[lit-ideas] Re: It's Friday!
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:12:54 -0600
I didn't like Hank Williams until I heard The The do a cover (Hanky Panky)
of his stuff --
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hanky+panky+the+the%2C+playlist
Julie Krueger
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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