Speaking of great rants, has anyone got a copy of that "How to make a major
label album" rant that Ken Irwin from Rounder wrote and Jeff Wall posted to
the list a few months back?
Allen Baekeland
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Boot Heel Drag can be heard on
Which Louis Jordan tunes made the country charts during the 1940's?
Apparently, there were three.
yep, at least in the top 40. "ration blues," #1 for three weeks; "deacon
jones," the b-side (#7); and is you is or is you ain't (ma' baby), #1 for 5
weeks. all charted in 1944. source: billboard.
Don Yates:
Not only is Mandy's new one the best album of its kind since
Shadowland, but for my money, it's much better.
I'd agree. Overall, the song selection is much stronger on Barnett's
album, and the Nashville sound hommage is employed with much more
'subtlety'. Though I wonder whether
Robin wrote:
I forgot about Tommy Hoehn. Back in the late 70's I was managing a Sam
Goody's in New York City, and two guys from another Memphis pop band, the
Scruffs, were working there. They turned me onto Hoehn and a record he put
out at the time, which I remember as being pretty good. As I
We're booking the Calgary Folk Festival right now (July 22-26), and we
wanted to get X but the price was prohibitive - that damned Canadian/US
exchange rate being the main problem. So we did the next best
thing...booked John and Exene separately with their respective bands, and
they've agreed
I rarely post playlists for my show, but I thought the bluegrass content
this week might interest some of you folks. The show was dedicated to
Charles Sawtelle.
Theme: Bob Wills Texas Playboys - Boot Heel Drag
Wynn Stewart - Heartaches For a Dime
Willie Nelson _ I'm Not Trying to Forget You
Head to panel discussion on Hank Williams. Most fascinating aspect was
contributed by Greil Marcus, who talked about a movie that fancifully
described the last show Hank played.
"Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave", featuring the great Sneezy Waters,
from Ottawa, as Hank. Based on the play
From an interview this week in a local rag with Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo:
"You can get tired of rocking, it can seem forced, because it's harder to
do than stand up on stage and be melancholy. It's so much easier to sum up
the integrity of your pain than it is to channel some joy.
Let's say, two
I am very sad to inform you that Charles Sawtelle died Saturday night at
8pm
Pacific Time.
Very sad news. My parents are close friends of Charles' folks, Dan And
Polly...big-hearted people, salt of the earth, and immensely proud of their
son. I'll be praying for them tonight.
Allen B.
J.W. mentions:
"If You Ever Want My Lovin'" - Sara Evans - a decent song. It seems to
me that Ms. Evans has borrowed a lot of Melba Montgomery's singing style.
The most blatant example is Cupid, the duet with George Jones on No Place
That Far, where she sounds exactly like Melba.
I
By the mid-1980s, band members were clearing less than $100 a week each and
making their own albums on a shoestring. Players came and went.
Twang content: For a 5-year stretch in the mid-90's the bass player in the
Numbers Band was my good friend Bill Watson, currently part of that
swingin'
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