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The allways sweet and lovely dbt Jenn has informed me (and everyone else on the dbt mailing list) that the Truckers will be playing 2 New Years’ shows, December 30 and 31, at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta GA with the wonderful Centro-Matic, as is DBT tradition.
So listen to dbt Jenn and go get you some tickets!
From the Merlefest press release: Wilkes Community College will present MerleFest 2007, the 20th annual festival in celebration of the music of the late Merle Watson and his father Doc Watson, on its campus in Wilkesboro, NC on April 26 – 29, 2007. Those joining Doc Watson and Merle’s son Richard Watson for MerleFest 2007 will include:
Blue Highway; Sam Bush; Cherryholmes; Elvis Costello; John Cowan Band; Donna The Buffalo; Jerry Douglas; The Duhks; Béla Fleck; Paul Geremia; John Hammond; Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver; Del McCoury Band; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Peter Rowan & Tony Rice Quartet; Darrell Scott; the Legendary Earl Scruggs with Family & Friends; Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives; Pam Tillis; The Waybacks; and many others.
MerleFest 2007 has also confirmed appearances by Susana & Timmy Abell;
RG Absher & Extra Measure; Alberti Flea Circus; The Belleville Outfit
(formerly DesChamps Band); Ira Bernstein; Spencer Bohren; Roy Book Binder;
Laura Boosinger; The Carolina Chocolate Drops; T Michael Coleman; Crooked
Still; Deer Clan Singers; Dixie Dawn; Robert Dotson; Benton Flippen Band;
The Flowers Family; Pat Flynn; Forget-Me-Nots; Ruthie Foster; Gospel Jubilators; Mitch Greenhill; Buddy Greene; Dianne Hackworth; George Hamilton IV; Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz; Orville Hicks; Bob Hill; Willette Hinton & the Hinton Family Band; Clint Howard; The Infamous Stringdusters; The InterACTive Theater of Jef; Reverend Robert Jones; Jim Lauderdale; Jack Lawrence; Mark Lippard; Jeff Little; Brack Llewellyn; The Local Boys; The Lonesome Sisters; The Lovell Sisters; Bill Mathis; Thomas Maupin; Andy May; Curly Miller & Carole Ann Rose; NC Thumb and Finger Style Guitar Players, Inc.; Nashville Bluegrass Band; Dirk Powell Band; Red Stick Ramblers; Roan Mountain Hilltoppers; Robinella; Jim Rooney; Tom Sauber; Shana Banana; Larry Skipper; Joe Smothers; Steep Canyon Rangers; Tut Taylor; Joe Thompson & Bob Carlin; Toubab Krewe; Happy Traum; Uncle Earl; The Waybacks; Charles Welch; Pete & Joan Wernick; Cyndi Wheeler; Wilkes Playmakers; Tony Williamson; and The Worthless Son-In-Laws. All bookings are subject to change without notice due to circumstances beyond the control of the festival.
Tickets go on sale on November 14th!
Neo-traditionalist and purveyor of honky-tonk, western swing, blues, Texas rockabilly and Juke Joint Swing, Wayne “the Train” Hancock is bringing his tour in support of his Bloodshot Records latest “Tulsa
Big Apple. October 26th at the Rodeo Bar.
Sure it’s not as cool as having one of your CDs taken aboard a space shuttle, but it is pretty great!
See ya’ll there!
Muleskinner Jones, from Bath/Wiltshire, United Kingdom is deeply, deeply disturbed.
Mssr. Jones sound lies somwhere between a lonesome AM station tuned in on a long stretch of highway and a drunken hoedown of the damned. Tasty brew!
Check out Muleskinner Jones. IF YOU DARE!
Those rafter-shaking country-rockers, Reckless Kelly, are actually leaving the comforting arms of Mother Texas to travel Westward for a spell.
Go out and check these boys out, ya’hear?
10.24Â Â Â Â Tucson, AZÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Plush
10.25 Â Â Â Scottsdale, AZ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Martini Ranch
10.26 Â Â Â West Hollywood, CAÂ The Viper Room
10.27 Â Â Â Santa Cruz, CA Â Â Â Â Â Â Moe’s Alley
10.31 Â Â Â Eugene, OR Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â John Henry’s
11.1 Â Â Â Portland, OR Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Doug Fir Lounge
11.2 Â Â Â Seattle, WA Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Tractor Tavern
11.3 Â Â Â Garden City, IDÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Shorty’s Saloon
11.4 Â Â Â Hailey, ID Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Mint
11.7 Â Â Â Park City, UT Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Suede
11.8 Â Â Â Fort Collins, COÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Aggie Theatre
11.10 Â Â Â Denver, CO Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Quixote’s True Blue
::Shooter Jennings and the .357s
::Live at Irving Plaza 4.18.06
::Universal South
I was lucky enough to attend this show at Irving plaza in New York City and I’m happy to report that this release includes most of the songs played and captures the beer soaked rowdy recklessness of the night.
What Shooter does here, with his fine band the .357s, is country-rock his way. In the fine tradition of the Allmans and Skynard he mines the sprit of rebellion of both genres instead of the blandness that might occur (Eagles anyone?). The balls-out approach to tales of Texas drug busts (“Busted in Baylor County” with a nice tip-of-the-hat to Black Sabbath “Sweet Leaf,” in the bridge and “Steady at the Wheel” and the smooth and steady “Gone to Carolina” and “Southern Comfort” show the wide palette Shooter uses to paint his own musical landscape.
I don’t know if Shooter will ever rise to the legendary level of his daddy but he’s already on his wayto blazing his own outlaw trail.
Shooter will be returning to the scene of the crime, Irving Plaza N.Y.C., on 11/4 with The Watson Twins (as in “Jenny and…” and Brooklyn neo-folkies Oakley Hall.
EDIT – On mutiple listens my one gripe is that the CD is too brief and should have been 2 CDs. That is all.
I remember as a kid in Texas in the 70’s you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing “Wasted days and wasteed nights” and “Before the Next Teardrop Falls.” Both made it to #1 on both the pop and country charts.
Fender recently won a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album in 2002 for “La Musica de Baldemar Huerta.” He also shared in two
Grammys: with the Texas Tornados, which won in 1990 for best Mexican-American performance for “Soy de San Luis,” and with Los Super Seven in the same category in 1998 for “Los Super Seven.”
He said in a 2004 interview with The Associated Press that one thing would make his musical career complete — induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.
“Hopefully I’ll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven,” he said.
RIP Freddy. I hope you got there. You certainly earned it.