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
1) Porter looks like he’s gonna kill someone.
2) This reminds me of old trading card sets with the stickers that were outlined ala.
3) Who wants to make a trading card set with me?
Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff, (Pretty Little Miss) Norma Jean, Tex Ritter, Porter Wagoner, Bill Monroe, Speck Rhodes, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb and Porter, Wagonmasters Don Warden, George McCormick, Mack Magaha and Buck Trent.
I
wantneed this.
Hank Williams was buried today on 1/4/53.
His funeral drew more than 20,000 people in Montgomery, Alabama. A country choir led by Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Webb Pierce, Red Foley, Little Jimmy Dickens and Carl Smith performed “I Saw The Light.” as heard in this clip.
Read more about it here.
Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys - Wabash Cannonball
That one guy’s making choo-choo sounds with his mouth! Bonus, eefin’ Jimmie Riddle on doghouse bass.
Roy Acuff - Old Three Room Shack
Starting a new thing here for the next 6 months or so: The Country Side of John Peel. If you don’t know of Mr. Peel, he was a highly influential DJ in the UK for many years until his death in 2004.
The Space is showcasing portions of his vast record collection (26,000 albums, 40,000 singles and countless CDs), which he cataloged meticulously. I’ll be going though the selections and highlighting the C&W portions, which are slim so far, but present nevertheless. Too bad Cabaret Voltaire never made a industrial noise record with some twang. Anyhow, I let it go for a few weeks just to ensure that there’s material and so far it looks like there is.
Peel had a rating system and I’ll try to keep posts to songs he took the time to like. Far as I can tell, a Roy Acuff compilation called Steamboat Whistle Blues was the only country title in the As and this song received 2 stars, which was pretty good by his standards.
Enjoy!
(Source: Spotify)
15 July 1972, Nashville, Tennessee — A wall at the Tootsies Orchid Lounge. — Image by Henry Horenstein
“Acuff-Rose” by Uncle Tupelo from Anodyne (1993).
Name me a song that everybody knows
And I’ll bet you it belongs to Acuff-Rose.
