[lit-ideas] Re: It's Friday!
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:34:34 -0600
I thought that would get a rise out of Mr. McEvoy. Glad he didn't
disappoint me. But. of course, he's wrong. He experiences country music
from a different country. He thinks it's poignant and honestly
sensitive and truth telling by simple people who've never heard of Popper.
And likely never will. George Jones and the whole Nashville music
scene even St. Hank Williams are nothing more than just a bunch of ignorant
hillbillies strumming banjos and gitars (sic) rather than working for a
living. I do like a few songs such as "Dropkick me, Jesus, Through the
Goal Post Of Life" and "Taller than Jesus" And then there's RL Burnside
with some wonderfully funny "blues" songs such as "Nothing Man" wherein he
'sings': "You can't arrest me, I pay rent here." Most country and blues
songs are sad, sappy songs about walking the floors and standing by your
man and the dog dying and grandma getting run over by an 18 wheeler -- they
just don't cut it with me. Same goes from most blues songs. All I can
think is "give me a break". And let's not even mention hiphop, rap or what
ever you call that rhyming crime shit.
Mike Geary
believer in Dylan as a genre unto himself
in Memphis
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> *From:* Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
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> >If you're referencing to Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline", please don't
> refer to his music as "country music". >
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> But 'Nashville Skyline' is country music. Country music influences also
> can be detected, in hindsight, in Dylan's folk period both in the music and
> in the songwriting, particularly the influence of Hank Williams. Even when
> he 'went electric', 'Blonde On Blonde' - for example, 'Memphis Blues Again'
> - creates a hybrid sound that has country elements; it was also recorded
> mostly in Nashville with Nashville session players. Even recent material,
> like 'Missisippi' from 'Love And Theft', has strong country elements and
> are often performed in a 'Western swing' style. 'Girl From The Greenbriar
> Shore', from 'Tell Tale Signs', is "country music" more than anything. So
> might be "'Cross The Green Mountain".
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> Mike should know all this because he has The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia which
> explains how the counter-culture was at its height and riddled with its own
> self-importance and snobbery when Dylan made his next move, into what
> hipsters then despised as redneck music, with 'Nashville Skyline'. [It took
> Dylan about ten years to make a similarly daring next move, when he 'got
> religion'].
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> Dylan doesn't have much connection with the country music of Gareth Brooks
> or Shania Twain, but much with that of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash.
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> On the subject of Dylan's "divinity", Youtube has some interesting things
> to say:-
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> Castration Row
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_Vjm5UE6I&feature=related
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> For Ivor Jung
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSd9kzxfgk&feature=related
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> Ollie Murs
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB-JKWWLBlo&feature=related
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> Lick A Railing, Stan
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfmADXpLZUU&feature=related
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> Strangled Cockatu
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP7QIMppSBI&feature=related
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> Hassad & His Bin Man
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmaUd7DBYyo&feature=related
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> Donal
> Writing from the country
> Been working in the town
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