True Romance By Taylor K. Long This Valentine's Day, enjoy this collection of a handful of my favorite "love songs" and songs about love. Whether you are part of a duo or flying solo-remember this piece of advice: I kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and things seemed to be getting so shitty. And he'd say,"That's the way it goes, but don't forget, it goes the other way too." That's the way romance is... Usually, that's the way it goes, but every once in awhile, it goes the other way too. You can download the entire mix, here, or [...]
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! [...]
Much like Jay, I grew up listening to most of my music in the front seat of my father's car. Unlike Jay's British youth, I grew up in Mexico City, where I spent countless hours of my day sitting in traffic listening to multiple albums per day. Every time I got in the car with my dad, he would ask me to grab a handful of CD's from the glove compartment and choose whichever one I wanted. Although he would let me pick the album, the song we listened to was never up to me. My father would always [...]
Picture this: In the build up to Halloween I went down to a plush Hollywood bar/club to meet up with some friends. As I was wiggling through a sea of burlesque girls, casual zombies and mystical unicorns I overheard a sweet sweet sound emanating from the stage. For the duration of their show I was [...]
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Tweet Purchase the album – Amazon / iTunes When you're band name is Shimmering Stars and you trace your musical genealogy back to retro performance footage of the Everly Brothers, you've got some sicky sweet qualities to work through. As if to answer these worries, "I'm Gonna Try" opens up with these delightful words: "Walking down the street/ and I wanna kill everyone I see./ How come [...]
When Girls released 'Album' in 2009 they were a rare band whose buzz was equal to their talent. The follow up EP, 'Broken Dreams Club' further cemented my infatuation with it's Everly Brothers meets fuzzed out pop sound. The San Francisco band have been gearing up for the release of their second full length 'Father, [...]
Echo-laden waves of '60s surf pop and doo-wop wash over new indie shores, creating a sound flooding with comforting throwbacks, yet shimmering with freshness.
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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 [...]
The Everly Brothers, "I Wonder If I Care As Much"
On this day in country music history - July 14, 1973 - Phil Everly threw a dang old fit, smashing his guitar after performing the song, "('Till) I Kissed You" and walking off the stage, effecti
I do feel that a festival wouldn't be a festival without these three things; A truly great live act, a terrific pair of unashamedly naked breasts, and someone gravely (and most of the time deservedly) injuring themselves due to a moment of awe inspiring stupidity. We shall return to this nugget of festival wisdom in [...]
Bonnie "Prince" Billy Releases Merle Haggard, Everly Brothers Covers Not only has Will Oldham written a new Merle Haggard-inspired song , but Bonnie "Prince" Billy and friends have been covering a Haggard classic of late: "Because of Your Eyes," a gorgeous love song from the outlaw country legend that was reworked for the inaugural release from Spiritual Pajamas — folkYEAH! 's new label — backed by Bonnie's take on Roy Harper's "I'll See You Again." You can pick up one of the limited 7-inch copies due next week here [...]
Will Oldham breaks folkie character on an eight-minute guitar freakout version of an Everly Brothers chestnut.
And here are three more murder songs. One is chilling, one is mournful, and one is camper than David. * * * Andre Williams - Pardon Me (I've Got Someone To Kill) (2000).mp3 Hello friend, meet Andre Williams. He's got someone to kill, and he will tell you why. This is not a shooting-a-man-in-Reno-just-to -see-him-die kind of deal. This killing is premeditated, but our new friend believes he has a good reason. "I warned him not to try and [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images | Paul Natkin/WireImage Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel must have had tongues firmly planted in cheeks when they named their 2003 reunion the Old Friends tour. After all, the former duo had spent years feeding off their contempt for each other, as did their invited opening act Don and Phil Everly, the harmonizing siblings who formed the first-ballot Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo [...]
Two new free mixtapes have hit the Internet in the past few weeks and they share a common sound: dream pop. The way they get there, though, couldn't be more different. Music Tumblrs Cactus Mouth and The Unholy Rhythm deliver a set of covers of songs from the late '50s and early '60s. That means lots of proto-rock tunes from the likes of the Everly Brothers and Bo Diddley, given the indie sort of beach-haze vibe so popular these days. It's not just a bunch of Best Coast wannabes though; more earnest acoustic material crops up every now and then. [...]
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