RE: Dixie Chicks Article in Dallas Observer
In a message dated 4/24/99 1:52:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: he's just a flat out liar, as anyone who's read, for instance, the current Country Music magazine piece on the Chicks (a full page on the band's history - with quotes about it from Seidel - including a their first three album titles, with combined sales figures) can attest. A mean-spirited, chuckle-headed, lying asshole. geez, but how do you really feelwhat's up with such completely "mean-spirited" attacks on critics that for some reason are not likedwhat a waste of time...
Re: Good covers (was: Kelly Willis calling the shots)
You know, I'm glad this came up because as we speak I'm taping some of the Pine Valley Cosmonauts LP. What strikes me is that the songs which fail do so because they spotlight vocalists who are weak singers. Or, maybe it's that they are trying to adopt the Wills arrangements too strictly, which were able to feature a singer as fitted for those arrangements as Tommy Duncan was. This is probably why Merle and Willie and George Strait can pull off Western Swing. It's not that their bands aren't all respectively brilliant, it's just that each of their voices is distinctively complementary. As Willie might say, they're aging with time like yesterday's wine. I hope some of these folks on the PVC do stick with the swing, maybe they'll have a great album before long. Or maybe someone should convince Dwight Yoakam to sing with the band. you are so right about the pine valley cd which i have tried to like but finally gave up on for that exact reasonmusically i like lots of and vocally some of but it just winds up a pale comparison to some really good weatern swingi am far from a purist on this but some folks just don't have the voice (or should i say phrasing) to pull off these songsoh well, i guess bob wills is still the king
Re: Drake (Re: Kelly Willis calling the shots)
Which reminds me, any minor or major Drake fan want to offer up a good starting point into that artist's catalog? I need to go buy yet another CD that I've never gonna have enough time to appreciate to its fullest. Sigh... as a starting point and ending point i always turn to five leave left which will forever remind me of the dark brooding period of time when i discovered this dark brooding piece of workdrake is one of those artists that you tend to love or hate and i do love his work although he is one of those i listen to only when in a certain moodand usully that mood is dark when i dogive all his work a chance but i do suggest five leaves to begin with as for kelly willis and her versioni love her new record but her version of "time has told me" just doesn't quite work for methat is probably largely due to the fact that i enjoy the original so much but her version just doesn't capture the mood of drake'snow, if her cover opens some eyes and makes people wonder who nick drake is then ms. willis will have done a lot of good...i do hope more will check drake out and maybe this is a start of course lucinda williams did a very nice cover of drake's "which will" that is as brooding as drake so often was but then for some reason i believe drake and lucinda might have been able to relate on certain issuesthe woman knows how to brood pretty well as she has shown
Re: Top Texans (long)
Probably because he got the big gig with the Dallas Morning News, one of the better daily papers in the country (IMHO of course) although I think the music section is not as good as when Michael Corcoran was in that positon. Jerald the dallas paper is good but as conservative as they come and bow down to local big business like there is no tomorrowand the music section got weak after corcoran leftsome folks might not like mike but he had stylebyt then havin a style is not what the morning news really wants from it's writersimho anyway...
Re: Paul Simon on Joe DiMaggio NYT
He was a good man, a kind man who knew the rules and the oddities in life and always strove to be honest and charitable. When told that he would be throwing out the first ball in Yankee Stadium this year, Joe just smiled - that faint smile Joe always gave when in his soul he knew truth from lies. The world needs to remember his example. This man was and IS a sports hero. where have you gone joe dimaggio.here's hoping to an even better place.
