...who the heck is Heather Mills?
Sings with Dee Waylors, yes?
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-friendly mail-order types to check in with Howdy Skies Records (POB
120283, Nashville 37212; dunno about a phone, but when Traci Thomas returns
next week I'm sure she can scare one up).
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I think the credit belongs to the band. I liked their first record better
than the second. I think the second one is more "produced" than the first.
The first album has more of a live feel to it.
That's what those slicksters of the Nashville machine will do to you.
Jon Weisberg
Neal's right, there was a little talk about Country Weekly a little while
ago. I'd say Jon has it about right in terms of the oldtimers and alt. The
April 20 issue has gossip notes on everyone from Faith Hill, Brooks Dunn
and Lila McCann to Ricky Skaggs, Kitty Wells and George Jones. There
o Darlin'" to "Red Neckin' Love Makin'
Night"), but most any MCA collection will do for starters. Whatever you
get, make sure it has "(Lying Here With) Linda On My Mind."
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nt proportions -
I'm not proposing this as an assertion of bluegrass's superiority - and I
think bluegrass values that kind of stuff, bluegrass as it was created and
developed by great musicians who put in just as much hard work as they did
feeling and spontaneity.
That's the short answer.
Jon Weisb
I'm kind of surprised.
Me too. Of course, I just assumed that everyone already has a copy of that
one, since I've been touting it here for so long g.
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something about as derogatory.
Maybe that's why they didn't archive that segment at the Morning Edition
site; too embarrassing.
Sorry I missed it,
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Joe wonders:
Is there still a label called Columbia?
They're still putting stuff out with that mark - last year's Tribute To
Tradition is on Columbia, the Dylan 1966 album is on Columbia, and Deryl
Dodd's new album (this year, I think) is, too.
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, they had to leave folks out,
but he's every bit at the level of the guys who are on there, including
Jesse McReynolds and Bobby Osborne, and is the best under-appreciated
mandolin player around.
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can't hold a candle to Wilonsky.
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tta Have My Baby Back," etc. is now
available through regular retail channels. Oh, baby.
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I shoulda figured it'd be a
Hank Cochran song...
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shortcoming of the new comp is that "A Small Little Town" didn't
make the cut. I sure hope they put it on Volume Two g.
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6 was well pre-Soundscan, and it's a truism that
country sales were under-reported in those days.
BTW, Copperhead Road made gold a while ago, according to the CMHOF
Encyclopedia.
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Barry "Mr. Good Taste" Mazor says:
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
Ha
on the George Jones Show, so
maybe there's something there?
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idn't
make it in the published piece, but one of the interesting things they
mentioned was that they were getting fans via Phish, which does a couple of
Del's numbers. Of course, Del has a connection to the Deadheads via
Grisman; they go way back together (check out Early Dawg, on Sugar Hill).
Jon Weisberg
bum titles, with combined sales figures) can attest. A mean-spirited,
chuckle-headed, lying asshole.
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t see
anything wrong with the idea per se. I've heard enough crappy stuff to last
a lifetime already.
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etween she
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?
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But I think
that if you state it this way -- "Just because something sells like
hotcakes doesn't mean it's any good" -- then you're on more solid ground.
That Terry Smith, he's a sharp guy.
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.
Yeah, but that doesn't include a lot of stuff that gets put in that bag,
unless you use a microscope to search out those roots (and that's giving it
the benefit of the doubt). Wait a minute, isn't this where I came in?
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it's just a function of fringiness per se.
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will, but a fair number won't. Whereas whether
someone's first taste of pizza is good or bad, chances are they're going to
get to taste it again, and from somewhere else (and maybe better), because
it's omnipresent.
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leave open the question of the extent to
which those are issues relevant to alt.country.
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e not from around here (does Larry
Efaw ring a bell? Burning Bluegrass? See what I mean?).
Crowe has had a couple of good rants on this subject; I'm going to see if I
can dig one of them up.
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all too often willing to sign on to) aren't
any help to working musicians.
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Wow, The Legend Returns... Now, where'd that Gary Wilson get to?
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by folks like Claire Lynch and Harley Allen,
and Sony's Tribute To Tradition, which has quite a few more winners than
losers - heck, even that Tammy Wynette...Remembered has some outstanding
cuts.
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emark" was a #2 for Carl Smith in 1953, more than a year before
Porter hit the Top 10 his own self (with "Company's Comin'"). If Porter
recorded it himself, it didn't make the Top 40.
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too often willing to sign
on to) aren't
any help to working musicians.
And Geff replied:
Ah, but they CAN overcome - not just by price cutting, but by showing up
on time, being nice to everybody they have to, and being generally
professional when performing.
OK. Make that "half-assed pe
You thought Vince Gill, right?
And still do.
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't decided
whether the up-tempo, rockin' remake of "(Turn Out The Light And) Love Me
Tonight" works.
