Thanks don for recycling yer hard-country history lesson. Nice to
precisisize one's terminology, and I must have been off-list when you
first posted it a year ago...
carl w.
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Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 7:27 AM
Subject: k.d. lang (was Re: Heather Myles Injustice)
...k.d. lang who does have a superior voice
and who did put out a really good album
Yes John- June too!
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Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: Heather Myles Injustice
R.W. Shamy Jr. writes:
Heather is and has been her own girl- Kinda remind you of Dale
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
did Nashville actually abandon Lang? I mean,
was she dropped, was her budget slashed, did radio or the club promoters turn
against her? I don't know, and would really like to know why she moved away
and into pop if it was for some reason other
Will Miner wrote:
Sorry to chime in late here, but I recall an interview around the time of
"Ingenue" in which she simply claimed that "I lost my passion for
country." The Patsy Cline fixation was over. Maybe because of all of the
hullaballoo over eatings cows, but she sure brought that
jim:
I'm not wanting to play contrarian again, but I have to jump in on this. I
think Heather Myles' problem is that she's only a fair to middlin' singer
with a taste for just ok songs and the good songs she chooses have been
done better by others (I mean Kiss An Angel Good Morning?-puh-leese). I
At 11:40 PM 2/4/1999 Ms. Woodchip wrote:
Myles has a good voice, but I don't think
it's anything that special. I'll say the same thing about the songwriting on
Allison
Moorer's cd. They both have good voices and they are good looking.
Well, tastes do vary, eh? I'll say that for my part, I
And in neither case does the fact that both gals are nice looking have
anything to do with how I hear the records.
But speaking of nice looking: (!)
All subjective of course, one person's goldmine is another's tar-pit.
But, I cannot help but think of one k.d. lang who does have a superior
Shamy
WDVR-FM
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Mike Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:
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Thursday, February 04, 1999 3:28 PMSubject: Heather Myles
Injustice
After listening to the Hightone
releases I fail to understand how no major label
Dan Bentele writes:
Well, you probably said a number of things that folks will be
interested
in, Tera g, but I am curious about the above, mainly because I
honestly
don't know or can't remember; did Nashville actually abandon Lang? I
mean, was she dropped, was her budget slashed, did radio
R.W. Shamy Jr. writes:
Heather is and has been her own girl- Kinda remind you of Dale Watson?
(too country for country?)
Just like June Carter Cash?
--Jon Johnson
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New Hampshire Jon says:
As I remember it, there had been some rumors about her sexuality
here and there before she came out, but I don't think that was what
caused Nashville to turn its back on her. I really don't recall the fact
that she was a lesbian as being a huge surprise to
Smilin' Jim says:
[Americana] Programmers get
excited over some pretty mediocre stuff that leaves the rest of us just
shaking our heads and wondering what you're thinking.
That "rest of us" is a little disingenuous coming from a programmer g.
Actually, though, I agree with Jim - except that
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Bill Silvers wrote at the end of his fine defense of
Heather Myles:
Kelly Willis is my favorite female singer these days. I saw her for the
first time in St. Louis last October and she was even better than I
thought she'd be. But she's not really directly comparable to
Don writes: Yep. Heather's much more of a hard country singer. She's more
comparable
to folks like Conway Twitty, Gene Watson, Mel Street, etc. I'd bet most
of the folks who find her "boring" would most likely say the same about
those guys.
OK, I know we've been over this before, but it hasn't
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I know we've been over this before, but it hasn't sunk in yet. (I'm
a hard headed Italian, if ya haven't guessed yet). What's so "hard"
about any of this? I was never really a fan of Twitty (though seeing
Dale Watson perform some of his songs
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
Jon Weisberger wrote:
New Hampshire Jon says:
As I remember it, there had been some rumors about her sexuality
here and there before she came out, but I don't think that was what
caused Nashville to turn its back on her. I really don't recall the fact
that she was a lesbian as
After listening to the Hightone releases I
fail to understand how no major label picked up on this incredible talent who,
BTW, happens to look damn good on a Harley (Live at the Bottom Line
cover) and has all the ingredients for success at any stage of her career until
recently when she
I'm not wanting to play contrarian again, but I have to jump in on this. I
think Heather Myles' problem is that she's only a fair to middlin' singer
with a taste for just ok songs and the good songs she chooses have been
done better by others (I mean Kiss An Angel Good Morning?-puh-leese). I
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