Not country exactly but it's nice to see the youth have heard of Chris Isaak.

Saw him on the Wicked Game tour at the Pavillion in weegieland back in the day. Amazing concert. Man could charm the pants off the entire audience.

poprock wrote:

Chris Isaac’s Wicked Game was one of those perfect versions. No cover matches up to it. It’s nice that people keep trying, but every cover version just makes me want to go back to the original.

This.  It's a perfect sounding song, any variation never ticks all the boxes at once.

g.man wrote:

Saw him on the Wicked Game tour at the Pavillion in weegieland back in the day. Amazing concert. Man could charm the pants off the entire audience.

Gibson made an experimental guitar that sounded so like Chis Isaak they gave it to him. The man is a legend.

"For my electric, I've got a one-off Gibson version of a Gretsch 6120, a sort of Chet Atkins thing. They made one of these things and gave it to me to see if I liked it, and I liked it so much I've been playing it ever since. People told me they thought it was a White Falcon, but it's not. It's just a white Gibson. I don't think they ever manufactured any of the things. They strung up this one prototype, scratched their heads, and said, 'Huh. Give it to Isaak."

Yeah, some of it isn't great. I'd still shag him.

Strong chorus, good stuff. Bit of Lindi Ortega going on maybe.

That’s pretty bloody good!  See there’s also an older EP of hers on Google Play; will give that a listen over the weekend too.  Good shout out.

Had the two albums on heavy rotation for a month, need to buy the EP really. Bald Butte is his best track imo, stunning story song, but the recent album is all 7s and 8s, very solid. Calgary Round Up is my RDR2 theme, love the yodelling at the end, solid effort great track.

Was good mate, I mean I'm a fan so I was set to thoroughly enjoy regardless, I think, but the missus (who knew nothing about Blaze Foley) liked it as well, although only in a 2.5/5 kinda way.

The film contains a load of Townes Van Zandt too, so worth watching if you're into him also. They had Charlie Sexton playing TVZ and I was impressed with how much he looked like him, imo.

Overall it wasn't anything incredible or unexpected, although it did offer up the story in a non-linear fashion, which was good I thought.

Also had yer man Ethan Hawke come out and intro it, then do a Q&A after, which also was good (and unexpected). Would you believe the next day I also bumped into Spike Lee at a hotel in central? Was an A-list packed weekend, that.

The film hasn't been picked up for release over here, Ethan was saying (we're on first name terms now), but I'd recommend it for a lazy weekend afternoon / evening with your favourite whisky and a sweet doob.

nick_md wrote:

I'd recommend it for a lazy weekend afternoon / evening with your favourite whisky and a sweet doob.

Ideal conditions for almost anything.  Add a wood fire and my brand new dressing gown.

That's my Sunday eve sorted, cheers geez.

I don't really smoke when I'm not drinking, I can take it or leave it midweek, but fuuck it's tough to get out the woods. I should be on the doorstep.

Well it's been well over a month now that I've had nothing but this song in my head, pretty much, with the odd flit to Life of Sin or Living the Dream, a smattering of Turtles too.

But this one, this the daddy for me atm, love this live version especially - the guitarist is sick:

I'm a vaper now, hopefully my rig will arrive in time for my mid-afternoon pub trip tomorrow.  Then it's home half cut for muted football and more sad songs.