Seeing as the History of Country series is proving so popular, let us put on a Santa-red Stetson and have a country Christmas. This lot is old-skool: Ernest Tubb riffs (badly) on his 1941 honky tonk classic, Loretta Lynn socks it to it disagreeable Santa, while Brenda Lee aims to lassoo him, yee ha. George Jones goes X-Mas twisting, and Buck Jones provides some serious pathos. And if you had to choose one man to sing Little Drummer Boy, it would have to be Johnny Cash, right? Hey, even horrid old Jingle bloody Bells sounds good here! [...]
Is it just me, or are trucks getting bigger and fancier? On my last highway trip, I found myself once again surrounded by an endless procession of the huge beasts, and I couldn't help noticing how they seem bigger than ever, with many of them sporting elaborate sleeper cabs. Of course, sleeper cabs are pretty common now - in fact, it's almost impossible to find a road rig that doesn't have one. But they just keep getting bigger and fancier, and - I'm sure - more expensive too. What's next? A truck that drives itself? [...]
Looks like I'll be drinking Christmas dinner alone again this year. These songs are for the those of us who think that Christmas is the saddest, loneliest, most depressing time of year. This mix will make you cry. Consider yourself warned. Zippo! 1. Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas.mp3 Buy : It's Christmas Time (2000, orig. 1957) Gotta start off with a classic. 2. [...]
Filed under: News , Holy Hell Admiral Radley is, in many ways, a quintessential California band. The all-star project features members of Grandaddy -- a now-defunct group, forever associated with Modesto -- and Earlimart , who took their name from an actual town between Bakersfield and Fresno. Released earlier this year, Admiral Radley's debut album is called 'I Heart California,' so, yeah... they love California. Apparently, too, they even named the band after one of its lesser-known legends. "We've been on [...]
Today's post deals with the ever ascending hemlines of the late 1960s and early 1970s and a handful of country songs that address the topic. It serves as something of a sequel (or maybe it's a prequel) to a recent foray into the world of country songs about hot pants. As the narrator in the YouTube clip [...]
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, twelve drummers drumming... and a whole bunch of Christmas MP3's. If I was lucky she's send me a bottle of something strong... perhaps a bottle of Woodford Reserve, Makers Mark, Stranahan's, Bakers, or something like that. Isn't that what Christmas is all about? I thought so. Well, that along with family. MP3: Red Simpson - Truckin' Trees For Christmas Reverend Horton Heat - Jingle Bells Tiger City Jukes - Watch Out, [...]
Remember this when we all admitted to welling up on public transport when the right (or wrong) song pops up? Well, the commute isn't getting any easier now we're drawing into autumn, is it? Howard and I spoke early doors on Thursday and both admitted to feeling a bit on a misty morning , but as Catherine Howe has only just been posted up here, I'll resist the urge. Instead, let's have some Lurlene-like bluegrass and country classics to celebrate and commiserate life on the road. Listen: [...]
I walked out of Southpaw here in Brooklyn last week after the dB's show and snapped this photograph. Immediately I said to my friend Laura "Isn't there a song about trucking trees for Christmas?" She, being married to a well known authority on truck driving songs confirmed that indeed there is. So here you have it.... Download: "Truckin' Trees For Christmas" mp3 by Red Simpson, 1973. available on Trucker's Christmas
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," [...]
Dirty trucker. Mother trucker. Where the truck have I been? I'm back, and as a gift, I'm going to revisit a familiar Mountain theme and obsession to make it up to all y'all. We love us some good tasty truckin' music, we sure do, and we've already ranted ad nauseum on the topic already. So kick back for a bandwidth-busting half a cd mix of rubber burning, white line chasing, diesel
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