On 4/27/99 at 1:15 PM -0400, Tom Stoodley writes:
So who's going to the Johnny D's show? Anyone want to meet up for
supper and get a table?
I'll be there, although probably not early enough to make it for supper.
Stuart Munro
its damned interesting.
Stuart
Just got the Interlochen summer schedule, and it's an amazingly good
lineup this year, including Dwight, Del, Junior, Lyle, Nevilles, BR549,
and Debbie Reynolds (for the perverse among you). Me or Nina will
likely be up in the area most of the summer and have a place to crash if
you're
I always liked that first Argent album, that was more Zombies and less
bombastic 70s rock band. My vinyl of it is shot. Did Koch reissue this
one by any chance?
Jerry Curry wrote:
How about a 5 minute bass solo? How about
a long long organ solo?
That's currently on my mind as I listen to
and perfesser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hipsters
slackers
scenesters
bohos
playas
post-grads
middle-managers
... in the 90s there are no beatniks.
... in the 90s, everyone's a beatnik.
carl w.
Dave Purcell wrote:
Mark Rubin spit:
These "alt-country" showcases were packed with scenesters dressed
up like they were going to a Hee-Haw theme party. Women in
pig-tails and guys in spray painted straw hats that would surely
get their asses kicked in an actual honky-tonk.
Barry asks:
And what about Naomi?
Oh oh, obscure Carol Burnett references? Is that where we're going next?
Lord help us...
Stuart Munro
Dan posted a bunch of upcoming TV stuff, but omitted Mandy Barnett's
appearance on Letterman tonight (Wednesday).
SM
now, Chad. Those Red Wings made some mighty fine additions at the
trade deadline, they still have Scotty Bowman, and as the saying goes, to
be the boss, you have to beat the boss.
Not even a Deetroit fan,
Stuart Munro
n in-store and it was great. The place was full of kids in
the 2-12 range and they loved em. Its the music of course, although the
appearance of Henneman and Parr (especially) on the day after the big rock
show of the night before is also probably pretty mezmerizing to a kid. g
Stuart
np: Ear
and Kosovians that she's "full of hate?" And what in
her post--which was quite civil, by my reading--suggested the same?
Stuart Munro
Nixon administration.
The "If you don't vote you can't complain" folks have themselves to
blame.
Bob
Could this possibly be partly due to the budgetary incentives the
prosecutorial machine now has in drug arrests.
Stuart
thinking about checking out the confiscated vehicle auction comin up here
soon
. The Flat Irons (?) from Portland Ore. Anybody know
about them. Disc is called Prayer Bones, but I didn't catch the label.
Is this available? Gotta have it.
Stuart
.
Stuart
imagining eggs in the frying pan
wing/khaki connection: hip urban yupster clothes etc. But line dancing? to
rockabilly? in kahkis?
Slumming? I'm cornfused. But I'm stickin to jeans, thankyewverymuch.
Stuart
hey, I like these blue chip reports. Who's gonna post em while Jeff is off
defending us?
of non-hipsters like yourself.
It is satire, right? No one really writes this old disc jockey patter
seriously, do they?
Stuart
NEW! IMPROVED!!
Ph. Barnard wrote:
Junior Brown with the
zinger: "I don't like to call it "alt-country" cause that sounds
like you're *against* something. I'd rather call it "free-range"
country."
There we go. That's it!.
Hill, Christopher J wrote:
If anyone's interested - I got these off the Ryko press promo for Kelly's
new album. I find behind-the-scenes info extremely interesting.
Heaven Bound (Damon Bramblett)
Damon Bramblett has a very unique style and you should hear him sometime. I
think I know
Don Yates wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Ph. Barnard wrote:
This House bill concerning internet access concerns us all on P2,
lord knows It's a good moment to use email to write your
Representatives and inveigh against this bill. More dangerous than
SUVs and definitely a detriment
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:23:24 -0800 stuart said:
Hill, Christopher J wrote:
If anyone's interested - I got these off the Ryko press promo for Kelly's
new album. I find behind-the-scenes info extremely interesting.
