The latest issue of "Acoustic Guitar" has a good interview with Steve Earl
and Del and Ronnie McCoury. Not just for guitar nerds. Interesting in light
of the recent "Update" mud-sling.
Tom Moran
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The latest issue of "Acoustic Guitar" has a good interview with Steve Earl
and Del and Ronnie McCoury. Not just for guitar nerds.
Um, since you mention it, there's an interview with Del and Ronnie in the
current issue of Bluegrass Now. And to tie into another thread: it didn't
make it in the
STEVE EARLE THE DEL MCCOURY BAND
at the Vic, March 25
By Peter Margasak
The first few times I listened to "The Mountain," the new album Steve
Earle recorded with the Del McCoury Band, I couldn't stop thinking what
poor use he'd made of the group he himself calls the "best bluegrass
band
The difference between Me Margasak:
Margasak:
Despite Earle's declared love for bluegrass and
his close identification with Texas country-rock bards like Guy Clark
and Townes Van Zandt, he's always played far more rock than country
from his wonderfully bombastic 1988 breakthrough album,
25 (no, I didn't buy a
single thing)
HOWEVERgot to see an in-store at Borders (accompanied by my unemployed-
partner in crime, Bob) and would have easily paid $50 for what we witnessed.
Pure heaven, and all within 5ft of Steve/Del and the boyz. Sound was great,
Del is a joy to watch and hear
Steve looked very dapper
in his gray button-down wool vest and plaid cap. Looks like the McCoury's are
affecting Steve's grooming habits ;-))
Now in the Borders show at D.C. Steve was in a Black T-shirt with
the white letters "The Beatles".
Sorta neat.
Stick
The weakness of the DeMent/Earle duet, from my perspective (i.e., please
don't yell at me), is that the classic precision of the instrumental work
isn't matched in the duet parts. I don't know whether that's a result of
not being able to find a key that would work for both singers in the harmony
I haven't heard this one yet, Jon--and you know I'm looking forward to it
very much, as are a lot of us--but to paraphrase inevitable future
conversations around here, when you say:
the song is so classic-sounding, and the twin fiddles are so well-matched
that to me, it's
jarring to hear a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and I kinda missed the "Steve Earle isn't bluegrass" thread from a while
back, so if anyone can remind me of what that was all about I'd appreciate
it.
From what I recall, one tentative objection (Jon W?) was to earle's voice,
which was thought not to be a great
Working backwards...
Stevie said:
From what I recall, one tentative objection (Jon W?) was to
earle's voice, which was thought not to be a great bluegrass tool.
Not an objection, an observation. Which I stand by. Thinking about
bluegrass voices, Earle basically hasn't got one. From which
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