7 of 9 Meets Jimmie Davis

1999-04-28 Thread Barry Mazor
I won't be the only one to have caught this, but for the record, Star Ship Voyager's Seven of Nine and Doc Hologram just performed "You Are My Sunshine" in perfect 2-part harmony, the first clear indication of the survival of twang for the next 400 years, and an early indication of interest in

Wedding Marches. (was: Re: Bad Companye)

1999-04-27 Thread Barry Mazor
At the first of my first cousin's many weddings, this one held at the beautiful Paramus, New Jersey Steak Pit, the ceremony finished, the groom seemed to rush down the aisle, leaving her standing there. The fast thinking accordion player let loose with "What Now My Love, Now That You've Left

Re: NYC Willis/Robison

1999-04-26 Thread Barry Mazor
OK. Well, the highlight for me was probably the Bruce Kelly duet on that ol' Louvin brothers number, whose title I do not recall, but a version of their duet's on his CD "Wrapped'...Beyond that, I've been waiting for a chance to see Ms. Willis do a varioed, cross-her-whole career set, and that's

Re: Floyd Tillman comp/ Jimmy Wakely

1999-04-26 Thread Barry Mazor
..and I in fact got hold of that new Collectoir's Music/Sony Tillman comp--and it's alredy set to be up there among the reissues of the year for me. Interesting side point: Floyd is an early practitioner of blues jazz vocal-influenced baroque folk singing...he regularly irregularly bends and

Re: single most influential, and Tillman, cont.

1999-04-26 Thread Barry Mazor
I think that was one reason I loved Jimmy Day's steel so much- he played the steel like a voice, singing. Joe Gracey Which reminds me--besides the blues vocal tradition influence on the way Floyd Tillman would sin it struck me listening to the Columbia recordings since yesterday that he did the

New York P2ers rise again!

1999-04-25 Thread Barry Mazor
demo disc and they sound suprisingly southmidwestern, in the SV/Bottle Rocket/Blue Mt./Jim Roll vein. I think a lot of you'd go for them. New York area P2ers now include the following, in more or less order of P2 seniority, cause why not: Amy Haugesag Barry Mazor Ross Whitwam Jeff Jackolew Buddy Wood

Re: Floyd Tillman comp/ Jimmy Wakely

1999-04-25 Thread Barry Mazor
Jon Weisberger wrote: t the Collector's Choice Tillman CD that has a couple dozen of Floyd's Columbia records, is now available through regular retail channels. Oh, baby. So these would be all those key late-40s cuts missing from the Hall of Fame comp--and not just those 3 cuts I've had on

Attention Marie: How to Go Haute Hippie

1999-04-25 Thread Barry Mazor
The first sign of trouble was the proliferation of aging deadheads and 20-something-"I wasn't even alive in the 60s, but all that free love and dope seems cool, so I'll borrow my parents Lexus SUV to drive over to the mall, buy a $75 designer tied-dye shirt and $120 pair of Calvin Klein

Re: Crosby/Jolsen Cash/Dylan in Kansas City (was: Single MostInfluential)

1999-04-24 Thread Barry Mazor
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

News flash: Swarb's not dead.

1999-04-23 Thread Barry Mazor
(But he still looks just like Joan Plowright...) April 21, 1999 Folk rocker's obituary makes one BIG MISTAKE LONDON (CNN) -- Dave Swarbrick, of the seminal folk-rock group Fairport Convention, was alive and chuckling, friends said Wednesday, after seeing a complimentary obituary

From updates to pumpskully to the Mercury Lounge

1999-04-23 Thread Barry Mazor
Boy. Ya go away for a week to the rural pleasures of Las Vegas, Nevada and you come back and there's this long give and take Update thread about what's alt.country or not and what lousy bands do if they come from Chicago and some long-absent voices reappear and it looks like things in this

RE: Mandy B/Don't Forget

1999-04-23 Thread Barry Mazor
OK folks. This turns out to be too easy! "Don't Forget to Cry" was a May '64 single recorded for WB by those obscure singers of Bryants' songs, the Everly Brothers. It's readily available on the 2-disc Walk Right Back Warner Brothers Best of... Glad to be of assistance. Barry M.

