Idk if Kristofferson warranted all the screentime he got bh
Merle is obviously, at the very least, a better songwriter than Cash. This seems indisputable.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
Better guitar player too
I love Cash & Merle equally for different reasons Personally I really love Cash’s appreciation & love of music (despite my misgivings abt the Rubin stuff) he had that Elvis quality where it was clear that he worked hard to honor not just the song but the writer/the emotion in his delivery - Peace in the Valley or Sunday Morning Coming Down, you feel how much he enjoys those songs. And his live prison albums at Folsom & San Quentin capture the electricity he had when he could really connect with an audience. Lot of Elvis similarities imo.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
(xp)Probably should add better bandleader as well
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
Preferring Hag doesn't mean I don't like Cash, let me be clear.
What this series did was kick my ass about finally buying and streaming second-tier worthies like Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley, not to mention blasting Patty Loveless' Honky Tonk Angel for the first time in years.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah Cash is great, in different ways
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
Agreed. VG otm
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
I thought the Tucker single I reviewed a few weeks ago pretty blah but I'll return.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
Where Cash triumphs is in the creation of a mythopoetic self that absorbed a century of country tropes and traditions; his voice lent the amalgam gravitas (can you imagine, to take a minor example, Waylon or Willie or Hag on U2's "The Wanderer"?). To call him inflexible and one-note, as I've seen elsewhere, isn't just wrong but beside the point.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
He was def not one note. So many novelty songs, for one thing
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
He’s one of those one of those people whose legend looms so large that it may sometimes seem that the only options are to accept it all lock stock and barrel or be forced to knock it down a peg.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
Tanya Tucker’s new album seems to have the almost the same cover as Bruce Springsteen’s.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
Tanya's album is my favorite of this year so far, it's very much in her lane but in a rich, joyful way. I love it so much.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
oooh there's the endorsement I needed
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
btw Reba McEntire's album released earlier this year is marvelous too
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
Just listened to the first track of that TT album and it sounded pretty good so I will take VG’s word and give the whole thing a whirl.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
Okay, that banjo passing ad at the beginning of every episode I could have done without.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
Many Generations of "Wagon Wheel".
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 September 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
Which was co-written by Ketch Secor. It all makes sense now. Perhaps this was already explained upthread.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
ohhh THATS what that song was?>:(i woke up one morning with “comin my way outta north caroline” in my head and i was SO annoyed
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 September 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
Even better, he fleshed out the original Dylan skeleton while he was in prep school.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
AP Carter didn't go to prep school.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 September 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
I just watched _The Third Man_ in full for the first time
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 September 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/biggest-oversights-in-the-ken-burns-country-music-documentary/
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 September 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
Thanks. I don’t know much about Don Williams, used to get him confused with Don Gibson, but I love this song he wrote and performed when he was more of a folkie with the Pozo-Seco singers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSybml7XsH4
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
Hm. Maybe he didn’t write it.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
Nope. And only sang backup and strummed guitar probably. Still, I only learned about the Pozo-Seco Singers recently and for me they really hit the spot of old school Renfaire folk rock.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
I went the other way. I bought a Pozo Seco record back in the 90s, but never investigated Don Williams solo until he died a couple years back. A bit about how Don had a big west African fanbase would've been worth including in the series, imo.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
There's a tiny subgenre of future Country guys in Psych bands like that, including Jerry Jeff Walker in Circus Maximus and Steve Young in Stone Country. Townes Van Zandt supposedly played bass for the 13th Floor Elevators on occasion.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
Okay I think I got it straight now: Don Gibson was the Sad Poet and Don Williams was the Gentle Giant.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
I saw Townes Van Zandt open for Jimmie Dale Gilmore at The Bottom Line once and I have to say, while I am usually pretty tolerant of people’s eccentricities, he kind of freaked me out a bit.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
I liked the story about how when he worked with the Cowboy Junkies, he asked had any of them shot up on a horse.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
I actually lived in Austin for a few years, but hardly ever crossed paths with any of the notables, although I did see Joe Ely in a coffee shop once and almost housesat for Steve Young while he was going on a State Department tour of Mongolia or something. Then a few weeks after I moved back to NYC I walked out of my office on 52nd street and saw Jimmie Dale Gilmore pass right in front of me.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
I think maybe I did laundry once with someone who lived in a place as Lucinda Williams used to live and had one of her shirts/famous people I have known
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
Good thing I wasn’t asked to be a talking head on that show or I would have really wasted time.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
I might have recited the lyrics to Gary Stewart’s “Single Again,” then gotten a little emotional and said “That’s good!”
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
Oh, did they mention Gary Stewart?So glad for incl. music and comments of Jeannie Seely, but was Merle's mention of Lefty Frizzell (as his inspiration) the only one?
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
Did not realize that Charlie McCoy played that excellent guitar on "Desolation Row!" And that this chance encounter, leading to one-or-two take otm, led D. to A-List-Nashvillecatville.
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
or "Desolation Row"!
I want to say it was a first take, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 September 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
Thought he said two takes, unless they didn't record the first.
Don't think they did mention Gary Stewart, so maybe it wouldn't have been a waste of time for me to mention him after all.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
Don't remember too much about Lefty being in the doc except as an influence on Merle and maybe someone else.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
They seem to have maybe mentioned "Long Black Veil," if not him singing it, at least in the context of Marijohn WIlkin writing it before she discovered Kris Kristofferson and it is mentioned here: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/favorite-country-song but I'm not sure, I am not such a good note taker.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
Watching episode two now, they got Jean Shepard! She died in 2016.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 September 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
Feel like we should poll the talking heads on this at some point
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
Marty wins for me <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
I like Marty but maybe he’s too much of a good thing.Is it nitpicking to question Tom T. Hall putting a character called Mister Harper into “Harper Valley PTA”? It seem like a structural flaw if not a paradox or a time loop. If he owned the whole valley, wouldn’t he send his kids to a fancier school somewhere else? Unless maybe his family used to own the valley but lost control of it due to bad business dealings.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
There's a three part Cocaine and Rhinestones just about that song.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 September 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link