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
who would
never call Alejandro overrated in a million years...I'm seeing him
four blocks from my house on Tuesday, in fact...
if he gets to the Southgate House early he will also be seeing Beaver
Nelson, opening for Alejandro. He's playing in Oxford OH at the Buzz
Coffeehouse on 4/30,
All this talk of Bing Crosby has piqued my interest. Other than some pretty
corny movies, I can't say I've ever really given him a chance. So today I
wandered over to the easy listening section of the local CD store to browse
and see what I could find. Not much. Lots of Armstrong, tons of
If the Garthman had made an album like The Key, you bet your ass it
would be on the radio!
Second thing, I'm not convinced by Don and Jon's example of Vince Gill's
"The Key." It's one record, and I think we need some more examples.
There's other factors that may have contributed to its lack
Time for the f*lkie to chime in with some nominations in this category.
First, a second to a couple of great underappreciated albums already
mentioned by others:
Slaid Cleaves, No Angel Knows (my favorite 97 release!)
Syd Straw, War and Peace
And some others that didn't get their
Looking for some good P2 advice here... I use the same account to post to
P2 (and everything else) from both home and work. It's a dial up connection
from the office and a ADSL link from home. I sent probably 4-5 separate
posts to the list today and none of them appeared, which is typical if I
Terry Smith queried:
(now, who the hell is Pete Krebs?)
I'm here to tell you that I have no idea who Pete Krebs is either,
but since Terry asked, I'm sure we'll all have more information
in just a few hours. It's the best thing about P2 (since I posted
my worst thing about P2 a week or so
Carl Z said:
While prepping for tonight's broadcast, I'm listening to some new
releases. From what little I've heard of it, David Olney's Through a
Glass Darkly is looking like a contender for next year's best-of list.
This record blends excellent Townes Van Zandt-styled songs (including
Has anyone noticed how much Olney sounds like Townes on a lot of his new
album?
Or am I the only one who hears it?
Some of us have to wait until release date to even try to hear it. I know that
Townes was a big influence of Olney's and that Van Zandt thought highly
of Olney's songwriting
