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Grex > Music2 > #18: Alternative Country Hits The Big Time | |
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mcnally
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response 28 of 65:
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Jan 9 00:40 UTC 1998 |
The latter, I think..
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krj
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response 29 of 65:
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Jan 9 04:11 UTC 1998 |
It's just a compilation of all the Dylan covers recorded through the other
albums.
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scott
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response 30 of 65:
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Apr 2 01:16 UTC 1998 |
BTW, another source of "alternative country" can be found in Tom Waits' "Bone
Machine". There's at least 4 songs that could be classed as country or
western.
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mcnally
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response 31 of 65:
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Apr 2 02:59 UTC 1998 |
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krj
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response 32 of 65:
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May 13 03:28 UTC 1998 |
The "Progressive Torch & Twang" radio show up in East Lansing had a
great hour-long set tonight. They started with some very nice
rocking tracks, including one from the Old Joe Clarks, who are
particular favorites of mine. (Note to self: look for the track
"Lament" by The Gourds; this sounds considerably advanced beyond the
one Gourds album I have.)
Then there was a long series of tracks from familiar female voices:
Gillian Welch, Iris DeMent, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams.
But I didn't recognize any of the songs!!
Turns out that they are all on the soundtrack album for
the new Robert Redford film "The Horse Whisperer," which goes straight
to the top of my must-buy list.
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krj
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response 33 of 65:
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Jun 3 03:54 UTC 1998 |
Yet another report on the Torch & Twang show: tonight they played
six tracks from the upcoming Lucinda Williams album. It's been
long awaited; Williams has had the worst luck with record companies,
as her two previous labels folded underneath her. The songs sounded
pretty good: release date June 30.
Also yummy tonight was one track by The Hollisters, who I know nothing
about... yet...
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mcnally
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response 34 of 65:
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Jun 3 07:22 UTC 1998 |
I know Rough Trade folded out from under her (and a lot of others, too..)
but what was the other?
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krj
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response 35 of 65:
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Jun 3 23:10 UTC 1998 |
After Rough Trade expired, Lucinda Williams went to a label called
Chameleon. Chameleon was a startup run by some executive who had
left a major label, I vaguely recall, and it lasted about a year.
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krj
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response 36 of 65:
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Aug 30 05:58 UTC 1998 |
NP: Wooden Leg, "Wooden Leg." This band is the rest of Blood Oranges,
what was left of them after Cheri Knight left. It's a very nice
mandolin & electric guitar blend, lots of songs about death and killings.
I wish I'd picked up on them when they were current; this is a 1996
release, and I suspect that the band broke up.
Commended to Twila, who also likes Blood Oranges.
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orinoco
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response 37 of 65:
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Aug 31 03:14 UTC 1998 |
I've actually gotten to like the Blood Oranges more on a few re-listenings.
It just took me awhile to get over the fact that they were <gasp> Country
Music... But Cheri Knight's vocals were my favorite part of the band, so I
don't know how much I'd like them without her.
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anderyn
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response 38 of 65:
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Aug 31 13:40 UTC 1998 |
Blood Oranges were country music?! No way, hoser. :-) Actually, every
time I've looked for them in stores, they've been filed under rock.
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orinoco
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response 39 of 65:
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Aug 31 16:05 UTC 1998 |
That's funny, they seemed very much country to me.
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krj
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response 40 of 65:
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Aug 31 23:48 UTC 1998 |
It's a floor wax! No, it's a dessert topping! :)
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orinoco
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response 41 of 65:
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Sep 1 02:12 UTC 1998 |
<raises several eyebrows>
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happyboy
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response 42 of 65:
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Sep 1 02:46 UTC 1998 |
eugene chadbourne
oh my.
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mcnally
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response 43 of 65:
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Sep 1 08:48 UTC 1998 |
Eugene Chadbourne? I thought it was an old SNL skit..
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senna
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response 44 of 65:
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Sep 1 13:14 UTC 1998 |
It is. I think I still have a tape with it on there sitting around somewhere.
First season, no less.
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happyboy
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response 45 of 65:
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Sep 2 01:56 UTC 1998 |
sorry...i was just thinking about all the
weerd country stuff that eugene does...
i have a basement tape that he traded to me
for a toledo mudhens cap (at the majestic)
it was himself doing coltrane and john lee
hooker on banjo. with lotsa feedback.
is that alternative enuf fer youse?
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mcnally
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response 46 of 65:
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Sep 2 05:00 UTC 1998 |
perhaps a little *too* alternative.. :-)
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krj
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response 47 of 65:
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Sep 2 16:26 UTC 1998 |
NP: The V-Roys, "Just Add Ice." This batch of Steve Earle proteges
is another band which could get filed in the floor wax bins or the
dessert topping bins, as they drift between honky-tonk and
70's rock stylings.
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orinoco
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response 48 of 65:
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Sep 3 22:39 UTC 1998 |
(I'd like to hear that coltrane/banjo thing, actually...)
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happyboy
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response 49 of 65:
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Sep 4 02:08 UTC 1998 |
his basement several years ago
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raven
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response 50 of 65:
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Sep 4 06:26 UTC 1998 |
Eugene Chadbourne is great. He played on a couple of early Camper van
Beethoven albums. He is a master of disonant country jazz improve.
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happyboy
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response 51 of 65:
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Sep 4 14:58 UTC 1998 |
yeah...i have some camper van chadbourne. :)
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krj
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response 52 of 65:
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Oct 14 19:14 UTC 1998 |
Twila Price asked for a family tree for Blood Oranges.
Blood Oranges were Jimmy Ryan (mandolin), Mark Spencer (guitar) and
Cheri Knight (bass). The band spans 1987-1992; they broke up just weeks
before a show at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor. (I find one web citation
for a 1994 split.) The band predated the alt.country scene
and didn't make any money; Cheri Knight says this was the cause of the
split, in an interview in the webzine Country Standard Time.
Cheri Knight went off to have a solo career; her first release,
THE KNITTER (1995) I found boring. This year's album, THE NORTHEAST
KINGDOM, I like a lot. I suspect Steve Earle's presence has a lot to
do with it; the album sounds a lot like the new Lucinda Williams
album, also produced by Earle.
Jimmy Ryan recorded several albums for the ESD label, all of which are now
out of print. He formed a slightly purer bluegrass band, the Beacon
Hillbillies, with guitarist John McGann. The first album, which I think
was called BEACON HILLBILLIES, dates from around 1990,
and I don't remember thinking much of it.
The second album, MORE SONGS OF LOVE AND MURDER,
drifts back to more of a bluegrass-rock style and I have been enjoying
it a lot. The third album, A BETTER PLACE, I got in the Schoolkids
closing sale and I have not played it yet.
Jimmy Ryan teamed with Oranges guitarist Mark Spencer in another band,
Wooden Leg. They have a 1995 self-titled release, again mostly
bluegrass/rock. The webpage at www.hellcountry.com reports that
guitarist Spencer has been replaced by a fiddler.
That's all the recorded spinoffs I know about.
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