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For you New England types...
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Here's an email flyer for those of you recently
'alt' about
it" is right - you can hear a dozen or two like it any Saturday night on the
Grand Ole Opry, and that's not a criticism. It will be interesting to see
how it fares on the charts.
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er formats aren't
doing that well, either), and the charts will be increasingly schizophrenic
over the next couple of years. I don't imagine that many individual
stations will try to combine 2 and 3, but you may see a few cases of it.
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TNN also has Bob Wills feature at 8 p.m...
That's EDT, BTW. It's a rerun of the Life And Times Of show, and it's
pretty good.
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son), "Trademark" (Carl Smith), "Falling, Falling, Falling"
(Ray Price). I assume that the Newbury and Bryants tunes are not new, but I
dunno who the original performers would be.
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ho, pardon my French, sucks will
turn the first-time observer off; s/he's more likely to take the lousy
performance as typical of the genre.
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ions don't report to) almost as much
as tiny, impoverished Sire's inability to cough up enough payola.
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RIAA's searchable gold/platinum database seems to be dead for the moment,
but here's a list of the best-selling artists, with millions of units
certified (a couple of pleasant surprises in there, notably George Strait
and Alan Jackson):
BEATLES, THE 106.03
BROOKS, GARTH 89
LED ZEPPELIN 69.27
As well, Nirvana combined quality and commercial success at an
incomparable level for the decade - if The Key had sold like a Garth
Brooks album, Jon W's assertion would hold up better, methinks.
If we're talking about the decade, I don't know that Nirvana's sold more
albums than Gill; the RIAA
Away." As someone who's doubtless familiar with
Monroe's, Wiseman's and other bluegrass versions, you oughta check it out,
Geff. "Interesting" doesn't begin to describe it.
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by the names of folks who have been selling for 2 or 3 times as long; the
only one who comes even close to matching him is Mariah Carey, whose first
album came out in 1990, and she's only sold half as many units.
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of them, which is immense commercial
success in my book g.
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I found a promo copy of it at Amoeba in SF last fall, and I'm
relieved that it's not gonna be a collectors item. Honest.
Is that the one with Darius "Mr. Bluegrass" Rucker guesting on it?
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r or not it will be released is anyone's guess.
I'd like to hear that; I'll bet it kicks ass. The Carl Jackson tune
mentioned ("Fit For A King," on Sevens) sure does.
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problem; if the answer is yes, I've got some great
oceanfront property in Arizona I need to talk to him about.
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-800-635-3037 for details.
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a promoter? I don't *think* so.
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ere airplay-wise. Skaggs' pre-bluegrass albums of the 90s. George
Jones (when he went from MCA to Asylum, Evelyn Shriver said that as far as
they were concerned, they were writing radio off up front). Those are off
the top of my head, and I'll bet it wouldn't take long to come up with other
exam
The Fields Have Turned Brown" that's in
the can g.
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Where's Weisberger to ask about criteria? g
Hey, I made my nomination during the Escovedo go-round, and I haven't seen
any reason to rethink it - in fact, I've seen lots of reasons to confirm it.
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I thought your candidate had already won and been declared AOTD
months ago.
I hope so, but I figure it's not official until it's on the cover of No
Depression.
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worth
catching.
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," my thoughts naturally turn to the
50s, not 60s; if I remember it, how old can it be? g
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) on, 1957-1962 on the particular disc
asked about.
If memory serves me, Earl Scruggs also appeared on a Price cut or two,
though not singing harmony g.
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etty bad, but maybe
I'm unduly pessimistic.
Don't forget about George, though. He rules, even if he is just a pawn of
the Nashville machine.
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can someone refresh my memory as to which cut from I've Got A Right To
Cry was the first single/video shipped to country radio, CMT, etc.?
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I'm with brother Cantwell on this, have been ever since Merle Haggard cited
Der Bingle as one of the most influential singers in the history of country
music and one of his favoritest.
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at show, or at least Marty Stuart. Marty was on
the Opry Saturday night and sounded great.
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did
another one of his songs, and that was it. Good music, and a very classy
move.
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I've got a friend who's going to be traveling to DFW and is looking for some
info about where to stay, etc., so anyone there willing to share, please
contact me off-list.
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Linda:
... I can only remember that Hazel Dickens song that Deanna
Varagona and Kelly Hogan sang.
Which was...?
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Jon Weisberger asks "Which one?" and of course, he has to tell me
-- if it isn't called "My Better Years" at least that's the way I
remember it.
That's what it's called. The Johnson Mountain Boys did a great version of
it.
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Is Jimmy Martin's version of "Slowly" available on CD?
As far as I know, only on the Bear Family set, making it one of 146 reasons
to cough up for it (147 if you count the excellent booklet).
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eing asked to make some sort of similar
compromise to be on
some TV show but refused?
