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Sorry for all the rambling, but I just happened to think of all this while sitting at the computer. Who are some other REAL COUNTRY singers I should think about looking into (deep catalog) Keep in mind I LOVE honky tonk and especially SHUFFLES. Just wanted some opinions. Jason
P.S. Just wanted to pubicly apologize(again) for all the rambling, but as I have found out the forum is the best place to ASK if you don't know. I'm only 24, and I am proud to love this kind of music!!!

http://www.kevindenney.com/music.htm

Not sure if this is obscure, but check out Cadillac Tears, shuffle deluxe...Mike Johnson on steel BTW.

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Some real honkey-tonk stuff.

Be sure to listen to:

"Head Over Heels"

"Things Ain't Like They Used To Be"

"Damned Ol' Guitar"

"Seat Of My Pants"

"Nowhere Lounge"

"Magnolia"



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I hope you've heard some stuff by Justin Trevino, Curtis Potter, and Tony Booth.

That's what I call Country!

Honky-tonk? Nobody did it better than Gary Stewart.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 03 June 2002 at 04:27 PM.]</p></FONT>

Jim Snider and Jake Hooker...although Jake is starting to get almost famous.

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"I remember back in the 60" --BC
"I really like the iron guitar" --Anon

Get Roger Wallace cd's!!

Johnny Bush

Dugg Collins,"Sounds Like Texas". Bill "Blue" Mack wrote the liner notes. Randy Reinhardt & Jim Loessberg played steel on it. Jim also produced it. It was recorded,& engineered by Justin Treviño,at his studio in Tx. Justin also played rhythm guitar on it. Finally,Dugg sang his butt off!! This is REAL Texas music!
( startexrecords@aol.com )

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If you are talking CURRENT artists working in the "real country" mode you have gotten many fine suggestions...

I am wondering though from your posting if you are looking to delve "deep catalog" into the heyday of Honky Tonk music, for "obscure" artists from the 50's 60's??
Is this the case?
if so, I am sure there will be MANY more suggestions

Hi Dave,
Yes, by the definition of "deep catalog" I was looking more towards 50's-60's early 70's stuff. Although, the suggestions for the new REAL COUNTRY are good and I will be looking into some of those too, but really what I was aiming at was 50's-70's. I guess I should have been clearer about that when I posted. My fault!!! Jason

Heather Myles !

Jack Kittel.

Here's one who spans from 1970 to the present: Joe Paul Nichols http://www.joepaulnichols.com He's been recording with Doug Jernigan recently, and it's encouraging to hear clean, sparse records like this can still be made in Nashville.

Shuffles Joe Paul has done include "That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome," "Odds and Ends," and "Each Season Changes You."<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jeff Evans on 04 June 2002 at 08:32 PM.]</p></FONT>

Skeets McDonald and Wynn Stewart. Fairly obscure, definitely real. Shuffles, to boot.

Rob Yale

I was reading this and thinking of Skeets McDonald and Wynn Stewart, but since someone already sugested those two then I'll have to second it. I have the Bear Family box sets on both and hardly go a week without listening to one of them.

You young guys and your "deep catalog".

Seriously, I had the priveledge to do two live shows with Joe Paul Nichols a couple years ago. He's real genuine country and western and has a lot of soul in his delivery.

Ole' Billy Cook down in Florida ain't real good lookin' but man, can he EVER put a country song across. And he ain't real particular, he can sing 'em all. He's got 3 or 4 cassette albums floating around out there. Seems like Jack Stoner on this Forum has worked with him.

Then there's always Bill Phillips, Marvin Rainwater, Jimmy Skinner, etc. What about some of the Louvin Brothers material?

Do you ever tune in Eddie Stubbs late at night on WSM? He plays some great "deep catalog" and is a walking encyclopedia of country music, especially steel guitar and fiddle.

Tim R.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Tim Rowley on 06 June 2002 at 10:22 PM.]</p></FONT>

<SMALL>You young guys....</SMALL>

Hey Tim,
Thanx for referring to me as "young". I appreciate the hell outta it. (I'm 64½) You must REALLY be old.


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Hey Jason,
Here's some of the Los Angeles guys who should've made it big nationally but for some reason didn't. They were all great singers and some of 'em picked pretty well to:

Jerry Inman.......worked with Gene Davis at the Palomino Club in No. Hollywood for a while. Jerry had some great albums and actually had the first cut on some tunes which were covered by some Nashville artists and became major hits. He was a great singer IMHO. I always liked a tune he had called "Six Weeks in Alaska".

