Saturday, March 31, 2007

Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band - Farm Aid Performance (Video)

This is their performance, I'm guessing from the same year the album was released, at farm aid.

Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band - The Mountain



This is a great bluegrass album from Steve Earle with The Del McCoury Band. If you are not a fan of bluegrass this album may change your mind, and conversely....if you are not a fan of Steve Earle this album may change your mind. Standout Tracks include: Texas Eagle, Graveyard Shift, Outlaw's Honeymoon, Long Lonesome Highway Blues, and the title track

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Friday, March 30, 2007

Whoever deleted my links is a COCKSUCKER and I hate you

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Emmylou Harris - at the Ryman video clips (Lodi, Guitar Town, Walls of Time)

Here are some great clips from the "At The Ryman" VHS. This version of Lodi is just amazing....I mean really amazing. Notice Sam Bush on the mandolin.


and her rendition of Guitar Town is equally impressive


how bout a little bluegrass - Walls of Time

Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers - At The Ryman

This is a classic album right here folks, Emmylou Harris....the legend that she is....live at the most legendary venue in country music......The Ryman Auditorium.
This is the album that renewed interest in the ryman auditorium, which had sat dormant since 1974 at the time of this album (1992) and has since been restored and declared a landmark. This is a great set from Emmylou, she starts off strong with Steve Earle's "Guitar Town" and things only get better from there. Highlights include the aforemention "Guitar Town", a cover of CCR's "Lodi", Hank's "Half as Much", Johnny Cash's "Guess Things Happen That Way", Bill Monroe's "Walls of Time" and my favorite off the whole album: "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go".
This was released on VHS back in '92 but they have not brought it over to DVD yet, it'll be a happy day in my household when they do.

http://www.emmylou.net/
The Ryman Auditorium
Buy the CD here or the VHS here

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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Scott Miller - Weary Blues From Waitin'/Freedom's a Stranger (Video Clip)

and here to accompany the album is a killer Scott Miller vid. He has a Live album coming out next month.....can't hardly wait for it!

The V-Roys - Are You Through Yet?

This was the V-Roy's farewell album, the aptly titled "Are You Through Yet?".
Now I am a huge Scott Miller fan and this album does not disappoint. Some of my favorite tracks off this one are the superb covers: Neil Young's "Motion Pictures", The Replacements' "IOU", The La's "There She Goes", and Louden Wainwright's "Out of this World". This album is also a great overview of The V-Roys, one of my favorite bands.

Scott Miller's Website
V-Roys Website

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A Statement

So you may be wondering why I post so many live albums, well it's because I love live albums. I feel a live album is where the soul of the artist truly shines. I also believe a live album is a great way to get into a new artist.....as it is kind of like a greatest hits album....only better, cause it's live.

Now on to other business. It has recently come to my attention that this blog has been called out by name as being affiliated with the infamous blogger Hanszun on the "anti-hanszun" site. Now the reasoning behind this is because I was one of the few links he had on his country music blog (a great name for a blog), and that all those links were really Hanszun. Now the truth of the matter is when I started this blog I was very green, I had no idea what I was doing. I had seen this "great name for a blog" site and another called "Honky Tonk Prison" and thought...."Hey, I could do this....only with newer country....you know alt-country", so I left a comment on his site pointing him to this site which he linked to. Now I had no idea who Hanszun was and I still barely do and I still don't really care. But what happened is that I (and Honky Tonk Prison) became guilty by association when really we were just naive bloggers trying to get traffic to our own blogs....at least in my case, can't really speak for HTP.
Anyway, what I ask folks is to just look at the history of this site.....if you care....and it becomes pretty obvious that I am not affiliated with this Hanszun character and I am certainly not affiliated with these anti-hanzun-ites. To give you a metaphor, which I think is wholly appropriate: if Hanszun = Saddam Hussein, then these anti-hanszun people = George W. Bush and his war on terror. You decide who's worse......the so called "Blogfather" or the Machiavellian crusaders who have a vendetta against him. As for me, just leave me the fuck alone and I'll be happy.

Now back to the music.

oops - no link

I just realized I forgot to put the link on the Bottle Rockets album. It's there now, sorry.

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