This one is a definite; it appeared in print in at least one place, maybe
Country Music magazine. The culprit here was VH-1, which wanted a
fiddle-less version of one of their videos.
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Louise says:
What? you mean the original You're Still The One has fiddle on it? The one
released in the UK for the pop audiences has organ and guitar,
but no fiddle.
Same as the album cut then; there's steel on it (Bruce Bouton), and mandolin
(Eric Silver), but no fiddle credit.
Jon
From the 3/1/99 Blue Chip Report:
The rumble is that VH1 wanted to play The Dixie Chicks' "Wide Open
Spaces", but wanted to edit out the fiddle parts. The group refused.
Guess the banjo didn't bother them.
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Linda quotes Tar Hut:
...heavy-hitter names such as the Ass Ponys...
Which reminds me to mention that Prospect Hill will be playing at
Cincinnati's Barrelhouse on 4/30 with said Ass Ponys. Should be fun.
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* underappreciated here, and
besides, as a number of folks have asked, what the hell does
underappreciated mean, anyhow? I'm taking it to mean underappreciated by
otherwise savvy, tasteful folks such as the ones on this here list coff,
gag.
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go. Walter Jacobs."
One of the side effects of putting the BMI and ASCAP databases online is
that everyone can see for themselves just how messy they are...
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it's even less likely
that an early-70s vintage WB flunky would know a Bill Monroe tune from a
Little Walter one g.
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your voice like that and Ill put it in mine, you see." --
Jimmy Martin
It seems like I heard somewhere that Williams wrote the verse and Monroe
wrote the bridge, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
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as I read this paragraph I hustled over to
amazon.com, pulled up this book's entry, and in addition to a fine review
from some guy named Bechtel, I found this, which tickled my funnybone:
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 184,595
I guess that puts it a couple of notches shy of the best-seller list...
Jon Weisberg
ew album will be out
in the early fall. Subject to change, etc.
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Allen says:
Jon Weisberger:
I think Barnett's got a deeper affinity for the Bradley/Patsy Cline sound
than lang did.
Well, this is probably due to Barnett's stage experience. There's also the
simple reason of how geography affects a singer's vowels sounds.
Well, sure; it's certainly
don't know.
You go, girl. Neal thinks Purcell's being the arbiter, but he's not; he's
just the messenger. Life Itself makes the call.
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"You can be too country for country radio," declares Hal Ketchum...
Which is certainly true enough, but anyone who concludes from this that
Ketchum himself is too country for country radio is making a mistake.
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"Daybreak In Dixie" is live on the net every Sunday morning, 8:00 to 10:00
eel guitar *and* mandolin and banjo.
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Kayton Roberts, who worked with Hank Snow for many years, and Little Roy
Wiggins, Eddy Arnold's steel player, both of whom are also pretty
minimalist. Of these, I believe only Wiggins played an actual lap steel,
and I'm not even sure about him g.
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http
of
the best writing about the experience of playing bluegrass I've ever read.
I believe it's out in paperback now...
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in the car and turn on the radio g.
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get more exotic than a Precision, but for a basic bass, the P is awfully
hard to beat, and you really can spend about as little - or as much - as you
want.
Might as well do this off-list, I'm sure this is ultra boring to
non-players.
Yeah, right, it's not of general interest, like vintage cereal
t The Moon...
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No lie, it's at http://w1.865.telia.com/~u86505074/capomuseum/index.htm .
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Interested musicians must be incredibly badass. In fact, unless you have
chops to burn, don't bother.
Gee, and here I thought that feeling would have to be the number one
qualification
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saying so...
And the book was panned for doing just that by some western swing expert
(Kevin Coffey? Cary Ginell?) in a recent issue of (I think) the Journal Of
Country Music.
Coffey, in the most recent issue.
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t remember at the moment.
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goes.
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It might be broadcast again between midnight and 2 am again
EST. Actually might be midnight.
They don't usually rebroadcast what's run in the 7-8 (Central) slot in the
11-1 (Central) block, but they generally recycle those Life And Times shows,
so keep your eyes open.
Jon Weisberger Kenton
Hajacos.
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Is there a website for this Collector Choice catalog?
http://www.ccmusic.com/
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all. Yeah, Alabama, and Kenny Rogers, and some other pretty
yucky stuff is there, too (though having acquired the Alabama #1s collection
recently I'm ready to give them another listen), but if you're not hearing
those folks on that station, you're not hearing the best of country, vintage
70s and
een that he had some fairly recent law type troubles?
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...the guy in Cincinnati who had James Brown et al.
Syd Nathan, inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame not too long ago.
"You know, everybody told us he was really a bear cat, but we never had
anybody to treat us any better than Syd Nathan." - Ralph Stanley
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say, Jim, but http://www.wavetech.net/%7eswedberg/inebr1.jpg fairly
shouts "separated at birth."
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