Re: criminally underappreciated albums of the '90s

1999-04-17 Thread Barry Mazor
It was not a huge throng! ..I was out there too. Ryan and Eaglesmith. Both great that night. Both of those Weiss brothers were out there too and Corrie, if I remember right. Hot coffee was definitely replacing cold beer. It was very late--and VERY cold. I was thinking that was the Waterloo

Era of Perfect Singles

1999-04-17 Thread Barry Mazor
I have something very uninteresting to say about thsi threadwhich is that there were great rock and roll singles when they cared about having them. (yes; yes;m Im know there have been dance singles since, etc; blah blah... I wanna be clear) ...but a Perfect Single has a sort of obvious

Re: Era of Perfect Singles

1999-04-17 Thread Barry Mazor
...the first splash of "Like A Rolling Stone" comes on the radio and I crank it up to speaker-cone shred volume, jam the car a gear lower, stomp it up to 85 and hold it way up there close to the redline and it feels like musical sex. This is what music is supposed to do to you. Joe Gracey

Re: Era of Perfect Singles

1999-04-17 Thread Barry Mazor
Like Linda, I wish barry's subject line was more prognostication than historical desctription. --david cantwell Well, hey--if they WANT to do that again, they will. And for all we know right now, an oncoming era of download quality stereo singles from the Net may do just that, given kids (and

Re: Swingin' Doors, 4/15/99

1999-04-16 Thread Barry Mazor
Damn, Don, you're playing so much James Hand that I'm worried you'll be sick of his voice by the time the new album hits your mailbox. From what I saw of him at the Broken Spoken during SXSW, he'd be hard to get tired of! Now what was that town in Texas he'd spent all his time never

Re: Western Swing book

1999-04-14 Thread Barry Mazor
The further I've gotten into the Jean Boyd "Southwestern Jazz" book, the more the attitude of the thing has made it unpleasantsometimes it does look simply like a "sticking to my thesis no matter what" problem, which was what I'd called it being charitable, but by the 38th time she praises

Re: Covers:Don't Think Twice...(re:Mike Ness)

1999-04-14 Thread Barry Mazor
Didn't Charlie Rich record this also? Tera Maybe. I believe there are well over a hundred recordings of it, everyone from Andy Williams to that only Top Ten version, the reasonably hilarious joke Four Seasons self-parody falsetto version under the name of "the Wonder Who".. As far as more

Re: Over here and overheated

1999-04-14 Thread Barry Mazor
ON the other hand, you've got some WAY better glossies going these days! There's just no equivalent of MOJO in the U Sof A...for a magazine willing to look and listen at big tent pop music. Profiles of Frank Sinatra and Gram Parsons and say, the Sex Pistols in the same magazine,

Re: Kiss Kiss Hug Hug

1999-04-14 Thread Barry Mazor
Now, Mr. Weiss. Jon knows, and a good number of us know, excatly what Mr. Riedie's hair looks like. It was a Twangfest bonus last time around. When you show up in St. Louis, as we all know you will, of course, you will get to see Riedie's hair too. Comes with the admission. Barry Why

Re: No controversy here

1999-04-14 Thread Barry Mazor
Besides, Aretha could kick all their punk asses at once. --junior And I got pictures. Barry

Wynette News: Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad

1999-04-14 Thread Barry Mazor
Singer Tammy Wynette autopsied year after death April 14, 1999 Web posted at: 7:15 PM EDT (2315 GMT) NASHVILLE,

Re: [hillbilly] Workin' Man Blues (book) and Western Swing book

1999-04-13 Thread Barry Mazor
I'm interested to hear about that too; I've not read it--but then, it's only out a couple of weeks. I do know that the writer is a professor with a lot of non-fiction under his belt concerning California, especially lives of working class Californians, and that he even wrote a story collection

RE: [hillbilly] Workin' Man Blues (book) and Western Swing book

1999-04-13 Thread Barry Mazor
I only want to add that the effort has some value anyway--mainly by way of all those interviews lurking behind the "Oral History" part of the title. The tendency to avoid calling the country aspect of Western Swing country strikes me, in reading this, more on the lines of "I've gotta have an

P2 Alert: 40-Acre Feud On the Web... Free!

