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 ‘mono’
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 [...]
14.04.2011 – Heaven or Hell ?
Posted: 14th April 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: blues, Calvin Russell, country, gothic, John Mellencamp, mono, Robert Johnson, Steve Earle, T-Bone Burnett, vinyl
Steve Earle is waitin’ on the Sky, Calvin Russell is gone to Heaven although he didn’t want to, John Mellencamp is singing with the Devil behind him in the room where Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to that Devil, recorded decades before. So many concerns about God and the the Devil and still the [...]
31.03.2011 – Back to mono
Posted: 31st March 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: blues, country, Eddie Cochran, John Mellencamp, mono, Rockabilly, T-Bone Burnett, vinyl
In this episode, learn about monophonic versus stereophonic recording techniques, with John Mellencamp’s country blues rockabilly folk album “No Better Than This”, recorded in monophonic by T-Bone Burnett with only one microphone. Also listen to stereo and mono versions of songs by Eddie Cochran and the Beatles to hear the difference…
17.03.2011 – Flour on the mike
Posted: 17th March 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Brian Setzer, Hank Williams, mono, Mother's Best radio show, radio
featuring Hank Williams’ 1951 Mother’s Best radio show sponsored by a flour producer with the entire first show live with the Drifting Cowboys in the WSM studio. Also featured in this episode, three different versions of Brian Setzer’s “I Won’t Stand In Your Way”…