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Jeff said: My only complaint is that Chris Gray (singer/gee-tar) says he likes Sheryl Crow... Sheryl Crow is a three on a scale of 1-5. She ain't great, but she ain't Mariah Carey. Jeff Huh? Mariah Carey cannot and I repeat cannot stay glued to one note long enough to let you hear for sure that she has raked her vocal chords over the coals for the last time and will be in need of vocal chord surgery any day now. Trilling a scale is for people who've lost it - do not confuse with the great scatting of Ella Fitzgerald in her heyday. Carey's camp wants us to believe that she has an eight-octave range. Yeah, right - if rocks could fly. Sorry Jeff, Carey ruined her voice a long time ago. On Crow - well, pleasant voice but I'm still looking for a female Delbert McClinton or Paul Rodgers in his day - maybe Bonnie Raitt meets Wynonna? g Tera
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Wasn't the same said about Captain Beefheart? Now THAT was a voice. -Original Message- From: vgs399 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 9:00 AM To: passenger side Subject: Re: Welfare Music Carey's camp wants us to believe that she has an eight-octave range. Yeah, right - if rocks could fly.
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, JP Riedie wrote: Shryl Crow is one of the best big mainstream stars around. Not only is her heart in the right place, her records are extremely well-crafted and listenable, her melodic sense is stronger than many better writers and at the very least she tries to express herself. If she wasn't selling tons of records she would, I think be champoined by several folks on this list. Since she needs no championing, I'll do it just to be contrary. I totally agree on all accounts here. I don't own any of her records . . . but I think this sums up my impressions of her as a person and an artist. And I have had a few instances where I have heard a song on the radio and liked and found out it was CC. Great voice too . . . one of the most expressive female voices in pop music. -jim
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At 02:59 AM 4/21/99 -0400, you wrote: Jeff said: My only complaint is that Chris Gray (singer/gee-tar) says he likes Sheryl Crow... Sheryl Crow is a three on a scale of 1-5. She ain't great, but she ain't Mariah Carey. Jeff Huh? Mariah Carey cannot and I repeat cannot stay glued to one note long enough to let you hear for sure that she has raked her vocal chords over the mariah's a one. Jeff Miles of Music mail order http://www.milesofmusic.com FREE printed Catalog: (818) 883-9975 fax: (818) 992-8302, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alt-Country, rockabilly, bluegrass, folk, power pop and tons more.
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Pretty decent interview with Martin's Folly on that Welfare Music site. Click here: http://www.welfaremusic.com/Martins_Folly/interview_1_41499.html My only complaint is that Chris Gray (singer/gee-tar) says he likes Sheryl Crow... This only counts as a half-spam, since I am pointing you to a site with other stuff, too... Jeff Copetas ~ Tar Hut RecordsPO Box 441940 ~ Somerville, MA 02144www.tarhut.com ~ (617)776-5106 Two monologues don't make a dialogue.
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My only complaint is that Chris Gray (singer/gee-tar) says he likes Sheryl Crow... Sheryl Crow is a three on a scale of 1-5. She ain't great, but she ain't Mariah Carey. Jeff Miles of Music mail order http://www.milesofmusic.com FREE printed Catalog: (818) 883-9975 fax: (818) 992-8302, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alt-Country, rockabilly, bluegrass, folk, power pop and tons more.
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This might be of interest to some of you. marie -Original Message- Welfare Music Weekly 4/9/99 New this week on WelfareMusic: Interviews THE HANGDOGS: THE BEST BAND YOU NEVER HEARD OF Veterans of the New York City music scene, this band has a solid album, East of Yesterday, behind them, and a good fan base. Their live shows are energetic and tight, and they can pound the beers onstage, never losing a beat while playing. http://www.welfaremusic.com/The_Hangdogs/interview_1_4899.html Features: Just what is an alt-country wife? by Jennifer Dowling SXSW 1999 by Chuck McCutcheon http://www.welfaremusic.com/features.html Essential Albums: Saddle Up! The Cowboy Renaissance--Various Cowboy Nation--Cowboy Nation Too Far to Care--Old 97s http://www.welfaremusic.com/spotlight.html Concert Reviews: Gillian Welch/David Rawlings in Bloomington, IN http://www.welfaremusic.com/concerts.html About WelfareMusic: Its meet the staff week http://www.welfaremusic.com/about.html --- Roughstock has named us site of the week: http://www.roughstock.com/roughstock Definitely a site worth checking out. -- Help keep WelfareMusic in business. Buy our compilation CD: http://www.welfaremusic.com/cd.html Thanks. - Angelo Kontarinis Editor WelfareMusic music with a twang. http://www.welfaremusic.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I just received this. It might interest some of you. Well, our painstaking work has come to an end, for now. WelfareMusic has officially launched. The response so far has been great. Stop by and sign up for our mailings. http://www.welfaremusic.com/ Our launch issue has interviews with the Bottle Rockets, Hayseed, and The Handsome Family. We have built a very cool community section named The Back Porch. It has much better message threads than the Yahoo site. They are threaded and it is much easier to follow discussions. http://www.welfaremusic.com/backporch/index.html I hope you like our site and keep coming back. WelfareMusic's success depends on all of us. Upcoming interviews: Jay Farrar, The Ex-Husbands, The Hangdogs.
