#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…
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“Curlew Moon”, Mary Colwell
In 2016, Mary Colwell walked from Sligo to The Wash, a 500 mile epic to find out why curlews have declined so precipitously. She has written a book, Curlew Moon,…
#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…
#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…
The Go Betweens, “Palm Sunday (On Board the S.S. Within)”
The Go-Betweens’ catalogue is a rich one, filled with songs that stay with you and come up at odd moments. Initially this song didn’t stick out much from the others…
#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,…
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