Members Mark Blackburn Posted January 22, 2013 Members Share Posted January 22, 2013 Answer: When it gives people who think they "don't like country music" goose bumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted January 22, 2013 Author Members Share Posted January 22, 2013 I was 18 years old when the Beatles made their final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show (August 14, 1965). Like most every budding guitarist at the time, I was in a band ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted January 22, 2013 Members Share Posted January 22, 2013 That was great! Never saw that footage before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members leftyaxeman Posted January 24, 2013 Members Share Posted January 24, 2013 Great video! 2 phenomenal guitarists. I always remember my 1st guitar instructor telling me to keep your ears open to all genres of music, because there are really only 2 types of music, good & bad. To this day, I'll give anything a fair listen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted January 24, 2013 Author Members Share Posted January 24, 2013 Thanks, "leftyaxeman." I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy (nice weapons of choice in that equipment list!)Your first guitar instructor was quoting Duke Ellington who famously observed, "There are only two kinds of music: good and bad." Two songs for you, sir -- by singer/songwriter & guitar giant, Vince Gill: Oklahoma Border Line and What the Cowgirls Do, played consecutively -- each featuring virtuosic solos -- the first, dedicated to his hero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarville Posted January 25, 2013 Members Share Posted January 25, 2013 Mark Blackburn wrote: I was 18 years old when the Beatles made their final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show (August 14, 1965). Like most every budding guitarist at the time, I was in a band ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted February 10, 2013 Author Members Share Posted February 10, 2013 Jessi Colter, who turns 70 this year, wrote a song called Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted February 20, 2013 Author Members Share Posted February 20, 2013 Chet Atkins called them his Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted February 26, 2013 Author Members Share Posted February 26, 2013 When did a "Nine Inch Nails" song become a COUNTRY song? When Johnny Cash made it his own -- ten years ago, just before his death at age 71. His birthday is tomorrow.His last video, HURT, is a countrified, anthemic, gospel reading -- more haunting (to my eyes and ears) than the day it was recorded. Assisted by masterful editing that Johnny didn't live to see, this video is deservedly his most-watched -- nearing 44 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted February 27, 2013 Author Members Share Posted February 27, 2013 Satellite radio is playing Wynonna Judd's recent rendition of I'M SO LONESONE I COULD CRY -- arguably the best song composed (words & music) by Bob Dylan's life-long hero, Hank Williams.Wikipedia's long list of important singers who've tried their hand at this one, begins with Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley and of course, Bob Dylan.. But no mention of Ms Judd.Well, it's a 'guy song' that she succeeds in making all her own -- with a spare but lovely arrangement -- true to the song's country roots -- with a campfire-simple harmonica solo on the musical bridge. Coincidentally or not, my wife just informed me that this season's DANCING WITH THE STARS (for 15 years our one shared guilty pleasure on TV) will include Wynonna Judd in its lineup. My wife quotes her as saying, about her weight, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted March 11, 2013 Author Members Share Posted March 11, 2013 Here on this thread and its previous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted March 30, 2013 Author Members Share Posted March 30, 2013 It is perhaps George Gershwin's most recorded melody from his 'jazz opera' Porgy & Bess -- SUMMERTIME. Yet my all-time favorite version is still a 'country funk' rendition by the greatest-ever guitarist/singer/songwriter (and actor!) Jerry Reed. A live duet with his hero Chet Atkins. Both dead and gone, but not forgotten. Accompanied by two other guitarists -- Paul Yandel on Chet's signature model Gibson 'country gentleman' and by someone good armed with a green customized Fender Strat (wish I knew his name). Posted I know in the previous incarnation of this thread (when it drew a comment from our erudite moderator about Chet's 'fretless' guitar). The "views" total for this posting just topped 100 thousand. So. For those who can appreciate a moment in time when 'country' musicians celebrated Gershwin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 30, 2013 Members Share Posted March 30, 2013 This is my favorite "countrified" version of Gershwin's classic. It's a version I used play myself (sort of) back when I was gigging in cafes and pizza joints in my college days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted March 30, 2013 Author Members Share Posted March 30, 2013 A local 'good music' FM station played Tennessee Ernie Ford's 16 TONS and I was flooded with memories: I'm suddenly nine-years-old again, and sitting next to our family's little Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted