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Post by Confessor on Jun 10, 2020 17:26:58 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019 #12 - Steve Earle - My Old Friend the BluesA great song from a really good album. I put Guitar Town on the turntable a couple of weeks back for the first time in ages and really enjoyed it. I'd kind of forgotten how good it is, as Copperhead Road tends to be my go-to Steve Earle album. Incidentally, The Proclaimers did a nice cover of "My Old Friend The Blues" on their Sunshine on Leith album in the late 80s. Top songs of 2019 #11 - Jim Lauderdale and Roland White - Try and Catch the Wind2018 saw the release of an album which had been in the can since 1979. The session came about then Jim Lauderdale visited mandolinist Roland White and the two recorded an album in Earl Scruggs' home studio with Marty Stuart on guitar. They could never find a label to release the album until 2018. And while it's not a classic album it's solid and very entertaining bluegrass album. I was definitely struck by this cover of Donovan's classic "Catch the Wind." Nice stuff. I'm a big, big Donovan fan and that's a really nice version of that song. I know Roland White as the brother of country and bluegrass guitar virtuoso Clarance White, who was a member of the Byrds between 1968 and 1973. As I'm sure you know, Clarence and Roland White were both in the bluegrass group The Kentucky Colonels in the early-to-mid-Sixties. I think I'm right in sayingbthat Roland played with Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys in the late '60s.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 10, 2020 18:03:36 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019 #12 - Steve Earle - My Old Friend the BluesA great song from a really good album. I put Guitar Town on the turntable a couple of weeks back for the first time in ages and really enjoyed it. I'd kind of forgotten how good it is, as Copperhead Road tends to be my go-to Steve Earle album. Incidentally, The Proclaimers did a nice cover of "My Old Friend The Blues" on their Sunshine on Leith album in the late 80s. Top songs of 2019 #11 - Jim Lauderdale and Roland White - Try and Catch the Wind2018 saw the release of an album which had been in the can since 1979. The session came about then Jim Lauderdale visited mandolinist Roland White and the two recorded an album in Earl Scruggs' home studio with Marty Stuart on guitar. They could never find a label to release the album until 2018. And while it's not a classic album it's solid and very entertaining bluegrass album. I was definitely struck by this cover of Donovan's classic "Catch the Wind." Nice stuff. I'm a big, big Donovan fan and that's a really nice version of that song. I know Roland White as the brother of country and bluegrass guitar virtuoso Clarance White, who was a member of the Byrds between 1968 and 1973. As I'm sure you know, Clarence and Roland White were both in the bluegrass group The Kentucky Colonels in the early-to-mid-Sixties. I think I'm right in sayingbthat Roland played with Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys in the late '60s. He left The Kentucky Colonels to play with the Bluegrass Boys but was only with them a couple of years before he joined Lester Flatt and The Nashville Grass. He was in the car with Clarence when Clarence died. He and Clarence had been performing together as The White Brothers between other gigs.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 10, 2020 18:18:23 GMT -5
A great song from a really good album. I put Guitar Town on the turntable a couple of weeks back for the first time in ages and really enjoyed it. I'd kind of forgotten how good it is, as Copperhead Road tends to be my go-to Steve Earle album. Incidentally, The Proclaimers did a nice cover of "My Old Friend The Blues" on their Sunshine on Leith album in the late 80s. Nice stuff. I'm a big, big Donovan fan and that's a really nice version of that song. I know Roland White as the brother of country and bluegrass guitar virtuoso Clarance White, who was a member of the Byrds between 1968 and 1973. As I'm sure you know, Clarence and Roland White were both in the bluegrass group The Kentucky Colonels in the early-to-mid-Sixties. I think I'm right in sayingbthat Roland played with Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys in the late '60s. He left The Kentucky Colonels to play with the Bluegrass Boys but was only with them a couple of years before he joined Lester Flatt and The Nashville Grass. He was in the car with Clarence when Clarence died. He and Clarence had been performing together as The White Brothers between other gigs. Yes, he was there when Clarence was involved in the accident that killed him, but they weren't in a car. Clarence was loading his gear into the back of a truck after a White Brothers gig in Palmdale, California (if memory serves), when a car driven by a drunk driver hit the back of the truck, fatally injuring him. Didn't know about Roland's time with Lester Flatt. Is Roland still alive?
