Various stuff from todays digest:
Here's a list of upcoming releases *I'm* gonna want to check out:
March 16: Tom Russell The Man from God Knows Where
Terry Allen Salivation
Actually, that's the 23rd. And don't forget the P2 reissue of the year (for
1999, trust me). Jimmy Murphy "Electricity" which has 4 bonus tracks.
Haven't heard of him? It doesn't matter, get it anyways. :^)
I'm still digesting Mr. Gardner's [passing comment that they're " a little
too bluesy for me to get totally obsessive" That be what makes horse
races! I guess it's this early, convincing, tasty country and blues merge,
well played and sung and utterly outside of the Frank Hutchinson "stiff"
style of singing that precisely GETS me about these guys.(Tho I don't
have that Bear box...yet!).
True true. But I still don't like them because they are a little too bluesy
for me (still.) About 10 years ago I got really excited about all blues
music (trad to cont.). About 8 years ago I got really sick of all of it.
Now, when I hear these oldtime or country bands that are more bluesy I just
can't get into it that much. Notice, though, that I said they were a little
too bluesy *for me to get totally obsessive* about them. In other words, I
don't hate them or anything. I just don't want to spend my money on the
Bear Family box.
Bill lists a bunch of great new CDs and includes...
Stacey Earle Simple Gearle
Um, having seen her live you might want to reconsider that. I remember
thinking - these songs would sound good with a band and someone else
singing.
Whether or not I agree, that's pretty damn funny.
OK, I realize I should be publicly flogged for being completely ignorant of
ND's "Man o' the Decade," but I saw an AE disc sitting patiently in the
used
section of a local record store and wondered about it. It was called "13
Songs" or something like that--the one with the "Theme Song." Anyway, I
also
saw a Buddy Miller disc that had the word "lies" in the title. Well,
anyway,
you get the picture. These are a couple dudes whose names tend to get
dropped every day or three, so all you fans let me know what's up.
I think I can safely say that Buddy Miller is my favorite country musician
of the 90s. So, get that one. But then get his latest Hightone CD because
it is even better. I was talking to someone at the last house concert (with
Alejandro) who said that "13 Years" was his favorite Alejandro CD. I don't
have that one (I hear it is kinda hard to find) but it sounds like a great
one. The songs on it are great, I know that much. So, get both.
*Boo-Tay* got an F- in the latest Atlanta *InSite* entertainment rag. AN
F-!! Quote: "Jesus Christ, there should be a law against music like this!"
That makes me actually want to hear it.
That's another record to get. It hardly twangs at all, but who cares. It's
great. If you don't like loud rock music, though, don't get it.
As documents of old punk rock bands go, Flipper=92s Live: 1983 is more=
interesting than most. Part of the reason is because, well, as old punk=
rock bands go, Flipper was better than most.=20
That reviewer apparently didn't see the same Flipper show I saw! Let's just
say on that night they were "off". :^) I still would like to get that CD,
though.
Among others, Concrete Blonde, the Melvins,=
and Sebadoh have covered Flipper songs, and that=92s a homemade Flipper=
T-shirt Kurt Cobain=92s wearing on the liner sleeve of Nirvana=92s In
Utero=
album. R.E.M. covered =93Sex Bomb=94 for its Christmas fan-only single in=
1994,
And the Butthole Surfers did an amazing cover of REM's "The One I Love."
Cheers.
Steve
NP: Bad Livers "Dust on the Bible"
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Steve Gardner * Sugar Hill Records Radio Promotion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sugarhillrecords.com
WXDU "Topsoil" * A Century of Country Music
[EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.topsoil.net
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