At a Country Music Association awards show in the late 1970s, Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel showed up wearing a stetsons. He and the similarly behatted and long-haired Charlie Daniels and John Anderson were politely asked to remove their headgear. But as the rhinestones faded, the Stetson would become an obligatory sartorial item in the country fraternity. We might credit the mercifully brief Urban Cowboy movement — spearheaded by John Tavolta's Honky Tonk Night Fever movie — for popularising the cowboy hat, which had been sported by many people over the years but never was standard apparel in [...]
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This compilation is not accompanied by an instalment in the country history, because the next chapter goes with the next mix. And, in some ways, it makes sense that this mix has no history (of course, the timeframe is covered by past articles in the series) because the late 1970s was a time of hiatus. Many of the stalwarts of just a few years earlier ceased having strings of hits, and those artists who had grown out of the Outlaw movement now had their day. In this mix, the likes of Guy Clark, John Anderson, Larry Jon Wilson [...]
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! [...]
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The eerie pic above does complete justice for this Minimal vibe that Deafheaven brings on the Actual Pain mix. Right in time for Halloween. This mix makes me feel as I'm lost in a dark and wet forest filled raving witches trying to bring down the night. These witches bring the percussion and the heat. I'm afraid of the dark now and I will take that vow of silence. Big ups to Actual Pain 1. Memoryhouse - [...]
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, [...]
This is from Skeeter Davis The Pops Hit Collection, Volume 1.
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In the slipstream of Johnny Cash came what would become known as the Outlaw Movement, an informal response to Nashville's easy listening, corporate and safe style, often recorded in Texas, reviving the honky tonk sounds of Hank Williams with strong lyrical content. Starting in the mid-'60s with singers like Bobby Bare, Tompall Glaser and Johnny Darrell, the sub-genre's standard bearers would include Waylon Jennings and his wife Jessi Colter, Willie Nelson (after he grew his hair), Kris Kristofferson, Leon Russell, Billy Joe Shaver, Hank Williams Jr, Jerry Jeff Walker and Gram Parsons. More traditionally-minded country stars, many mentored [...]
In the late 1950s and early '60s country was in a good shape. The likes of Johnny Cash, George Jones, Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline (who like Reeves would die in a plane crash), Don Gibson, Kitty Wells, Marty Robbins, Skeeter Davis, Ray Price, Faron Young, Ernest Tubb, ex-boxer Lefty Frizzell and Wanda Jackson were recording prodigious success, even in rivalry with its progeny, rock & roll.These were the comfort years before the social upheaval of the 1960s put into question old certainties, even in the world of country music. By now, country was no longer confined to the [...]
Happy post faux apocalypse! If you're reading this post, that means you've survived the bullshit. But anyone who's been through major heartbreak knows that that shit feels like the apocalypse more than anything else. Perhaps no one expressed that better than Skeeter Davis in her '62 hit "The End of the World," which Best Coast covered as a bit of a post-Rapture tribute. Stripped down with an acoustic guitar, it lacks the trademark sun-soaked sound of Best Coast while Bethany Cosentino sounds much more sorrowful than her usual "wish he was my boyfriend" jingle [...]
END OF THE WORLD by Best Coast Even though "Rapture" has past and takes its place among other stupid world events, Bethany Cosentino is always prepared for the end of the world. Her apocalypse survival guide includes: 1. 4 hand-rolled joints 2. 1 blunt 3. Ziploc bag to keep things fresh (even though these will most likely be consumed within a day) 4. A brand new cover Conspiratorial apocalypses aside, we all know that the end of the world will eventually come. And Best Coast [...]
Best Coast debuted a new cover in dedication to the world not blowing up this past weekend. This is a cover of Skeeter Davis' 1965 hit "The End of The World" and it's pretty sweet. While the typical care-free vibe that takes up so much of Bethany's music is absent, her vocals are chilling in this. This is definitely a lot darker than the original. END OF THE WORLD by bestcoastt
Well, Harold Camping's bold prediction of the Rapture happening last weekend didn't really pan out, but Best Coast lay out a pretty rad version of Skeeter Davis' The End Of The World. Check it out. Best Coast; The End Of The World (Skeeter Davis Cover)
Best Coast just released this cover of Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World", and though last weekend's predicted apocalypse was a dud, this is a great addition to the BC discography. END OF THE WORLD by bestcoastt
Here we are, 3 hours away from the end. Each hour, as we get closer, the Shank will countdown its 18 favorite apocalypse songs until... well... until we're all gone.
Photo by Philip Cosores So, when I bought an iPhone, it came with the Youtube app already installed and some video for Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World" pre-downloaded or some shit. I only recall this because I was by myself in a darkened parking lot one time and somehow the song started playing from my pocket. Luckily, the world did not end on that occasion, but it still scared the fucking shit out of me. So, Best Coast's cover of the same song strikes me as creepy mainly because this song will now [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales Gems, Redferns The sun goes on shining, the birds go on singing. Don't they know it's 'The End of the World'? Harold Camping, the 89-year-old mogul of the Family Radio network, and his followers have been touting this weekend as the Biblically ordained date of Armageddon. If that's true, there's only one soundtrack for the festivities -- Skeeter Davis ' rapturous 1963 pop classic 'The End of the World.' Songwriter Sylvia [...]
In case you haven't heard, Saturday is the End of the World . Well of course it would happen before I receive my income tax refund. And I was kinda hoping to see that new Transformers movie ... oh well. MP3: "Waiting For The End of the World" by Elvis Costello MP3: "The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash MP3: "It's [...]
In Volume 9 of the country history series, we look at the glory years of country, a time when the genre was at its most self-confident and profitable. It was still a vibrant genre, as this collection shows, though the crooners were already beginning to define the genre, a situation that would give rise to the outlaw movement, the protagonists of which were inspired by several of the artists on this mix. It's difficult to say who was the biggest star in 1950s country. The crooner likes of Eddy Arnold were immensely successful, but in terms of sales [...]
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