Old Country and Bluegrass music that you will love to hate

This is Bilge after all!

Up first for me is one of my favorites - John Hartford: John was a champion for river boats, and life on the river. The world lost a great deal when it lost John Hartford. There just isn't much out there on him on you-Tube unfortunately. He wrote this and many, many other great tunes. I had the good fortune to see him play several times prior to his death. They were some of the best shows I've ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCVQ3w3sKxA

Good Album:

PS this thread moved from Bilge to here :)

[ Edited by: Babalu 2010-06-13 16:37 ]

Maybe, I should have started with the great, Hank Williams Sr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxB1t2EEK0M

I remember my grandfather telling me...."boy, ya just ain't American if'n ya don't like Pasty Cline...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzq5X-p2C0Y

Finally a thread with some useful content!

Willy Nelson

Speedy West

Flatt and scruggs

Buck Owens

Bob Wills

Patsy friggin Montana!

and don't fergit the Carter Family!

And a BIG SHOUT OUT to
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys!
AWWWWWWW-HAAAAAAAW!

Here's your Tiki connection.....

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=36656&forum=11&vpost=534279

Moderator, please relocate this thread to the General Forum. Thank You.

Slim Whitman!

Red Sovine!

On 2010-06-12 07:46, Babalu wrote:
Maybe, I should have started with the great, Hank Williams Sr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxB1t2EEK0M

Of interest to upright bass players would be the "snare" drum apparatus he has attached to his bass, (and is seen playing with brushes). This is just one way that Nashville and Country musicians avoided the unspoken ban on drums in early country music.

http://www.myspace.com/lucasvigor
http://www.myspace.com/thesmokinmenehunes
http://www.myspace.com/thehulagirlsband

"yer jus not tuned into the series of tubes yet, let it soak in".

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2010-06-12 15:50 ]

And there are some new boys, keeping the style alive!

This is Wayne The Train Hancock. The hula girls opened for him last year in Long Beach.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpYl5Q0cvE

Whoa! Some most excellent feed back :up: I'm kinda shocked really :) I wasn't expecting that.

Your right, there are many good people still keeping these sounds alive (Go Wayne the Train!)...Like Willie (mentioned above), Doc Watson is a living legend. Blind at birth, Doc's play goes way back. He and his son Merle (not in this linked video) played on stage together everywhere. Merle was extremely talented in his own right. Unfortunately, Merle was killed on the family farm by a tractor a I believe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdUrg2Cqxdw&feature=related

I love Bluegrass.
Uncle Dave Macon :

(i'll probably regret posting this later)

sigh

me. http://www.scvfa.org/jams.shtml

(keep in mind, this site still actively uses this picture of me from when i was around 12 years old, with a terrible farmer's tan i might add)

On 2010-06-12 22:18, Babalu wrote:
Whoa! Some most excellent feed back :up: I'm kinda shocked really :) I wasn't expecting that.

Your right, there are many good people still keeping these sounds alive (Go Wayne the Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-DuRK3810s&feature=related

When we opened for Wayne, we were standing outside the club and he came out and was talking with us. You just could not find a nicer guy! Tobacco chewing, accent so thick you could barely understand him and a sly grin! What a guy! No pretention, no attitude (you kind of expect a bit of a tude with most rockabilly artists). But, Wayne is the real deal. A total Southern Gentleman in every way. Plus, this music he plays goes far beyond rockabilly. It's western swing and real early country, but not just some tribute or retro-thing. It's current, and what you would have heard had you lived back in the early 50's in the south. As I recall, there may have been only two of our tiki central friends that made it out to the show we did with him. What a shame, as it was a great show this man did!

Russell Scott and his red hots were on the same bill with us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtjvz9p170&feature=related

And here is another modern country artist we opened for: Michael Ubaldini

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5GIM-8Q7Fo&feature=related

And here is someone we would LOVE to open for! The GREAT Junior Brown!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wLVCLPx0M

And the awesome Brian Jay! (This is the band Dartin Menny (kevin Stewart) used to play with)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK1J_O6DU1g&feature=related

Another modern country classic! Dwight Yoakam!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knroQ2GjKdY&feature=PlayList&p=B96BC789513FD705&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1

Big Sandy and the Flyrite boys: This one has Dartin Menny (Kevin Stewart from Exotiki)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txQ7c69Qp98

And here was a unique performance at the redwood that some of you tiki centralites were lucky enough to witness! Big Sandy and Dartin Menny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwYG4MM_DgI

Awesome.
Thanks for all the links, as I don't know a lot of this stuff, I'm always interested in discovering new musicians.

Well there ya go partners...we've moved up from the paper cup status of Bilge to the glassware status of Beyond Tiki...

With that...let's jump back a little - Mr. Eddy Arnold a singin' Cattle Call

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz90Cur_1cU

PS: Eddy's "Streets of Laredo" was always one of my favorites too :)

[ Edited by: Babalu 2010-06-13 16:46 ]