Today we inspect what’s new on the country rock scene. We introduce new names for us, Sara Petite from San Diego CA, Beth Lee from Austin TX, Esther Rose from New Orleans LA, Victoria Bailey from California and Cassandra Jenkins from New York City. John Hiatt joined forces with the Ohio folker Jerry Douglas on a new album, Shannon McNally joined forces with Rodney Crowell on his old standard I Ain’t Living Long Like This and Allysen Callery digs into the Byrds cannon with her version of Goffin/King standard Wasn’t Born To Follow.
Dream Syndicate – I Ain’t Living Long Like This;
Sara Petite – Runnin’;
Beth Lee – Waiting On You Tonight;
Suzy Boggus – Outbound Plane;
Aubrie Sellers – My Love Will Not Change;
Desert Rose Band – She Don’t Love Nobody;
John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band – All The Lilacs In Ohio;
Esther Rose – Keeps Me Running;
Nanci Griffith – Morning Train;
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Passionate Kisses;
Victoria Bailey – The Beginning;
Shannon McNally – I Ain’t Living Long Like This;
Waylon Jennings – I Ain’t Living Long Like This;
Turf War – Ain’t Living Long Like This;
Sylvia Rose Novak – South Of Boulder;
Cassandra Jenkins – Michelangelo;
Allysen Callery – Wasn’t Born to Follow;
Byrds – Wasn’t Born To Follow.
This is one devastating month for the world of music. We lost some of the really great ones recently. Tommy Ramone is the most recent one, until now, the only remaining original Ramone, writer of Blitzkrieg Bop and producer of The Replacements Tim. His most recent musical effort was a bluegrass duet Uncle Monk, and one touching song which I recorded live in Cleveland from that era finishes our show. We also review some of my favorite Gerry Goffin and Carole King songs. Goffin passed away and left behind an incredible pioneering work in rock’n’roll lyricism. Bobby Womack, who was born in Cleveland OH by the way, also passed away last month. Rock’n’roll audience probably knows him the best as the author of the Rolling Stones first no.1 hit It’s All Over Now, but he was also a great singer in his own right. The we say goodbye to two great jazz bassists. Charlie Haden was definitely one of the greatest in the world. Incredible list of collaborators will never be surpassed. For instance, we check out his most recent album with Keith Jarrett called The Last Dance. It came just one month before the news came about Haden’s departure. MiÅ¡a Blam is the second bassist that passed away recently. He is not very well known outside of the borders of former Yugoslavia, but back home, he was regarded as the greatest one. And finally we also mention the passing of Paul Mazursky, definitely one of my favorite movie directors.
