Gordon Lightfoot — a genius-level Canadian singer-songwriter whose most enduring works include “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain,” and “Rainy Day People” — died on Monday, the CBC confirmed. He was 84.
Lightfoot’s deceptively simple songs, which fused folk with pop and country rock, have been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash to the Grateful Dead, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, and the Replacements.
He scored a series of hits in his native Canada throughout the Sixties,...
Lightfoot’s deceptively simple songs, which fused folk with pop and country rock, have been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash to the Grateful Dead, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, and the Replacements.
He scored a series of hits in his native Canada throughout the Sixties,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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Mike Love discussed what he contributed to The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations.”He said “It’s probably the most avant-garde song of its time from our point of view.”Love put the song in the context of two left-wing political movements of the 1960s. The Beach Boys | Michael Ochs Archives / Stringer
Mike Love said The Beach Boys‘ “Good Vibrations” is one of his favorite songs from the band’s catalog. In addition, he explained the meaning of “Good Vibrations.” Notably, “Good Vibrations” reached a milestone that The Beach Boys would not reach again until they put out “Kokomo” over two decades later.
Mike Love discussed his contributions to The Beach Boys’ ‘Good Vibrations’
During a 2022 interview with Uncut, Love said “Good Vibrations” was one of his favorite songs by The Beach Boys. “I wrote the words, I came up with ‘I’m picking up good vibrations, she’s giving me the excitations,...
Mike Love discussed what he contributed to The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations.”He said “It’s probably the most avant-garde song of its time from our point of view.”Love put the song in the context of two left-wing political movements of the 1960s. The Beach Boys | Michael Ochs Archives / Stringer
Mike Love said The Beach Boys‘ “Good Vibrations” is one of his favorite songs from the band’s catalog. In addition, he explained the meaning of “Good Vibrations.” Notably, “Good Vibrations” reached a milestone that The Beach Boys would not reach again until they put out “Kokomo” over two decades later.
Mike Love discussed his contributions to The Beach Boys’ ‘Good Vibrations’
During a 2022 interview with Uncut, Love said “Good Vibrations” was one of his favorite songs by The Beach Boys. “I wrote the words, I came up with ‘I’m picking up good vibrations, she’s giving me the excitations,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Hargus “Pig” Robbins, a member of Nashville’s A-team of session players who added keyboards and piano to albums by Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Kenny Rogers, Miranda Lambert, Ween, and many more, died Sunday. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, who inducted Robbins into the Hall in 2012, confirmed his death. He was 84.
Robbins’ playing was all about the feel. Listen to the bluesy piano he dropped into Dylan’s “Pledging My Time” in 1966, the defining but never heavy-handed intro he played on Crystal Gayle’s 1977 “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,...
Robbins’ playing was all about the feel. Listen to the bluesy piano he dropped into Dylan’s “Pledging My Time” in 1966, the defining but never heavy-handed intro he played on Crystal Gayle’s 1977 “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,...
- 1/30/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
For a few freewheeling days in June of 1970, Elvis Presley assembled some of Nashville’s best sessions players to jam in RCA Studio B on Music Row. Elvis chose the songs himself, everything from Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and Bob Wills’ “Faded Love” to Willie Nelson’s “Funny How Time Slips Away” and Eddie Rabbitt’s “Patch It Up.” The sessions were marathon affairs, and naturally the musicians — and Elvis — would get hungry.
Charlie McCoy, the multi-tool player who first recorded with Elvis on the soundtrack to 1965’s awful Harum Scarum,...
Charlie McCoy, the multi-tool player who first recorded with Elvis on the soundtrack to 1965’s awful Harum Scarum,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
In June 1970, Elvis Presley made the trip east from his Graceland home in Memphis to Nashville, where he holed up in RCA Studio B on Music Row for five days of recording. Presley, who was in the midst of his Las Vegas comeback at the International Hotel, was joined by Music City sessions players like Charlie McCoy and Norbert Putnam — the legendary “Nashville Cats.” The result came to be known among fans as the “marathon sessions.”
Now, a new four-disc compilation assembles the masters from those halcyon days and captures Presley at his energetic best.
Now, a new four-disc compilation assembles the masters from those halcyon days and captures Presley at his energetic best.
- 8/7/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Songwriter Gretchen Peters, whose formidable catalog includes Martina McBride’s “Independence Day,” pays homage to one of her songwriting heroes with the forthcoming album The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury. Due May 15th on Peters’ Scarlet Letter Records, the LP was cut at the historic Cinderella Sound Studios near Nashville, where Newbury recorded several of his noteworthy and influential LPs including 1969’s Looks Like Rain and his highest-charting album, 1971’s Frisco Mabel Joy.