Bobby Durham......Was on Capitol records for a little while. Had a great tune out called "My Past is Present". Worked a lot with his brother Wayne. I think they were out of Bakersfield.

Joe Carson......What a great singer. He was killed in car wreck in the sixties I believe. Willie Nelson cut one of his songs called "I Gotta Get Drunk". Joe was on his way to the top when he got killed. I always liked his song "Helpless" it featured Billy Mize on pedal steel.

Buddy Cagle......What a singer!! He was also on Capitol for a while. He had a recording of "Sing a Sad Song" which was dang near as good as Merle Haggard's. I also liked "The Gold Cup" by him....Got a chance to play a couple of gigs with him years ago and he was one nice dude. He was sort of a Marty Robbins type of singer.

Glen Garrison..........Another tragic story here. He was killed in an automobile accident in Arkansas I believe. He held down the fort at Miller's Cave in the LA area for a long time and recorded for Imperial Records. I've got an LP album of his which is just fantastic. I think he was one of the first soulful type of country singers. He had a lot of emotion in his voice. Ray Charles covered on of Glen's songs on an album.

Bobby Austin.......Another Capitol alumni. He had the best rendition of "Apartment Number 9" ever recorded. I think it was also the first. I've got his Capitol album of the same name. Some other good tunes on it are "Cupid's Last Arrow" and a personal favorite of mine is "Gone Home to Momma" which was written by none other than Ralph Mooney. Ralph is also featured on this whole album.

Red Simpson........Another West Coast artist who's mostly noted for his truckin' songs. Red wrote a bunch of stuff recorded by Buck Owens. He had a major hit called "Hello, I'm a Truck" which did pretty well for him. He was also a fine lead guitarist and steelman.

Sammy Masters........The king of local LA country music TV for years and years. He's still giggin' around town while everyone else has either retired or died. Sammy had some good tunes like "Barcelona Baby" and even wrote a couple of songs recorded by Patsy Cline.

As you can probably tell I favor the West Coast artists as I played out there for many years. Nashville sort of looked down their noses at us but Buck & Merle sold more records than any of their artists of the same time frame, so there!!!!!

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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney tuning.

Joe Carson was one of my favorites. His "Double Life" is a classic. I can go back a long way as I started playing steel in 1948. Riley Crabtree "Shackles And Chains". Leon Payne "I Love You Because" Curtis Kirk "The Little Things YOu Do."(Al Petty on steel. Rudy Gaddis "Garden Of Roses" (Jody Sanders on steel). Smokey Stover "There Must Be A Love Song There Somewhere"(Jody Sanders on steel). Tony Douglas" His And Hers " . Having developed brain damage as most of the senior steel players do, my memory just suffered a burn out. Jody.

Find anything by Darrell McCall, especially the "Lily Dale" cd from around 1975. You can't get much more country than this, and there's alot of Emmons on this one too. LH

Is Warren Smith considered obscure? If you like shuffles the Bear Family CD "Call of the Wild" is about 75% shuffles and it's a good'urn.

Shaan

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The Pickin' Paniolo

Nice little coincedence Shaan. After a week away I returned to the Forum this morning. I read this post first and right away thought of Warren Smith. Was about to type him in when I got to your last entry.
Definitly "Call of the Wild" CD. This is the country side of Warren Smith who is mostly remembered as a 50's rockabilly. Lovely mid-sixties, west-coast shuffles !

"Deadly Earnest And The Honky-Tonk Heroes". That one´s as obscure as you can get. two quotes from the back cover:

"Friend, if you can appreciate a cold beer on a warm summer night, a rowdy honky tonk and a close encounter with your favorite kind, then the music of Deadly Earnest & the Honky Tonk Heroes is for you. Here, proudly presented, is their debut album. What the hell, put it on your turntable, crack open a fresh beer and enjoy."

"Buyer Beware!
What you hold in your hands has an insidious relationship with Demon Rum. Which is to say that Deadly Earnest And the Honky Tonk Heroes are good ol´barroom boys...This record may be the best thing since prohibition."

Check it out if you can find a copy...

Joe H.

Smiley,

No problem. You're as young as you feel.

My actual age is 103 according to my kids.



Tim R.