1999-04-12 Thread Barry Mazor
I stumbled on the fact today that the rarely seen 85-minute feature film "Forty-Acre Feud", starring none other than George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Minnie Pearl and Skeeter Davis (and even more) is currently available for watching free of charge at broadcast.com. If you've never been there,

Spinner to Add Music Item Auctions

1999-04-11 Thread Barry Mazor
Spinner.com queues up auctions By Beth Lipton Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 9, 1999, 3:55 p.m. PT Net radio firm Spinner.com next week will become the latest Web company to get auction fever. Spinner on Monday is planning to

Re: Sir Doug Sahm: Alt.country Crazy Cajun

1999-04-11 Thread Barry Mazor
Mr. Gracey, you have the most interetsing friends--but then, so do they. Barry Doug Sahm(read original for this part) is literally a walking encyclopedia of American musical history. He and I became friends in Austin and he was a frequent visitor to my radio show, and I am

Re: Crazy Cajun (was Sir Doug Sahm: Alt.)

1999-04-11 Thread Barry Mazor
Absolutely...they're all creeping their way into stores right about now too. The Collectors Choice catalogue is probaboy the one you're talking about, but I suspect lots of vendors and stores have them now. New Crazy Cajun discs include sets recorded in Texas or Louisiana by: Lowell Fulson

Re: Leon Payne Albums

1999-04-10 Thread Barry Mazor
There have been copies of that one on CD here in the beautiful East vil-lodge Amy--ssome of the smaller stores around St. Marks and even, I think, at Tower 4th Street. So you should be able to find it--with, I guess, the sound quality caveat that's been pointed out. I've nearly grabbed it more

Re: This will get my ass to a large venue: Do they do it in COlu

1999-04-09 Thread Barry Mazor
I have friends, including my 30 years-worth best one, who were in Boston in the late sixties to very early seventies and saw and heard the BEFORE the first LP band, when they were called "The J. Geils Quartet" I believe, and I'm told they were even cooler... There used to be a poster at my

Simon Zimmerman Tour

1999-04-09 Thread Barry Mazor
Tickets go on sale here in NYC on Monday...and I'm not at all sure it's worth a Madison Square Garden fuill of who will probably show up for this first-ever line-up to go! Maybe Jones Beach! I assume somebody else but his Bobness is the alleged World's Greatest Living Songwriter to Walk Out On,

Gram: Under Your Spell (was:Emmylou, Gram trib, Crow)

1999-04-09 Thread Barry Mazor
I know we shouldn't talk too much aboutn bootleg pressings of unreleased recordings by dead guys with drug problems, but I'll note in passing that the 2-disc Cd recording available in the odd place here in there under the above title is a feast for fan's of this late guy with some import around

Re: Gram: Under Your Spell (was:Emmylou, Gram trib, Crow)

1999-04-09 Thread Barry Mazor
s new one by Mr. Sid Griffin, which appeared in a relatively obscure little rag called " Live! Music Review"--(the editor of which is no doubt a lurker member of P2 'cause I said that.) If I find some time to type it up, I'll post it here. Barry Barry Mazor wrote: I know we shouldn'

Up for Kelly Willis Bruce Robison NYC?

1999-04-07 Thread Barry Mazor
Well, I'm not only going to miss Merle Haggard Meets Mike Ireland while I'm out of town, I'll miss the Mike Ireland and Joe Pernice follow-up at the Mercury Lounge on the 20th too... On the other hand, Keely Willis Bruce Robison are at the Mercury Lounge NYC on Friday the 23rd AND Saturday the

Johnny Cash Appears in NYC Tonight!

