Lucky Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 (edited) A traditional aspect of country is Yodeling. Country has so much (US) history connected to it, which I love. A lot of traditional Country music we know today is more or less the poor white folks' version of The Blues. wiki Here's a traditional country/bluegrass recording from 1930 (Jimmie Rodgers). The clip illustrates the history very nicely ... (Blue Yodel #8) Muleskinner Blues which Dolly Parton remade in 1970, and was nominated for a Grammy: Muleskinner Blues ( check out the voice! ) This song has been done by Rodgers, Bill Monroe, as traditional Bluegrass , Woody Guthrie, Odetta, Parton, Jose Feliciano, Jerry Garcia, and as recently as the 1989 by a punk rock band (The Cramps) . The Cramps version . Stuff that starts as traditional country doesn't always stay that way. Edited September 1, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Blue Yodel #1 ~ Jimmie Rodgers (these lyrics might sound familiar). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Something tells me Jimmie would have appreciated The Cramps version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted September 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I think you're right. Because they didn't tinker with the song, it's played pretty straight up. It just proves a good song is a good song ... no matter what genre, and who's doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I've always liked Vince Gill's voice... just a random country music thought I had... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted September 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 Speaking of Jimmie Rodgers (one of the earliest Country Music artists) there should be a natural segue into speaking of Mother Maybelle Carter, and the Carter Family as a whole. Mother Maybelle, and the Carter Family have had a huge impact on today's popular music, and the musicians themselves. The Carter Family was a country music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, southern gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars.... As important to country music as the family's repertoire of songs was Maybelle's guitar playing. She developed her innovative guitar technique largely in isolation; her style is today widely known as the "Carter scratch" or "Carter style" of picking (see Carter Family picking). While Maybelle did use a flatpick on occasion, her major method of guitar playing was the use of her thumb (with a thumbpick) along with one or two fingers. What her guitar style accomplished was to allow her to play melody lines (on the low strings of the guitar) while still maintaining rhythm using her fingers, brushing across the higher strings. Before the Carter family's recordings, the guitar was rarely used as a lead or solo instrument. Maybelle's interweaving of a melodic line on the bass strings with intermittent strums is now a staple of steel string guitar technique. Flatpickers such as Doc Watson, Clarence White and Norman Blake took flatpicking to a higher technical level, but all acknowledge Maybelle's playing as their inspiration.... It is also interesting to note that the Carter Family Song "Wayworn Traveller" was covered by a young Bob Dylan, who wrote his own words to the melody and named it "Paths Of Victory". This recording is featured on "Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3". After writing that song, he wrote new words to the melody and changed the time signature to 3/4, thus creating one of his most famous songs, "The Times They Are a-Changin'" A couple of Mother Maybelle's earliest recordings, an example of her pickin' style, songs which are Country Music standards today: Wildwood Flower ~ Mother Maybelle Carter (1928) Can The Circle Be Unbroken ~ The Carter Family (1935) The Carter Family, I would assume is one of the oldest, and longest active performance groups in the world. Beginning with Mother Maybelle in 1927, they are still active today, more than 5 generations later. Will The Circle be Unbroken ~ The Carter Family The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, one of the earliest Country Rock groups were described by Roy Acuff as "a bunch of long haired West Coast boys". They gathered together the greats of Country Music for their album "Will the Circle be Unbroken". Mother Maybelle, Doc Watson, Roy Acuff, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Norman Blake and Vassar Clements all collaborated on the Grammy winning album, which is one of my all-time favorites. Will The Circle Be Unbroken ~ Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Chris Hillman, Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris, Roseanne Cash, Chet Atkins and many more ... That's some of the roots of Country. And to some extent, Rock & Roll, and much of what we hear today guitar-wise, owes a debt to that little lady from Virginia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted September 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 I've always liked Vince Gill's voice... just a random country music thought I had... Vince is one of the most talented artists in contemporary Country, IMO. Also, he's versatile. He's moves just as easily from old school country to gospel, to contemporary stuff. And his voice is simply beautiful. Go Rest High Upon That Mountain Written by Vince, for both his brother, and his friend Keith Whitley. When I Call Your Name the old school sound Liza Jane contemporary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Here's a country rock classic by Poco that's one of my favorites. :happybanana: :happybanana: Pickin' Up the Pieces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted September 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 I seem to be stuck in the old, and that really isn't the case, but I'm interested in how the old influences the new and how genres influence one another. That's not so much the case here. This is pure old time country, complete with twang, with an early feminist twist. In 1952 Hank Thompson released his classic The Wild Side of Life You wouldn't read my letter if I wrote you You asked me not to call you on the phone But there's something I'm wanting to tell you So I wrote it in the words of this song CHORUS: I didn't know God made honky tonk angels I might have known you'd never make a wife You gave up the only one that ever loved you And went back to the wild side of life The glamor of the gay night life has lured you To the places where the wine and liquor flows Where you wait to be anybody's baby And forget the truest love you'll ever know Miss Kitty Wells responded to Hank's song with this song. It became a smash hit, made Wells probably the first female country music star, and struck a blow for women everywhere! Pretty bold for a country woman in 1952, and it was considered slighty scandalous at the time. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels As I sit here tonight the jukebox playin' The tune about the wild side of life As I listen to the words you are sayin' It brings memories when I was a trusting wife It wasn't God who made Honky Tonk angels As you said in the words of your song Too many times married men think they're still single That has caused many a good girl to go wrong It's a shame that all the blame is on us women It's not true that only you men feel the same From the start most every heart that's ever broken Was because there always was a man to blame It wasn't God who made Honky Tonk angels As you said in the words of your song Too many times married men think they're still single That has caused many a good girl to go wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 21, 2008 Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 My Buckets Got A Hole In It! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Here's a country rock version of Dead Flowers (Leeds '71) when the Stones caroused with Gram Parsons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted September 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 This lady is the undisputed first feamle Rock & Roll artist. Wanda Jackson has been nominated for the second time for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Beginning in 1960 she concentrated on a Country Music career, but in 1957 she was pure Rockabilly. Fujiyama Mama Let's Have A Party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted October 11, 2008 Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 When You Say Nothing At All ~ Keith Whitley I've never heard this song before...Heard it today and I love it!...Alison Krauss also covers this song too...which is nice, but I love this version the best...Such a pretty song... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted October 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 It's a lovely song. Another talent lost too soon. The other version is a duet between Krauss and Whitley. It wasn't released prior to his death except as a limited single. She may have released it since. Both versions are popular wedding songs back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Very pretty song...I don't listen to country that much, so that's why I've never heard it before...Hubby puts the country station on once in awhile.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 My favorite Keith Whitley song: I'm No Stranger To The Rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted October 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Oooh, that's great one too! The duet released posthumously by his widow Lorrie Morgan is lovely too. She recorded her voice on his demo of this song and released it. It won a Grammy: Til A Tear Becomes A Rose He was an amazing songwriter, and wrote & sang in the traditional style like George Strait, and so many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 I guess you'd call this Country. Damn good whatever you call it. Cold And Lonely -- Slaid Cleaves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Most excellent, Master Sir bazooka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 I couldn't believe that no one had made a youtube for Bound and Determined by Marshall Tucker yet. So I went after the early photographs before the cowboy hats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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