Re: Damnations TX (was Re: best so far

1999-02-07 Thread Danlee2
We've *never* been able to agree on anything (not even on the general worthlessness of Kenny Rogers), and I think if we ever did, we'd just have to shut the list down. After all, what would be the point of carrying on?g--don Don's right. Someone, anyone-maybe even me-has to come

Don Was info please....

1999-02-07 Thread Budrocket
Joe on Focusrites: It's a really nice line of compressors that are so well-engineered that you can really squash things without the artifacts commonly found in cheaper units, like loss of highs, etc. I'd kill for one but I ain't rich enough...Ah damn. Guess I'll just go back to my

Re: Damnations TX (was Re: best so far

1999-02-07 Thread James Gerard Roll
My cue. I have a lot of problems with the original Damnations pre-release . . . but I am gonna reserve comment until the final release comes out (they reportedly did go back to the studio to brush it up). But anyways, count me in as skeptical re: the Damnations TX disc. They are talented as

Damnations?

1999-02-07 Thread Chad
Are we allowed to wager onlist? I'll wager that Weisberger won't care for it much. I certainly don't... this is shaping out to be an awful year for music. Kiss it all goodbye... go back to your day jobs. I'm not grumpy, but I'm serious and someone has to be the bearer of bad news...

Re: Summerteeth Trade

1999-02-07 Thread Doug Young
I've been noticing a lot of post about bootleg or pirate materials lately on p2. Does anyone other than the bootlegger think this is an appropriate activity? I sure as hell don't and it offends me as well each time it rears its ugly head. Theft is Theft is Theft. Nuff said. Iceman Thomas

Elvis and Other Books

1999-02-07 Thread Barry Mazor
This got posted yesterday on the fluff list--on accounta Joonyah asked the question there...but a wise woman from the Atlanta contingent (actually, I think she now IS the Atlanta contingent) clued me in on my connfusion. I may have inadvertantly crossed the Prime Rib Directive. Here's the

NYTimes today: Yearwood, Jackson country now

1999-02-07 Thread Barry Mazor
February 7, 1999 Tricia Yearwood and Alan Jackson: Country Twang With an Edge By JAMES HUNTER Until recently, country music has happily honored tradition, making do with only slight stylistic adjustments. With hummable barroom melodies, in fairly simple arrangements, country songs

Spring is in the air!!!

1999-02-07 Thread JKellySC1
I just heard the four greatest words in sports: "Gentlemen, start your engines!" LET'S GO RACIN'! Slim twang content: u... I love country music?

Re: BOOK REVIEW: Gender in the Music World (fwd)

1999-02-07 Thread lance davis
Indeed, the very discrepancy between the public's general knowledge of Mick Jaggar versus the largely unknown female group Bikini Kill reveals the gendered nature of the music industry. Far be it from me to discredit the notion that rock is a man's world. Cuz it is. We control the language and

Re: Don Was info please....

1999-02-07 Thread Joe Gracey
Budrocket wrote: Ah damn. Guess I'll just go back to my still-unfulfilled search for that ribbon-mic-I'll-find-someday-in-a-junkshop-for-ten-bucks of my dreams...--junior Best damn mic for recording banjo, period! Buddy Ribbon Rockets All the old banja players in these parts

Re: Spring is in the air!!!

1999-02-07 Thread R.W.Shamy Jr.
Slim- There are the four greatest words That with a little CW playin in the background is what nascar is all about! RW WDVR-FM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: passenger side [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 11:17 AM

Keith Christopher sighting

1999-02-07 Thread Tucker Eskew
WARNING: Minimum twang content Caught a blooze double bill last night: Kenny Wayne Shepherd and (the reason for my being there) Bryan Lee of New Orleans. Bryan, your Braille Blues Daddy, was great, but the surprise of the night was seeing former Shaver (and GA Satellites?) bassist Keith

Cowboy Poets

1999-02-07 Thread Phil Connor
COWBOY POETS TIP THEIR HATS TO LIFE IN '90S Tom Knudson02/01/99 The Sacramento Bee (Copyright 1999) Outside, the temperature hovered around 5 degrees. Ice clung like iron to sidewalks. Clouds of automobile exhaust drifted across frozen

