Y'all know I spend a lot of time on the road...and if you're a careful reader you know I do a lotta diggin' on the radio. I've got my i-tunes but, nothin' beats a pleasant surprise.
One of the great things about being in Mississippi is that more often than not, the best things to come across the airwaves are the local products.
It's been almost a complete shutout in last few days as I've crisscrossed the fish bowl that this part of the world has become.
Not just songs either...Jerry Clower will often get some air time, in a city with any traffic, around rush hour. An obvious attempt to curb people's nerves...which, when you consider the amount of traffic we're talking about, demonstrates just how low the tolerance for interference of any kind is around here.
They broke mold...lotta broke molds around here.
We end with an appropriate highlight...we are sleeping in Slidell, Louisiana after all.
One of the great things about being in Mississippi is that more often than not, the best things to come across the airwaves are the local products.
It's been almost a complete shutout in last few days as I've crisscrossed the fish bowl that this part of the world has become.
Not just songs either...Jerry Clower will often get some air time, in a city with any traffic, around rush hour. An obvious attempt to curb people's nerves...which, when you consider the amount of traffic we're talking about, demonstrates just how low the tolerance for interference of any kind is around here.
They broke mold...lotta broke molds around here.
We end with an appropriate highlight...we are sleeping in Slidell, Louisiana after all.
Hard to fault your local pedigree, EF. I can only offer The Rubettes, The Dooleys and Flintlock, from the unlovely lands where I was born and raised (and if you've ever heard of any of them, I'll eat my fist.).
ReplyDeletePut down the salt.
DeleteIt's a long and impressive list to be sure. It's hard to imagine what the world would sound like without Mississippi. Even that scourge MTV is the brain child of Jackson native, and fellow Major, Robert Pittman.
You can't escape us...sorry.
Love your music posts EF even when I have heard them all before, as your last reader commented hard to fault.
ReplyDeleteMy neck of the woods, can give you Dire Straits, Roxy Music, one half of the Pet shop boys and Eurythmics
Off now to listen to some Elvis, Devil in Disguise for starters I think
Great post
Thanks...you had me at Roxy Music.
DeleteHa, Bryan Ferry went to school 10 minutes down the road from where I used to live, sadly not at the same time!
ReplyDeleteHe's 67 now...so at least there's that.
DeleteRoxy Music is on the short list for me.
Bryan Ferry is buff. Even at 67.
DeleteWould you not fancy listening to some K-Pop or something? Mind you I can only imagine that the tunes on Mississippi are brilliant. I'm currently shuffling through my iPod. Also listening to a lot of Journey and Whitesnake (and sort of Thunder) for their visit in May. *SQUEALS*!
ReplyDeleteWhat is K-Pop? I've seen people talking about it on the blogger but, I have no idea what it actually is...something to do with Korea right?
DeleteWhitesnake has a certain chest-hair and dry ice charm (though for my money Poison would sqush them like a bug).
Enjoy!
From the area of my youth I can give you: Shakatak and Crass. How's that for diversity?! And Fairport Convention lived in a nearby village for a while (but they didn't come from there). I did go to the same art school as Syd Barrett did at one time, tho'!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to spend the rest of the evening racking my brains for more, but none of them will match a John Lee Hooker or a Jerry Lee Lewis...
Shakatak and Crass...brilliant. Don't suppose they shared any members.
DeleteSyd Barrett's pretty good.