Heaven Bound (Damon Bramblett)
Damon
vgs399 wrote:
I am looking for some background on the Michigan group, Black Beauty (new
LP, "Senor Smoke").
Any help on background, website etc: appreciated, on or off-list.
Thank you,
Tera
Dont know about the band, but Senor Smoke is Auerelio Lopez, a hard
throwing relief pitcher for
ioned the Damnations appearing at
Twangfest. Is this true? Is the lineup set?
Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .Get this ya'll. A freind of mine who is setting up a
tour for me in Canada
this summer just got thru working production at the big rodeo in Houston,
where many country acts played, including Shania.
He said that most the show was taped (including vocals).
Well
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
.Bravo Todd, for standing up for what you believe in. If it gets inside your
soul, it gets inside your soul. So be it. That's what art's all about.
Sometimes all this dissection and reactionary analysis and over-
intellectualization and other stuff is just plain
Don Yates wrote:
. the divine Neko Case (who's playing the Tractor
Tavern on March 11).--don
Also found this on the Mint site. When *is* this shaping up as a
masterpiece gonna be out?
NEKO CASE
Furnace Room Lullaby!
Neko Case is currently in the midst of putting the finishing
Terry A. Smith wrote: . Even tossing out a term like
"over-intellectualize" is a Stalinist-type conversation-stopper. Send
those damn professors out to the fields. Now.
.Actually it's more Mao, and a damned good idea it might be too! Right after the
industry weasels pull their shift. But
Caught this band called the Hillbilly Cats in a wonderful working class
pub in Sheffield, and was regaled by Iain Noble on the underground
country/roots scene as it has historically existed in England. This
place was great. Reminded me of the Rose Bowl tap here in Urbana. The
band was
rk. Which is why my
cousins now live in Tennessee. Segers music always struck me as kind of
dirge like.
Stuart
jet lagged
Matt Benz wrote:
Which weren't really being played, i don't think: they were just held by
the back up singers. That was truly a terrible performance, awful song
(we ran the close captioning, so we could catch the lyrics: one of the
lines is about changing hair color: now *that's*
he beer looked great and made me miss it
terribly. Twang content: had a lovely time in a Sheffield pub with Iain listening
to the Hillybilly Cats. Reviews to follow, but must get to work.
Stuart
semi-conscious
as I
know, he's still without one, unless he's still engaged as a member of the
Cicadas.
Stuart Munro
From the Boston Globe, 2/19/99
Leonard's 'Cool' collaboration with Coyotes
By Joan Anderman, Globe Correspondent, 02/19/99
Fact and fiction have rarely merged in quite such a strange and supple way
as when crime novelist Elmore Leonard and Greenfield, Mass., rock band the
Stone Coyotes
of people making an *enormous*
amount of money off that dream. The actual musicians are not among this
group, for the most part.
.Sounds like big time college football and basketball. Another arena of
riduculously uneven exchange due to the star-struck nature of spectacle.
Stuart
off to England
Ross Whitwam wrote:
If this is the case, and I have no reason to dispute it,
why should poor old Garth get such a ragging around here
for all *his* efforts at self-marketing? It's just a difference
of scale, isn't it?
.Well sure. But its also the same difference of scale that gives the
Just got my first ballot from the ratethemusic folks. I urge all of you
30ish women out there (and that means *all* of you who want the vote to
count when you sign up, heh heh), to sign up and vote. You get to tell
the consultants what you think of Shania and the rest, and what you
think of
lance davis wrote:
2) Is there a version of "Knoxville Girl" which would be considered
"definitive?" If so, who? If not, who are the candidates?
I'd say Louvin Bros. Avaiable on Tragic Songs of Life, on cd from Capitol
BARNARD wrote:
Can some explain to me what the initials "TCB" mean with regard to Elvis?
I'm asking about a sort of insignia with a lightning bolt in the middle
and the letters TCB above it.
many thanks,
--jnyah
takin care of business
Thankyewverymuch
BARNARD wrote:
Can some explain to me what the initials "TCB" mean with regard to Elvis?
