Ray Davies Goes Country
Yahoo Music’s Rock’s Backpages post “Cry Me A River: The 20 Most Heartbreaking Songs Of All Time!” a while back. Aside from how ridiculous and random a list like this is, I have to agree with their #1 choice, George Jones: “He Stopped Loving Her Today.”* (thanks to my lovely wife, Barbara for this find.)
From Dave Paulson at the The Tennessean: It looks like the brit-pop legend and Kink’s front man Ray Davies is following the lead of his ex-wife, the Pretenders Chrissie Hynde’s, by channeling his inner cowpoke on his next release. Davies’ new album Working Man’s Café was recorded in Hermitage (near Nashville) with producer Ray Kennedy and a top notch teamof Nashville session players over 14 days — in what he calls “classic Nashville style.” Davies says he was taken by the musical culture of Nashville by a visit to the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in 2001.
You know you’ve achieved immortality when you have a knife designed for you. Gerald Myatt, owner of Standing Stone Cutlery in Cookeville, Tennessee, has been commissioned to create a collectable knife for the family of A.P. Carter, the founder of the legendary country music group, the Carter Family.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:22 am
[...] Over the past 28 years, Gerald Myatt has been commissioned to create hundreds of customized, limited-edition knives for different organizations and people, including Roy Acuff — his first for a country music artist — and several for the band Alabama. His latest project is for the Carter Family and he hopes to talk Dolly Parton into commissioning him for his next notable knife. (via Twang Nation) [...]