If that wasn’t the case, I’d mention that Frank Hennessey’s show on Sunday just gone did an Americana theme and was a really good listen.
If you were kicking your heels over Xmas, Ken Burns’ Country Music is also a good watch, it has been on the Beeb before.
I like the odd country song, I mentioned Kenny Rogers,…. love ‘The Gambler’ ,.Coward of the County’,
.and the duet with Dolly Parton (who also has massive HITS 
) singing the Bee Ges song Island in the stream……(I keep asking the Mrs to make it our karaoke song and practice it but she won’t be on.
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Charlie Rich ‘‘Behind closed doors’ …..is that even Country?
I send the Mrs Slim Whitman’s ‘ Happy Anniversary’ every year, in an ironic way as it’s a bit ‘ cringe’ and it’s become a standing joke between we over the years
Can’t think of anymore ….oh yeah…. I Love ‘ Devil went Down to Georgia’ Charlie Daniel’s Band……(btw I see the prissy BBC hsve changed ‘the ‘‘Son of a B1tch’’ lyric ,.to.’’Son of a GUN’’ when they play it ffs )
Hey! Maybe I do like Country after all.
Speaking of ‘ Devil went down….’ Have ya seen Brian Conley’s version?
An earlier Joe Walsh. There is a better video of the James Gang but it won’t transfer.
You can hardly call Dolly a country and western artist. C&W is only one of the many genres in which she has had hits.
You normally have a similar sense of humour to me…a bit of a ‘Wooosh’ moment there I reck mate
Edit…..My apologies mate just noticed….the Woosh is on ME
Anybody else remember this?
On radio earlier, ages since I heard it.
It takes me back to being a young too confident for his own good (not changed then eh ) kid in the clubs at the time, playing ‘‘Jack the Lad’’ chatting up the type of blonde girl in the opening and closing sequence in this vid in fact, with ‘varied’ success ..good days.
….in fact I think I know her.
Department S …..’’Is Vick there’‘
(Title from a quote in a Monty Python sketch as far as I remember.)
Popped up on my playlist last night. Not one I’m familiar with but thought what a great record.
The title reminds me of the tragic story of Minnie Ripperton who can be heard saying her very young daughter’s name at the end of the song.Her husband, who is playing the guitar in the video, wrote the song for her. It was his love song to her. She was dying from breast cancer during the recording of the video. She fought on for 3 or 4 more years, lost the use of her right arm to cancer but kept singing on stage and TV. She sang and did an interview on the Merv Griffen show 4 days before she was bed ridden and 3 weeks before she died age 31. Maya’s 7th Birthday had been a fortnight before her mother died. She wasn’t able to walk on her own at that point and had to be helped on to the stage to sing. Her daughter became a well known actress: Maya Rudolph
I remember the song, and always liked it, but the back story gives it another dimension.
This old chestnut has been performed by almost the world and its dog, but here is one of the best renditions.
Another one that may be new to your ears. A Brisbane band.
Guaranteed to get a speck of dust in my eyes when I hear this
This one does it to me, mate.
Too young to drink, too young to vote.
Young blokes fighting old men’s wars.
How’s this one for topical?
Fantastic! Takes me back to being 19 fighting one of Maggies wars, more scared of letting my friends down than I ever was of dying.
Tell ya what mate…,.all jokes and pi55 taking aside, in a country full of yes men, gob shintes and wet wipes, whom I have came across in walks of life…that is a pretty impressive thing to say, (and I think I know you well enough to know that you mean it.)
The sort of bloke you could rely on watching your back …nice one,.I’d like to think I would be similar.
(Now f.off I aint ever giving you anymore complinents and we’ll never talk about this again.
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That applies regardless of which service, probably the only take away from conscription.
Ruby Andrews record is a proper Northern Soul anthem and floor filler.Northern Soul obviously wasn’t a big thing here in the South in the day but the music was well known and used the same.
Superb song. Always known it as it was one of my Grandmothers favourites but knew it as Green Fields of France. Very poignant
More ‘northern soul’
