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Keith Urban: Jeans On
It’s Wednesday of Jen Week – and country music star Keith Urban is here! It just goes to show how much I must love my wife to go to the extreme length of devoting a full day to Keith, Jenny’s second love. Fact. I don’t like country music. Fact. I don’t like [...]
Uncle Tupelo: We’ve Been Had
hat is this – Led Zeppelin goes country? The bass in this song is strikingly familiar to the bass line of Zeppelin’s “House of the Holy”, and that is probably why I was able to listen beyond the first minute of this alt-country-rock song from Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo are not that [...]
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold is from Neil Young’s 1972 album, “Harvest”, and incredibly, it is his only number one single. What I find funny is that Bob Dylan, whose style “Heart of Gold” mimics really hated the song whilst it was perched atop the music charts. In a 1985 interview with Rolling Stone, Dylan [...]
Grateful Dead: Truckin’
Wow. It’s not every day I can write about a song that is was regarded by the US Library of Congress as a National Treasure. And I have more good news, Nicholas Cage is nowhere in sight! The Grateful Dead released this treasure in 1970 on their album, “American Beauty” and this [...]
Beachwood Sparks: Sister Rose
Beachwood Sparks are an indie-country band who are strongly influenced by the 1960’s psychedelic Californian sun-drenched sound that such bands as The Byrds, The Beach Boys and Buffalo Springfield created. I love the twangy and rawness of this track, and although only an album track this is my favorite song on Beachwood Sparks’ [...]
The Blues Brothers: Peter Gunn Theme
a href=”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/” target=”blank”>The Blues Brothers is my all-time favorite musical movie. I would even go so far as say that this is my all time favorite of all movies! The script is packed full of memorable quotes (”We’re on a mission from God”), and a star studded cast that includes Carie Fisher, [...]
Jim Reeves: Distant Drums
Back in 1966, there was one man that kept “Yellow Submarine/ Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles and “All Or Nothing” by The Small Faces out of the UK charts – this man was “Gentleman” Jim Reeves, a country singer from Texas who excelled in the Nashville country sound. He held on to the top [...]
