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I can’t get over how relaxed and appealing the kick drum sounds on this recording – almost threatens to steal the show: “Steel Guitar Jubilee” Lloyd Green (1964) I admit, it’s hard to completely tune out the immaculate musicianship of the others who are supporting Lloyd Green on his 1964
This week we said goodbye to Buddy Emmons, one of the world’s great musicians and subject of three prior Zero to 180 pieces. Here is but a *45-second live demonstration (beginning to end) of Buddy Emmons’ singular genius with the pedal steel guitar: “Four Wheel Drive” (live) Buddy Emmons (1965)
“Tennessee Border” is a tuneful instrumental from an album, That Happy Nashville Sound, that features some of the finest musicianship that 1960s Nashville had to offer: I’m surprised, however, by how little I can find about this 1967 album on the internet. Perhaps now is a good time for Bear
Nice deep country bass sounds on this YouTube stereo mix of Dick Curless‘ mighty working man jukebox tale – “Jukebox Man” – that was released February 1971 on the heels of trucker classic, “Drag ’em Off the Interstate Sock It To ’em J.P. Blues” “Jukebox Man“ Dick Curless (1971) Guitar
Dave Dudley’s earliest recordings go back to King Records, interestingly — six sides altogether, with three written by Dudley and one co-written with Louis Innis. Dudley would record for a handful of small labels before being signed to Mercury in the wake of “Six Days on the Road” and its
In this 1979 performance from TV’s Austin City Limits, Buddy Emmons (steel guitar) and Phil Baugh (electric guitar) take The Nashville Super Pickers for a test drive using the Benny Golson jazz standard, “Killer Joe,” as their vehicle: Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar & Vocals Phil Baugh: Lead Guitar Russ Hicks:
Don’t be misled by the German 7-inch soundtrack companion whose A-side bears the dual title, “Midnight Cowboy–Asphalt Cowboy” — Ferrante & Teicher did not, in fact, release an early version of the truck-driving country classic, “Asphalt Cowboy” in 1969. Sleepy LaBeef, in truth, recorded the first — and greatest —
Let’s see if we can track all (i.e., at least a handful of) the prominent women pop vocalists’ excursions down South in the late 1960s and into the new decade: (1) Entire chapters have been written about Aretha Franklin‘s first (and oh-so-brief) recording session for producer Jerry Wexler that was
I was half distracted driving through southwestern Ohio when I first heard the title track of Lester Flatt‘s Kentucky Ridgerunner album on a community radio station. The song definitely caught my ear, however, so I made a point of acquiring this album from 1972 – the first of three that
I have a transcription LP of a Ralph Emery radio show from 1971, with Glen Campbell as the featured guest, in which Emery announced the song in the following playful manner: Emery: The Ralph Emery Show rolls along. Here’s Tom T. Hall, and uh, hey, I think you’re gonna —
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