- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Winter Olympics
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
1
Posted on 5/8/22 at 6:37 pm to Kafka
Wanda Jackson, Bob Wills, and the Texas Playboys
Posted on 5/8/22 at 6:38 pm to Kafka
Little Jimmy Dickens
When he was little
When he was little
Posted on 5/8/22 at 7:01 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
Posted on 5/8/22 at 7:52 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
Posted on 5/9/22 at 6:38 pm to moontigr
Happy birthday Hank Snow
Posted on 5/10/22 at 7:07 pm to Kafka
RCA was still marketing Elvis as a country singer in January 1956. That strategy would change within a few months.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 7:17 pm to Kafka
Buck Owens - "Second Fiddle" (1959)
Early classic from Buck, hinting at the Bakersfield sound to come
Early classic from Buck, hinting at the Bakersfield sound to come
This post was edited on 5/10/22 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 5/16/22 at 9:09 pm to Kafka
There's an interesting sounding article at the NY Times, if you can figure out how to get past the paywall:
Drugs, Planes, Bail: The Wild Story of George Jones’s Lost Recordings
Drugs, Planes, Bail: The Wild Story of George Jones’s Lost Recordings
quote:
Plans to market long unheard tapes by the country star — discovered in a court storage vault decades after being posted by narcotics traffickers — are at the center of a bitter dispute.
“Decades later, it remains something of a mystery how in 1966 George Jones and his band ended up at Nugget Studios, a backwater building just north of Nashville that advertised itself as a place for “country music recorded in the quiet of the country at country prices.”
Jones, a country music legend in the making, had slipped a bit since his hits “White Lightning” and “She Thinks I Still Care,” and he was known to disappear on marathon benders. But he was still a major attraction, popular enough to fill honky tonks and auditoriums between Texas and New York.
Over many hours, Jones and his band churned out dozens of songs — his own hits and others by his idol, Hank Williams. One peppy number, “Ship of Love,” was something Jones had co-written with a friend, Earl “Peanutt” Montgomery, and Johnny Paycheck, who sang harmony and played bass with the band.
All were recorded under contract to a company partly owned by a little-known promoter and producer, Donald Gilbreth, who down the road would become better known for the things he did wrong than for the things he did right.
When the session was over, though, the tapes all but vanished, surfacing only briefly in the early 1980s when Gilbreth and some partners tried unsuccessfully to turn them into albums.
If the path of the tapes at this juncture was already odd, their journey from that point forward was nothing short of bizarre…
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:06 am to Kafka
That is so George Jones. Tapes end up being used for bail in cocaine smuggling case. They need to be released. The man is a national treasure.
Posted on 5/20/22 at 7:01 pm to rebelrouser
Posted on 5/22/22 at 7:45 pm to Kafka
In living color, 1957
Posted on 5/22/22 at 7:51 pm to Kafka
Patsy Cline the lonesome rambler
Posted on 5/24/22 at 7:29 pm to Kafka
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
Posted on 5/24/22 at 7:46 pm to Kafka
Posted on 5/24/22 at 7:53 pm to Kafka
1964
Posted on 5/24/22 at 8:02 pm to Kafka
Billie Jean Horton was the widow of Hank Williams and later the widow of Johnny Horton (she also had affairs with Faron Young and Johnny Cash). A native of Bossier City, she famously wed Williams before a soldout audience at the New Orleans Municipal Auditorium, though they also held a ceremony in the Baton Rouge High gym. She is apparently now living in Shreveport.
Posted on 5/25/22 at 6:29 pm to Kafka
Buck Owens, 1954
Posted on 5/25/22 at 7:28 pm to Kafka
Merle Travis met machinist and steel guitar enthusiast Paul A. Bigsby at a motorcycle race track in Los Angeles and struck up a friendship based on their mutual love of motorcycles and music. Travis handed Bigsby a drawing of a guitar he’d done on a napkin and asked Bigsby if he could build it.
Bigsby finished the guitar on May 25, 1948, which is now considered to be the first solid body electric guitar. Merle Travis, however, quickly became dissatisfied with the sound of the solid body he helped invent, and returned to hollow body guitars for the rest of his career.
Bigsby finished the guitar on May 25, 1948, which is now considered to be the first solid body electric guitar. Merle Travis, however, quickly became dissatisfied with the sound of the solid body he helped invent, and returned to hollow body guitars for the rest of his career.
Posted on 5/27/22 at 7:59 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
quote:
Tommy Duncan
Page 17 of 51
Popular
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News