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besubversive ([personal profile] besubversive) wrote2008-02-07 02:02 pm
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"We play both kinds, Country AND Western!"

I have quite a hankering to hear "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia."

Uh, also, I want to sing in an alt.bluegrass, alt.mountainfolk, alt.jamboree band. Or just sit around barefoot in a cotton sundress with straw in my hair and shake a shaker while the band plays. I'm not picky.

I've stopped deleting the grow-yourself-a-bigger-harder-wang spams, because I think I'm gonna use the content or at least the subjects to cut and paste a little found poem. For handmade valentines! The people in charge of sending those things are getting downright creative.

(If you know what movie that quote up there is from, then you get a big ol' kiss. Or a hug, your choice.)
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[identity profile] go-team-venture.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"They want us to pay for all the beer."

You know, down here we just go ahead and leave the "alt" off the front of the label. My sister Jessie, for instance, is a mighty fine mandolin player. My dad can play any stringed instrument you hand him, from guitar to ukulele banjo. And so on. I grew up on porch music of different sorts.

My sis, pickin it.

[identity profile] besubversive.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, all those alts were sort of a joke. I love the sound of a mandolin. I like that they can sound real sweet or all frenzied and twiddly. My dad plays a mean harmonica, but that's it for the family. I would love to be able to have a familial jamboree, though.

[identity profile] go-team-venture.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the best, when everyone's singing along and someone's fiddlin and a couple people are trading off on banjo and guitar. When I was a kid, I though "Yellow Submarine" was a traditional porch tune. My folks love to rock, but they also love to kick back and make some music.

[identity profile] besubversive.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm totally envious. I did get to hear my dad jam from time to time growing up, though. He'd play along with blues albums or riff with some neighbors who played guitar. Blues have always been his thing. My mom kinda feels nothing about music, though I don't think that was the case when she was younger.

[identity profile] go-team-venture.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we're just sort of a musical family. My dad and stepmom made their livings in cover bands for most of my life. My mom regards going to see good live music as akin to church, but with beer and dancing.

[identity profile] besubversive.livejournal.com 2008-02-08 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
That's pretty damn sweet.

[identity profile] go-team-venture.livejournal.com 2008-02-08 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty lucky like that.

[identity profile] pillowfool.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so down with the barefoot, cotton sundress, straw in the hiar idea.

we have a music studio in my basement and among the other things is a mandolin and a slide guitar. great for the country and western ;)

I would say we should jam sometime but... uh, I don't know how to play any of the instruments. hahahaha.

[identity profile] besubversive.livejournal.com 2008-02-08 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, I wish I could play any instrument at all. My fingers are too, like, tiny for guitars.
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