Music: BAD MAGICK: THE BEST OF SHOOTER JENNINGS & THE .357′S
The above clip is from Shooter’s collaboration with Jamey Johnson on CMT Crossroads which premieres tonight (3/23) at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Tomorrow's the day! Universal Records South releases Bad Magick: The Best of Shooter Jennings and the .357’s, an all encompassing listening experience of 13 fan favorites from Shooter Jennings’ last four albums, plus two tracks never before released on CD.
We were lucky enough to get an advance copy here at Southern Brand and it's smokin'. We've damn near worn it out. Thank ya kindly Jen!
Bad Magick is an album for all Shooter fans, whether this is their first album or whether they’ve been with him from his beginnings. Ten of the album’s tracks were written or co-written by the singer. The collection offers a little bit of everything and represents what his music is all about.
Born the son of a country outlaw, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, Shooter gravitated towards the rock n’ roll music scene at an early age, but after his father’s death realized the legendary Jennings had never heard him sing a country song apart from one home recording session at a young age. Shooter moved to Music City three years later with his band, the .357’s. Together, in just a few short years, they released four country albums with a signature rock flare that drew an immediate fan base of all ages.
Combining a blend of country, blues and rock ‘n’ roll, Shooter Jennings has developed his own unique style of music, not shadowing in his famous father’s footsteps.
“I sound like myself,” explains Shooter. “I guess that comes from finally doing what I want, even though I’m embracing my heritage, too. That’s important in country music.”
Shooter and his band will be hitting the road in late spring for an extensive tour across the U.S.
Here's a track listing:
01. 4th Of July (w/George Jones singing "He Stopped Loving Her Today")
02. Gone To Carolina
03. Southern Comfort
04. The Wolf
05. Manifesto No. 1
06. Walk Of Life
07. It Ain’t Easy
08. This Ol Wheel (Featuring Doug “The Ragin’ Cajun” Kershaw)
09. Busted In Baylor County
10. Slow Train (Featuring The Oak Ridge Boys)
11. Bad Magick
12. Steady At The Wheel
13. Daddy’s Farm (LIVE)
Previously unreleased on CD
14. Lonesome Blues (LIVE) From AOL Music Sessions
15. Living Proof (LIVE)
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Livin': Sweet Tee: Southern Brand Launches with “Lil’ Ones” Line
The hillbillies are headin' to the big city. New York, that is.
We're takin' our wares up to the ENK Children's Club show in NYC, October 5-7. We'll be launchin' some sweet southern tees for them lil' boll weevils, followed by Southern Belle and Southern Man lines for grown folks in the next month or so.
We figured there weren't enough people out there makin' the kinda shirts we were always lookin' for. The kinda tees that feel like they been washed a thousand times with love by your mama, then hung to dry on the clothesline out back, just swayin' in the fresh summer breeze. T-shirts that are simple, bold, and uniquely southern. Not all that crazy, over the top printing on every inch including the armpit of the too-tight fashion tee. And not all that rebel flag, south's-gonna-do-it-again-southern that somehow seems to be all ya get when you google "southern t-shirts". We wanted to create a line for the Southern that we know. Small town America. Life through amber-tinted glasses. The sweet, smoky taste of some real pit BBQ. The steely sound of a slide guitar. The rumble of an old pick-up truck down a muddy dirt road. Sittin' on the front porch sippin' sweet tea, spittin' watermelon seeds and pickin' a tune. A brand built on truth, integrity and pride. Built on fillin' a need. By makin' the clothes we want to wear ourselves. Clothes we believe in. Premium quality. Classic American design. An honest product at an honest price.
We hope you enjoy wearing them as much as we do making them.
And if for some reason you don't, send 'em back, we'll wear 'em.
The skinny on Southern Brand Tees:
These T-shirts are made from sweet, soft cotton. From the dirt. Up outta the earth. They got some sun in 'em too. And some soul. We put 'em through an extensive vintage wash process which produces distinctive weathering and classic color resulting in a true vintage look and a super soft feel. They feel like your favorite shirt that you been wearing for years or one that's been passed down through all the kids in the family. 'Cept it's new outta the box. The new and improved hand-me-down, ya'll.
We're launchin' three "collections" (tryin' to bone-up on our fashion speak.) You can check 'em out by clicking the banner ad to your left. There's "Woodtype", that pays tribute to the old letter press show posters that musicians used for promoting their shows throughout the south. There's "Animal Farm", an homage to those noble critters a whole bunch of us grew up with. And there's Highway 61, full-up with sayings and imagery from the Mississippi Delta and on up the "Blues Highway". Just wholesale right now, ask your neighborhood general store to carry 'em. Retail comin' soon.
The Blues and good ol' southern music is what fuels us 'round here at Southern Brand, so we're trying to do our share to keep that great American tradition alive. We've teamed up with the fine folks at the Music Maker Foundation , and we're donating a part of our proceeds to 'em so they can do the great work that they do, gettin' Blues artists food to eat, medical care and help with the daily grind - while spreading the news of the blues and educating people in this special and poetic American art form.
It's more about where your head's at than where your feet are at.
