Here's some Karen Dalton film footage I hadn't seen before. It's great to she her in action, Karen was one of the truly powerful and honest voices from the late 60's. early 70's American folk scene. I first heard of her through the rousing cover The Drones did of "Are You Leaving For The Country". I picked up her "In My Own Time" album soon after which is well worth seeking out.
I think I must have watched these videos nearly fifty times since first finding them on youtube. Also you can get my favouite Carter Family song on the "Pascal's Country Sounds Mixtape".
For some of his found footage work check out the Eno and Bryne film and check out the truely great Mongoloid film both featured already on this blog. The song is by 'Danny Lonely Boy Blue' Himself Conway Twitty but the orginal version was written for " the movie Captain Carey USA and sung by Nat King Cole. It won the Academy Award for best song in 1950." Thanks to Hearing Double for the info. Here's the Nat King Cole version.
One of the better Beck albums, comprising mostly home demos, old timey grooves, live performances, and abstract noise experiments. I bought it for silly money back in the day, but was worth it since it contains my favourite Beck song "Satan Gave Me A Taco"; Excellent. Myspace Buy It
A Re -up of the first mixtape I put up on this blog which was named after this mix. Its abit Honky, abit doo wop and a little punk but at heart always 'Keeping it Country'. 01. phone Ring 02. Sister Wynona Carr - Dragnet For Jesus The Gospel of the street according to Sister Wynona Carr. 03. Wilco - Airplane To Heaven Words by Woodie Gruthrie, Music by Wilco. Great Stuff. 04. Elvis Presley - Mystery Train Probably my favourite track of his and for some reason it's not in most Best of. Wonderful film Also. 05. Jerry Lee Lewis - Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Piano Man The most roll and roll man to have sat on a piano stool. 06. Tommy Spurlin And The Southern Boys - Hang Loose "...Well my favourite pass-time Is to get myself a nickel or a dime Slip it in the jukebox-machine Grab me a kitten in tight blue jeans" Indeed! 07. Roy Montrell - (Everytime I Hear That) Mellow Saxophone You can't but dance to this track. "...Rip it, bop it, Davey Crockett". 08. Ween - Powder Blue I love it when Dean Ween introduces the band and they each in turn break into their solos, pure country! 09. The Handsome Family - The Sad Milkman I always envisage the video of this gem by Husband and Wife duo to be of a vampire milkman, seducing and killing the woman folk as he delivers his rounds in wee hours of the morning. 10. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I Am A Cinematographer Great countriafication of Palace song. 11. The Rolling Stones - Country Honk The two-stepping alter ego of "Honky-Tonk Women". 12. The Beatles - Don't Pass Me By Ringo's first song he wrote and he sang lead. It became a number one hit in Sweden too. Quality with a capital Q. 13. Pavement - Father To A Sister Of Thought Steven Malmus was sure that this was a surefire hit single, but it did no business. "I was smoking alot of grass when i picked the singles..."
14. Beck - Rowboat Another classic from Stereopathetic Soul Manure (A Collection of recordings from 1988 to '93). Only found out recently that Johnny Cash did a cover of it. Gees that man got around didn't he. 15. The Carter Family - I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes "Twould been better for us both had we never In this wide and wicked world had never met, But the pleasure we both seemed to gather I'm sure, love, I'll never forget". 16. The Slades - You Cheated Normal doo wop songs are upbeat but this slice from 58' has lyrics which are full of heartbreak. 17. Captain Beefheart - I'm Glad From his 1st and his greatest album Safe As Milk 1967. More doo wop, but more hopefully than the Slades song. 18. The Teen Queens - Eddie My Love Another classic track from 56. The Teen Queen were 14 and 16 at the time of recorded this very maturely song. Both died tragically of drug related deaths. 19. The Damned - Love Song Solid stuff for the Damned. 20. The Nipple Erectors - Gabrielle One of the Greatest pop song ever recorded from pre-Pogues singer Shane MacGowan. 21. Richard Hawley - Wading Through The Waters Of My Time The most country song he has done. Quite depressing though. 22. Woody Gruthrie - Vigilante Man I wonder if Walker Texas Ranger was write around this song. 23. Robert Wilkins - Thats No Way To Get Along Found this track on the "Ghost World Soundtrack". Well worth checking out. 24. Rev. A. W. Nix - Black Diamond Express Train To Hell Taken from "Goodbye Babylon", a 6 CD gospel collection. 5 CDs contain 135 songs from 1902-1960 and the 6th disc is comprised of 25 sermons recorded between 1926-1941 which is were this track was taken from. Always best to end a compilation with fire and brimstone i thought.
