--- - |- Tom Waits is touring!!!Actual post about one of favorite records of the year to follow the following rant.But first, we're gonna start off today's post with a word of caution...which will lead, roundabout, into today's musical guest.'Spect some of y'all have heard the long-simmering news that formerly interesting actress Scarlett Johansson was making an album of Tom Waits songs. Yep, ...
For writers and musicians, it's notoriously difficult to get a mention on NPR's Fresh Air . And few country artists would ever even dream of having their name uttered by host Terri Gross. He's not likely to land a coveted studio interview just yet, but Hayes Carll got a boost today with a 6-minute review of Trouble in Mind by rock critic Ken Tucker.For the most part, Tucker likes what he he...
The **Grateful Dead** brought us **Sugar Magnolia** who could.....**??dance a Cajun Rhythm, Jump like a Willies in four-wheel drive, {a} summer love in spring, fall, & winter. She could make happy any man alive.??**And **The Band** brought us "Betsy" of course, **Up On Cripple Creek**. "(A drnkard's dream if I ever did see one)"So now Carll Hayes adds his two cents
Out in the Heartland some of America's very best songwriters ply their troubador trade in relative obscurity. Folks like **Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Ray Wiley Hubbard, Ron Ely,** & a host of others I cannot recall off the top of my headbone.Add **Hayes Carll** to the list. He's a songwriter with a wry, charming wit, and a way with words that has drawn comparisons to all the usual suspects....
I was to become a musican, based soley on personal potential. I'd probably end up being Hayes Carll. Since moving back to Virginia, I've started to get a bit of a Dixie Accent, especially when speaking to natives...or drinking.If I could become a musician, that is is my personal shortcomings were sidelined for the sake of fantasy, I'd probably want to be Fyfe Dangerfield from the Guillemots. Bu...