C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Hank Williams, Sr.
By MaxMarginal Thursday Jul 09, 2009 7:00pmCountry music sometimes gets a bad rap around these parts, but I have a soft spot for it -- even some of the watered down hyper-produced stuff that dominates country radio rises to the guilty pleasure level from time to time. There's no reason to feel guilty about liking Hank #1 though.
What's your favorite country tune?
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But Hank williams III is his grandaddys double . I love his renditions of his grandfathers songs . I'm not much into his punk scene but his country is great. If there is a video out there maybe you could feature him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYC6aF2JaU
but it's still fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ojXKbYFnus
has some great stuff that hank iii recorded with glenn danzig. there are some youtubes but they're not that great.
I want some of that!
FINALLY somethin I can get down with...
I love Hank Sr. and I've seen Hank III twice, and actually got to talk to him after a show once, he's really just a cool SOB, that happens to have famous relatives, and his punk shows are fuckin awesome!
And he IS the spittin image of his grandpappy!
There's no such person as Hank Williams, "Sr." There's Hank Williams, Hank Williams, Jr. and Hank Williams III. Nobody is born with "Sr." on their birth certificate because of course that would mean that it was forseen that the baby would grow up and have a "Jr.," thereby necessitating the "Sr." designation at birth. Plus, in my mind it diminishes Hank Williams that his name has to be amended because of the guy who sings the Monday Night Football theme song. I know that's petty, Hank Williams, Jr. is more than that, but you get the point.
Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache)
:<)
Guitars, Cadillacs
is another musical treasure.
I've got a videotape of Yoakam and kd lang singing together many years ago on The Tommy Hunter Show. I must try to find it ... it is awesome.
Thanks for the memories, Andy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wAPMOJjP3Q
So does Saskatchewan and Tommy Douglas, the father of universal health care in Canada.
Thanks, jhunter!
Yoakum is great. I loved the duet he did with Heather Myles a few years ago called Little Chapel. If it had been on his CD instead of hers it would've probably been a huge hit.
Buck Owens was awesome. I spent most of my youth despising him because of Hee Haw but then I actually listened to some of his old stuff on the Sundazed reissues and I was totally hooked. One of the greatest of all time.
Patsy Cline - "Crazy"
got every song she recorded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkkM7K6smQA
Patsy Cline was in a league of her own. I love her music.
when I was an agent for a rockabilly band in NC, there was this woman that was always at the shows who would sing on stage once in awhile, and she sounded JUST like Patsy Cline...I miss them days...
I'm betting it was Marti Brom. She has some stuff on YouTube, but the sound quality is not good (live performances).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIlaRUbJ0Ek&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seQ2DoWFAgM
not a pro singer.
But Marti Brom is way impressive for sure.
no way =)
Charlie Parker used to take guff from his jazz buddies because he'd play country tunes on the cafe juke boxes after they got off work. "Listen to the stories", he'd tell them.
And of course, there was Bob Wills' blend of country and jazz, Western Swing. Dance music with jazz solos and a southern accent.
Hank Garland, a Nashville session player with a stack of country hits he'd played on, including Patsy Cline and Elvis Presley tunes, released an album of straight ahead in the early 60s called "Jazz Winds From A New Direction", featuring Gary Burton, and Joe Morello. It sounds as good today as it did then.
My favorite picker at the moment is Buster B Jones, who passed away a few months ago. He took the Jerry Reed guitar style and put into overdrive. In France they call him "le Machine Gun", and Chet Atkins once said of him, "The boy plays like he's double parked. Check out his duet album with Thom Bresh (son of Merle Travis), "Guts and Steel". If that doesn't make you smile, you've got major problmes.
Bob Wills is carried on by Asleep At The Wheel very aptly. Will see what I can find featuring Buster B Jones
For pure country, I can't get enough of Merle Haggard.
You betcha! I grew up in and around Bakersfield, CA and got to see some of the big names before they got so big and quite a few who never got that big but were damned good all the same.