Peters’ tribute includes her stripped-down takes on a dozen Newbury classics, including...
Peters’ tribute includes her stripped-down takes on a dozen Newbury classics, including...
- 2/21/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
“There’s an angel missing in heaven and his name is Allen Reynolds,” Garth Brooks told author Patsi Bale Cox in 1990. In the early Nineties, Brooks, with Reynolds as his producer, was on one of the hottest streaks in country-music history, topping the charts, earning dozens of industry honors, and selling tens of millions of records. But in spite of Brooks’ assertion, Reynolds didn’t just suddenly appear out of the ether. He had been toiling in his own Music Row studio for a couple of decades, and was also...
- 9/3/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Johnny Cash wanted to make a big impression when his ABC music variety show The Johnny Cash Show debuted on June 6th, 1969. The back-to-back success of his recent live albums At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin re-introduced him to a mainstream audience outside of the country community, and this was a chance to greatly expand on that at a time when everything on network TV attracted millions of viewers.
Four months earlier, Cash spent the day recording with Bob Dylan at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, though only their...
Four months earlier, Cash spent the day recording with Bob Dylan at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, though only their...
- 6/25/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Can a music festival have a mid-life crisis? In its 33rd year, over two weeks in Austin, Texas, SXSW made its biggest headlines in the opening interactive phase, hosting a widely reported forum of prospective Democratic candidates for president. The SXSW film festival featured major premieres and director Q&As, like a spring-break Sundance with a Texas drawl. And a new SXSW sideline – gaming – drew huge lines at the Austin Convention Center. The original founding energy of SXSW, the music festival, was spread out over an entire week, but big...
- 3/18/2019
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
As seen on NBC’s Today, country music star, and Grand Ole Opry veteran Tim Atwood was recently reunited onstage with fifty-one year Grand Ole Opry member, and country music icon, Jeannie Seely.
Charlie McCoy, Tim Atwood, Matt Baugher, Julie Roberts, Paul Allen Coons, Jeannie Seely, Kathie Lee Gifford and Sarah Martin
Credit/Copyright: Jeremy Westby
Atwood & Seely – who’ve accompanied each other many times over the years on the Grand Ole Opry stage – performed a duet of Bill Gaither’s gospel classic “There’s Something About That Name” at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena for the Fifth Annual ‘Nashville Senior Christmas ShinnDig.’
Atwood also sang his latest single, “I’ll Stand Up & Say So” from his latest album, Livin’ The Dream.
The special event was established to honor Nashville senior citizens by George Shinn and The George Shinn Foundation as a promise to his mother to always remember our seniors.
Charlie McCoy, Tim Atwood, Matt Baugher, Julie Roberts, Paul Allen Coons, Jeannie Seely, Kathie Lee Gifford and Sarah Martin
Credit/Copyright: Jeremy Westby
Atwood & Seely – who’ve accompanied each other many times over the years on the Grand Ole Opry stage – performed a duet of Bill Gaither’s gospel classic “There’s Something About That Name” at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena for the Fifth Annual ‘Nashville Senior Christmas ShinnDig.’
Atwood also sang his latest single, “I’ll Stand Up & Say So” from his latest album, Livin’ The Dream.
The special event was established to honor Nashville senior citizens by George Shinn and The George Shinn Foundation as a promise to his mother to always remember our seniors.
- 12/21/2018
- Look to the Stars
Eric Church’s soulful “Heart Like a Wheel,” Jillian Jacqueline’s riveting duet with Keith Urban and Aaron Watson’s uplifting “Higher Ground” are among the 10 country and Americana tracks you must hear this week.
Eric Church, “Heart Like a Wheel”
For all its talk about wheels, Eric Church’s newest release from Desperate Man rolls forward at a deliberately relaxed pace. The song’s cruising speed is set by its drumbeat, whose casual swing is reminiscent of old Stax Records. Gospel harmonies, church organ and a cyclical, soul-inspired melody only strengthen those comparisons,...
Eric Church, “Heart Like a Wheel”
For all its talk about wheels, Eric Church’s newest release from Desperate Man rolls forward at a deliberately relaxed pace. The song’s cruising speed is set by its drumbeat, whose casual swing is reminiscent of old Stax Records. Gospel harmonies, church organ and a cyclical, soul-inspired melody only strengthen those comparisons,...
- 8/24/2018
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Before Wheeler Walker Jr. was melding raunchy lyrics with expert country instrumentation, there was Ween’s 1996 cult classic 12 Golden Country Greats. A collection of 10 songs — even the misnumbered title is a gag — the album finds the Nineties weird-rock duo parodying country clichés in tracks like “I Don’t Wanna Leave You on the Farm,” “Japanese Cowboy” and the ultimate kiss-off “Piss Up a Rope.” But the record wasn’t completely a lark: musically, it was superb, with Nashville aces like harmonica player Charlie McCoy, fiddler Buddy Spicher and the vocal...
