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Always chuckle at the rhyme "let Saigons be bygones"
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R.I.P. to the "singing Texan Jew" Kinky Friedman. (1 Nov 1944 - 27 June 2024). Writer of the sh*t-stirring classics: "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore", and the song that earned him the Male Chauvinist Pig of The Year Award in 1973, "Get Your Biscuits In The Oven and Your Buns In The Bed".
He also wrote some sensitive ballads - of particular greatness are: "Ride 'Em Jewboy" - an allegorical c&w tribute to the victims of the holocaust and "Sold American", title song of his 1973 debut album for Vanguard Records.
Found this curious rendition of the latter song performed with Bob Dylan playing some less is more style accompanying guitar on a live TV recording for a Jewish Telethon.
Thank you. Yes, for all her undoubted talents, forged from her childhood, and her commercial success, I was compelled by their more authentic music, to offer more selections than I did for her from the likes of Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons, John Prine, Gordon Lightfoot’s, Guy Clark and, of course, Fred Eaglesmith. relatively less commercially sucI'm pretty much right with you regarding Ms. Mandrell, Prof - much respect for her musical talent, but no real affection.
Another excellent portrait.
Thanks again, and enjoy your time in the tropics.
Not sure how many country songs Johnny Winter did,but this one I love.
Not sure how many country songs Johnny Winter did,but this one I love.
I’m Sri Lankan. My folks are in their 60’s and they used to listen to a ton of Don Williams. He seems quite popular over there too. Funny cause she heard Waylons version of Amanda for the first time only a few years back. i sorta get the gist that Don Williams might have actually been bigger than Waylon over there at that time. Another on of mums faves is Jim Reeves and it’s not a name I hear or see unless mum mentions it.That’s exactly the type of gigs I love - intimate barroom or honky tonk venues, and very rarely mainstream.
Meanwhile, I’ve somehow found myself in Samoa over the last few days. My first hour and a bit here was bizarre, as my driver taking me to the opposite side of the island where I was required, aged 25 (but already married with kids in typical island style), actually loved old school country music and his favourite, which he played for an hour on the drive, was, of all the old time artists, the now relatively obscure Don Williams (posts 757-759)! He was singing along word for word to his songs and seemed totally unsurprised that I also knew the singer and his songs. It seems everyone here likes songs to sing along to, so a lot of classic old school country appeals to them - but I was still staggered about a bloke in his 20’s knowing the music of Don Williams (dec).
Anyway, I’ll be back to wintry Melbourne in a couple of days, in town just long enough for another history instalment, from circa 1980.
I have to admit that I am something of a musical heretic - but I guess we all are to varying degrees.
George Jones made this song famous, but Van Morrison took it to another level.
Absolutely with you on Van Morrison. He’s made the very most - and beyond - of a very fortunate musical education. His electrician father was an avid record collector, especially blues and jazz and also worked in the U.S. for a couple of years, from which he brought back a big collection of records otherwise unavailable and hence unknown in the UK. So Van Morrison got to listen to the greats of blues, country, R&B, gospel and then soul - Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Leadbelly, Ray Charles and the like, absorbing all these greats pretty much uniquely as a child in the UK.… Van Morrison stands front and centre on the top shelf of writers, singers and song interpreters.
The Man can sing any style, any genre - and I am a huge fan.
Pigpen from the Dead had a similarly upbringing with his dad being the first white DJ on a black Bay Area station.Absolutely with you on Van Morrison. He’s made the very most - and beyond - of a very fortunate musical education. His electrician father was an avid record collector, especially blues and jazz and also worked in the U.S. for a couple of years, from which he brought back a big collection of records otherwise unavailable and hence unknown in the UK. So Van Morrison got to listen to the greats of blues, country, R&B, gospel and then soul - Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Leadbelly, Ray Charles and the like, absorbing all these greats pretty much uniquely as a child in the UK.
Yes - a lot of Jim Reeves hits (posts # 383-386) were released posthumously after his fatal plane crash in 1964, but he was already very popular in the UK and Ireland where he had toured. He was known for his rich, pitch-perfect baritone vocal and his never-satisfied perfectionism. A long serving sound technician, who considers Reeves to be the best “pure” country vocalist at the Nashville RCA studios played a tape of him singing his biggest hit ‘He’ll Have To Go’ in the famed Studio B where he recorded it - listening to his voice in those perfect acoustic setting was something else. A couple of biographies which detailed his womanising - including a taste for under-age teens - have damaged his legacy in the last 20 years or so, perhaps explaining why we no longer hear about about him anymore.I’m Sri Lankan. My folks are in their 60’s and they used to listen to a ton of Don Williams. He seems quite popular over there too. Funny cause she heard Waylons version of Amanda for the first time only a few years back. i sorta get the gist that Don Williams might have actually been bigger than Waylon over there at that time. Another on of mums faves is Jim Reeves and it’s not a name I hear or see unless mum mentions it.