Welcome to the kittyradio.com forums.
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. Remove these ads when you register. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us. | 
02-26-2008, 03:29 PM
|  | closelyguardedtradesecret | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Et in Arcadia ego
Posts: 4,696
| | | Dylan gets Jack White (and others) to bring Hank Williams to life Bob Dylan has set his favourite musicians loose on a pile of Hank Williams's lost lyrics
Sean Michaels
Tuesday February 26, 2008
guardian.co.uk
Bob Dylan is spearheading a project to record a series of incomplete songs by the late, great Hank Williams. "He came upon, somehow, 20-25 unfinished songs by Hank Williams: just the lyrics, no music," the White Stripes' Jack White told MTV News. Dylan has enlisted the help of various contemporary roots musicians, including White, to write and perform music - taking these lost songs and making them found.
"I think it might come out this year," White said. "It's a cool record."
Jack White recorded a song called You Know That I Know at the Blackbird Studios in Nashville. Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams and Alan Jackson have also been invited by Dylan.
It's an initiative that recalls the Mermaid Avenue albums by Billy Bragg and Wilco. On those records, Bragg and Wilco "finished" songs that had been left uncompleted by Woody Guthrie.
According to some reports, these Woody Guthrie lyric sheets were originally going to be given to Bob Dylan. Woody's daughter, Nora, changed her mind after hearing that Dylan had appeared at a concert for the Pope - an act she deemed contrary to her father's politics. Bragg was approached instead.
The Pope is clearly not a pressing concern for the Hank Williams estate. http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/sto...ticle_continue
__________________ I have crawled so far sideways
I recognize dim traces of creation | 
02-26-2008, 03:44 PM
| | shambamalam | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: wrong side of the river
Posts: 946
| | Good golly.
Wonder what Bocephus gon' have to say about dis, huh?
And I know I'm a  but I can never decide if it's the height of  to try doing a 'bring it to completion" thing with the unfinished works of other departed artists -- or whether it's actually just the height of fucking presumption.
Usually I gotta admit I tilt toward the latter.
Oh wellz.
Interesting to see what kind of hash-up this will be.
Chyia, really really surprised | 
02-26-2008, 03:55 PM
|  | *Tea stained* | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
Posts: 1,361
| | I can't wait for this.  | 
02-26-2008, 04:06 PM
|  | crippling disabilities. | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: where dreams come to die.
Posts: 1,277
| | | can i just say how much i love your updates when they involve people like Hank Williams <3 | 
02-26-2008, 04:26 PM
|  | in a strange way, hch > u | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: THAWNG ISLAND
Posts: 6,311
| | | dylan is weak and safe
hank hates bob | 
02-26-2008, 04:32 PM
|  | Chairman~MouseyTongue | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chairman Meow
Posts: 6,938
| | | Hank Senior's the shit
I've known about this a while (there already was a post?)
its just a matter of waiting.......... | 
02-27-2008, 03:21 AM
|  | sugar britches | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: here. in my head
Posts: 1,691
| | | alan jackson is a fucking twat. that kind of ruins it for me. | 
02-27-2008, 03:57 PM
|  | closelyguardedtradesecret | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Et in Arcadia ego
Posts: 4,696
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by mthrfckr. can i just say how much i love your updates when they involve people like Hank Williams <3 | We share the same shit kicking yet crying in the beer country tastes I think. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry is one of the best songs ever written. For the most part new country can suck yeast infections.
__________________ I have crawled so far sideways
I recognize dim traces of creation | 
02-27-2008, 04:12 PM
|  | *Tea stained* | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
Posts: 1,361
| | | HG, I don't like much new country either but the stuff that's a little left of centre is some of the most amazing music ever written. I like that way you describe 'shit kicking yet crying in the beer country'. That's perfect. | 
02-27-2008, 11:13 PM
| | dune coon | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fiorina 161
Posts: 1,460
| | | I hope Lucinda Williams is involved in this. Her cover of Cold Cold Heart was excellent. | 
02-27-2008, 11:20 PM
| | cletus+inga friends 4evR | | Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 1,152
| | | yeah she's mentioned in the article as contributing.
lucinda is one of the few women i can think of who wears being a piss-tank well. usually lady drunks are just disgusting.
and i bet she's a huge fucking cougar. tons of 22 year old cock, and who can blame her?
i'm sick of jack white though. hopefully he fucks off real soon. | 
02-28-2008, 10:58 AM
|  | closelyguardedtradesecret | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Et in Arcadia ego
Posts: 4,696
| | | I think Jack has three albums in the works, besides this tune, so you may have to go to Guam?
Lucinda I love,but mostly her first album which was more country than rock or folk, and I like the country Wilco stuff, Steve Earle. I know there are a few more, but I am forgeting them right now. But yeah, it's usually stuff that is oddly enough considered "alt country" ( dumb phrase) that I like, whereas the mainstream country hits, for the most part, come off as bad pop to me. If that makes sense?
__________________ I have crawled so far sideways
I recognize dim traces of creation | 
02-28-2008, 04:32 PM
|  | *Tea stained* | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
Posts: 1,361
| | | No, I agree. the mainstream country can verge on torture. It has been watered down into just popular music but the alt country is brilliant. My favourite band for that sound is the Silver Jews. The American water record breaks my heart everytime. I think underneath it all I think that is the best record ever recorded. | 
02-28-2008, 06:02 PM
|  | closelyguardedtradesecret | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Et in Arcadia ego
Posts: 4,696
| | | Oh, yeah I like the Silver Jews too. Good call.
__________________ I have crawled so far sideways
I recognize dim traces of creation | 
02-28-2008, 11:04 PM
|  | crippling disabilities. | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: where dreams come to die.
Posts: 1,277
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by historygravity We share the same shit kicking yet crying in the beer country tastes I think. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry is one of the best songs ever written. For the most part new country can suck yeast infections. | i love outlaw cuntry pretty dang much.
so win! | 
03-02-2008, 02:14 PM
|  | ********* | | Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 853
| | | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:24 PM. |
Forum Stats:
Members: 14,673
Threads: 41,927
Posts: 1,119,121
Welcome to our newest member, lindseyriot Latest Threads: |