Lee Hazlewood discography

Came across this Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies today, have barely begun to dig around, but looks interesting. For starters, he's got a page on Lee Hazlewood that seems pretty substantial.

John Hughes radio

 

C'était un rendez-vou

C'était un Rendez-Vous from Thom Graves on Vimeo.

Tompall Glaser

Whatever happened the the great Tompall Glaser? Waylon's onetime best friend during the outlaw heyday, he made some amazing albums, both alone and with his brothers Jim and Chuck. But since the '80s he seems to have disappeared. Would love to know if he still performs--or writes/records.



You can also watch a performance of the great song "Rings" and a medley of the Glasers performing three country classics.


Note that Jim Glaser keeps a website and still performs; and four of the Glaser Brothers' nephews (calling themselves The Brothers Glaser) have recorded a tribute album due to be released in the fall of 2009 (three songs are online for streaming).

Flea Market Montgomery: Interview with Sammy Stephens

We caught up with Sammy Stephens on the way to BamaJam last week. He's the guy behind the popular viral video/rap about Flea Market Montgomery, the retail business he owns in Montgomery, Alabama that he claims is "just like a mini-mall." Check it out:

Alvino Rey and his talking steel-guitar puppet

Steel guitar wiz Alvino Rey and orchestra doing St. Louis Blues, complete with a talking guitar puppet (!). Definitely freaky.

Lynyrd Skynyrd--"Country Boy" (live at Winterland 1975)

Metallica live in Moscow, 1991

Metallica on the "Monsters of Rock" tour 1991--Metallica, Black Crowes, Pantera, AC/DC all came from Europe to Moscow in the wake of the coup that (eventually) led to the USSR's collapse. It was an intense experience--free concert, half a million people, Soviet helicopters buzzing overhead, tens of thousands of soldiers. (All that and my homemade SF Bay Guardian press pass still got me backstage.)

Cheeseburgers

Richard Davies with Flaming Lips (1995)

Already In Black (Richard Davies w/ Flaming Lips

Goodbye, Download Music

CNET Download Music, a site I've been closely associated with for the last several years, is disappearing. On March 11, 2009, all pages will redirect to Last.fm. The good news, though, is that Last.fm is an even better site.

Johnny Paycheck, Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets

This from 1980--a ragged, rowdy time after "Shove It" and before the shooting.