*Sturgell* did a "*post about the crowd getting out of hand at an Australian festival*":http://mog.com/Sturgell/blog_post/140944 (not really violent, apparently, just sort of a crush - sort of like the deaths at the WHo concer in Cincinatti years ago. It reminde dme of an experience of my own that was similar on a smaller scale, so i did a comment - and here it is as a musical memoir as well:A...
I just discovered that our new car has satellite radio; to the best of my knowledge we aren't paying for it... (The car was a Hertz vehicle; maybe they didn't deactivate it when they sold it off).Anyway, i've been listening to Little Steven's Underground Garage, and the current "Coolest Song of the Week" (or whatever) is a little ditty entitled The Streets of Atlanta, by the Mother Truckers, wh...
Here's a great rockin "she done me wrong" cowpunk song I could not help but post. It's quite funny, in a hurtin' kinda way.Here's where you can hear a bit more.http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=86411http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=1340&sd=1m82be9G5DlXC4WLXw2
I posted a comment on "*Anna's MOG*":http://mog.com/Anna/blog_post/53109 (and, no, this is *not* that comment recycled) in which i mentioned being at *Jimmy's* in New Orleans for a *Dash Rip Rock* New Year show.Jimmy's (Red circle in the above satellite pic; 8200 Willow Street, New Orleans. The big white building - yes, it does cover a whle city block - is the trolley barn; in the full-sized ve...
Sometime in October 2001, i think (the photos are in a file i must have created around December 2002 on the computer) - A Night at Tipitina's, New Orleans.*Cowboy Mouth* opened, and then *Bill*, *Fred* and *Hoakie* regrouped into *Dash Rip Rock* and proceeded to show why their brand of eclectic cowpunk thoroughly kicked ass.This is actually a composite of three separate shots; i was shooting 80...
_This started as a comment replying to a comment on my last post, which mentioned that the *Jason & the Scorchers* sample i'd posted sounded rather rockabilly._There tends to be a strong rockabilly element in cowpunk, both because of a certain affinity of attitude, and because part of cowpunk is shucking the Nashville slickness and getting back to the roots of country, where it was difficult to te