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Grex > Music2 > #18: Alternative Country Hits The Big Time | |
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orinoco
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response 53 of 65:
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Oct 15 00:41 UTC 1998 |
Maybe I'll go chase down some of those side projects then. Thanks.
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krj
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response 54 of 65:
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Oct 30 10:07 UTC 1998 |
NP: Buddy Miller, YOUR LOVE AND OTHER LIES. Miller has been getting
a lot of attention lately as Emmylou Harris' guitarist in the Spyboy
band and album, and he also plays guitar on his wife Julie Miller's
album BLUE PONY, which is a first rate album of country leavened with
rock. On his own album, however, the sound and the songs
just seem too much like stock Nashville hack work to me. Not sure
what went wrong.
I also might mention that I picked up Willie Nelson's new album
TEATRO, primarily because it is a Daniel Lanois production with
lots of Emmylou Harris harmony vocals. So far it seems like a
lovely album.
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goose
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response 55 of 65:
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Oct 30 15:39 UTC 1998 |
I had a chance to work with Buddy a while back, and he's a genuinely
nice guy who is very modest about his (amazing) playing talents.
I'm sorry to hear that at least this time around the songwriting
doesn't hold up.
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krj
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response 56 of 65:
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Dec 13 16:15 UTC 1998 |
For orinoco, following up resp:52 :: The new mailout from the Northside/
East Side Digital/Omnium people says they have closeout CDs at $4
each from Blood Oranges, Beacon Hillbillies and Wooden Leg.
Write to them at chill@noside.com and ask for a list, if you are
still interested.
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orinoco
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response 57 of 65:
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Dec 14 02:23 UTC 1998 |
Ooh, thanks for the tip...
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krj
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response 58 of 65:
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Jan 31 03:39 UTC 2001 |
A kick for this item after two years. I wanted to make some notes to myself
about this evening's Progressive Torch & Twang show, the alt.country radio
program on Michigan State's student radio station. Three songs in
succession caught my interest. The first was a track from the new
Bad Livers album. Happyboy and I had been chatting about this somewhere
in the conference, and based on the reviews I'd seen I hadn't been planning
on buying it. But I liked this track, very intense and banjo-based, so
the Bad Livers disc moves into the "buy" queue.
Next up was Reckless Kelly, whoever he is, with a silly live cover
version of Led Zep's "Whole Lotta Love." And finally, Wilco and Syd Straw,
a cover of a Jimmie Rogers song about tuberculosis, from
the "Red Hot and Country" compilation album of a few years back.
I don't know if that's still available. Carla would like to hear it
for the presence of Syd Straw.
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micklpkl
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response 59 of 65:
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Jan 31 04:20 UTC 2001 |
Reckless Kelly *are* brothers Willy and Cody Braun, from Idaho I believe,
Willy on vocals and guitar and Cody playing fiddle and mandolin. Together with
drums, bass and more guitar, I'd call them a country band that knows how to
rock. They pulled into Austin a few years ago, and are making quite a hit
around town. During last year's Austin Music Awards, they won "Best New Band"
and "best roots rock band." I don't own any of their albums myself, but I hear
their songs regularly on the radio, and a co-worker has the acoustic "Live
at Stubbs" and I borrow that from time to time.
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happyboy
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response 60 of 65:
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Jan 31 12:47 UTC 2001 |
heh, alt.country...hank sr. would be considered
alt.country these days. so would bob wills,
the carter family...
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krj
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response 61 of 65:
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Jan 31 23:01 UTC 2001 |
Note to myself, no one else is likely to care. Paula Frazer has a web
site, like everyone else: www.paulafrazer.com. The band name Tarnation
has been dropped. They are shopping an album; in the mean time, she sang
one song on the Cornershop album and five songs on an album
by The Czars.
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mcnally
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response 62 of 65:
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Jan 31 23:17 UTC 2001 |
I'm eating lunch while reading this and I missed the "z" in that last line,
firing off a Ric Ocasek flashback..
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orinoco
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response 63 of 65:
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Feb 1 02:58 UTC 2001 |
Oh, that one chick on the Cornershop album. Interesting...
(I think this is further proof that Ken and I come from different planets)
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krj
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response 64 of 65:
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Jul 10 04:17 UTC 2001 |
resp:58, followup for happyboy :: The Ark schedule lists Billy Joe
Shaver for Wednesday, July 11. "Opening will be Danny Barnes
and the Old Codgers, Danny formerly with the Bad Livers."
Formerly? I hadn't heard about that.
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happyboy
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response 65 of 65:
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Jul 10 14:15 UTC 2001 |
they pretty much ended when danny barnes moved out
to the seattle area. i think he still works with
mark ruben the bassist some tho.
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