I'm asking about a sort of insignia with a lightning bolt in the middle
and the letters TCB above it.
many thanks,
--jnyah
Get ye to Memphis, lad, and witness the TCB on the jets and damn
the Pods are in deep doo doo
financiallly and with the fans (my brothers in SD both said fuck em after the
first fire sale). Garth can do it because its good pr for the club owners. Plus
hes not likely to kill anyone out there.
Stuart
recalling when Steve Garvey got traded to the Pods, put on that old
Iain Noble wrote:
Joe Gracey writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From today's MSNBC website. C'mon, don't tell me y'all never
*suspected*?"
Falwell suspects Teletubby is gay
Hell, we've all known this for years. Where has Jerry been?
'Fraid Joe is right. It's just another
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone every considered how ridiculous many of the alt-country/ND
band names are? They're like cliches at this point.
Cripes.
.Cripes? havent heard of them. Is this Purcell's new band?
Phil Connor wrote:
THE HOT 100 // THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN MUSIC //
Blacks in music: 100 years of 100 high notes //HISTORY: Looking
back on the century's most important African-Americans in the field.
BEN WENER; STEVE EDDY;TIMOTHY MANGAN: The
Phil Connor wrote:
Emmylou Harris carries on crusade against music categories
"If it sells, it's country," she said laughing. "If it doesn't,
it's folk."
Good way to define it. Can we all agree to this? Jon? Don?
Stuart
n.p. Chris Wall:
Phil Connor wrote:
Emmylou Harris carries on crusade against music categories
Like so many who have idealized American roots music, Harris
understands that her yearning for a richer culture might be
hopelessly romantic in the face of commercial demands.
The Buddy Miller disc, Your Love and Other Lies, is one great country/soul
disc. Alejandro gives great shows but his discs bore me to tears.
Stuart
tossin in 2 cents
. And I'm actually quite curious
about one of the clubs Louise talks about with the quite mad cowboy patrons.
Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not that I believe in polls exactly, but there was an interesting
survey showing last year showing that homophobia truly is the last
bastion of open intolerance in America. The authors did in-depth
interviews with hundreds of very average
Kansas tourism is selling hard in Germany for them to come see the real
Dodge City. (Which is a stinking place of feeder lots and gruesome packing houses
worked by low paid exploited Vietnamese and Mexicans, who face the riot police in
full gear when there is the slightest whiff of trouble).
Stuart
Jon Weisberger wrote:
Why, I'm so excited about these releases that I'm willing to overlook g
the characterization of the WLS Barn Dance as "a radio show that surpassed
the Grand Old Opry in influence well into the 1960s..." Influence in
Chicago, maybe g, but I don't think that by the
he
Highway comes to mind, or Night Train to Memphis. But I was trying to remember
this novelty nonsense song he did, I would guess in the 40s, with the line
"What's the use of counting like Caesar when Caesar is dead" Help me out here
somebody. And where can I find it?
Stuart
who's
Don Yates wrote:
All right, I finally got a chance to hear the GrooveGrass album (which is
now being released by Warner Bros), and I have to say I'm underwhelmed.
I'm open to odd musical fusions, but this attempt to fuse bluegrass and
funk falls mostly flat. It just sounds like two
stuart wrote: . but I'm not listening to Parlor James,
Old Dreams, which I just picked up. This is the future of alt. country.
Well, maybe not. .
That's *now* listening too. I'm really digging this. Have they been raked over
the P2 coals yet? For those who havent heard of them
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The group was dropped by TAG/Atlantic after releasing its 1996 album,
"24 Hours A Day," which has sold 16,000 units, according to SoundScan.
That is just a laughably stupid number. Proof positive that big money,
or the lack of it, can make or break
bout twice as much
play around here as all of the rest of that generations discs put together.
Price is the best. And note the dates on this collection. Before his body
was invaded by silk-suited aliens. h. I think I see the glimmre of a
theory for why music takes the turns it does..
