Comments on: Best Songs of September ‘08 http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/ The latest country music news and reviews. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:26:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: KathyP http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102482 KathyP Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:42:24 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102482 Brady - very good list, especially recognition of 3 singles from Ketchum's Father Time. What a gorgeous album. Ketchum has the purest male voice in country music. Several years go, Curb released an album of his, One More Midnight, in the UK, but not in the USA. I found it on Amazon.uk. It's a real gem, too. It's the album that featured the song, Alamo. On the CD there's another song that is 15 minutes long - Poor Lila's Ghost. It's another period story song. Exquisite. Great twist to the story. Travelin Teardrop Blues is another big winner, IMHO. Of course the album was never released here. What mainstream US country music fan would listen to a 15 minute song. (\sarc off) I guess they believe country fans only listen to mainstream radio. Brady – very good list, especially recognition of 3 singles from Ketchum’s Father Time. What a gorgeous album. Ketchum has the purest male voice in country music.

Several years go, Curb released an album of his, One More Midnight, in the UK, but not in the USA. I found it on Amazon.uk. It’s a real gem, too. It’s the album that featured the song, Alamo. On the CD there’s another song that is 15 minutes long – Poor Lila’s Ghost. It’s another period story song. Exquisite. Great twist to the story. Travelin Teardrop Blues is another big winner, IMHO. Of course the album was never released here. What mainstream US country music fan would listen to a 15 minute song. (\sarc off) I guess they believe country fans only listen to mainstream radio.

]]> By: Rick http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102291 Rick Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:42:33 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102291 Drew I agree that Cia Leigh Cherryholmes and Lillie Mae Rische of Jypsi have very similar voices except Lillie's voice is a bit lower and she doesn't have the upper range Cia does. When I first heard Jypsi on the Opry I thought it was Cia Leigh singing lead for the group. Also Cia has very precise control over her singing voice while Lillie Mae has a much looser vocal presentation and especially so in live performances, but then again Lillie is only 16 (or maybe 17 by now). I just noticed that Lillie Mae sang with Montgomery Gentry on a song titled "God Knows Who I Am" on their latest album, so good for her. Jypsi's label really dropped the ball with that band and I think they've already been shelved. As for wine songs, Miss Leslie Sloan titled her latest album after her song "Between The Whiskey And The Wine". In the song she refers to red wine and a whiskey brand called something like "Makers"? I don't consume alcohol so I really don't know.... Drew I agree that Cia Leigh Cherryholmes and Lillie Mae Rische of Jypsi have very similar voices except Lillie’s voice is a bit lower and she doesn’t have the upper range Cia does. When I first heard Jypsi on the Opry I thought it was Cia Leigh singing lead for the group. Also Cia has very precise control over her singing voice while Lillie Mae has a much looser vocal presentation and especially so in live performances, but then again Lillie is only 16 (or maybe 17 by now). I just noticed that Lillie Mae sang with Montgomery Gentry on a song titled “God Knows Who I Am” on their latest album, so good for her. Jypsi’s label really dropped the ball with that band and I think they’ve already been shelved.

As for wine songs, Miss Leslie Sloan titled her latest album after her song “Between The Whiskey And The Wine”. In the song she refers to red wine and a whiskey brand called something like “Makers”? I don’t consume alcohol so I really don’t know….

]]> By: leeann Ward http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102287 leeann Ward Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:26:55 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102287 Don't forget Emmylou's Bluebird wine. I love this feature. I'm glad to see some love for the Chambers/Nicholson album. The songs that you chose from Ketchum's album are my favorites from it. I'm a sucker for acoustic as well...can't call myself a fanboy though.:) I was underwhelmed by the production on Bowen's album too. Don’t forget Emmylou’s Bluebird wine.

I love this feature.

I’m glad to see some love for the Chambers/Nicholson album. The songs that you chose from Ketchum’s album are my favorites from it.

I’m a sucker for acoustic as well…can’t call myself a fanboy though.:) I was underwhelmed by the production on Bowen’s album too.

]]> By: Kelly http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102264 Kelly Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:40:30 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102264 Chris, the first clue that the red wine reference wasnt country in that specific song was the band's name on the cd cover!! Chris, the first clue that the red wine reference wasnt country in that specific song was the band’s name on the cd cover!!

