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“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ― DollyParton “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.” |
Continue reading Jan 19: Dolly Parton was born in 1946 Happy Birthday
“If I can get me out of the way, I can do anything”
– Steve Earle“I don’t really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.”
~Steve EarleAll we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It’s part of learning the craft.
~Steve Earle
One of Alldylan’s Greatest heroes
Fort Worth Blues:
“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”
“Folsom Prison looms large in Johnny Cash’s legacy, providing the setting for perhaps his definitive song and the location for his definitive album, At Folsom Prison. The ideal blend of mythmaking and gritty reality, At Folsom Prison is the moment when Cash turned into the towering Man in Black, a haunted troubadour singing songs of crime, conflicted conscience, and jail.”
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)
One of the best live albums in recording history was taped on this date in 1968, hell, it’s one of the best albums period. Today it is it’s 46 year anniversary.
| Released | May 1968 October 19, 1999 (re-release) October 14, 2008 (Legacy Edition) |
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| Recorded | Live at Folsom State Prison, January 13, 1968 |
| Genre | Country |
| Length | 55:56 (re-release) |
| Label | Columbia |
| Producer | Bob Johnston (original) Bob Irwin (re-release) |
Continue reading Jan 13: Johnny Cash recorded “At Folsom Prison” in 1968
“This boy has a lot more of the Dylan spirit than John Prine. His songs are filled with the absurdist energy and heart on sleeve pretension that made Dylan a genius instead of a talent.”
– Robert Christgau, Creem magazine
Greetings from Asbury Park NJ is the first studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1973. It only sold about 25,000 copies in the first year of its release, but had significant critical impact. It was ranked at #379 by Rolling Stone on its list of 500 greatest albums of all time. The album also hit the number sixty stop on the Billboard 200 albums listing.
The new release that is part of the new box-set (released autumn 2014) sounds amazing!
Continue reading Jan 05: Bruce Springsteen released Greetings from Ashbury Park NJ in 1973
Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953), born Hiram King Williams, is regarded as one of the most important country music artists of all time. Williams recorded 35 singles (five released posthumously) that would place in the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one.Hank Williams died in 1953 and Townes Van Zandt died in 1997
John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including “If I Needed You,” “To Live is to Fly,” and “No Place to Fall” are considered standards of their genre.
Continue reading Jan 1: Hank Williams died in 1953 and Townes Van Zandt died in 1997