On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Will Miner wrote:
(ducking, in case Curry is anywhere nearby)
Golly.could you imagine Rick Wakeman decked out with
a cape AND a Stetson!!! Wow..
Think about stacked steels..run through multiple
effect banks. The possibilities are endless.
Going to start
Jon writes re the Kenny/Ann-1979, G*rth/Shania-1999 comparison:
It's not a bad comparison, especially if you look forward a little bit -
1979 was a low point, followed shortly by the Neo-Trads (Skaggs, early
McEntire, et.al.) - but it has its limits; "rules" is a pretty slippery
term. Murray and
Jim says:
I don't think that Wahl was comparing radio play (other people have had #1
records this past year, too, obviously) but was looking at in terms of
*sales*, which is what most of the articles I've read have focused on as
well; You have G*rth and Shania and then everyone else.
Ah,
Cheryl's deal on this was good. I agreed with it. And I also understand
where Jim Roll was coming from, about the press and alt.country. Except
one thing-- I wish the term "country rock" hadn't been ruined by the
Eagles and the L.A. 70s scene. It was a very useful term. I've been
writing it
Cheryl Cline wrote:
Bob "Ask Joe" Soron wrote:
I remember the Name Problem, but I didn't much pay attention at the
time. I use pretty tightly defined nomenclatures, so that no matter
what people might think I'm saying, I always know. And as a non-Big
Tent-er, I don't use alt.country, No
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Joe Gracey wrote:
In 1971 we started looking for a name for it and the best we could do
was "Progressive Country", which was decent enough but somehow
unsatisfying.
Gee, right around that same time people were looking for a name for the
kind of overworked
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Joe Gracey wrote:
In 1971 we started looking for a name for it and the best we could do
was "Progressive Country", which was decent enough but somehow
unsatisfying.
Gee, right around that same time people were looking for a name for the
kind of overworked
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Barry Mazor wrote:
Part of me still feels we were better off with the 2
minutes 8 seconds, and I say this as a known Dylan fan.
Absolutely. Removing the time barrier has made people lazy. Now you get
songs that start with sixteen bars of empty chord changes, extra
Cheryl writes: Our second question is:
Where can I find Merle Haggard's tribute to Jimmie Rodgers?
I almost spit coffee through my nose on this one line. LOL!
Ya know this name thing has really got me bugged, especially cause I need
to name something centered around this"Big Tent" type of music
On another note, been reading some 'zines lately and found some
interesting
stuff. I recommend Modern Screen Country Music (Shania Twain centerfold
inside-I kid you not) for the column by Waylon Wahl that draws comparisons
to the country music scene of 20 years ago (ruled by Kenny Rogers and
Bob Soron wrote:
If they're not "alt country" or "alternative country" according to the
UT/No Depression revisionism, er, I mean yardstick, then, we're back to
the original problem being batted around back then (and when *did* this
start, btw? Bob Soron?) [...]
I had *nothing* to do with it.
Amen. It's keep on coming and it keeps on coming back. Witn the health of
the music that exactly fits the "tiny tent" alt.country definition at least
questionable now--the bigger picture ought to feel like good news to
anybody who's really connected with ALL THIS.
What Cheryl said was the
Cheryl --
just please please don't ever find better things to do with your time.
thank you,
Linda
At 11:42 AM -0800 on 3/6/99, Cheryl Cline wrote:
I'm askin' you! g. Of course Gracey is the one to ask, as he goes back To
The Beginning of Time, what a maroon I am. It's just that back when I first
got on the Net, reading rec.music.country.western, I remember you as being
the one with the
Bob "Ask Joe" Soron wrote:
I remember the Name Problem, but I didn't much pay attention at the
time. I use pretty tightly defined nomenclatures, so that no matter
what people might think I'm saying, I always know. And as a non-Big
Tent-er, I don't use alt.country, No Depression, Americana, and
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