Roy Nichols, Haggard's long time lead guitarist started on a local TV shaow called Cousin Herb's Tradin' Post, hosted by Herb Henson who also started KUZZ Radio and did a lot to promote what became known as the Bakersfield Sound. Others who were part of that scene were Buck and Bonnie Owens, Louis Talley, Jelly Sanders... Well a ton of them. I'm starting to ramble here.
but I liked the Bakersfield sound and Dwight Yoakum is still one of my favorites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHxSh-SvFVA
I loved to get high listening to Okie from Muskokee in the late 60's
I'll never Smoke Weed With Willie Again
Ever since Keith called Kris Kristofferson unpatriotic he sucks. Kris served his country in Vietnam what did Toby do for his country except wave the flag while others his age served and fought. He was more than willing to fight for America to the last drop of someone elses blood . toby Keith sucks as a patriot ..kinda like Cheney and Bush LOL
in Rolling Stone about Kristofferson?
That was great. That story was in the beginning (though Ethan Hawke left the name out). Fantastic.
And he totally showed his ass on the Colbert Report a couple of times, he's totally bought into the right wing BS lies.
But dig THIS!
Chugalug! Roger Miller!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsNWlM3fWmI&fe...
Haggard had a great voice.
Too many to pick from.
Marty Robbins.
Oh, and every single song Patsy Cline ever made, particularly I Fall to Pieces.
:<)
Grew up on Marty Robbins. He is the one and only country musician in my music collection.
L.A. County
LA Freeway and anything else by Guy Clark. And George Jones.
pay attention to your constituency... we are a diverse crowd that can't be compartmentalized , true Country music is Liberating ( with emphasis on Liberal) and not a conservative monopoly. Course the right wingers are more than welcome to Toby Keith and Nashville Pop I will take Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard anytime
I make the occasional LNMC post, and I've featured country before. In fact, I have one on Jimmie Rodgers that was supposed to go up when Max was on vacation, but a few deaths pushed it back to who knows when.
Eek, I didn't mean to steal ye thunder!
Even gays like (some) country. When we all went for our lesbian-baseball-tournament-camping weekend, we had Patsy Cline playing every day.
Funfact: Toby Keith claims to be a lifelong democrat. But something about the article I read about it made it seem like he was saying "Hey, I'm a democrat and even I think this McCain guy is great! So should you!"
is he's a Dixiecrat .. after all .. Strom Thurmond was once a Democrat too(and Richard Shelby for that matter)
and I heard my share of C&W. I remember this song and another from 57, 58, when I'dve been 3 or 4
Tex Williams - Smoke Smoke That Cigarette
and as a reformed smoker, there's nothing I'd like to do more sometimes...
Tex Ritter Hillbilly Heaven
Not a favourite, it's just burned in there.
that he'll just have to wait , till I smoke that cigarette.
Tennessee Ernie Ford also recorded that song
Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings 16 Tons
my friends dad had it on an antique Wurlitzer jukebox....
that..and Conway Twitty's "Tight Fittin Jeans"...oh yes...Conway Twitty.
Well...it ain't Tight Fittin Jeans..
But look at his hair!
WOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67GSo3MxGi0
stuff that's based in the blues and tell real stories.
not the crap you year today from dicks like toby keith or whomever.
that's just pop music with a twangy telecaster. garbage.
or suburban Country. True Country is like the blues you have to have lived it to sing it. Actually it is the blues with a little Martha White thrown in. I'll let you younger folks figure that out for yourselves.
Think The Eagles (just not the Joe Walsh era stuff as much), America, a little Seals & Croft....
BTW, sorry for the Toby Keith up-thread, but I do love that song!
My friend :<)
was one of my favorites in those years. Proggressive Country
Poco
I went to Nashville last year, and never heard a lick of that kind of thing in the bars. Which was nice.
So thankfully there are still people in Nashville making some great music..
Emmylou Harris "Queen of the Silver Dollar"
I have been in love with that woman since the early 70's , she is sexy as hell and a great musician and singer
That's modern compared to the other stuff I posted.
