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2 minutes ago, keyse1 said:

Do you like all the talking?

Once is enough 

If it’s a CD you can program it

This is my first spin, time will tell. 

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And this

Moanin’ The Blues

The most aptly named record I know of?

And this song pretty much sums up the subject matter of 80% of any song ever written 

Authorship is contested between Hank and a songwriter called Paul Gilley who sold Hank the song rights and drowned at the age of 27

( thank you Wikipedia)

Up there with Johnny Cash’s I Walk The Line as one of country musics greatest songs and a serious piece of art

Cheerful looking Hank on the cover though

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First heard Tom Russell in the 80’s I think 

Really started listening in the last decade

Gets better every time 

This is a great song about riding for Pancho Villa

More on the folk side than country 

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The movie Inside Llewyn Davis is based loosely on Dave Van Ronk

Listening to a Tom Russell song about him

i didn’t realise until this song that TR was around Greenwich Village in the late 60’s

Well worth Tidalling the song

Writes a lot of story songs that are long and interesting for the subject matter

 

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Politics and religion and music

3 of my favourite things

I didn’t realise that every song on Prodigal Son is religious 

Only 3 of which are written by Cooder

The others being gospel or hymns 

I saw Ry Cooder in Vancouver in about 74 or 75 

Much as I loved it I didn’t know as much about what he was doing as I do now

Fortunately I got to see him again a few years ago with Nick Lowe seperate and together 

Wonderful night

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18 minutes ago, keyse1 said:

Politics and religion and music

3 of my favourite things

I didn’t realise that every song on Prodigal Son is religious 

Only 3 of which are written by Cooder

The others being gospel or hymns 

I saw Ry Cooder in Vancouver in about 74 or 75 

Much as I loved it I didn’t know as much about what he was doing as I do now

Fortunately I got to see him again a few years ago with Nick Lowe seperate and together 

Wonderful night

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love ry cooder,one hell of a guitarist ,these are a few of my favourite cooder albums. 

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Sticking with Ry Cooder before I go off and watch a cowboy movie

Bought this way back when

I’ve  always had impeccable taste?

Must be all those Rolling Stone magazines 

Or pot

Or sun and surf

Incredible record and cover

The only thing records are good for

Looking at?

 

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31 minutes ago, keyse1 said:

Fortunately I got to see him again a few years ago with Nick Lowe seperate and together 

Wonderful night

Saw them in Perth a few years ago, 'twas a fantastic night, what a duo

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6 minutes ago, ray4410 said:

love ry cooder,one hell of a guitarist ,these are a few of my favourite cooder albums. 

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I’ve got Paradise and Lunch

I might Tidal those other 2

Truly one of America’s great musicians 

Over 50 years and never a bad record as far as I know

You could drop in on any decade with Ry Cooder and hear something even at the worst interesting and get a history lesson in American or world music

 

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Just now, turnthetable said:

Saw them in Perth a few years ago, 'twas a fantastic night, what a duo

Incredible night in Brisbane 

Nick Lowe is a great writer and responsible for a lot of great music from the 70’s with pin rock band  Brinsley Swsrtch to producing Elvis Costello playing with Dave Edmunds and his own killer records

And played in a band with Ry Cooder at some point Called from memory Little Village

Must Tidal that tomorrow 

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2 minutes ago, keyse1 said:

I’ve got Paradise and Lunch

I might Tidal those other 2

Truly one of America’s great musicians 

Over 50 years and never a bad record as far as I know

You could drop in on any decade with Ry Cooder and hear something even at the worst interesting and get a history lesson in American or world music 

i recon you will really like the ry cooder+manuel galban album MAMBO SINUENDO keyse ,manuel is cuban and it shows through out the album.

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Guy Clark, ‎ The Dark.  Sugar Hill Records ( SUG-CD-1070 US 2002.

 

Good evening alt. Country fans, just going through unplayed CDs when I found Tex, Don & Charlie (posted on the other 'channel', as I saw the Cruel Sea on currently spinning) & this Guy Clark. It is a radio station promo copy & has the Sugar Hill album release promo notes, I was intending to add it to discogs, until we had a potential gas leak,  so will try & put a copy of the blurb sheet on here, soonish if anyone is interested?

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7 hours ago, jazzdog@groovemasters said:

Guy Clark, ‎ The Dark.  Sugar Hill Records ( SUG-CD-1070 US 2002.

 

Good evening alt. Country fans, just going through unplayed CDs when I found Tex, Don & Charlie (posted on the other 'channel', as I saw the Cruel Sea on currently spinning) & this Guy Clark. It is a radio station promo copy & has the Sugar Hill album release promo notes, I was intending to add it to discogs, until we had a potential gas leak,  so will try & put a copy of the blurb sheet on here, soonish if anyone is interested?

The Dark (CD, Album) album cover

I’ve got a dozen or so of his records going back to the early 70’s

He died a few years ago 

One of the best song writers in America and a mainstay of Texas musicians 

Not familiar with that record but I don’t think he ever made a bad one

Very sad when he died

Put the blurb up

You can buy his first 2 records as a 2 for 1 disc and there is a box set of about 6 I think for the price of one CD of the other early ones

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1 hour ago, surprisetech said:

Filling in for the regular bass player at a gig on Saturday night, so learning a few new ones at the moment including this beauty.

 

 

What is the band called?

Mercy Now is one of my favourite records of the last few decades

Camelot Motel from an earlier record is an example of great songwriting and visualises as film noir?

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6 minutes ago, keyse1 said:

What is the band called?

Mercy Now is one of my favourite records of the last few decades

Camelot Motel from an earlier record is an example of great songwriting and visualises as film noir?

 

Jose & The Amigos.  Local Dandenong Ranges Bluegrass/Americana outfit.

 

Picked up Mercy Now a couple of years ago, and yes, an instant favourite.  'Your Sister Cried' on that album is also a Fred Eaglesmith composition.

I've gotta get at least one Fred Eaglesmith album in my collection now!

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1 hour ago, surprisetech said:

 

Jose & The Amigos.  Local Dandenong Ranges Bluegrass/Americana outfit.

 

Picked up Mercy Now a couple of years ago, and yes, an instant favourite.  'Your Sister Cried' on that album is also a Fred Eaglesmith composition.

I've gotta get at least one Fred Eaglesmith album in my collection now!

Hope to be in Melbourne in the next few months

Ill look them up to see if they are playing anywhere

Ive seen Fred several times in Tamworth Newcastle and Gympie

He is a friend of the Chambers and Bill plays with him and Kasey does songs with him whenever he tours which hasn’t been for a long time

First I ever heard of him Kasey sang Water In The Fuel as an encore back in the 90’s I think at a show in Tweed Heads very early in her solo career

Bill wrote a spoken word letter to Fred about coming out again

Anyway buy any one of the first 6 or so records you can’t go wrong

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