#AprilCountry , April 24th, “One More River To Cross”, Sons of the Pioneers
Sons of The Pioneers have been going a long time. I am not totally sure if the Spotify and YouTube versions here match … perhaps it is a variance in…
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#AprilCountry – April 23rd, “The Running Kind”, Merle Haggard
We’ve already featured Waylon Jennings , and in duet form Merle Haggard, but here is Merle on his own, with one of those half-boastful, half-wistful songs that shows country music…
#AprilCountry, April 22nd, “Jackson”, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
I’ve made it so far without reckoning with the enormous shade of Johnny Cash. Here he is with June, on a TV duet (with somewhat cringe set-up) performing “Jackson”, the…
#AprilCountry – April 21st, “Amazing Grace”, Loretta Lynn
For Easter Sunday, here is Loretta Lynn – born a month and a day before my own father – with “Amazing Grace”
#AprilCountry, “Satan is Real”, The Louvin Brothers
It would be easy to mock the Louvin Brothers’ “Satan Is Real”, with its lurid and rather literal cover. Easy that is, until you listen to a song of evident…
#AprilCountry #GoodFriday , The Kneeling Drunkard’s Plea, The Louvin Brothers
They weren’t the Louvin Brothers, but unlike The Walker Brothers, they were actually brothers – Ira and Charlie Loudermilk. Charlie died in 2011, while Ira died in 1965 in a…
#AprilCountry – April 17th, “If Jesus Leads This Army”, Howard Haney
I came across Howard Haney rather randomly via Spotify – on “The Half Ain’t Never Been Told: Early American Religious Rural Music” album From Hillbilly Music.com , here is a…
#AprilCountry, April 16th, “I Saw the Light”, The The
Finally in my trilogy of Hank Williams as interpreted by others, here is Matt Johnson’s The The, with a version that is probably the least “country” of any I will…
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