Third Coast Music Network 4/4/99 Playlist
New Stuff. Yeee-Hawww. Gatemouth Brown - Blackjack ""- Here I Am ""- Street Corner Terry Allen - Ain't No Top 40 Song "" - Salivation Beausoleil - Cajunization Blues "- Happy One Step Monte Warden - Your Heart Will Come Around " " - The Love You Promised Me " " - It's Only Love Mandy Barnett - I've Got A Right To Cry " " - Give Myself A Party Fats Domino - I'm Ready "" - Make Me Belong To You Billy Jack Wills - Cadillac In Model "A" " " "- For You, My Love " " "- Jelly Roll Blues Boozoo Chavis - Dance All Night " "- Who Stole My Monkey Flatirons - Wildfire " - New Pair Of Shoes David Allan Coe - Price We'll Have To Pay " " " - Drink My Wife away Bo Dollis Wild Magnolias - Life Is A Carnival " - Herc - Jolly - John Hadacol - Cheap Liquor " - Pappy Dale Hawkins - Natural Man "" - Hat Trick Guy Forsyth - Children Of Jack "" - New Monkey King Kelly Willis - Fading Fast " "- Not Forgotten You Beau Jocque - I'm So Tired Of You Doing Me Wrong "" - 2nd Line Bill Kirchen - Man In The Bottom Of The Well " " - Big Hat, No Cattle Ruth Brown - Good Day For The Blues ""- Richest One Cesar Rosas - Little Heaven " " - Shack Shambles Jimmy C. Newman - My Pretty Little Woman Is Gone "" - In My Arms Big Bad Johns - Smokin' Joe " " "- The Bar I Call Home Big Sandy Fly-Rite Boys - I Can't Believe I'm Saying This To You " - Buddy, I Ain't Buyin' Terry Allen - Southern Comfort *** Wild Magnolias - Who Knows *** Guy Forsyth - I Like It When She's Easy *** Gatemouth Brown - Up Jumped The Devil *** Big Bad Johns - Dust Of Amarillo *** Mandy Barnett - Mistakes *** " " - Ever True Ever More *** *** = requests Joe X. Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://www.accd.edu/tcmn/" Third Coast site; ACCD/A
Re: Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:45:13 -0700 Cheryl Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After that, you get Kieran Kane and Jamie O'Hara (of the O'Kanes, remember them?), producer John Starling, 'one of today's most respected bluegrass performers' Del McCoury (who?) and some other folks whose names I'll forget the millisecond I stop typing them." Ha! Ha! What a card. (This quote is only incidental to the topic of my screed. I'm after bigger fish to shoot.) You go Cheryl. It's not the ignorance here that really steams me, but the haughty dismissals, the refusal to do even the most basic research into the subject matter. The McCoury statement needs no further comment, but to mislabel/trash my man John Starling -- that really gets my hackles up. This over the wall since I'm unsubbing for a few days for various reasons, but I'd sure like to read your screed when I get back. William Cocke Senior Writer HSC Development University of Virginia (804) 924-8432
Fwd: NYCBLUEGRASS NEWSLETTER for the week of April 5,
I thought this might be interesting to bluegrassers in this area. This guy seems to have his head on pretty straight. There's info on how to subscribe if it tickles your fancy. Elena Skye NYC BLUEGRASS NEWSLETTER for the week of April 5, 1999 THE SLOP-BUCKET by the Editors Two recent events inspired me to take up the issue of jam etiquette in this week's edition of the list. The first occured at 9C a couple of weeks back; two guitar players nearly came to blows when one told the other he was playing too loud. (He was.) The other happened at Jack Dempsey's last Wed. night; a fellow showed up with a thing that looked like a guitar but that plugged into a wall socket, like a vacuum cleaner. Come to think of it, the thing sounded like a vaccuum cleaner too. It was called a "Stratocaster." It occured to me, quite narcissistically, that the publicity juggernaut that is the NYCBLUEGRASS Newsletter might be responsible for bringing in some new faces to the jams who aren't sensitive to their quirky dynamics. And indeed, jamming in public requires finely-tuned social skills and not a little self-awareness, qualities not always in abundance in the world at large. So with that in mind, I consulted a few jam regulars to give some guidance. The first rule is, there are no rules. Jams get their vitality from their organic quality. But there are a few basic guidelines for a bluegrass jam. First: at a bluegrass jam, people usually play bluegrass. It sounds obvious enough; but you'd be surprised how many different defintions of bluegrass there are. You've got your Bill Monroe freaks, your Stanley Bros. maniacs, your Seldom Scene junkies (lord help them), your folkies (zz) and you've got people like Deadheads who think playing Scarlet Begonias on a banjo is bluegrass. Well, it may be. The important thing is just to be aware of how your own personal definition of bluegrass jibes with the definition of the people you're playing with. Some old time backwoods bluegrass tradionalists might think your Scarlet Begonias is the coolest thing they've ever heard. But if they come after you with a pitchfork, don't say you weren't warned. The same approach works for non-traditional instruments. People who show up at a bluegrass jam with a tuba or one of those "Stratocaster" jobs might be the life of the party. But since bluegrass is an acoustic music usually played on the guitar, mandolin, upright bass, dobro, fiddle, and banjo, the tuba player shouldn't get his feelings hurt if somebody at the jam asks him to put a sock in it. As for the actual jamming part of a jam, my dobro playing friend and list member Brian Neligan writes: "It is rare to find an individual who seems cognizant of the Golden Rule of jamming, which Bluegrass Moses got from the Burning Bush long ago. It goes like this: 'If you cannot clearly hear every note that the lead player is playing, YOU ARE PLAYING TOO LOUD.' Consider the overall sound. Would you want to put it on stage? Consider the person next to you who can't hear the lead either, because all he can hear is you. And lastly, consider the person taking the lead, who can't even hear himself and is at this point wondering why he puts himself through this every week." As a reformed loud player, I tend to agree with Brian. I would add noodlers to the loud playing category; noodlers are the people who play leads the whole time, even while others are trying to take a break. The effect is to muddle the sound or perhaps confuse the poor person trying to play on top of the noodles. Loud players and noodlers are a lot like "close talkers," the subject of the famous Seinfeld episode. They just need to be told once to be made self-aware--but who's going to tell them!? Not me. So my advice is, look in the mirror and ask yourself, Am I a loud player? And while you're there, you might as well ask yourself if you're a close talker too. (If you're within 6 inches of the mirror, the answer is yes.) Pretty much everything else you need to know about jam etiquette you can learn from the facial expressions of the jam regulars around you. If you find people raising their eyebrows, rolling their eyes, or pointing at you and making the "gag face" by sticking their fingers down their throats, that may be a sign that you're in violation of some obscure jam rule or other. When in doubt ask somebody. And if people don't let up with the gag faces, you can take solace in the fact that it's a just bluegrass jam in a bar someplace, and who gives a damn anyway? --- General Announcements: -- Check out the bottom of the list for information on local instructors. -- For a fix, bluegrass addicts should check out solidgoldbluegrass.com, a 24-hour bluegrass radio station on the Net. -- Coming soon: an update on the bluegrass festival season. -- If you want to write for or contribute to the list in
Cheap airfares for Twangfest
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Fever query (was: covers)
With all this talk about covers, Fever, etc. I relistened to Elvis and Little Willie John's versions last night and was wondering when and by whom the song was first recorded. Little Willie's is from 1956. Are there recordings before that? Curious, --junior
Chrissie Hynde in Salon
My former future wife Chrissie Hynde (#3 on the list this week behind Emmylou and Ashley Judd) is this week's subject in Salon's ongoing Brilliant Careers series: http://www.salonmagazine.com/people/bc/1999/04/06/hynde/ Twang content: the Pretenders could've been a great roots rock band if they wanted. Dave *** Dave Purcell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Northern Ky Roots Music: http://w3.one.net/~newport Twangfest: http://www.twangfest.com
Re: CD Length?
