So whose big idea was this anyway? Thanks a bunch Jake, now I've had to make
yet another lengthy list of records I oughta hear. A guy could go broke
subscribing to this list. Anyway, few more nominees.
-Heather Myles, Just Like Old Times: '92 debut, every bit as good as
Highways Honky Tonks.
Gonna be in Cleveland OH 4-9 to 4-13. If anybody knows of any shows worth
seeing I would appreciate hearing about it offlist. Thanks in advance.
M. Moore
Jon says:
BMI's searchable database
Then Joe says:
look it up in the BMI website.
Sheesh, I shoulda thought of that. Proves to be a treasure trove, killed 45
minutes there just goofing off.
Then Jon says:
lists it as Paycheck and Bobby (not Billy)
Austin
Doh! Of course it's Bobby, I musta
Need a little help with some research here, please. I'd thought that Tammy
Wynette's debut single, Apartment #9, was written by Johnny Paycheck and
Billy Austin. Yet I recently saw it credited to Fuzzy Owen and Fern Foley,
and to Owen/Foley/Paycheck. Anyone know what gives here? I just want to
Re: the Allison Moorer Oscar nomination, B. Silvers asks:
and the record didn't do all that well in the P2 best of '98 poll, did it?
Alabama Song came in a very respectable(?) 36th, with, if I read this right,
a total of 11 votes. At least one voter, as I recall, tagged Soft Place To
Fall as
Well, sorta. Elmore Leonard's new one, Be Cool, may be of interest to some
here. Chili Palmer, last seen making a career change, from loan shark to
movie producer, in Get Shorty, is back, and getting into L.A.'s other
racket, the music business. Signs on to manage an alt-country band just
They're saying: "Vince's two-hour all-request concert Saturday on AE" . .
." that boy can really play some electric geetar" . . . "I pretty much
agree" . . ."he's got great chops as a player and, obviously, a real grasp
of all the country subgenres". . . "a pretty impressive-sounding set ". .
I believe that if there was a fifth Beatle, it was Carl Perkins.
Any takers?
Junior
There's a great scene in Go, Cat, Go, David Mcgee's bio of Perkins, where
Carl, while touring England, spends a long 1964(?) night in the studio with
the Beatles. The Fab 4 are like kids in a candy store. I
