The Sugars Genre: Blues / Garage / Soul From: Leeds, United Kingdom Brush the dust off your brothel creepers and crinoline dresses because there's a better than even chance that the next big thing could well be a musical genre that's 50 years old, good old fashioned 50s rockabilly. Kitty, Daisy & Lewis have received a flood of critical acclaim for [...]

I've already posted the Safe At Home and Sweetheart Of The Rodeo "originals." Now it's time for the "original" versions of the covers recorded by The Flying Burrito Brothers during the Gram Parsons era (1969-1970). [I realize that the Burrito's version of Wild Horses was released before The Stones' version, but it's still a Jagger/Richards composition, so that's close enough.] These "originals" show the R&B/Honky-Tonk/Rock mixture that inspired the Burrito's innovative country-rock style. From The Gilded Palace Of [...]
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1. Never do a rain dance on a hill. 2. Make sure you have a lot of room so you don't run into anything. 3. Spin around in clockwise circles. 4. Make up your own rain chant. It should be rhythmical and easy to say fast. 5. Yell your rain chant while spinning around in circles [If you are trying to get rid of rain, spin in counterclockwise circles and say your chant backwards]. * Rain Dance - Herbie Hancock * No Rain - [...]

To round out a month of double Stag posts, here are two versions by early gods of rock and roll. Dion and Jerry Lee Lewis both exuded the rock and roll attitude early, about as early as anyone did. And they both really power through this song. Dion (free of The Belmonts here) barks like a dog, and changes lyrics like crazy. ("It was the end !") Jerry Lee can't remember Lloyd Price's name, but he pounds the song out all the same, with classic "Killer" boogie-woogie piano. Dion - [...]
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Jerry Lee Lewis - " Breathless " [Single, 1958] He grew up playing piano with his cousin, future televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, married his 13-year old cousin (Lewis was 23 at the time; she was his third wife) and goes by the nickname "The Killer." Jerry Lee Lewis was Rock and Roll's first wild man. Once, very early in his career, a Nashville producer suggested Lewis switch from the piano to the guitar. Offended, Lewis reportedly replied "you can take your guitar and ram it up your ass!" "Breathless" is one of the Killer's first singles, recorded in 1958 [...]

Please assist the STWOF Classic Country Research Department by taking a moment to rate these versions of Crazy Arms according to your order of preference: Ray Price – Crazy Arms (mp3) ( buy album ) Jerry Lee Lewis – Crazy Arms (mp3) ( buy album ) Patsy Cline – Crazy Arms (mp3) ( buy album ) Linda Ronstadt – Crazy Arms (mp3) ( buy album ) BR-459 – Crazy Arms (mp3) ( buy album ) You may express your [...]

Tonight I drank a little wine and took my dog (and my i-pod) for a walk along the tracks. It was a warm spring night, after dark, and my mood was perfect for Jerry Lee Lewis's double country CD Another Place Another Time/She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye . Damn! Jerry Lee can lay down some hard country music. I know I just posted about the Killer, but I have to come back to him again. This record is incredible. If you don't believe me, take it from a professional: All Music [...]
1961 The Party Boys, We Got a Party. Charlie Feathers, Wild Wild Party. Jerry Lee Lewis, Save the Last Dance For Me. Parties don't exist in the present tense: they live in the jittery conditional mood, or as a void in the future tense (expected, planned, anticipated--or dreaded) or they are walled up in the preterite or the pluperfect tense (remembered hazily, recounted as legends to others).
They don't call him the Killer for nothing. Here is a killer take on a killer tune. I love the hair-flyin', foot-stompin', knee-knockin' thing that he does: Not that you're warmed up, here's a great track from Jerry Lee's classic live album, Live at the Star Club : Jerry Lee Lewis – Money (mp3) ( buy album ). Don't say Jerry wasn't versatile. [...]
MEAN WOMAN BLUES Jerry Lee Lewis 1964 Available on : Live at the Star Club, Hamburg Bear Family : 1989 [Buy It] MEAT MAN Jerry Lee Lewis Southern Roots Mercury : 1974 [Buy It] ROCK AND ROLL (WITH JIMMY PAGE) Jerry Lee Lewis Last Man Standing Artist First : 2006 [Buy It] Last night, I saw Jerry Lee Lewis play at [...]

I am a little sad that I won't be in Seattle on Saturday because I would go to see one of my favorite bands, What Made Milwaukee Famous . They are playing down at Chop Suey on Saturday with Louis XIV at 9pm. WMMF have a new album out, What Doesn't Kill Us , and I think it is just as good as their debut, if not a hair better. What Made Milwaukee Famous -- Blood, Sweat, & Fears What Made [...]

This post is inspired by an e-mail from reader Tom who took issue with my off-the-cuff comment in an earlier post that Gram Parsons "wrote the book" on country rock . I had been referring to Parsons' work with The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, & as a solo act, and wrongly implied that Parsons invented country rock. Tom, who knows his stuff, rightly pointed out that several country rock songs were released before The Byrds put country-rock on the map in the Summer of 1968 with Sweetheart of the Rodeo . [...]
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Rhino Skin Graham Parker - Get Started, Start A Fire Young Love - Discotech Για τους One Tree Hill fans Jerry Lee Lewis - I Forgot To Remember To Forget (Cover Elvis Presley)

C'est la fin de ce long week end. Certains d'entre vous sont partis pour un week end prolongé se prélasser sur la plage, à la campagne ou la montagne. D'autres en ont profité pour enchaîner les soirées branchées, ou tout simplement pour se reposer tranquillement chez soi ou entre amis... …et d'autres ont travaillé vendredi ! C'est à ces derniers que je m'adresse. Oui, vous ! Les laissés-pour-compte, les rejetés de la société, ceux qui triment pendant que d'autres ce prélassent ! La vie ne vous sourit pas [...]
END OF THE RAINBOW Sonny & Linda Sharrock Paradise Water : 1975 [Buy It] END OF THE RAINBOW Elvis Costello 1985 King of America (expanded) Rhino : 2005 [Buy It] RAINBOW Gene Chandler 1962 Available on : Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection Shout Factory : 2007 [Buy It] RAINBOW Gene Chandler 1965 Available on : [...]

Last week we heard a couple of trucker songs played by west coast hippies. Today we'll listen to the genuine article, and some cover versions it spawned. In 1954 Terry Fell recorded this, the first version of the second most popular truck driving song ever (third maybe if you count "Convoy"). The first, would be Dave Dudley's "Six Days On The Road," [...]
One of things people that move to California have to learn to live with is earthquakes. I never had a big problem with them, you just have to make sure to get outside if you're in a building when one hits - plus, I feel they're a lot safer than dealing with a hurricane or tornado. I can remember a few years ago, during one of the bigger quakes I'd experienced, running outside to the street and watching land waves roll down the pavement. Now, that was something I'd never seen before and probably a hell of a ride for [...]

School is back baby! Are you pumped up for it? Yeah, me neither. I served my time in countless classrooms around Texas, and in the end I got a rectangular piece of paper that says so. Oddly enough I still ended up on campus today to learn a bit more about the Groundwork Music Project. They are putting on Back-To-Schoolapalooza this weekend, a 3-day event designed to raise funds and spread the word about their cause. The purpose of the Groundwork Music Project is to provide free and low cost music education to young children who could not [...]