D*n wrote:
Are Roy and Jon gonna pick up where they left
off and engage in another epic rhetorical battle?
Why do you think I've been gone so long? I've been assembling an immense catalog of
evidence and logic, organized cross-referenced to wipe out Weisberger's posts with but
a click
I went to the Chapel Hill show, too. Just wanted to clear up a couple
things..."Motion Pictures" was a neil young song. Their song was
actually spelled "Goddamn the Son," which changes things altogether
for me, anyway. But this was hardly one of the better V-roys shows
I've been to. Scott
Dave Purcell wrote:
Mark Rubin spit:
These "alt-country" showcases were packed with scenesters dressed
up like they were going to a Hee-Haw theme party. Women in
pig-tails and guys in spray painted straw hats that would surely
get their asses kicked in an actual honky-tonk.
Howdy,
I temporarily misplaced last week's playlist for the Fringe, so I am
only just now getting around to posting it for your reading pleasure
(at least I hope it's more of a pleasure than a burden).
By way of an introduction of this week's featured Fringe artist, let me
say that it should be
What a banner day in my P2 mailbox. My favorite Norwegian is back, Erin
Snyder's posting again, and Roy's back. It's enough to make a gal get all
mushy.
--Amy
In a message dated 99-04-23 17:38:03 EDT, bob writes:
Ummm, who are these bands that are getting on the radio and
turning newbies off of "altcountry"?
I could name some pretty rotten Southern Ohio bluegrass bands
That doesn't answer the question, which was about alt country... g
Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 23-Apr-99 Re: Oliver Lake by
"Greg Harness"@excite.co
One of my desert island records is the World Saxophone Quartet's *Dances and
Ballads*, and Lake's originals - 'West African Snap', 'Adjacent', and 'Belly
Up' - are a big part of why I like that
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Don Yates wrote:
And it looks like I was right: "Ever True Evermore" was recorded by Patti
Page (as was "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming"), and "Mistakes" was
recorded by Vera Lynn. !--don
Friggin' hell! Not *the* Vera Lynn? Sweetheart of the Forces in
WWII? Her
Since these sorts of lists generally just give me a headache...the result
of promiscuous musical attachmenets I guess...I've avoided comment on mopst
of the interesting discussion. (No headache detected.)
But a few late throw-in points:
I think David C. is dead on in answering Tera's question
Roy "The River" Kasten:
Why do you think I've been gone so long? I've been assembling
an immense catalog of evidence and logic, organized
cross-referenced to wipe out Weisberger's posts with but a
click of the mouse. If that doesn't work I'll just start calling names.
Holy shit! What a
Country Music Radio
The Bob Paterson Show
Thursday 22nd April 1999
Hazeldine - Drive ["Digging You Up", Polydor UK 1998]
segue
The Damnations TX - Spit and Tears ["Half Mad Moon", Sire Records 1999]
Nadine - Out On A Limb ["Downtown, Saturday", Glitterhouse Records 1999]
Interview with
Tom Ekeberg wrote:
Carl W.:
As a footnote to our discussion, see the new issue of the Atlantic,
including an article arguing that Dylan changed pop music more than
any other single figure, "including Sinatra, Elvis or the Beatles."
Of course. He single handedly made it all
Which pretty much echoes something that Bill Emerson, banjoist
extraordinaire, told Bluegrass Unlimited a few years ago (I'm hunting for
that Crowe rant):
"The problem with bluegrass is that there's too much unprofessional
bluegrass. It's a type of music that anybody can play anywhere. You
Sorry. I should have clarified in the first place. This is Stacey Earle of
Chicago, who is a founder and regular at Here Be Monsters, and has
occasionally sung harmony with Jon Langford in Skull Orchard. I talked to
her last night. Her arm is a wreck with metal things sticking out of it.
Quite an amusing read I thought. Two extremes and both too extreme IMO.
The web site is at :
http://www.dallasobserver.com/1999/041599/music1.html
The Dixie Chicks
What's Not To Like?
By Michael Corcoran
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/23/99 3:27:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
handle I've ever seen. I mean Cheese Grits are just way up there on the
high holy list of all things soul, right up there next to scrapple,
chili,
Louise says:
Two extremes and both too extreme IMO.
Which is about right; if Natalie Maines were all the Monument Chicks have
going for them, some folks - well, me, at least - wouldn't have much
interest, so Corcoran's it's-all-Natalie "defense" is of minimal use.
