What are You Listening To? September '24

[Briar Lee]

Ralph Stanley is one of the icons of pure old time hillbilly music, and his vocals in Brother Where Art Thou made him known to a much wider audience.

But Dr Ralph had a brother named Carter who drank himself to death in the sixties.

Fortune and fame are fleeting things, but here was Carter Stanley when the bloom was on his roses.

Bill Monroe invented bluegrass about 1946.

Old time music was old time even then.

 

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Another superb album. She used to be whole lot cuter when she had less Botox.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Another superb album. She used to be whole lot cuter when she had less Botox.

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She's getting on up there now...

Back in the day though, she was one of the finest.

 

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Great Irish songstress who went before her time.

 

[Briar Lee]

One morning about fifteen years ago my Baptist friend David called me and said there’s a Martin HD 28 for sale for $500 on the University web pages and how can I tell if it’s a real one?

I replied David, the only $500 Martin HD 28s were made last year in China, not Nazerth.

It has to be fake, I said.

That evening he called me out to go play for our mothers in the nursing home, and there was a by God genuine Martin HD-28 with a credit card receipt with the serial number from a St Louis music shop in 2005.

The seller needed cash and all the pawn shops would offer was $500.

A few years later David fell in love with a maiden Mennonite girl in her forties and he joined the Mennonite church. They can’t have guitars so he gave the Martin to me.

A real Martin really isn’t much better than my 1992 Fender SX1500 or my Guild guitars.

But oh what I would give to have my friend David play his Martin one more time, while I did the vocals on Jimmy Brown the Newsboy.

 

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Jimmy!

 

[Speak Easy]

 

[avail]

looks like a few days of posts got chopped off

 

[Speak Easy]

 

[Speak Easy]

 

[carp rides again]

A lil Curtis Mayfield

 

[kcghost]

I love Jean Shepard who was big in the 50's and 60's. She was married to Hawkshaw Hawkins, Hawkins was killed less then 3 years later in the plane crash that also claimed the lives of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and the pilot. She was a member of the Grand Old Opry for sixty years.

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"Monday's promise is Tuesday's lie
Saturday's party is Sunday's fight
Somethin's wrong with you and I
Love's gone wrong that used to be right
And I can feel it slippin' away

Slowly, slowly slippin' away
It'll be gone in a few more days
If we don't stop this love of ours
From slippin' away"

 

[carp rides again]

 

[carp rides again]

classic Boz with Duane Alllman from Muscle Shoals

 

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[Briar Lee]

Carl Belew is today an almost forgotten country crooner who wrote a lot of hard country heart songs, all made famous by other artists.

https://youtu.be/MK1el3Rg85Y?si=B97x4qDC-aFtA9FI

 

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Has to be one of the better number written by Paul.

 

[Pip'n'Piper]

Has to be one of the better number written by Paul.

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Like all of them

 

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