Joe Bageant (Free subscription) | yesterday
I guess my fear is that the age of working class art is over. That there won't be another Woody Guthrie comin' down the pipe. Or Roger Miller, or Lee Hazelwood. All small town midwestern boys who went on to make some legendary American music.
Wordsmith.org: Today's Word (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
... The Nation (New York); Oct 6, 1997. X-BonusSome people walk in the rain, others just get wet. -Roger Miller, musician (1936-1992)
WFMU's recent playlists from Music (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... TELL ME EARL JOHNSON & HIS DIXIE ENTERTAINERS I'M SATISFIED BIRMINGHAM JONES DRINKIN' AGAIN ROGER MILLER DAD BLAMED ANYTHING A MAN CAN'T QUIT TAMI LYNN WORLD OF DREAMS NATHANIEL MAYER I FOUND OUT THE CONTAMINATORS WANT ME DEAD XCITERS UPSETTER THE BARONS I HOPE I PLEASE YOU ERNIE K-DOE KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE PHI MU WASHBOARD BAND LOVE HURTS SUPERSONICOS LA HISTORIA DE JIM JOHNNY COPELAND...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... Eh? (Hat tip, Roger Miller.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... Einstein letter calls Bible ‘pretty childish’ . (Hat tip, Roger Miller.) Actually, there is much in what the old boy says in this letter, but Einstein was fundamentally a Spinozist.
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... what you'd expect from a medievalist (or from me - but I, too, am a Roger Miller fan): We interrupt our regularly scheduled program…
the central shaft (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Roger Miller - Muppetshow What a great venue for Roger's twisted themes. Overlooked as a serious talent this medley of Miller greats shows there's more than "King Of The Road". Great songwriter and once a part of country music's 'speed freak' era there's no one can write shit like he. Just imagine the late night freak show recording sessions. By the way, most those nutty lines were improvised during...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
... in the business because they loved the soul of country music. They loved Willie, John [Cash], and Roger Miller, the singer-songwriters. The closest I got to Willie was Jimmy Day. He used to hang out with us. We'd sit around at these jam sessions, sing Willie songs. I went out to his place in Ridgetop, hung out with Jimmy Day, but I never did meet Willie." Still, Kris was a fan. "When...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
... the headline of the day: Frank Whiteley Jr., Trained Ruffian, Is Dead at 93 . (Hat tip, Roger Miller.) Better a trained ruffian, I suppose. On a more serious note, how odd that he should die the day before another filly had to euthanized after a major race.
This is Bath (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
... but there was quite a strong wind," said Maddox."But it is not a bad start and my coach (Roger Miller) was pleased so that is okay."
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
... vocal range. This alt-country singer has been around for awhile, and her new EP covers tunes by Roger Miller, Burt Bacharach and Gordon Lightfoot. I play a Merle Haggard cover.. The talented indie artist returns with an album called In the Ever. You'll hear a song from that record about a city I adore: Memphis, Tenn. OK, so he's a rocker from New York. However, Malin's new disc of...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
... of studio & live career touchstones, including collaborations with Waylon Jennings, Leon Russell, Roger Miller, Ray Price, Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Webb Pierce, Julio Iglesias, Faron Young, Hank Snow, Highwaymen (Waylon, Johnny Cash, Kristofferson), Lee Ann Womack, and more! NEW YORK, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- For the truly multi-dimensional Willie Nelson (b. 1933) - singer,...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
... her rise to power and celebrity in Argentina. "Big River," coming in the summer of 2009, is the Roger Miller musical about the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his runaway slave, Jim. "Hollywood Arms" (directed by Terry Dodd) is co-written by Carol Burnett and her daughter Carrie Hamilton. It's a Tony-winning look at 1940s Hollywood, based on Burnett's memoirs and real-life relatives,...
Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Two generations ago, when I was in my early teens, the general attitude of Americans towards Great Britain was summed up by Roger Miller in his classic pop tune, “England Swings” : Now, if you huff and puff and you fin’lly save enough Money up to take your family on a trip across the sea Take a tip before you take your trip Let me tell you where to go Go to England, oh England swings...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
... Is ‘Bringing Down the House’ a Fraud? (Hat tip, Roger Miller.) Mezrich defends himself vigorously (if gnomically), saying: “The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it’s true.” What I think this means is that the facts of the matter were insufficiently exciting to make for a best-selling book, so I gussied them up a bit by inventing things out...
