Aw Hell, Let's Talk About Country Music

**beddoes** · 02-06-2006, 04:27 AM

I just listened twice to Guy Clark's "Desperadoes Waiting On a Train". That's a f*cking great song.

Then I listened to Johnny Paycheck's "I've Got Someone to Kill". That's a great song.

Then Jimmie Rodgers' "Treasure Untold" and Webb Pierce's "There Stands the Glass."

George Jones "Tender Years". Willie Nelson "Funny How Time Slips Away" and HIS version (he wrote it) of "Crazy".

Who's with me?

Personal Country Music Anecdote

In highschool I bought a Faron Young lp because Prefab Sprout mentioned him in a song. Within a week I liked Faron Young more. And then I found a girlfriend!

**emperor tomato ketchup** · 02-06-2006, 10:40 AM

I got Joe Ely's Notta Gotta Lotta recently - pretty good stuff - I got one or two of his early albums years ago which I liked.

**eric-adams** · 02-06-2006, 10:42 AM

i been listening to jolene by Dolly parton on repeat for 2 weeks now.
its ace. only problem is i cant work out the timeing of it it sounds like a straight 4 4 beat but if you put a straight 4 4 beat ofver it it doesnt work at all.
strange.

**Joe M'geek** · 02-06-2006, 10:48 AM

i like country a lot...Got a couple of great bluegrass lps whilst digging around that float my boat- The Kentuckians and the Louvin Brothers. Who'd a thunk I'd groove along to 'froggy went a courting'!

Used to go to a thing in kentish town called 'come down and meet the folks' every sunday that was a great sunday afternoon boozing and watching live country bands and dj's. Not really straight country, mind. It took in classic country, alt country and country rock, but ignored Nashville stuff...

**someblokecalledfuz** · 02-06-2006, 11:12 AM

I've got a soft spot for some of Marty Robbins, even some of his hawaiian stuff and there's some Roger Miller i love too, and Jerry Reed and, and, and...

**Nico Gomez** · 02-06-2006, 11:12 AM

you can do alot worse than getting hold of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's will the circle be unbroken vol1

as far as I know they were a fairly straightforward country rock band that in about 72 got all the stars of bluegrass (Earl Scruggs, Mother Maybelle Carter, Merle Travis, Roy Acuff, Jimmy Martin) together to record a triple album of standards.
It's very good.

**Joe M'geek** · 02-06-2006, 11:26 AM

Ooh, that reminds me, I just picked up an earl scruggs album from some teevee series he did, which features lots of guest stars, inluding the Byrds, and some guy with a moog...good album

**blue burt** · 02-06-2006, 11:30 AM

Yup, I love me some good old country music too, having a pretty decent collection of it, not the current c**p but the whole variety of the classic stuff: honky tonk, bluegrass, countrypolitan - you name it...I'm especially fond of those upbeat truckin' songs of the likes of Dave Dudley, Dick Curless & co and Jerry Reed's brand of country funk...and yeah, you can't beat Johnny Paycheck, especially his stuff on Little Darlin'..

**nosoul** · 02-06-2006, 11:41 AM

best comp i heard for a while is the country radio slot on GTA san andreas video game, every tracks a killa, keep it hik

**emperor tomato ketchup** · 02-06-2006, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by Joe M'geek

iUsed to go to a thing in kentish town called 'come down and meet the folks' every sunday that was a great sunday afternoon boozing and watching live country bands and dj's. Not really straight country, mind. It took in classic country, alt country and country rock, but ignored Nashville stuff...

That was run by Alan Tyler wasn't it? I always fancied going as I'd been a fan of his old band the Rockingbirds.

**Nico Gomez** · 02-06-2006, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by Joe M'geek

Ooh, that reminds me, I just picked up an earl scruggs album from some teevee series he did, which features lots of guest stars, inluding the Byrds, and some guy with a moog...good album

this is that show i think-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...910736-8345453

here is some amusing Jimmy Martin stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61cJ82f1I0

**Joe M'geek** · 02-06-2006, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by emperor tomato ketchup

That was run by Alan Tyler wasn't it? I always fancied going as I'd been a fan of his old band the Rockingbirds.

yeah, he's a top bloke. Its still going, only its once a month at the apple tree in clerkenwell now, rather than being a weekly thing. Still ace though, and highly recommended

I did a gig there a month or so ago with mon girlfriends band

**jakartajive** · 02-06-2006, 12:30 PM

I love my country, me. Think my route in was actually through The Stones ('Country Honk', Keef and Gram, all that), then on to Gram and The Flying Burritoes, plus lots of other groups from time I loved as a teenager having a large country bent - The Byrds, The Flamin' Groovies ('City Lights' still slays me to this day) and from there back to Johhny Cash and George Jones (fave song? 'Cup of Loneliness' - the vocal Gram based a career on) and the like. What I truly dig the mostest is what Keef defined as that 'high lonesome' feel.

I then got massively into all the early 70s cats like Guy Clark ('Old Time Feeling' being my total fave) and Loudon Wainwright ('Motel Song' - country ache and tear that cuts to the quick of my soul).

And I do a pretty mean 'Ring of Fire' at the karaoke.

Which gives me a sick idea.

London Vultures??
A karaoke evening?

You know it makes sense!!!!!!!!

**billybuck** · 02-06-2006, 12:56 PM

Yep. I got into it through rockabilly.

I took a pilgrimmage to Memphis and Nashville 18 months ago and aside from meeting James Burton and Scotty Moore, I saw some frighteningly good bluegrass and shit kicking country. If it's the real deal, it's pretty hard to beat - especially the 'cry in yer beer' type tunes.

I bought a pedal steel last september too.

**nosoul** · 02-06-2006, 01:12 PM

ring of fire various versions [esp the 10000 scousers version], massive in liverpool right now!!!

**bazooka joe** · 02-06-2006, 03:07 PM

Absolutley killer 50's Candian country = The Calgary Range Riders

**beddoes** · 02-06-2006, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by jakartajive

George Jones (fave song? 'Cup of Loneliness'

Guy Clark ('Old Time Feeling' being my total fave) and Loudon Wainwright ('Motel Song' - country ache and tear that cuts to the quick of my soul).

All three great songs. When a country singer starts going on about motels, it's hard to stop the pain from flowing...

**bazooka joe** · 02-06-2006, 03:26 PM

Check out the "God Less America" compilation available from www.cryptrecords.com

It's alla y'alls new fave.

**beddoes** · 02-06-2006, 03:57 PM

I have a spare of Johnny Paycheck's best lp -"The Lovin' Machin" on Little Darlin from 1966. Doesn't show up too often.

**beddoes** · 05-06-2006, 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by Joe M'geek

i like country a lot...Got a couple of great bluegrass lps whilst digging around that float my boat- The Kentuckians and the Louvin Brothers. Who'd a thunk I'd groove along to 'froggy went a courting'!

The Louvin Brothers are great! Have you heard "Satan is Real"? Great great music.