Read Bill Malone's Country Music USA (2nd revised edition Univ of Texas Press)
It's pretty definitive and exhaustive. If you don't mind reading a textbook style book it's pretty good.
Any other books you recommend? I've started Malone's Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music.
For just general country music? No. Have you read Lost Highway by Peter Guralnick? I'm interested in checking that out. There's a lot of good biographies of individual artists and specific styles/genres. I've also wanted to read that Musical Mountaineers, too.
Read Bill Malone's Country Music USA (2nd revised edition Univ of Texas Press)
It's pretty definitive and exhaustive. If you don't mind reading a textbook style book it's pretty good.
Any other books you recommend? I've started Malone's Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music.
For just general country music? No. Have you read Lost Highway by Peter Guralnick? I'm interested in checking that out. There's a lot of good biographies of individual artists and specific styles/genres. I've also wanted to read that Musical Mountaineers, too.
I recall reading and appreciating a few of the chapters from Lost Highway. The earlier part of the century interests me most.
Have you read Lost Highway by Peter Guralnick? I'm interested in checking that out. There's a lot of good biographies of individual artists and specific styles/genres. .
a great read i stumbled upon a free symposium at vandi last march with Guralnick (+ robert gordon & Wil Haygood) they shared some amazing stories !
Have you read Lost Highway by Peter Guralnick? I'm interested in checking that out. There's a lot of good biographies of individual artists and specific styles/genres. .
a great read i stumbled upon a free symposium at vandi last march with Guralnick (+ robert gordon & Wil Haygood) they shared some amazing stories !
photos of my NC show finds soon come
Wouldn't mind interviewing Guralnick at some point.
Love 60's country records with the trucker themes. Red Simpson - I'm A Truck is a great one, plus the aforementioned Dave Dudley tracks. While I'm at it, I must mention... not on LP, but TIME LIFE put out a series of CD's of No. 1 hits for the years 55' thru mid- 70's. Much recommended are the 1964-68 series. Each CD has about 20 or so tracks that topped the country charts for each given year. You can pick em' up cheap on the Bay. Tons of classic tracks by Porter Wagoner, Faron Young, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, Bobby Bare, Dottie West, Red Foley, Lefty Frizzell, Don Gibson, Roger Miller, Bob Wills, Buck Owens, Merle Travis, Kitty Wells, Lorretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Hank Thompson, and many, many other artists from the golden age of country music. I'd say 80% produced by Chet Atkins. Completely hooked I am.
Love 60's country records with the trucker themes. Red Simpson - I'm A Truck is a great one, plus the aforementioned Dave Dudley tracks.
Also gotta big-up the truckdriving compilations that Starday/King/Nashville released in the sixties (even the ones with the corny novelty cuts by the Willis Brothers, but there's enough good stuff to make up for them). AVOID: the late-70's Starday/Gusto trucker albums with instrumental versions of "Convoy"...
I think I have. It's a bunch of obscure, disturbing singles from the 50s and 60s right? I find the majority of Crypt anthologies interesting but not my favorite things to listen to. I don't remember being blown away by it. Maybe I should listen again.
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It's pretty definitive and exhaustive. If you don't mind reading a textbook style book it's pretty good.
Jim Ford - Harlan County
Roy Head Same People (with a cover of "Let A Woman be a Woman and let a Man be a Man")
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
Any other books you recommend? I've started Malone's Singing Cowboys and Musical
Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music.
For just general country music? No. Have you read Lost Highway by Peter Guralnick? I'm interested in checking that out. There's a lot of good biographies of individual artists and specific styles/genres. I've also wanted to read that Musical Mountaineers, too.
I recall reading and appreciating a few of the chapters from Lost Highway.
The earlier part of the century interests me most.
a great read
i stumbled upon a free symposium at vandi last march with Guralnick
(+ robert gordon & Wil Haygood)
they shared some amazing stories !
photos of my NC show finds soon come
Wouldn't mind interviewing Guralnick at some point.
Randy Sharp - First in Line (demo)
super nice guy, all three spent loads of time talking to folks
yeah...
Country:The Twisted Roots of Rock and Roll, by Nick Tosches.
and on the record tip...
Unites Artists contract-breaker, for sure.
peace-
MUST OWNS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Johnny Paycheck- all of his Little Darlin 45s from the 60s
Ed Bruce- Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up Top Be Cowboys- has incredible version of Tony Joe White's "The Migrant"
Sammi Smith- all her MEGA ALbums- for some deep cottonfield soul- this woman had a hell of a voice!
Moe Bandy all his 70s LPs
Joe Stampley- The Sheik of Chicago- former member of the UNIQUES on PAULA
Razzy Bailey- Great soulful Voice
Mel Street- EVERYTHING!
Jerry Lee Lewis- I-40 Country
Randy Barlow- 45s easier to find
John Anderson- Everything! What a voice!!
Porter Wagoner- ALL!
Ronnie Milsap- although a great voice- his pre-RCA stuff on Scepter,Warner,and CHIPS is absolutely brilliant!
Buck Owens- everything
Tompall Glaser- Charlie LP
Johnny Cash- Look at Them Beans
Willie Nelson- Red Headed Stranger, Shotgun Willie
some to get ya'll started!!
co-sign, it would be an awesome contribution to hear this in mp3. thanks.
Also gotta big-up the truckdriving compilations that Starday/King/Nashville released in the sixties (even the ones with the corny novelty cuts by the Willis Brothers, but there's enough good stuff to make up for them). AVOID: the late-70's Starday/Gusto trucker albums with instrumental versions of "Convoy"...
Townes VanZandt
I'll cosign erything on the thread and add these two, can't go wrong w/ any o' their shit.
I think I have. It's a bunch of obscure, disturbing singles from the 50s and 60s right? I find the majority of Crypt anthologies interesting but not my favorite things to listen to. I don't remember being blown away by it. Maybe I should listen again.
"It's nothing to me" is one of my favorite country tunes...