You are right and I am wrong. Her Sandman album was one of my favorites
Yeah, she's hot. I want to look like her when I grow up.
Emmy Lou Harris is another favorite of mine."Silver Threads and Golden Needles" too.
blood on the saddle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKI21fdR7jg
greatest country song ever written
Delta Dawn
A little gospel influence.
grew up in the same town I grew up in. My older brother played football with him in High School
I’m partial towards a lot of twang in my country favorites such as this classic from Buck Owens “Together Again” with the great Jay Dee Maness on pedal steel guitar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygHfe4o2qSc
And it doesn’t get any better than Emmylou Harris and the Hot band featuring Hank Devito on pedal steel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG1qTFZSiAM
In these times of struggling through the Bush Depression many folks are relating to Merle Haggard’s “If We Make it Through December”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbaxCG6mjMc
Robert Randolph play steel
He's brought our beloved instrument to a wider and younger audience.
He comes from the "Sacred Steel"
tradition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Steel_(musical_tradition)
Our Sacred Steel brethren rock!
Roy Orbison - Crying
Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders In The Sky
Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat
This has got to be one of the best covers of all time.
Simply gorgeous!
Thank you, MM!
He Stopped Loving Her Today...the Ultimate!
without tearing up.
George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
I think I like you and thank you
Lee Dorsey - Working in the Coal Mine
was theme song for Joe and The Volcano...tom Hanks
Johnny Cash: Rusty Cage
and declared it the best cover ever...
:D
on Sun Records
:D
Lonely Hearts And Teardrops
Rem Wall had a radio program in Indiana before moving to Kalamazoo, MI, where he got a show- The Green Valley Jamboree- on WKZO AM in the late 40's. In the '50's, Fetzer broadcasting gave Rem a show on WKZO TV, the CBS affiliate for K-Zoo, Grand Rapids, Muskegon- what we call West and Southwest Michigan- that ran until the late '70's or early '80's.
I wish I would have had more of a taste for country as a ten year old in '75. But Rem's show ran on Saturday afternoons opposite reruns of Daniel Boone.
I love Loretta Lynn's "Don't Come Home A Drinkin (With Lovin on Your Mind)."
I've always told people that I like country but generally country up until the 80s with a few acts that I liked during the 90s. There is no shame in liking country music if you stick with the good stuff.
I really don't think there is such a thing as country music today. It's all pop with the addition of a pedal steel guitar or a fiddle thrown in. When I think of country music, I just don't think Dierks Bentley or Carrie Underwood, ya know?
and never heard the second...
Both are modern pop country music acts. One, Carrie Underwood, was a winner I think from American Idol and the other I have no clue how they came to be. But, both are supposedly crazy popular in country music right now. The only reason I know is because one of my friends would always sing both of these acts songs for karaoke, and people would go crazy for the songs. You aren't missing much. It's not like these acts are the new George Jones or Patsy Cline.
with a little Chet Atkins and Doc Watson thrown in
Lol, have you heard Darius "Hootie" Rucker's supposed country music? It's Hootie music with a fiddle.
I have to go with The Gourds' cover of Snoop Dogg's, Gin and Juice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHKTbSuuOGM&fe...
This is the best live version I've ever seen. The studio version rocks.
I also have a funny story about this song. I was in a band in Yokosuka, Japan with 2 other Sailors. Whenever we played in town, almost their entire office would show up. We did mostly traditional Irish music and 60's folk so we were always heckled (jokingly) by one of the guys from their shop for not playing any hip hop.
When this song came out, we learned it and added it to the set. When the guy heckled us, we broke into Gin and Juice and freaked a lot of people out. It was awesome.
I accidentally stumbled across it a few years ago and was glad that I found it. It's easily one of my favorite covers of a rap song.
Yeah, that is a great song!
I don't know if I have a favorite country song but I really like the stuff The Mavericks do.
I also like Dwight Yoakam. He does a great cover of "Things We Said Today".
.
