More bad news....

I'm loving being back *lurking*, but I'm really beginning to hate all this bad news. Please pray, dance, ritualize, shout, drink - do whatever healing thang you do to help this guy get well. Not only is he a great guitar player, IMHO, but a good friend and sweet, sweet person. Thanks! Hey

Re: Southern gospel

Howdy, David says: So maybe the SG tradition has changed into something I don't get or appreciate. Very possible. Well, I suppose it's just like every other form of music. It's always being tinkered with for better or worse. There are indeed practicioners of vacant and (how ironic) soulless

Re: very long piece on Replacements and Covers (was fulks andcovers)

Jake--can I call ya Jake-- That's as good a dissection of the issue Dina's question raised as I've seen anywhere. And also something of an excellent defense of something which probably SHOULDN'T have needed to be defended--an audience's recation to what it herad, the way it heard it. Now,

Re: Don't! Squeeze (they're charmin')

A lot of the music Jerry defends makes me seriously cringe, but I'll defend the hell out of squeeze. Yeah they made some wretched some, both coming and going, but East Side Story in particular is a frigging brilliant record, one of the few great ones to come out around that time. Will

Re: THE DRAGON'S ROAR (fwd)

At 12:31 PM 3/2/99 EST, you wrote: West Coast country and western and American roots music historian, critic and journalist JANA PENDRAGON has begun a new column, (blah,blah,blah) Not sure if it is or not, but it would make sense. To her credit, Jana's been the most tireless defender in

Re: jerry curry vs. portland

I've been off in some "never-never land" and have not been reading P2 for awhile, but I woke up long enough to notice this: At 02:53 PM 3/2/99 -0800, Jerry wrote: ... Let's see, no traditional country scene, that's particularly disappointing when I read about the stuff Honky Tonk Confidential is

Hank Williams III

Anybody seen a show lately? I'm going to see him Saturday. . . Linda

Re: Sunrise (was: RE: Playlist: The Boudin Barndance - 2/18/99)

Basically yeah--the Hayride tapes (and in no all THAT bad quality BTW)--are readily available on gray market discs, and somebody repackages them every year... Two around in stores now are from the UK--"Elvis Presley: The Legend Begins" has some 19 cuts. It adds early TV appearances and an

Covers: A Follow-up

Thanks, everyone for all the comments. Now I just want to be sure my understanding is correct. If you are a Hot New Country star and you cover a 70's pop or rock hit, you will probably be vilified for it. If you are an alt-country star and you cover a 70's pop or rock hit, you will probably be

RE: Esther ???

Barry Mazor wrote Jamie's got that exactly right. Mrs. Hockestix and I actually saw Ms. Bolint open for Freakwater some months ago; you can see it made for an, uh, interesting evening. Esther's still a resident of the same East Village she sludged through to the dulcet tones of Screamin'

Re: Hank Williams III

Loved it, expect to hear a bunch of Hank Sr and Wayne Handcock songs.

Re: 1st half-ironic cover? (was sucking in the 70s)

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Ph. Barnard wrote: Carl starts a thread: what was the first known instance of the half-ironic cover In my mind, it was always the Byrd's version of "The Christian Life." I couldn't understand it any other way than as an ironic gesture at the

Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer (was Re: jerry curry vs. portland)

Lianne recommends.. But for something more country-ish, I suggest you check out Dave Carter Tracy Grammer. I heard them at PSA (Portland Songwriters Association) and again 6 weeks ago at the Greg Brown concert in Corvallis. I'd say they're sort of country-singersongwriter-folk blend.

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