In the past 10,000 years what has Australia given us? Well, my childhood best friend had an Australian father and we always put on his funny military uniforms. And did they manufacture those shoes I had that made me hate sitting ‘indian style’ at school presentations because they made my feet stick to the carpet? […]
Category: Country
Bob Dylan: Tempest
He’s back. Like Twain, the reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. Half a century has passed between the release of Bob Dylan‘s first eponymous album and this morning’s release of Tempest, and while some have drawn parallels William Shakespeare‘s final play, The Tempest, it remains unknown if Dylan’s latest offering will ultimately stand as […]
Hayes Carll: Kmag Yoyo (& Other American Stories)
We don’t post a lot of country music around the PaisleyBlog. So, if that’s what you’re into, you better enjoy this update. What I’m Listening To Today: Hayes Carll: Kmag Yoyo (& Other American Stories). I guess he’s already kinda a big deal. I don’t know, I just discovered him at the public library. Aside […]
Dan Blakeslee: Tatnic Tales
Stabarific & I wandered out Sunday evening to enjoy the only pleasant time of day here during the sizzling Cambridge summer: the night. We quaffed wheat beer and munched popcorn (covered in extra-butter) while enjoying Casablanca at the Brattle Theatre, Harvard Square’s local movie-house, then meandered to J.P Lick’s for some jimmied-up ice cream to compliment […]
Chris Sand
The headshot shows a stubbled chin with unkept but appropriately short hair, the quiet comfortable eyes and a pinched smile say, “I’m being well paid for the work and I enjoy it.” The plain blue T atop a plain white-T says, “there are more important things than a collard shirt.” and the white background says, […]
Justin Townes Earle
You guessed it, they’re related. Justin Townes Earle, son of famed Steve Earle by his third wife of a 2008 count showing seven, sings songs on par with the twang we appreciate in the elder. A little raking however, uncovers a great deal of muck with this character. Almost too much. As the stories and […]
Billy Briggs: Country Classics
KZSC now regularly wakes me up in the morning. Last Sunday it was lessons in meditation. “One. *pause* Lighten. *pause* The. *pause* Heart. *pause* Two. *pause*…” During the week I get an hour of music until the 8 AM news roll at which point I’m sufficently depressed by the world that I get up and attempt […]
Pete Drake: Forever
If you’ve heard Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, or Peter Frampton’s well… anything at all… then you may know Pete Drake and Alvino Rey. Lets take it back to the beginning. It all started back in 1908, just after the great San Francisco earthquake pushed most of the bay […]
Jerry Jeff Walker.
The first and last time I was in a Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ‘n Biscuits was on a muggy trip down to Jamesville, North Carolina. I couldn’t help but sing a little Mr. Bojangles in my head as the bacon cheddar biscuit quickly clogged up my heart. Mr. Bojangles is an inadvertent topic of this post […]