After a hiatus of a few months we return to the history of country music. In the last narrative instalment ( Volume 4 ) we noted the rise of female country singers; some of them will feature in this mix, which covers the years 1950-51, and its follow-up, 1952-53. In the course of the 1950s we will also review country's contribution to rock & roll, and discuss some of the artists featured. What follows then is a brief overview of country music in the 1950s. [...]
Well folks, that's it for the drinking songs. Another box checked off the STWOF to-do list... I know I missed some good ones, but I'm all out of booze (and out of steam), so the rest will have to wait for another day. Right now, I just need some sleep! Until we meet again, enjoy these tunes: Ted Hawkins - Sorry You're Sick ( buy ) Lefty Frizzell & Johnny Bond - Sick, Sober & Sorry ( buy ) George Jones - Heartaches & Hangovers [...]
I've often written about how the familiar sounds of an old song can instantly transport me to a different time and place, and that was certainly the case with one I ran across recently. Johnny Bond's " Hot Rod Lincoln " took me back to a time when my friends and I had some hot rod adventures of our own - and one of us became a local legend. Cyrus Whitfield (Johnny) Bond had already been a very successful country music songwriter and performer for years when he first recorded the song, and it wasn't a particularly big [...]
He was no James Dean, but he had a date with destiny that ended in an unexpected and shocking way. I've often written about how the familiar sounds of an old song can instantly transport me to a different time and place, and that was certainly the case with one I ran across recently. Johnny Bond's "Hot Rod Lincoln" took me back to a time when my friends and I had some hot rod adventures of our own -- and one of us became a...
For me, one of the best parts of music blogging is having a chance to present the history and evolution of songs that have become a part of the mythology of modern day Pop Culture. Hot Rod Race/Hot Rod Lincoln was the first of the car race songs, it opened the door for tunes like Gene Vincent's Race With The Devil and Jan & Dean Dead Man's Curve. While researching Hot Rod Lincoln, I was amazed on the amount of documentation that can be found about it on the Internet, so detailed that my own words couldn't do it the [...]
:: The Hills of Kentucky :: :: Anybody's Baby :: Johnny Bond, (no relation to Eddie Bond) who made his fame and fortune in Hollywood by way of Oklahoma is unfortunately best known for the comical, drunken album covers he posed for for the Starday label during the 1960s. These easy to find records are not very good representations of what Johnny Bond was capable of and the kind of material he
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I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
K-Holes - "Frozen Stiff"
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