Comments on: Friday Five: Cotton http://www.engine145.com/friday-five-cotton/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friday-five-cotton A Roots Music Publication Thu, 23 May 2013 16:09:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Occasional Hope http://www.engine145.com/friday-five-cotton/#comment-7878 Occasional Hope Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:53:27 +0000 http://www.engine145.com/?p=17505#comment-7878 What about Gene Watson's 'From Cotton To Satin'? What about Gene Watson’s ‘From Cotton To Satin’?

]]> By: Rick http://www.engine145.com/friday-five-cotton/#comment-7877 Rick Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:02:07 +0000 http://www.engine145.com/?p=17505#comment-7877 One of my favorite tracks on Blake Shelton's "Barn & Grill" album is "Cotton Pickin' Time" although the song doesn't have a whole lot to do with cotton! (lol) Why it wasn't released as a radio single is absolutely beyond me, and the video would have really been fun too! It may be one of Hag's shortest songs, but "Tulare Dust" is a great little cotton picking ditty. And since this is a Cotton theme, let's not forget about the yodeling blonde bombshell Carolina Cotton who was one of the few female artists to do a full tour with Bob Wills. Working in western films and focusing on western swing and cowboy music guaranteed that Carolina's career would fade by the mid 1950's. Fortunately Carolina's daughter, who now resides in Bakersfield, went through the effort it took to compile two full CD's of Carolina's recordings that are available on CD Baby. Carolina's duet version of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is the best you'll find in the Amazon MP3 library. One of my favorite tracks on Blake Shelton’s “Barn & Grill” album is “Cotton Pickin’ Time” although the song doesn’t have a whole lot to do with cotton! (lol) Why it wasn’t released as a radio single is absolutely beyond me, and the video would have really been fun too!

It may be one of Hag’s shortest songs, but “Tulare Dust” is a great little cotton picking ditty.

And since this is a Cotton theme, let’s not forget about the yodeling blonde bombshell Carolina Cotton who was one of the few female artists to do a full tour with Bob Wills. Working in western films and focusing on western swing and cowboy music guaranteed that Carolina’s career would fade by the mid 1950′s. Fortunately Carolina’s daughter, who now resides in Bakersfield, went through the effort it took to compile two full CD’s of Carolina’s recordings that are available on CD Baby. Carolina’s duet version of “Ragtime Cowboy Joe” is the best you’ll find in the Amazon MP3 library.

]]> By: Barry Mazor http://www.engine145.com/friday-five-cotton/#comment-7870 Barry Mazor Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:16:52 +0000 http://www.engine145.com/?p=17505#comment-7870 "MS Cotton Pickin Delta Town" is--inevitably--the single we put up at the top of the new Charley Pride historical marker in Sledge, Ms. (One of my jobs is researching and putting together the material on those markers.) Things being what they were there when Charley was growing up, he never even met the main composer of the song, Harold Dorman, who grew up (and is white) in the same little town at the same time, until they were both successful adults in music, and then they became friends. (Dorman also wrote the rock and country standard "Mountain of Love.") “MS Cotton Pickin Delta Town” is–inevitably–the single we put up at the top of the new Charley Pride historical marker in Sledge, Ms. (One of my jobs is researching and putting together the material on those markers.)

Things being what they were there when Charley was growing up, he never even met the main composer of the song, Harold Dorman, who grew up (and is white) in the same little town at the same time, until they were both successful adults in music, and then they became friends. (Dorman also wrote the rock and country standard “Mountain of Love.”)

]]> By: Jon http://www.engine145.com/friday-five-cotton/#comment-7867 Jon Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:00:29 +0000 http://www.engine145.com/?p=17505#comment-7867 Oh, for crying out loud, "California Cottonfields" isn't a tale by The Hag, it's a tale by Dallas Frazier (you might have heard of him) and Peanut Montgomery. Good call on the Charley Pride song, though. Oh, for crying out loud, “California Cottonfields” isn’t a tale by The Hag, it’s a tale by Dallas Frazier (you might have heard of him) and Peanut Montgomery.

Good call on the Charley Pride song, though.

]]> By: bob http://www.engine145.com/friday-five-cotton/#comment-7863 bob Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:40:03 +0000 http://www.engine145.com/?p=17505#comment-7863 I like songs 1, 4 & 5. Never heard the first 4 before. How about "Cotton Jenny", solely written by Gordon Lightfoot and recorded by Lightfoot and Anne Murray. I like songs 1, 4 & 5. Never heard the first 4 before.

How about “Cotton Jenny”, solely written by Gordon Lightfoot and recorded by Lightfoot and Anne Murray.

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