Torch & Twang

[PNWbrit]

Our breakfast room at the hotel in Death Valley has been playing Sirius/XM's Willie's Roadhouse. Man, that's a great channel.

Hillary doll must enjoy that.

Do you leave her inflated or use a foot pump?

[KQ]

[Woodsy]

Hillary doll must enjoy that.

Do you leave her inflated or use a foot pump?

cant imagine why he left....

[riser4]

[old goat]

Love Buddy's voice. Heard him live a few times with Emmylou and by himself at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Not many can sing country and memphis soul both. (Chris Stapleton is another.)

[KQ]

a couple of unlikely entries:




LOVE this song:

[JohnF]

https://youtu.be/eR04x5XXAwQ

[basinbeater]

https://youtu.be/dkvmzJkHx6E

[KQ]

Wow - that's great!

Excellent! Bakersfield seems to be a twangy subject. I posted this WAY up thread - one of my all time favs:




Damn Dwight's got a cute little butt. Mmmm, mmm, mmmmm

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

"Kissing Dwight was like eating a dirt sandwich" - Sharon Stone.

My wife worked on a couple of his videos, said he changed his jeans (and did a line) about every 30 minutes.

Damn fine version of Streets of Bakersfield, though.

[Svengali]

https://kaylaluky.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-it-takes

[KQ]

"Kissing Dwight was like eating a dirt sandwich" - Sharon Stone.

My wife worked on a couple of his videos, said he changed his jeans (and did a line) about every 30 minutes.

Damn fine version of Streets of Bakersfield, though.

Yeah I've got no illusions about him and no desire to experience him beyond video and live performances (saw him a couple times - he puts on a great show).

Mary Chapin Carpenter sang about him as a dig after he made a nasty comment about her when they were on tour together.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

I do admire dwight for holding onto the OG country western sound.

The story of the Bakersfield sound brought by all the okies and the dust bowl migration, and the musical thread that goes between Bako and Long Beach and Compton in the 40's and 50's is fascinating.

[KQ]

I do admire dwight for holding onto the OG country western sound.

The story of the Bakersfield sound brought by all the okies and the dust bowl migration, and the musical thread that goes between Bako and Long Beach and Compton in the 40's and 50's is fascinating.

All his short comings aside I love his voice. His cover of Wichita Lineman is amazing.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I do admire dwight for holding onto the OG country western sound.

The story of the Bakersfield sound brought by all the okies and the dust bowl migration, and the musical thread that goes between Bako and Long Beach and Compton in the 40's and 50's is fascinating.

Dwight Yoakum is from Kentucky and got his start in Ohio.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

It was a comment on his version of Streets of Bakersfield with Buck and his OG sound.

[TBS]

Love these sisters’ take on traditional Appalachian music

[zion zig zag]

Wow - that's great!




Excellent! Bakersfield seems to be a twangy subject. I posted this WAY up thread - one of my all time favs:




Damn Dwight's got a cute little butt. Mmmm, mmm, mmmmm

That Dwight Bakersfield song is Mexican ranchera music with English lyrics. I dig it.

[KQ]

That Dwight Bakersfield song is Mexican ranchera music with English lyrics. I dig it.

Written by Homer Joy it was originally sung by the one and only Buck Owens.

Buck was a true pioneer and innovator in country music during the golden age of radio.

Buck died in Bakersfield in 2006.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

That was a sad day. I grew up listening to KLAC, that was Buck's country radio station out of Bakersfield, my dad would play it on the car radio.

https://tksmith.net/2011/07/09/when-country-was-king/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield_sound

[KQ]

Been a lot of twang posted here so how about some torch?

The great Keith Whitley with the ultimate torch song:






Edit: I'm going to add this song because it's a classic and also because of its unique history. Did you know that the Righteous Brothers were boycotted by both white and black radio stations?

When they first burst onto the scene in the 1960s, Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield, a.k.a. the Righteous Brothers, faced an unusual problem: White radio stations boycotted their brand of blue-eyed soul, while black stations were hostile to a pair of Caucasian kids from Orange County who had adopted their sound.

[old goat]

We posted Crazy yet? I like Willie's version best, but Patsy's is just fine.



A lot more harmonically sophisticated than your average country song. Willie picked up a lot of swing somewhere along the way. Hard to tell where from his bio.

Neither of them is pretty enough to make it in country music today.

[TBS]

Twang from an unexpected corner

[riser4]

NSFW

[riser4]

Bump.