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 [...]
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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
10.11.2011 – Hank will never get out of this world alive
Posted: 10th November 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: bluegrass, Bob Dylan, country, Hank Williams, live in the studio, steel-guitar, Steffan Rock, Steve Earle, unplugged, vinyl
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, [...]
29.09.2011 – From Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico
Posted: 29th September 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: blues, Chess Records, Chicago, country, George Thorogood, Hank Williams, Honeyboy Edwards, honky tonk, Rockabilly, Steve Earle, T-Bone Burnett, unplugged, vinyl
In this episode Honeyboy Edwards in Heaven is taking us to Chicago where George Thorogood is paying tribute to Chess Records. We are dreaming all the time of honky tonk queens who haunt our songs. In the Gulf of Mexico Steve Earle is doing introspection in the shadow of Hank Williams and we are mixing [...]
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…