Re: Bob Wills advice, mainstream country.

1999-02-19 Thread Jon Weisberger
Bill Silvers' advice is right on the money; your best choices for cheap, basic coverage of Wills' best-known stuff is the Essential or Vol.2 of the Tiffany Transcriptions. There are 6 songs that appear on both CDs; the Essential gives you more - another 14 songs - than the Tiffany CD (8), but a)

Diamond Rio (was Re: Bob Wills advice, mainstream country.)

1999-02-19 Thread Louise Kyme
Jon Weisberger wrote: Diamond Rio and some other stuff nothing to do with Diamond Rio Oh I *love* Diamond Rio, and I'm not scared to say it either. They are on one hand the closest thing in Nashville to alt.country (and unfortunately on the other hand probably the furthest from it g) I

RE: Diamond Rio (was Re: Bob Wills advice, mainstream country.)

1999-02-19 Thread Jon Weisberger
Louise says: I think Jimmy Olander is such a cool guitarist, and Dan Truman is such a swingy pianist, and Gene Johnson is a marvellous mandolin player. 'Poultry Promenade' from their first album is still one of my favourite modern instrumentals. I don't think they get half the credit they