Yahoo! Music has an exclusive in-studio performance of West Texas ex-rodeo cowboy Ryan Bingham performing “Southside of Heaven” and a video interview.(via 9513)
Ryan Bingham - Southside Of Heaven
Something missing in your life, friends? Been itchy, twitchy and filled with impure thoughts over the last two months? Well step eyeing the chickens and get yer keester over to www.section86.com and download Episode #12 of It Burns When I Pee! The Valentines Day Massacre!
This episode features an interview with Bill Anderson of the Meat Purveyors. Anderson talks about his career, the in and outs of The Meat Purveyors, and what he is doing now-a-days. Also check out the premier of their new comedy skit, The Trailer Park Dating Game.
The show as usual is filled with music from the likes of The Von Ehrics, Stacy Dean Campbell, Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre, OldBoy, Hank Williams Sr, and of course some tunes from The Meat Purveyors.
So quit your bitching about Trashville dreck, put some salve on that thing and get over to get your Pee on!
In the South we sometimes forget about our kindred spirits way up North. Alaskans have many of the same qualities as Southerners. A strong sense of independence, a yearning for wide open spaces and a tendency to raise hell when the opportunity arises and a deep appreciation of American Southern musical heritage.
Straight outta Anchorage The Whipsaws sound like they could be from anywhere South of the Mason-Dixon instead of a few thousand miles to the North where for the past five years, they have traveled the vast isolated miles playing smoke-filled saloons and paying their dues on cold winter nights cultivating a uniquely Alaskan brand of country-rock.
Cribbing from the best that Southern rock offers - Neil Young, The Band, The Allman Brothers and Uncle Tupelo, singer/songwriter/guitarist Evan Phillips, bassist Ivan Molesky, guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Aaron Benolkin and drummer James Dommek, Jr. blend melodies, harmonies and sonic blasts in measures that make each song inspired with passion and not merely the aping of past glory.
The Whipsaws first full-length since their 2006 debut,Ten Day Bender, which reached #133 on the AMA chart, #28 on the Roots Music Report for Roots Rock, and debuting at #12 on the Euro Americana chart., 60 Watt Avenue carries the saound forward and has all their wares on display in fine form. The title track busts out big and then settles into a smooth vibe with crying bottle-neck guitar and Dommek’s clockwork drum work. As the song concludes Phillips screams out “I believe in rock and roll!” the band has left you no doubt that the sentiment is true.
Jesse Jane is a rollicking shuffle about wayward, boozy love that may or may not be about the porn star. The lonesome steel and fiddle laced Coming Home hearkens back to Uncle Tupelo’s Anodyne and Stick Around a love song with an askew melody that sound like it was written with a bottle a bottle of whiskey and a piano with the excellent “There are mysteries that surround you, that I don’t want to solve.” chorus of surrendering to ambiguity.
High Tide brings us to Allman Brothers wide-open road song terrain with a story of small-town woes featuring some great harmonica work. Lonesome Joe is a banjo and steel driven narrative of sage advice and life lessons from a Harley riding vet that is forged with beauty and sorrow. And The War continues the Allman-tinged aesthetic protest song that carries on the fine folk/country tradition of telling small stories to make a big point about humanity. Sinferno and Bar Scar blistering barroom brawlers right out of the hard-rock boogie Lynyrd Skynyrd playbook.
The band addresses one of their influences directly by covering Buffalo Springfield’s Mr. Soul – which was originally a great reworking of “(Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” the cover proves to be a worthy addition scorching wah-pedal leads sure to make Neil Young smile. Ode To Shakey is a moody analogue textured piece with a sloppy-jammed up lead that could have been lifted from a Mr. Young sound check. Seven Long Years is a dobro and harmonica blended gospel tune about temperance and redemption which features New West’s Tom Easton.
The Whipsaws can comfortably take their rightful place among current Southern Rock standard bearers like The Drive By Truckers and Alabama’s Caddle as they blaze a trail into the sunset.
Austin’s Yard Dog Gallery will host a showing by El Paso resident and renowned singer/songwriter and painter, Tom Russell.
The majority of the paintings in the show pay tribute to a group of jazz musicians from Juarez, Mexico. They were premier musicians who played in the top night spots of Juarez in its heyday, even backed Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, but lost their lives when their bus went off a cliff in 1953.
Opening reception is Friday February 15th 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Tom will play a few songs at the opening. Afterward, he will be playing at the Cactus Café.
Yard Dog
1510 S Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78704
512.912.1613
The 15th annual Johnstown Folkfest, August 29-31 in Johnstown, PA, has released their featured line-up.
