Kick yer boots off and set a spell on ole Uncle Tinnie's porch. Drinks'll be along in time, but we got nothing pressing so I'll not be known for my promptness. If yer the sort needs to keep busy, next porch up's got salsa dancing lessons at 6.Ten Thousand Words
For some reason Your Sister Cried has a long silence followed by a bonus track, so some might prefer Mary Gauthier's rather nice cover.
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Ole Tinnie. Middle 'o the night in these parts & sufferin' from a powerful bout of sleeplessness. Now there ain't nothin' like a well told tale to ease my mind & these worked jus' fine. G'night.
Gnight, and thanks for posing for the picture.
Great music Uncle T, but I have to say you're lookin' a bit rough.
I love "Your Sister Cried". I've heard Gauthier's first, many years ago, and she nails it, so I think I'll go for her on this one, though...
lambi, I have an Eaglesmith tribute album and I only like two readings - Gauthier's YourSister Cried and Jeff Plankenhorn's Thirty Years Of Farming, a lovely and somewhat delicate 4-part bluegrass that Eaglesmith is too rough with.
ali I only look that way because Gord Brown bullied me.
I have that one too. In fact, it was the record that drawn me towards Eaglesmith in the first place, so I guess it did what it was set out to do, after all. It did because the storytelling was superb throughout.
Only later I've been finding out about the originals (or most of them, at least)
I've recently been delving into the works of Tom Russell, lambi and would say his best is the equal of Townes Van Zandt. I don't know Van Zandt beyond a best of level so I can't compare them on consistency, but Russell is amassing a greatest hits that could be on a par when he's done.
Tom Russell was unknown to me until RR (apart from one or two songs I own where he's dueting with Dave Alvin), so I don't have an opinion on him so far. But Van Zandt comparisons? Whoa, I need to listen more closely, then!
well i think the hurricane song above is that level, so if you don't agree look no further
(I think I'm the only one on here who noms him, so could be I've just got it horribly wrong!)
I haven't yet had time to listen to any of this, but I'm about five years into a very slow-paced journey of discovery into Tom Russell, and I don't think tinny exaggerates at all here.
Tinnie-why thankee. it's more'n a passable likeness.
I'm a deft hand with a 3B pencil. Charcoal it up to experience.
I'm really loving the Avett Brothers
The album's worth getting mnemonic
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