[thechat] O Brother, drugs, movies, and hats

[Martin]

Quackamoe wrote on 25/10/01 1:14 am

>
>As for O Brother, again, WOW. And as for the sound
>track, on my next visit to Amazon.com it goes on my
>wishlist. I forgot that I love 30s type country music.

It's fantastic - a lot of the songs on there my mum &
dad had on a Reader's Digest (yes really) compilation
LP many many years ago, so I could sing along with
stuff like Angel Band when I watched the movie.

>Heh, listening to Celtic music and talking about 
>country at the same time reminds me that Irish and
>Scottish immigrants who ended up escaping the wretched
>cities for the hill country form a significant basis
>for what is now country music.

There was a great TV documentary series on about
10 years ago - Bringing it all back Home - which
traced how Irish music went to the US, formed a major
part of country music and then returned home, changed.

There is a double CD soundtrack to that although I've
not seen it on sale for a while.

They've got the likes of the Everly Brothers singing
Irish songs, and current Irish artistes like Michael
O'Suillibhean.

Also worth listening to is the Byrds - there was a big
wave of Scottish (and English too) folk music which
hit American music in the 60s. The Byrds covered
John Riley and Wild Mountain Thyme on Fifth
Dimension.

Cheers
Martin

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