1999-04-06 Thread Barry Mazor
I knew nothing about his--or I wouldda tried to get it! There's good news in here about Johnny..some less than good news about Waylon--and notes on televising of this salute very soon. Barry --- He Walks The Line... to NYC An all-star tribute to

Re: Fever query (was: covers)

1999-04-06 Thread Barry Mazor
As far as I know, Little Willie was the originator. Barry With all this talk about covers, Fever, etc. I relistened to Elvis and Little Willie John's versions last night and was wondering when and by whom the song was first recorded. Little Willie's is from 1956. Are there recordings before

Re: Fever (was: good covers)

1999-04-05 Thread Barry Mazor
Hey, I like the song too. Little Willie John's version is *terrific*, imho, etc. --junio Yeah Ross-I'm on your side on this one too. I like Peggy Lee's...I love Little Willie John's--and I consider the Elvis version from the sensational "Elvis Is Back" post-Army LP, one of the better

Re: Good covers (was: Kelly Willis calling the shots)

1999-04-05 Thread Barry Mazor
How about when Bob Dylan covers Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," but the arrangement of the song adheres pretty closely to the Dead's version? Is there a name for that? Isn't it Harmolodic Bifurcation? OR maybe I'm thinking of Caesarean Retrofication? Yeah, that's it. Lance . . . Oh, that's

Trio, Louvins Country Harmony: Maynard in NYT

1999-04-04 Thread Barry Mazor
I never suspected THIS writer had ever even heard of country music! Ya never know. No inside reports from Salinger on how Franny sounded with Zooey though. From this morning's Sunday NY Times: April 4, 1999 The Lure of Same-Sex Harmony in Country By JOYCE MAYNARD From the days of the

RE: Trio, Louvins Country Harmony: Maynard in NYT

1999-04-04 Thread Barry Mazor
Right here on-list I'll say: Jon I figured you were going to have a little fun with this one! You did not let me down. I'd really encourage you to point out the errors here right to the grey ol Times themselves..since IMHO Ms. Maynard has been a creature they more or less invented as a

Re: Note-for-note

1999-04-04 Thread Barry Mazor
There'is a little classic of modern literature that takes on excatly this startling and provocative notion (and feeling)..of re-creating...with some provocative turns on i of its own--w the now famous story "Pierre Menard-Author of Don Quixote" by Jorge Luis BorgesIt tells (in the form of a

Re: Corn stuff

1999-04-03 Thread Barry Mazor
Now refresh my memory..Did Homer Jethro do Kellogg's Corn Flakes commercials, or was it for that once heavily advertised but I think long-gone alt. brand " Country Cornflakes"--scorched in my memory with TV chickens finishing off the brand name--as in, "New Country Cornflakes, New Country

Re: tea

1999-04-03 Thread Barry Mazor
Cherilyn asked: . Just tried to buy Bloomed and was told by Damon the Bane of my Existence that it's out of print. Is this true? Where can I get my Buckner? Mr. Weiss's Miles of Music has been listing Bloomed as available there; Look under "Hard to Find". Barry (PS: Someone was asking how

Re: SXSW finally

1999-04-01 Thread Barry Mazor
Cherilyn diMond wrote: c) could someone please for the love of christ send me an album title suggestion that will beat Jo's "When Chickens Cry." And Joe G suggested: "When Chickens Hurl" See, now THAT's perfect. And I say that even though I'd tried to get Cherilyn to take "Special

Music Makers Relief Blues Artists

1999-03-30 Thread Barry Mazor
A chunk of my time at SXSW this year was spent on the blues side--and in that regard I enjoyed having the chance to see Clarence Gatemouth Brown, WC Clark, Lou Ann Barton, Alvin Youngblood Hart,and even Guy Forsyth (a little blues, some ego--and pretty good SAW within a couple of days. I was

Re: Joe Williams RIP

1999-03-30 Thread Barry Mazor
That's sad news. Mitch. The man had a way with a blues standard like "Every Day I Have the Blues" as well as the jazz standards, didn't he... And for the record, he's one of MY mother's all-time favorite singers too! Barry M The great jazz singer Joe Williams was found dead Monday night a

RE: The F Word

1999-03-28 Thread Barry Mazor
Oh, what the hell; here we go again... I don't even get how people can NOT notice Ms. irwin's "slight" note-finding problem live--on disc it's a different story, seems to me..and I say this as someone who's always liked their "Old Paint" CD and still do--only now I'm aware of the 4800 takes it

RE: The F Word

1999-03-28 Thread Barry Mazor
Juzz one thing, meshel: We get these reports of the same "temporary" problem from shows all over the place, and for some timeIs this maybe--now let's not start any rumors unless we want to-- one of those, uh, recurring physical/mental problems not entirely unknown in the music industry,

This time, there's a REAL Net Virus warning...

