Country vinyl records cracked#

Country vinyl records cracked#

Packaged in a vintage-looking cigar box with a liner booklet made to look cracked and yellowing, this incomparable three-disc item lovingly assembles the 1925-to-1930, originally-on-78-RPM recordings of banjo picker, string-trio bandleader and incorrigibly word-slurring drunkard Charlie Poole, whose old-timey proto-bluegrass presages the four-decades-later folk-rock of the Band, Holy Modal Rounders and Grateful Dead (all of whom covered him) while shuffling verses and mannerisms from ragtime, vaudeville, Al Jolson, antebellum blackface minstrel shows and remote Appalachian hollers. Jerry Lee Lewis, ‘Another Place Another Time’ (1968).Plus, how many guitar players do you know who were immortalized in a Scooby-Doo episode?' C.W. 'Folks these days don’t realize what a great guitar picker Jerry was nor his incredible sense of groove,' said Les Claypool, whose alt-metal band Primus covered 'Amos Moses' in 1998. This collection of 20 hits features his most iconic characters: the mean-as-a-snake, one-handed alligator hunter ('Amos Moses') the misunderstood, monkey-meat-eating swamp man ('Ko-Ko Joe') and the paranoid poker loser with a razor in his hand ('The Uptown Poker Club') - told with Reed's funky lilt. But during his hitmaking days - from 1967's hard-grooving 'Guitar Man' to the post-trucksploitation crash of the early Eighties - Reed was a one-of-a-kind pop star living in the nexus of country, funk, furious fingerpicking and novelty song. Jerry Reed was, as Brad Paisley said, 'a true master of his instrument,' one of the greatest country guitarists of all time and a fount of blazing licks equal parts Earl Scruggs and Django Reinhardt. John Anderson, ‘All the People Are Talkin” (1983).I think they were scared to be corny or whatever. People just didn't want to laugh at themselves.

'There's a style of lighthearted, wise-guy country music that went out of style. 'The lighthearted I don't think of as comedy writing,' Brown told the Chicago Tribune in 1994. But, more importantly, his songs have a cheeky quality that's as timeless and infectious as his picking, evidenced in songs off his 1990 debut like 'My Baby Don't Dance to Nothin' But Ernest Tubb' and 'Hillbilly Hula Girl' ('corn don't grow in lava dirt'). For starters, he plays a custom 'guit-steel,' a bespoke instrument of his own co-creation that joins an electric guitar and a pedal steel into a double-necked mutant straight out of Cheap Trick's Nashville road case. The revisionist western swing of Junior Brown is a mix of the academic (he's done stints in Asleep at the Wheel and as an instructor at an Oklahoma's Rogers State University) and the quirky.