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Post by berkley on Jun 10, 2020 20:44:00 GMT -5
Pretty nice rendition of Catch the Wind there. I don't know if this is part of a larger trend of bluegrass musicians covering 60s English pop songs, but a few years ago I came across a few videos of bluegrass covers of the Moody Blues - I think there was an album and a few concerts. It seems the bluegrass players liked the guitar picking on some of these tunes and thought they might lend themelves to a bluegrass-style approach. The results were interesting - I wouldn't say they were an improvement on the originals but there was definitely some nice playing and the meeting of styles might help some listeners to see those songs in a new light. If you search for "Moody Bluegrass" you'll find it on youtube.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 10, 2020 20:50:36 GMT -5
He left The Kentucky Colonels to play with the Bluegrass Boys but was only with them a couple of years before he joined Lester Flatt and The Nashville Grass. He was in the car with Clarence when Clarence died. He and Clarence had been performing together as The White Brothers between other gigs. Yes, he was there when Clarence was involved in the accident that killed him, but they weren't in a car. Clarence was loading his gear into the back of a truck after a White Brothers gig in Palmdale, California (if memory serves), when a car driven by a drunk driver hit the back of the truck, fatally injuring him. Didn't know about Roland's time with Lester Flatt. Is Roland still alive? Yep. In his 80s and last I checked still performing with his own band. He released a tribute album to The Kentucky Colonels in 2018.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 11, 2020 10:25:46 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#10 - Waylon Jennings - Just to Satisfy You
This song had a long history for Waylon. He originally wrote it in 1963 and it eventually ended up as the title track on his 1969 album, though he'd been playing it in concert all along. He then re-recorded it in 1982 as a duet with Willie Nelson, which is probably the better known version at this point.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 12, 2020 10:42:01 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#9 - Whitey Morgan & the 78s - What am I Supposed to Do
Whitey Morgan is almost unquestionably the standard bearer for actual Outlaw Country in the current era. And given this songs placement this year and last it's pretty clear that I love it and that I love Morgan. That doesn't change the fact that the song can be potentially problematic if you don't really listen to and digest it.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 13, 2020 15:37:50 GMT -5
Hit an estate sale and a storage unit sale today. My middle son picked up three 78s. I pick of the litter was the Johnny Cash Sun 78 of “Walk the Line” with “Get Rhythm” on the B-side. Not in the best shape but still playable. The other two were Ella Fitzgerald and The Four Aces.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 13, 2020 16:38:55 GMT -5
Wow, great to have an original Sun label Johnny Cash though...especially a 78rpm. Even if it was unplayable, I think I'd frame it and put it on the wall. But if you can play it, even better! Very cool. Feel free to post pix.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 13, 2020 19:25:39 GMT -5
Wow, great to have an original Sun label Johnny Cash though...especially a 78rpm. Even if it was unplayable, I think I'd frame it and put it on the wall. But if you can play it, even better! Very cool. Feel free to post pix. Will do as soon as I can get to a computer. Imgur on mobile is a complete disaster.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 14, 2020 0:45:36 GMT -5
I'd give you my Carl Perkins Sun 78 of Matchbox. There's a chip off the flip side but Matchbox still played fine the last time I tried it. My Dad has two Sun label Johnny Cash LPs, but only the sleeves say Sun, inside is the Canadian pressing with a non-Sun label.
I have a cool CD compilation of the black Four Aces group, many people only seem to know of the more famous white group of the same name and it makes it hard to mention the other. If you ever find any Tiny Grimes and His Rockin' Highlanders on 78 I'll be happy to transfer them to CD-R if you could get them to me. The last thing in 78rpm I transferred was this strange bonus track on a '60s Moby Grape album of all things. I just usually don't have anything much worth setting up for at that speed and with that stylus, but it's still here.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 15, 2020 11:01:48 GMT -5
Wow, great to have an original Sun label Johnny Cash though...especially a 78rpm. Even if it was unplayable, I think I'd frame it and put it on the wall. But if you can play it, even better! Very cool. Feel free to post pix.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 15, 2020 11:03:47 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#8 - Joshua Ray Walker - Canyon
This was almost certainly my most listened to new album of 2019. This is a great debut and this, for me, is probably the stand-out track. Apparently Walker wrote this for his father and I can certainly identify with that and with the lyrics.
"Are you proud of me? Are you proud of what I do? I’ve tried to be a better man Than the one that you knew I’ma miss you when you’re not around Though I wasn’t around for you When your broken body’s in the ground I’ll hope there’s room for two
I’m a big, big man Not just in size or in stature In terms of space that can’t be filled I’m a bottomless canyon Without a drop to spill"
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Post by Confessor on Jun 15, 2020 12:34:51 GMT -5
Wow, great to have an original Sun label Johnny Cash though...especially a 78rpm. Even if it was unplayable, I think I'd frame it and put it on the wall. But if you can play it, even better! Very cool. Feel free to post pix. Nice. So, those are 10" records then, running at 78rpm? I love a good old 10-incher (fnarr fnarr)...a very underused format these days. I assume these are vinyl and not shellac though, right? It would likely be too late for shellac. Looks like they are ex-radio station property, maybe? I have a Country Joe & The Fish LP with "WOR" scrawled across the label like that (WOR-AM was a New York based radio station). Love how someone, possibly a radio station archivist, has written "Fox Trot" on the label in pencil to describe the style of music that "I Walk The Line" is or maybe the recommended dance step. I suppose the song's "boom-chicka-boom" rhythm is somewhat similar to a Fox Trot, but not really. 😄
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 15, 2020 13:24:54 GMT -5
Looks like they are ex-radio station property, maybe? I have a Country Joe & The Fish LP with "WOR" scrawled across the label like that (WOR-AM was a New York based radio station). Love how someone, possibly a radio station archivist, has written "Fox Trot" on the label in pencil to describe the style of music that "I Walk The Line" is or maybe the recommended dance step. I suppose the song's "boom-chicka-boom" rhythm is somewhat similar to a Fox Trot, but not really. 😄 The letters here are "VFW", which suggests to me that the record was owned by a Veterans of Foreign Wars post rather than a radio station.
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