1999-03-27 Thread Barry Mazor
March 27, 1999 E-Mail Virus Spreads on Internet, Could Tie Up Traffic if Unstopped By MARK BOSLET Dow Jones Newswires PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A computer virus that spread quickly across the Internet on Friday afternoon shut down e-mail servers at some companies and overloaded others with

Re: Fw: [RaB-HoF] Charlie Feathers

1999-03-27 Thread Barry Mazor
Jon, I haven't heard about this before. But if it's true that the Revenant compilation may be withdrawn, then buy all means order it now, cause I doubt a better collection will ever appear. It's a real gem and well worth having in any case. --junior Yeah, do that--but a reasonable

Re: Extra recommendations from SXSW

1999-03-27 Thread Barry Mazor
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Barry Mazor wrote: the former Miss Cowsill was surely the only one at SXSW with Top Ten Hits when she was five... You're forgettin' Bobby Bare Jr., Barry. He had a #2 country hit with his daddy at the age of five. (And yeah, he missed his showcase, but he played SXSW

Extra recommendations from SXSW

1999-03-26 Thread Barry Mazor
OK...just a few recommendations and bits of quiet good news from what I saw and heard dopwn there...People we OUGHT to get to hera more of, I think... Monte Warden. Big return week for him, as a cxloser with buddies the Robison bros and Kelly Willis at thge awards, and a strong set at the

Re: SXSW MOVIES of interest here

1999-03-25 Thread Barry Mazor
Mr. McConaughey was present--and played a large part in bringing the flick to Austin--Mr. Woody Harrelson, the noticeable Ms. Elizabeth Hurley, Ms. Ellen DeGeneres and pal Ms. Anne Heche, Mr. Martin Landau, director Ron Howard and (big applause in hall here), the irreplaceable Clint Howard.

Re: Tom Waits Meets Matt Cook at SXSW

1999-03-23 Thread Barry Mazor
Carl's no doubt right that for every one I've heard dismiss the Early Waits in this nabe (such is the East Village), there probably is somebody else out there who never got past the evolution/revolution (you call it) in the music over time. I've got a strong suspicion (and find it interesting

Tom Waits Meets Matt Cook at SXSW

1999-03-22 Thread Barry Mazor
Thought that title would get your attention.. Yes--I saw Tom Waits, as did Matt Cook, Slim Chance Kelly (as he's told ya), Jim Catalano and Tony Renner..there may have been more P2ers in there some place...Mr. Roy Kasten. making a completely unexpected appearance at SXSW, offered me 40 bucks

Repost: Elvis and Other Books

1999-03-22 Thread Barry Mazor
I posted this some weeks ago, but since Mr. Purcell asked--I have this chance to post two overlong pieces on the same day withoiut writitng so mucyh... Can't pass that up, eh? Barry Has anyone read volume II of Guralnick's bio yet? I keep meaning to go get a copy --junior Sure have. And

Re: Bramletts

1999-03-12 Thread Barry Mazor
Delaney and Bonnie does anyone else out there think db's elektra and atco lps, only one in the former case, were among the best rootsy records of the late '60s and early '70s? motel shot, in particular, captured a rural southern vibe that goes back quite a ways. bill f-w Those WERE great

Re: Bramletts

1999-03-12 Thread Barry Mazor
PS: So Damon ain't related to anybody neither? It's all so confusing. Barry

Re: SXSW update II

1999-03-11 Thread Barry Mazor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At the request of Barry Mazor, who's leaving shortly for his all expense-paid(etc.) must be some kinda well-known workin' weasel! Linda Naw..in my case, more like an unknown workin weasel,...you know, one more runna-the-mill ink-stained wretch with no bylines

Re:Lindley benfit SXSW (was: Shania Spam )

1999-03-10 Thread Barry Mazor
..., who else will be playing at that Saturday night Donald Lindley benefit at the Texas Union Ballroom. You mentioned Jimmy Dale and Kimmie. I do believe I'll be there. Thanks, --junior And is there more than one event, or has the night and venue cxhanged? Mistuh Corder noted the copy below