Wilonsky, on the other hand,
Yeah, damn shame how advances in recording technology have made
it possible
for people to make records without the financing -- or blessing -- of some
media conglomerate more concerned with cash than quality or a group of
gatekeepers who get to decide what's "professional" or not. This
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
really isn't all that good. And while we're goin' down that roadEmmylou
on lead these days isn't all that appealing, yet as backup/harmony is quite
nice.
Oh, that's open to a serious rebuttal, but we are talking about subjective
opinions.
"The problem with bluegrass is that there's too much unprofessional
bluegrass.
No, no. That would be old-time music.
snort
Erin
His Royness:
Tom Ek. wrote:
Of course. He single handedly made it all right not to know how to sing,
not to know how to play
Bob knew how to sing and knew how to play. Still does.
Everything is true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some
sense, true and false in some
In a message dated 4/24/99 1:52:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
he's just a flat out liar, as anyone who's read, for instance, the current
Country Music magazine piece on the Chicks (a full page on the band's
history - with quotes about it from Seidel - including a their first three
album
I think Anon's beef is much more with the organizers, promoters, and
marketers of SXSW, but all the ire falls on the bands.
Nah, I'd say he's disturbed most by the infrastructure attached to that
particular scene that can't seem to diferentiate between the wheat and the
chaff, as it were. See
Richard Haslop wrote:
The World
Is A Wonderful Place (is that what the English Richard Thompson tribute
was called?
I haven't heard of this. Who's on it?
Tom Smith
Progressive jazz and twang:
I never saw all four together, but I have had the pleasure
of seeing the three surviving members of WSQ in three separate
gigs -- two I booked.
Saw David Murray's Quartet with the late Fred Hopkins on bass at
Artpark.
Presented Hamiet Bluiett duo with Ronnie Burrage
Tomness writes:
Seeing the sense in which Bob Dylan don't know how to sing shouldn't be too
hard. Seeing the sense in which Bob Dylan don't know how to play harmonica
should be a no brainer.
Ah, if I only had a brainIn what sense does Bob not know how to sing? He doesn't
know how
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
geez, but how do you really feelwhat's up with such completely
"mean-spirited" attacks on critics that for some reason are not likedwhat
a waste of time...
That was nothing. If you really want to see insults and venom
hurled about, bring up the 'M' word.
When I sent the following message yesterday, it had a nifty little subject line of
"AOTD
(All-purpose-quotation Of The Decade)", which appears to have been stripped, at least
on the
digest. Just so everybody knows what I was really nominating Steve Earle for.
Nina Melechen
In today's
In a message dated 4/24/99 6:52:16 PM !!!First Boot!!!,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wilonsky, on the other hand, is a supreme idiot - no, wait, that's too
nice;
he's a supremely mean-spirited idiot
Despite his hatred for bluegrass, I think Wilonsky hit the nail on the head
with the Chunks.
Tom Ekeberg wrote:
Seeing the sense in which Bob Dylan don't know how to sing shouldn't be too
hard.
This is what I actually disagree with. Not being able to sing very well
and not knowing how to sing are two different things. I think Dylan made
amazingly effective use of a very
M Rubin wrote:
I think Anon's beef is much more with the organizers, promoters, and
marketers of SXSW, but all the ire falls on the bands.
Nah, I'd say he's disturbed most by the infrastructure attached to that
particular scene that can't seem to diferentiate between the wheat and the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Flat Out Worst Singer that is horrible but does not spoil the music in any
way, shape, or form - Neil Young
= Nicely put!
best,
Kate
Sounds from the Mother Road-4/24/99
Saturdays Noon-2pm
KGLP Gallup Public Radio
Fund Drive in full Swing!
Anne Feeney--Look to the Left
Chicken Chokers--Looking for Money
Toni Price--Throw me a Bone
Sam Bush--All Night Radio
Gillian Welch--One More Dollar
Woody Guthrie--Do-Re-Mi
Riders in the
At 15:26 24.04.99 -0500, you wrote:
Tom Ekeberg wrote:
Seeing the sense in which Bob Dylan don't know how to sing shouldn't be too
hard.
This is what I actually disagree with. Not being able to sing very well
and not knowing how to sing are two different things.
Okay. That's what I
Howdy there y'all..
