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 , 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 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 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…
#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…
#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, “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…
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