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whoops, somebody posted my solution already.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jude James Shiels on 26 February 2001 at 04:18 AM.]</p></FONT>

I just was reading the discussion about Django, and I thought people might be interested in checking out two truly great Charlie Christian websites. The amount of effort that has gone into these websites is awesome, the transcriptions are incredible, and they are a great place to learn most importan...

Django's playing in the late 40's early 50's was as good if not better than it was in the 30's. I think his American experience was just culturally abnormal for him, kinda like when he tried to play electric guitar it did not suit him at all, not the same fluidity or confidence. My point being when ...

Isn't Gore based in Nashville? So country music can't lose either way. What it comes down to for me is which is better, Texan or Nashville country? The race could still hinge on this!

Merle Haggard's 'Do They Ever Think Of Me'.

The title song of Merle's new record is a Blaze Foley composition if I'm not mistaken. That guy had a tragic ending. He was murdered around 10 years ago after protecting an old man he knew from a beating, supposedly fending the attacker (who was the old man's son) off with a broomstick. The son came...

I've always liked country music but this is what got me hooked. About 7 years ago I was listening to plenty of Bob Dylan, then when I heard Hank Williams after hearing Bob Dylan it all began to make a lot more sense. I understood the debt Bob and many other songwriters owed him. I suppose when you a...

Freddy Fender
Dale Watson
Steve Earle
Pantera
JR Ewing

Sounds like a blacksmith making horseshoes. Is that the metaphoric sound of a working man?

A fellow called Kent Armstrong in Wales makes great Strat pickups, they are reasonably priced too. I believe he has a website but I couldn't find it when I searched, but there are plenty of favourable reviews online. He is a real quick shipper too. From my experience Seymour Duncans and Di Marzio's ...

He didn't just get his name from his father, but the name of his band too. I don't see why he had to say anything of that nature except maybe because his bands profile has decreased considerably. It does sound derogatory to his fathers fans. I think it's great credit to Bob that his kids only get on...

If the can dance, play fiddle, wink and sing harmony at the same time, even more power to them

Anytime a UK music magazine does a 100 greatest albums of all time poll which is quite a regular occurrence, the only country record usually to make it, somewhere in the lower reaches is 'Grevious Angel'. Quite ironic since it would never make an all time country 100.

Didn't Merle Haggard also have White Line Fever? I loved the trucker road movies from the 70's too, you had Jerry Reed in Smokey and the Bandit, Kris Kristofferson in Convoy, I bet there were lots of others, anyone remember?

Over this side of the world it is a lot worse. This may be a slight diversion on the point being made, but as well as DJ's getting the most work here we have a lot of bands who play along to backing tracks and their philosophy is not just to play everything note for note, but to also sound exactly l...

I agree with what Kevin is saying, My read of the situation is that for whatever reason you like character and individuality have been forsaken in country music for safe marketable product. My ears or eyes cannot differientiate between most new country acts, I think if you had a identity line up for...

I agree with Chris about the reissue Danelectro's, I have a U2 also and it was very cheap but it has an amazing tone. I am going to try pick up the electro-acoustic model soon, for slide they are great.

Townes Van Zandt's White Freightliner Blues mentions New Mexico in one of the verses. Goes something like 'New Mexico ain't bad girl, the people there treat you kind'.... Though I think it would be more of a challenge to find a song with New Mexico in the title.

Bruce Springsteen had a song and album called Nebraska, is Oregon still the hardest to find?

In Ireland there is a singer who has been around since the 60's called Art Supple, his trademark is doing a song from each of Ireland's 32 counties in a row.

does the Black Hills of Dakota count for two?

My main guitar is a plywood Jap Squier Strat which I use for slide mainly, I've never had to change a thing since I first got it about 10 years ago, it tunes great, the sound of the pickups is as good or better as any Fender I have played. I am not the only person I know who thinks this about Squier...

I'm not so sure about this. Seems to me it is the same as somebody drawing glasses and a moustache on the Mona Lisa. I suppose if somebody gets a buzz out of that kind of thing good for them. Even if this concept was introduced on a grander scale I don't think it would rise above the level of say a ...

Bob Dylan wrote a song called 'The Wedding Song'. I'm not sure it has the same appeal as a Power of Love or a Wind Beneath My Wings though

If you mean the 43 Greatest Hits Bill, I got an exchange for it after listening only to about 5 songs. I'm afraid that rerecordings will obscure the originals for people who wonder why Merle is held in such high esteem. That record reeks of going through the motions, the sound isn't nearly as natura...

I'm waiting for the first real baroque influenced country guitar player, you know maybe he could merge the Brandenburg Concerto's with Wildwood Flower played full blast through a Marshall Stack while out on a surfboard with cowhorns on it or something.