Questions of what is "classic" or "real" country, or what is or is not "traditional" typically lead to long discussions like the one that has been going on...
We're going in circles here...for someone who grew up with the Carters and Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills may not be recognizable as a country artist. Charlie Rich,...
As if this list needed another 2 cents on the matter.... Just a little anecdote to illustrate that everyone's opinions are different and completely flexible...
Deke Dickerson
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I guess it does come down to "compared to what" at some point. During the first six months of 1944, when Billboard began it's country charts (which they called...
Careful Deke I can see it now, front isle of Wal Mart the new Garth Brooks best of CD & on the back cover "A Hell Of A Good Song" Deke Dickerson, Hollywood Ca....
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Larry Davis ... Bing had a great recording of "I am thinking tonight of my blue eyes." Oh -- and didn't Nat do a version of the...
... From: "Peter Shenkin" < ... The Whiting and Wakely version of "Slipping Around" was #1 on country jukes for 12 weeks, #1 on Best Selling Singles for 17...
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Larry Davis ... I'm a big, big Floyd Tillman fan. Listening to the Bear Family collection back when I got it, I was surprised...
" It's kind of hard to imagine that the same audience that was plugging the juke box to hear "They Took The Stars Out Of Heaven" and "Too Late To Worry Too...
... What seems to get lost these days is that until recent decades, the record industry wisdom had it that *songs* were what people bought -- not genres, or...
Yabbut Lloyd Price's version of Stagger Lee is apparently derived from Archibald's version of Stack O' Lee part 1, but then Furry Lewis had a similar version,...
Hmmmm . . . . first time I heard a version of Stagger Lee was by Pacific Gas & Electric in the 60's . . . which drove me to hear the earlier versions . . ....
It may be worth introducing into the discussion the plain fact that the phrase "hillbilly music" appeared nowhere in the English speaking world until 1926. It...
Agreed! Interesting that some of Bob Wills' earlier recordings were basically a big band sound with occasional steel guitar and fiddle licks thrown in. It...
Nothing compared to Wilson Pickett's version!! Pierre ... From: Marvin Jones <oklahomajones@...> Subject: Re: [hillbilly] Re: "purity" is in the eye of... ...
Like about everybody else in country music during the '55 to '65 period, they all made an attempt at crossing over. Ashworth's best showing was to Bubble Under...
Well, thank God it was fiddles than the violins than that shithead Chet Atkins introduced! ... From: Phillip Wells To: hillbilly@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Thanks for the tip Pierre . . . I always liked Wilson Pickett, but I do not believe I ever heard him wailing about Stagger Lee . . . what I remember most was...
Wow, with such a caustic introduction to the literature, no wonder the term was shunned by almost all who COULD read. For a brief eight weeks (Sept. 6,...
Pickett's was #22 in 1967. Tommy Roe's was #25 in 1971. Lloyd Price's was #1 in 1959. Larry Davis ... From: "Marvin Jones" <> To: <hillbilly@yahoogroups.com> ...
... months of 1944, when Billboard began it's country charts (which they called "folk" at that time)... The idea that there was no Billboard country chart...
... My Websters claims a first year in print of 1900, so Abel Green's offensive remarks aren't the first use of the word in the English-speaking world. -P....
My understanding is that Bob Wills and some other Western Swing artists were not enamoured by country music, at least initially, and did not like to be...
Well, it has most likely been at least thirty years since I researched Stagger Lee . . . and, I might have discovered the Lloyd Price version, but I do not...
Well, now it has only been maybe thirty minutes since I did the research and I have been brought up to date with the help of one very energetic lady on YouTube...
I got so infatuated that I watched her "Rock this Town" . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr0DOhlueHQ&NR=1 I always liked those stray cats anyway, but this...
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:33 PM, donjulioblanco2002 ... Gotcha. Thanks.... By the way, Abel Green's remarks sound inspired by H. L. Mencken, who used to refer...
... I think I saw Wills quoted as saying that the Nashville musicians didn't understand his music. That seems to be the case. He did do a few albums in...
