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The first time I heard this song was in a bar, with the telly tuned in to The Highwaymen performing on stage.

As far as I am aware, the only recording of The Highwaymen singing this song is on a DVD called "On the Road Again", a recording of a 1992 gig in Aberdeen!

You'll probably have to dig out this version of the song that turned me on to Country music:

Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys - Waylon & Willie


Many thanks to Bryan for his entertaining and educational Country show!

:o)

Callowayesque or perhaps Creolesque?

No idea what you would call it but it was an excellent party, Glasgow Apollo, perhaps '82/83 - I'm telling it to you straight...

Oh Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy

Al

#1 Scotch
Dropped you a wee note on the tail end of the the last thread....

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Kain!

Two songs that I still love to hear to this day, probably directed me towards the country / folksy / americana I love, amongst other music.
How sad am I.
Just canny make my mind up.
Like most of us on here I just like good music regardless of genre, whatever that means.

Hey ho

I Can Help / Billy Swan

Malt & Barley Blues / McGuiness Flint

Al.

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Oh I do like a bit of all things reggae-ish. Like many of my age group I loved Bob Marley and others and the 2Tone stuff when I was in my mid/late teens but I suppose my first hearing of reggae/ska etc was by such songs in the early 70s as:

'Moon River' - Greyhound
'Young Gifted and Black' - Bob and Marcia
'Everything I Own' - Ken Boothe

As the ska/reggae artists had done cover versions of many American and British songs, so were the 2Tone bands influenced by the music the Jamaican artists created. I think it's all good!

I'm somewhat bemused at my liking for Grime (that's the musical genre...not the state of my cooker) but then I suppose it's a natural progression, and it's dead handy given The Daughter's predilection for grime/rap/gangsta (hmmm....wonder where she inherited that tendency from in the first place) .
I liked Dizzee Rascal straight away when he was up for, and won, the Mercury Music Prize in 2003.

'Jus' A Rascal' - Dizzee Rascal

Incidentally...I have to share this...don't even know what genre I would file it under to be honest but I think it's one of the best Mercury Prize performances ever...it's a sin he didn't win:

Amuse me with Muse's Apocalypse Please, please

Opened a whole new style of muse-ic for me!

DC

this is really hard, and I've a funny feeling that I suggested a theme along much the same grounds as this. Silly me. Well I'll have a bash anyhow

Back in the day, hearing John Mayall's Empty Rooms certainly took me away from chart songs and Motown

Thinking of My Woman - John Mayall

John Mayall's a strange one as his singing voice was pretty painful (though much improved with age!) but I guess it was the quality musicians he surrounded himself with - and still does. Gig last year was so good.

and then Robert Cray led to an almost exclusive blues obsession for a while

Bad Influence - Robert Cray

currently listening to lots and lots of new stuff, especially the young Scottish bands -but where did it start? In a way perhaps The Low Anthem (I know, not Scottish, but seeing them in Glasgow last year and how talented a young band they are)

Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem

and using Facebook's links to bands is a great way of widening listening - for instance, my feed from Kassidy has taken me to The Imagineers, The Rudiments, Woodenbox and a Fistful of Fivers, and the River 68s. I really like all of them, especially the River 68s whose singer is just great.

The Lost - Kassidy

and not least, a birthday CD some years back, Through the Years showed me what I'd been missing all those years

Rebels - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

only 135 sleeps................

Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
Here I am - Steve Earle
Creep - Radiohead
Boum - Charles Trenet
My generation - the Who

Joe
Linlithgow

Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!

***1972, one experience, two influences...***

"Electronic" Suicide Scherzo (Ninth Symphony, Second Movement, Abridged) ~ Wendy Carlos

"Classical" "Symphony No.9 in D Minor, Opus 125" ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

& oh yes 80's R&B, thanks OGWT.

Live at the Marquee ~ 9 Below Zero. I'll not bother with a specific as it's never worked on GIO before.

Tuesday:

Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

The Long Ryders - Looking For Lewis and Clark

Definately 'The Pogues' for me!

After a few initial thrilling rides as a young teen, on the music rollercoaster that is 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash', I examined more closely the song-writing credits on the album and began to discover songwriters like Ewan McCall and Eric Bogle. The album also led me to explore more traditional forms of folk music such as The Dubliners and Christy Moore; music that has very much enriched my life, not to put too fine a point on it.... so huge repect to Shane Magowan and Co!

How about 'A Pair Of Brown Eyes': The Pogues.

#13

Call Of The West did it for me ;-)

"Sometimes the only thing a western savage understands are whiskey and rifles and an unarmed man like you"

I do not think this is the easiest theme in the world to be hionest for a few reasons. But here goes, and remeber the fun it was researching all this stuff with no internet but i digress:

My love of Bowie got me into Lou Reed, Mott The Hoople, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads and probably an awful lot more.

I'm really struggling to select one track, any of the follwoing great singles:

Prettiest Star, be My wife, Boys Keep Swinging, Thursdays Child or Slow Burn. Or for a wee bit different:

David Bowie with Luther Vandross - Fascination

I was never a country msuic fan but my pal gave me a tape and Naci Griffith stood out, she just seemed a bit quirky to what I had been listening to with her slightly odd voice. But her songs were great and seemed to be about people you could relate to and she certainly believed in the material and the subjects she was writing about. Anyway to cut a long probably very long story short the music of nanci Griffith has led me to the whole world of country/alt country/americana including John Prine, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Iris DeMent, Shawn Colvin, Lyle Lovett,Tom Russel, Rod Picott etc etc etc.

