Posts Tagged ‘steel-guitar’

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s not clear where this word comes from. But it may come from French, talked in Louisiana, cradle for jazz, blues and therefore boogie. The “bogie” in french describes the wheelsets of a train that produce a hypnotic noise on the railroad track imitated by musicians to create a hyptonic beat. The word has been [...]

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 [...]

In this episode we’re having a look back on what year 2011 brought, the artists that we discovered and re-discovered at HONKY TONK LIVE : Hank Williams alive again, George Thorogood going back to Chicago, John Mellencamp recording in mono with T-Bone Burnett placing the mike, the Earle family business, Bob Wayne leaving his job [...]

In this episode open with Steve Earle, we are discovering Bob Dylan’s controversial project “The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams”. This tribute to one of the most influential songwriters in country and popular music takes unfinished songs to write them further and record them with the collaboration of various artists like Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, [...]

featuring Hank III’s last Curb album “Rebel Within” and a flashback on his career

featuring Johnny Cash out of his grave, Jeff Bridges the singing actor of “Crazy Heart”, Hank Sr. and Hank III with the same song

Campfire Session with Hank III

with the HONKY TONK LIVE Godfathers & Godmothers