March 2010
I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday)
Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver - I’m Just An Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Someday)
I don’t own the song Satan is Real by the Louvin Brothers? Unpossible. Someone want to post it to their profile and shoot me the link?
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Both Kinds of Music (aka countryandwestern) for your recommended tumblr. of the week.
The Great Atomic Power
The Louvin Bros
The Louvin Brothers - Great Atomic Power
Sirens went off outside my house at an odd hour this morning and I was still sleeping. Having grown up at the ass end of the cold war, nuclear attacks were still the rhetoric of the day. Since I didn’t know they were actually for tornado preparedness, I reverted to my childlike ways and girded myself for global thermonuclear war (hey, I had bad dreams last night, a little sympathy over here). Then I turned on the radio to classical music (no “if this were an actual emergency…”), didn’t see anything on the NYT website and twitter soon soothed my nerves.
In celebration of my irrational thinking, I present the Louvin Brothers singing about what you would think is nuclear destruction, but in truth, like all their songs, is about being ready to meet your Maker (you heathens).
Dashboard, you so crazy
Our friend Peg posts an article on the resurgence of alt.country (don’t call it a comeback) and right below it I nearly lose my lunch with a post from Mixtape Madness, which the creator calls Country’s Finest, but I call Country, My Ass. This aggression will not stand. Taking submissions for your favorite alt.country songs to compile a retort.
Another Country: Why everything you thought you knew about cowboy music is wrong →
independent.co.uk
vela:
Caitlin’s mention in UK article by the Independent:
“But the line between alt.country and the mainstream is blurring by the day. The most exciting act in Nashville right now is a 21-year-old singer-songwriter called Caitlin Rose. A sort of Loretta/Dolly/Patsy for the Lily Allen generation, Rose is at the forefront of a vibrant country scene driven by young people with open ears and a musical knowledge that stretches from the Carter Family to Kurt Cobain.
Crucially, Rose’s songs about white-trash romance (“Shotgun Wedding”, “Docket”) or noticing that packets of cigarettes can last longer than relationships (“Shanghai Cigarettes”) are as likely to make you titter in your bitter as they are to put tears in your beers. Asked to name her own favourite new country acts, Rose reels off a list that includes Justin (son of Steve) Earle, Deer Tick, Phosphorescent, Glossary and Dawes. All, like Rose, make music that nods to the old ways while taking the genre in entirely new directions.”
What Would Willie Do
Bruce Robison
Bruce Robison - What Would Willie Do?
I Love
The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers, “I Love” (Tom T. Hall cover)
“I love winners when they cry,
Losers when they try,
Music when it’s good
and LIFE.And I Love You Too.”
