn) Kelly Willis - Heaven Bound / What I Deserve (Rykodisc) Uncle Tupelo - Movin' On / Superfanstastic Megasmash Hits (Backyard) Burton Mooney / Corn Pickin' / Legends of Country Guitar / Rhino (outro) Enjoy. Boudin Dan N.P. - Ernest Tubb "Live 1965"
re: Shaver (and SXSW)
Just had to agree that the Shaver show has been my highlight of SXSW, as well. (The Lonesome Bob show at Scholz Garden, with the Wacos jumping on stage to help out, is a close second.) Did I mention Freakwater at the Green Mesquite? Sublime. Looking forward to Robbie Fulks and the Bottle Rockets tonight... Joyce Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Shaver (and SXSW)
My highlight so far has to be Doug Sahm and Johnny Bush performing in the Texicali Grill parking lot today with Cornell Hurd's band. Great stuff. Cisco was really good, although a bit of a poser. His songs were worth waiting for, and even though the folks at the Broke Spoke cut the power, he delivered a tight short set. The highlight may change tonight as I am off to see the Donald Lindley benefit show with the reunited Flatlanders, Guy Clark, Kimmie Rhodes, and some fellow named Willie Nelson. Then after that it's off to the Paramount to see TOM WAITS Wooohooo Slim - overstimulated
SXSW (was re: shaver etc.)
Slim wrote Wooohooo Ok, just for that, smart guy - please do post extensive descriptions. The Waits show the Flatlanders hook-up I'd really like to hear details on. merci, Carl, bereft in Toronto
