Some southern rock to accompany moonshine. (Little Feat)

[Glamrock]

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1. Um...forgot this one...

A). My wife punches me whenever I tell her this is our song, she's from Baton Rouge
B). One of the few times you'll see Emmylou as a full on brunette!!

[Glamrock]

2. Oh, I forgot a whole bunch!

There's rocknroll doctor, snakes on everything, etc., etc., etc. God, I love little feat!

And the beautiful Emmylou! Loved her work with Gram Parsons....

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4. No doubt...

I love Graham and Emmylou.

Years ago I was at a conference in Phoenix, and in my time off, one afternoon I decided I would go to Joshua Tree and "light one up" for Graham. Seemed like an easy trip as Joshua Tree was just across the Arizona/California border, at least according to the map...this was before iPhones. I wasn't prepared for a three hour trek into cali, only to be told by the park ranger that it would take me an hour to see the first Joshua Tree in the park!! It was worth it though, and it remains one of my sacred sites in the US.

As for Emmylou, I've loved her music for years...and the fact that she's constantly shined a light on other talents like Towens Van Zandt. But I will forever love her for one thing...in the 80's the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the most famous home of the Grand Ole Opry, was falling into disrepair. The Opry had moved to a brand new venue years before and it's benefactors, like Roy Acuff, wanted nothing more than to see the Ryman be torn down. It was historic, yes, but it was a challenger to the financial giant of the new "Opryland". Historic efforts to preserve this icon succeeded in delaying the demolition, as well as many high profile movies shot there like "Coal Miner's Daughter". Yet it was to the credit of Emmylou Harris in the early 90's, who held a series of concerts at the venue, highlighting the historical importance of the building as well as raising funds for restoration, that we still have the Ryman today! The "mother church" of country music would have been torn down and shipped off "brick by brick" to Opryland if Roy Acuff had had his way! In the end, preservationists succeeded, and the Ryman still stands as one of the most sacred and acoustically impressive venues in America. As for Opryland, the theme park died years ago, and the remnants of the park were sold off while its footprint was replaced by an outlet mall. The "Opry" remains there and performs every weekend there along with many shows year round....but in the off season, the Opry returns to the Ryman, and the Ryman remains as the premiere musical venue in Nashville. Today, in the lobby of the Ryman, there's a statue of Roy Acuff and "Minnie Pearl", celebrating the history of the building....every time I go there it's all I can do to not spit in the face of the man who wanted nothing more than to tear that historic structure to shreds and make it into a laughable shade of itself!! Thank you Emmylou!!!

[Glamrock]

6. Wow. Amazing.

And I'll bet it was under Acuff's direction that The Flying Burrito Bros. were removed from the Opry archives.

Love the fact you burned one for Graham at Joshua tree! Once again, I'm jealous!

I think Tennessee may be a rare part of my territory with the new job. If I end up down there, you'll have to be my tourist guide!

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7. Hit me up if you swing this way....

I'm a great tour guide....my wife will attest to this as I'm a fountain of useless knowledge! FWIW, I was a tour guide at Elvis' Graceland back in the day, and we live down the street from Johnny Cash's lakefront home...if you've seen "Walk the Line" you know what I mean!

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8. Also...just to piss you off a little more

If you visit the "Country Music Hall of Fame" today...there's a display of a stage costume Graham wore that is bedazzled with rhinestones, some of which in the shape of a plant we know and love....but there's no place in the Hall for people like the "Flying Burritto Brothers", or even Graham for that matter, or even Jerry Lee Lewis who had a second career as a hit country singer!

[Glamrock]

9. I know, right?

It does piss me off. I'm a Chicago kid. I've only really started getting into country/country influenced music since my mid to late thirties. And that's only because of people like Graham, Yonder Mountain, etc. Not to mention Willie and Johnny, who Nashville (corporate) hates. It's like the blues. Some buddy's of mine played the historic Indianapolis blues club the Slippery Noodle. They we're booked for two nights and got fired after the first night. And I'm telling you, it was more blues than rock. People like Acuff are destroying the genres of music they represent.

[cemaphonic]

10. They're going to tear down the Grand Ole Opry

I didn't know that Emmylou was behind the restoration.

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12. Great song....thanks for sharing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryman_Auditorium

If you're interntested, read the history of the Ryman. The preservation itself is fascinating. It warms my heart to think that such a "hallowed place", at least in my mind....it's my favorite venue in Nashville, still stands and Roy Acuff's monument to himself is now a mall with the Opry attached. As an aside, as a kid, my dad, also a "Nashvillian", thought Acuff was a great guy because he had made his dentures, no lie!!

[cemaphonic]

13. Yeah, I'm glad that some of the old vaudeville music halls are still around.

Here in Seattle, we have a theater with a similar story. It was built in the '20s (very old for Seattle - there are very few buildings older than the 1890s) with a theme of Chinese opulence by a Norwegian who had never been anywhere near China. By the '60s, vaudeville was dead, and the venue was too small and obsolete to host rock bands and other popular entertainment that followed. So it spent some time as a movie theater and otherwise sat rotting for 20 years, but wasn't torn down, as it was on the historic register. In the 80s, a preservationist group got a bunch of money together and restored it to its former glory. Now it's the premiere venue in town for touring Broadway shows, and productions of that nature.

5th Avenue Theater:
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And the Ryman is legendary. I'm not a huge country fan, but I love bluegrass, and so many of my current favorite musicians are based out of Nashville. I also love the proto-country performers like Uncle Dave Macon, the Skillet Lickers, and especially the Carter Family that were among the first performers at the Ryman. I'd love to visit Nashville sometime. One of my regrets from my old job is that I never got a chance to go to the summer NAMM convention.

And I think it's awesome that John Hartford got to perform and host at the restored Ryman before he died.

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14. Wow...gorgeous...

If you ever are in Nashville, the Ryman is a must, for history if not for a show.

[cemaphonic]

3. I love the hell out of this cover

Golden Palominos - I've Been the One

Lowell George used to play a bunch with Bonnie Raitt back in the day. Very underappreciated band.

[Glamrock]

5. Thanks for the turn on!

I was completely unaware of this group. I'll definitely check them out.

[cemaphonic]

11. They're a really unique band.

The core of the band is drummer Anton Fier and bassist Bill Laswell. Beyond that the lineup shifts, not just album-to-album, but song-to-song. And despite being fairly obscure in commercial terms, they were very well-connected NYC session players and producers, so the shifting lineup included people like Michael Stipe, Jack Bruce, John Lydon, John Zorn, Bernie Worrell, as well as being a showcase for some talented but unknown singers like Syd Straw (the singer on "I've Been The One&quot and Lori Carson.

So their music shifts over time from no-wave, to roots-rock, to trip-hop.

Oh, and the pedal steel in this version is played by Sneaky Pete Kleinow, who also played on the Little Feat version (as well as on the Flying Burrito Brothers album).