You know, Country & Western!
This ain't your Dad's country music. It's your Granddad's! None of that new Nashville bullshit either. This is where you'll find what I consider the best in Country (Classic and Alt), Folk, and Americana.
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Executive Contour.
ITEM! Mixtapes! Check 'em out and share with yer pals:
Twang/Twinge of Love
That Christmas Spirit
No Permanent Address
No Permanent Address 2
5,000 countryandwestern Fans Can't Be Wrong
Valentine's Day for Lovers
Valentine's Day for Losers
ITEM! Always looking to post songs from up & coming bands who play awesome twangy/folky/hillbilly music.
Send 'em my way.
ITEM! For a different kind of musical experience altogether visit A Swingin' Affair - pop music from bygone days.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Thinking of Doc and wishing him a speedy recovery!
Doc, who’s 89, fell down at his home. When he was taken to the hospital, the doctors found other things and flew him to another hospital where…he had his colon taken out! Sounds like he’s still in critical condition, but responsive which he wasn’t before the surgery.
Keep him in your thoughts and/or prayers.
Ralph Stanley & Tom T. Hall are among the Southern songsters that didn’t quite make the cut for this week’s show. Also, we want to wish a happy birthday to Tom, who turned
7576 today.
Happy Birthday Tom.
Earl Scruggs Revue - Country Comfort
He wasn’t afraid to try new things as times changed. Listen to pop singers of the time - Frank Sinatra doing Both Sides Now, Bing Crosby singing Hey Jude - it sounds silly. Earl brought authenticity to the music without making it hokey.
Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt - Earl’s Breakdown
Earl Scruggs & Johnny Cash - I Still Miss Someone
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Earl Scruggs & Friends - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
A popular tune? You bet.
“I always felt like Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball. He is the best there ever was, and the best there ever will be.” - Porter Wagoner
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We lost a legend today. Earl Scruggs died today at the age of 88. Once known as “the boy who made the banjo talk”, he mastered the three-finger picking style now simply called Scruggs-style. Not limited to strictly bluegrass, he crossed over into multiple genres playing with pop, jazz and international artists. No doubt we’ll be hearing a lot of Foggy Mountain Breakdown and The Ballad of Jed Clampett over the next few days.
R.I.P.
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Frank Fairfield & Blind Boy Paxton
Steve Martin - Ramblin’ Man
On the banjo in 1977.
Olabelle Reed - High on a Mountain
The Osborne Brothers - Rocky Top
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys - I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky
Bill Monroe
