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Posted on July 8, 2019July 8, 2019

When Toby Keith eased Merle Haggard’s burdens

Via the Unfinished Pyramid blog, I came across this touching story about the country singer Toby Keith and #AprilCountry outlaw fave Merle Haggard: “It was Super Bowl weekend. Merle had…

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Posted on May 23, 2019

#AprilCountry – the playlist

I only realised that I misded out on April 18th when compiling this, apologies to anyone WHOSE ENTIRE LIFE IS IN RUINS because of this.

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Posted on April 30, 2019April 29, 2019

#AprilCountry , April 30th, “Spiritual”, Johnny Cash / Spain

From “Unchained”, this is a cover of a song written by Josh Haden of the band Spain:

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Posted on April 29, 2019April 23, 2019

#AprilCountry, April 29th – “People And Their Problems”, Billy Joe Shaver

“People and their problems are giving me a pain / People and their problems are messing with my brain / I try to help them some but they always stay…

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Posted on April 27, 2019April 27, 2019

#AprilCountry, April 28th, “Harper Valley PTA”, Jeannie C Reilly

Country music is, with the partial exception of hip hop , the only popular music genre to preserve the narrative song. Songwriter (amongst other things) Tom T Hall is known as…

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Posted on April 27, 2019April 23, 2019

#AprilCountry, April 27th, “Cool Water”, Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash, in the last years of his career, made a series of albums which mixed new compositions, country standards, and versions of contemporary songs from unexpected genres, such as…

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Posted on April 26, 2019April 23, 2019

#AprilCountry, April 26th, “Buckskin Stallion Blues”, Amy Annelle

Quite a shift from Mike Denver, here is Amy Annelle singing Townes van Zandt’s “Buckskin Stallion Blues”  

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Posted on April 25, 2019April 23, 2019

#AprilCountry, April 25th, “Yellow Submarine”, Mike Denver

I’ve been debating how best to approach the phenomenon of Country’n’Irish for a while, a genre of music one could pontificate pompously about,  but what better way than via  Mike…

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