I've always known that Loretta Lynn is immensely talented, but who knew she was so gifted at keeping a secret? For 26 years, the country icon led the world to believe that she was married at 13, a tall tale told in her 1976 autobiography Coal Miner's Daughter -- and repeated in the 1980 film, for which Sissy Spacek won a Best Actress Oscar -- and one that she likely would have lived out her days retelling had it not been for the Associate Press reporter who recently uncovered her actual birthdate: April 14, 1932. [...]
Thrill Jockey is reissuing Freakwater's third album, Feels Like The Third Time , on LP in honor of Record Store Day 2012. I already own this one on LP, and according to the press release , I guess I'm kind of lucky: 1993 : Thrill Jockey releases Freakwater's Feels Like the Third Time , an undisputed classic of the alt-country/Americana scene. In print on CD since its release, the vinyl version has been sadly unavailable since the early 90's, as the record plant burnt down after our initial order of vinyl arrived. Also included for [...]
The NYC songstress covers the Twitty classic.
Photo courtesy of sunrecords.comSam Phillips On this day in 1923, legendary producer, record executive, DJ and Sun Records/Sun Studios founder Sam Phillips was born to a pair of poor tenant farm
The traditional country stars — Conway Twitty, George Jones, Tammy Wynette Charlie Rich, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride — were still selling many records in the 1970s, and periodically crossed over to the pop charts. Singers like Donna Fargo evoked the good old days with happy songs like The Happiest Girl In The Whole USA. These were still the Opry years — in fact, in 1972 the Grand Ole Opry opened a theme park called Opryland, and wo years later moved out of its long-time home, the Ryman Theatre, to Opryland. But the Nashville scene no longer monopolised country, [...]
It was the age of the country songwriter, with people such as Harlan Howard (Heartaches By The Number), Hank Cochran (I Fall To Pieces), Roger Miller (Billy Bayou), Willie Nelson (Crazy), Mel Tillis (Detroit City), Tom T Hall (Harper Valley PTA) and the Bryants (Love Hurts) creating many classics. Some of them would become stars in their own right. None maybe more so than Kris Kristofferson, a man whose early biography reads like a far-fetched penny novel. Many of the songs he is known for were first recorded by others, sometimes several times. With the arguable exception of Me And [...]
True story, back when we were trying to pick out Twitter handles in 2008, we almost went by @ConwayTwitter, but we instead went for a real name. Now the handle is taken, probably by someone who ... Continue reading "Five Filthy Conway Twitty Ditties Sure To Get Her To Press Charges" >
No, he ain't. On this day in country music history 1933, a boy named Harold Jenkins was born in a town called Friars Point, Mississippi. His uncle named him after his favorite silent film actor,
Hurricane Ike from 2008. By now everyone should be ready for this big storm. Just remember - when the wind's blowin' stay indoors, and try to find high ground when the floodwaters come. These big storms are products of Mother Nature, who doesn't give a shit if you live in New York City or Podunk, N.J. She couldn't care less if you have someplace to be or something to do, and if you think you are going to show Mother Nature how tough you are then she may just want [...]
Another tie, another jar of cologne, another set of cuff links, another Father's Day. Do you call your dad, send him a card, buy him some tools? Or how about you dedicate a collection of Father
In honor of the period we'll call "Parent's Month" that falls between Mother's Day and Father's Day, this week's B List looks at ten amazing songs written from the perspective of a parent to their child along with a few from the opposite perspective. I'll include a lyrical gut punch from each. 1. Beautiful Boy - John Lennon For one of the tracks on John Lennon's "comeback" album from 1980, Double Fantasy, the former Beatle wrote this song about his son Sean. I struggle to [...]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NlMTa I5FIY John Carpenter 's drummer Joe Albanese happens to be a Youtube connoisseur and general master of music entertainment. He can engage a group of people for days on Facebook in a race to name bands with the word "black" in the their names. Today he sent over a link to the video seen above, "Old Electric Boogie," a Youtube gem, inspiring us to launch a new L.A. RECORD weekly blog column. IT'S ALL FOR YOU, TUBE will feature a Youtube Mixtape contribution from someone really cool who [...]
If I were to play Dirty Beaches' debut full-length, Badlands, loudly in my apartment, my neighbors would likely suspect one of two things. Either I pulled out an old-fashioned phonograph and started playing tattered vinyls of early-era rockabilly, or I was blasting a documentary focused around novels like On the Road and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [...]
Were he still living, Harold Jenkins would turn 77 today. Granted, that name might not mean that much to you, but as Conway Twitty , he enjoyed one of the most successful careers in the music business. Until George Strait passed him a few years back, his total of 55 number one records was the gold standard for artists in all genres. As we celebrate the birthday of a man once dubbed "The High Priest Of Country Music" by southern humorist Jerry Clower, let's take a look back at five of his most classic moments, and one that you [...]
Was awol last weekend alas, and sorry for that, but fear not: here´s yet another edition of Wild Weekend , with the shuffle function of my trusted iPod all geared up to pick six tunes of diverse plumage. This week´s catch? Space jazz, a classic reggae riddim, Jeffrey Lee Pierce in Germany and much more interesting stuff for you to chew on. Have a good one. Let´s start of with a classic country duet from the early seventies. Country giant Conway Twitty teams up with coal miner´s daughter Loretta Lynn to [...]
Photography by me ! I'd like to tell you a little story... A semi-tragic love story, if you will, between myself & a little mobile phone service provider named Sprint . It's a long story, so how about we start up the tunes now, let you settle in, and snuggle up for a, hopefully, good read. Push play and let's begin our story as... TSURURADIO Presents... Baby, Don't Forget My Number!!! The Story & Mixtape Of The Trials & [...]
Andy Rehfeldt strikes again!!! The latest from Rehfeldt - a.k.a. "The dude responsible for the jazzercised Lamb of God, the Disneyfied Cannibal Corpse, and metallicized Louis Armstrong videos - is a death metal version of Conway Twitty's "I See The Want Your Eyes." As always, the syncing is near perfect (The Deciblog - where [...]
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It has been a while since I inaugurated this series of songs about murder. In the three songs for the second instalment, we observe a musician killing in self—defence, a crime of passion, and a family making excuses for their very fucked-up son. * * * Bill Brandon – Rainbow Road (1969).mp3 This deep soul track by the little known Bill Brandon used to be very rare. Thanks to the Internet, it is now accessible to [...]
Filed under: The Hit List Joe Frazier could pack a punch as a boxer, but he was hitless as a singer . Deion Sanders was great at baseball and football, but he dropped the ball as a hip-hop act -- and let's never speak of the rapping of basketball's Shaquille O'Neal and soccer's Andy Cole . In contrast, these 20 people have had notable forays in music and athletics, proving that as hard as it is to make it in one, it's [...]
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