I'm struggling to pick one track but since Suzy bogus had a hit with it how about:

nanci griffith - outbound plane

but I think the point of it is none of this stands alone in isolation.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? Me neither.

#16 Why should today be any different ☺

A good point well made BIA

#2 Alfaeraferry I was , starngely at that gig, so good my pal and I went through to see them in the Playhouse the next night!

October 1982

When I was in my early teens, my sister took me to see a production of The Threepenny Opera. That could've been the start of a fondness for...what would you call it? Dark Cabaret? Something with a slightly sinister, slightly-off, odd, spooky or melancholy edge to it. A bit of dark humour doesn't go amiss either. The kind of stuff The Daughter tells me is weird...and she's probably right...I should stop eating cheese for supper...

Tom Waits - 'A Little Drop Of Poison'
The Tiger Lillies - 'Bully Boys'

Musical gateways.....hundreds of them....where shall we start?

How about this?

Autumn 2009. Henri Hannah driving home from work, listening to Radio 4. The phone goes. I reach forward and press the button on the dashboard to answer the phone - but I press the wrong button - I find myself listening to 'Lay Down' by Melanie. I've had a hard day, the rising gospel chorus takes me back to a happier time when I didn't have such hard days. I arrive home but sit in the driveway mesmerised by this old tune I'd forgotten. I wasn't even that keen on Melanie, then or now.

When the song finishes I go into the house, Smiffy is cooking the tea and listening to Radio 4. I say, " Do you mind if I change the station?" and promptly move the dial one along to Radio Scotland.

And so began my exploration of the greatest musical gateway I have encountered - the work of radio genius that is Get It On.The nightly musical journey, the expertise of the programme's bloggers have opened up an entirely new and enthralling re-appreciation of music. I've absorbed and learned so much I don't know where to begin but I think I've downloaded about 1200 tracks and purchased about 500 cd's since that night. Many of my discoveries come from researching themes and stumbling across things I had no knowledge of.

Any of these would be appropriate:

Lay Down - Melanie

Taste The Coast - Admiral Fallow

If God Did Give Me A Choice - the Leisure Society

One - Johnny Cash

Conversation 16 - the National

Relator - Scarlett Johansen & Pete Yorn

Some Guys Have All the Luck - The Persuaders

I Miss You - Randy Newman

Ice Cream - Sarah McLaughlin

however, something I found by accident whist researching a theme and which I think is a truly beautiful album is:

Gregg Allman - 20th Century Masters: The Millenium Collection

and from it any of these tracks which deserve to given out on the NHS to people having a hard day.

Midnight Rider - Gregg Allman

Queen Of Hearts - Gregg Allman

beautiful, utterly magnificent.

regardez youse

henrit

I believe I first fell in love with prog rock a long time ago when I was 11. I was having a hot bath at my eldest sister's home in Geneva when she put 'Relayer' by YES on the turntable. 'Sound chaser' is the introductory track to this album and each time I play it I still find it as gripping as the very first time I heard it.
The whole album is in my own view one of their best.

#22

I too had a teenage love affair with prog rock, but not having a turntable in the bathroom had to settle for the record player in my parents dining room.

My mother insists it was my playing King Crimson too loud that brought on my father's first heart attack.

Relayer was the album after the apogee of prog, Tales From the Topographic Ocean, a monster triple album which was mostly un-listenable but still got to the top of the charts in December 1973.Incredible.

#21Sychophant

And why did my blog get removed?

Psycho ant

't posh 'n' Chay

#24

Which one was that TF?

# 23 Hello Henri! Ha ha ha! The turntable and the hi-fi were not inside the bathroom, but I could nonetheless listen to the music from the tub. 'Tales from the topographic ocean' is a YES album I am not familiar with. To be honest I have never listened to it. I have here 'Union' and 'The ladder'.
My other favorite prog rock bands are UTOPIA, MARILLION, SAGA, JETHRO TULL, MARILLION and Manfred MANN's EARTH BAND.

#24

True. But it's true.

#28

Don't attempt 'Tales From The Topographic Oceans' now, you'll give up music completely!

I found the antidote to Prog rock was an album called Sheet Muisc by 10CC, which contains many fabulously played and amusing songs.

Among these is The Sacro-Illiac - 10CC The return of music as good fun was also encapsualised in the Wings album 'Band On the Run' from which Let Me Roll It is a classic.

regardez vous

henri

This gig at the Victoria Memorial in June. Are the artists all doing Queen covers again or are they allowed to do some of their own stuff too?

Springsteen covers. Apparently she is a recent convert....

It is Tuesday night and tomorrow is my day off and so I listened to the whole of the show.
Ha ha ha ha. Miss Babs was producing and I have tried to get her give us the reasons why she does not like prog rock.
Miss Babs, I suggest you listen to Manfred MANN's 'Don't kill it Carol'. The song features on an album titled 'Angel Station' and to me it is still extremely hypnotic. The keyboard solo definitely is.
And Miss Babs I just love your laugh. :)

#23 WRONG! Go to the naughty step.

Jeezo, Yessongs was the triple, "Tales" was a double!

well, there you have it - it was so bloody tedious and self indulgent, I thought there was more vinyl involved - it felt at least a triple album.

Henri, One must attempt to accurate when levelling criticism!

Back on the step for petulance!