Hank Snow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF9EpECO2fk
The king of country- Merle Travis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ujUhDGAeM
Here Comes The Rain, by The Mavericks. Raul Malo is one of the best and probably one of the most underappreciated country singers in the past 20-plus years.
Just thought of this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3DXyfL3HX0
Always On My Mind, performed by Willie Nelson
I love the Mavericks...Dancing the night away with Senoritas who can sway.
I usually have a clever topic to my postings.... It was nothing about the brillant song itself.
Saw them in concert nearly 10 years ago.
but a compliment to The Mavericks. I also was complimenting you on your good taste.
"Drop Kick Me Jesus"
My dad would always sing it, in a very ironic way, when things were heading south. I always thought he was making up the song (he convinced my older sister that he wrote "Grandma's Featherbed"), but he wasn't. This song just makes me laugh really hard for some odd reason. It's not good by any means, but it is pretty funny if you listen to the lyrics.
you are mostly west coast folks its after midnight here and I don't want to stop, but I got to .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXJPVRw3hmk
Memphis boys I been a fan since the 70's . Only song made the charts was Third Rate Romance my least favorite of their songs ...enjoy..Good Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS0_h_bYe8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpVcOodfGKE
Gothic Bluegrass (bluegrass is the root of country music)
It's a different sound and you may not think the two genres would mix very well. It stunned me.
I noticed no Tammy Wynette and one of my favorite of hers is "Apartment # 9".
I also like some classic Dolly Parton as well, and "Coat of Many Colors" is such a great song.
I'm really happy with the songs and artists people posted tonight. Some I hadn't heard and realized I was missing out. It always nice to hear new things and discover great music acts. Thanks!
Dolly Parton is really an amazing woman. Not personally a fan of her music, but a great fan of the person.
She's delightful.
Mother the Queen of My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcYQLSyd8w4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiMKnW3GYG0
on the link provided. Did George make a cover of Friends In Low Places?
Here are George Strait's top ten greatest songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWQLJhi3oKU&fe...
If I'm not mistaken, Hank Jr. is a strong white supremcist.
I have no respect for Hank Willian Jr. When I saw him singing at the Palin rally when the racism was being whipped into a frenzy, singing about how M'Cain and Palin represented 'traditional values', it made my stomach turn.
In fact, on the white pride website, they think it's one of his good points.
I don't know much about Senior, but his son is lower than scum. I wonder if the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Hank III ain't no racist as far as I know.
"Rose Colored Glasses"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxFGbToVFM
1997 - Funny How Time Slips Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZaZqx9v3dU&fe...
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vaYOIKWYY
My heros have always been Cowboys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMko5LelBdA&fe...
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKv171MzvSc&fe...
I'll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfgZH8kFAKc&fe...
Marty Robbins - The Streets Of Laredo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L14UKBjC5Is
"El Paso"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3JB51NH_M&fe...
Love Marty.
Ballad of the Alamo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL62m5umP4g
Saddle Tramp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv9qJNY2kL4
Ribbon of darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34nO7boIzh8
"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qu8RPvhP-U
Freddie Fender - Last Teardrop Falls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIg5zqGFoIs
Don't Rock the Jukebox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpPPyHqWznQ&fe...
MOUNTAIN OF LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xaDfO4Fn3c
HONKY TONK BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z31X2i-qvwY&fe...
SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQX6FHGs7w&fe...
Christine's Tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjGtEmQ5Co
Drug Store Truck Driving Man Gram Parsons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9_k1ypXStQ&fe...
Chris Ledoux - This Cowboy's Hat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiIgADk2EJc
Garth Brooks - The Dance
Best cover ever - Johnny Cash - Hurt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go
Wild Horses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g69labQKuuU
Honky Tonk Women - Original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP5c2t945p8
Mercy Mercy, Stray cat blues & No Expectations Live Hyde Park 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpj20jJLchQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ziukjeME0Y
Off Spur (of the Moment), a rare piece of vinyl that I lost and can't seem to even find any info on :(....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmuFjXXm6xI&fe...
He Stopped Loving Her Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2aNifcy20
She Thinks I Still Care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOduYzbwaSs&fe...