Jon Weisberger wrote: If things were like they used to be, the odds
are pretty good that at least *some* of the more straightforwardly country
acts and releases that get discussed here - whether it's Myles or the
Derailers or Dale Watson or whomever - would be in the door, The
n lesbians at Kansas
rodeos, but never an "out" vegetarian. Some things are just beyond the pale.
Stuart
steak sounds good for dinner
Don Yates wrote:
Or somethin' like that. Both sides of Bloodshot's tribute 7" to Loretta
Lynn are winners for me. Kelly Hogan delivers a rather suave version of
"Hanky Panky Woman," and Neko just flat-out torches "Rated X." I had to
go splash some cold water on my face after listening.
. It works fine, at
least on the streams I've checked, but it does not yet work with TwangCast
(sniff, sniff). I don't know if this is due to the Mac Media Player, or
Mac Netscape (which I use), or both. I do believe (or hope) the TwangCast
folks are working on the problem.
Stuart Munro
Media
Player streams.
As well, aren't there a few alternatives to these two that you TwangCast
boys might consider? Shockwave, Audioative (both of which Carl Z's station
use, if I'm not mistaken), Streamworks, etc.?
Stuart Munro
Jeff Wall wrote:
Looks like I'm going to have to shut the Twangzine down..
N!!
I hate shutting this down, but I have no choice. we'll be back in
the fall, God Willing, but until then. Stick a fork in me, I'm done
Hiatus, Jeff,... hiatus. Restructering.
it in years. I recall finding an
aritcle about Abrahams somewhere on the web. He apparantly has some newer stuff
out on some little indy lable in England or something. Cant remember exactly,
but I was probably searching for Blodwyn Pig records.
Stuart
Twang content: second sentence of the Beat Instrumental quote..
The link at the bottom is:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a8904593/blodwyn.pig.html
the page is outdated, but is shows him and the pig still playing around
England as late as last December.
Mick Abrahams:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a8904593/albums.html
The liner notes for A Head Rings Out, written my Mick. Check it out. .A
sample:
"SING ME A SONG THAT I KNOW" - Has the quality of hard rock and blues with
heavy
accentuation on drums and bass from "vulture" Ron Berg and "budgerigar"
Andy
e of the cognoscenti.
.But of course he is. and you too. Maybe the right term was illuminati. Or
elect? The better sort? Men of wealth and taste? All it meant was people who
paid attention to such things more or less.
Stuart
less than careful .
Can anyone out there email me Sunday's digest? My copy didn't show up in
ye olde emailbox.
Thanks in advance,
Stuart Munro
Copied from the Postcard 1 digest:
Man in the Sand, the film about the making of Mermaid Ave. was shown
today
at a music related film festival in Portland. Supposedly this was a
pre-release video version - I don't know when it is to be formally
released. Anyway - don't miss this movie. The
d to early Ray Price, Hank
Williams and Muddy Waters etc. until well hell, 1996. Oh yah, and the
Allmans etc. Rhythm Aces. Well there were some bright spots.
Stuart
npimh: Have you heard about the Midnight Rambler
Porter Wagoner - . "Country music is actually pretty close to disco or
rock," he
told a local reporter. "Hell, you can sing 'Y'all Come' to disco."
Now *that* is muddying the waters
of
Pop? Can this be true? You English P2ers know?. Is it only outside
the U.S that one can find this stuff in retail shops?
Stuart
thinking about the British Invasion of the 60s
duet of
I Fall To Pieces with Aaron Neville (who I'm not crazy about, but also
like) on the Rhythm country and Blues disc, makes her sound really tepid
and emotionless. Maybe they should have asked Patsy Cline to sing
with Neville.
Nice to see you back Tera
Stuart
Jon Weisberger wrote:
let me commend to your attention the fine essay on "Country Music
As Music" by Bill Evans,
"So where is the 'country' in country music? To borrow a well-worn
advertising phrase, it might be more a state of mind than any specific set
of unique musical
unowned) easy entry and access distribution
systems linked across all the various sites of production: recording, clubs,
bookings, news and information, swag, etc etc. Gotta think some more about
this. Let a thousand flowers bloom or something like that.
