• Submit Date: 10/29/2001
  • Format: Cassette
  • Category: Country

baby's first country mix

Side A
Artist Song
the carter family  can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) 
rose melberg  deep purple 
tom waits  cold cold ground 
the breeders  i can't help it (if i'm still in love with you) 
magnetic fields  fear of trains 
the byrds  one hundred years from now 
geraldine fibbers  get thee gone 
barbara manning w/ flophouse  i love u 1000 ways 
johnny cash (w/ june carter cash)  jackson 
creedence clearwater revival  lodi 
son volt  catchin' on 
palace brothers  idle hands are the devil's playthings 
gram parsons  the new soft shoe 
   
   
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
hank williams  lost highway 
laura cantrell  the whiskey makes you sweeter 
bob dylan  don't think twice, it's all right 
patsy cline  leavin' on your mind 
international submarine band  i must be somebody else you've known 
uncle tupelo  give back the key to my heart 
the beatles  one after 909 
neko case and her boyfriends  jettison 
the pixies  silver 
wilco  far, far away 
buddy holly  soft place in my heart 
the flying burrito brothers  sin city 
chris bell  you and your sister (country version) 
the carter family  lulu walls 
johnny cash  daddy sang bass 

Comment:

this is digital (1101). i have been listening to a lot of music with "twang" lately (that and the smiths...go figure.) anyway, i felt i had enough to go ahead and put together a "country" mix. there are some glaring omissions (like the mekons/sally timms for one) so if anyone has any suggestions for things i should be listening to, go for it.

Feedback:

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Rob Conroy
Date: 10/29/2001
Great mix, Brandt. But I've gotta ask... "One After 909" = "country?! *scratches head in bewilderment*
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Fundak
Date: 10/29/2001
it's kind of like a carl perkins number...the whole point of this mix was to kind of fuck with the country aesthetic...maybe it was a bad call, as i was flip flopping between one after 909, two of us and act naturally. i had also intended to put woody guthrie on this mix, as i am having a hard time discerning good country music from good folk music, but i ran out of space.
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Mo Twang!
Date: 10/29/2001
This is a nice mix of twangy and not-so-twangy songs. Things you should be listening too? Well, there's lots of great old-school country artists (Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, George Jones, etc.) and I really like the Texas singer-songwriters like Townes Van Zandt, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
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CASETTA
Date: 10/29/2001
"One After 909" is clearly an ode to Carl Perkins and "Act Naturally" is a great Bakersfield country, Buck Ownes cover that The Beatles tapped into.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 10/29/2001
My point, though, Messrs. Casetta & Fundak, is that neither Carl Perkins nor the Beatles' interpretation of his style were "country". "Act Naturally", on the other hand, is. Another very noteworthy Beatles country tune is "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party".
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Fundak
Date: 10/29/2001
but what is "country" then? by your reasoning i should probably remove the magnetic fields, geraldine fibbers and the pixies for sure then, right?
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Rob Conroy
Date: 10/29/2001
No, they clearly doing more of a "genre exercise" deal than the Beatles were. "The One After 909" is a straight-up '50s-style ROCK AND ROLL song...
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Fundak
Date: 10/29/2001
but isn't 50s ROCK the bastard child of blues and country? that's the way i've always seen it...
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Woods
Date: 10/29/2001
As I walked down the street to the place I work around 9am this morning, a stray thought crossed my mind. The thought was generally this: "how many turds must a man walk around before you can call him a man?"
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SueEW
Date: 10/29/2001
Looks good no matter what genre "one after 909" fits into.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 10/29/2001
Right. Then, with your point in mind, Brandt, *all* rock and roll is the bastard child, and everything rock and roll is "country". Gimme a break... lol.