Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend
Posted by David Hepworth on 27 April 2008 - 6:44am.
Brilliant clip of Wille Nelson performing in Holland a few nights ago with special guest Snoop Dogg! It's sound only at first but the picture kicks in after a while. Stick with it. It's rather good.
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Is that 'thing' on Snoop's hand...
some kind of bling autocue? Very mysterious...
I rather enjoyed that.
That is rather good...
...thanks, David. It comes at a time when I'm obsessing over the whole country/soul/r&b/black/white mix thing. I've spent the last couple of weeks listening to loads of songs that have been done both by white country artists and black r&b/soul artists, and enjoying the fusion immensely. Candi Staton's Stand By Your Man, The Box Tops' Soul Deep, Solomon Burke's Proud Mary, Mickey Newbury's Time Is A Thief, that kind of thing. This too:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=262139268&...
So, thanks.
The original fusionist (and still my favourite). . . .
was surely the ABC-era Ray Charles - his version of Buck Owens's "Crying Time" probably being the best-known example.
And here's the fusion of country and R&B in action, as he sings it with the Wichita Lineman himself:
(Doncha just love YouTube?)
Splendid clip
Seems like they had a lot of fun and surely this is what it should be about. Great to see, thank you.
Excellent
It's great when people who, by normal genre regulations, shouldn't play together do and it works. In the 1930s Louis Armstrong played on a Jimmie Rodgers session, here he is recreating it with Johnny Cash in 1970: