Comments on: Sammy Johns Passes Away; Luke Bryan to Co-host ACM Awards with Blake Shelton; Chris Knight Premieres New Video

By: Chickette

Chickette — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:53:38 +0000

@ Lucky — so basically it’s like any other day?

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:51:39 +0000

Arlene,
Don’t sweat it. Seems Country Cop is having one of his more irascible days–where he thinks he should be the only person posting here.

By: Arlene

Arlene — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:41:50 +0000

@Jon– Exactly, and I’ve simply mentioned two of my favorites that weren’t on the list…

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:15:37 +0000

There’s about a million songs about, or that invoke, the Civil War.

By: Arlene

Arlene — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:57:46 +0000

Ed Morris’s list of Civil War songs also “doesn’t include” Steve Earle’s song “Dixieland,” which he recorded with the Del McCoury Band.

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:46:32 +0000

Great recent (or by now, maybe not all that recent) Civil War song is Steve Earle’s “Ben McCulloch” on his “Train a Comin’” CD. I always wondered what kind of research he did for that song. It has a completely unromantic, stark realism.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:50:24 +0000

“Nothing more Country than writing a #1 single for a nu-metal band haha.”

It’s a pretty safe bet that Mr. Wiseman doesn’t give a **** whether you or anyone else considers him to be country. Nor should he.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:47:08 +0000

“That list of Civil War songs also leaves out ‘Two Soldiers’…”

I don’t believe that Ed meant it to be a comprehensive list, so “doesn’t include” might be a more precise way of putting it. It also doesn’t include “Three Days In July,” written by myself and Mark Simos and recorded by the Infamous Stringdusters (live version here: http://youtu.be/GuyJDymc600 ). On the other hand, he does conclude by recommending the two volumes (so far) of The 1861 Project (http://1861project.com), so I can hardly complain.

As far as “Blue Eyed Boston Boy” goes, with all due respect to Mss. Miller and Harris, if you haven’t heard the version done by the Bluegrass Cardinals on their sole Rounder album back in 1975, then I firmly believe you haven’t really heard the song. That one can be heard here: http://youtu.be/0SoDJNNELzI ; my old bandmate, Dwight McCall (American Drive), recorded a fine version also, which can be heard here: http://youtu.be/7_1CmXNXSE4 . In my opinion, both of these – and many others which follow the Cardinals’ – avoid the bathos to which too many other versions, unintentionally or otherwise, succumb.

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:29:01 +0000

Maybe he’ll surprise me, but Luke Bryan being Blake Shelton’s co-host seems rather underwhelming.

By: Mike Wimmer

Mike Wimmer — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:32:37 +0000

Nothing more Country than writing a #1 single for a nu-metal band haha.

That Chris Knight video is very good, the whole album is really good, but it’s just nice to have some music that speaks to what is going on in the actual world today. I get the need to escapism and can appreciate and enjoy that, but when every freaking song on the radio is clearly made for escapism and the genre pretty much refuses to speak about the current social and economic issues in the world it gets annoying.