Re: Extra recommendations from SXSW
Just got the Monte Warden and its good in a Buddy Holly, happy sunshiny listen at work kinda way Lonelyland is great, though... Bob Schneider is concurrently leader of the Ugly Americans, the Scabs and Lonelyland. Ugly Americans are more funk, Scabs more jazz, and LL more acoustic hick-rock but they mostly play the same songs... which can be found on the Ugly Americans CD This is the first CD i pull out when i'm getting ready for a great night or when i just want to wake up happy... -jacy --- Barry Mazor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK...just a few recommendations and bits of quiet good news from what I saw and heard dopwn there...People we OUGHT to get to hera more of, I think... Monte Warden. Big return week for him, as a cxloser with buddies the Robison bros and Kelly Willis at thge awards, and a strong set at the Broken Spoke Thursday night of SXSW with James Intveld on keyboards...I'd highly rcommend his new CD "A Stranger to Me Now" too...which is a brnad new 1959-60 post-rockabilly pop album...which is to say, in the tradition of Roy Orbison, Phil Everly and Buddy Hollymelodic and dramatic. Marshall Crenshaw fans will probably go for it too. Live, he also showed he could hit the rockabilly twanger with some slashing guitar dramatics--which, by my definition, you have to be able to do to do THIS brnad of non-rockabilly convincingly. Lonelyland. Caught these guys in the Convention Hall one afternoon. Led by Austin guy Bob Schneider, who'd appently has led a bunch of funk bands before, here comes up with a unique and engaging laid back-and grinning by the fishin' hole style that I certainly hope will find a recording home...A very modern twist on what I'd call the traditions of Hoagy Carmichael/Phil Harris singing...ya know, Rockin Chair's Got Me! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Extra recommendations from SXSW
Hey there, jacy reminded me... Bob Schneider is concurrently leader of the Ugly Americans, the Scabs and Lonelyland. Ugly Americans are more funk, Scabs more jazz, and LL more acoustic hick-rock but they mostly play the same songs... which can be found on the Ugly Americans CD The bi-line for the Scabs was '9 piece all start goup' and since they were after Kelly Willis I couldnt get in. So who is in the band besides Bob? Thanks. Later... CK staring slack jawed at my stereo playing The Shaggs. ___ 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: Extra recommendations from SXSW
I believe Scabs and UglyAmericans share the same band memebers and just throw in whoever happens to be in the swing of things (or just there), but don't know who those particular 'all stars' were nifty little page at www.uglyamericans.com lists members np: Ian Moore's got the Green Grass *sigh* --- Christopher M Knaus slackjawedly stated: Hey there, jacy reminded me... Bob Schneider is concurrently leader of the Ugly Americans, the Scabs and Lonelyland. Ugly Americans are more funk, Scabs more jazz, and LL more acoustic hick-rock but they mostly play the same songs... which can be found on the Ugly Americans CD The bi-line for the Scabs was '9 piece all start goup' and since they were after Kelly Willis I couldnt get in. So who is in the band besides Bob? Thanks. Later... CK staring slack jawed at my stereo playing The Shaggs. ___ 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] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Extra recommendations from SXSW
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Barry Mazor wrote: Continental Drifters Saw their really strong set at the Music Hall and their appearance at the ND/Miles of Weisses Broken Spoke event--where they finished off with an exhuberant version of the Fairport Convention arrangement of Matty Groves...This is maybe the most talent almost utterly unheard bunch of folk rock pros (if I can use that term; it seems right) that ought to be stars again I can think of. They rock and they sing. And the former Miss Cowsill was surley the only one at SXSW with Top Tens Hits when she was five... You're forgettin' Bobby Bare Jr., Barry. He had a #2 country hit with his daddy at the age of five. (And yeah, he missed his showcase, but he played SXSW at some schmoozy Sony party.)--don
Re: Extra recommendations from SXSW