I Never Will Marry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUWcbSWIt94
Linda Ronstadt- Carmelita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rky1XdRnHYI&fe...
Linda Ronstadt "Desperado"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRSX3-2GxHE&fe...
Linda Ronstadt - Willin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSbYE4H28zI&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcIgQWdWWag
Leon Payne, a blind musician from Houston, wrote that song. Here's some info:
MYRTIE (Mrs. Leon) PAYNE:
In the early days of Leon's career, he hitchhiked from one place to another, finding jobs wherever he could. Once he was in Califonia hitchhiking to Alba, Texas, to visit his sick mother. He was unable to get a ride and finally got help from the Salvation Army. It was while he was waiting for help that he wrote this song.
You can't sing the blues in an air-conditioned room. And it ain't real country unless it's a real story. Too many of today's big names never had a real moment in their life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d0pRFu4G-k
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Panama Red....Revisited!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db5413DhhZw
Cover Of The Rolling Stone-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q
Sylvias Mother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5TOZaVEebs&fe...
Boy Named Sue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n--1wR4L7zg&fe...
Shel Silverstein - The Father of a Boy A Named Sue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dEUUaFbJqU
Shel Silverstein - Folksinger Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p6kO3kZl4k
It Does Not Pay To Be Hip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZB7nD81_zE
Chet Atkins , was always my fav , he will forever be a classic .
Not to bust your bubble dnyknot, I will acknowledge Chet Atkins' personal contributions to country music.
But as one of the people in charge of A&R at RCA in the 1970's and 80's, Atkins was partly responsible for the bland "Nashville Sound" which essentially destroyed the purity of the Honky Tonk, Bluegrass and honest country sound that drew working class people to the genre.
Many of the really talented musicians and singers with unique voices were relegated to working the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman, Opryland and the county fair circuit because they couldn't get played on radio. The Nashville Sound was directly responsible for the pap that's being pushed as "Country" today.
and to stay on the thread ( i try not too ) ,
Is this country ,
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
" how can I miss you , when you wont go away " .
Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXVi1nwidek
Pete Seeger/Arlo Guthrie - You gotta walk that lonesome valley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbqCssiBUc&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9N5T-4dOuk
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=...
From his new album The Country That Never Was
git-tar since 1953 , as a vocalist Patsy Cline , and for pickers , Mr Chet Atkins , Earl and Lester , Doc Watkins , Roy Clark , and this only a sampling of country , any one care for jazz or classical ? .
Fusion has Pat Matheny , Lee Rittienior, Spyra Gyra and Bob James to name a few. Have a couple of Wes Montgomery albums, and Jango Rheinhardt and Stephan Graphelli albums.. probably butchered the spelling of a few names
I remember when chet introduced wes M on teevee , i forget what the exact wording was , but he did call him a boy ( respectfuly i believe ), ah d'jango , Julliam Bream ( jazz git-tar-ist gone classical ) saw him live wonderful , three thumbs up . There used to be a git-tar player i liked from Poland Garbo Sabo ( 1960's era ) when i was a kid there was a night-club across the street from our house , sometimes on the weekends they would have some people play , some of the names i remember were bobby blue bland , albert king , bb king and others , being a git-tar player i knew how to get out of the house .
... Country and Western I always loved it and still listen to it often, from my iTunes collection. There is only a handful of current songs I like, since C&W has become so politicized I find it repulsive.
Among my all-time favorites: Willie Nelson (especially 'Touch me', the version before he went nasal - also Timi Yuro's version), Waylon Jennings, Sonny James, Ronnie Milsap, Roger Miller, Ray Price, Randy Travis, Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins (one of the greatest story-tellers ever), Knopfler and Emmy Lou Harris (one of the newer ones I like), Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, George Jones, Gene Watson, Faron Young, Ernest Tubb, Dwight Yoakum, Don Williams, Conway Twitty, Charley Pride. Elvis.
Among songs - being an unapologetic dog-lover - the most touching - Old Shep by whomever.
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