I just read somewhere that bootleggers are trying to make their cd's as long as possible, to prevent others from bootlegging the bootlegs (there's a fine distinction for ya) by copying them on cd-r. The article said that the max for cd-r was around seventy-four minutes. Ne dada. TWM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone happen to know the maximun amount of music that can fit on a single CD? Gracias. NW === -- Tom Mohr usually here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sometimes here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
Sez Mr. Purcell: My former future wife... This would make a great song. (Am I slow on the uptake? Is it already a great song and I don't even know about it?) Kelly
Re: Beaver Nelson
HEY DAVE: Let me know if anything weird happens and a band drops off Twangfest. I missed the application process but Beaver Nelson could come play if you need a replacement. ciao, Jenni -- From: "Dave Purcell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "passenger side" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: attention Twangfest bands Date: Mon, Apr 5, 1999, 12:15 PM If you're playing Twangfest and you want your URL or email listed on the Twangfest website, please let me know what they are offlist at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gracias, Dave *** Dave Purcell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greater Cinti Roots Music Page: http://w3.one.net/~newport Twangfest Central: http://www.twangfest.com
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
Kelly Kessler wrote: My former future wife... This would make a great song. (Am I slow on the uptake? Is it already a great song and I don't even know about it?) I think Little Charlie the Nightcats have got one called "My Next Ex-Wife." Close. Tom Smith
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
Not Chrissie even though I truly wish that she would get with it record another album. Tired of searching compilations and soundtracks for her voice. Now for twang content, been grooving on a new release by the Sone Coyotes titled Church of the Falling Rain and the lead vocalist reminds me of Ms. Hynde. Good stuff so give it a listen if you get a chance. Iceman
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
Chrissie Hynde was an enormous influence on me as a kid, I ADORED THe Pretenders. Honeyman-Scott was such a twangy guitar player! Everytime I saw them live I would cry, to my great embarassment... Elena Skye
Mistake in Monday Breakfast Jam Playlist 4/5/99
The entry: ME 'N' JENNY AND THE LOVELY MARYLUTHAT'S HOW IT'S GONNA BE ERIC SCHULTZ CLARITONE Should read: ME 'N' JENNY AND THE LOVELY MARYLUTHAT'S HOW IT'S GONNA BE ERIC SCHWARTZCLARITONE Sorry 'bout that Eric and the rest of you all too. Iceman
Car Tunes Yesterday WEVL FM 90 Memphis
Mondays 4-6 PM Had the Asylm Street Spankers in the studio It was cool. I cornered them (not on air) about the stuff on their record that I can't play because of subject, or "devil" words heck, this IS the BIBLE BELT!!! They were really cool. Just felt like it, and hey, that's fine, we just can't play it. Afterall, I am not allowed to play the Buckin Song anymore, so any shit fuck or cock sucker are out of the question This is how the show went. Backsliders - My Baby's Gone Terry Allen - Salivation Elena Skye - I'll Try Not To Cry Tonight Gravel Train - Built To Crash Duane Jarvis - Mr. Dependability (my future ex-husband right after Mr. Wonderful) RiverBluff Clan - Opal's Prayer/Until I'm Gone Countrypolitans - Basic INformation Lucinda Williams - Still I Long For Your Kiss The Mavericks - Dream River Ronnie Dawson - Good At Being Bad Exhusbands - Love You Always George Jones - Take The Devil Out Of Me THE SPANKERS ARRIVE, we talk, we play stuff from their CD, we talk more bla bla bla Cakewalk I Don't Wanna UFO Attack If I Were You Asylm Street Blues We say sayonara. Jimmy LaFave - Positively 4th Street Greg Trooper - Lightning Bug (I LOVE this song) Ronnie Dawson - Chili Pepper Mama Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go Shaver - Look For Me When You See Me Comin Kelly Willis - Got A Feelin For You Skip Gorman - Amarillo Waltz One Fell Swoop - Feet Of Clay Dale Watson - Longhorn Suburban
tv
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, CBS Tu 4/13 Kevin Spacey, Tom Petty We 4/14 Kate Winslet, Doug E. Doug, Mandy Barnett LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN, NBC We 4/7 David Arquette, Susan Tedeschi Th 4/15 Evander Holyfield, Marc Maron, The Latin Playboys Th 4/22 Carmen Electra, James Coburn, Fear of Pop with Ben Folds Five and William Shatner (R 1/22/99) CHARLIE ROSE, PBS Please note that Charlie Rose listings are very tentative We 4/7 Cassandra Wilson http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html William Shatner's performance on Conan was extremely bizarre and is recommended very highly. TWM === -- Tom Mohr usually here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sometimes here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Hong Kong Music
Hey there, This is kind of an off the wall question but... Someone I know is doing some business in Hong Kong and I was wondering if any well traveled folks knew of cool music that one can get over there but not here - also places to go, see, do, hang or whatever. Thanks much. Later... CK not expecting anything
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
My former future wife Chrissie Hynde (#3 on the list this week behind Emmylou and Ashley Judd) is this week's subject in Salon's ongoing Brilliant Careers series: Chrissie, btw, is just magnificent on the opening track to the new Gram tribute on Almo. Makes me want to have a Pretenders Weekend. NW
Re: Hong Kong Music
http://destinations.previewtravel.com/DestGuides/0,1208,WEB_98,00.html has a good overview of whazzup in the former colony. I don't think you'd like most of the Hong Kong popular music (based on what I hear here in San Francisco - not enough twang). You should be able to get incredible deals on (bootlegged) software and electronics of all kinds. When my relatives went to Hong Kong, they bought clothing. Just trying to be helpful.
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
In a message dated 4/6/99 10:51:24 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not Chrissie even though I truly wish that she would get with it record another album. I heard a great old Pretenders song on 107.1 last week, but cant remember the name. The opening line was : "I tried to talk to my baby, and said Oh oh oh oh baby please dont cry." I believe it is from the first or second album. any help? It would be a great ummm, cover song for a twang band. DIBS!!! Slim
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
Slim wondered: I heard a great old Pretenders song on 107.1 last week, but cant remember the name. The opening line was : "I tried to talk to my baby, and said Oh oh oh oh baby please dont cry." I believe it is from the first or second album. any help? It would be a great ummm, cover song for a twang band. That's "Lovers of Today", from the first record, PRETENDERS. Next to last track, after "Brass In Pocket" and before "Mystery Achievement". I love pretending, b.s.
