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...“Travelin’ Blues” careens through Jimmie Rodgers’ country-blues number with a harmonica blast like a train horn. “Green Rocky Road” stretches the folk original into an Astral Weeks reverie....
...In the liner notes to The First National Band’s debut album, he cited Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmie Rodgers as influences for their “pure approach to what they have sung and written — free from...
...Young Thug and Nicki Minaj, as Sir Elton does on The Lockdown Sessions, or mouthing stentorian platitudes about every root having branches, as we find the Rocketman doing in the company of country singer Jimmie...
...The album title comes from a song by Jimmie Rodgers, “My Rough and Rowdy Ways”....
...I was also obsessed with Country and American singers: Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Jimmie Dale Gilmore. All these elements seemed to represent and make a character of my father.”...
...He is a seedy vaudevillian who has turned up in a previous Costello song (“Jimmie Standing in the Rain”)....
...Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard Django and Jimmie (Legacy Records) Two former mainstays of “outlaw country”, Nashville’s version of the 1960s counter-culture, reunite for a follow-up to their 1983 joint...
...band have turned the songs into sophisticated 1940s country music, all lightly brushed drums, slowly strummed double bass and sighing Hawaiian steel guitar: a style closer to “You Are My Sunshine” singer Jimmie...
...By some quirk of cultural transmission, a ululating call originating either with Alpine herders or African hunter-gatherers became one of America’s favourite sounds in the first half of the 20th century....
...“The hunters are following the prey,” said Lt Cdr Adamsson....
...On those African savannahs where modern brains evolved, rational calculating individuals won money at dice from hunters whose irrational exuberance brought in the wild game that fed the tribe....
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