"Not sure I'm qualified to add to the comments as I'm 49! Living in Australia has meant catching DBT once when they toured and also played with Booker T although I have most of their recorded output. Agree with many of the above comments…"
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Jeff Strowe commented on John Milward's blog post '12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers'
"Seen them 25 times since 2004 and am bummed I'm missing the Asheville shows this weekend, which is only 4 hours away. They are pretty tough to top."
Michael DesAulniers commented on John Milward's blog post '12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers'
"Have loved this band since I first heard them, some 8 years ago, or so. It was in this magazine that I first heard of them and it was a critical review(don't recall all of it ; something or other about not original and derivative: the…"
Gray Dunlap commented on John Milward's blog post '12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers'
"I'm yet another 50 something guy who has been at this a long time. Although there is a lot of great music being made these days (and being played out on the road), to my way of thinking, DBT and Los Lobos are the two bands which follow in…"
sluggo commented on John Milward's blog post '12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers'
"I`m a 50 plusser who thinks the DBT`s are the only rock band worth listening to any more. But then again, where are all the rock bands gone ?
Why is it music today equates to meat dresses and red carpet parades.They aint no music in that…"
John Milward commented on Easy Ed's blog post 'is it just me, or are you also listening to bruce again?'
"Put on "Jungleland" when I heard the news on Saturday night. And yes, the tears did flow. BTW, on Sunday, the Drive-By Truckers took the stage at the Clearwater Festival to the sounds of "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out."…"
Jack Williams commented on John Milward's blog post '12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers'
"I'm another fifty-something Truckers fan! Was just plain old 50 until recently. I agree with Lost Hills that the band lost a great songwriter when Jason left. Maybe I wouldn't miss him so much if Mike Cooley…"
John A Schultz commented on John Milward's blog post '12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers'
"I am also a 50 plus Trucker's fan. I Have seen them 6 times. The most fun was the last time at the Majestic in Madison WI."
Lost Hills commented on John Milward's blog post '12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers'
"I'm a fifty-something Truckers fan, too. I think they're the greatest rock band in America today. I dig John Neff, too, and it's great that they have his pedal steel in the mix now. But they lost something special when they lost…"
steviedal commented on John Milward's blog post '12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers'
"Saw them 4 times , always great , my favourite moment though was a cover , Randy Newmans "Louisiana 1927" , the version of this in Glasgow (Scotland) was awe inspiring and matched The Band at their very best .
Although i love em as a band…"
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12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers
Twelve, that’s the number of times that I’ve seen the Drive-By Truckers in the last seven years, including three rock shows in 2011. What’s to explain an old guy’s devotion to a hard-touring guitar band with a catalogue of hard-time rock songs? Here’s twelve reasons: 1) On 2004‘sThe Dirty South, the band’s founding singer-guitarists Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley tangled with a talented young gun named Jason Isbell. At Irving Plaza in NYC, when all three swung their guitar necks in corny…See More
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12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers
Twelve, that’s the number of times that I’ve seen the Drive-By Truckers in the last seven years, including three rock shows in 2011. What’s to explain an old guy’s devotion to a hard-touring guitar band with a catalogue of hard-time rock songs? Here’s twelve reasons: 1) On 2004‘sThe Dirty South, the band’s founding singer-guitarists Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley tangled with a talented young gun named Jason Isbell. At Irving Plaza in NYC, when all three swung their guitar necks in corny…See More
John Milward commented on Mando Lines's blog post 'CD Review: Robyn Ludwick, Out Of These Blues'
"Don't know about the music, but the cover art (including the typography) is a clever evocation of Jackson Browne's "Late For the Sky.""
