Well, I wouldn't go that far but if you said he's the one who "cut down the
Post by KingCountryIPost by Pete E. KruzerDoes th younger generation even get exposed to Bluegrass??
Hell yeah!
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? <
O Please. : ) Where art the country music in that stinkeroo?
Post by Pete E. Kruzerwon the 2002 Grammy Awards for Album Of The
Year and for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture,
Television Or Other Visual Media. "O Death" won the 2002 Grammy Award
for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. "I Am A Man Of Constant
Sorrow" won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With
Vocals.<
O PLEASE! (Again) Could you please list the other nominees in those
ridiculous categories? Secondly, as we've mentioned a MILLION times
before, the Country Grammy Awards are given by people who don't know
anything about country music, which is why I usually refer to them as
the BAMMY Awards.
The last time I checked Vince Gill had won more Grammy Awards than
anyone in Country Music history, and Alison Krause and Del McCoury had
won something like 87 years in a row!!!!!!! Meanwhile Merle Haggard
and George Jones, arguably the two greatest examples of Country music
for more than 50 consecutive years have about one award that they have
to split among each other! : ) Stop wasting our time. You sound like
that other lunatic Bea Arthur, who keeps ranting about Conway Twitty's
"achievements". and then has to include periodicals like "Record
World" to try to make her point.
Post by Pete E. KruzerThose kings of cinematic quirkiness, the Coen brothers, fashioned
their film O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? as a contemporary adaption of
Homer's Odyssey, centering around a group of American chain-gang
prisoners. The film's earthy Southern setting makes it a natural for a
bluegrass-oriented soundtrack, <
O PLEASE! (Again) The film's earthy southern setting makes it a
natural for a blues-oriented soundtrack, or at the very least a
Country oriented soundtrack! What you and the idgits like the "quirky"
Coen brothers don't understand, is that bluegrass music is the direct
opposite of what you're describing. Bluegrass is the whitest of music,
and has about as much blues and soul as a piece of white bread. Jimmie
Rodgers is considered the "Father Of Country Music" for that very
reason, in that he added blues to these same lily white , folk songs
brought to this country by the early settlers.
for which producer T-Bone Burnett
Post by Pete E. Kruzerpicked the cream of the country crop.<
O PLEASE! (Again) T-Bone Burnett isn't qualified to pick "the cream of
the country crop" . It's like asking Willie Nelson to do a documentary
on the "Rolling Stones" .
Post by Pete E. Kruzer"Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby," for example, is a summit meeting
of some of the finest contemporary female country vocalists (Gillian
Welch, Emmylou Harris, and Alison Krauss). <
O PLEASE! (Again) It still comes down to the song. Graet harmonies,
but they might as well have been singing the Menu at Wendy's!
Post by Pete E. KruzerThe old school isn't forgotten either, as evidenced by a chilling a cappella rendering of
"O Death," courtesy of Ralph Stanley, <
The only thing chilling about Ralph's version, is that he actually
sounds like he's dying while singing it. I half expected to hear a
thud as he hits the floor after the final verse. : ) LOL !!!!!!!!
Post by Pete E. Kruzerand by the closing cut, where the Stanley Brothers issue an elegant plea
to heaven with "Angel Band."<
And how fitting is it that you prove my point with your final comment?
Nobody, including the Stanley Brothers immediate family has ever heard
"Angel Band" .
Ralph Stanley was unheard of for 40 years, and since he's one of the
few remaining old Bluegrass performers, they wheel him out and try to
milk him for all he's worth. Bottom line, NOBODY, even those "quirky"
old Coen brothers can name ANY songs Ralph Stanley or the Stanley
Brothers ever recorded, which is why the music died 50 years ago.
Great instrumental music, with absolutely NOTHING to say.
I mean, how many songs about pine trees and death can you sing? More
importantly I guess, how many people want to listen and buy them?
Answer : NONE!!!!!
As I said at the time, bluegrass is a DEAD music, and will NEVER be
popular!!!!!!!!!!!