French rocker Eddy Mitchell once said: “kick any trash can in Nashville, Tennessee and three guitar players will get out of it”. Nashville, Tennessee also called Music City has been the cradle for the music industry and particularly the country music industry so far that the city became today’s country music’s Disneyland or a country [...]
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10.05.2012 – Saving Nashville
Posted: 10th May 2012 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Bakersfield Sound, country, double bass, Hank III, Hank Williams, hillbilly, Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart, mono, Nashville, steel-guitar, Telecaster, twang
26.04.2012 – The Hour of the Penalty
Posted: 26th April 2012 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: blues, Brad Paisley, Bukka White, chain, cocaine, country, Hank III, highway, jailhouse, Johnny Cash, judge, Junior Brown, Mike Ness, mono, penalty, policeman, prison, road movie
This episode features a usual topic in American music : offence, crime, jail, life in prison, penalty and what leads to it. Brad Paisley is yelling at the policeman but beware of the representative of the authorities who doesn’t always like his job, as stated by Junior Brown. He can lead you to the cell [...]
29.03.2012 – The Last Hour
Posted: 29th March 2012 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Bakersfield Sound, blues, country, delta blues, Dwight Yoakam, Mike Ness, Pablo Casals, Robert Johnson, Rockabilly, steel-guitar, The Booze Bombs
Today’s episode sounds like a Good Bye just to say hello again in two weeks. Indeed the show won’t be hosted anymore from the Wueste Welle studio in Germany. It won’t change that much as Wueste Welle will still air the show at the same time. So for you listener, the story continues… Dwight Yoakam [...]
16.02.2012 – Double-Bass Special
Posted: 16th February 2012 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Bill Black, blues, BR5-49, country, doghouse, double bass, honky tonk, Lee Rocker, Rockabilly, slap bass, Willie Dixon
In this episode we intend to broadcast green music: we save some electricity. No electric bass. The big doghouse or double-bass is ruling! In roots music that huge and powerful instrument sets the beat and the melodic line and sounds like a heartbeat. The doghouse, stand-up, slap bass, double-bass or whatever it’s called is the [...]
02.02.2012 – European Honky-Tonk
Posted: 2nd February 2012 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Arnold Baker & The Tuxedos, blues, country, double bass, Europe, France, Germany, Hillbilly Boogiemen, John Mellencamp, Mountain Men, Rockabilly, Ronnie Hayward, The Booze Bombs, The Juke Joint Pimps, twang, vinyl, Webb Wilder
Since the American soldiers landed in Europe in 1944, the Europeans absorbed their culture through the clothes and the music they imported. Jazz, rock’n’roll and blues as well as blue jeans became well-exported American idioms. British bands of the sixties proved they could learn the blues without being raised in Mississippi and make it their [...]
19.01.2012 – Open mike to The County Boys
Posted: 19th January 2012 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Bakersfield Sound, Buck Owens, California, country, Dale Watson, David Allan Coe, George Jones, Germany, honky tonk, Johnny Paycheck, Joy Lynn White, live in the studio, Merle Haggard, road movie, steel-guitar, Telecaster, Texas, twang, unplugged, Waylon Jennings
In this episode we are opening the HONKY TONK LIVE mike to the County Boys a.k.a. Andy Keinath and his sidekick Peter Görz picking his Telecaster. You can hear, live in the Wueste Welle studio, those guys performing real country songs by Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck… Those southern german boys can [...]