RE: Summerteeth Trade

1999-02-07 Thread Thomas Wodock
Now wait a second Mr. Iceman I was not the original person who wrote I have a CD of Wilco That was someone else. I wrote in agreeing to Mr. Wall's good ethics that that person should not be doing that bootleg thing. I don't want any reputation like that!!! Thom Wodock -Original

Re: Damnations TX (was Re: best so far

1999-02-07 Thread BARNARD
Dan "my ass it's a good record" B. observes: Don's right. Someone, anyone-maybe even me-has to come out of the woodwork and let this record have it. It's important, don't screw this up. Even if you think it's a good record. This list has a rock-solid three years invested in

Wacos (was Innocent in Austin)

1999-02-07 Thread BARNARD
Jeff: Now throwing across the room in total distaste: Wacoworld. What the hell is this supposed to be? Somewhere, a tupperware bowl died to make this disc. A waste of good tupperware. Jeff, why don't you tell us what you *really* think about this album? g --junior

kd and Yoakam and Ely

1999-02-07 Thread Will Miner
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Joe Gracey wrote: I think k.d. just ran into basically the same wall that a lot of us have run into in one form or another over the years. She made it deeper into alien territory than most, but so did yoakum and Ely and several of them in those days and it just didn't

Re: Damnations TX (was Re: best so far

1999-02-07 Thread Debnumbers
In a message dated 2/7/99 1:22:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why Dan, you make P2 sound like the U.S. Congress g. I Speaking of the U.S. Congress -- did anyone catch the latest episode of the "Ex-Presidents" on Saturday Night Live? Whoops! I should be on the fluff

Re: Damnations TX (was Re: best so far

1999-02-07 Thread Jennifer Sperandeo
Damnation appears to be a skumrock band of some type, based on the Flipside cover story I read about them a few months back. never heard them though I can think of about 20 bands who could benefit from a player like rob bernard if you wanna hear the most recent prescott curlywolf stuff get

Re: Cowboy Poets

1999-02-07 Thread LindaRay64
And where was NPR's glorious cowboy poet and former large animal veterinarian Baxter Black? lr

The Bystanders: February-March Dates

1999-02-07 Thread Rob Russell
The Bystanders will coalesce the vapor of human experience into a meaningful whole at the following establishments: The Down Home, Johnson City TN Bystanders/Brother Boys Songwriting Extravaganza February 11 7th Street

Re: Summerteeth Trade

1999-02-07 Thread R.W.Shamy Jr.
Hey ICE! careful on the accusations! I agree there is a lot of "illegal" stuff- but Tom is a fellow dj and he has the goods! RW Shamy -Original Message- From: Thomas Wodock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: passenger side [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:39 PM Subject: RE:

Re: K.D. Lang

1999-02-07 Thread cwilson
Jon J wrote about cueers in quountry music: A lot of the old taboos have fallen in the last ten years or so, but that's still the Big One. The eventual emergence of the first openly gay country music star is going to be one of the more fascinating milestones in

Re: Hard country (was Re: Heather Myles Injustice

1999-02-07 Thread cwilson
Thanks don for recycling yer hard-country history lesson. Nice to precisisize one's terminology, and I must have been off-list when you first posted it a year ago... carl w.

Re: Elvis Part II

1999-02-07 Thread Iain Noble
I got the secod volume of the Guralinick ordered from Amazon. Anybody fancy a discussion about this ? -- Iain Noble Hound Dog Research, Survey and Social Research Consultancy, 28A Collegiate Crescent Sheffield S10 2BA UK

Mandy Barnett

1999-02-07 Thread Butchndad
(I'm getting lucky today) If you hate where country has gone to, and you like (or at least don't mind) Owen Bradley production with background singers and strings and you LOVE a big beautiful female voice then get Mandy Barnett's "I've Got A Right To Cry" this is new old-fashioned traditional

Re: kd and Yoakam and Ely

1999-02-07 Thread Joe Gracey
Will Miner wrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Joe Gracey wrote: I think k.d. just ran into basically the same wall that a lot of us have run into in one form or another over the years. She made it deeper into alien territory than most, but so did yoakum and Ely and several of them in those

Re: EV 664 (was re: Don was...)