Re: Hong Kong Music
Although I just wrote CK an offlist post, I'll repeat the gist here, in case anyone cares g. Two years ago, right before handover, there were a number of "indie", "alternative," and "rootsy" bands. When I was there in Spring 96, I even played 4 or 5 shows with a local Chinese-British blues kid named William Tang (very post-Mayall, post-British "blooze" style). But not much to speak of in a city that big, and nothing to get very excited about. Most kids there listen to very sugary, very poppy (in the less positive sense) "sinopop." There are a couple of video channels of this kind of music etc. Even with the best attentions, I couldn't get into it: way too saccharine and un"cool" from a Western perspective. I don't know about it these days, but I suspect that the dominance of this "Sinopop" has even increased and that the "western" oriented bands have thinned out even more. --junior
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
In a message dated 4/6/99 12:55:47 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's "Lovers of Today", from the first record, PRETENDERS. Next to last track, after "Brass In Pocket" and before "Mystery Achievement". Muchas gracias. Now, is it on OLGA? Slim
Television Live (and twangless)
Review/commentary on the re-release of Television's live BLOW-UP record. Seminal and magical or pretty much overrated, you decide. http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/music/review/1999/04/06/verlaine/index.html b.s.
Re: tv
is this really Fear of Pop with Ben Folds Five AND William Shatner? ...thinking this is another sign of the Armageddon -jacy --- TW Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Th 4/22 Carmen Electra, James Coburn, Fear of Pop with Ben Folds Five and William Shatner (R 1/22/99) William Shatner's performance on Conan was extremely bizarre and is recommended very highly. TWM _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
former future frimfram on the fritz
(fluff/nitpickery warning) Dave P: As a fan of Ms. Hockeysticks's coinage, Steve Earle is her "future former husband," not former future husband (which would signify a waning interest or a broken engagement...) btw, when I mentioned this to a friend, she misunderstood at first because she'd known somebody who constantly used the same phrase to refer to her *current* husband, as a sign of deep, enduring, fatalistic hostility. B. FFH should be used only for crushable strangers, IMNSFHO. Carl W. twang content: hey, I mentioned Steve Earle.
Re: Television Live (and twangless)
Bill ponders the mysteries of Televison and that epochal artiste, Tom Verlaine... Seminal and magical or pretty much overrated, you decide. Ah well, these are taste matters I know. I tend toward the latter however I'd give their entire recorded output for a single track by the Ramones. --junior
Re: former future frimfram on the fritz
Carl Wilson correcteth: (fluff/nitpickery warning) Dave P: As a fan of Ms. Hockeysticks's coinage, Steve Earle is her "future former husband," not former future husband (which would signify a waning interest or a broken engagement...) Now that I'm thinking about it, Ms. H used it in regard to her former interest in Mr. Earle (using NY Times style here), as it Earle is her "former future husband" replaced by "current future husband" Jay Farrar (or was it Jeff Wall?). Dave *** Dave Purcell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Northern Ky Roots Music: http://w3.one.net/~newport Twangfest: http://www.twangfest.com
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
And Chrissie's a Cuyahoga Falls gal -- and longtime Cleveland Indians fan -- factors that should be considered in her favor! -- Terry Smith, who grew up in adjacent Stow, Ohio ps go tribe -- World Series 99
FW: Swedish Top 10's 1998 (fwd)
I left the few misspellings in; they're kind of cute... Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/ Here are the Swedish Country "Top 10's" of 1998 as voted by the readers of Kountry Korrall magazine. Karen Holt Benelux/Scandinavia Representative Country Music Association MALE VOCALIST 1. Dale Watson 2. Alan Jackson 3. George Strait 4. Dwight Yoakham 5. Vince Gill 6. Johnny Bush 7. George Jones 8. Mark Chessnut 9. Justin Trevino 10. Willie Nelson FEMALE VOCALIST 1. Heather Myles 2. Allison Moorer 3. Emmylou Harris 4. Lee Ann Womack 5. Connie Smith 6. LeAnn Rimes 7. Sara Evans 8. Patty Loveless 9. Danni Leigh 10. Debbie Dukes GROUP OF THE YEAR 1. The Mavericks 2. BR5-49 3. Dixie Chicks 4. Alabama 5. The Tractors 6. Brooks Dunn 7. Texas Tornadoes 8. The Hollisters 9. Prairie Oyster 10. The Derailers BLUEGRASS ACT OF THE YEAR 1. Alison Krauss 2. Ralph Stanley 3. Ricky Skaggs 4. Doc Watson 5. Peter Rowan 6. Weeds 7. The Seldom Scene 8. Lonesome River Band 9. Randy Scruggs 10. Osborne Brothers MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR 1. Junior Brown 2. Thomas Haglubd 3. Jerry Douglas 4. Buddy Miller 5. Brent Mason 6. Pete Anderson 7. Dale Watson 8. Randy Scruggs 9. Janne Lindgren 10. Buddy Emmons SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR 1. Dale Watson 2. Harlan Howard 3. Dwight Yoakam 4. Allison Moorer 5. Jim Lauderdale 6. Heather Myles 7. Chris Knight 8. Justin Trevino 9. Tom T Hall 10. Willie Nelson ROCK/ROCKABILLY ACT OF THE YEAR 1. John Fogerty 2. Dwight Yoakham 3. BR5-49 4. The Tractors 5. The Mavericks 6. Jerry Lee Lewis 7. Marty Stewart 8. Sleepy LaBeef 9. Red Hot Max 10. Wanda Jackson ALBUM OF THE YEAR 1. Heather Myles -Highways Honky Tonks 2. Allison Moorer - Alabama Song 3. Dale Watson -The Truckin' Sessions 4. The Mavericks - Trampoline 5. Lee Ann Womack - Some Things I Know 6. Vince Gill -The Key 7. Dwight Yokham - A Long Way Home 8. Johnny Bush - Talk To My Heart 9. George Strait - One Step At A Time 10. Danni Leigh - 29 Nights http://www.continental.nl + Snail Mail: Continental Record Services Vadaring 92 NL-6702 EB Wageningen The Netherlands tel +31 (0) 317497654, fax +31(0) 317419119 +
Cash Tribute, Mandy aricles
A friend from NY sent this to me and the articles aren't too bad. Thought some of ya' might be interested. http://www.nydailynews.com/today/-/-/default.aspThis the URL for the story on the Johnny Cash Tribute. June Carter Cash was on the radio this morning telling about tonight. All the family will bethere. John Cash will be there and is singing Folsom Prison Blues.This is the paper that had the story on Mandy Barnett. It was in Sundayspaper. There is a search field, if you type in Mandy Barnett it will takeyou right to the page. 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: Television Live (and twangless)
Reply to: Re: Television Live (and twangless) Everyone's entitled to their own opinion blah blah blah, but I have to interject an objection here. I remember the first weekend I went to CBGB's, back in 75 or 76. First night it was Mink Deville and Ramones, next night was Talking Heads opening for Television. As great as Ramones were, Television blew em away. I've never been a big fan of guitar solos, but Verlaine and Lloyd always managed to surprise me. And "Marquee Moon" still holds up. Additional twang: Richard Lloyd backed up Butch Hancock at the Mercury Lounge a couple of years ago, and I still consider it one of the best shows I've ever seen. lloyd's solo on "Bluebird" brought tears to my eyes. BARNARD wrote: Bill ponders the mysteries of Televison and that epochal artiste, Tom Verlaine... Seminal and magical or pretty much overrated, you decide. Ah well, these are taste matters I know. I tend toward the latter however I'd give their entire recorded output for a single track by the Ramones. --junior
Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon
Oh yeah. And who could forget the time at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Opening Weekend show in 1995 when she refused to go onstage until the Cleveland Stadium took down all ad banners that had any reference to meat in them? I'll never forget seeing her yelling and screaming about it: a vintage rock n roll spoiled cry-like-a-baby stupid silly hissy fit. Pathetic. Just to get up and sing 1 song. I still like the Pretenders though. And I lived in Kent, Ohio for 4 years, right next to Stow. -Original Message- From: Terry A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: passenger side [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Chrissie Hynde in Salon And Chrissie's a Cuyahoga Falls gal -- and longtime Cleveland Indians fan -- factors that should be considered in her favor! -- Terry Smith, who grew up in adjacent Stow, Ohio ps go tribe -- World Series 99
Re: former future frimfram on the fritz
Dave continues... (fluff/nitpickery warning) Dave P: As a fan of Ms. Hockeysticks's coinage, Steve Earle is her "future former husband," not former future husband (which would signify a waning interest or a broken engagement...) Now that I'm thinking about it, Ms. H used it in regard to her former interest in Mr. Earle (using NY Times style here), as it Earle is her "former future husband" replaced by "current future husband" Jay Farrar (or was it Jeff Wall?). Given Mr. Earle's marital record, he should probably be referred to as Amy's future former husband, if she's still interested, and former future former husband, if she's thrown him over. --Cheryl Cline "TEATRO isn't the demented freakfest of 'My Uncle Used to Love Me, But She Died,' but it is a work of subtle songcraft and blazing originality." -- Kembrew McLeod, in Addicted to Noise.
