Torch & Twang

[TBS]

So how 'bout some fiddle and pedal steel doing some swing?

[riser4]

Jus a little bump, if ya know what I mean.

[Peruvian]

^^^^you signing into my utoob account? I just ran across that last week!

[riser4]

And if you want it clean

[m2711c]

kids good.... great voice.

[riser4]

[riser4]

kids good.... great voice.

Fuck ya.

[riser4]

[riser4]

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Riser, born again country fan. No more hives?

[riser4]

There are some subtle distinctions to what I like.

[skiballs]

[Dhelihiker]

at 1:56 you see Redd Volkaert in a derby hat. He is one of the best country guitarists alive. I saw him play in Austin, mind-blowing good.

[XXX-er]

https://www.amazon.ca/Absolute-Torch.../dp/B000002LH9

Absolute Torch and Twang^^ but perhaps a bit too alternative

[Dhelihiker]

Eric and Redd showing you how its done.

[TBS]

The Torch side of this thread seems under-represented
Just found a folder of Shelby Lynne covering Dusty Springfield


I’m in looove

[irul&ublo]

Snork. Country music gives me the hives.

So does digitaldeath’s mom

[riser4]

So does digitaldeath’s mom

It was worse than hives, and it required antibiotics.

[TNKen]

Bristol TN/VA is recognized as the Birthplace of Country Music. My office sits on the site where some of the first recordings were made. Below is the blurp from the not for profit called the Birthplace of Country Music, Inc. I was on the construction committee for the museum that was constructed about 6 years ago.

Here is a link if you want to read more. https://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/

In the summer of 1927, just two months after Charles Lindbergh made the first flight across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis, and during the season that Babe Ruth was blasting out 60 home runs for the Yankees, record producer Ralph Peer of the Victor Talking Machine Company was making music history in Bristol TN/VA. Between July 25 and August 5 of that year, Peer conducted recording sessions using the new Western Electric electronic microphone during which 19 performers (or groups of performers) recorded 76 songs. Those sessions – the now famous “Bristol Sessions” – are known as the “Big Bang” of modern country music, and were called by Johnny Cash “The most important event in the history of country music.”

The 1927 Bristol Sessions featured the first recordings of both Jimmie Rodgers, and the Carter Family. Jimmy Rodgers is now referred to as the “Father of Country Music” and was the first person inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The Carter Family, featuring A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter, is now known as “The First Family of Country Music” and are also in the Hall of Fame. The 1927 Bristol Sessions not only initiated the careers of these superstar performers, but initiated the broad commercialization of country music. Many of the songs and stylings of those sessions still resonate and influence the music of today. For these reasons, in 1998 the United States Congress officially designated Bristol TN/VA as the “Birthplace of Country Music.”

[riser4]

Billy Strings has got all!! Moar twang!

[TBS]

Della Mae - checking both the torch and the twang boxes

Some celty torchy stuff


And some twangy swing - Bob Wills anyone?


These ladies put on a great show

[KQ]

Lost a good one today:



RIP Mr. Bojangles. Thanks for the songs!

[dookeyXXX]

A tad more on the alternative end of the spectrum, but these feel torchy and twangy to my ears:

[KQ]

Such an awesome song

The morning after
Know what you'll bring
If love is a red dress
Well, hang me in rags

[Benny Profane]

Our breakfast room at the hotel in Death Valley has been playing Sirius/XM's Willie's Roadhouse. Man, that's a great channel.