Post drink will depend on getting the Saturday off, but I'll have a few beforehand for sure. Will probably need four pints just to stop me welling up when he fills me with the happysad feels.
Bidding on the last JP cd for my collection after it popped up on Ebay. Not seen it cheaper than £30ish, 6 days to go though. It's the most un-Prine album - recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Studio and produced by Knox, Jerry & Sam. Rockier and far noisier than most of his records. Sounds like they had a blast making it from studios stories, blowing tubes out of amps and focusing on making a racket rather than pushing his voice to the forefront. The big man has referred to it as his favourite of his albums in the past. It wasn't well received and I can't legitimately call it a great album, but it's got some great stuff on it.
I've had the files for years thanks to DS, but it's the missing puzzle piece so I'm in.
I love this track, but it has some hugely questionable lyrics. Dat sound though:
Fucksake, promoters around here don’t even try. Not one poster. (I spotted this one while out in town centre with SG. About two miles away from home and the venue.)
The king of couplets, Mike Cooley (Driveby Truckers guitarist, bit-part vocalist and part-time singer-songwriter). Love it when he writes a good throwaway track with a few great sounding lines. Studio version of this one was originally from a collection of off-cuts that became an album proper:
"I'm not good with numbers I just count on knowing when I'm high enough" is a classic Cooley way to kick things off, but the lines I'm particularly keen on here are "getting all excited finding nothing that was never there before/is like bringing flowers to your mama and tracking dog shit all over the floor".
One more, as I'm on a Cooley journey at work. Considering they're usually presented as southern rock stompers his songs are often quite delicate lyrical compositions before the guitars pile on.
He contributes closer to 50% of their output these days, which is fine by me as he's a far better lyricist than Patterson Hood and I prefer his voice. Big up the DBTs, the twin album salvo in 2003 & 2004 are both all-timers for me.
Every month or so I Google 'John Fullbright new album' and 'Chris Knight new album', without success.
Until today! There's a new Chris Knight due on Oct 11th. Which - presumably as a thank you to me for the seven year wait - closes with a duet on John Prine's Mexican Home with the man himself. EXCITE.
Or my personal favourite and one of the best pure country songs of the past 25 years*, packaged with a chorus which effectively turns the track into metacountry as it's a great way to describe certain qualities of the genre:
*Demo above recorded in 1996, he didn't release a studio version until 2012.
I'm up for grabbing a beer sometime anyway. I forgot to brew beer for the garden thing I suggested, but I'm still up for hosting a mini stock this year (we could just drink stubbies instead). Will post in the thread later, see what's going on.
Ploughing ahead with gusto despite a shredded voice gets a thumbs up.
Absolutely not his greatest performance, but one of my fave songs of his, and that gig is all up on the tubes with Chuck Ragan, and there's some top moments
"I spent years thinking Yorke was legit Downs-ish disabled and could only achieve lucidity through song" - Mr B