Re: Television Live (and twangless)
Bill Silvers wrote: Seminal and magical or pretty much overrated, you decide. I'm with you, which is why I baited the hook that way. Lord, lord no. As Robin wrote, Marquee Moon stands up well over time. Yeah, he's done some goofy stuff, but even the reunion Televsion record was pretty strong. Dave *** Dave Purcell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Northern Ky Roots Music: http://w3.one.net/~newport Twangfest: http://www.twangfest.com
Re: Television Live (and twangless)
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion blah blah blah, but I have to interject an objection here. I remember the first weekend I went to CBGB's, back in 75 or 76. First night it was Mink Deville and Ramones, next night was Talking Heads opening for Television. As great as Ramones were, Television blew em away. I've never been a big fan of guitar solos, but Verlaine and Lloyd always managed to surprise me. And "Marquee Moon" still holds up. FWIW, anyone a fan of Television who hasn't tapped into Sleater-Kinney might want to check 'em out. They're two-guitar interplay is really something special. As is their two vocal interplay. Just two of several things that make them maybe the most vital rock band around at the moment. Cheerleadingly, Neal Weiss
Clip: Blacks in country music (from the US News World Report website, believe it or not)
Breaking a color line, song by song Country music attracts more and more African-American listenersand artists BY JOHN MARKS When he first took his country music act on the road in the early 1990s, Trini Triggs booked himself into the most remote honky-tonks in the state of Texas. He wanted to make sure his audience would accept a black man doing hillbilly songs. "There were a few stares at first," Triggs remembers. "But as soon as I started to play, it didn't matter anymore." Triggs, whose debut CD will be released by Curb records this summer, is attempting what once seemed impossible. In his impeccably starched button-down shirts, his omnipresent George Strait Resistol Stetson, and his ostrich-skin cowboy boots, Triggs is trying to break into the most ethnically homogenous of all American popular music forms. Country music has only ever had one black superstar, and in 1966, when Charley Pride's "The Snakes Crawl at Night" became a hit, RCA executives made sure no listeners knew he was African-American. They feared alienating a mostly rural Southern white audience. It's one of the stranger truths of American popular culture: Country music, with its profound debt to African-American musical traditions, has become so deeply associated with whites that black artists seem wildly out of place when they perform it. In the mid 1990s, when Nashville was doing some of the best business in its history, a few black artists landed record deals, but none have sustained careers. Now, some in the industryespecially Frankie Staton, head of the Black Country Music Associationthink it's time to break down what they see as the country color line. "Did you ever think you'd hear a song like that coming out of a brother?" asks Staton, after watching one of her artists, Dwight Quick, sing a hymn to the American South in a twang worthy of Dwight Yoakam. Country music, in its current form, was invented in the 1920s as one format for the newly emerging radio and phonograph markets. Before that time, rural, working-class people, black and white, had a shared musical heritage, a broad-based folk music stemming from a variety of sources: African-American gospel and blues, Appalachian mountain songs, and traveling vaudeville shows, among others. Jimmie Rodgers drew upon all of these sounds, particularly the blues, to become country's first major star in the 1920s and '30s. Both black and white performers played in groups called stringbands, which were popular at that time. Yet the eclectic music soon collided with a renewed period of segregation and tension between the races. "Earlier there had been less concern about differences between blacks and whites, particularly in the working class," says Vanderbilt sociologist Richard Peterson, author of Creating Country Music. "Suddenly, whites became more self-conscious about doing black culture, and blacks did, too, about white culture." Blues they could use. Segregated markets never hindered black influence on the sound. The blues, for instance, had a far more profound impact on country lyrics than pop did. The classic hillbilly song, like classic blues, typically focuses on alcohol, marital breakups, sin, and death, often in the form of a tale. (When asked why he liked country music, jazz great Charlie Parker replied, "The stories, man. Listen to the stories.") In the civil rights era, says Peterson, most of the black audience turned its back on country. At a time when both country and bluegrass were identified by some racist adherents as "white people's music," the hillbilly sound, he says, "was the very opposite of what [blacks] wanted to be." Charley Pride turned out to be an anomaly: He had 29 No. 1 hits between 1966 and 1989, but no other black country artists followed. Staton's BCMA, founded in 1997, is taking up where he left off, organizing showcases in Nashville, sending CDs and tapes of black artists to label executives and using every opportunity to spread the word. The timing is good. After one of the most lucrative decades in its history, country music is stagnating. Listenership has dropped 25 percent over the past five years, meaning that the industry is desperate to find the next big thing. Black country acts have emerged all over the United States. On the West Coast, Mike Mann and the Knight Riders play what they call cowboy soul, a combination of pedal steel guitar, country harmonies, and a rhythm and blues beat. Wheels, an Alabama-based five-man band, has been playing the national casino circuit, and until recently, had a record deal with Asylum. Trini Triggs is alone on the star track, however. A native of Natchitoches, La., Triggs, 33, got a taste for country music from his mother, who listened to nothing else. When he entered high school, he organized bands with black and white members who could play both the Commodores and Kenny Rogers. Three years ago he was discovered by a West Texas businessman who offered to become his manager. And last month
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Here's slightly strange question for you: Does anyone have the phone numbers for Mojo and Q Magazines? Hey thanks. Jeff Copetas ~ Tar Hut RecordsPO Box 441940 ~ Somerville, MA 02144www.tarhut.com ~ (617)776-5106
Re: Television Live (and twangless)
Actually, I saw 'em in 76 at CBGB's too old old old!!! and several other times, but they didn't do any more for me then than they do now, in retrospect. Ah well, --junior
Re: FW: Swedish Top 10's 1998 (fwd)
The Swedish top 10 is even better than the British! What are these folks drinking??? g. Must be smuggling Aquavit across the border or something. Many P2-beloved bands would be making better livings if these kinds of preferences were exhibited over here, sheesh --junior
Re: Television Live (and Butch Hancock)
Additional twang: Richard Lloyd backed up Butch Hancock at the Mercury Lounge a couple of years ago, and I still consider it one of the best shows I've ever seen. lloyd's solo on "Bluebird" brought tears to my eyes. I saw Butch Hancock when The Health and Happiness Show served as his backup band (of which Richard Lloyd was the lead guitarist at the time) and it gave a chance to hear Butch rock. On the rafting trip I took with Butch as guide - he mentioned how much fun that was - he loves to rock with a band like that I think, but it takes some effort (and money) to make that happen. But that show did rock - Lloyd's good on his own, but he's great backing up good songwriters. keep dancing, -ldk
Re: Question
Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 6-Apr-99 Question by "Tar Hut Records"@tarhut Does anyone have the phone numbers for Mojo and Q Magazines? Hey thanks. Mojo's main office is 0171-436-1515; US bureau chief Barney Hoskyns is at 914-679-2646. Mojo's email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carl Z.