Paul Simon on Joe DiMaggio NYT

1999-03-09 Thread Barry Mazor
The passing of Joe DiMaggio is understandably being taken hard in the streets of New York City, consuming conversations here, and, I bet, elsewhere. This man strikes a deep chord around these parts. He was the perfect symbol of the best of my father's WWII generation, a man who maintained that

Re: Tweedy quote/alt.country

1999-03-09 Thread Barry Mazor
stuart wrote: I happened to catch Man in the Sand (the film about making Mermaid Avenue) on BBC, Whoa. Is this available anywhere here in the US? Off-list replies are fine if y'all discussed this to death while I was hiding. Dave Purcell I happened to be in England the same time as

Re: Tweedy quote/alt.country (REAL LONG)

1999-03-09 Thread Barry Mazor
Terry Smith: nr(reading). Great novel. So, was J. Stalin worse than Hitler? Well, Stalin liked sports; Hitler liked music. It bent these men a little, positively bent them. Barry (These are the wages of synthesis.)

Exec: Country needs New York station

1999-03-09 Thread Barry Mazor
If this causes any mirth--when WHN AM was all country here in the 70s, it was the number one country station in the country. (And the distinction between "trendy" and "fashionable" leaves me a lil mirthful myself!) Barry NY Daily News 3/9/97 Record Exec: Country Music Has Gotta Get a Station

Re: Joe Henry - Fuse Billy Bob was: over the wall post)

1999-03-09 Thread Barry Mazor
Personally, I don't know how to talk on-list to people not on the list especially since it's hard just to keep up with everybody who DOES hang around..so I won't try... One thing you get with Joe Henry's excellent new disc (IMHO), which I haven't seen reported yet, is some fairly hilarious

Sunday NYTimes: Earle Willis

1999-03-07 Thread Barry Mazor
NYT March 7, 1999 Chroniclers of Wayward Souls By ANN POWERS Country has long been packaged as the classical music of simple American folks. The transformation of hillbilly

Re: Tweedy generations - cont'd again

1999-03-07 Thread Barry Mazor
Gen X cynicism is a hand-me-down albeit more intensified and "what about me" attitude from the Baby Boom generation. Tera Then why didn't the Velvet Underground sell more records?? Lance . . . A good and rarely made point from Tera--as far as it goes--and a reasonable question from Lance.

Re: Tweedy generations - cont'd again. correction

1999-03-07 Thread Barry Mazor
Yeah, yeah, I know. I quoed "Somebody to Love"... Typing too fast at one point. Meant to say: White Rabbit is not "a hippie song about bunnies", as someone here actually once called it--but one by a band and author that also says "When the truth is found to be LIES..and all of the joy,

Re: Velvets and irony (was: Tweedy generations - cont'd again)

1999-03-07 Thread Barry Mazor
And since we're on the subject--I've been wondering for awhile about the Velvet's "Who Loves the Sun." I can't decide if this song is Lou Reed's concession to the "peace and love" demographic, a send-up/parody of that same demographic, or both. s on this one are encouraged. Lance . . . Well,

Re: A progressive Question [Extremely LONG]

1999-03-07 Thread Barry Mazor
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Joe Gracey wrote: In 1971 we started looking for a name for it and the best we could do was "Progressive Country", which was decent enough but somehow unsatisfying. Gee, right around that same time people were looking for a name for the kind of overworked

Re: RIP Stanley Kubrick

1999-03-07 Thread Barry Mazor
. Three P2ers, three classic films, three memorials. Who'll go for four? b.s. I'm Spartacus!... Honey, I'm home! .. h; that smarts!... Now close the pod bay doors, Hal. But you can't quote the lighting in Barry Lyndon. Barry not Lyndon. We'll meet again. Don't know where; don't know

Re: Tweedy quote /generations

1999-03-06 Thread Barry Mazor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The older folks, the ones with jobs and largely without .EDU at the end of the e-mail account, are more into the music. and less into the bands? wait. . .I'm confused. This often happens at the brink of a cosmic insight. Please keep going with this train of

Re: Townes

1999-03-06 Thread Barry Mazor
Tthe famous alleged Townes box (assuming you mean the one in which he performs duets with lots and lots of people) has still not been given any release date I've ever heard...The Charley 2-CD set is all culled from his albums, but it happens to have more of his cuts in their original form on it

