As a newly inducted member of CMT's Next Women of Country class of 2019, Stephanie Quayle is celebrating a breakthrough year in country music.The singer-songwriter made her debut on both the Grand Ole Opry and historic Ryman Auditorium stages, along with hosting for Wrangler Network on the ACM Awards red carpet, as well as hosting for Sounds Like Nashville on the CMT Awards and CMA Awards red carpets. And in a once in a lifetime opportunity, she was the only indie act invited to perform for the five living former U.S. presidents (Obama, W. Bush, Clinton, H.W. Bush and Carter) as part of the hurricane relief concert "Deep From The Heart: The One America Appeal" in Texas. Today we have listened to her playing her 2016 single “Drinking with dolly”, dedicated to giant country female singers such as Dolly Parton, or Loretta Lynn, who were of great influence for Stephanie back in her younger days.
Just as a curiosity, Dolly Parton with her massive and legendary catalog of songs has just signed a major deal with the biggest publishing concern in all of music—Sony/ATV. The company will now represent all of Dolly Parton’s songs, including country standards such as “Jolene”, in 1973 “I Will Always Love You”, in1974, and “Coat of Many Colors.” , which started being recorded in october 1969, almost 50 years ago this year, and was included in the 9th studio album of the artist.
Ended in April 1971 and running to three minutes four seconds, this is another of Parton's hit songs, and the personal favorite of her own compositions. From the title one would be inclined to think it had a Biblical or religious connection with. The biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors is found in Genesis 37.; although it does, it is actually autobiographical.??Parton was born in Locust Ridge, Tennessee and grew up in poverty, the fourth of 12 children, and her mother really did make her such a coat. Her classmates teased her, but Parton was proud of the coat and tried to make them understand that even though her family didn't have much money, they were rich in other, more important ways. While Dolly Parton's patchwork coat inspired ridicule, Joseph's one in the Bible inspired envy. We’ll listen to Coat of Many Colors, year 1971 by Dolly PArton.
September 29 2019 our calendar will mark the 50th anniversary of this great classic “Okie from Muskogee”, this time sung by Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard in a rare TV collaboration between the two legends. "Okie" is a slang name for someone from Oklahoma, and Muskogee is the 11th largest city in the state. The song was released in September 1969 as first single and title track from the album Okie from Muskogee, and was one of the most famous songs of Haggard's career.
Haggard said that he wrote the song after he became disheartened watching Vietnam War protests and incorporated that emotion and viewpoint into song, "Okie from Muskogee" grew from the two trading one-liners about small-town life,[3] where conservative values were the norm and outsiders with ideals contrary to those ways were unwelcome. Here, the singer reflects on how proud he is to hail from Middle America, where its residents were patriotic, and didn't smoke marijuana, take LSD, wear beads and sandals, burn draft cards or challenge authority.
We’ll say goodbye to Merle Haggard with another one of his eternal classics, this time from 1966, called “The Bottle Let me Down”.
Dale Watson has come to our show with two songs, the first one being Merle Haggard’s “The Bottle let me down” performing life in concert, and the other is part of his new album “Call me Lucky”, name of both the song and the album.
Two years is an eternity for Dale Watson, the country troubadour who made it a habit to release at least two records a year through for most of the 2010s. Watson slowed his roll in 2018, leaving his longtime home of Austin, Texas, for Memphis, Tennessee. His move was spurred by Austin's plague of condos and multi-use properties -- the Broken Spoke, one of the city's prime honky-tonks and a regular stomping ground for Watson, is now dwarfed by modern architecture on both sides of its old-fashioned dancehall. In Memphis, he recognized a city that was intent on nurturing its roots instead of trampling them. Revitalized by his new city, Watson wrote a set of vibrant, funny numbers -- songs that sound like throwbacks to the heyday of hardwood juke joints and well-worn jukeboxes, but enlivened with a knowing wink. Truth be told, only a handful of the tunes truly seem informed by Memphis. Nevertheless, Watson is clearly reinvigorated by his new surroundings, writing lean and lively songs that touch upon every one of his musical obsessions, whether it's Bakersfield twang, truck drivers, outlaws, barroom weepers, or hopping swing. It all adds up to one of Watson's most satisfying records -- which is saying something, considering how many albums he has.
We’ll say goodbye to Dale with two more songs from this great album. “Haul off and do it”, and “Run Away”.
A singer and songwriter with a rock & roll heart and a country soul, Hayes Carll has won a devoted following in roots rock and Americana circles for music that honors the traditions of vintage country but with the swagger and swing of rock, while speaking from the perspective of a regular guy with street smarts and stories to tell. Carll has a loose but committed rock & roll with a Southern accent and more laid-back numbers that grafted an outlaw sensibility to a Sunday afternoon back-porch guitar pull.