RE: Tweedy quote/alt.country (LONG and IRRITATED)
Guess they didn't know about Joe Ely's tour with the Clash. UT was a decade too late. and the unfortunate part of this is joe ely has yet to really find his decadeone of those artists who has been mining this "genre" (whatever the hell you folks want to call this genre) for yrs and yrs yet has never really broken thruyes, he has a nice base of people who like and respect him but he has never made that big jump and that is shame
Re: Texas Music Cafe Q?
hmmm...maybe i am the only person who has seen this program. i have only seen it once on the PBS station in the dallas/ft. worth area but have meant to look for it again. not sure when it is on but i was amazed that is was being done out of waco, tx which is the home of Baylor University, the baptist school that did not allow dancin on it's campus until just a few years ago. not that that had anything to do with the Texas Music Cafe but i have never thought of waco as a hotbed of music in Tx. it has been a while ago that i saw this program but it caught my attention because a dallas area swing band, cowboys and indians, was one of the artists becoming spotlighted. i thought the show was a noble effort but the production on some of it was lacking. seems some of it was shot in theater/studio and that part looked fine but the cowboys and indians segment was shot at a club and lacked good camera work. i seem to recall the show did interviews with the artists and spent time showing setup for the shows in the theaters. i can't recall the other artists except to say there was a blues band and a female folksinger. i have meant to look for the show again and now that i have been reminded of i will. i did think it was a noble effort for the waco folks and considering i have only seen one show, i can hardly say more. hope this helps. mark
Re: baiting matt cook
If you have GHOSTS, then you have ever'thing"--Roky Erickson the wisdom of a man with more than enough ghosts for all of us..
Re: Bye, Bye American Pie...
How many of you know what Waylon's last words to Buddy Holly were? (Hint: see his autobiography. It was on one of my old .sig files, but I took it off 'cos it was even too scary for me.) yeah it is a very scary quote and i can only imagine how strange waylon musta felt after he heard the news.if you don't know thet quote, vh-1's behind the music is running a buddy holly story tonite with jennings talking about the night and what he said to holly.mark
The Band/Levon Helm bitterness.....
just thought all those Band fans and Levon Helm fans would want to read thisread and make up your own minds but he sure sounds bitterhis voice with the band was incredible and whatever the truth is, it is a shame the man feels this wayjust follow this: http://dallasobserver.com/1999/020499/music2html mark
Re: TwangCast for Macs
i have system 8.1 and it still doesn't work.any help would be appreciated...
Re: The Band/Levon Helm bitterness.....
As for his obvious bitterness toward Robertson, my gut feeling is that he has a point. I don't know the particulars, of course, but in EVERY single interview I've seen with Robertson, it seems very important to him that he be perceived as an introspective, soulful, "thinking man." you know, maybe that is exactly what he is.even in the band he was always dark and brooding or seemed so.his solo work has continued in that dark, moody vein so maybe that is just him.anyway, it is a shame there is a rift whoever caused it and it is a shame levon seems so unhappy about it all even after all these yrsas i said, levon was my favorite "voice" in the band and considering how many good voices that group offered that is saying a lot mark
Re: TwangCast for Macs
well thanks for the efforts and will be lookin forward to microsoft or you guys working this all out
Re: MonkEE Biz
a question about nesmith who i have always enjoyed for his strange post Monkees country stuff.are any of those early records on cd? his version of tumbling tumbleweeds is shear delight and his band was great with red rhodes on steel...the monkees were a gulity pleasure in my youth but nesmith's output deserves some respectanyone know about those early cd's at allgeez i am showin my age here aren't i...
patsy cline...
patsy on AE and well worth watching.johnny cash tomorrow nite i do believetv isn't all bad at times
Re: Steve Earle/old vinyl/Huddie Ledbetter
johnny winter had a three-sided record long agobelieve it is called second winter but i could be wrong about that
RE: Hank Williams
gotta believe he means leon payne's lost highway.
Re: Hank Williams
the blasters "long white cadillac" along with katy moffatt's "hank and audrey" and waylon jennings "are you sure hank done it this way."hank and audrey" is a really nice song with a vocal by tom russell.those immediately come to mind but i am sure there are many, many more.mark graham
Re: Hank Williams
one more came to mindbilly joe shaver's "tramp on your street" off the album so namedgreat song about seeing hank as a kid
