johnnies 'n' insiders
finishing out the evening with some hardcore country faves: johnny cash at folsom prison (in its expanded cd version) and johnny paycheck's the real mr. heartache: the little darlin' years.
the cash is stone classic, of course, and actually improved by the inclusion on the cd version of some between-songs banter that was understandably excised from the 'riginal elpee version. the naked sentimentality of some of the songs is excusable, even _necessary_, in light of the setting where these recordings were made. as my sweetie points out, cash doesn't sound like a "country" singer; he's more of a rockabilly or more accurately, a pure folksinger, telling stories of _real ppl_ through his songs.
it doesn't get much more real than some of paycheck's early hits like "a-11," "the real mr. heartache," "he's in a hurry (to get home to my wife)," "the ballad of frisco bay," "(pardon me) i've got someone to kill," and the bobby bare-penned "motel time again." forget his later, "outlaw" / "take this job and shove it" period; sixties paycheck is classic honky-tonk, which is to say, urban whiteguy's blues, or working class cole porter. reggie rueffer turned me onto this stuff a coupla yrs back, and he and his brother chad routinely perform it in real-life honky-tonks as the insiders. i haven't been to a show in awhile, a situation i need to remedy. perhaps november 26th at the stagecoach on belknap will be the opportunity.
the cash is stone classic, of course, and actually improved by the inclusion on the cd version of some between-songs banter that was understandably excised from the 'riginal elpee version. the naked sentimentality of some of the songs is excusable, even _necessary_, in light of the setting where these recordings were made. as my sweetie points out, cash doesn't sound like a "country" singer; he's more of a rockabilly or more accurately, a pure folksinger, telling stories of _real ppl_ through his songs.
it doesn't get much more real than some of paycheck's early hits like "a-11," "the real mr. heartache," "he's in a hurry (to get home to my wife)," "the ballad of frisco bay," "(pardon me) i've got someone to kill," and the bobby bare-penned "motel time again." forget his later, "outlaw" / "take this job and shove it" period; sixties paycheck is classic honky-tonk, which is to say, urban whiteguy's blues, or working class cole porter. reggie rueffer turned me onto this stuff a coupla yrs back, and he and his brother chad routinely perform it in real-life honky-tonks as the insiders. i haven't been to a show in awhile, a situation i need to remedy. perhaps november 26th at the stagecoach on belknap will be the opportunity.
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