September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953
Tag Archives: Country Music
“It Burns When I Pee” – Episode #0006 – Get Your Hank On!
“It Burns When I Pee” displays their fine upbringing by dedicating their episode #0006 to an 84th year birthday tribute to the legend Hiram “Hank” King Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953).
The episode features such great interview with Beth Birtley from the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. IBWIP also plays some of Hank’s song preformed by the likes of Joey Allcorn, Hank III, Andy Norman, Hank Cash, and Jake
Penrod and by Hank the the man himself. They also feature Jared Morningstar on the show and he will be reading an essay he wrote about the late great Hank Williams.
Head over to the Section 86 store for all your “It Burns When I Pee” merch.
Hank Williams Sr.- Honky Tonk Blues
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af9bbRTFPUY[/youtube]
Big State Festival – October 13 & 14 – Bryan-College Station, Texas
The good folks at the country music blog 9513.com are giving away tickets to the Big State Festival. Now I lived in Texas most of my life and never heard of the Big State Festival. Well turns out this is the first year it’s being put on.
The Festival is held on October 13 & 14 at the Texas World Speedway; Bryan-College Station, Texas (Gig ’em!) and will have more than 50 country music stars on 5 stages over 2 days as well as stock car racing as (this is my favorite part) a Barbecue Showdown. The performers will include Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and his Large Band, Drive-By Truckers, Leon Russell, Billy Joe Shaver, Charlie Louvin , Gary Allan, Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Bruce and Charlie Robison, Luke Bryan, Kelly Willis, Sunny Sweeney and more. Head over to the official Big State Festival website to see a full lineup.
The festival will benefit the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation.
New York Concert Calender
Some upcoming New York shows foe all you city Hillbillys and Betties.
Bowery Ballroom
Fri 09/14/07 Pieta Brown
Fri 09/14/07 Teddy Thompson
Sat 09/29/07 Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
Sat 09/29/07 The Alternate Routes
Wed 10/10/07 Jason Isbell
Wed 10/10/07 The Whigs
Tue 10/23/07 Shooter Jennings
Fri 10/26/07 Drive-By Truckers
Fri 10/26/07 Ryan Bingham
The Mercury Lounge
Sat 11/10/07 David Kilgour
Sat 11/10/07 Euros Childs
Sat 11/10/07 Laura Cantrell
Town Hall
Wed 09/26/07 Allison Moorer
Wed 09/26/07 Steve Earle
Tue 10/02/07 Fionn Regan
Tue 10/02/07 Lucinda Williams
Wed 10/03/07 Fionn Regan
Wed 10/03/07 Lucinda Williams
Thu 10/04/07 Fionn Regan
Thu 10/04/07 Lucinda Williams
Sat 10/27/07 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Sat 10/27/07 Jack Cooke
Sat 10/27/07 Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Hank III Interview at KNAC.COM
Hank Williams III took time from the road to talk to KNAC.COM about his new CD, “Damn Right and Rebel Proud” (Curb – early 2008 release) his early inspirations, his country royalty legacyand the sorry state of Nashville.
KNAC.COM: Don’t you think there are still plenty of people out there who don’t have the two-story house and the car payment and botoxed wife? I mean, there are still people who live on the edge, don’t you think? Day to day with a lot of obstacles who just do what they do to get by?
HANK III: Yep. Right. The lawyers outsmarted all the musicians in Nashville, and that’s when it totally changed. We just do what we do. I’m going through the same fuckin’ bullshit on the new record that I just turned in. “There’s no country song for radio on here.†Well, it’s not my fuckin’ fault that I’m too country for radio or that my topics aren’t pristine or picture perfect. I just stick to my guns. “This is my record. These are my songs. If it’s not good enough for radio, that’s your problem—not mine. Our fans will still be here and we’ll still be doin’ what we’re doin’ with or without you, man.
KNAC.COM: This will be your fourth record though. At this point why would they expect that you had changed at all? I mean, you aren’t Rascal Flatts.
HANK III: I guess it’s just like the same reason Creative Artist Agency let me go eight months ago. They were like, “Are you gonna take the next step and go to the next level?†I’m like, “I’m gonna keep playing the bars—they’ve been supporting me since day one. If you have a couple of big shows, I’ll open for a band if the situation is right, but I’m not gonna say “Fuck y’all, see ya later!†to the bars that have kept us alive.†They fired me. I guess it’s the same mentality at the record label that I have to deal with now. Maybe they figure, “Hank’s getting older now—maybe he’s got this rebellious bullshit out of his system and do it our way.†Thank God that I’ve got a good manager and a good lawyer who believes in what I do.
Hank Williams III – Dick In Dixie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC-ZFUC9R-U[/youtube]
Dale Watson – “Hollywood Hillbilly”
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_iGPHjmpE[/youtube]
Test Your Country Music Knowledge with Chet Flippo
Which alt.country legend worked in the mailroom at Rolling Stone magazine in New York? Who’s father and stepfather are both in the Country Music Hall of Fame? If you know the answers to these questions and want to tackle more like them the always entertaining Chet Flippo has a challenging country music quiz over at CMT.com.
I got about 70% right. Not surprisingly I got all Garth related questions wrong.
Rosie Flores in the Austin Chronicle
The Austin Chronicle has a nice write up on
Rosie talks about her childhood in
Rosie Flores-You Tear me Up
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpMgGZTq5hw[/youtube]
CMT on Gruene Hall
In its continuing quest not to completely suck CMT has a nice write up on Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas. Gruene Hall, Texas’ oldest dance hall, was opened by Pat Molak in1974 and then featured a young unknown named George Strait and his Ace in the Hole band who played one or two shows a month there starting in 1975.
“I have many great memories of playing at Gruene Hall,” Strait says. “It was definitely one of the highlights of my early career. Pat Molak, who owns it and I still consider a friend, let us play there one Sunday afternoon for, I think, 50 cents at the door. He had never heard us and wanted to check us out before he let us do a weekend night. This led to many great nights at one of Texas’ greatest dancehalls.”
Lone Star 92.5
Has Clear Channel lost it’s little rigid, corporate mind?
The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram’s Cary Darling (great name!) has an interesting article on a local radio station with went from the old tried-and-true classic radio format to an alt-country mix, an example playlist contains the Drive-By Truckers, Johnny Cash and Robert Earl Keen, coupled with a low-key PBS style of corporate sponsorship instead of the hyper-audio-effects whiplash-inducing commercials that make most terrestrial radio hard to take seriously. Even thier web-site shows images of Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Tom Petty. Nice!
XM and Sirius satellite radio and it’s more niche formatting (think radio in the 70s) has displayed enough relative success at pealing off listeners that Clear Channel is throwing the dice and taking some calculated chances. D.js. are seen as more than playlist parrots and more like the musical authorities with their own crates of vinyl they schlep to the station and with tales about the music and the artists.
I still think Clear Channel is an example of everything wrong with a corporate media giant, but I will take my hat off to them for treating listeners and the music with respect and not simply a spreadsheet list of product and consumer.
Lone Star 92.5’s Commercial Featuring Wille Nelson