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Showing posts with label Shooter Jennings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shooter Jennings. Show all posts
Jun 26, 2018
May 10, 2018
May 1, 2018
Apr 12, 2018
Apr 3, 2018
Country Lyrics + Iconic Wrestling Moments
Wrestlemania is this weekend, so there will likely be a lot of country/wrestling stuff this week. Sorry.
Here are some iconic wrestling moments juxtaposed with appropriate country lyrics.
Mar 6, 2018
Feb 20, 2018
Top 10 Biggest Jerks in Americana Music
Some would imagine that the fan-friendly, honest Americana music scene would not be as likely to contain divas and d-bags as the more mainstream genres of music. However, thanks to critic and hipster love for the buzzworthy genre, things have changed of late. This groundswell has slowly created a context wherein all manner of unlikely aspirants are more apt to let their jerk flag fly. Here are some of the genre's most egregious offenders.
10. Brent Cobb
"Forgets" to invite cousin Dave to family functions
Band members only allowed to speak to him by text message
9. Rhiannon Giddens
Borrows band members' phones and logs out of everything
Once put a fan who accidentally called her 'Rihanna' in a triangle choke submission hold
8. Amanda Shires
Wouldn't speak to husband, Jason, for a month when he opposed the name "Taco Lucinda" for their daughter
Performed an entire show of Rob Thomas covers when one crowd was smaller than anticipated
7. Rob Baird
Always eats the middle cinnamon roll out of the pan first
Spends hours a day leaving 1 star iTunes reviews on other Americana artists
Will only autograph thongs
6. Shooter Jennings
Puffs, doesn't pass
Got a secret tip and sold all his Bitcoin to Marilyn Manson just before Bitcoin crashed
Plans to do an all-EDM tour later this year
5. Ward Davis
Secretly bullies Cody Jinks
Still says "Dilly Dilly!"
Keeps telling everybody new music is coming "soon" but it never does
4. Holly Williams
First person to ingest a Tide Pod on video
Can only name 3 Hank Sr. songs
Drives 10 mph below speed limit in left lane
3. Drew Kennedy
Never cleans stations in the gym after using them
Doesn't wash out the sink after beard grooming
Tour rider includes "organic kale candy" and "fitted hemp Phillies cap"
2. Courtney Patton
Spreads rumors about Jamie Lin Wilson on Snapchat
Tells dirty jokes at funerals
Vapes dill pickle flavor at songwriting sessions
1. Paul Thorn
Does the old "replace the vodka with water" trick on his tour bus
Constantly reminds fans he used to be a boxer
Never plays his top 5 songs on Spotify in concert
Always has a few credit card skimmers on hand
Feb 6, 2018
Feb 1, 2018
The Farce 5: A Dumb Interview With Jaime Wyatt
by Jeremy Harris
I caught up with the very talented Jaime Wyatt after a Shooter Jennings set and during my drunkest stint of the 3rd Outlaw Country Cruise. Somehow I managed to mess up the recording by drunkenly stopping and starting the recording app on my phone but I managed to remember enough to type this up. I doubt I got it all but I’m surprised I even remembered any of it.
Farce: Are you ready for the worst five questions in music?
Jaime: Sure
Farce: If you could only pick one, what (I can’t even spell what I said here) of music would you put yourself into?
Jaime: Are you trying to say genre?
Farce: Yes but very drunk.
Jaime: Uh, American
Farce: You’ve been out touring and hanging with other singer so which artist you’ve been around takes takes the stinkiest shits?
Jaime: You know I’m a lady right?
Farce: Yeah, but I’m sure they throw you in a room with guys at shows sometimes.
Jaime: (She’s now putting serious thought into this) Well, the other day on the bus there was a smell. I’m not sure who did it with everyone in there and it’s hard to tell on a bus but I’ll say it was Ted. (bassist Ted Russell Kamp)
Farce: Have you ever pretended to remember a fan that you've encountered so they'd quit telling you why you should know them?
Jaime: No I can’t lie, I just tell them I don’t remember. I’m very honest.
Farce: Can’t fault you for that.
Farce: Can you describe your worst hotel experience?
Jaime: Oh shit, I can’t remember the name of the hotel (and I was drunk and hit the stop recording button so we are officially relying on my drunken memory) but there was a party and the management and law showed up.
