#lefty frizzel

[ringneckedpheasant]

I especially appreciate Joan Baez lesbian long black veil cover because I had really liked Lefty Frizzell’s version until I found out about him meeting fellow country singer Stoney Edwards because Edwards was Black and Indigenous and. well.

“After “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” came out and made at least enough noise for everyone in Nashville who actually gave a shit about country music to pay attention, Stoney happened to find himself in the same bar as Lefty Frizzell one night. Lefty was only two years away from successfully drinking himself to death and, on this night, when someone played “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” on the jukebox, Lefty was so drunk he couldn’t hold back the tears from hearing the song and so drunk he didn’t have a clue who he was talking to when Stoney Edwards walked up to introduce himself as the singer. After spending the past decade or so feeling like the industry and country music fans forgot about him and moved on, Lefty was blown away by the tribute to him. But then he expressed some kind of frustration over the record being by a Black artist. Only, Lefty used the n-word. Stoney just shook his hand and walked away.

- from this cocaine & rhinestones episode about Dallas Frazier

in response to this incident Edwards wrote a song that is really good but that a lot of stations refused to play because he referred to himself and his father as “a couple of country [n-word]s”

[rockincountryblues]

Lefty Frizzell

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Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil (1959) Danny Dill / Marijohn Wilkin from: "Long Black Veil" / "When It Rains the Blues" (Single) "Country Music: The Soundtrack" (2019) (5 Disc Boxset | Disc 2)

Counrty | Ballad

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Personnel: Lefty Frizzell: Vocals Grady Martin: Guitar Harold Bradley Guitar Don Helms: Steel Guitar Marijohn Wilkin: Piano Joseph Zinkan: Bass Buddy Harman: Drums

Produced by Don Law

Recorded: @ The Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee USA on March 3, 1959

Released: on April 20, 1959

Columbia Records

In 2019, Frizzell's version of "Long Black Veil" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

[musickickztoo]

Lefty Frizzell † July 19, 1975

[farm2turntable]

Nudie Cohn "The Rodeo Tailor" and Lefty Frizzell, 1953. [Photographer unknown]

[agoodsongeveryday]

Day One Thousand and Seventy Two

The scaffold was high and eternity nears She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans In a long black veil, she cries over my bones

[cbjustmusic]

Daryle Singletary performing "I Never Go Around Mirrors". I remember this song from the Keith Whitley recording, but it actually goes back to Lefty Frizzell. ________________________ I Never Go Around Mirrors Songwriters: Lefty Frizzell and Sanger “Whitey” Shafer

I can't stand to see A good man go to waste One who never combs his hair Or shaves his face

A man who leans on wine Over love that's told a lie Oh, it tears me up to see A grown man cry

So I never go around mirrors I can't stand to see me Without you by my side No, I never go around mirrors Because I gotta heartache to hide

I can't stand to be Where heartaches hang around It's so easy for the blues to get me down To see a grown man crawl Is more than I can stand And I look into the eyes of half a man

So I don't go around mirrors I can't stand to see  Me without you by my side

No, I never go around mirrors Because I gotta heartache to hide And it tears me up to see A grown man cry

[sinceileftyoublog]

Cassie Berman, Styrofoam Winos, & DAR Live Preview: 8/18, Sleeping Village, Chicago

Styrofoam Winos

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Sunday night at Sleeping Village will feature its fair share of Chicago, Nashville, and "Kentuckiana" pride.

First and foremost is none other than Cassie Berman, of Silver Jews fame and the ex-wife of the late, great David Berman. During her time with Silver Jews, Cassie contributed vocals and bass to the band's three Aughts LPs, Bright Flight (2001), Tanglewood Numbers (2005), and Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (2008). Her relationship with Chicago and Drag City, though, goes back into the 90s via her collaborations with David Pajo, playing bass as part of his Aerial M and Papa M monikers. On Sunday, Berman will be playing some new solo material (!) along with a few Silver Jews songs, and she'll be accompanied by New Radiant Storm King vocalist Peyton Pinkerton, who himself played guitar on Silver Jews' 1996 sophomore record The Natural Bridge. Though Berman doesn't have much solo recorded material to her name, she did cover American Water opus "The Wild Kindness" with David's longtime labelmates Bill Callahan and Bonnie "Prince" Billy on their collaborative Blind Date Party album. Perhaps that'll be one of the Silver Jews cuts she performs on Sunday? Or maybe some that the former Silver Jews bandmates and Will Oldham played last Saturday?