Calling Bill Lavery!
First person who emails me Bill Lavery's email address (not on P2, either - email me privately) will get a free pack of gum from Tar Hut. Thanks. Jeff Copetas ~ Tar Hut RecordsPO Box 441940 ~ Somerville, MA 02144www.tarhut.com ~ (617)776-5106
RE: Clip: Blacks in country music (from the US News World Report website, believe it or not)
That's generally a decent piece, but this: In American commercial music, the big money has always been in pop. So, once every two decades or so, hoping to cash in, the country industry in Nashville tries to kill its inner hillbilly. It bans banjos and fiddles... In the past decade, the inner hillbilly has been under siege like never before, with stars like Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks... is, if taken at all literally (the banjos and fiddles part, not the kill part g), simply self-contradictory, while this: Radio calls the music "Americana," a category that includes virtually anything with fiddles, banjos, pedal steel guitars, or mandolins that mainstream country stations refuse to playlike Earle's new bluegrass opus, The Mountain; Kelly Willis's Austin roots-rock What I Deserve... isn't especially accurate either, as there's not a trace of banjo on my copy of What I Deserve, and a lot less fiddle, pedal steel guitar and mandolin than on many, if not most, inner-hillbilly-killing mainstream country albums, which probably accounts at least in small part for its popularity among certain critics - they can use it to attack country music without actually having to listen to something that's really too country for country (and whatever the virtues, of Willis' album, that's not an accurate description thereof). And yes, I realize these are points peripheral to the article's main focus; like I said, it's generally a decent piece, but... Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Ace Ventura....huh?
Check this out. We were digging through some shit here at the office and someone found two CDs. One is something lame, but the other is the Ace Ventura soundtrack. Don't laugh! It's actually kinda neat. No, it isn't worth plunking $15 down on, but it *is* worth a listen. Why? Well let me tell you. Why am I talking like this? I don't know! The Reverend Horton Heat does a version of Guadalcanal Diary's "Watusi Rodeo." Holy moly! It's great! Also, Blues Traveler does a version of "Secret Agent Man." Sure they suck, but that's one of my favorite songs and even they couldn't ruin it. The song prevails! (note: the best version of the song EVER done was by the Plugz on the Repo Man soundtrack. "El Hombre Secreto" I think was the name of it. All sung in Spanish) (also note: the song is 2:16 long...the shortest blues traveler song ever???) There's also a reggae version of "Spirits in the Material World" by Pato Banton. Lame. If it were *ME* I would update the song a little by singing it to the theme of Madonna's "Material Girl." THEN and only then would the soundtrack be worth buying at full price! One more thing. The Goo Goo Dolls do a cover of the only good INXS song ever"Don't Change." I like it a lot. This is from when the Goo Goo Dolls were doing the cool Replacements thing and not the thirtysomething acoustic open tuned power ballads on VH-1. Welp, back to work. Steve -- == Steve Gardner * Sugar Hill Records Radio Promotion [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sugarhillrecords.com WXDU "Topsoil" * A Century of Country Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.topsoil.net ==
Television
I never saw 'em, but "See No Evil" and "Marquee Moon" are two of the best rock songs ever made. They should be playing in the lobby at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I hear this new old live record is really really great. A friend of mine has it from its original release on a ROIR cassette. -- == Steve Gardner * Sugar Hill Records Radio Promotion [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sugarhillrecords.com WXDU "Topsoil" * A Century of Country Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.topsoil.net ==
Re: Ace Ventura....huh?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Check this out. We were digging through some shit here at the office and someone found two CDs. One is something lame, but the other is the Ace Ventura soundtrack. Don't laugh! It's actually kinda neat. No, it isn't worth plunking $15 down on, but it *is* worth a listen. Why? Well let me tell you. Why am I talking like this? I don't know! OK...now can you PAHHLEEZ tell us something about the new Jesse Winchester CD?! I hear it's a beauty... thanks, Kate.
