These country and Americana music classics go out to all  you moms out there! Johnny Paycheck (with Merle Haggard)- “Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised” Carter sisters & Johnny Cash – “Dear Mama” Tammy Wynette -  “(You Make Me Want To Be) A Mother” Willie Nelson – “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To [...]

David Allen Coe : Cum Stains On The Pillow Out of print David Allen Coe is a country musician who hit a peak with is Outlaw-inspired music in the 1970s and ’80s with hits such as “Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile”. He also wrote a couple of stone-cold classic country songs, such as Tanya Tucker’s lovely “Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)” and Johnny Paycheck’s defiant “Take This Job And Shove It”. Like Merle Haggard, he spent time in jail as a young man; it was fellow inmate Screamin’ Jay Hawkins who encouraged Coe to ...

100 Greatest Men: The Complete List For casual fans of country music, Johnny Paycheck was a one-hit wonder who spent a good chunk of his life in jail. For those who know better, he was the greatest of the Outlaw singers and the definitive honky-tonk voice of his time.

Special New Year's Post today! Hey folks, sorry we missed yesterday with Part 4 of our Top 50 Favorite Records of 2011 .  Had some computer problems (not sure if it's fixed or not, but we're live at the moment).  The final 20 will post next Monday and Tuesday (the good lord or lady of home computing willing).   Today, though, we wanna spread some New Year's cheer! Hope everyone has a good New Year's Eve and Day.  Not big on resolutions and whatnot, but maybe we'll try to be better posting this coming year.  And ...

Australian rock icon Tex Perkins plays it safe on new albums with The Dark Horses and The Band Of Gold, writes DOUG WALLEN . Two albums cut in different studios with different players (save shared bassist Steve Hadley). One all originals, the other all covers. Yet these new works from lifer Tex Perkins don’t present reverse sides of the man so much as confirm where he’s at right now: a dark crooner and reflective songwriter who’s long since graduated from dive bars to swank theatres. Well-mannered and soft of step, these twin outings may be best absorbed after ...

leitmotif \LYT-moh-teef\, noun: 1. In music drama, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. 2. A dominant and recurring theme. Leitmotif (also spelled leitmotiv) is from German Leitmotiv, "leading motif," from leiten, "to lead" (from Old High German leitan) + Motiv, "motif," from the French. It is especially associated with the operas of German composer Wagner">Richard Wagner. Google harder A phrase used in response to someone whining about not being able to find something on ...

In 2009, A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, but was keen to explore. The result: “Nashville Or Bust,” a series of essays about seminal country artists. After 52 entries, Rabin plans to travel south and explore some of country music’s most hallowed landmarks and institutions. Well, friends, we are nearing the end of the ramshackle two-year journey that is Nashville Or Bust, and I am in an appropriately reflective mood. There is a whole ...

There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to catch your favorite acts live. Sometimes they only tour twice a decade (Daft Punk), sometimes they disband before you get a chance to see them (Talking Heads), sometimes they die (Elliott Smith) and sometimes they just plain never existed. Here’s a list of Three Grown Men’s favorite fictional acts… Name :  “Bleeding Gums” Murphy From : The Simpsons (TV Series) Why : “Bleeding Gums” was the real deal. A struggling saxophonist who played on the moonlit bridges of Springfield to no one in particular. He had one successful album, Sax on ...

