The Music Thread

[neoplacebo]

Today is the day in 1969 that The Beatles walked across Abbey Road and had one of six photographs chosen as the cover for the album.

[O Really]

Dont' Fear the Reaper...RIP
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=823175

[Cowboy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/arts/ ... l?hpw&_r=0

Tompall Glaser, Country Artist in Outlaw Movement, Dies at 79

By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN
August 14, 2013

Tompall Glaser, a key figure in country music’s outlaw movement of the 1970s, died on Tuesday on his way to a hospital in Nashville. He was 79.

His death was confirmed by his nephew Louis Glaser, who did not specify the cause.

Mr. Glaser was one of four Nashville performers, along with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, featured on the 1976 compilation “Wanted! The Outlaws,” the first album in the history of country music to be certified platinum for sales of one million copies.

The album, which all but single-handedly introduced Nashville’s expression of the freewheeling outlaw spirit to the popular mainstream, included Mr. Glaser’s husky-voiced version of Shel Silverstein’s “Put Another Log on the Fire (Male Chauvinist National Anthem).”

Mr. Glaser and his younger brothers, Jim and Chuck, had earlier opened Glaser Sound Studios, an artists’ haven off Nashville’s Music Row commonly referred to as Hillbilly Central. Renowned for allowing musicians free rein in the studio — and not producers, as was then the custom in Nashville — Hillbilly Central produced outlaw touchstones like Jennings’s 1975 classic “Dreaming My Dreams” and Kinky Friedman’s 1973 debut album, “Sold American.” Kris Kristofferson, Billy Joe Shaver and Bobby Bare, for whom Mr. Glaser and Harlan Howard wrote “The Streets of Baltimore,” a No. 1 country hit in 1966, made landmark recordings there as well.

Mr. Glaser and his brothers also established their own publishing company, advocating for songwriters to retain ownership and control of their material. Among their earliest signings was John Hartford, the singer and banjo player whose original composition “Gentle on My Mind” won Grammy Awards for both him and Glen Campbell in 1968.

“Tompall was way ahead of the game in terms of artist rights and taking control of the creative process and encouraging people to do what was in their heart and soul,” the Grammy-winning Nashville producer Kyle Lehning said in the 2012 documentary “The Story of the Glaser Brothers: From Nebraska Ranchers to Nashville Rebels.”

Thomas Paul Glaser was born on Sept. 3, 1933, in Spalding, Neb., and spent his childhood on a 1,200-acre farm northeast of there. He and his brothers performed widely in the eastern half of the state and later hosted a local radio show before appearing on Arthur Godfrey’s network television show in 1957 and attracting the attention of the country singer Marty Robbins, who hired them to sing harmony in his road band.

Two years later Mr. Glaser and his brothers moved to Nashville, where they toured with Johnny Cash and sang harmony on his 1963 hit “Ring of Fire” and on Robbins’s 1959 No. 1 single “El Paso.” Usually billed as Tompall and the Glaser Brothers, the trio recorded as a folk act for Decca before they moved to MGM, for which they had 12 Top 40 country hits. Named vocal group of the year by the Country Music Association in 1970, Mr. Glaser and his brothers had their first Top 10 country single the next year with “Rings.”

The group disbanded in 1973, after which Mr. Glaser released a series of solo albums that incorporated a mix of western swing, rockabilly and New Orleans rhythm and blues that he called “discobilly.”

Mr. Glaser and his brothers briefly reunited in the late 1970s and achieved their greatest commercial success with a version of Mr. Kristofferson’s “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again),” a No. 2 country hit in 1981.

Mr. Glaser’s young brothers survive him, as do his wife of 36 years, June; a sister, Eleanor; and an older brother, John.

Mr. Glaser might not have achieved popularity akin to that of the other performers who appeared with him on “Wanted!,” but his work regularly garnered critical acclaim. In his book “The Best of Country Music,” John Morthland argued that Mr. Glaser’s 1973 solo album “Charlie” could be considered the “first bona fide outlaw album” and that “the title song should have become a standard.”


Tompall Glaser ~ Put Another Log On the Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCC1EKXRBc

Tompall Glaser "Sold American"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimkgLICOuQ

Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris - Streets of Baltimore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIA3ut7QIws

Tompall And The Glaser Brothers 'South Of The Border.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sjc7lVb4Es

T For Texas - Tompall Glaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUCyCqf1f4k

[rstrong]

A Buffalo Airways DC-3 just made a wheels-up landing short of the runway up in Yellowknife. This is the airline featured in the TV series "Ice Pilots NWT."

I mention this because of a bit of trivia that came up in the story: Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden, holds an airline transport pilot's license. He was a guest in one episode last year and flew a Buffalo Airways DC3 to Yellowknife.

[neoplacebo]

JJ Cale died in La Jolla, CA on July 26th. I just found out about it yesterday.....a lot of people never heard of him; he mostly wrote songs that other artists made hits with...."They Call me the Breeze" "Cocaine" and others.

