You know, Country & Western!
This ain't your Dad's country music. It's your Granddad's! None of that new Nashville bullshit either. This is where you'll find what I consider the best in Country (Classic and Alt), Folk, and Americana.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Go Cat Go - Please Mama Please
Hope you called whoever you call mama. Here’s another Mom song, which happens to be one of the finest contemporary* rockabilly tracks you’ll ever hear. Read the story of Go Cat Go here.
*It’s already “vintage” since it was recorded in ‘92.
Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout
I’ll tell you what it is…it’s that kind of a morning, that’s what it is.
If you find yourself in Milwaukee (for some reason), you can see this Johnny Cash musical, Ring of Fire. Stars Eddie Clendening who played Elvis forever and a day in Million Dollar Quartet.
Ring of Fire brings Cash and his music back to life
…This play was originally conceived in 2005 with a large cast of actors and musicians. The idea seemed great, but the show died after one horrible month on Broadway.
Richard Maltby, who co-created that version, obviously believed that somewhere in the Johnny Cash story was a play worth doing right. Maltby is a Tony Award-winning musical director/lyricist/writer and he obviously decided that just as the life of Johnny Cash had a beautiful simplicity to it, so, too, must a show about him.
He has taken the ” Wreck of the Hesperus” and turned it into “America the Beautiful,” and he directed what took place at the Stackner Sunday night…
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Marti Brom - Now Stop
Cut it out!
The Dave & Deke Combo - Right Behind Me
Smokin’ guitar work from Deke.
Elvis Presley - Good Rockin’ Tonight
Janis Martin - My Boy Elvis
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Eugene Chadbourne & Evan Johns - Sail My Ship Alone
Happy Birthday to Eugene Chadbourne - 1/4/54
If you like difficult/experimental music, he’s you’re guy. Still, he’s done some cool stuff by messing around with the conventions of the genres. Check out Shockabilly, which he did with Kramer in the 80s. It’s proto-idon’tknowwhat.
Most of the recordings of Charlie Feathers I’ve heard are slow hillbilly ballads. If every record was as wild as this one…
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the legendary Deke Dickerson is on Tumblr.
Musician, producer, collector, host of his annual Guitar Geek Festival, keeper of knowledge and a huge influence on me from all those shows I’ve seen him play over the years at Lee’s Liquor Lounge before I bailed out of MN.
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Saddened to hear of the passing of Nick Curran. I saw Nick play with Ronnie Dawson and Kim Lenz when he was a young musician. Since then he’d become an extremely talented guitarist of his own right - taking on roles in The Fabulous Thunderbirds and his own band, The Nightlifes/Lowlifes.
He took on oral cancer and beat it once, but it came back before he was resilient enough to fight it again. Nick was a great friend to many in the rockabilly community and will be sorely missed.
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Wayne Walker - Bo Bo Ska Diddle Daddle
Hey Brooklyn! Tonight: Dances of Vice Rockabilly Night Market
With Eddie Clendening aka Elvis from Million Dollar Quartet.
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The Head Cat - Reelin’ & Rockin’
Lemmy and partners on a Chuck Berry number.
