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Sunday 22 December 2013

                                                      Jesse Jones
                                            Album - One Memory for the Road 2013
 
Music in Northeast Alabama Seems to be as fertile as the soil , as fresh as the air and as refreshing as water drawn from a cool mountain stream . Jesse Jones knows this all too well . Jones 's first recollection of Country music as a very young farm boy Was That of the voice of Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys coming from the old radio in the front room of a shotgun shack . Jones was drawn to the stories of the Country songs I heard at an early age . I Knew That I wanted to write songs like the one's I've heard on late night Radio stations like WSM in Nashville and WBAP in Fort Worth. Jones's musical interests Were not limited to the radio .... It was literally in his bloodline . His paternal grandmother 's family , The Wootten family from Sand Mountain, Alabama Were Well Known Sacred Harp singers and continue the tradition even today . Jones's ancestors Have Been Continuing the craft of "shape note" singing for more than 150 years . But Jones was drawn more and more to the honky tonk country sound THROUGHOUT his life . Artists like Darrell McCall, Tony Booth and Johnny Bush impacted his songwriting style in the late 1960 's Incorporating a Texas feel to the Already Folk / Gospel upbringing I had in the mountains of Northeast Alabama. In this 10 -song collection , Jones finds himself as the artist and songwriter . Although Jones has written much of this project , I have to pays homage other songwriters like Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry who are from the same farm soil as Jones himself . One For The Road Memory is nothing but hardcore honky tonk country from a songwriter from the school of Haggard, Jones and Putman . Turn it up , pop the top and enjoy fertile , fresh, cleansing power of Country traditionalism Jesse Jones -style.

 
                       The Davidson Hart Kingsbery band  


 Davidson Hart Kingsbery band formed in 2010 and shortly after,
they were invited to serve as house band for a series of undergroun
The d 2-step parties.
Playing marathon sets instilled the kind of locked-in musical teamwork that can take some bands years.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Seattle's Hart Kingsbery was born in Paris, Texas in 1979. His family moved around a lot before settling in Washington State,
raising Hart in a devout religious environment where he sang hymns in church,
did 15 years of bible camp and graduated from a religious college. A
fter a bad early divorce, he turned his back on the church,
accepting damnation as the payback for a life of barroom debauchery,
only to discover that the country songs he'd begun to write told stories of a different sort,
that of the damnation of affairs of the heart.
 
                         Cody Widner

 
As you listen to "Drinkin' Doubles", the first song on Honky Tonk Heart, the sophomore album by Texas born Cody Widner, it is clear that traditional country music is alive and thriving in the Texas hill country and Widner is, no doubt, one of the main reasons why. This handsome cowboy with a voice reminiscent of one of his heroes; fellow Texan George Strait, definitely has what it takes to impact country music in a spectrum far broader than just the Texas hills he call home
According to a recent press release, it may not be only his singing and songwriting that is getting audiences excited, apparently, whenever the urge strikes him, he has been known to give away an autographed guitar during a performance. But it didn't take a free guitar to get my attention. The album features all the best attributes of classic country and this is likely what put Widner on the Country charts in, according to one source, a secure position "between Alan Jackson and Lee Ann Womack." His current chart climber is titled "When the Smoke Clears" but any one of the songs on this album is chart worthy.
"Feel Again" has Widner doing some great vocal harmony with someone who sounds like Lee Ann Womack , there is also plenty of wonderful, weepy fiddle. "Back in the Swing of Things" was one of the tracks that really stood out for me; in part, due to the great instrumentals. This particular track harkens back to the up-tempo, toe-tappin' songs that carried Bob Wills to fame and fortune and it looks like it could easily do it again for Widner


Widner says, "As far as music goes, I just keep it simple and keep it country, and that's it." Well, as far as I'm concerned, I think, in the case of Cody Widner, keeping it simple and country is right on target. If you are a fan of traditional country, look no further, Widner delivers with a splendid Honky Tonk Heart.

Albums:
2000 - SUMTHIN' COUNTRY
2004 - RIGHT WHERE I BELONG
2005 - HONKY TONK HEART

Countrykanalen Sweden´s Uppesittarkväll 23 December 2013


Vi vill önska DIG välkommen till Countrykanalen Sweden´s Uppesittarkväll!
Det blir 3 timmar julsnack, juliga rim, julhälsningar, som DU skickar till just dina vänner, önskelåtar mm… Tillsammans gör vi det här till en oförglömlig kväll.
Lyssnar gör ni via hemsidan, www.countrykanalen.se eller via TuneIn i t.ex. din smartphone. tunein.com/radio/Countrykanalen-Sweden-s158128/
Per Gyllingberg är er värd mellan 20,00 och 21,30.
Torbjörn Eriksson är er värd mellan 21,30 och 23,00.