]]> By: Hollerin' Ben http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102258 Hollerin' Ben Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:17:23 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102258 <em>Y’all are making our wine feature obsolete. A few others are</em> naw, we're just priming the pump, getting everyone super excited for a full length wine playlist! Y’all are making our wine feature obsolete. A few others are

naw, we’re just priming the pump, getting everyone super excited for a full length wine playlist!

]]> By: Brady Vercher http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102257 Brady Vercher Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:16:27 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102257 I agree with you, Chris, I just had to pile on, but the relaxing with a glass of wine context isn't very country. A line that bugged me recently was in Lee Ann Womack's "I Found It In You" where it says "<em>Some find it in working for the man</em>." I agree with you, Chris, I just had to pile on, but the relaxing with a glass of wine context isn’t very country. A line that bugged me recently was in Lee Ann Womack’s “I Found It In You” where it says “Some find it in working for the man.”

]]> By: Chris N. http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102253 Chris N. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:12:13 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102253 OK, OK, OK. I'm thinking of it in the context of modern country, in which the settings of popular songs seem more and more to be urban or suburban (this is a general trend, notwithstanding the current onslaught of "I'm So Country" list songs). I believe this is because a.) advertisers want to attract higher-earning city dwellers to country radio and b.) the nation as a whole is becoming more urbanized, including the people who write these songs. The song that first put this bee in my bonnet was "Something More" by Sugarland, which starts with the protagonist driving to work on the freeway and ends like: I get home 7:30 The house is dirty, but it can wait Yeah, 'cause right now I need some downtime To drink some red wine and celebrate I got hung up on the "red wine" line -- something about the image of an office drone relaxing with red wine seems very divorced from traditional country music tropes, not least thanks to her choice of refreshment. OK, OK, OK.

I’m thinking of it in the context of modern country, in which the settings of popular songs seem more and more to be urban or suburban (this is a general trend, notwithstanding the current onslaught of “I’m So Country” list songs). I believe this is because a.) advertisers want to attract higher-earning city dwellers to country radio and b.) the nation as a whole is becoming more urbanized, including the people who write these songs.

The song that first put this bee in my bonnet was “Something More” by Sugarland, which starts with the protagonist driving to work on the freeway and ends like:

I get home 7:30
The house is dirty, but it can wait
Yeah, ’cause right now I need some downtime
To drink some red wine and celebrate

I got hung up on the “red wine” line — something about the image of an office drone relaxing with red wine seems very divorced from traditional country music tropes, not least thanks to her choice of refreshment.

]]> By: Brady Vercher http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102248 Brady Vercher Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:59:35 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102248 Y'all are making our wine feature obsolete. A few others are: "Warm Red Wine" Ernest Tubb "Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine" - Tom T. Hall "Sangria Wine" and "Backsliders Wine" - Jerry Jeff Walker "Wine Women and Song" - Loretta Lynn "Two More Bottles of Wine" - Emmylou Harris Jason Boland did "Thunderbird Wine" as well. Y’all are making our wine feature obsolete. A few others are:

“Warm Red Wine” Ernest Tubb
“Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine” – Tom T. Hall
“Sangria Wine” and “Backsliders Wine” – Jerry Jeff Walker
“Wine Women and Song” – Loretta Lynn
“Two More Bottles of Wine” – Emmylou Harris
Jason Boland did “Thunderbird Wine” as well.

]]> By: Brody Vercher http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102247 Brody Vercher Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:55:43 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102247 There goes my idea for a wine playlist. There goes my idea for a wine playlist.

]]> By: Nicolas http://www.the9513.com/best-songs-of-september-08/#comment-102245 Nicolas Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:53:08 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=2658#comment-102245 Kelly: "i have noticed a weird number of “cherry wine” references, most notably (and infamously) in “Holler Back”…" Perhaps because there's alrdy Deana Carter's "Strawberry Wine"... so they use cherry instead? 0.o Kelly: “i have noticed a weird number of “cherry wine” references, most notably (and infamously) in “Holler Back”…”

Perhaps because there’s alrdy Deana Carter’s “Strawberry Wine”… so they use cherry instead? 0.o

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