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
Lefty Frizzell is also discussed to not massive length in the Hank Williams ep (#3).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 September 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
In case anybody missed it, Shakey dropped some science on us recently that Bob Dylan’s country voice was basically him doing Lefty Frizzell.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
Actually don’t think I finished listening to the third, Tom T. Hall-based episode of the podcast about that song, so maybe that detail IS discussed.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
Will have to check Shakey's post, thanks. If he owned the whole valley, wouldn’t he send his kids to a fancier school somewhere else? Was a common Southern thing back then, to save some bucks, because egalitarian, complacent, and/or teach your kids to know their places, as big tadpoles in a small pond. Or this is how it seemed to me, before official desegregation (then "seg academies" started appearing, not always for the rich).Unless maybe his family used to own the valley but lost control of it due to bad business dealings. Could be---as labor laws came into existence and tightened up, sometimes not much, could still make a big difference. Also there might be Harpers with different levels of income, most with more or less than the aforementioned Mr. Harper moving away, another Southern thing, then and now.
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
So, good of T. to slip that in there.
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
Actually Shakey’s post is almost ten years old, but I only saw it recently:Poll: Nashville Skyline
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
bob dylan's lefty frizzell gives me more kermit the frog imo but it does make me like his singing voice a little more thinking of it as lefty
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 September 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
Wondering if Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose were influenced in their naming convention by The Maddox Brothers & Rose.Okay, I do have one firsthand story that actually might be of interest to you. When I was introduced to Jimmy Wyble I was told “he played the solo on ‘Roly Poly’,” so I asked “And did Bob Wills say ‘Aah, Jimmy!’?” “Yes, and he hated it every time.” And Jimmy looked at me and said “I preferred to remain anonymous.”
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 02:03 (four years ago) link
haha that's so good. Def talking-head worthy :)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 September 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
Lefty Frogzell:
http://toughpigs.com/uploaded_images/royrogers-726794.jpg
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 September 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
Frog Dylan
You guys are reminding me of something in this post
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link