Cowpunk.
Some people never realy get it.
Some recognise it the first time they hear it, but don't have a word for it.
And some just love it and don't care what you call it.
And some of us - like me - insist on labels for everything.
Hence, "cowpunk".
And the classic cowpunk band is Jason & the (Nashville) Scorchers.
Herewith a couple of clips. The first, from the first verse of Broken Whiskey Glass, is a classic.
(Watch your volume setting, 'cos about halfway thru the clip, metaphorically speaking, Hank hands off to Joey and Johnny...)
At least two different people in the music field, who ought to have known better, told me that Jason wrote this song, and that Dylan covered it.
(Of course, back in the day, people who should have known better thought that Hendrix wrote All Along the Watchtower, too.. And i wouldn't even want to try to count how many younger listeners who gravitated to the Kinks in their arena days in the 70's thought that the Kinks were covering a van Halen song when they did You Really Got Me...)
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Nice pickins', Cowpunk eh? Sounds a bit rockabully as well.
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When does this date from?
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Oh, geeze -- as much as twenty years ago; the compilation i pulled 'em off is from 1992, a period when the band had officially broken up and EMI decided to make some money off them; it was only on the market for about six months, because they reformed to do a tour to support the album ... and liked it so much that htey decided to reunite officially ... and signed a new deal with Mammoth.
And EMI, not wanting to be in the position of promoting someone else's act, pulled it.
Hmmm:
DISCOGRAPHY: Fervor (Praxis 1983) Lost & Found (EMI 1985) (Produced by REM) Still Standing (EMI 1986) (Features a hellacious version of 19th Nervous Breakdown, that in my opinion outdoes the original) Thunder And Fire (A&M 1989) Essential Jason And The Scorchers: Are You Ready For The Country (EMI 1992) (the disc these tracks are excerpted from) A Blazing Grace (Mammoth 1995) Reckless Country Soul (1982 recordings) (Mammoth 1996) Clear Impetuous Morning (Mammoth 1996) Midnight Roads & Stages Seen (Mammoth 1998) Rock On Germany (Courageous Chicken 2001)