[JTA]

Electric Wizard - Chronaut: Phase II

[JTA]

Arbouretum:





I almost got to see these guys last year in Asheville. Unfortunately I got my days mixed up and almost ended up paying to see a bunch of crappy punk bands. Maybe next time.

Other notable mentions:
Mohammed's Hex and Bounty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEslmymM2U
Destroying to Save: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eUZfzJPSAA
Another Hiding Place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifK4G7k5IIE
... and everything this band has released.

[JTA]

It's been a great week everyone. My hillbilly neighbor has finally moved out (or been evicted).

No more police showing up every week. No more late night drunken yelling waking me at up 3AM. No more having to position my speakers ever so precisely against our shared wall to partake in a gentlemens music duel.

Here's to you, redneck neighbor next door that's no more:

[Bungalow Bill]

Thank goodness he didn't play a Tiny Tim tune. Very good, but
I'm guessing he doesn't burn his ukulele after a performance.


For no particular reason, The Melodians.

[Bungalow Bill]

I'm guessing that the shape he might have been in an hour after a concert
would have made it very unwise to hunt anything except a large pizza.

A true classic, even if the lyrics are mostly from the OT.

[Bungalow Bill]

Of course the problem is they were hoping to leave foreign oppression
for their own brand of heavy religious oppression. Still a good tune.

Black Sabbath, perfect for Halloween, 'people running cause they're
scared.'

[Bungalow Bill]

I saw the news on another site. Lou Reed did a lot of
good stuff, both solo and with the VU. R.I.P. Lou.

[JTA]

If you're into classic rock and in the Upstate SC area, I just found a great new (?) station - 96.7 "The Road". As far as rock stations go, it blows 101.1 and 93.3 away. I'm glad we finally have a decent rock station in this area. This is definitely a step in the right direction. It's only a matter of time now till we get a station totally devoted to Death Metal.

[JTA]

"What are you unable to comprehend? I'm your man Mr. B, here to answer any of your metal related questions. Ask away!"......."I also absolutely hate country."

Let's start with the vocals...or lack of. All I can make out is screams and loud musical twangs. Therefore, I have no metal-related questions.
I don't care one bit for today's "Country" music; the long, drawn-out whines, repetitive words and so on.
Give me the old 60's & 70's Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Ricky Van Shelton, Willie Nelson etc., etc., etc.

Mr B.

Give me some specific songs I should check out. The closest I've come to listening to country is so-called "alt-country". I don't know why but I definitely like the sound. Let me provide some stuff for you and you tell me if you like it at all:

Jay Munly
Gentleman's Jihad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvkuIQFc ... E655032285

16 Horsepower:
Sinnerman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mR1gKKSQ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymSR_E0W9_A

Arbouretum (One of my all time favorite bands)
Another Hiding Place (excellent song!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifK4G7k5IIE
Mohammed's Hex and Bounty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEslmymM2U

That's all I got so far in the way of folksy sounding "alt-country" stuff for now that no ones probably heard of.

I do like Johnny Cash.

[Mr.B]

OK JTA.....you won me over; you were sincere in your reply. Although these are later than 70's & 80's, they're good'un's!

http://youtu.be/II3cVrOrqMo

http://youtu.be/6jXrmAKBBTU

http://youtu.be/uwmGWCJOxnw

http://youtu.be/JA644rSZX1A

Just a few of my favs.....follow the links on YouTube if you want more.

[Bungalow Bill]

Even the boys from Sabbath got sensitive
now and again.












Not to be picky, but Ricky came along later
than Johnny or Willie, and before them there
was Ernest.

[JTA]

OK JTA.....you won me over; you were sincere in your reply. Although these are later than 70's & 80's, they're good'un's!

http://youtu.be/II3cVrOrqMo

http://youtu.be/6jXrmAKBBTU

http://youtu.be/uwmGWCJOxnw

http://youtu.be/JA644rSZX1A

Just a few of my favs.....follow the links on YouTube if you want more.

Thanks for the links!

Country isn't generally my thing, but I'm a fan of almost any type of local live music. I went to this place in Simpsonville one time a while back called Country Earl's which was... interesting. They had some live country music which wasn't all that bad. Some other places I jammed to some live country was some carp fishing lake I used to go to around here a few years ago that had a band once, and a little no-name seafood fest back in the motherland. That's about the limits of my exposure to live country music.

[neoplacebo]

My idea of country music is Tanya Tucker and Delbert McClinton singing "Tell Me About It." If I were computer savvy I could send it to you.

[Mr.B]

"Not to be picky, but Ricky came along later than Johnny or Willie, and before them there was Ernest"(Tubb)"

The only thing I can figure is that 'ol Ern had some dirt on somebody in order to get into the Nashville scene.....he darn shore couldn't sing!
He was aptly named though, because he sounded like he was in the bottom of a wash tub.


"A Legend in His Own Mind....."

[Bungalow Bill]

I think Ernest had some kind of vocal damage that gave his voice a
rather gravelly feel to it. Anyhow, it's the feeling he put into the
song, and not the vocals themselves.

No Show had a smoother voice, but even he might sound bad to
some people.



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