3532. “KMAG YOYO” by Hayes Carll
Fan video: I am pretty sure I first ran into Hayes Carll when this remarkable song made Rolling Stone magazine’s “top 50 tracks of 2011″ list. Country is an underrepresented genre in my library (there’s just too great music not … Continue reading
Allegedly, an actual film of McClintlock performing this in the late 20′s: How quickly we forget! Harry McClintlock was a huge star in his time and was responsible for the first recordings of many classic American folk, bluegrass and hillbilly … Continue reading
Fan video: I’m not what one might term a big Garth Brooks fan, but he was unquestionably one of the biggest crossover music stars of the 1990′s. His second album, No Fences, was an enormous hit and kicked off a … Continue reading
The Full Tilt Boogie Band was comprised of a group of Musicians that Janis Joplin handpicked to form her first true personal band. Her previous band that she had following her departure from Big Brother and the Holding Company, the … Continue reading
Fan video: Now, “Hot Burrito #2″, now, now, this is a song. This my friends, is a fucking song. Country, R&B and rock all together. Steel guitar, fuzz guitar, piano, and a country vocal. You can hear a thousand genres … Continue reading
Fan video: “Hot Burrito #1″ is an absolutely perfect country weeper about lost love. Elvis Costello does a hell of a cover of this tune: Anyhow, Parsons takes the listener through a spectrum of emotions both lyrically and musically over … Continue reading
Fan video? Official video? Who knows! “Sin City” walks the line between being a serious meditation on a fallen city and a parody of that sort of song. While Las Vegas has the reputation of being Sin City, it seems … Continue reading
Fan video, I think: The Flying Burrito Brothers were arguably the most influential of Gram Parson’s various bands. According to AllMusic,, their 1969 debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin, “virtually invented the blueprint for country-rock.” You may recall that … Continue reading
Released in 1975, one of John Denver’s best known staples skyrocketed to #1 on both the Country and Hot 100 Charts for both Billboard and Canadian RPM. I can say that I identify with this song, but there is great … Continue reading
The CD Bonus Track Three on 2003′s Maxi Single Hurt was originally recorded by Glen Campbell in 1968. I haven’t found any sources as to why this song was chosen to solely appear on the Maxi Single, but my guess … Continue reading