(Detailed playlist , with listening links.) 1. The Girls - "Jeffrey I Hear You" - The Elephant Man 7-inch (Hearthan) 2. Fish & Roses - "Monks Hate You" - Friar Tuck Record (Ajax) 3. Boys Boys - "Control Tower" - Boys Boys 7-inch (Pass) 4. The Chiffons - "Nobody Knows What's Going On in My Mind But Me" 5. The Marvelettes - "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Tamla) 6. Whistling Jack Smith - "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" (Deram) [with DJ & guest whistling, too.] 7. Sir Mack Rice - "Dynomite" 8. Presley">Elvis Presley - "Suspicious Minds" (RCA) 9. Chuck Berry - "Nadine" (Chess) [Happy birthday, Chuck!] 10. Percy Mayfield - "Stranger In My Own Hometown" (Tangerine) 11. Danny James and His Palanquin Guitar - "Boogie In the Mud" (Goldband) 12. Travis Wammack - "Scratchy" (ARA) 13. Television - "Little Johnny Jewel (part I)" (Ork) 14. Television - "Carried Away" (Elektra) 15. Gram Parsons - "Return of the Grevious Angel" (Reprise) 16. Jeannie Seely - "You Tied Tin Cans To My Heart" (Monument) 17. Conway Twitty - "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke" (Decca) 18. RIcky Nelson - "It's Late" (Imperial) 19. Arthur Alexander - "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" (Dot) 20. Levon & the Hawks - "The Stones I Throw" (Abkco) 21. Dyke and the Blazers - "So Sharp" (Original Sound) 22. Rockin' Sidney - "You Ain't Nothin' But Fine" (Jin) 23. Everly Brothers - "Milk Train" (Warner) 24. P.F. Sloan - "Sins of a Family" (Dunhill) 25. Lovin' Spoonful - "Darling Be Home Soon" (Kama Sutra) 26. Troy Shondell - "Girl After Girl" (Liberty) 27. The Bell Notes - "I've Had It" (Time) 28. Sonny & the Sunsets - "Stranded" (Future Stress) 29. Roxy Music - "Virginia Plain" (Reprise) 30. Davila 666 - "Borrando El Negro (She's A Rainbow)" - Their Hispanic Majesties Request (Norton) 31. Wet Dreams - "Crybaby" - Here Come the Wet Dreams (Die Slaughterhaus) 32. Boyce and Hart - "PO Box 9847" (A&M;) 33. The Mad Scene - "Shamu Killer Whale" (Rover) 34. J. Mascis - "Leavin' On A Jet Plane" (Sub Pop) 35. Expo 70 - "Heterotopia" - I am Seamonster 7-inch (Short Forest) 36. Dump - "Phantom Perspective" (Hi-Ball) 37. Of - "Ferns Will Crumble" - split 7-inch with Greg Davis (Ache) 38. Dead C - "Bad Politics" (Badabing) 39. Akron/Family - "Morning on Michigan Ave." - River 7-inch (Dead Oceans) 40. Loren MazzaCane Connors - "The End, The Afternoon, The Light" (Union Pole) 41. Jack Rose - "Untitled part I" - Untitled (Tequila ...

Every rock musician wants street cred (well OK, maybe not Daughtry, but still…). It bolsters your reviews, adds weight to your message and enforces the fantasy that you are one badass mofo. Sure, you could pick up a heroin addiction, but that’s so cliche. Why not take things one step further? Johnny Paycheck, the singer [...]

Toby Keith’s 15th studio album Bullets In The Gun hits stores next Tuesday, October 5, and will be offered in both regular and Deluxe editions. The Deluxe Edition includes a bonus extra four live cuts from Keith’s recent Incognito Bandito performance at New York’s Fillmore, where he and his band performed covers of Johnny Paycheck’s [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours Austin group Stone River Boys are a new band led by Mike Barfield and Dave Gonzalez, the former having played with the Hollisters while the latter being a member of the Hacienda Brothers. Other members include Dave Biller on steel guitar, bassist Scott Esbeck and a rotating drumming slot filled by Justin Jones, Damien Llanes or Tom Lewis. The band -- who cite Steve Cropper, James Brown and Johnny Paycheck as influences -- was recently signed to Boston area label Cow Island Music and will be releasing its new album 'Love On The Dial' sometime in May ...

Filed under: Twisted Tales Life for David Allan Coe is one big country cliché. It can't be a perfect country song, he declares on his cover of Steve Goodman's 'You Never Even Called Me By My Name,' unless it references mamas, prison, trains and getting drunk. He's the 'Longhaired Redneck' who took credit for outlaw country in 'Willie, Waylon and Me,' the ex-con who wrote the Johnny Paycheck smash 'Take This Job and Shove It.' He's had hits with ribald titles such as 'Divers Do It Deeper,' and he released two legendary underground albums packed with ...

Got plenty of Holiday cheer? Well, we're here to bring you down. Oh, yes. We had so much positive response from last year's session involving downer tunes for the Yuletide season, we decided to add some new weepers to the mix. Nothing beats a cheese log at Xmas, so Jimmy Martin , Jimmie Davis , Johnny Paycheck , and Doye O'Dell have joined forces to send y'all spiraling into the nether regions of depression and/or fits of laughter. To make up for the treacle, we've got some super nifty bonus re-posts . Three of the Mountain's biggies ...

Hey, anyone wanna sponsor us at South By Southwest? Just askin'. Been a little while since our world famous Six Pack series (6 killer tracks culled from our extensive collection of vinyl) , so here we go again. And, there's something about a B-Side... But first, of course, we wanna bring your attention to another matter, and we'll make it worth your while. The Deep Blues Festival is holding it's annual Deep Blues Film Festival this January, and it's turning into a Film and Music Fest. Why should you care, outside of the great films and bands ...