- 8/15/2018
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Time Life has released the retro TV comedy series "Hee Haw" as a 14-dvd boxed set. Here is the official press release:
Program Description
Pickin’ and grinnin’, singin’ and spinnin’ tall tales and corny jokes, the citizens of Kornfield Kounty landed on television in 1969 with the arrival of Hee Haw as a summer replacement series for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. With a cast of down-to-earth characters including Minnie Pearl, Grandpa Jones and Archie Campbell, knee-slapping comedic zingers, and jaw-dropping musical performances, the comedy-variety show, co-hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark, captivated the country. In 1971, after two successful years, CBS dropped the show in an effort to “de-countrify” the network’s programming; however, it was quickly picked up and aired for the next 21 years, making Hee Haw the longest-running weekly syndicated original series in television history.
In a new-to-retail set, Hee Haw: The Collector’S Edition offers 14 Hee-larious...
Program Description
Pickin’ and grinnin’, singin’ and spinnin’ tall tales and corny jokes, the citizens of Kornfield Kounty landed on television in 1969 with the arrival of Hee Haw as a summer replacement series for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. With a cast of down-to-earth characters including Minnie Pearl, Grandpa Jones and Archie Campbell, knee-slapping comedic zingers, and jaw-dropping musical performances, the comedy-variety show, co-hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark, captivated the country. In 1971, after two successful years, CBS dropped the show in an effort to “de-countrify” the network’s programming; however, it was quickly picked up and aired for the next 21 years, making Hee Haw the longest-running weekly syndicated original series in television history.
In a new-to-retail set, Hee Haw: The Collector’S Edition offers 14 Hee-larious...
- 12/26/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
It's calendar-buying time, so here's my annual boosterism for Blues Images' great calendar/CD combo.
In past years the images and accompanying CD tracks were keyed to Paramount Records advertising. This time out, collector John Tefteller's company changes the focus to the upcoming TV series The American Epic Sessions, www.pbs.org/americanepic/ a triptych to be aired on PBS and the BBC next year. That series takes a look at the vintage recording equipment and artists of the 1920s and early '30s, when producers travelling to the artists, instead vice versa, became possible, resulting in so many vivid 78 Rpm recordings of rural music styles in situ (not just blues, though of course that's what's focused on by Blues Images).
Thus, some of the music on Blues Images' annual CD comes from American Epic engineers, but (though this is not clear) it seems that at least some of the...
In past years the images and accompanying CD tracks were keyed to Paramount Records advertising. This time out, collector John Tefteller's company changes the focus to the upcoming TV series The American Epic Sessions, www.pbs.org/americanepic/ a triptych to be aired on PBS and the BBC next year. That series takes a look at the vintage recording equipment and artists of the 1920s and early '30s, when producers travelling to the artists, instead vice versa, became possible, resulting in so many vivid 78 Rpm recordings of rural music styles in situ (not just blues, though of course that's what's focused on by Blues Images).
Thus, some of the music on Blues Images' annual CD comes from American Epic engineers, but (though this is not clear) it seems that at least some of the...
- 12/29/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Harry Callahan’s next adventure originated with John Milius, Hollywood’s favorite gun fanatic, surfer and “Zen anarchist.” Milius wrote B Movies for American International Pictures before breaking through with two Westerns, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean and Jeremiah Johnson. His knack for macho action and pulpy, colorful dialogue fit Dirty Harry perfectly; Milius wrote his draft in 21 days, receiving a Purdey shotgun as payment.
Though uncredited, Milius claims credit for Harry‘s dialogue, especially the “Do I feel lucky?” monologue. Others, including Richard Schickel, credit Harry Julian Fink with that speech. Clint Eastwood marginalizes Milius’s contributions to the film, admitting “we might have taken a few good items John had in there.” Milius resented this: “Look at the movie and you tell me who wrote that,” he challenged an interviewer.
Milius soon moved past any hurt feelings. After reading several articles on Brazil’s “death...
Though uncredited, Milius claims credit for Harry‘s dialogue, especially the “Do I feel lucky?” monologue. Others, including Richard Schickel, credit Harry Julian Fink with that speech. Clint Eastwood marginalizes Milius’s contributions to the film, admitting “we might have taken a few good items John had in there.” Milius resented this: “Look at the movie and you tell me who wrote that,” he challenged an interviewer.
Milius soon moved past any hurt feelings. After reading several articles on Brazil’s “death...
