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Dustdevl340 said:
8 months ago I'd never heard of Ray Wylie Hubbard. Now he's one of my favourites. Love the line about Desert Eagles and badass Hebrews.

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Hell yeah, Ray Wylie Hubbard is great! Snake Farm is a great album. Kinda like a mix of Steve Earle and Waylon Jennings.

I've always got some Drive By Truckers crankin in the Duster!
 
540slant6 said:
Hell yeah, Ray Wylie Hubbard is great! Snake Farm is a great album. Kinda like a mix of Steve Earle and Waylon Jennings.

I've always got some Drive By Truckers crankin in the Duster!
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Coming into work today, played RWH's "Purgatory Road" 5 times straight. Both RWH and Steve Earle write such great story songs with lyrics that truly paint a picture in your mind. I like a lot of Jason Isbell's solo work too. "Cigarettes and Wine" is flat out awesome. I'll check out the Truckers next.

Cheers,

Steve
 
Ethel Waters from the 1943 movie Cabin In The Sky. After starting out with risqué song and dance routines in vaudeville in the '20's, she introduced standards like Georgia On My Mind and Stormy Weather that became huge hits for other artists. She lived very large which was unusual for a black artist in those days. Later she was Emmy and Oscar nominated for dramatic acting. In her later years she was very overweight and became a born-again Christian and performed on Billy Graham's crusades. She was notoriously difficult to work with and that may be part of the reason she's pretty much unknown today.

The whole movie is a dream sequence after Little Joe has been stabbed, The Lord and the Devil are vying for his soul. After he gets tempted by Georgia Brown, his previously strictly-devout wife Petunia crosses over to the dark side herself in a nightclub which is very entertaining to watch...
 
Simply beautiful - Greg Lake, C'est La Vie. I sat there stunned listening to this. Crank it up.

 
This guy does heavy metal versions of tunes.


 
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“Simple Man,” Take 1
For Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Gary Rossington, “Simple Man” functioned as both a song and as a how-to guide for good living. Inspired by advice given to them by their family matriarchs throughout the course of their lives, “Simple Man” is one of those songs that transcends barriers across the world; where “Free Bird” roared, “Simple Man” came in with a whisper as it echoed the advice from mama that everyone carries close to their heart, but packed a huge punch – which is what makes the demo you’re about to hear so incredibly special.

Recorded in 1972, this version of “Simple Man” is the stunning rough draft for the final cut that would be featured on Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd a year later and features an amazing, far away sounding echo effect applied to Ronnie’s voice that makes the track sound as if it’s really mama speaking to you through your memories – a far cry from the clear, bold vocals we’d hear from Ronnie in the song’s final take.
Missing a few key elements as the boys fleshed out what was to become one of their greatest masterpieces – Billy Powell’s keys and Al Kooper’s organ, the thumping bass lick that seems to fill in the empty spaces between Ronnie’s vocals and guitarists Gary and Allen’s rhythm and melody – we love the simplicity of “Simple Man” as a demo recording and greatly admire the overwhelming closeness to the final take, as we’re sure you will too!
 
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