The other two acts are both representatives of Jeffersonville, Indiana label Sophomore Lounge. You may have heard the Nashville-based Styrofoam Winos on MJ Lenderman's And the Wind (Live and Loose!) album released last year, joining him to cover Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin's country ballad "Long Black Veil" (originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell). The trio of Lou Turner, Trevor Nikrant, and Joe Kenkel so far has a few releases to their name, including an underrated self-titled record and a Michael Hurley covers album. In September, they'll drop their second album for Sophomore Lounge, entitled Real Time; so far, they've released the strutting, bluesy "Don't Mind Me". Live, as on record, the band switches off vocal and instrumental duties, maintaining their rollicking choogle punk the whole time.

Rounding it all out is Chicago-via-Louisville multi-instrumentalist Aaron Osbourne, who records as DAR. He's released two records on Sophomore Lounge, 2020's Where the Future Lives and March's A Slightly Larger Head. DAR's latest is a bedroom rock heartbreak record whose sound extends beyond the confines of its guitar, toy piano, drum machine, and digital brass soundscapes. More importantly, Osbourne does not wallow in a state of navel-gazing but rather finds unlikely hope stemming from the nadirs of life. Listeners should certainly be curious as to how he will adapt the album's varied sound to the live stage.

[rastronomicals]

12:31 PM EDT August 5, 2024:

Lefty Frizzell - "I Want To Be With You Always" From the album   Sand Blasters (A Raising Sand Companion)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[dearyallfrommatt]

“It Ain't Fair Medley: Look What Thoughts Will Do/Pretty Words/It Ain't Fair (That it Ain't Right)"

Tompall Glaser

Just for your edification, Lefty Frizzell cut “Look What Thoughts Will Do” and Marty Robbins recorded “Pretty Words”. Dolly Parton recoded “It Ain’t Fair (That It Ain’t Right)”.

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It was 76 years ago today, that “The Louisiana Hayride” had to first broadcast.

Live from the Municipal Auditorium in downtown Shreveport on April 3, 1948, Horace Logan, the original producer, emceed it inaugural show on KWKH radio station, which station manager Henry Clay created.

The guest on night included the “Bailey Brothers, Johnnie and Jack, The Tennessee Mountain Boys (with Kitty Wells), the Four deacons, Curley Kinsey & The Rebbessee Ridge Runners, Hamie Smith, the Ozark Mountaineers, the Mercy Brothers and Tex Grimsley & The Texas Showboys.

The name “Louisiana Hayride” was taken from the 1941 book by Garnett Thomas Kane, titled with the same name.

With a year, The Hayride grew to a 25-station network, which also included broadcast overpass on Armed Forces Radio.

While the flagship station continued to be KWKH 1130 AM, it not only could be heard on much bigger stations like WLW in Cincinnati, it soon made it way onto the growing new technology called ‘television.’

Of course it spawned the floodgates of hundreds of country music and rockabilly greats to perform there, such as Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Hank Snow, Faron Young, Slim Whitman, Jimmie Davis, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell…..and of course…..Elvis Presley!

The Louisiana Hayride’s run continued until August 27, 1960, but KWKH continued to use the name to package musical tours throughout the 1960’s.

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Hello Friday! Classic Country ballads that end happily - Marty Robbins and Lefty Frizzell #hellofriday #classiccountry

Image by incomible I wrote an article every month this past year on the Western Fictioneer’s blog in which I shared my thoughts on classic country ballads that told the stories of tragically lost love. To jog our musical memories, here is the list with the links to those blog articles. January – Marty Robbins – El Paso and Feleena February – Faron Young – TheYellow Bandana March – Willie Nelson…

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"Tunes from Grandpa's Garage"

#MMitM1 ... #LeftyFrizzell, #WatermelonTimeInGeorgia ... Non-Album Single [Official Audio Track] (1970)

[a-new-dork]

Told my bf about Lefty Frizzell and he said, "That's not a real name. You're making that up"

Nope - country music is just weird lol

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