Stuart
also glad to see Joe G. back
lance davis wrote:
.At the risk of sounding like a moron, what is "HNC?"
Hot New Country. i.e. "not your parents old twangy country" Promo slogan for
denatured country music designed to appeal to a particular primo
demographic. Soft and 70s rock crap with a fiddle buried way way back.
Jon Weisberger wrote: .Second, do you suppose that the persistent misattribution
of "Wild And Blue"
is an effort to cover up the fact that writer John Scott Sherrill gets cuts
with the likes of Brooks Dunn?
Damn. Jon's onto the conspiracy. OK. ..Plan B
Slim
np - Allison Moorer "Call My Name" (my new favorite song)
oh yah. mine too. Does your appreciation of it have anything to do with working
in the Thorazine mines? She sure can write a spooky song.
.* 01/22/99
The Guardian
Copyright (C) 1999 The Guardian; Source: World Reporter (TM)
New Highway Return To Viva Americana
.
Canada's Neko Case could well be one of the voices of the millennium.
It's the antidote to Garth.
Indeed. When is the new Neko being
workers is a young HNC country
fan that I've been showing the light.
Now this is the kind of missionary work we need to see more of. Maybe we need
guys on street corners testifying and handing out miniature cds.
Good luck with the restaurant.
Stuart
Tom Smith wrote:
This just in from the NY Times:
FINN MAKES ELVIS KING OF "SUMERIAN ROCK"
A Finnish academic known for recording Elvis Presley songs
in Latin is planning a new record of eternal hits - in the
ancient Sumerian language..
So where would you file this - under "Oldies"?
.
.
nudist camps. You ain't seen nothing till you've seen a 70 year old Granny
line dancing in nothing but her white fringe cowboy boots.
.owwwheee. Now *that's* Country!
them to dance. (What a bunch of lamers, those
"cowboys" bellied up to the bar!)
Now this is true! And it's the real culprit.
Stuart
remembering being the only--ONLY!--person (except for Nina) dancing in a roomful of
hipsters and college students at a Derailers show.
ng up to him and telling him how cool he was for
bucking the trend and dancing instead of
drinking. OH If I had only known then what I know now. Well, at least daddy dint
raise no fool
Stuart
who promised the missus he'd start on the taxes tonight
.heh heh. I love tales of justice.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would just like to say that I do not understand what everybody has against
line dancing. I think it's a lot of fun.
Disco. Crappy music from records, and it looks dopey.
Stuart
who confesses to getting suckered by the dancin fool into line dance lessons. I
had
Tucker Eskew wrote:
But I'm struck by the whole concept...the River. Is it relevant or
coincidental? At first I wasn't sure if it was actually the Bottle
Rockets. ...Brian Henneman talked about the importance of the river on
their lives and their music.
Well Henneman is a musician of
Shane S. Rhyne wrote:
Howdy, Tucker talks about an author I've always meant to investigate
further. I seem to enjoy movies and television shows based on Elmore
Leonard's writings (Maximum Bob on ABC was brilliant fun and I hope it
comes back someday.) Strangely enough, I haven't read any
ghtforward manner. Like the quote Marie cites. His self-effacing humor linked
with powerful songwriting is a nice combo too. It was nice to have them on last,
capping off a great episode on the St. Louis segment of the river. .
Stuart
Brox still America's #1 rocknroll band
haven't sent you any mail in months now. And my therapist said I'm
making remarkable progress.
But... This is one reason for multiple e-mail accounts. The other is that it
allows one's alternative personalities to also vote for Mike Ireland.
Stuart
among others
or key word or some
combination of key words?
Stuart
Don Yates wrote: . Still, I'd have to agree with Jon that the Garthman's
primary motivation seems to be the fame of record-breaking numbers, rather
than making every possible dollar that he can. With his level of
popularity, he could be making much more if he were so inclined.--don
Maybe.
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