Jon Weisberger wrote:
... but Grisman's also about as good a Monroe-style mandolin
player as you can find. For straight-ahead bluegrass, check
out his, er, tribute double album, Home Is Where The Heart
Is (Rounder) or Early Dawg (Sugar Hill) or what I think was
his first album for Rounder -
"Jon Weisberger" says
I suspect that's the product of sloppiness at several points
in the process of putting the album together:
Grisman (or Rowan, or...) to Sierra gofer: "That one's called
'I'm Blue And Lonesome'"
Well, if you're right, it started before that, because the record
was
The CMF isn't online yet. But you can reach 'em by phone at 615-256-1639.
Jim N.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/16 3:48 PM
Hey all ... I'm trying to contact the Country Music Foundation about
their music catalog, but no luck. Anyone have an e-mail address or phone
number? If you can, please
an update on the ICMC just in...
"James E. Akenson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/16 3:38
16TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC CONFERENCE 4-5 JUNE 1999
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
BELMONT UNIVERSITY
http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/ci/icmc.html
The 16th annual International Country Music Conference
The two County CDs Jon mentioned are, of course, also available from County Sales. I
haven't actually checked, but they tend to have the best prices in town. Regarding
the differences in the two CDs - as Jon points out, "Sand Mountain Blues" is culled
from the best of the Delmores' King
this may be of interest to some of you
jim n.
Ray Alden [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/02 10:58 AM
Dear Friends of Old Time Music,
The Chubby Dragon label is proud to announce the release of a new and
significant old time music CD; "The Brandywine Mountain Music
Convention." It contains over 70
"Tar Hut Records" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/31 1:53 PM
You have to wonder how much Rounder is charging them
for the discs...maybe the only way they can profit off it is to charge that
much..
Rounder's artist price is $6 a unit. I'd say they're making quite a profit...
Jim Nelson
Stuart Munro writes:
At the risk of incurring the wrath of the List-dad...
(Snip)...
Sorry, but how does it follow from Rebecca's objecting...blah blah blah...etc.
Sorry about this, but I agree with the List-dad. This stuff doesn't belong here. And
not only that, Rebecca's response was
My apologies for contributing to this mess, folks.
Jim N.
This might be worth checking out.
Jim N.
"Joe Cline" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24 3:18 PM
CBS, TNN Combine of Documentary
.c The Associated Press
By JIM PATTERSON
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Minutes into the 13-part ``Century of
Country''
documentary, it's clear how broad an undertaking it is to
Atkins has said more than once that the development of the Nashville Sound had an
economic motivation, but I don't know that he's ever counterposed it to valid
artistic statements.
Jon, I swear I'm not making this up, but I read somewhere (and it wasn't Carlin's
book) an interview with Chet
First black man I'd ever heard play blues fiddle. (wait a minute
I *still* haven't heard another black man play fiddle blues like
GMB; I'm guessing they're out there somewhere, I just haven't heard them)
I haven't heard of too many blues fiddlers that are still playing at all these days.
Mary Katherine writes:
Written by Dorsey Dixon, based on a true event, and recorded
by the Dixon Brothers in approx. 1936.
I forgot to mention that the Dixon Brothers recordings have been reissued on four
LPs/cassettes by Old Homestead Records in Brighton, MI. Good stuff.
Jim Nelson
Don Yates says:
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, James Nelson wrote:
His most famous composition was the hokey but sincere and emotional "I Dreamed
of a Hillbilly Heaven," written with friend Hal Southern.
Which may be true, but Eddie Dean wrote lots of other fine tunes, including countr
I'm not Jon, but go get yourself a subscription to the Journal of Country Music. It's
in the latest issue.
Jim Nelson
Matt Benz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26 2:08 PM
Any way we can see this whole article, Jon?
Barry Mazor wrote:
Yeah, yow. I picked up the "Greatest Hits by Johnnie Jack" cassette tape sold on
the Kitty Wells website, and it's not as
good a selection as that record! The Bear Family Johnnie
Jack box is definitely more of 'em than I'd want, poisonally...
You Johnnie and Jack (and
from BGRASS-L
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/22 9:17 PM
Monday's Syracuse (NY) Herald-Journal reports that country music
historian Charles K. Wolfe's history of the early Grand Ole Opry is due
out in May from Nashville's Vanderbilt University/Country Music
Foundation Press.
"A Good Natured-Riot: The
Is there, by chance, a CD re-issue of the Cope Brothers
out there floating around somewhere?
Not that I know of. I do recall seeing a cut of theirs on an old Starday LP of early
King material. The "Norris Dam" cut may be included on a vinyl LP put out by the
Tennessee Folklore Society that
Todd Larson writes:
Worth mentioning in all this is that "sparce" and "basic" and "plain" are in many
ways cuturally (and commercially)
contructed choices just like "pop," "lush," and "polished."
Exactly.
Seems pretty sketchy to suggest that a stripped-down, bare-bones aesthetic is
Diana Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/17 3:32 PM
by latest ebay acqusition is the sheet music to Wah! Hoo!, by Cliff Friend.
The question: what movie was this song featured in? The song was written in 1946, i
know that Riders in the Sky have recorded it, and Garrison K has sung it on his
radio
Hey Jon,
I seem to have missed the original message here, but am intrigued by the references to
the Barn Dance. What's the connection?
Jim
"Jon Weisberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/10 9:49 PM
When did the WLS Barn Dance cease?
According to the Encyclopedia of Country Music, 1960, which
Jon Weisberger wrote:
By the way, as far as buying the thing goes, a healthy portion
of the one-sheet is devoted to how clearances were obtained,
etc. in order to put out the CD, including the following passage:
"In fact, the terms with MGM-UA stipulate that the CD can only
be sold
Jerry Curry wrote:
In my opinion, Richard Thompson is one of the most important
and influential artists of the late 70's/80's. His swansong albums with Linda: _I
Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight_ and _Shoot Out the Lights_ are two definite
desert island recordings for me.
I don't know
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05 2:26 PM
Kip wrote:
People often laud Thompson's "Shoot Out The Lights" as
being his best of that period, and maybe that's because it's
more of a rock record with folk overtones. But I myself prefer
"I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight", which is just about as
Carl Abraham Zimring wrote:
Richard Thompson has argued that both the writing and
recording of SOTL preceded the events that led to the
breakup of the marriage, FWIW. On the other hand, the tour
to promote the record happened while they were
breaking up and apparently was pretty tense.
I
Steve Gardner emerges and writes:
Another teaser: I just got a copy of an oldtime album that
will only be sold with the paperback version of Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain."
If you haven't read the book, it's awesome. Wait until 3/23 though to buy it
because you really have to
hear
fyi
Got this from a friend at Indiana University:
IU Press has a forthcoming book, Rick Kennedy and Randy McNutt, LITTLE
LABELS-BIG SOUND: SMALL RECORD COMPANIES AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN MUSIC
(May 1999), including chapts. on Gennett, Paramount, King, Sun,
Riverside, King, Dial, Duke-Peacock,
I missed this one, but Jon, line dancing is about as far from square dancing (not
talking modern western stuff here) and flat footin' as you can get.
Jim N.
"Jon Weisberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/21 8:03 AM
The criticisms of line-dancing offered so far apply just about as well to
square
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15 1:22 AM
some sort of caroling group in Ste. Genevieve, Mo.,
This is probably more than you want to know, but here goes -
This "caroling" is actually a centuries-old New Years Eve French folksong/dance
tradition and begging ritual similar in some ways
to
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