Grover’s back with a brand new music post, and by brand new I mean dated. He likes to talk about music that was recorded in the 30’s and 40’s and that’s okay, because I listen to bluegrass and spreading the word on how it is going to be the next hipster sound is important to my band “State Prison Rodeo”. If you’re wondering why I know hipsters are going to fall in love with this bluegrass shit, it’s simple. They are always trying to find the next cool thing no one is onto. And since everyone has been programmed to hate country…they’re all gonna start getting hard for it, remember it always starts with one.
I think Jesus has mentioned a few times that I now live in North Carolina after leaving New York a few years ago. My music career didn’t pan out for me and now I live in Appalachian country. One of the best things that was born in these hills was the music and a couple of inbred kids with no feet. Appalachian and country music is probably the hottest music in the scene right now, the mainstream are just too busy dancing to electro and railing lines of coke.
A revival of the music came about with the soundtrack of “O’ Brother Where Art Thou.� Gillian Welch., possibly the best artist of all time came out of that movement. She sings like an angel and seems to have grown out of the hills themselves.
Welch is really from New York and LA, and her parents wrote for the Carol Burnett show, but that doesn’t make her music any less perfect. One of Welch’s influences is The Carter Family, which if you haven’t heard, you should. I don’t care what kind of crap you listen to – you need to check this out.
And for those of you who don’t know, The Carter Family includes June Carter, who Reese Witherspoon portrayed in “Walk The Line.� Here are a few songs from Gillian Welch’s first album, Soul Journey and a few Carter Family tunes that I enjoy.
Gillian Welch- “Look At Miss Ohio.�
Gillian Welch-“I Made A Lover’s Prayer�
Gillian Welch-“Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor�
The Carter Family-“Single Girl, Married Girl�
The Carter Family-“Can The Circle Be Unbroken�
Bonus Some Pictures of Hipsters Posting