A known quantity around here, but we'll go ahead and indulge anyway.
2014
A known quantity around here, but we'll go ahead and indulge anyway.
2014
Let's take a moment to remember Buddy Emmons, who passed away this week. Here he delivers the sweet, buttery tones of the notorious finicky pedal steel along with the the rich velvet vocals of Mr. Ray Price.
We will here take some to recognize the passing last week of Jim Ed Brown.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GmuyYvuRs
Coming up next: FREEALONZO WEEK.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEstJ98TcM
folks, I've got the working man's blues. Seriously, folks, the working life for this meatman is pretty blue. Hope y'all are hanging tough.
*I had no idea nick offerman played the fiddle for merle.........
I'm hitting the road today, actually, but it's going backwards, not forward.
1978
Dr. Chop recently bought this dude's debut album. I'm gettin' into it. *I just flipped clips to this one as the production is much better. A little slower, but still good.
Somehow we haven't spun SS yet...
I'll admit, I didn't cotton to Sturgill right away. His first album was good, but parts of it bugged me. Thinking about it for awhile, I decided it was just a little too... meta, I guess would be the word for it. I'm not complaining because it wasn't filled with outlaws and pickup trucks; I'm just fine with the unconventional. However, it was all a little too sad-sacky for my tastes. Country music had/has some of the great self-deprecators, however I felt that too much of High Top Mountain strayed into self-pity. Too much "O, woe is me, everyone would be better off if I was dead" or "no one likes my songs" or "nothing ever goes right for me." The talent was undeniable, but the execution was lacking and the messages were kind of annoying.
When I saw that his next album was titled Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, I thought that I just might sit the next one out. However, a few weeks back, the continual outpouring of adulation finally lead me to check it out. My apprehension was gone by the end of the first song and I've been listening to the album repeatedly ever since.
Home frozen home.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIei_vfZN0o
1978
One of my favorite songs at Saturday's show was a moody, slowed down version of "Steve Earle" during the encore. She did it with the whole band that night, but this is the closest I could find to it.
httpv://youtu.be/VyGOxiNxPGI
Was going to come up with some joke, but couldn't think of anything. Here's a cool enough video though.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B72ObGfDxGI
1984