keyse1 Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 This song was either written pre Trump or Rodney’s an over the top optimist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 Are You Afraid To Die Well Yes But if these guys and Gram Parsons Johnny Cash Merle Haggard and Hank are singing maybe not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 (edited) The sad songs that come up when you’ve run out of beer The perfect song for drinking Suffering through a glass of wine Too sophisticated for me Feel i should be listening to classical music or jazz maybe when or even at my age if I get older Edited March 2, 2019 by keyse1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 Is This the best name ever for a song? I Forgot To Change The Windscreen Wipers In My Mind 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumholtzii Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Can't go wrong with these two for a start Cheers, Keith Not all Keith. .... fine taste ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 (edited) We’re Not The Jet Set John Prine And Iris Dement in perfect imitation of George and Tammy I feel like a member of the jet set last week Tuesday night in Brisbane to see John Prine Cant explain how good it was Emmylou Harris Gillian Welch And now John Prine the best country music ever played in Australia and John Prine remains one of the best songwriters in American music Goosebumps just from the very first sound of his voice coming out across the audience from an old bloke in his 70’s who I have been listening to since his first record in the early 70’s And last saw live in Vancouver in ‘75 A lot of people my age probably been listening to him for just as long seemed to know the songs as they came up and the whole show finished with John Prine putting his guitar down and doing a little dance truly a great night And then there was Wednesday night with Alejandro Escovedo on acoustic guitar and Tim Rogers swapping between electric and acoustic and back up vocals Atiny room where 50 or so people constituted a crowd with a crystal clear sound that made plain every nuance and vocal inflection that the songs demanded Another great writer whose songs reflect more of his life and events that take place around him I don’t like Tim Rogers at all but he was great if slightly in awe of playing sidekick to one of rock and rolls greatest players with a long history back to the 70’s And cutting across all genres from punk rock very early alternative country to singer songwriter and always rock n roll Alejandro was in a band called The Nuns who supported The Sex Pistols last ever concert in Texas and was living at The Chelsea Hotel in New York at the time when it all went south for Sid and Nancy So much great music across those decades culminating in his last record recorded with an Italian band with immigration the primary subject And then off to Melbourne on the 7.30 plane Edited March 11, 2019 by keyse1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 Here I am as I so often am lately hiding from the news and taking refuge in country music or folkies from the 60’s This time with a couple of hours of Johnny Cash looking for that Old Time Feeling of going to school going surfing and growing my hair instead of my waist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 Great song written in response to the fruit loops criticism of young people’s long hair and protest against the war in Vietnam The same people attacking young people for daring to demand action on climate change yesterday The more things change the more they stay the same 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 Only 3 things in life worth arguing about Religion politics and rock n roll And Johnny Cash had hundreds of songs about ‘em i very much identify with Heavy Metal (don’t mean Rock nRoll to me) ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 Here’s A great song So great that Bruce Springsteen used the same title to write a different song Reason To Believe beautifully written and sung by Tim Hardin way back in the 60’s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 My last Johnny Cash song after about 4 hours And feeling much better for it Great photo of Johnny and June Not venturing 2 far Merle Haggard’s first record I think And an early indication of the sublime singer he was to become Possibly the best country music singer ever an excellent writer and great musician At least till I start listening to Hank Williams 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 Perfectly named song I think it’s the word faded fits the subject matter perfectly Written by Bob Wills 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted March 20, 2019 Author Share Posted March 20, 2019 (edited) Posted this on the currently spinning page but probably no interest there If you are reading this you probably have an interest in country music and rock n roll i can think of maybe half a dozen players still alive as good as these 2 but I can’t think of any better https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/john-prine-alejandro-escovedo-australian-tour-2019-review/10880262 Edited March 20, 2019 by keyse1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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keyse1 Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 2 of the best songs on this great record Both written by Gene Clark If the world was fair Gene Clark would be a megastar and Led Zepplin would be nobodies and Robert Plant would have been a great country music singer living in obscurity and making records as good as this for fanatics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted April 10, 2019 Author Share Posted April 10, 2019 listening to the best record of 2019 can't imagine anything better than those for gloomy souls The cover of The Delines’ new album, The Imperial shows a solitary automobile – one of those mid-70’s Yank jobs, a bit like a Cadillac Seville – parked up against a rather austere apartment block in what is an otherwise vacant lot. The image is a striking metaphor for the stories that lie within the record’s sleeve; tales of abandonment, loneliness, desperation and social isolation from America’s more battered and bruised underbelly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 Another great record Tribute to the late great American songwriter Guy Clark Old Friends a beautiful song and sentiment,like Guy Clark And Merle Haggard Johnny Cash and Hank Williams and Bob Dylan Almost never a day when I don’t hear these singers in one of the vehicles I drive or in the garage where I am now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecoMoose Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Wow I'll have to go back through this thread - looks like there are some excellent recommendations here. My most played recent country album has been The Country Side of Harmonica Sam - A Drink After Midnight. Who would've thought Sweden has such a strong honky tonk country scene. Some of the slide guitar playing on this album is just outstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 From this Ragtime in 1928 To this Art Punk Pere Ubu singer in the 90’s and hundreds of recordings in between Amazing the way songs traverse a hundred or so years from when they were first written Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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keyse1 Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 Train songs Hundreds of them Sometimes a She’s leaving me broken heart song Sometimes a metaphor for freedom or escape Or a symbol of freedom Sometimes just a song about a train Americans have been singing about trains as long as they have had them Not sure about The British might have to google it but they feature in American mythology about the West in movies and books and songs including the characters that built the railroads Steve Earls Son has great song that updated the genre with a song about Working for The MTA the New York City train service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 Good grief Roy Rogers And Gene Autry Which reminds me I’ve got 4 cowboy movies fresh from the mailbox to watch tonight I always hated Roy Rogers and Gene Autry when I was little because they kept singing instead of shooting Things have turned around Must Be old age Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 Rock and roll of course is not impervious to the train song Midnight Special is. Leadbelly song with the train the sound of freedom Likewise with Folsom Prison Blues written by Johnny Cash And of Bob’s train is in tears Even pot heads that failed their medical for Vietnam sing them One of the best train songs ever written this time by a young folkie called Steve Goodman Arlo’s was something of a hit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 I hope someone’s interested in train songs Heres a bit about them and a list of 1000 or so Very few names in the music world missing from the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_songs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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