Terry Sullivan is nothing like me. She is graceful,musical, delicate, intellectually serious, tough-minded, moral but never moralizing, good humored, but never over-the-top. She is 100% Woman,but no feminist. She is very easy on the eyes and reminds me of Audrey Hepburn and Jennifer Jones. We take long drives out of the city and into the rural beauty that is Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan....
This doesn't need syrup on top to add to the deliciousness--download a complete transcription of a radio show featuring Hank Williams on Aunt Jemima's Pancake Show, courtesy of The Rockin' Gypsy . Thanks to t. tex for finding it first.
…or geezer grab bag? Peter, Paul & Mary - I Dig Rock And Roll Music The Beatles - Bad Boy Jerry Lee Lewis - Lewis Boogie Hank Williams - Jambalaya The Temptations - The Way You Do The Things You Do The Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) Bob Dylan - Simple Twist Of Fate Rickie Lee Jones - Sunshine Superman The Wailers - Out Of Our Tree The Battering Ram - Broad Black Brimmer...
Before Nashville's Music Row became the center of the country music universe, Hank Williams, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Bull Moose Jackson, the Delmore Brothers, Patti Page and other country greats recorded in downtown Cincinnati.
.... you know?....... until just recently I always imagined that I had a wholesome, drug-free, good ole Southern Biblethumper upbringing......... being born in 1972 near the buckle of the "bible belt", I grew up on left-over Elvis smattered with the...
At left: Mr Cyril is now 7 months old! Like everyone else in the USA, I am presently bustling, rustling, hustling... and trying to dig out from under mounds of email (as well as real-life junk mail), Mr Daisy's comics and kitty detritus, to prepare for the holiday week coming up. How is everything with you? I have decided to run for County Council, as I mentioned here . I figure it can't hurt. I know...
It's a great Hank Williams song. My favorite version is by the Notting Hillbillies, but that's because Mark Knopfler was in the Notting Hillbillies. He plays here with Tom Jones on the vocal, and that pairing works wonderfully, too.
A few days ago, I recived an email from an act called Girl In A Thunderbolt. Intrigued by the name, I went and checked out the myspace and was staggered by what I heard. Imagine if the spirits of both Eartha Kitt and Siouxsie Sioux came to rest in one person’s body, and that that [...]
Truelove’s Gutter is another timeless installment in Richard Hawley’s gorgeous paean to American country and western, strange instruments, and obscure parts of his home city of Sheffield, England. His sixth full-length is rich and lush, teeming with layers of shimmering guitars, offbeat instruments like the crystal baschet and waterphone, and, of course, his velvet croon. It never ceases...
The rather wonderful Doug Sahm died ten years ago today. It's my prejudice that people who talk up the dreary playing on Together Through Life should do themselves the favour of listening to Doug Sahm & Band . It's so beautifully loose and alive, so full and generous spirited and fun. Anyway, here's Doug's entry in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia: Sahm, Doug [1941 - 1999] Douglas Wayne Sahm was born...
This, the second three-disc set in a series, features recordings from the Mother's Best radio programs. In the early 1950s, Hank Williams could be heard performing every weekday morning on radio stations all across the southern United States. These 15-minute "morning shows" were pre-recorded in Nashville, initially broadcast on WSM (also home to the Grand Ole Opry radio programs) and sponsored...
by Martin Longley Since the early 1980s, self-styled Texas Jewboy Kinky Friedman has drawn the most attention as a crime fiction scribe, smearing the division between reality and fantasy, laughs and tension. In the last four years, he's also been...