Members LCK Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by saturn1 Is it country, is it blues, is it rock n roll? The lineage to Buddy Holly or Carl Perkins is as strong as the line to Hank Williams. The telecaster licks are born of James Burton. Then there's Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett. It's enough to make your head spin. I really like the Mavericks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Kidney stone mojo for Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 30, 2012 Members Share Posted December 30, 2012 Thanks for the stone mojo, rsadasiv. (Little Rock still has not passed.) Taking comfort now in all the wonderful postings here. Like LCK I love The Mavericks, and Jason Eady singing his own GOD FEARING BLUES is absolutely fantastic.Pardon me if I slow down the pace with a reflection on a late-in-life inductee into the Country Music Song Writers Hall of Fame.---Tom T. Hall. If you're young, you may not know his name. But some of us, of an age, consider Mr. Hall the Mark Twain of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 30, 2012 Members Share Posted December 30, 2012 Ah, the joys of YouTube circa 2013: Watch a video to its very end, and there's all those similar offerings -- a feature that could be called, You-like-that?-You'll-love-this! After watching Jason Eady's GOD FEARING BLUES a fourth time, I finally spotted the pretty young woman on the Austin City Limits set, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted December 30, 2012 Members Share Posted December 30, 2012 For some reason Townes Van Zandt got left out of this discussion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnYFgRYRjP4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UthqmxQ1jjI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vbdg4NxvRU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycdIujzgXgY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKo8_8OOJbE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsR0Y-sWk-E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted December 30, 2012 Members Share Posted December 30, 2012 Originally Posted by Mark Blackburn Ah, the joys of YouTube circa 2013: Watch a video to its very end, and there's all those similar offerings -- a feature that could be called, You-like-that?-You'll-love-this! After watching Jason Eady's GOD FEARING BLUES a fourth time, I finally spotted the pretty young woman on the Austin City Limits set, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted December 30, 2012 Members Share Posted December 30, 2012 After posting (yesterday) Tom T. Hall's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted December 31, 2012 Members Share Posted December 31, 2012 Mustn't forget Kris Kristofferson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted December 31, 2012 Members Share Posted December 31, 2012 Jim Weatherly was a Nashville songwriter who, like Ray Charles, showed that sometimes there's little difference between country and R&B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldgitplayer Posted December 31, 2012 Members Share Posted December 31, 2012 The evidence in this thread seems overwhelming.......perhaps the question needs to be rephrased :What makes an American song NOT a Country song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted January 5, 2013 Members Share Posted January 5, 2013 By 1970 when his rock fame was well-established, Elton John alluded to his southern 'country' songwriting influences with my favorite track on his Tumbleweed Connections LP Lee Charles Kelley just posted his own favorite track from that landmark album over on the latest "Friday Influences" thread: This was mine. It re-awakened my love for steel guitar while blowing me away with Bernie Taupin's oh-so-evocative lyric: Brilliant writing really, that accomplishes so much in so few artless words. For me, still the quintessential Country Song, 43 years on. Like you, Old Git Brit I like lyrics that hint at things your own imagination can take and run with. And love your latest observation -- an inversion of the question that started this thread: "What makes an American song NOT a country song?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted January 5, 2013 Members Share Posted January 5, 2013 Elton and Bernie can make a fine country tune alright. How about "Social Disease", with the funky banjo, or my current Elton fav off the new album with Leon Russell, "Jimmy Roger's Dream". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iurh6-IQBxY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted January 5, 2013 Members Share Posted January 5, 2013 Some as good stuff from Elton and Bernie as any they've ever done on this album IMO.And of course Leon doubles the fun. Neil Young gets a verse on this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvXK1-b3YXY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted January 5, 2013 Members Share Posted January 5, 2013 Originally Posted by Pine Apple Slim Some as good stuff from Elton and Bernie as any they've ever done on this album IMO. And of course Leon doubles the fun. Neil Young gets a verse on this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvXK1-b3YXY That's amazing! Which song did Brian Wilson do back up on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted January 6, 2013 Members Share Posted January 6, 2013 Been meaning to thank LCK for the Kristofferson postings above. Just found the right moment -- in a television promo, and while reflecting on the ability of our mutual hero, Johnny Mercer, to take a catch phrase (new or old -- but unused in song) and turn it into a hit. He was better at it than anyone else. But it's within our power to do it too!Anyway, thought of this while listening to an album of Great American Songbook standards sung by 'country' artist Ronnie Milsap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted January 7, 2013 Members Share Posted January 7, 2013 Originally Posted by Mark Blackburn Been meaning to thank LCK for the Kristofferson postings above. "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" which won Milsap his first grammy. Nice one, Mark! I hadn't heard this before.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted January 10, 2013 Members Share Posted January 10, 2013 I know the feeling Lee! My own favorite Kris Kristofferson song I discovered only four years ago: It's never found among his (single CD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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