Del Castillo, Tom Russell, Webb Wilder & The Beatnecks, Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers, Shannon Whitworth (former of the Biscuit Burners), Big Sam’s Funky Nation (formerly trombonist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band), Deke Dickerson & The Ecco-Fonics, Barrence Whitfield, Stacie Collins, Amy LaVere, Dallas Wayne, and Farmer Jason (Ringenberg, in his children’s musician mode).
Speaking of Jason Ringenberg, this years Folkfest will feature the first performance by Jason & The Scorchers outside of Nashville in five years.
After their latest album, Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, debuted last week at #37 on the Billboard Top-200 album chart the mighty dbts seem to have caught the attention of the recording establishment’s powers that be. In this article on Billboard.com Patterson Hood discusses the new release, his family life with the new baby and his less then attentive work ethic.
From the article - “I used to write real prolifically, and just being so busy on the road, and being at home with the kid running around, I [wasn't as prolific],” said Hood, the band’s gregarious co-founder. “I definitely still write in bursts, but the bursts were shorter and further apart.”
But something clicked over the break. Hood shotgunned out around 50 songs over six months, and Cooley produced nine of his own (”an ungodly number for him,” Hood laughs). Better yet, the burst came at a fortunate time: the band got “really, really attached to working with Spooner Oldham” on the LaVette record. “We said, ‘We gotta get him to do (ours),’” Hood said.
Sure most genres deal with topic of love but few can work all the angles like country and roots music. Courting, marriage, cheating, fighting, break-ups, shooting, disposing of bodies… it’s all there in all its heart-wrenching glory.
Some old, some new, all guaranteed to get you some when mixed with tequila. I’m sure I let some beauties sip so feel free to add your own.
1. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
2. I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
3. Angel Flying Too Close the Ground - Willie Nelson
4. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Willie Nelson
5. Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson
6. Valentine’s Day - Steve Earle
7. Still I Long For Kiss - Lucinda Williams
8. Marry Me - Drive By Truckers
9. Arlington - Ridley Bent
10. Dale Watson - Every Song I Write For You
11. Before The Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
12. Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich
13. Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams
14. Carrying Your Love With Me - George Strait
15. Cowboy Take Me Away - Dixie Chicks
16. Crazy - Patsy Cline
17. Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell
18. Lovin You Against My Will - Gary Allan
19. Golden Ring - George Jones and Tammy Wynette
20. He’ll Have To Go - Jim Reeves
21. Hello Darlin - Conway Twitty
22. Melissa - Allman Brothers Band
23. Hello Walls - Faron Young
24. Help Me Make It Through the Night - Sammi Smith
25. I Cross My Heart - George Strait
26. Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’ - Charley Pride
27. It Only Hurts When I Cry - Dwight Yoakam
28. Please Break My Heart - Thad Cockrell and Caitlin Cary
29. Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
30. I’m So Lonesome, I Could Cry - Hank Williams
From CMT.com - Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, the Statler Brothers and country-bluegrass music pioneer Ernest “Pop” Stoneman are the newest inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The inductions were announced Tuesday (Feb. 12) at a press conference held at the Ford Theater in Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Except for Stoneman, who died in 1968, all the new members were on hand to comment on the honor. With the addition of these four figures, the Hall of Fame will have 105 members.
Although membership in the Hall of Fame is conferred by the Country Music Association, this is the first year the inductions will be entirely separate from the CMA Awards Show, where they used to be formally recognized. This year, the official induction will take place at the annual medallion ceremony tentatively set for April 27.
Okay, so the Grammys didn’t completely blow, just about 97% did. There were some greats - Aretha, Tina, John Fogerty, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, some damn good - Foo Fighters, The Time, some suprises (Amy Winehouse was good and seemed SOBER!) And then there was the crap, well that would make my hand cramp to write it. Some stand outs for me:
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade [New West Records]
Best Traditional Folk Album: Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer [Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records]
Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Ricky Skaggs & The Whites - Salt Of The Earth [Skaggs Family Records]
Best Bluegrass Album: Jim Lauderdale - The Bluegrass Diaries [Yep Roc Records]
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Brad Paisley - Throttleneck from: 5th Gear [Arista Nashville]
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: Willie Nelson & Ray Price - Lost Highway from: Last Of The Breed [Lost Highway Records]
Best Country Album (and best on camera slam of Kanye West!): Vince Gill - These Days [MCA Nashville]
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) [Rounder Records]
Best Historical Album: Woody Guthrie - The Live Wire [Woody Guthrie Publications]
And Uncle Tony, you were robbed! Next year, man….
