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 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 6th, “It’s Four in the Morning”, Faron Young
In my teenage years I thought Joy Division or The Smiths of The Cure of “Pornography” were the ne plus ultra of angst. Boy, was I wrong.
Séamus Sweeney 