One of those tunes you hear on the radio (Bob Harris Country) and have to go find what it is.
Took ages to track the album down. Think I ended up buying it on import.
Entries categorized as ‘Country’
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicols – Rattlin’ Bones
March 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Categories: Country
Tagged: Kasey Chambers, Rattlin' Bones, Shane Nicols
Gene Parsons – Monument
March 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This song featured as incidental music on the Wonder Stuff’s, if you will, rockumentary, Welcome to the Cheap Seats. I always wanted to know what it was but struggled to find out until Shazam came along.
Gene Parsons was a member of the Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, although later on in their career than Sin City as featured previously on this blog. No relation to Gram Parsons BTW.
He also invented the B-Bender, a customised Fender Telecaster with a mechanism inside that bends the B string by pushing the guitar downwards. The lever is built into the strap buttons. This modification has a very country sound.
Monument from the 1973 album ,Kindling, doesn’t seem to be on YouTube so you’ll have to put up with just a Spotify link today. It’s a pretty good album. Willin’ is a track about truckin’ and Sonic Bummer has the great line, “Sonic Boom killed my chickens”. I don’t think he’s referring to the frontman of Spacemen 3 there.
For those of you that crave a YouTube to look at though, here’s clip of Gene explaining and demonstrating the B-Bender. He get’s some lovely sounds out of that Tele’. Great moustache too.
Categories: 1973 · Country
Tagged: B-Bender, gene parsons, monument, moustache, string bender, the wonder stuff, welcome to the cheap seats
Johnny Cash – Redemption Day
February 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I bought a CD today for the first time in ages. This year I’ve been using my Spotify subscription a lot and not buying CDs. It’s saved me quite a bit of money over what I’d normally spend. Given that previously I may well have been the sort of person keeping the music business afloat by buying CDs, I’d say the music industry is screwed regardless of the payment model.
Anyhoo, the CD I bought was the final posthumous Johnny Cash album – American VI:Ain’t No Grave. I think it’s supposed to be an album about death but it just doesn’t seem to have the sort of weight I’d associate with such a claim. It’s not as solemn and poignant as earlier Rick Rubin produced albums such as American IV: The Man Comes Around.
It is a good album though and I think a few more listens and it’ll grow more on me.
The Sheryl Crowe (nearly wrote Cheryl Cole there) cover, Redemption Day is my favourite track so far. It hasn’t cropped up on YouTube or Spotify yet but when it does I’ll update with a link.
Categories: 2010 · Country
Tagged: Ain't No Grave, American VI, Johnny Cash, Redemption Day, Rick Rubin, sheryl crowe
Shady Grove – Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
January 8, 2009 · 1 Comment
Bluegrass mandolinist and the Dead’s very own Captain Trips collaborate on a version of the old folk song. English listeners might recognise the tune as Matty Groves as made famous(?) by Fairport Convention
Categories: 1996 · Country · bluegrass
Tagged: Captain Trips, David Grisman, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Mandolin, Matty Groves, Shady Grove
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) – Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
December 26, 2008 · 1 Comment
I’m not planning to do any of that review of the year stuff that other bloggers and other more traditonal publications are doing but one of my highlights of 2008 was when Robert Plant joined Fairport Convention onstage at Cropredy Festival for The Battle of Evermore.
This track originally by the Everly Brothers, comes from his collaboration with Alison Krauss on the Raising Sand album. T Bone Burnett, a man with a collection of fine guitars, does a fine job on the production with the spacious reverb and slapback echo.
You can hear this track over at YouTube but for copyright reason it can’t be embedded here.
Categories: 2007 · Country · Cover Version · Folk · Rock
Tagged: (Done Moved On), Alison Krauss, Cropredy, Gone Gone Gone, Raising Sand, Robert Plant, T Bone Burnett
