Red Dirt Rockettes - Breast Cancer Walk
On Nov 21 - 23 many of the women that make this music scene possible will be walking 60 miles, in San Diego, to fund important breast cancer research, education, screening, and treatment. They have set their sights high at attaining a goal of $50,000 and are currently at $39,000!
“Music Changes Lives” is one of their taglines and I’m a huge believer. If you’d like to support these ladies in making a difference in the future of Breast Cancer there is a few things you can do. As you see in the image above you can head over to Cheatham Street on Aug 24th to be a part of one of the coolest benefit’s I’ve seen. Tickets are $40/$50 and everything goes to support the cause. If you can’t make it out that night head over to myspace.com/rdr3day and click on one of the names to donate to. Or… do both.
This is a great cause and it does my heart good to see our music scene, especially the 36D Managment team, so involved in helping these huge issues. A huge thanks to Betsy Baird, Grace Calvert, Shannon Canada, Resa Coit, Robin Cross, Jennifer Dinkins, Erin Fellers, Liz Foster-Durham, Dee Dee Frey, Tamra Gibson, Angie Gillikin, Laura Heckendorn, Judy Hubbard, Vanessa Kendall, Christy Lee, Angela Palmer, Kandace Phillips, Corbin Plato, Kim Rainer, Brooke Rogers, Robin Schoepf & Shannon Wood for have the heart and determination to walk 60 miles and to help the fight for breast cancer.
Johnny Cash Remixed
What follows is a press release for an upcoming project entitled Johnny Cash Remixed… and I’m fairly excited about it. It seems that the album is Executive produced by John Carter Cash, Snoop Dogg, and Mathew Knowles. Interesting assortment of talent to say the least.
The remixes include a pretty varied bunch of musicians.. all very competent and well chosen. From what I hear from the sample tracks on the site and the video below it’s going to be really out there.. but really solid. One line from the video stands out to me:
we kept piling it on and his voice just keep cutting through everything.
The remix drops on Oct 14th and I’m as interested as any to run out and see just how good Snoop sounds remixed on Walk The Line. It’s an interesting project that uses Cash’s original Sun records masters and one that I hope does well.
Original Press Release
(Houston, TX) Compadre Records/Music World Music has announced the release of JOHNNY CASH REMIXED, featuring bold new interpretations of Johnny Cash classics from top music remixers and producers who were recruited to take the original master recordings and infuse them with the sounds and technology of modern music styles such as hip hop and dance music. The album, which includes a performance from Snoop Dogg, will be available in stores and online on October 14. A vinyl deluxe-edition will be available on September 23 in select independent record stores.
Johnny Cash Remixed is a tribute to the legacy of an American music icon whose work has touched every contemporary genre, and has the blessing and support of the custodians of Johnny Cash’s legacy.
“My father made his stead by defying the expected and accepted way of things,” says John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash and Executive Producer of the Academy Award©-winning film Walk the Line. “He set the standard at the same time. He would have loved this remix record. While it stays true to the original recordings, this CD touches on undiscovered ground. This is what my father was about: staying true to tradition while creating groundbreaking new music.”
Johnny Cash classics were licensed from Cash’s first record label, the legendary Sun Records, also the first record label home of luminaries such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison. The original tracks, recorded with Cash’s first band the Tennessee Two from 1956-1959, were pure and stark, with only the essentials; guitar, light percussion and Johnny Cash’s unmistakable voice and presence. The new mixes maintain this fantastic charm and personality while filing out the sound and creating daring re-interpretations.
The remixed tracks (and remixers) include “I Walk The Line” featuring Snoop Dogg (QDT, the new production team led by Snoop Dogg - featuring Snoop, Teddy Riley and DJ Quik), “Country Boy” (Sonny J, whose album will be released in August on Astralwerks US), “Get Rhythm” (Philip Steir, the only remixer allowed to work with the Reprise Records Frank Sinatra collection), “Leave that Junk Alone” (Alabama 3, creators of The Sopranos theme song), “Folsom Prison Blues” (the legendary Pete Rock), “Hey Porter” (Mocean Worker, whose remix of Elvis Presley’s “Burnin’ Love” was used as a soundtrack to Honda’s Superbowl TV commercial), “Sugartime” (Kennedy, cornerstone of the new UK Dirty Pop movement), “Trail to Mexico” (indie favorite Mexican Industry of Sound/MIS), “Doin’ My Time” (The Heavy, critically-acclaimed UK-based band) and “Wide Open Road” (Count de Money) among others.