"How fucking romantic". Since the day thats in it, here's a link for Bonnie 'Prince' Palace Oldham are whatever's song Valentine's Day. h??p://www.mediafire.com/?d2n4nv9inp9
Photo: Marty Stuart I only got into Porter Wagoner this year after hearing the haunting and truly compelling "The Rubber Room" and was saddened to learn that he died on the 28th off Lung cancer aged eighty. So here's a compilation I put together of some of his songs spanning his whole career from his 54 number 1 hit 'A Satisfied Mind' and it's b -side 'Itchin' For My Baby' to his last single; "Committed To Parkview". That single was written by Johnny Cash and he wanted Porter to record it, so He gave a cassette to Marty Stuart (the producer of the album Porter was making at the time back in 1981), but Marty forgot to deliver the song to Porter and only delivered it when he was helping Porter choose songs for from Wagonmaster album. This year he gain in popularity with that album and he even toured with the "White Stripes".
Tracklisting 01 Committed To Parkview - Wagonmaster (2007) 02 The Rubber Room - The Rubber Room (1972) 03 The Cold Hard Facts Of Life - The Cold Hard Facts Of Life (1967) 04 Satan's River - Wagonmaster (2007) 05 Eat, Drink And Be Merry - The Essential Porter Wagoner (1997) 06 Tell Her Lies And Feed Her Candy - The Essential Porter Wagoner (1997) 07 Itchin' For My Baby - A Satisfied Mind 7" RCA Victor 20-6105 (1954) 08 Sorrow On The Rocks - The Essential Porter Wagoner (1997) 09 Sorrow Overtakes The Wine - The Carroll County Accident (1969) 10 Dark End of the Street (with Dolly Parton) - Just The Two Of Us (1968) 11 Family Bible w/ Willie Nelson - Unplugged (2002) 12 A Place To Hang My Hat - Wagonmaster (2007) 13 I'll Go Down Swingin' - The Thin Man From West Plains (1965) 14 Porter and Marty (Men With Broken Hearts/I Heard That Lonesome Whilstle Blow) - Wagonmaster (2007) 15 A Satisfied Mind - A Satisfied Mind 7" RCA Victor 20-6105 (1954) Buy The Rubber Room Myspace
To celabrate the return of Sam Beam aka Iron And Wine to our shores on October 27, at Ambassador Theatre in Dublin. Here is outstanding EP which is heavy in tone compared to his first two albums. I had a ticket to see him back in 2004 when he first and last played Ireland but dEUS reformed and i got a ticket to see them in Paris since a friend of my was living there at the time. But as it turned out both gigs were on the same day, so i had to give away Iron and Wine ticket to my flatmate. Bummer but seeing dEUS for the first time with a head full of trips was chilling to see the least and the little known Joanna Newsom was one of the support acts. Never heard of her before and was completely mystified by her. Ran down the stairs to buy the album straight after see finished just in case it would sell out. Here is a video of the first song I ever heard of Iron and Wine back in 2003. It's on his first album but i got it first on one of those sub pop 5er sampler cds. The vid is directed by Mister Beam himself.
I think I was 16 when I first taped "Ohio River Boat Song" (See Video) off the radio. It was the song what got me into Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and is from this album. As the title suggests is a collection of singles, Eps and five previously unreleased tracks and is personally my favourite album of Will Oldhams under the moniker of "Palace Music".
The great thing about Micah P. Hinson is that he seems to pull off a whole album full of mini masterpieces with total ease. For me he is definitely up there with Oldham, Callahan and Young. Essential Stuff.
Not to sure about the history of this album, a friend of mine said that all the songs are covers with different lyrics. Another one tells me that they got Nashville session musicians in to make the album sound authentically country. Whatever the story is, for me it's their 2nd best album, 2nd only to the genre bending 'Chocolate and Cheese' from 1994. There is only 10 Golden Country Greats on the damn thing. "Funny guy, funny guy." Buy 12 Golden Country Greats Link Deleated
Here's two singles/Eps from the man who seems to do no wrong. The B- sides of No More Workhouse Blues got my friend into Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Ruby is the heaviest and darkest he has very gone, and The Kiss is heartbreakingly beautiful, defo one for the ladies.
Dir: Harmony Korine
Dir: Mike Piscitell
I Gave You is one of the best song he was ever writing and the B- sides to it are in my opinion better than most of the songs on Superwolf his collaboration with Matt Sweeney; Matt wrote the music to Will's lyrics.
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