WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[peoplechipper]

awesome! too funny...

[jazzyvee]

David Gilmour's new album. Luck and Strange.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Sierra Ferrell: 

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

She sure is getting a lot of attention lately. There's definitely some creativity at work. I've watched a few things the YouTube bots pitched...

[cozmik_cowboy]

I discovered her in a YT sidebar; a vid from the "Western AF" channel.  This one popped up last night, and I enjoyed it muchly.

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

I started seeing her on show bills with East Nash Grass last year. (or was it the year before now...?) What she is doing is interesting from a couple angles. I'm not sure it's been done from the bluegrass/oldtyme angle at least. She seems to have created an undefined character. The audience never quite knows which Sierra Ferrell will be entertaining them. I think it's meant to be a caricature of authenticity... not exactly my thing, but I get it, and it's very well-done. Here she was with ENG in the Mountain Fever (record label) hospitality suite at IBMA last year;

[David Houck]

I'm unfamiliar with Sierra Ferrell at this point, but the phrase "caricature of authenticity" is certainly thought provoking.

[edwardofhuncote]

I'm unfamiliar with Sierra Ferrell at this point, but the phrase "caricature of authenticity" is certainly thought provoking.

Here's a live take on an old traditional tune.

It's kind of a HeeHaw crossed-up with Cyndi Lauper feel. I'm not being critical... I think it's got enormous potential.

[David Houck]

I read the Wiki page on her; she's been through some stuff.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Bobby Freeman:

Why?  Becasue I recently read a statement by David Nelson that he's firmly convinced that the guitar solo (0:50) was provided by a 15-year-old Jerome John Garcia.

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: 

Peter

[David Houck]

Thanks for the Gillian Welch; that was beautiful.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Just stumbled across these:

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

I started seeing her on show bills with East Nash Grass last year. (or was it the year before now...?) What she is doing is interesting from a couple angles. I'm not sure it's been done from the bluegrass/oldtyme angle at least. She seems to have created an undefined character. The audience never quite knows which Sierra Ferrell will be entertaining them. I think it's meant to be a caricature of authenticity... not exactly my thing, but I get it, and it's very well-done. Here she was with ENG in the Mountain Fever (record label) hospitality suite at IBMA last year;

It just hit me out of the blue:  Pretty much the whole Great Folk Scare of the '50s & '60s was a caricature of authenticity; I mean, a Jewish kid from Minnesota with an Okie accent?  Young white New Yorkers singing like old black men from the Delta?

And I'm not meaning this as a put-down; some of my best friends have been folk singers.  Now, when you start damaging - oh, excuse me "relicing" - perfectly good instruments, then we got a problem; that's faking it a little too hard......


Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Yeah, I think that got my thought across. It's kind of an exaggeration of reality. In Sierra's case, her perception of reality might be out of mainstream but I think it's marketable in entertainment today if she manages the business end of it right, and it looks like she is... it's certainly unique. My hats off to anybody who figures out how to put their head into making a living making music. It's hard. I don't have to like every facet of it to respect it.

(I'm okay with 'aged' finish on vintage reproduction guitars, but the extreme 'relicing', as in making them look beat up ain't really my thing. But TETO.)

My homework from last night's jam with the rock band... fun tune. Can't say I ever tried it.