1999-02-07 Thread Joe Gracey
Geffry King wrote: Joe Gracey wrote: All the old banja players in these parts insisted that the ElectroVoice 664 was the best mic of all for the infernal things. It was that long silver cardiod with the mesh grill front and the sort of fin down the back. It has a sort of thin,

Playlist--Mother Road

1999-02-07 Thread Jamie Hoover
Greetings from the Mother Road. Busy couple days Ralph Stanley in town on Friday and Saturday Doug Sham spent about an hour or so hanging out and talking. Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys--Brain Cloudy Blues Al Dexter and His Troopers--New Broom Boogie Tex Williams--I Lost My Gal from Memphis

RE: Pernice tours Australia

1999-02-07 Thread Walker, Jason
I play in a band called Golden Rough and we're going to be Joe's "backing band" while he's in Australia. I'm personally stoked about it because Overcome by Happiness is one of my favourite albums. I'll be sure and post a couple things to share with you all if you'd like. Junior --

Re: Spring is in the air!!!

1999-02-07 Thread BoudinDan
Slim wrote: I just heard the four greatest words in sports: "Gentlemen, start your engines!" LET'S GO RACIN'! Slim twang content: u... I love country music? From one gearhead to another, life is good again. Now if we can just do something about this Gordon kid (though it was darn

Re: There must be an answer to this one...

1999-02-07 Thread Mike Hays
The problem is that Buddy and Mike and some others are sending posts to the lists in a multi-part Mime-encoded format-- I just made an adjustment to the send options and switched from HTML/MIME encoded to plain text. Let me know if that clears up the problem for ya! Mike Hays

Re: Cap City Barn Dance

1999-02-07 Thread Mike Hays
WoW, kind of good news. The gig for the 27th got canceled today. Some kind of scheduling conflict supposedly, or somebody underbid us on price, if so, hey, you get what you pay for. Looks like I'll be able to make it after all. Maybe ya'll can come down to the Moondance for the Dale Watson show

Angry Johnny the Killbillies dates

1999-02-07 Thread PopBooking
Blatant spam alert... before reading, please put on your special spamfiltergoggles... Ob-annoyance: Paul/Pop Booking (more dates added soon) BAND: Angry Johnny the Killbillies LABEL: Tar Hut BOOKING: Pop Booking Feb. 11 - The Continental, NYC Feb 24 -

Re: First Posting

1999-02-07 Thread PopBooking
Alex wrote: Hello to all, i'd like to subscribe to Postcard2 mailinglist, so if someone can help, just go ahead. I'd like to recieve digest form if possible. I found this address on Postcard mailinglist and rest is history : - ) Alex In case no one else knows, Alex does a

Stranglmartin (was: Re: Checking in...)

1999-02-07 Thread PopBooking
Steve Gardner wrote: Stranglmartin: I've been enjoying a new tape from a band called Stranglmartin that a friend made for me recently. To me they sound halfway in between Slobberbone and New York Noise. Great stuff. I know nothing about the band however. Well Steve, let me take this

Re: Damnations TX (was Re: best so far

1999-02-07 Thread Amy Haugesag
Marie says: My favorite song on the cd is dedicated to the memory of a beloved amp. Heck, my favorite song on the CD is about a dog ("Spit and Tears"). Go figure. --Amy

Re: Damnations TX (was Re: best so far

1999-02-07 Thread Amy Haugesag
Why Dan, you make P2 sound like the U.S. Congress g. I protest! I'm sure we'll have naysayers on the Damnations and that is indeed the P2 way. It sure is a good record, though. My prediction is that some of our more lyrics-oriented folk will find it less that stellar on that end. I'm digging

Looking to trade....

1999-02-07 Thread Driver8
I'm looking to trade for UT's "Not Forever Just for Now" 2CD set, copied or original, as well as any Whiskeytown, Scud Mountain Boys, Son Volt and Wilco stuff. I'd really prefer CDR To trade, I've got Uncle Tupelo's "Live from the Midwest", Son Volt's "High Voltage", and mulitple REM