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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#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.
#AprilCountry , April 30th, “Spiritual”, Johnny Cash / Spain
From “Unchained”, this is a cover of a song written by Josh Haden of the band Spain:
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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”
#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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