Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Oh come on! Not even Johnny Cash covering "Hurt"?
Nope. Because while I think it's a brilliant cover, I've not gotten around to buying it because I don't actually know how often I would want to listen to it. I like my emotionally-wrecking music a bit less ... what's the word I want here? Gut-wrenchingly depressing?
Gut-wrenchingly depressing?
How about "El Paso" by Marty Robbins? Pretty and ballady and gothily tragic without the gut-wrenching? Plus, Marty wears black.
How about "El Paso" by Marty Robbins?
Er, I haven't heard it?
How about "The Grand Tour" by George Jones, which somehow turns the lines "as you leave, you'll see the nursery/oh, she left me without mercy" into two of the most fraught-with-emotion lines ever recorded?
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My country song of the day is "Honky Tonk Heroes" by Waylon. iTunes informs me that my other one is "Willie, Waylon and Me" by David Allan Coe.
Much like Lee, I can't narrow it to one.
Er, I haven't heard it?
"Out in the west Texas town of El Paso / I fell in love with a Mexican girl..."
Strangely, upon asking my iPod again for a country song of the day, it served up Boris's "Akuma No Uta." So my country song of the day is mislabeled Japanese metal.
You know Johnny Cash also covered "The Mercy Seat" right?
You know Johnny Cash also covered "The Mercy Seat" right?
Yep.
I just realized that in my head, Johnny Cash isn't country, he's in the same category as Tom Waits. Storytellers.
How about this one:
Gentle Creatures by Tarnation - "Country Goth with a tinge of surf rock? Yes, this unique 4AD group successfully blend alt.country with shoegazer indie aesthetic. Paula Frazer is like a Gothic Patsy Cline...a totally fantastic CD"
AMG says:
Given that Tarnation's frontwoman Paula Frazer is best known for her work with the L.A. post-punk band Frightwig — and since Gentle Creatures is, after all, a product of the arty 4AD label — the absolute-torch-and-twang authenticity that defines the record is a wonderful surprise; ethereal yet earthy, the album's strength derives from all of its seeming contradictions. Powered by Frazer's deft songwriting and smoky vocals, Gentle Creatures is melancholy and gorgeous, its love songs and ballads cloaked in reverb and gothic imagery. What Tarnation shares with its 4AD stablemates is an uncanny knack to build and maintain a rich, dense atmosphere; the record is dusky and otherworldly, haunted by the spirits of failed relationships, late-night radio transmissions, and other ghostly presences.