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I know some of my friends (Hi Didact!) aren’t up for country, and frankly, most of my fondness for it lies in the older stuff I was raised with, and a lot of childhood exposure to ethnic folk songs. Charlie Daniels, Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash (hell yeah) and of course David Allen Coe (Never Even Called Me By My Name). Outside of a few odds and ends – Toby Keith and Joe Diffie – there’s very little country I care about after the 80’s, and everything aft…
OK. I originally latched onto Five Finger Death Punch when some enterprising marine set a USMC birthday video to their cover of “Bad Company” from War is the Answer. It’s in that small percentage of songs where I consider the cover vastly superior to the original, though admittedly it does help that I’ve never been a fan of the band Bad Company. I also loved the answer he gave to whythe album was called what it was – namely, that everything is struggle, at its base. I know some liberal heads ex…
One of the musical traditions that I grew up with folk – the old-world norther European kind as well as the underlying scots-irish that formed the backbone of Country music. So it’s no surprise that yes, a couple Gordon Lightfoot songs are among my favorites that I’ve loved since my teens. I’m also throwing in some Disturbed – though more in power ballad mode – and a very old-school folk song, that like most scots-irish songs not about drinking, is about infidelity and death. The original versi…
I once answered – when asked if I could only take one artist’s music with me on a desert island – Leonard Cohen. Farewell.…