Other Mixes By CASETTA
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They Pave The Roads Eventually
| Artist | Song | |
| Bob Willis & His Texas Playboys | Bubbles In My Beer | |
| Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys | Blue Moon Of Kentucky | |
| Hank Williams Sr. | Long Gone Lovesick Blues | |
| Johnny Cash | Tennesee Flat Top Box | |
| Merle Haggard | Mama Tried | |
| Hank Snow | I'm Movin' On | |
| Lefty Frizell | Always Late With Your Kisses | |
| The Flatlanders | Dallas | |
| Gram Parsons | Ohh Las Vegas | |
| Doug Sahm | Nitty Gritty | |
| Marty Robbins | El Paso | |
| Townes Van Zandt | Heavenly Houseboat Blues | |
| John Prine | Paradise | |
| The Skeletons | 30 Days In The Workhouse | |
| Uncle Tupelo | New Madrid | |
| Dolly Parton | Silver Dagger | |
| Steve Earle | Until The Day | |
| Lucinda Williams | Car Wheels On A Gravel Road | |
| Whiskeytown | Jacksonville Skyline | |
| Grant Lee Phillips | Me And This City | |
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A few months ago, I was working on a production that is basically a TV version of "This American Life" (I have no clue when, where, and if the program will air, all I know is the production company took thier sweet time paying me). Production took me to South Central Illinois, home to where my these non-Catholic Italian immigrants called my relatives came to settle in the 1900's. I called up my Dad, who lives over in Indiana, and invited him to join me to aid in the "research" side of the production. He showed me around "hot spots" of Swanwick. We got talking about how radio sucks and after a few hearty beers, he began to say how virtually everyone he knows likes crappy music and he wishes country radio would play honest country music. (He also had harsh words for the state of all other music genres too, God bless him , I know where I got it from). I told him I'd make him a mix, afterall, I swiped his albums years ago, I kind of owe him. This is the first. A rock version will follow. You see eventually Dad's family ended up in St. Louis and at some point owned this juke joint type of club booking black R&B in the early fifties exposing my Dad to his other fave type of music. Anyway this is his mix.
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This has some truly beautiful stuff on it. I've been meaning to work "Dallas" (one of my all-time favorite songs by *anyone*) onto a mix sometime soon, and it's always great to see Hank, Merle and Townes represented at their best. Beautiful work.
My Dad sort of turned me on to the Flatlanders in a way. Somehow he became a Joe Ely fan (to this day I have no clue how he was introduced to the music of Ely)and that was the connection. On a strange sidenote, about two years ago, my wife and I took this rafting/camping/ outdoor/ gourmet food/wine drinking raft tour down the Rio Grande in Texas and Butch Hancock was the guide and entertainment. Three fun filled days and two nights of food, wine and song down the Rio Grande.
Excellent. Makes me want to go tip a cow or something. BTW, your mix will be mailed tomorrow.
This looks quite wonderful!
This looks quite wonderful!
This looks great.
Great stuff, Tom. Your dad certainly has great taste.
You can't go wrong with this lineup. And I agree with your dad: It's a damn shame that country radio doesn't play country music.
i don't know what country radio is, but it ain't country music. i always tell people who like garth brooks and that drek that if the "new country" music is so goddamned good, then why is a legend like Johnny Cash working with WILL OLDHAM? it's obvious, because oldham knows what country music is and should be...
I agree with you Brandt and Mo. It is a sad state when the likes of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard and Dolly Parton have recently put out some of the best music of thier careers and are ignored. Wait, somehow country music became Nashville. Think about it, most of the good shit isn't and never was from there anyway.
Lots of great music has come out of Nashville. But Music Row has a lot of sins to answer for...
awesome. you are some sort of genius.
This is pretty damn brilliant, I must say. Great idea.