A documentary following the making on this album is also in production, produced by Phear Creative in NYC. This short film features interviews from select remixers, filmed in their home studios, including Snoop Dogg captured at the Cash Recording Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Johnny Cash Remixed is Executive Produced by John Carter Cash, Snoop Dogg, and Mathew Knowles for Music World Productions, Inc. and Co-Executive Produced by Brad Turcotte for Compadre Records/Music World Music and Gregg DeMammos for DeMammos Entertainment.
[The Classics] Bingham - The first show
Everyone can pretty much remember the first show where they saw their favorite artist, but very few get to relive that experience… and by sheer dumb luck I am one of the few. The first time I saw Ryan Bingham was in Steamboat 2006 and my buddy Josh had been raving about him for months. It was a killer show and looking back it was definitly a turning point in my journey to understand what deep meaningful music is. When I got back to Texas, sitting in my Inbox was the recorded set he did. So every once in a while I listen to it and it brings back som many memories.
In honor of that feeling this morning and with the increased interest in Bingham these days I figure I’d make this set available to everyone. It’s rough, rowdy and over 2.5 years old.. but it’s good :)
Listen to each song here:
“Southside Of Heaven” by Bingham
“Gypsy Road” by Bingham
“Sunshine” by Bingham
“Bread and Water” by Bingham
“Best Of Me” by Bingham
Kristofferson
I picked up a Kris Kristofferson album on vinyl this afternoon and while I was listening to it and looking over the cover I ran across a poem by Johnny Cash on the back. As you read it, you can tell Cash’s respect and admiration for Kristofferson, and rightfully so. His song writing is arguably some of the best in country music… so if you’ve caught the Johnny Cash bug or the Waylon Jennings bug I’d push you to check out some Kristofferson. It’ll change your life.
“Kristofferson” by Johnny Cash
Kris was goin’ for a poet
A songwriter he would be
One of those dreamy people
Some people hate to see
Kris, he took slices of life
And salted it down into rhyme
He picked his own days and his ways
He arranged his own meter and time
Kris, he went out a sowing
Wild oats high and low, up and down
Now he’s bringing it into harvest
And the thresher hums sweet with the sound
(Poems don’t come from machines
Machines can’t set life into rhyme
And you can’t manufacture soul
Nor “gauge” and “chop” soulful lines)
Kris, he was goin’ for lonesome
Taking himself over the road
But he’s got a receipt for the toll
And he’s come to get paid for the load
But Kris, he was goin’ for hungry
A helicopter pilot he made
His rhymes were in time with that chopper
And his words were as slick as the blades
(But poems and songs though they’re pretty
Can slip right over the head
And tunes from the hungry be pleasant
They’re worth what they bring you in bread)
So Kris, he was goin’ to sell ‘em
His ragged Levis cried “don’t fail”
But to most song-singers that got ‘em
They were just one more piece of mail
Kris,he went for an oil rigger
And down in the gulf on the rig
His melodies still were bubbling
Still going for striking it big
But like the oil that covers the water
His songs covered everyone’s floor
Form five years of sending his demos
And leaving them at every door
Kris, he was making a movie
Upon the screen his face would be
And while on a horse in Peru
His songs went on network TV
Someone had finally noticed
And singers of soul sang along
Now we’ve got to dig in our closets
For that lost Kristofferson song.
P.S.
Kris,he was goin’ for a singer
And up to the top would he go
When Kris was goin’ for a Grammy
(Next year I’ll say)
“Hell I heard that song five years ago.”
Road Trip - Tex-Mex Style
Getting into the full swing of the road trip season finds many of us meeting up at our old standby restaurants, which, 90% of the time are usually some variation of Mexican food. I ran across this map of “Temples of Tex-Mex” around the state of Texas. I recognize a few and can vouch for their tastiness.
So when you’re off to take that weekend roadtrip be sure to check the map out and try some of these places out. I’m thinking about making a map of other great places to eat to include all types of food. Got any good suggestions?
(as an aside… the map is in Google Map format which allows you to add this map to your My Maps. I Love Google.)
The Dedringers - Free Music
The Dedringers are blazing some new ground in this scene by releasing their album for free download a full month before it gets released to the public. Pretty gutsy.. and I love it!
The Dedringers were a sound that grew on me till I absolutely love it. At first listen, you’ll notice a stark difference between them and your run of the mill Texas/Red Dirt artist. But once you get past that it’s different… you start to hear the amazing songwriting and style that is all their own.
“Heart of Gold” by The Dedringers
Don’t wipe that grin off your face
Got this video from my good buddy Phil. It just makes me happy.
14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me.
