Recent Posts Tagged With 'country music'

• Marty Robbins: El Paso

  Posted on Saturday March 14th, 2009 at 14:30 in music, movies, country, country music, el paso, marty robbins, country and western, cowboy ballad, gunfighter ballads and trail songs

  The song El Paso had such an effect on country music and on Marty Robbins’ career that it is practically a genre of music all by itself. Robbins wrote the song in 1957 and recorded it as part of his 1959 album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs...

• Buck Owens and the Buckaroos: Act Naturally

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 08:29 in music, country, country music, rockabilly, buck owens, don rich, bakersfield sound, buckaoos

  Alvis Edward Owens, born in 1929 in Sherman Texas, took the nickname “Buck” from a mule on his family’s farm when he was three or four years old. In 1937 the Owens family moved to Mesa Arizona where buck grew up, worked picking cott...

• Johnny Cash: Children Go Where I Send Thee

  Posted on Saturday December 27th, 2008 at 16:58 in music, gospel, country, television, country music, johnny cash, gospel music, statler brothers, carl perkins, june carter, maybelle carter, carter sisters

  Keeping the Christmas music thread going, here is a clip of Johnny Cash, along with Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, the Statler Brothers and Carl Perkins, on Danish television in 1971. In Gospel music circles this is considered a Christmas C...

• The Delmore Brothers: Freight Train Boogie

  Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 13:32 in music, guitar, gospel, folk, blues, country, country music, bluegrass, boogie woogie, western swing, booge woogie, delmore brothers

  Alton and Rabon Delmore were the sons of an Alabma tenant farmer. During the 1920s they began writing and singing songs, under the influence of their mother who wrote gospel songs and sang them in church. The Delmores melded the sounds of the gospel ...

• Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues, 1959

  Posted on Monday March 10th, 2008 at 20:17 in country music, johnny cash, folsom prison blues

  Here is a clip of Johnny with his original Tennessee Two on the Town Hall Party television show in Compton California. Luther Perkins’ deadpan expression as he plays his guitar break is priceless. Whatever it is that Johnny wants him to do, tal...