I'm partial to Johnny Paycheck (ne Donald Lytle), who passed on to the great honky-tonk in the sky this past February. Paycheck wore "his hurt real proud" -- his songs offer a certain vulnerability and pathos very rare in any vocal music. His classic early work featured Lloyd Green on blazing pedal steel. Eugene Chadbourne of course, is a big Paycheck fan, and writes about him on the Squid's Ear site (http://www.squidsear.com/cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi). He calls Paycheck "avant-garde," and describes Paycheck's 1979 band thus: "This group was called The West Texas Music Company and was kind of the Mahavishnu Orchestra of country music. They would play tunes ridiculously fast and trade off outrageous solos. Unlike fusion jazz, these improvisations were short, the traditional four bar country and western solo exchanges, going by so briefly and with such precision that I presented them to maestro John Zorn as an example of ultra-fast 'cartoon' music." Paul NYC ----- Original Message ----- From: skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net> Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2003 8:19 am Subject: Re: old C&W
on 7/8/03 3:57 AM, kevin.by at kevin.by@selby.no wrote:
i forgot to mention in my post that i am indeed familiar with Merle Haggard. my problem with the guy is, he's a tough nut to collect cuz he's released TONS of stuff. hard to know where to start with him. i WILL look into that 4CD set though...
It's impossible to find a bad Hag album, but the 4 disc set is definitelythe way to start.
sh
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