Re: Television Live (and twangless)
Richard Lloyd is now and forever on my guitar god list no matter who he plays with. Deb
PLAYLIST: Progressive Torch and Twang, 30 March 1999
- Playlist for Progressive Torch and Twang Tuesdays, 8 p.m. to midnight WDBM, 88.9 FM, G-4 Holden Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824 Your hosts: Doug Neal and Jamie DePolo Questions, comments? [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Roots rockin', hip-shakin', soul-swayin' music!" Playlist for March 30, 1999 Tonight we unveiled our MerleFest giveaway, which will give two 4 day passes to two lucky listeners for MerleFest '99 in Wilkesboro, NC on April 29 - May 2. Additionally, the Grand Prize winner will also receive a parcel of CDs of various MerleFest artists. Runner-up prizes will be CDs of MerleFest artists. Contest details are found on our website (it involves a short essay) and remember, grammar counts! We also debuted the new album from Bill Kirchen and gave out copies of the Doc and Merle Watson CD "Home Sweet Home" (to go along with our MerleFest contest). Format is: Artist - Song Album/Label Link Wray - Rawhide (TT Theme Song) Walkin' With Link/Epic-Legacy Steve Earle The Del McCoury Band - Pilgrim The Mountain/E-Squared Steve Earle - The Unrepentant I Feel Alright/E-Squared Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go (request) Car Wheels on a Gravel Road/Mercury Steve Earle Bap Kennedy - Dirty Old Town (request) Domestic Blues/E-Squared June Carter Cash - Diamonds in the Rough Press On/Risk Johnny Cash - Jackson Columbia Country Classics/Columbia Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Sidewalk (request) Columbia Country Classics/Columbia Johnny Cash - Delia's Gone (request) American Recordings/America Nick Cave - Long Black Veil Kicking Against the Pricks/Homestead Sally Timms - Tenneseee Waltz Cowboy Sally/Bloodshot Freedy Johnston - This Perfect World (request) This Perfect World/Elektra Blue Rodeo - Five Days in May Five Days in July/Discovery Kelly Willis - Cradle of Love What I Deserve/Rykodisc The Old 97s - Niteclub (request) Too Far To Care/Elektra Reckless Kelly - Walton Love Millican/Cold Spring The Honeydogs - Becky's Hand Selt-Titled/October Bap Kennedy - Unforgiven (request) Domestic Blues/E-Squared The Volebeats - Two Seconds Sky and the Ocean/Safe House The Meat Purveyors - Like a Virgin/Lucky Star Madonna Trilogy/Bloodshot Hayseed - Melissa Melic/Watermelon Fred Eaglesmith - Water in the Fuel Lipstick, Lies Gasoline/Razor Tie Doc Merle Watson - Girl in the Blue Velvet Band Home Sweet Home/Sugar Hill Doc Merle Watson - Worried Blues Home Sweet Home/Sugar Hill Ricky Skaggs Kentucky Thunder - I Believed You in Darlin' Ancient Tones/Skaggs Family Records Steve Earle - South Nashville Blues I Feel Alright/E-Squared - Warner Bros Gillian Welch - Miner's Refrain (request) Hell Among the Yearlings/Almo Sounds Ralph Stanley Jim Lauderdale - If I Lose Clinch Mountain Country/Rebel Guy Clark - Texas Cookin' Keepers/Sugar Hill The Lilybandits - Vertigo Shifty's Tavern/Fundamental Blue Mountain - Let's Ride Dog Days/Roadrunner The Dushanes - Slow Movin' Train Self-Titled/The Big Mitten Courtney Western - Hands Off Rig Rock Jukebox/Diesel Only Slobberbone - Front Porch Barrel Chested/Doolittle Lonesome Bob - My Mother's Husband (request) Things Fall Apart/Checkered Past The Bottle Rockets - Financing His Romance Leftovers/Doolittle The Riptones - Hey You're Gonna Pay Cowboy's Inn/Bloodshot Deke Dickerson The Ecco-Fonics - Feelin' Low Number One Hit Record!/HMG Wayne Hancock - Big City Good Time Gal Thunderstorms Neon Signs/DejaDisc Big Sandy His Fly-Rite Boys - Buddy, I Ain't Buyin' Radio Favorites/Hightone Hot Club of Cowtown - Ida Red Swingin' Stampede/Hightone Ray Condo His Ricochets - Teardrops From My Eyes Swing Brother Swing/Joaquin Squirrel Nut Zippers - Suits Are Picking Up The Bill Perennial Favorites/Mammoth Hank Williams - Honky Tonkin' The Original Singles Collection/Mercury Jo Serrapere - You Wanna Get With Me (request) My Blue Heaven/OMC Sally Timms w/The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Right or Wrong The PVC Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills/Bloodshot The Weepers - Where in the Hell Demos Cheryl Wheeler - Does The Future Look Black Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar/Philo Richard Buckner - Daisychain Bloomed/DejaDisc Greg Brown - Small Dark Movie Further In/Red House Tom Waits - Clap Hands Rain Dogs/Island Bill Kirchen - Girlfriend Raise a Ruckus/Hightone Bill Kirchen - She's A Yum-Yum Raise a Ruckus/Hightone Bill Kirchen - Living Dangerously Raise a Ruckus/Hightone The Deans - '63 Impala Shindig at Newton's/Kingpin Huevos Rancheros - What A Way to Run A Railroad Get Outta Dodge/Mint The Gourds - Ghosts of Hallelujah Ghosts of Hallelujah/Munich Doug Neal/Jamie DePolo [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Progressive Torch and Twang Tuesdays, 8 pm-midnight WDBM-89 FM, G4 Holden Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 Request Line: 517-355-4237 The TT homepage: http://pilot.msu.edu/user/depolo
Re: FW: Swedish Top 10's 1998 (fwd)
In a message dated 4/6/99 1:47:43 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here are the Swedish Country "Top 10's" of 1998 as voted by the readers of Kountry Korrall magazine. By god, I'm moving. These people are geniuses. Buddy Miller #4 Best Musician? Oh, hell yeah!!! Slim
Re: Clip: Blacks in country music (from the US News World Reportwebsite, ...
In a message dated 4/6/99 3:06:54 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Breaking a color line, song by song Country music attracts more and more African-American listenersand artists I am currently working with a black male patient at Austin State Hospital who thinks he is a famous country star. He wears a cowboy hat all the time, and breaks into song at any given moment. The truth is some of his songs would be pretty decent if he wrote them out completely, much better than that HNC shit that seems to be dying on the vine. Oh, he also claims that Crystal Gayle has his love child. And he won a $100 million in the Texas Lottery, but someone stole his ticket. I love my job. Slim
CMR Playlist: Thursday 1st April 1999
The Bob Paterson Show Country Music Radio for Europe Thursday 1st April 1999 Patti Scialfa - Lucky Girl ["Rumble Doll", Columbia 1992] segue Beth Nielsen Chapman - Happy Girl ["Greatest Hits", Reprise 1999] John Hiatt - Tennessee Plates ["Slow Turning", AM Records 1988] Iris DeMent - Wasteland of the Free ["The Way I Should", Warner Brothers 1996] segue Gillian Welch - Tear My Stillhouse Down ["Revival", Almo Sounds 1996] The Arlenes - Dr. Love [Demo CD, 1999 obtainable from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr. Bojangles (Live at The Kashmir Klub, 19th March 1999) segue The Canebrake Quartet - Late Night Evening Prostitute (Live at The 12-Bar Club, 31st March 1999) Nadine - So That I Don't Miss You ["Downtown, Saturday", Glitterhouse Records 1999] segue Grand Drive - On A Good Day ["Road Music", Loose Recordings/Vinyl Junkie 1999] Buddy Miller - 100 Million Little Bombs ["Poison Love", HighTone Records 1997] segue Julie Miller - Dancing Girl ["Blue Pony", HighTone Records 1997] Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band - The Mountain ["The Mountain", E- Squared/Grapevine 1999] segue Kate Rusby - Annan Waters ["Hourglass", Pure Records 1997] segue Emmylou Harris - Sweet Old World ["Wrecking Ball", Elektra 1995] Lucy Kaplansky - Turn The Lights Back On ["Ten Year Night", Red House Records 1999] Chuck E. Weiss - Jimmy Would ["Extremely Cool", Slow River/Rykodisc 1999] segue The Coal Porters - In My Hour of Darkness (Live) ["The Gram Parsons Tribute Concert", Prima Records 1999] James McMurtry - Soda and Salt ["Walk Between The Raindrops", Sugar Hill Records 1998] segue Darrell Scott - My Father's House ["Family Tree", Sugar Hill Records 1999] Lisa Tingle - Careful ["Picture Me There", Tingle Entertainment 1999] Mark Islam - If You Had Half A Heart (You'd Be Dangerous) ["The Recent Past", Noble Savage Records 1998] -- Bob Paterson http://www.ursasoft.com/bob Current projects: CMR DJ (Thursday nights 10-12) Bob Harris Show on Radio 2 (researcher)
Re: Clip: Blacks in country music (from the US News World Report website, ...