Re: Cheryl's answer to Question [Extremely LONG]

1999-03-06 Thread Barry Mazor
Amen. It's keep on coming and it keeps on coming back. Witn the health of the music that exactly fits the "tiny tent" alt.country definition at least questionable now--the bigger picture ought to feel like good news to anybody who's really connected with ALL THIS. What Cheryl said was the

Re: Townes

1999-03-06 Thread Barry Mazor
I picked up the new Charley 2-CD "Live at the Old Quarter" while I was over in London recently, anyway, cause I just hadda have it. Barry Yeah, what's the deal with this one? Is the second disc really just the CD-version of the double vinyl with the extra songs? Or is there a whole 'nother 60

SXSW Music '99: Advice from the Sponsor

1999-03-05 Thread Barry Mazor
Two weeks remain until we start handing out badges and the fun begins throughout Austin. South By Southwest is going to happen again, like it or not. Planning for conference this year has been greatly enhanced by new services available at www.sxsw.com. Keeping track of who's playing where and

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

1999-03-03 Thread Barry Mazor
Considering R. McG. ended up doing 700 Club commercials for Pat Robertson I now wonder if there was ever any irony in it. jb Well, the ironies really pile on here. The one who was taking the song reasonably seriously at THAT time was almost surely future drug casualty Gram Parsons, who brought

Re: Esther ???

1999-03-02 Thread Barry Mazor
I believe she's the woman who played the main female character in Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise." I think I remember reading something about her father being a jazz musician, but I could have been halucinating. I also seem to remember reading something about her releasing a CD. Jamie

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

1999-03-02 Thread Barry Mazor
Unfortunately, Jon, from the perspective of just about anybody'd who care, you're absolutely rightThere's much good music and a lot of interets in getting to hear how that sound was arrived at--and some of the alternate versions hold their own anyway, some of which are the ones they keep on

Re:Elena review--and her CD

1999-03-02 Thread Barry Mazor
"Similarly, Elena Skye got her professional start in the wild world of New Jersey and New York punk rock before the rediscovery of bluegrass music led her to turn down the volume and form her traditional country-influenced but cowpunk-driven quartet, Elena Skye and the Demolition String Band".

RE: Robbie Fulks and covers

1999-03-02 Thread Barry Mazor
Slonedog says: Or perhaps it's because the artists actually like the songs. I for one love "Dancing Queen", "Jet" and "I Will Survive". They're not "guilty pleasures", they're just fun songs. I don't like to do the "But that's what I said in the firts place" thing--but I did--before those,

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

1999-03-02 Thread Barry Mazor
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: Sunrise (was: RE: Playlist: The Boudin Barndance - 2/18/99)

1999-03-02 Thread Barry Mazor
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

Re: Robbie Fulks and covers

1999-03-01 Thread Barry Mazor
Wait. . .I've never heard Robbie do this particular cover. Are you referring to that cheesy rock song Suffragette by the Beatles? curious, Linda That's Jet all right, Linda--but it was by Wings. OK, OK, finally I just have to ask "WHY?!!!" I just don't get it. Why do people love for

Re: Damnations again (revisited)

1999-02-28 Thread Barry Mazor
When I hear a band that sounds this fine, I wish they would do more covers. Will Miner When you see them, Will, you get to hear those covers--which happen to be some of their most dynamic numbers, and are probably the cause of some of the comments about the Damnations that might seem confusing

Re: Mr. Earle Strikes Yet Again

1999-02-28 Thread Barry Mazor
No offense dude, but if you plan on sending a butload of mail to the lists could you do it at once? I stopped reading them after number five. No offense, Mr. Dude, but Phil's postings of the key ongoing alt.country news have been a much-loved part of this list for years--and it's only lately

Re: Bingo , Alvin, Fulks and the Hollies (was:TheCountrypolitans)

1999-02-28 Thread Barry Mazor
A word of caution here: I've found all of the alt-country releases eminating out of Portland to be less than pleasing. Sorry, Golden Delicious, nor Bingo... Jerry Jerry- The one time I saw those Bingo kids here in NYC they struck me and I think other P2ers on hand as at least having

Re: Is It or Is It Not?

