Rockabilly, Punk & Country
I'm not a hillbilly and I'm certainly no punk. I have no neck tattoos, I'm inkless. I'm not into nihilism or anarchy. I don't have a hot rod and slicked back hair. I don't play guitar. I just love the cousin genres. Always have.
Over the years music I once loved but lost touch with has reentered my ears. I'm often in awe of my ability to recall lyrics of obscure tracks from my 8-track tape era.
Punk and Rockabilly are in a resurgence on my Ipod, but I've also added new music. ..... like the Hillbilly Hellcats, one of the best examples of contemporary rockabilly you will find. They're out of Colorado. The Reverend Horton Heat is another recent addition. He plays hard driving Texas psychobilly.
I often struggle in deciding whether I should buy a new artist, expanding my taste, or some long lost music I never repurchased after purging my cassettes and LPs. I sold them all when CD conquered the market.
I don't go more than two weeks without stepping into a music store. I can say goodbye to print newspapers in favor of the web. I'm okay if the USPS becomes no more than a display in the Smithsonian. But I will not allow digital music to kill the music store. I download music. I exchange with friends but I also visit the local Tempe music exchanges, being a college town we have a few.
I always prefer buying a used CD from a local merchant over downloading or buying from Amazon. I will spend many months looking for a CD before I cave in to internet purchases. I'm on a never ending hunt for the next album I'm thinking of.
Some of the old music I've recently reconnected with is from a genre I usually dislike. I tell everyone I don't listen to country music but here I sit with Marshall Tucker Band in my head, delivered by my ear buds and Itunes download. I generally don't like twang but there are some great LPs from the 70's in the country rock genre.
I saw Marshall Tucker live (twice), The Outlaws at a festival, Charlie Daniels, and ZZ Top .... all before 1981. After that country music was exhiled from my music consciousness. I got hooked on the blues.
Old ZZ Top power trio blues never left my collection but they sold out to MTV in the 80's. Tres Hombres and Fandango are magnificient.
Hearing Marshall Tucker's Searching For A Rainbow I know every word like I never stopped listening. Rediscovering old music brings back memories. I remember the friends who turned me on to the bands, where were were, and what we were doing when we listened to the albums.
I'm done rambling.
Over the years music I once loved but lost touch with has reentered my ears. I'm often in awe of my ability to recall lyrics of obscure tracks from my 8-track tape era.
Punk and Rockabilly are in a resurgence on my Ipod, but I've also added new music. ..... like the Hillbilly Hellcats, one of the best examples of contemporary rockabilly you will find. They're out of Colorado. The Reverend Horton Heat is another recent addition. He plays hard driving Texas psychobilly.
I often struggle in deciding whether I should buy a new artist, expanding my taste, or some long lost music I never repurchased after purging my cassettes and LPs. I sold them all when CD conquered the market.
I don't go more than two weeks without stepping into a music store. I can say goodbye to print newspapers in favor of the web. I'm okay if the USPS becomes no more than a display in the Smithsonian. But I will not allow digital music to kill the music store. I download music. I exchange with friends but I also visit the local Tempe music exchanges, being a college town we have a few.
I always prefer buying a used CD from a local merchant over downloading or buying from Amazon. I will spend many months looking for a CD before I cave in to internet purchases. I'm on a never ending hunt for the next album I'm thinking of.
Some of the old music I've recently reconnected with is from a genre I usually dislike. I tell everyone I don't listen to country music but here I sit with Marshall Tucker Band in my head, delivered by my ear buds and Itunes download. I generally don't like twang but there are some great LPs from the 70's in the country rock genre.
I saw Marshall Tucker live (twice), The Outlaws at a festival, Charlie Daniels, and ZZ Top .... all before 1981. After that country music was exhiled from my music consciousness. I got hooked on the blues.
Old ZZ Top power trio blues never left my collection but they sold out to MTV in the 80's. Tres Hombres and Fandango are magnificient.
Hearing Marshall Tucker's Searching For A Rainbow I know every word like I never stopped listening. Rediscovering old music brings back memories. I remember the friends who turned me on to the bands, where were were, and what we were doing when we listened to the albums.
I'm done rambling.