- 6/12/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
By Allen Gardner
Quadrophenia (Criterion) Franc Roddam’s 1979 film based on The Who’s classic rock opera tells the story of working class lad Jimmy (Phil Daniels) struggling to find his identity in a rapidly changing Britain, circa 1965. Jimmy is a “mod,” a youth movement dedicated to wearing snappy suits, driving Vespa motor scooters bedecked with side mirrors, popping amphetamines and obsessed with the new sound of bands like The Who and The Kinks. Their other pastime is engaging in bloody brawls with “rockers,” throwbacks to the 1950s, who listen to Elvis and Gene Vincent, wear leather biker gear, grease in their hair and drive massive motorcycles a la Marlon Brando in “The Wild One.” Often cited as a worthy successor to “Rebel Without a Cause” as the greatest angry youth picture ever made, it is that and more, including a first cousin to the “kitchen sink” dramas of scribes John Osborne,...
Quadrophenia (Criterion) Franc Roddam’s 1979 film based on The Who’s classic rock opera tells the story of working class lad Jimmy (Phil Daniels) struggling to find his identity in a rapidly changing Britain, circa 1965. Jimmy is a “mod,” a youth movement dedicated to wearing snappy suits, driving Vespa motor scooters bedecked with side mirrors, popping amphetamines and obsessed with the new sound of bands like The Who and The Kinks. Their other pastime is engaging in bloody brawls with “rockers,” throwbacks to the 1950s, who listen to Elvis and Gene Vincent, wear leather biker gear, grease in their hair and drive massive motorcycles a la Marlon Brando in “The Wild One.” Often cited as a worthy successor to “Rebel Without a Cause” as the greatest angry youth picture ever made, it is that and more, including a first cousin to the “kitchen sink” dramas of scribes John Osborne,...
- 9/4/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Josh Turner and George Jones were among the artists who helped honor Barbara Mandrell, Roy Clark and Charlie McCoy, welcoming them into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday in a Medallion Ceremony that lasted three hours.
Barbara was the first two-time winner of the Cma's Entertainer of the Year Award. Her variety show, "Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters" aired on NBC. Roy also won the Entertainer honor from the Academy during his time as co-host of "Hee Haw." Charlie earned his honor through a diverse career that had him playing harmonica, bass and trumpet on recordings for such artists as Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley. He then went on to direct the "Hee Haw" band. Barbara acknowledged her late father and manager during her induction.
Reba and George marked the induction by covering Barbara's hit "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool.
Barbara was the first two-time winner of the Cma's Entertainer of the Year Award. Her variety show, "Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters" aired on NBC. Roy also won the Entertainer honor from the Academy during his time as co-host of "Hee Haw." Charlie earned his honor through a diverse career that had him playing harmonica, bass and trumpet on recordings for such artists as Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley. He then went on to direct the "Hee Haw" band. Barbara acknowledged her late father and manager during her induction.
Reba and George marked the induction by covering Barbara's hit "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool.
- 5/20/2009
- icelebz.com
Early works of an old master, all dressed down
Despite being on the far side of 70, Willie Nelson continues to churn out new albums at a mind-boggling rate, so there’s not a crying need to mine additional product from his mammoth back catalog. Still, Naked Willie makes sense. Culled from sessions spanning the mid ’60s to early ’70s, this appealing exercise in revisionist history—supervised by Nelson’s longtime harmonica player, Mickey Raphael—deletes the strings and backing singers routinely added as sweetening by producers Chet Atkins and Felton Jarvis back in the day, leaving just Willie’s laconic voice and the polished playing of Nashville session aces like Jerry Reed, Buddy Emmons, Charlie McCoy and Hargus “Pig” Robbins. The resulting tracks are of a piece with the later recordings that made Nelson a star, but they lack comparable emotional heft. Though recognizably himself when these tunes were cut,...
Despite being on the far side of 70, Willie Nelson continues to churn out new albums at a mind-boggling rate, so there’s not a crying need to mine additional product from his mammoth back catalog. Still, Naked Willie makes sense. Culled from sessions spanning the mid ’60s to early ’70s, this appealing exercise in revisionist history—supervised by Nelson’s longtime harmonica player, Mickey Raphael—deletes the strings and backing singers routinely added as sweetening by producers Chet Atkins and Felton Jarvis back in the day, leaving just Willie’s laconic voice and the polished playing of Nashville session aces like Jerry Reed, Buddy Emmons, Charlie McCoy and Hargus “Pig” Robbins. The resulting tracks are of a piece with the later recordings that made Nelson a star, but they lack comparable emotional heft. Though recognizably himself when these tunes were cut,...
- 4/3/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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