Farce: Probably better off we don’t remember for lawsuit sakes. If you could make a singer or band disappear forever who would it be and why?
Jaime: I hope you wont be offended.
Farce: I don’t give a shit.
Jaime: It’s Nickelback.
Farce: Hell no that’s a great answer. I don’t think that would offend anyone on this boat. Thanks Jaime, I’ve got to go tell Shooter he’s an asshole. (He heard me)
Jaime: Thank you for doing this.
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Editor's Note: Please go purchase some music from Jaime to make this up to her somehow.
--> Felony Blues
Jan 11, 2018
Rick & Morty Country Reaction Gifs
Shooter Jennings is putting out
a honky-tonk album this year?
Reading an article from a new country writer complaining
about us "that's not country" critics
More likely than Cody Jinks getting played
on mainstream country radio
The objective terrible-ness of Walker Hayes' boom...
Would you rather shave with rusty prison shank
than listen to Kelsea Ballerini?
than listen to Kelsea Ballerini?
How you can tell that your grandpa has
been listening to Florida-Georgia Line...
Hey, country radio listeners...
Dec 14, 2017
Little Known Facts: Christmas 2017 Edition
Little Known Facts: Christmas 2017 Edition
Little Known Facts: Christmas 2017 Edition
Little Known Facts: Christmas 2017 Edition
If Cole Swindell ran outside naked in a snowstorm, he'd be invisible
Luke Bryan never hangs his stockings by the fireplace because
he’d feel silly wearing his garter belt without them
On the twelfth day of Christmas, Brantley Gilbert realized he couldn’t count that high
Neal McCoy's "Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won't Take a Knee)" was originally about
Game of Thrones' Jon Snow and was titled "Bend the Knee, My Arse (I Shan't Bend the Knee)"
If Sturgill Simpson doesn’t do a Farce The Music
interview we will start a rumor he punched Santa
There is a 100% chance Kenny Chesney will be a fan
of this year's college football playoff champion
The previous fact will be recycled annually for eternity
Justin Moore has lost 75% of his fame since Trailer stopped photoshopping him
on shelves around Christmas (Editor's note: or Scotty McCreery, whichever)
Sturgill Simpson recently punched Santa at a mall. More details to come.
All pictures of Shooter Jennings on a shelf are not Photoshopped
Gary Levox’s New Year’s resolution is to be less awkward in photos
The 2017 Time Magazine Person of the Year is every woman
that has ever recorded ‘Baby it’s Cold Outside’
David Lee Murphy has a song on the country chart. No really, I’m serious about that one.
Asking for more women on country radio and getting Bebe Rexha is like
asking for a Washington outsider to be president and getting... never mind
Every time "Humble and Kind" plays on the radio, Spade Cooley rolls in his grave
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All but 3 of these by Jeremy Harris
Nov 17, 2017
Song Premiere: Craig Gerdes "Redneck Sonsabitches"
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| Photo by Al Steinz |
Here's a brand new song from honky-tonker Craig Gerdes. It's a rowdy, plain-spoken tale about struggling against the country machine on Music Row. A very outlaw point of view that fits in perfectly with other anti-Nashville anthems like Shooter Jennings' "Outlaw You" and Dale Watson's "Nashville Rash." RIYL: Dale Watson, Dallas Moore, Billy Joe Shaver.
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Gerdes' forthcoming record, Smokin', Drinkin' & Gamblin' (out February 16) features pedal steel and production work from Jim Vest (Johnny Paycheck, Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe), as well as steel from Robby Turner (Waylon Jennings, Chris Stapleton). Gerdes has also recently collaborated with Jeff Tweel (Merle Haggard, Kenny Rogers), and has shared bills with country legend Billy Joe Shaver.
Smokin' Drinkin' & Gamblin' is full of outlaw-country rug cutters and ballads about strong heads and weak hearts. Fueled by nostalgia, Gerdes' songwriting talent turns old habits into dependable crutches, nursing the phantom pain of distant love. The nine-track album is full old-school four-to-the-floor honky tonk that calls to mind country legends like George Strait, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson.
