RE: Dixie Chicks Article in Dallas Observer

1999-04-24 Thread Pflash40
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

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

1999-04-05 Thread Pflash40
You know, I'm glad this came up because as we speak I'm taping some of the Pine Valley Cosmonauts LP. What strikes me is that the songs which fail do so because they spotlight vocalists who are weak singers. Or, maybe it's that they are trying to adopt the Wills arrangements too strictly, which

Re: Drake (Re: Kelly Willis calling the shots)

1999-04-03 Thread Pflash40
Which reminds me, any minor or major Drake fan want to offer up a good starting point into that artist's catalog? I need to go buy yet another CD that I've never gonna have enough time to appreciate to its fullest. Sigh... as a starting point and ending point i always turn to five leave left

Re: Top Texans (long)

1999-03-25 Thread Pflash40
Probably because he got the big gig with the Dallas Morning News, one of the better daily papers in the country (IMHO of course) although I think the music section is not as good as when Michael Corcoran was in that positon. Jerald the dallas paper is good but as conservative as they come and

Re: Paul Simon on Joe DiMaggio NYT

1999-03-10 Thread Pflash40
He was a good man, a kind man who knew the rules and the oddities in life and always strove to be honest and charitable. When told that he would be throwing out the first ball in Yankee Stadium this year, Joe just smiled - that faint smile Joe always gave when in his soul he knew truth

RE: Tweedy quote/alt.country (LONG and IRRITATED)

1999-03-05 Thread Pflash40
Guess they didn't know about Joe Ely's tour with the Clash. UT was a decade too late. and the unfortunate part of this is joe ely has yet to really find his decadeone of those artists who has been mining this "genre" (whatever the hell you folks want to call this genre) for yrs and yrs yet

Re: Texas Music Cafe Q?

1999-02-20 Thread Pflash40
hmmm...maybe i am the only person who has seen this program. i have only seen it once on the PBS station in the dallas/ft. worth area but have meant to look for it again. not sure when it is on but i was amazed that is was being done out of waco, tx which is the home of Baylor University, the

Re: baiting matt cook

1999-02-16 Thread Pflash40
If you have GHOSTS, then you have ever'thing"--Roky Erickson the wisdom of a man with more than enough ghosts for all of us..

Re: Bye, Bye American Pie...

1999-02-03 Thread Pflash40
How many of you know what Waylon's last words to Buddy Holly were? (Hint: see his autobiography. It was on one of my old .sig files, but I took it off 'cos it was even too scary for me.) yeah it is a very scary quote and i can only imagine how strange waylon musta felt after he heard the

The Band/Levon Helm bitterness.....

1999-02-03 Thread Pflash40
just thought all those Band fans and Levon Helm fans would want to read thisread and make up your own minds but he sure sounds bitterhis voice with the band was incredible and whatever the truth is, it is a shame the man feels this wayjust follow this:

Re: TwangCast for Macs

1999-02-03 Thread Pflash40
i have system 8.1 and it still doesn't work.any help would be appreciated...

Re: The Band/Levon Helm bitterness.....

1999-02-03 Thread Pflash40
As for his obvious bitterness toward Robertson, my gut feeling is that he has a point. I don't know the particulars, of course, but in EVERY single interview I've seen with Robertson, it seems very important to him that he be perceived as an introspective, soulful, "thinking man." you know,

Re: TwangCast for Macs

1999-02-03 Thread Pflash40
well thanks for the efforts and will be lookin forward to microsoft or you guys working this all out

Re: MonkEE Biz

1999-02-03 Thread Pflash40
a question about nesmith who i have always enjoyed for his strange post Monkees country stuff.are any of those early records on cd? his version of tumbling tumbleweeds is shear delight and his band was great with red rhodes on steel...the monkees were a gulity pleasure in my youth but

patsy cline...

1999-01-30 Thread Pflash40
patsy on AE and well worth watching.johnny cash tomorrow nite i do believetv isn't all bad at times

Re: Steve Earle/old vinyl/Huddie Ledbetter

1999-01-18 Thread Pflash40
johnny winter had a three-sided record long agobelieve it is called second winter but i could be wrong about that

RE: Hank Williams

1999-01-16 Thread Pflash40
gotta believe he means leon payne's lost highway.

Re: Hank Williams

1999-01-14 Thread Pflash40
the blasters "long white cadillac" along with katy moffatt's "hank and audrey" and waylon jennings "are you sure hank done it this way."hank and audrey" is a really nice song with a vocal by tom russell.those immediately come to mind but i am sure there are many, many more.mark

Re: Hank Williams

1999-01-14 Thread Pflash40
one more came to mindbilly joe shaver's "tramp on your street" off the album so namedgreat song about seeing hank as a kid