We figure it don't matter if you live south of the Mason-Dixon line, or have never set foot near the muddy banks of the Mississippi, long as you have and appreciation for some of this stuff, you're a friend of ours. Welcome friends.
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Music: “The Hairy-Legged Guitar Picker” - Jerry Reed
The Georgia Wildman, Mr. Jerry Reed doin' Amos Moses. Now that's a rock star entrance.
Here's what Wikipedia says:
Jerry Reed Hubbard (born March 20, 1937) is an American country music singer, country guitarist, songwriter, and actor who has appeared in over a dozen films. As a singer, he may be best remembered for his songs "When You're Hot, You're Hot", for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1972 and East Bound and Down, the theme song to the first Smokey and the Bandit movie in which he portrayed the "Snowman", Cletus Snow.
In 1967, Reed notched his first chart hit with "Guitar Man," which Elvis Presley soon covered. Presley had come to Nashville to record in 1967, and one of the songs he was working on was "Guitar Man," which Reed had written and recorded. "I was out on the Cumberland River fishing, and I got a call from Felton Jarvis (then Presley's producer). He said, 'Elvis is down here. We've been trying to cut 'Guitar Man' all day long. He wants it to sound like it sounded on your album.' I finally told him, 'Well, if you want it to sound like that, you're going have to get me in there to play guitar, because these guys (you're using in the studio) are straight pickers. I pick with my fingers and tune that guitar up all weird kind of ways.'" So, Jarvis hired Reed to play on the session. "I hit that intro, and [Elvis's] face lit up and here we went. Then after he got through that, he cut [my] 'U.S. Male' at the same session. I was toppin' cotton, son." Reed also played the guitar for Elvis Presley's "Too Much Monkey Business" (1968), recorded in the same session. After Presley recorded another of Reed's songs, the songwriter recorded an Elvis tribute, "Tupelo Mississippi Flash," which proved to be his first Top 20 hit. After releasing the 1970 crossover hit "Amos Moses," a hybrid of rock, country, and Cajun styles, Reed teamed with Chet Atkins for the duet LP Me & Jerry.
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The Essential Jerry Reed [ CD - Amazon ]
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Music/Film: “The Hardcore Troubadour” And The Last Episode of The Wire. Ever.
Tonight's the last episode of the fifth and final season of HBO's The Wire. Best show on TV. Period. In case ya haven't seen it, Steve Earle has had a reoccurring roll as "Walon", a recovering addict who befriends "Bubbles" and becomes his sponsor. Check out this article in the New Yorker on Earle from June '07 when he was workin' on his latest album "Washington Square Serenade." Earle also did an ass-kickin' version of Tom Waits' "Way Down In A Hole" for this season. (The Song That Never Ends.) You can hear the song on Steve Earle's MySpace page. And here's a link for his upcoming shows. He also has a great show on Sirius Satellite radio on Outlaw Country (channel 63) on Saturdays at 8 p.m. Here's this week's playlist:
As Tears Go By -Marianne Faithful
Wild Horses -The Flying Burrito Bros
Satisfaction -Otis Redding
Dead Flowers -Steve Earle and the Dukes
Tumblin' Dice -Linda Ronstadt
Beast of Burden -Bette Midler
Ruby Tuesday -Melanie
Sympathy for the Devil -Bryan Ferry
Bittersweet Symphony -The Verve
19th Nervous Breakdown -Jason & The Scorchers
Street Fightin' Man -Rod Stewart
Honky Tonk Woman -Tina Turer
Sister Morphine -Marianne Faithful
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Music/Film: The Best Of The Johnny Cash TV Show
Who don't love the Man in Black? Thanks for readin', Loststar! There's this great DVD/CD (If ya don't know already) for sale at Starbucks of some of the best of Johnny Cash's TV Show from 1969-1971. Here's Twang Nation's take on it: (BTW - check out the Twang Nation blog if ya haven't. It's top shelf.)
"Now the cover is different from the one I’ve seen on the notoriously difficult to find version (at least difficult to find in Manhattan, where all the stores are sold out. No country music fans in New York? HA!) so I’m a little suspicious, but I’ve had a hard time finding the other version and it was the last one, so I snatched it up with my Grande of the day. The Starbucks version has only one DVD where the Sony Columbia Legacy has two. So, the Starbucks version omits some pretty tasty bits like Creedence Clearwater Revival playing “Bad Moon Rising” and Waylon Jennings doing “Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line” and “The Singing Star’s Queen” with Johnny (Waylon’s “Brown Eyed Handsome Man” did make the SB cut.) But the Starbucks version does come with a CD containing some performances not found on the original DVD. Brenda Lee doing “Johnny One Time” and Johnny Cash, The Carter Family and The Statler Brothers doing “Belshazzar” are some highlights. Alas, the Starbucks version comes in a cheapo snap-case with no liner notes and I haven’t watched the DVD yet, so i don’t know if there are any interviews or features left out, but if you're like me and finding it hard to find the original and want a CD of some of the selections, the Starbucks version is a nice make-due while waiting on the other to arrive in the mail."
I snatched up a copy as well, and I'm enjoyin' the hell out of it! I have not seen the other version, so I can't compare 'em, but I look forward to gettin' my hands on a copy.
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