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#1 2009-07-27 05:38:39
- One Trick Pony
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'Americana'
I confess...
I adore Sandy Rogers.
I think Jeff Garrett might like a bit of Country, too.
I confess...
I really like Glen Campbell.
Reading, listening, thinking and viewing has led me from Mose Allison and Muddy Waters to Parchman Farm and Little Rock, Alabama. I might have picked up some mighty bad habits along the way. 'Route' 66 is one hell of a cliche, but it remains seductive. And on those days when I need perking up, a little Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf or Sonny Boy Williamson still does me very prettily, thank y'all very much.
I confess...
I quite like Dave Dudley.
But I hate those 'western' style shirts that are all over Ebay!
#2 2009-07-27 05:50:30
- Chris_H
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Favourite Glen Campbell track
Brian Wilson wrote and produced this as a thank you to Glen when he left the Beach Boys after standing in for Brian.
Click on the red 'Guess I'm Dumb' in the black box.
http://blograge.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/brian-wilson-glen-campbell-guess-im-dumb/
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#3 2009-07-27 05:56:03
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: 'Americana'
Sunday.
JS.
Alone in the shop with Jeff.
This playing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc
I bought a tie.
#4 2009-07-27 06:10:10
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: 'Americana'
This kinda goes rather well with the above too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHRq91HC690&feature=related
'68.
"Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites."
#6 2009-07-27 06:43:11
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Re: 'Americana'
Any chance of anyone uploading 'Fool For Love' and 'Raggedy Ann' or a picture of Sandy herself? Lord, it tok me an age to get hold of the CD!
#7 2009-07-27 07:01:50
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#9 2009-07-27 07:24:30
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I can't find a damn thing on Google images. I ended up buying two copies of the CD, one from a chick in Oregon who stuck it on Ebay for 75 pence and was more than surprised that it was so coveted by a middle aged bloke in Derbyshire, England.
#10 2009-07-27 08:07:35
- Hard Bop Hank
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Hank Williams! He's the greatest!
“No Room For Squares”
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#11 2009-07-27 08:28:29
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Re: 'Americana'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPTYimAE7E
Definitive version of 'Six days on the road'. Burritos were good and Byrds before them.
Hank Williams is overlooked in the UK. Buck and Merle too. Kitty Wells and Loretta. Going back to the twenties The Carter Family.
By the 70s it was all AOR rather than country. No fiddles or pedal steel. No honky tonk drinking songs. No truck drivin songs. No right-wing, pro-war, anti-hippy songs.
#13 2009-07-27 08:44:28
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Anyone a fan of the movie 'Southern Comfort'? Cajun and Ry Cooder. Better than 'Deliverance'.
Now this is genuine 'Americana'.
#15 2009-07-27 10:59:27
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This sure has become a Brit forum. Someone posts a howler like "Little Rock, Alabama" and nobody notices.
It's Arkansas, fer christsake, not Alabama.
#17 2009-07-27 11:23:48
- Patrick
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Otter : Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon : I thought you were pre-med.
Otter : What's the difference?
#18 2009-07-27 11:40:11
- Chris_H
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Re: 'Americana'
I've always thought Chris Hillman & the Desert Rose Band were a great band, they did feature a great pedal steel guitarist though.......a bonus in my book.
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#19 2009-07-27 11:53:17
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_rZqypc2Kg
SATAN IS REAL
#20 2009-07-27 11:56:12
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I forgot about Marty Robbins. 'We like both types of music country AND western.'
'El Paso' and 'Big Iron' - gunfighter ballads from the pre-Peckinpah, pre-spaghetti days, when they were just cowboy films.
Those songs used to get played on Saturday kids radio on the Light Programme of the BBC, along with 'Robin Hood', 'Nellie the Elephant' and 'The Laughing Policeman'.
The presenter was called 'Uncle Mac'. That would never do these days.
#21 2009-07-27 12:01:47
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I once went to see Steve Earle at The Barbican. He was blown off stage by The Blind Boys of Alabama.
I had been expecting some bluegrass / Del McCoury stuff.
It was part of an 'alternative country' festival. Alternative country was memorably described as 'country music for Guardian readers'.
#22 2009-07-27 12:01:49
- Staceyboy
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Quite a roots country fan too I must confess - a habit picked up during my rockabilly days. Seen loads of great bands over the years both veteran and modern. I used to work with a lovely old guy who used to write a column for one of the UK country music mags. Regularly tagged along to loads of gigs with him sometimes to take photographs. He's long since retired so I'm pretty much out of that loop now. That said, friends of mine have recently patched up their differences to re-form their honk tonk/western swing outfit to play some festivals on the Continent. Caught their 'rehearsal' in a local pub a month or so back and they sounded very, very good.
Staceyboy
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#24 2009-07-27 13:04:19
- Shelly Hamilton
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa_a7cUjC4o
PISTOL PACKING PAPA
BTW, I don't like Western shirts and Cowboy boots either.... at least, it's not for me.
Didn't Salvador Dalí ask Elvis for his shirt?
#25 2009-07-28 05:37:36
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Anyone know who's singing that version of 'Honky Tonk Angels' in 'The Last Picture Show'? That's a movie I have to watch a couple of times a year, chiefly for Ellen Burstyn, more so for Eileen Brennan - an exceptionally underrated actress IMO, shamefully wasted in the appalling 'Private Benjamin'.