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Black Voices and Honky Tonks

Posted by Lance Davis - May 8, 2008 - Al Green, Charley Pride, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Ray Charles, Roy Clark, Solomon Burke, Ted Hawkins
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  “I am not a blues singer, I am not a jazz singer, I am not a country and western singer. But, I am a singer that sings rhythm and blues, I am a singer that can sing country music, I am a singer that can sing jazz. There’s a big difference.” -–Ray Charles, in […]

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Give Back The Key To My Heart

Posted by Lance Davis - May 2, 2008 - Alvin Crow, Chico, Doug Sahm, Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Uncle Tupelo
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Texas Rock For Country Rollers was the first Doug Sahm album I ever bought. 1992 at Melody Records in Chico, CA. Found an old vinyl cut-out that looked like it might’ve been used to chamois a ’74 Pinto. That was the bad news. The good news is that the record itself was in fine condition. […]

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Levon Helm: Only Halfway Home

Posted by Lance Davis - April 30, 2008 - Levon Helm, The Band
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Got turned onto this the other day. It’s a short film inspired by and featuring music from Levon Helm‘s 2007 album, Dirt Farmer. The music is uniformly excellent — big surprise there — but the film itself is a poignant snapshot of life in one desperate corner of rural America. In that sense, I’d say […]

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See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

Posted by Lance Davis - April 29, 2008 - Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bob Dylan, Bob Forrest, Thelonious Monster
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Does the singer catch the song or does the song catch the singer? Blind Lemon Jefferson, writer of “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean,” hit with the tune on separate recordings in 1927 and 1928, but was dead of unknown causes by 1929. I like to think that maybe the song was trying to […]

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Takin A Ride

Posted by Lance Davis - April 25, 2008 - Replacements
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Sorry We're Open

Big week here at the Lounge. We’re finally open for business, the coffee is brewing, the jukebox is humming, and we just found a stack of Replacements reissues in the mail. Sweet! Before we kick things off, though, special thanks are in order for Paul Smith, commander-in-chief of the interweb’s butt-kickinest music blog, Setting The […]

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