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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘double bass’
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
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 [...]
15.09.2011 – Rockabilly Rumble
Posted: 15th September 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Brian Setzer, Buddy Holly, double bass, echo, Hayden Thompson, Rockabilly, twang
This episode is 100% rockabilly to close the summer. We are rumbling with dead or alive rockabillies like the Booze Bombs, Brian Setzer, Buddy Holly, Hayden Thompson and more. Twang guitars, slap basses and much echo from the past to the present !
25.11.2010 – Bluegrass Special
Posted: 25th November 2010 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: banjo, Bill Monroe, bluegrass, country, dobro, double bass, fiddle, Kentucky, mandolin, unplugged
No electricity ! Saved for heating in the house ! This acoustic music called Bluegrass originated in the Kentucky hills with guitars, fiddles, mandolins, banjos, dobros, double-basses, performed traditionally or on the edge…
24.06.2010 – Hank III, rebel within
Posted: 24th June 2010 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: country, cowpunk, double bass, Hank III, Hank Williams, steel-guitar, twang
featuring Hank III’s last Curb album “Rebel Within” and a flashback on his career
18.03.2010
Posted: 18th March 2010 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: country, cowpunk, double bass, Hank III, Hank Williams, Jeff Bridges, Johnny Cash, steel-guitar, T-Bone Burnett
featuring Johnny Cash out of his grave, Jeff Bridges the singing actor of “Crazy Heart”, Hank Sr. and Hank III with the same song
10.09.2009 – Campfire Session III
Posted: 10th September 2009 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: cowpunk, double bass, Hank III, Hank Williams, hellbilly, steel-guitar
Campfire Session with Hank III