March 30, 2013 Author Members Share Posted March 30, 2013 Country music was the last resting place for the virtuosic instrumental. And often the greatest singers were great pickers too. Does that tradition continue? Coincidentally (or maybe not) the next offering at YouTube is Brad Paisley and Australia's greatest guitarist Tommy Emmanuel playing Merle Travis' CANNONBALL RAG. In some ways at least, life just keeps getting better, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted April 20, 2013 Author Members Share Posted April 20, 2013 27 years ago, some young, unheard-of bluegrass musicians, future 'fiddle' great Mark O'Connor (doubling on gut-string acoustic guitar) Jerry Douglas his equivalent on Dobro (resonator) acoustic steel guitar, and banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck, gave a small TV audience on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted April 27, 2013 Author Members Share Posted April 27, 2013 His Associated Press obituary in today's Saturday paper doesn't mention George Jones' mutual admiration for James Taylor. In a previous incarnation of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted April 27, 2013 Author Members Share Posted April 27, 2013 A friend in California just watched that (above) and shared this -- from a James Taylor appreciation night arranged by his best friends -- including Country duet partners Allison Krauss and Jerry Douglas performing one of J.T.'s earliest 'countrified' ballads. Stuff this good transcends genres and is timeless too, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted May 4, 2013 Author Members Share Posted May 4, 2013 If a new song tells a good story -- like this one (below) WHEN YOU GET TO ASHEVILLE, then regardless of the instrumentation/arrangement, you may be sure you're listening to Country music.--- Steve Martin is (arguably) the greatest-ever comedic actor; certainly the most erudite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted May 7, 2013 Author Members Share Posted May 7, 2013 Well there I was in Hollywood Wishin' I was doin' good Talkin' on the telephone line But they don't need me in the movies and nobody sings my songs Guess I'm just wastin' time.Well then I got to thinkin' Man, I'm really sinkin' And I really had a flash this time: I had no business leavin' [and]nobody would be grievin' If I went on back to Tulsa time. The get-up-and-dance number (the Ladies' favorite) from Eric Clapton's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted May 9, 2013 Author Members Share Posted May 9, 2013 Thanks, Old Gitbrit Down Under -- you're reading my mind! I'd been replaying this one, for the umpteenth time, earlier today and the next video offered at YouTube (from that same movie of a decade ago) was this -- a blend of Southern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted May 9, 2013 Moderators Share Posted May 9, 2013 I love so much of what you've posted here, Mark. I'm sure you've heard this but mention of both Paisley and Krauss just begs this to be posted. Great tune. Shades of He Stopped Loving Her Today with a very cool twist. I love it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Monkey Uncle Posted May 12, 2013 Members Share Posted May 12, 2013 Happy Mother's Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted May 25, 2013 Author Members Share Posted May 25, 2013 Before he teamed with my favorite Broadway musical composer Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein wrote three of my all-time favorite ballads with the 'dean' of Great American Songbook composers, Jerome Kern. (They also wrote the first great truly American musical, 'Showboat.') I was 16 when my mother sang the words to "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" (I'd been picking out the notes on guitar after hearing the melody for the first time, played by nylon string classical guitar virtuoso Charlie Byrd).Mom sang the original words, intended for a West End London production, "Darby and Joan, who used to be Jack & Jill . . . " Lyricist/singer Peggy Lee changed that to "Baby and Joe, who used to be Jack & Jill," in her definitive recording with the "Nelson Riddle Orchestra conducted by Frank Sinatra." So what has any of this to do with this WHEN'S A COUNTRY SONG thread? As I type this Siriusly Sinatra satellite radio is playing Eric Clapton's brand new version -- 'countrified,' with steel guitar and Nashville-style strings -- the way Eric's good friend Willie Nelson would record it -- as a Country swing tune (the way Willie's friends, Big Ray Benson and "Asleep at the Wheel" would play it). Admittedly, to give it a Country feel, the rich melody and harmonies by Jerome Kern (every note a chord, in the hands of great jazz pianists and guitarists,) has been dumbed down somewhat, for Mr. Clapton's intended audience. And yet . . . it works, doesn't it? And thus it reaches a new potential audience of millions of younger listeners, some of whom may be moved to ask our favorite question: Who wrote that song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members audiochurch Posted July 4, 2013 Members Share Posted July 4, 2013 The steel guitar entered country music as early as 1922, when Jimmie Between 1947 and 1949, country crooner Eddy Arnold placed eight songs in the top 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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