#AprilCountry – April 15th, “I’m so Lonesome I could cry” Dean Martin
From the sublime to the … well, you be the judge, but although I am very partial Dean Martin and kinda wish we had as relaxed, smoothly confident a singer…
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Happy Birthday Loretta Lynn!
Loretta Lynn is 86 today, and here is her signature hit: Here is “Ain’t No Time To Go”, released last September and with a moving video (which slightly uncomfortably reminds…
#AprilCountry, April 14th, Hey Good Lookin’, Tom Hiddleston
So dominant a figure is Hank Williams even now that I thought I would approach him through the prism of some of the covers of his work. To start with…
#AprilCountry, April 13th The Walker Brothers “Boulder to Birmingham”
More Scott Walker in slightly unexpected country mode – though in The Walker Brothers reunion mode, rather than solo. This is an Emmylou Harris song mourning the death of Gram…
#AprilCountry , April 12th, “Black Sheep Boy”, Scott Walker
Today and tomorrow I am going to feature a somewhat unexpected country artist – the sadly recently deceased Scott Walker In the first two of Scott’s “big four” solo albums,…
#AprilCountry April 11th, Fallin’ Rain, Karl Blau
A while back I posted a group of rain songs – featuring Sinatra, The Go-Betweens and Linda Perhacs. If I had known about it at the time, I would have…
#AprilCountry – April 10th, “O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie”, Sons of The Pioneers
Country songs were originally cowboy songs which were originally worksongs. The Sons of the Pioneers are still going, although obviously not with the same lineup as when they started in…
#AprilCountry – April 9th, “You Ain’t Going Nowhere”, The Byrds
On my first visit to Kilkenny city in December 2003, I picked up a CD of “Sweetheart of the Rodeo”. Along with the then-recent revival in popularity of Johnny Cash,…
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