Hi David! I love the nostalgia *and* the surprises inspired by these exhaustive musical retrospectives. Such fun to revisit the jangly tunes of my youth (Green Grow the Rushes! Lights of Downtown!) but also to discover songs that never crossed my path until now, like Waylon's Don't Bring It Around Anymore. Could there be a best-of "outlaw disco" piece somewhere in the No Fences future?
Thank you, Jules. So glad to know you're reading along! I don't know about an outlaw disco piece for NFR, but: If you've never read Charles' County Soul: Making Music and Race in the American South, at least try to track down that book's chapter seven, "Disco and Down Home Blues: Country and Soul at the End of the 1970s." It will scratch your itch!
Hi David! I love the nostalgia *and* the surprises inspired by these exhaustive musical retrospectives. Such fun to revisit the jangly tunes of my youth (Green Grow the Rushes! Lights of Downtown!) but also to discover songs that never crossed my path until now, like Waylon's Don't Bring It Around Anymore. Could there be a best-of "outlaw disco" piece somewhere in the No Fences future?
Thank you, Jules. So glad to know you're reading along! I don't know about an outlaw disco piece for NFR, but: If you've never read Charles' County Soul: Making Music and Race in the American South, at least try to track down that book's chapter seven, "Disco and Down Home Blues: Country and Soul at the End of the 1970s." It will scratch your itch!
I have not read Charles' book but will definitely seek it out. Thank you both for expanding my appreciation of Country music each week!
That Danny & Dusty album shoulda’ been a hit!
I'm glad you included Alabama, Restless Heart, and Southern Pacific. They are often dismissed but made some good rekkids.