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Barry Mazor wrote: the former Miss Cowsill was surely the only one at SXSW with Top Ten Hits when she was five... You're forgettin' Bobby Bare Jr., Barry. He had a #2 country hit with his daddy at the age of five. (And yeah, he missed his showcase, but he played SXSW at some schmoozy Sony party.)--don This is absolutely true--and reasonably amazing that Don thought of it... (And I guess Bobby Bare should get extra points for putting that business on that record about "20 years from now he'll be sitting around stoned with his friends and he'll ant toi sue me for this!"--which, if memory serves, does not excatly have a counterpart on The Cowsills Greatest Hits! ) SOMEBODY from P2 told me they'd just seen Bare Jr. someplace in Austin...They may now speak up! Barry
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SOMEBODY from P2 told me they'd just seen Bare Jr. someplace in Austin...They may now speak up! Barry That may have been me, Barry. I saw Bobby Jr. hanging out in some club (I think it was Thursday night) with a waifish model type hanging on his arm. I did not see him perform in Austin. He does play here in Nashville on a fairly regular basis, though. marie
Re: Extra recommendations from SXSW
waifish model type BAM! Redundant! Not allowed on P2. Not even on a Saturday afternoon np - Cowboy Romance / NM
Extra recommendations from SXSW
OK...just a few recommendations and bits of quiet good news from what I saw and heard dopwn there...People we OUGHT to get to hera more of, I think... Monte Warden. Big return week for him, as a cxloser with buddies the Robison bros and Kelly Willis at thge awards, and a strong set at the Broken Spoke Thursday night of SXSW with James Intveld on keyboards...I'd highly rcommend his new CD "A Stranger to Me Now" too...which is a brnad new 1959-60 post-rockabilly pop album...which is to say, in the tradition of Roy Orbison, Phil Everly and Buddy Hollymelodic and dramatic. Marshall Crenshaw fans will probably go for it too. Live, he also showed he could hit the rockabilly twanger with some slashing guitar dramatics--which, by my definition, you have to be able to do to do THIS brnad of non-rockabilly convincingly. Lonelyland. Caught these guys in the Convention Hall one afternoon. Led by Austin guy Bob Schneider, who'd appently has led a bunch of funk bands before, here comes up with a unique and engaging laid back-and grinning by the fishin' hole style that I certainly hope will find a recording home...A very modern twist on what I'd call the traditions of Hoagy Carmichael/Phil Harris singing...ya know, Rockin Chair's Got Me! Henhouse The all-star Austin women musical extravaganza (Rosie Flores, Marcia Ball, Cindy Cashdollar, etc.)...and boy, are they capable and roudy and ought to be a real ongoing group...Fronting Wanda Jackson--who basically sounds excatly like she did 40+ years ago at age 62, as roaring and growling as ever..they were maybe even stronger. Continental Drifters Saw their really strong set at the Music Hall and their appearance at the ND/Miles of Weisses Broken Spoke event--where they finished off with an exhuberant version of the Fairport Convention arrangement of Matty Groves...This is maybe the most talent almost utterly unheard bunch of folk rock pros (if I can use that term; it seems right) that ought to be stars again I can think of. They rock and they sing. And the former Miss Cowsill was surley the only one at SXSW with Top Tens Hits when she was five... Alvin Youngblood Hart Right up there among the very best young acoustic blue men around...he proved rather remote from the audience live--and then showed off what he coulkd do with some electricity in an absolutely rousing and rhythmically unforgettablke version of, of all things, John Fogerty's "Pagan Baby"...After it was all over, this one kept coming back into me head..anmd I hope he'll do an electric blues album now. Beaver Nelson OK..I thought he was David and Ricky's unknown little brother, The Beaver...but Corrie Weiss warned me he was really good ...and he was...really set the stage for the remarkable Mr. Cisco... I'll add my nod to the "hillbilly Idol" i a good band list...especially lie their songwriting...and to those who had nice things to say about Michael Hall and thre Brooders (best loud band I heard there, plus he looks like Lou Reed and Woody Guthrie's half brother!)...and while I only caughtn three Hank Dogs songs, I'd have to ay, on the other hand, they were very boring even briefly...Best unscheduled xtra good time was on that parking lot in South Austin where Doug Sahm and Johnny Bush joined Cornell Hurd and the Hollisters for some harder stuff in the morning...I am also now the owner of an officially endorsed Cornell Hurd Band Whoopee Cushion, and you can't have enough of those. Barry