A blog post by John Milward was featured
Fishing Blues
By John Milward Determining who wrote a traditional blues song can be akin to casting a fishing line into very muddy waters. That’s because in the early decades of the last century, blues was an oral tradition, with songs and lyrics and guitar licks passed from one musician to the next. As Dave Van Ronk once said, “Theft is the first law of art, and like any group of intelligent musicians, we all lived with our hands in each other’s pockets.” Added folklorist and song collector Paul Clayton:…See More
John Milward posted a blog post
Fishing Blues
By John Milward Determining who wrote a traditional blues song can be akin to casting a fishing line into very muddy waters. That’s because in the early decades of the last century, blues was an oral tradition, with songs and lyrics and guitar licks passed from one musician to the next. As Dave Van Ronk once said, “Theft is the first law of art, and like any group of intelligent musicians, we all lived with our hands in each other’s pockets.” Added folklorist and song collector Paul Clayton:…See More
John Milward commented on Matt Shedd's blog post 'Keith Richards's Coda: A Folk Hero Caps off His Legacy'
"Alas, for all its pleasures, Life also inadvertently explains why the Stones haven't made any truly great music in nearly 40 years."
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12 Steps With the Drive-By Truckers
Twelve, that’s the number of times that I’ve seen the Drive-By Truckers in the last seven years, including three rock shows in 2011. What’s to explain an old guy’s devotion to a hard-touring guitar band with a catalogue of hard-time rock songs? Here’s twelve reasons:
1) On 2004‘sThe Dirty South, the band’s founding singer-guitarists Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley tangled with a talented young gun named Jason Isbell. At Irving Plaza in NYC, when all three swung…
ContinuePosted on June 18, 2011 at 6:42am — 9 Comments
Fishing Blues
By John Milward
Determining who wrote a traditional blues song can be akin to casting a fishing line into very muddy waters. That’s because in the early decades of the last century, blues was an oral tradition, with songs and lyrics and guitar licks passed from one musician to the next. As Dave Van Ronk once said, “Theft is the first law of art, and like any group of intelligent musicians, we all lived with our hands in each other’s pockets.” Added folklorist and…
Continue Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:02am
"I've Got a Mind to Give Up Living"
Songs that become standards are like a rorschach test for a musician, and while working on my book Crossroads, which will focus on the interactions between the genres of blues and rock, it’s been both fun and instructive to listen to various versions of the same song. “I’ve Got a Mind to Give Up Living” is a slow minor-key blues, and one of the great pleasures of my life has been performing it with my band the Comfy Chair. I knew the song from the Butterfield Blues Band, and Steve Burgh,…
ContinuePosted on April 9, 2011 at 11:00am
Happy Birthday to Ry Cooder and Lightnin' Hopkins
Today’s (March 15th) the birthday of both Lightnin’ Hopkins and Ry Cooder, two great musicians who are central to the story of the blues and the blues revival.
Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins was born in Centerville, Texas in 1912, saw Blind Lemon Jefferson play when he was eight, and recorded spindly rhythm & blues hits like “Katie Mae Blues” in the late-1940s. Hopkins was famous for his improvised lyrics and percolating fingerpicked guitar. He liked to wail on an…
ContinuePosted on March 15, 2011 at 9:30am — 6 Comments
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- At 4:17am on April 27, 2011,
Steve Hatch said… Hi John
As a featured contributor to No Depression, I’m particularly keen on getting your feedback for the following – Please forgive the intrusion if you don’t have the time or inclination to reply.
I’ve posted the following to the No Depression discussion board – you can either respond there or alternatively drop me a line at shatchsurvey1@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks very much for your time
Kind regards,
Steve
My name is Steve Hatch and I’m currently conducting research for my Master’s in Songwriting at Bath Spa University in Bath, England (though I happen to be an ex-pat Georgia boy). I would be extremely grateful if you could find the time to listen to the track (link below) and answer the 2 accompanying questions. The more detail, the better of course (more to say in my final analysis) – but all feedback will be useful and very much appreciated.
Sadly, as this is an academic pursuit, there is a deadline. Please reply by May 20th if at all possible so that I can have time to chew over your response and include it in my final write-up.
The track: http://soundcloud.com/stevehatch
1) Which artist/band(s) would you say the track is most similar to and why?
2) Which genre(s) would you say the track belongs to and why?
- At 7:07am on June 1, 2010,
No Depression said… - Hi John - Welcome to the No Depression community! We hope you're finding everything okay. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback (here are some FAQs in case anything's confusing). Thanks for joining. Cheers!
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