Here is an old old old Playlist for Car Tunes on WEVL Memphis FM 90
Monday afternoons 4-6 PM
I have working production on a rap video for the past week, so pardon the
delay. I had a sub this week, and not sure what he played, but here is the
show from 2 weeks ago during
In a message dated 4/24/99 3:25:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I also noticed that he didn't have the
strongest voice in the world. However, he figured out strategies for
evading those problems and became a great singer.
I would beg to differ as the King got into
Dang daddy, put my playlist to shame
Nancy
At 05:30 PM 4/24/99 EDT, you wrote:
where what I believe was his last televised concert he sang "Unchained
Melody" accompanying himself on the piano. It is one of the most emotional
and powerful musical moments I have ever seen. He looks like hell, but that
voice is strong and perfect. It
Hi folks!
For all of us wanting to be in NOLA this weekend, eating beignets, crawfish
Monica and alligator pie.here's the next best thing (sort of). Coverage
via the Times-Picayune WEB site. A review of Willie's performance follows,
other info can be found at:
In a message dated 4/24/99 4:50:39 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
But it makes me
cry precisely because his voice CAN'T do it anymore, which isn't so
suprising since he's like only a few weeks away from being dead. He can't
hit the high notes at all, or the low ones
I'm sort of surprised by Joe's reference to Willie and Waylon as examples
of singers with deficient voices. Townes I'll buy, but to my ears, both
Waylon and Willie have great instruments. Curiously, though, of the three
only Townes can deliver a song or a phrase right to the center of me and
At 11:19 AM -0400 on 4/24/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I consider bluegrass alt-country.
This isn't my objection to calling bluegrass alt-country, but I dunno
how a staid, conservative genre like bluegrass becomes an alternative
to a staid, conservative genre like country. It's just
At 6:33 PM +0200 on 4/23/99, Marie wrote:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the world does not need
anymore
tribute albums. g It's one of those ideas that are better in theory.
The only really good one
is *Tulare Dust*, imo. And the Tom T. Hall tribute is pretty good.
The Jo
Saw David Murray's Quartet with the late Fred Hopkins on bass at
Artpark.
I've been lucky to see David Murray in many incarnations, very often with
Fred Hopkins. I was sad to see how he passed away - he seemed very young (I
don't know his age, but he PLAYED young). He always seemed to have
John Kinnamon wrote:
I'm sort of surprised by Joe's reference to Willie and Waylon as examples
of singers with deficient voices. Townes I'll buy, but to my ears, both
Waylon and Willie have great instruments.
Willie doesn't have a "big" voice, although it can be loud if he wants
to. he's a
I began scribbling the following review soon after the show, forgot about
it for a week, and came back and finished it today.
No, I refuse to say anything about the most influential artist or the
negative effect of bad musicianship on the alt-country movement. :-) In
any case, this review is
posting some more sv cdrs for anyone who wants to trade, or do a blanks and
postage trade (I dont mind), this time it's 6/22/96, and 10/8/98... the 96
show is cabaret metro in Chi Town, and includes tons of high quality filler
from FM broadcasts, and packs two discs. The 10/8/98 is from First
Cactus wrote:
If Fo Deuk Revue comes to your town in any form, check it out.
When I saw him half a year ago he had Senegal rappers, traditional Senegal
pop music, Amira Buraka reading beat poetry, and, of course, the great
sounds of David Murray himself. Kick ass stuff.
Kick ass stuff
Awhile back, someone posted this address:
Rambler Records, P.O. Box 90685, Nashville, TN 37209
for tapes by Gwil Owen (writer of songs recorded by Toni Price, Joy Lynn
White et al.). Being a fan of those songs, I mailed off a note asking
for a list of what he had for sale. It was returned to
Caught most of the rerun of tonight's televised portion, and though Ray
Price was a hard act to follow - dang, he sounded good, and he also sounded
great on the radio-only second show - Lee Ann was up to the job after a
slightly shaky start with her Terry Smith-endorsed current hit; it looked to
What the hell- I'll try here. Anyone know of a good sous chef or line cook
looking for more opportunity who wants to live in culinary Mecca (i.e. the
wilds of Northern California). I can't pay a whole lot but my 65 seat bistro
is busy, a local favorite and a damn fun place to work. I'm also a
did a good slow, hard-country number that's not on either of her albums,
most likely titled "A Way To Survive"; anyone know where it comes from?
Most recent version I know of is Gene Watson but I think Hank Thompson had a
go at it and my band does it every weekend.
Mike Hays
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