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 ‘twang’
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
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 [...]
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 !
26.05.2011 – Battle of the Guitars
Posted: 26th May 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: blues, Brian Setzer, Chet Atkins, country, Danny Gatton, Dick Dale, echo, guitar, instrumental, jazz, Rockabilly, twang
featuring Brian Setzer’s instru-MENTAL album and other instrumental performances by Chet Atkins, Danny Gatton, Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughan who push the strength of the guitar beyond country, blues, rock, surf and jazz.
16.09.2010 – Ride on the Ghost Train with Marty Stuart
Posted: 16th September 2010 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: country, guitar, Marty Stuart, Nashville, twang
featuring latest Marty Stuart’s album “Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions” and a flashback on that Nashville maverick’s career
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
27.05.2010 – Don’t mess with Texas !
Posted: 27th May 2010 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: blues, country, Dale Watson, electric blues, Johnny Winter, Junior Brown, Robert Johnson, Rockabilly, Scott H Biram, Steve Earle, Texas, twang, ZZ Top
Close your eyes, listen to those texan artists and you’ll feel like cruising on the Lone Star State dusty roads with Steve Earle, Dale Watson, Junior Brown, Robert Johnson, ZZ Top, Johnny Winter, Scott H Biram and more !
19.11.2009
Posted: 19th November 2009 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Brian Setzer, Heavy Trash, Rockabilly, twang
featuring the Brian Setzer Orchestra and Heavy Trash new sides