Born Joshua Hayes Carll in Houston on January 9, 1976, the singer/songwriter received his first guitar at the age of 15 and almost immediately began writing songs influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, and the Beat-era writings of Jack Kerouac, all of which continued to reverberate in Carll's mature songwriting style. After graduating in 1998 with a history degree from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, Carll returned to Texas, settling in Crystal Beach, where he played his own material in the local bars. After a stay in Austin, he returned home and continued to play gigs in the Galveston and Houston area, picking up a loyal following.
signed to Compadre Records and in 2002 released a debut album, Flowers and Liquor, which garnered him favorable comparisons to Townes Van Zandt. Carll released his second album, Little Rock, on his own Highway 87 Records; He signed with Lost Highway Records in 2006, and they released Trouble in Mind in 2008. Carll's clever, witty lyrics developed a strong ironic streak. His reputation got a boost when four of his songs appeared in the 2010 film Country Strong, Carll partnered with Dualtone Records to release 2019's What It Is, which was produced by Allison Moorer in collaboration was bassist and recording engineer Brad Jones.
From this album, we have just listened this “If I may be so bold”, and we’ll say goodbye to Hayes listening to “What is it”.
A Nashville-based singer/songwriter with a smooth voice and classic tone, Logan Ledger built a buzz around Music City in the late-2010s, calling to mind names like George Jones and Webb Pierce. His career got a significant boost when producer T-Bone Burnett signed him and brokered a record deal with Rounder Records, resulting in a pair of 2019 singles, from which we have listened to the single “Imagining teardrops”.
A native of California, Ledger developed a fondness for bluegrass, old-time, and honky tonk music from a young age. After a brief post-college stint as part of a Bay Area bluegrass band, he migrated east to Nashville and put in the requisite hours working on his songs and playing at venues around the city. Industry insiders quickly took notice, and before long he was offered with Rounder Records. The first official release from these sessions arrived in early 2019 with the singles "Starlight" and "Imagining Raindrops”, which is the one we’ve listened to.
Gethen Jenkins is an award-winning singer-songwriter born in Huntington, West Virginia, and raised in a rural Indian village in the state of Alaska. He served eight years in the US Marines.
In July 2017, Five Music Inc. released his six-song Extended Play titled “Where The Honkytonk Belongs”, and turned out to be one of the top-selling Outlaw Country albums on iTunes. After being honored with the Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year awards that very same year at the California Country Awards, Gethen was recently named 2018’s Best Outlaw Country Artist by a country magazine in the city of Los Angeles.
Earlier this year, Gethen Jenkins recorded his full-length album in Nashville with award-winning producer Vance Powell (who has also produced for Jack White, Chris Stapleton, or Willie Nelson).
Gethen has since played over 1,000 live shows, sharing the stage with prominent acts such as The Marshall Tucker Band, Billy Joe Shaver, Wanda Jackson, David Allan Coe, and many more.
From the album we have just listened to the songs “Restless Ways”, and “Bottle in my hand”, with which is possible to appreciaty the quality of this fantastic outlaw artist. This talent has resulted in the establishment of a dedicated country fan base in Southern California, which did not happen since Dwight Yoakam.
We’ll say goodbye to Gethem Jenkins with another song from the album: “This ol’ prison”.
Reba McEntire is following up her Grammy-winning gospel collection with some of the purest country that she’s ever done, and if “Stronger Than the Truth” is any indication of what the album has in store, she’s gunning for the sound and substance of the new traditionalist albums that made her a superstar in the nineteen eighties. We’ve just listened to the song that gives name to her latest album, which will see the light next month.
What’s different this time around is her age. Many of her finest recordings ever document the pain of a long-term relationship dissolving. But when she sings about a marriage dying now, it has a potency that even Reba herself couldn’t deliver thirty years ago.
That’s because the wife being left in “Stronger Than the Truth” isn’t being betrayed by the love of the last decade, but the love of a lifetime. The violation of that trust being broken, and the helplessness that accompanies it, are only heightened by McEntire’s bare and vulnerable vocal: “The only thing I can do is pour a glass and pretend that this pain is gonna end.”
Reba’s powerhouse vocals gave her classic breakup hits an underlying layer of confidence and resilience. There’s none of that here. Just unyielding heartache in the wake of the ultimate betrayal. It’s as sad and lonely a record as one could ever hear.
One has to go back twenty years to find the last time which Reba McEntire introduced a new studio album with a ballad. It’s exceedingly rare, and a welcomed change of pace, especially when it introduces a project McEntire is calling one of the most country of her career.
The title track, which was co-written by Hannah Blaylock and her niece Autumn McEntire, talks as I said before about a woman in the wake of learning that her husband has taken up with someone new. The album comes just four years after McEntire and her manager husband Narvel Blackstock divorced after 25 years, a decision she has said, “wasn’t her idea.” Probably this is the reason why she is delivering it so well in the song.
While we keep on waiting for the release of the album, we’ll get satisfaction of the songs which have already been released. We’ll say goodbye to the show today listening to two more songs: “Tammy Wynette Kind of Pain”, and “In his mind”.
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