Has Wesley Willis moved to Texas? Carl Z. ObAf-AmTwang: About three weeks ago, I finally picked up Arhoolie's _Sacred Steel_ compilation of African-American pedal steel players from Florida. I recall this compilation getting mucho praise on this list a couple years ago, and I concur. Excellent gospel singing, terrific steel. Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 6-Apr-99 Re: Clip: Blacks in countr.. by [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am currently working with a black male patient at Austin State Hospital wh= o=20 thinks he is a famous country star. He wears a cowboy hat all the time, and=20 breaks into song at any given moment. The truth is some of his songs would b= e=20 pretty decent if he wrote them out completely, much better than that HNC shi= t=20 that seems to be dying on the vine. Oh, he also claims that Crystal Gayle has his love child. And he won a $100=20 million in the Texas Lottery, but someone stole his ticket.
KPIG
Anyone out there a fan of KPIG on the web? And if so, why? Feel free to send me a note OFFLIST and let me know if you're okay with being quoted for an article I'm working on. Let me know where you call home, too. deadlining, Neal Weiss
Chicago this Saturday
I almost hesitate asking this because I know that a Chicago Calendar is posted here periodically (but, living in North Carolina, I rarely pay attention to it). My friend and I are making our annual sojourn to Chicago this weekend for the Cubs' home opener on Monday and we are looking for a good concert to see on Saturday night. I know that the Old 97's are playing that night but, unfortunately, he is not impressed with their studio releases and was even less impressed with their show I dragged him to in Houston over Christmas, so I am looking for other possibilities... I guess a reply offlist would be most appropriate...Thanks Chad ** Chad Cosper Dept. of English Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro 336-275-8576 http://www.uncg.edu/~cscosper
Re: love child (was black country clip)
In a message dated 4/6/99 5:30:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Crystal Gayle has his love child. That cheatin bastard. Got a number on him?
Not Exactly Nashville playlist - 4/3/99
Not Exactly Nashville WCNI 91.1 FM New London, CT Saturday 12 noon - 3PM (EDT) webcasting on RealAudio at www.elm.conncoll.edu:81/audio/live.ram Country Roots playlist - 4/3/99 Mike Trynosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's show featured a birthday salute to Lefty Frizzell (3/31/28), as well as a set of tunes from Dale Watson, whom I caught at the Rodeo Bar in NYC 4/1. Axe To Grind / Hellecasters / Escape From Hollywood / Rio My Soul Ain't Sold / Reckless Kelly / Live At Stubbs BBQ / Reckless If I Were More Like You / Richard Kaufmann / No Electric Guitar (comp. of Philly area artists) / Record Cellar Hit The Nerve / Monk Wilson / Hillbilly's Gypsies / Tangible Kentucky Eyes / Loose Diamonds / Burning Daylight / Dos Loserville Blues / Toni Price / Low Down And Up / Antones Hard Livin' / David Halley / Stray Dog Talk / Dos Red Leg Pony / Terry Allen / Salvation / Sugar Hill If I Owned A Liquor Store / Jason Wilber / Lost In Your Hometown / Flat Earth El Nino / Honky Tonk Confidential / self titled / Too Many Dogs Ouachita Lineman / Andrew Hardin / Lunchtime At An Alligator Farm / Round Tower Ain't Gonnaa Worry No More (cowritten by Wayne Hancock) / Sue Foley / Big City Blues / Antones It's A Mystery To Me / Big Sandy His Fly-Rite Boys / Radio Favorites / HighTone (6 song EP) My Confession / Hot Club Of Cowtown / Swingin' Stampede / HighTone Teardrops From My Eyes / Ray Condo His Richochets / Swing Brother Swing / Joaquin Sheik Of Araby / Carl 'Sonny' Leyland / Farrish Street Jive / Goofin' Martian Guts / (Dave) Biller (Jeremy) Wakefield / The Hot Guitars Of / HighTone Lefty Frizzell set: I'm An Old, Old Man (Tryin' To Live While I Can) / Best Of... / Rhino Cigarettes Coffee Blues / Look What Thought Will Do / Columbia-Legacy (2 CD) She Found The Key / That's The Way Love Goes - The Final Recordings Of... / Varese Sarabande Don't Think It Ain't Been Fun, Dear (Cuz It Ain't) / Look What Thought Will Do I'll Try / Look What Thoughts Will Do Life's Like Poetry / That's The Way Love Goes Just Can't Live That Fast (Anymore) / Look What Thought Will Do I Never Goe Around Mirrors / Dick Curless / Traveling Through / Rounder Talk Like That / Kelly Willis / What I Deserve / Ryko Caught / Dale Watson / Cheatin' Heart Attack / HighTone Hearts Made Of Stone / Don Walser w/ Mandy Barnett (harmony) / Down At The Sky-Vue Drive In / Watermelon-Sire My Pillow / Roger Miller / Best Of Country Tunesmith - Vol. 1 / Mercury Shadows Where The Magic Was / James Hand / Shadows Where The Magic Was Que Mas Quieres / Rick Shea w/ Chris Gaffney (accordion) / The Buffalo Show / Major Dale Watson set: Texas Boogie / Cheatin' Heart Attack / HighTone Poor Baby / Blessed Or Damned / HighTone Good Luck 'N' Good Truckin' Tonite / Koch-Diesel Only 7" Longhorn Suburban / Truckin' Sessions / Koch Leave Me Alone / I Hate These Songs / HighTone Don't Be Angry / Cheatin' Heart Attack / HighTone Set of music from artists covered by Dale during his tribute to the living legends: What Made Milwaukee Famous / Jerry Lee Lewis / Complete Palomino Club Recordings / Tomato (2 CD) Apt #9 / Johnny Paycheck / The Real Mr. Heartache - Little Darlin' Years / CMF Night Life / Willie Nelson / The Essential.. / RCA My Shoes Keep Walkin' Back To You / Ray Price / Greatest Hits / Columbia Tiger By The Tail / Buck Owens / Tiger By The Tail / Capitol Making Believe / Merle Haggard / Vintage Collection / Capitol-Legacy Life Turned Her That Way / Charlie Pride / The Country Way / RCA Get What You Cha Got And Go / Loretta Lynn / Don't Come Home Drunk With Loving On Your Mind / MCA I Get Lonely In A Hurry / George Jones / I Get Lonely In A Hurry / Liberty Cactus, Texas / Waylon Jennings / Right For The Time / Justice Your Lovin' / James Intveld / self titled / Innerworks Rippin' And Roarin' / Ronnie Dawson / More Bad Habits / Yep Roc You Are My Sunshine / Joe Poovey / Greatest Grooves / Dragon Street Spin My Wheels / Planet Rockers / 26 Classic Tracks / Spinout Tongue Tied Jill / Charlie Feathers / Get With It / Revelant (2 CD) Resurrection / Ray Wylie Hubbard / Dangerous Spirits / Philo
Roky Erickson
Does anyone know if there is a biography of Roky Erickson in print? I know that Texas Monthly did a short piece on him 5 years or so ago, which is where I got the idea for the project on him that I am just now contemplating a beginning to. I have looked through his many websites and catalogs of bookstores and have found only books of his poetry and references to something that Henry Rollins apparently wrote about him (but have yet to find it). Any leads on biographical information would be helpful. Also, has anyone on the list ever spoken with or had correspondence with Roky in the last few years. I have his e-mail address and am considering writing him with questions I have, but want to better prepare myself with information regarding how he responds to requests for information, etc... Thanks, Chad ** Chad Cosper Dept. of English Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro 336-275-8576 http://www.uncg.edu/~cscosper
Johnny Cash Appears in NYC Tonight!