New single “Red Neck Sonsabitches” is a chicken pickin’, honky-tonkin’ country song detailing Gerdes’ experience as a working musician in Nashville before deciding to buck the system and go his own way, back into the rural landscape of central Illinois. Bright, twangy production and a brash, anti-Nashville attitude give this song a timeless outlaw country feel that recalls the genre legends of the 1970s.
More information about Craig below the song player!
CRAIG GERDES - SMOKIN' DRINKIN' & GAMBLIN'
Craig Gerdes is a singer whose voice is steadied by the legion of angels he believes watch over him. He tells stories at a Southern pace, with a soft voice and slow drawl. His new album Smokin', Drinkin', and Gamblin' is full of outlaw country rug cutters, and ballads about strong heads and weak hearts. Fueled by nostalgia, his songwriting talent turns old habits into dependable crutches, and nurses the phantom pain of missing lovers.
Though he hails from rural Illinois, his sound is four-to-the-floor, old-school honky tonk, reminiscent of greats like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard. As great songwriters often do, he spent time as a writer in Nashville, where he had some success, and learned that his songs were too country for the cosmopolitan elite.
"Redneck Sonsabitches" eloquently details the story of his Nashville experience, one that put him in front of great outlaw songwriter Billie Joe Shaver. Shaver laughed with him about the difficult road honest songwriters sometimes face on Music Row, and asked him if he'd ever been to Texas. Another man of faith, Shaver ensured Gerdes they'd meet again, and three years later Gerdes opened a show for him outside La Grange. The song he penned about it is a swaggerin' chicken-pickin' electric two stepper. The band careens through a tempo change where he namechecks Shaver, who told him "Son, I know just how you feel," before he remembers what record companies remarked about his work—"You long haired redneck sonsabitches are not wanted here in Nashville, Tennessee."
Gerdes began playing country music at the age of 10 in the band of his father, who, as a child, would crowd around the radio with his family waiting for the wind to blow in just the right direction so they could pick up the faint signal from the Grand Ole Opry. The songs his father loved—by country icons like George Jones, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash—provided the foundation for Craig's work. By age 12, he was already a capable songwriter and musician. And by 16, he'd wandered from the narrow path. "In the same summer," he recalls, "I totaled my car, broke my best friend's neck, dropped out of high school, got arrested and got married."
A few years later, after a chance meeting with a Nashville band, Gerdes wound up living on Music Row. For a time, he literally slept on the floor of a studio where greats like George Jones and Jerry Reed had recorded, a place that's now a one bedroom apartment. "I was hoping to soak up some of that mojo," he jokes about harder times. While Gerdes was able to gain traction with a publishing company and even do some co-writing, his traditional songs just didn't fit in. After years of the seven-hour commute back and forth from his family in unincorporated Pattonsburg, Illinois. (pop. 348), every weekend, he decided to go his own way, leaving Nashville behind and returning full-time to rural life. During this point in his life, while Gerdes was on a hiatus from songwriting to concentrate on raising his kids, his 16-year-old cousin was killed in a car wreck. He was compelled to write again by an angel he believes is her.
Many of Gerdes' songs embody the life of the traveler. While listening to the radio on a trip, he heard the story of a man found cut up in a box and was inspired to write the murder ballad "Dead In A Box In Kentucky." There's a Spanish guitar solo during the bridge that dances into a climactic finish that concludes with a Hitchcockian fratricidal twist. Gerdes' voice is at its strongest on "Almost To Alabama," where he's joined by dobro, imagining the end of the road, and distant lovers. The title track, "Smokin' Drinkin' Gamblin'" is another song only a road-weary rambler could write. It's the apex of country music, where the rhythm section leads in a thudding backbeat, and steel guitar has room to wander all over the beat, while Gerdes moans about "ramblin' my young life away."
Gerdes sings a mean cheatin' song as well. His ribald song "Learned From The Best" and his cover of Johnny Paycheck’s "Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets" bookend the album, the latter a fitting choice—on the surface, Paycheck’s lyrics are about an illicit affair, but under the covers it's about class distinction; the sleek countrypolitan image the music industry creates, and the actual people they use to make the music they desire.
While Gerdes' songs about smokin', drinkin' and gamblin' aren't necessarily gospel fare he is for certain "spreading the gospel of country music." His experiences and his angels guard him from writing songs "with no heart or soul." Rarely has classic barroom country been so crossover capable. Give it a listen and you, too, will believe.
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