1999-02-28 Thread Barry Mazor
This is such an amusing case of horseraces in the making. Like it or don't, but don't hang this on a question of definitions. Somebody's gotta see at least some irony in the apparebtly inevitable bluegrass purist discussion of whether Earle's voice is "right" for their form--considering that

Re: 1998 P2 SURVEY

1999-02-27 Thread Barry Mazor
Should we recruit Aries people?. Perhaps they're the ones that contributed the unusable responses... Rams can't twang. Not even standing up. Or while wearing glasses. Barry M. (This being P2, I'm sure a catalog of twanger Aries types will follow!) Seriously-- thanks to Stacey , Pete and

Re: The Eradication Game (Re: Grammyszzzzzzzzz....)

1999-02-27 Thread Barry Mazor
How old were you when "Ahab the Arab" came out? I was a kid/teen and it was cooler than shit to us. It is a distortion to lump his later junk in with his earlier hits because he eventually ran out of gas and began to repeat himself and become tiresome and clownish. Joe Gracey Yeah,

Re: Damn This Old LA Town

1999-02-27 Thread Barry Mazor
The sorry thing, Neal, is we all blame this kind of behavior on our own towns (easy enough to do here in downtown hipper-than-thousville, too) but it's getting to be too damn common everywhere across the U.S.--and maybe beyond. The worst mistake is supposed to be to say anything about this

Re: Vegas?

1999-02-27 Thread Barry Mazor
Does anybody have any inkling of anything interesting going on in Las Vegas between April 18th and 22nd? Dina Hey Dina--if that, as I think it is, is the week of the NAB Broadcasters convention, (which as of the moment at least I'm scheduled to be at too BTW)...the answer to "what's going

Re: Vegas?

1999-02-27 Thread Barry Mazor
Oh, Barry! I caught Sam Butera last time I was in Vegas and he was *great*. Some extremely jumpin' RB, wow. He lives in Vegas and so is always something to look for when you're passing through. Also The Treniers, another old RB act, kick ass out -junior The Treniers are an all-time

Re: The Eradication Game (Re: Grammyszzzzzzzzz....)

1999-02-26 Thread Barry Mazor
(I think I'd leave the Dead alone just to keep the NOT live Workingmans/American Beauty..but they did add much to the noodling disease...) Never having been a metal fan, there are days, in retrospect, I'd put the hit on Led Zep to stamp out not so much them but a lotta what they done

Re: The Eradication Game (Re: Grammyszzzzzzzzz....)

1999-02-26 Thread Barry Mazor
Ray Stevens.. I , have never liked him, and particularly hate his novelty songs... By throwing his name out, I *want* to hear defenses of his work. Give me a reason to appreciate him Carl Z. Cause everything is beautiful in its own way? Barry (BTW, did that number make Stevens

Re: The Eradication Game . . . Ray Earth Daddy Stevens

1999-02-26 Thread Barry Mazor
And, oh yeah, Robert Plant should be eradicated. Lance . . That would take care of my save Jimmy Page but blot out later spin-offs of Led Zeppelin problem... Excellent move. ...even now I can see him fading on up that stairway to... Barry

SXS: Film for the Undead

1999-02-25 Thread Barry Mazor
(From Film Threat Weekly) SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST UNDEAD FILM FESTIVAL INVADES AUSTIN An alternative to the upcoming South By Southwest Film Festival has reared its ugly head. To be held in Austin, Texas, members of SlowKid Productions have formed their own film fest. This year, the first annual

Re: SXSW query: Broken Spoke??

1999-02-25 Thread Barry Mazor
And meanwhie, besides the Saturday SXSW line-up there, culminating with Walser-Hancock-Watson, there's the "now I know I'm really in town" Wednesday night line-up at the Broken Spoke--which includes James Hand, Charlie Burton and the Texas 2 Steppers, Ted Roddy's Tearjoint Troubadors, and

Re: Merle/Dale

1999-02-25 Thread Barry Mazor
Kate - No, Merle didn't play with Dale at Tramps. I know Dale would have thought he had died and went to heaven if Merle had. Let me know what you can about the Paradise - thanks. Off the see the Ghosts Rockets at the Rodeo Bar in NYC tonight. e ya later, Kat For the record--Merle and Dale

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