November 22, 2005
The Season
Posted by Amanda Rose at November 22, 2005 7:11 PMIf you choose to acknowledge the holiday rapidly approaching, no doubt you have a strategy of strategic hint dropping already well underway. I've never been accused of being overly subtle about anything though so here's some Chrissie ideas for me, in case you were wondering.
1) How much Hank Snow memorabilia is too much? Personally, I can't imagine such a thing. Pitching to all budgets, I submit the authentic Hank railroad spike for only $15,
These railroad spikes were taken from the line Hank walked as a child between his foster home in Brooklyn and the Liverpool Station on his travels to visit his mother.
2) A "pop up book for adults" sounds like something that would usually go straight through to my spam filter, but this is right up my alley. Take a three dimensional trip through the history of country music. And then turn on the radio and take a one dimension trip through country music. Ha! Ha!
3) Scotch tape (1 roll), to stuff with Sony's moronic copy protection junk.
4) A Nudie suit. Because I just must, that's why.
5) Portable fan for Tamworth in January. You may have your Merlefests, your Tellurides, your SXSWes. We have the Tamworth Country Music Festival. It's hot that time of year out that way. How hot? So hot you can't stay in your tent past sun up. Not without a portable fan, that is! (Well, you can stay in your tent past sun up, but only if you staggered in completely smashed at 3am and wouldn't notice being landed on by a Blackhawk. So I'm told.)
6) Bruce Springsteen: The Country Album*
7) Johnny Cash's house Last I heard this was still for sale and god knows I need the extra cupboard space.
8) An appreciation of Wilco
*item figment of author's desires only.
8) Here, go to iTunes try these tracks. You'll have to mess with the order to get it to flow well. Or do people worry about that anymore, in this era of the iPod Shuffle?
>Casino Queen (AM)
>Passenger Side (AM)
>Far, Far Away (Being There)
>Forget the Flowers (Being There)
>California Stars (Mermaid Ave I)
>One By One (Mermaid Ave I)
>Hesitating Beauty (Mermaid Ave I)
>Remember the Mountain Bed (Mermaid Ave II)
>Joe Dimaggio Done It Again (Mermaid Ave II), and, uhhm, just to grow on, let's say:
> Jesus Etc. (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot). It's got a little steel guitar in a couple of measures.
That's the best of their twangy era. If that don't do it, just go ahead and move on with your life.
Posted by: Boney at November 23, 2005 9:26 AMSean wants a Nudie suit, too -- specifically a Gram Parsons-esque marijuana leaf Nudie suit. Perhaps HickoryWind needs to take up a collection so each writer can have a Nudie; Larry can hold a benefit concert or something.
Posted by: Sharon at November 23, 2005 1:24 PM