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Thanks for posting that Marie. Here's a clip from the Bottlerockets interview that ties in with some of what's been discussed here lately, I think. g Jim WM: You don't like roots rock I take it. BH: Oh, I love roots rock, it cracks me up. The whole idea of singling it out and naming it something to insure it never gets on the radio cracks me up. WM: So you are a lot like Jay and the other artists ... you don't want to be pigeonholed. BH: It was a really good name to kill everything. Ok lets call it alternative country. Look at that. Look at the breadth of the stuff that's in there. So if you happen to be an alternative country band with a rock song such as... Like I told you the other night, if Exile on Main Street were to be made today, it would be considered alternative country. So it ain't gonna get on the radio. It will never happen. They'll never listen to it cause it'll be brought to them as alternative country and it wont go. Not on big radio. Big radio sucks. WM: So, you don't think that you guys and Wilco and Son Volt will ever become radio friendly to the point of stardom, wealth, etc? BH: Well, Son Volt, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo have been working at it for over 10 years now. WM: Consciously, do you think? BH: Not consciously, but still you know, they have been drifting around as the icons, the upper echelon. And they've been doing it since 88. Maybe its time to reevaluate. It's been 11 fucking years and no one's had the big breakout hit yet. Tom Parr: Played a lot of college frat parties. All the roots rockers.. it took them years to get deals. BH: We're doing this new album, it's gonna be called alt country, I guarantee it. Then you have bands like the Derailers. WM: Do you like their music? BH: Yeah, I like the Derailers. That's great, but it's a confusing single label to put on the whole thing. WM: What do you think of the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences having a category called Contemporary Folk for their Grammy awards, and then nominating Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Wilco/Bragg EmmyLou Harris in that category? BH: So they're Contemporary Folk now (laughs). What that's gonna do is place these artists way in the back of record stores. I know that cause I went looking for the Lucinda album. I asked the guy at the store, where is it? Well, you go back there, turn left, it's in the back of the store. WM: Ok, so you don't want to be labeled. How would you describe your music to someone who doesn't know you? BH: I would just say, it's a straight up rock band with a guy that unfortunately has a bit of a country accent singing. So that's it.
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Oh, man . . . check out the alt.country "family tree" on this site. I'm not going to comment . . . but some of the amateur historians out there might find it amusing . . . Steve Earle makes it because he has "jammed onstage w/Bottle Rockets and Uncle Tupelo." http://www.welfaremusic.com/family_tree2.html John -Original Message- From: Marie Arsenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: passenger side [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 1:02 PM Subject: Welfare Music I just received this. It might interest some of you. Well, our painstaking work has come to an end, for now. WelfareMusic has officially launched. The response so far has been great. Stop by and sign up for our mailings. http://www.welfaremusic.com/ Our launch issue has interviews with the Bottle Rockets, Hayseed, and The Handsome Family. We have built a very cool community section named The Back Porch. It has much better message threads than the Yahoo site. They are threaded and it is much easier to follow discussions. http://www.welfaremusic.com/backporch/index.html I hope you like our site and keep coming back. WelfareMusic's success depends on all of us. Upcoming interviews: Jay Farrar, The Ex-Husbands, The Hangdogs.
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John writes: Oh, man . . . check out the alt.country "family tree" on this site. I'm not going to comment . . . but some of the amateur historians out there might find it amusing . . . Steve Earle makes it because he has "jammed onstage w/Bottle Rockets and Uncle Tupelo." Cool. g I especially like the disclaimer: "It will probably wind up being the first of many attempts, but it is fairly comprehensive." Comprehensive??? What he's got around 25 (!) bands there. hee hee. Jim, smilin'
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At 12:21 PM -0600 on 4/1/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting that Marie. Here's a clip from the Bottlerockets interview that ties in with some of what's been discussed here lately, I think. g Yeah, well, this is why this Big Tent approach just doesn't work. At its best, it just ghettoizes everything. BTW, I took the liberty of formatting the article and pasting it in underneath. If anyone has any stuff from the Web that isn't really time-sensitive and they don't want to format it for e-mail themselves, I'd be happy to. Takes two or three minutes. b. WM: You don't like roots rock I take it. BH: Oh, I love roots rock, it cracks me up. The whole idea of singling it out and naming it something to insure it never gets on the radio cracks me up. WM: So you are a lot like Jay and the other artists ... you don't want to be pigeonholed. BH: It was a really good name to kill everything. Ok lets call it alternative country. Look at that. Look at the breadth of the stuff that's in there. So if you happen to be an alternative country band with a rock song such as... Like I told you the other night, if Exile on Main Street were to be made today, it would be considered alternative country. So it ain't gonna get on the radio. It will never happen. They'll never listen to it cause it'll be brought to them as alternative country and it wont go. Not on big radio. Big radio sucks. WM: So, you don't think that you guys and Wilco and Son Volt will ever become radio friendly to the point of stardom, wealth, etc? BH: Well, Son Volt, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo have been working at it for over 10 years now. WM: Consciously, do you think? BH: Not consciously, but still you know, they have been drifting around as the icons, the upper echelon. And they've been doing it since 88. Maybe its time to reevaluate. It's been 11 fucking years and no one's had the big breakout hit yet. Tom Parr: Played a lot of college frat parties. All the roots rockers.. it took them years to get deals. BH: We're doing this new album, it's gonna be called alt country, I guarantee it. Then you have bands like the Derailers. WM: Do you like their music? BH: Yeah, I like the Derailers. That's great, but it's a confusing single label to put on the whole thing. WM: What do you think of the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences having a category called Contemporary Folk for their Grammy awards, and then nominating Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Wilco/Bragg EmmyLou Harris in that category? BH: So they're Contemporary Folk now (laughs). What that's gonna do is place these artists way in the back of record stores. I know that cause I went looking for the Lucinda album. I asked the guy at the store, where is it? Well, you go back there, turn left, it's in the back of the store. WM: Ok, so you don't want to be labeled. How would you describe your music to someone who doesn't know you? BH: I would just say, it's a straight up rock band with a guy that unfortunately has a bit of a country accent singing. So that's it.