I knew nothing about his--or I wouldda tried to get it! There's good news in here about Johnny..some less than good news about Waylon--and notes on televising of this salute very soon. Barry --- He Walks The Line... to NYC An all-star tribute to Johnny Cash is bringing some big guns to town By BILL BELL Daily News Staff Writer Hold those obits ó the only place Johnny Cash is going anytime soon, it appears, is New York. In fact, barring the absolutely unexpected, the admittedly ailing Man in Black will be performing here April 6, at an all-star salute marking his first public appearance in nearly two years. Not only that, but Cash may even close the show, most likely by singing "Jackson" with wife June Carter Cash. It was a giant hit for them in 1967. The show, "An All-Star Tribute to Johnny Cash," is just that ó a taped-for-TV special featuring Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood, Chris Isaak, Wyclef Jean, Brooks Dunn, the Mavericks, daughter Roseanne Cash, ex-son-in-law Marty Stuart and, according to scuttlebutt, some neat surprises. It's a tremendous lineup, and the only songs anyone will sing are the ones Cash wrote. (This should not include "A Boy Named Sue," his biggest-selling pop song but one he did not write.) TNT will air it April 18 as part of its Masters Series, the last subject of which was Burt Bacharach. But, the big news is Cash's appearance. The reason is that for the past year or so, alarmed reports about Cash's health had him one step from the grave. "Cash Close to Death," a headline screamed last month in a British newspaper. The story said that his hair was white, his eyes dim, and his face bloated. He was described as a sad, almost unrecognizable sight. Newspaper dispatches aside, there's reason to worry: Cash, 67, is not in good shape. He spent a week in a Nashville hospital last fall with pneumonia, and 19 months ago, doctors said Cash was suffering from a rare neurological disease, Shy-Drager syndrome, a degenerative disorder that causes progressive damage to the nervous system. Its symptoms includes blackouts, tremors, stiff muscles and difficulty in moving. There is no cure. On the telephone the other day from their Nashville home, his wife said Johnny was feeling pretty good, and in the background, when he spoke, he did not sound nearly as enfeebled as reports suggested. "We're going to spend a few days in New York," said June. "Maybe see a few [Broadway] shows, do a little shopping, see a few friends." They spent the winter at their Jamaican hideaway, where June said Johnny played a lot of
Re: Fever query (was: covers)
As far as I know, Little Willie was the originator. Barry With all this talk about covers, Fever, etc. I relistened to Elvis and Little Willie John's versions last night and was wondering when and by whom the song was first recorded. Little Willie's is from 1956. Are there recordings before that? Curious, --junior
Re: ASCAP vs BMI (long, and angry!)
Tiffany Suiters, in what must be one of the silliest posts I've EVER read on this list, responded to my long post about the roots of BMI, and the reasons for its very existence, with the following dumb, DUMB, D-U-M-B line, her whole message prior to reprinting my long post all over again: Obviously an ASCAP recruiter Nothing about my contention that having two (or three) societies in the United States has seriously affected the pocket books of every songwriter and publisher in the United States, compared to their counterparts elsewhere in the world. Nothing about the duplicated (and even triplicated) overheads that are paid for out of the money collected, and therefore not distributed to songwriters and publishers. Nothing about the fact that the moneys paid for the use of music in the US are, per capita, are FAR lower than that in Europe, Australia, Japan and even Canada. I do realise that the issues raised - which began when someone or other innocently asked, in effect, "Jeez, which should I join?" - are not germane unless you're a publisher or a songwriter (or, perhaps, a music user!), but Tiffany's smart-arse response didn't exactly shed much light on what is a vital issue for creative people in the United States. If Tiffany has anything sensible to say about this issue, I'd be delighted to respond. Does she feel my facts were inaccurate? Does she think that two (or three) organizations benefit songwriters? And, no, I don't work for ASCAP. I'm a music industry publicist who represents a number of Canadian artists - my company, I'm proud to say, includes among our clients the redoubtable little Canajun bluegrass band Heartbreak Hill, chosen to open Twangfest's Saturday night celebrations in St. Louis. A wonderful choice (thanx, committee members!), and they shall do their best! Cheers, Richard Two other notes on the above. Erica wrote to tell me that rates for performing right organizations are set in the US by the LIbrary of Congress (which I didn't know) - but presumably after submissions from both the societies and the music users. And Jon wrote me offline to suggest the chances of ever having a single society in the US (as every other territory does) are about the same as a snowball freezing in hell; he's probably right, but if songwriters really understood hopw they are getting screwed, they'd raise hell!
Hong Kong Phooey
Hey there, Wow. You amaze me. Thanks for all the Hong Kong info - on and off list. Later... CK grooving to The Beta Band ___ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
Re: Television Live (and twangless)
Bill writes: I'm with you, which is why I baited the hook that way. (Though "Prove It" does end up as a song I get stuck in my head from time to time) Wondered if any NYC types who maybe saw them back in the day had different ideas. Yep. And evidently Robin Hall did too (in fact, we were probably at the same show(s); my very first CB's show was Television with Talking Heads opening, back in fall 1975). And I'm certain that Barry Mazor saw them a few dozen times back in the day. Evidently Junior and I just can't agree on anything lately--the Ex-Husbands, Television...The Ramones (my fourth or fifth CB's show) were wonderful, and more seminal than they're given credit for, but the twin guitars of Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine were revelatory. Patti Smith once said of Tom Verlaine, "He plays guitar like a thousand bluebirds screaming," and as pretentious and silly as that sounds, it's oddly accurate in a way. Television were a band like no other, and the relative unevenness of Verlaine's solo output and the reunion record shouldn't distract or detract from that fact. --Amy, who is bound to get back to talking about twangier stuff any minute now
Re: tv
is this really Fear of Pop with Ben Folds Five AND William Shatner? Oh yeah, I saw this about 4-5 months ago, and like Tom said, it is NOT to be missed. ...thinking this is another sign of the Armageddon Well it's gonna be one helluva an interesting Armageddon then...g "Spock! To the starbridge!" (or whatever Trekkies say to each other...) dan bentele, not a trekkie
