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Lotta Poor Man Got The Cumberland Blues

Posted by Lance Davis - January 29, 2014 - Everly Brothers, Grateful Dead, James Burton, Merle Haggard, Rolling Stones
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  “We didn’t find it difficult to write pop songs, but it was VERY difficult — and I think Mick will agree — to write one for the Stones. It seemed to us it took months and months and in the end we came up with ‘The Last Time,’ which was basically adapting a traditional […]

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RIP Ralph Mooney

Posted by Lance Davis - March 25, 2011 - Bakersfield, James Burton, Merle Haggard, Ralph Mooney, Roy Nichols, Waylon Jennings, Wynn Stewart
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  Ralph Mooney died last Sunday and calling him a pedal steel pioneer seems woefully inadequate. He was the crucial link between Bakersfield country and Texas outlaw country, the two most significant reactions to the Nashville Sound between 1955-80. Think about this. Moon played for Wynn Stewart at Wynn’s peak (1950s-’60s), played for Waylon Jennings […]

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Clarence White and the Rise of Nashville West: 1966-67

Posted by Lance Davis - August 15, 2008 - Bakersfield International, Clarence White, Gary S. Paxton, Gene Parsons, Gib Guilbeau, Gosdin Brothers, James Burton, Nashville West, The Reasons
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“HOLY MACKEREL! CAN THIS GUY PLAY GUITAR?!?!” As noted last time, Clarence White spent most of 1966 busy with session work and pickup gigs. Sometime in the late summer or fall of that year he worked a session at Ion Records in Hollywood. I would’ve included this track in my previous post as it fit […]

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Clarence White and his Transition to Telecaster: 1965-66

Posted by Lance Davis - July 28, 2008 - Byrds, Chris Hillman, Clarence White, Gene Clark, Gosdin Brothers, Hugh Masekela, James Burton
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  1965 had to be bittersweet for Clarence White and the Kentucky Colonels. In February of that year, fiddler Scotty Stoneman joined the band for a half-year stint, transforming the Colonels into perhaps the greatest bluegrass group of all-time. If Clarence and Scotty weren’t the Bird and Diz of bluegrass, they were at least its […]

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