In addition to already cited legends such as Merle Haggard, Bob Wills and George Jones, I'm partial to Hank Penny and Hank Snow, Snow being the versatile Canadian, and Penny being a Western Swing bandleader (Speedy West and Boudleaux Bryant are among the notables to pass through his bands) w/ a penchant for funny tunes (his "Rabbits Don't Ever Get Married" is a favorite of mine -- it's credited to Sparks/Williams, don't know who that might be). Parry
on 7/6/03 4:39 PM, Parry Gettelman at parry@macconnect.com wrote:
I'm partial to Hank Penny and Hank Snow, Snow being the versatile Canadian, and Penny being a Western Swing bandleader
Hank Snow is so underrated it's scary (or maybe because of his toupee). His guitar solos on "The Rhumba Boogie" are Godhead. Hank Penny is also great, espec "Get Yourself A Redhead". Also in that camp -- Moon Mullican. Find his King recording of "Well Oh Well" and prepare to be dazzled. sh
We'd be remiss if we didn't mention Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours and Webb Pierce. And going the completely other way, Charlie Rich -- on RCA Victor and Sun -- was trying for a rockabilly/jazz mix far superior to his later Silver Fox phase. Ken Waxman --- skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net> wrote: > on 7/6/03 4:39 PM, Parry Gettelman at
parry@macconnect.com wrote:
I'm partial to Hank Penny and Hank Snow, Snow being the versatile Canadian, and Penny being a Western Swing bandleader
Hank Snow is so underrated it's scary (or maybe because of his toupee). His guitar solos on "The Rhumba Boogie" are Godhead.
Hank Penny is also great, espec "Get Yourself A Redhead".
Also in that camp -- Moon Mullican. Find his King recording of "Well Oh Well" and prepare to be dazzled.
sh
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on 7/7/03 7:21 AM, Ken Waxman at mingusaum@yahoo.ca wrote:
We'd be remiss if we didn't mention Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours and Webb Pierce.
Very true. ET's Texas Troubadours could play great jazz, too (see "Honey ingers"). And you're right about these Webb Pierce oversights. He is amazing.
And going the completely other way, Charlie Rich -- on RCA Victor and Sun -- was trying for a rockabilly/jazz mix far superior to his later Silver Fox phase.
Big problem tho -- he's never been anthologized effectively. See of you have his version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" -- that is indeed Charlie Rich playing piano on that (holy shit). Also, there is the magnificent "There's Another Place That I Can't Go" on Sun. sh
Ken Waxman writes:
We'd be remiss if we didn't mention Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours and Webb Pierce.
Absolutely -- and we haven't left out Lefty Frizell and Faron Young, have we? And then there's Kitty Wells, the Davis Sisters, the Delmore Brothers, the Louvin Brothers .... When you think of all those greats, it's hard to contemplate contemporary "country" without cringing. I mean, Toby Keith? Parry
Time-Life collections don't have the vague cachet of respectability and quality they used to have -- they're putting out Beavis & Butthead videotapes now -- but the Time-Life Collection of Classic Country Music is pretty good, and an excellent way to sample dozens of artists. It was originally 10 discs for $120, now it's 9 discs plus a disc of Hank Williams for the same price, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it unless you can find it the way I found it -- two 4CD sets for $32 each at one of the big-box stores. I missed out on a late 40s disc and a late 70s disc, but there's a hell of a lot of good stuff in between. And if anybody hasn't mentioned Bill Monroe yet, you gotta get some Bill Monroe! I recommend The Essential Bill Monroe and the Monroe Brothers on RCA, 1936-1941 recordings from before Monroe added banjo to the band and established the sound of what we call bluegrass today. At this stage it's still "just" hillbilly music, and an intermediate step between the Anthology of American Folk Music era and the Nashville years covered in the Time-Life sets. "New River Train," "Orange Blossom Special," lots of church music, all of it great. William Crump
on 7/6/03 5:31 PM, William Crump at crumpw@bellsouth.net wrote:
And if anybody hasn't mentioned Bill Monroe yet, you gotta get some Bill Monroe! I recommend The Essential Bill Monroe and the Monroe Brothers on RCA, 1936-1941 recordings from before Monroe added banjo to the band and established the sound of what we call bluegrass today. At this stage it's still "just" hillbilly music, and an intermediate step between the Anthology of American Folk Music era and the Nashville years covered in the Time-Life sets. "New River Train," "Orange Blossom Special," lots of church music, all of it great.
As great as that stuff is, it's his warm-up. Get the Columbia 16 GEMS disc, which is the first two post-Charlie Bluegrass Boys bands. The earlier stuff on that disc, with Stringbean on banjo, is like the last perfect gasp of old-timey string band music. Then, from cut #6 on out, it'ss Earl Scruggs just reinventing the wheel from the first breath. The improvising -- Earl, Bill, and fiddler Chubby Wise -- is breathtaking. The drive is incredible, and the fluency of everyone is just awesome, especially considering how new the style was they were developing. Plus the singing is undeniable. Of course, Monroe's Decca sruff with Jimmy Martin is often as good. sh
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