Ramblings of a Band

I don't want to hear it

[tennesseewaltz]

Kodak Portra 

35mm Film

©Danielle Holbert

[do615]

Record Store Day 2014 photos featuring the events at Grimey’s, Fond Object, and The Groove.

We caught the following bands:

Buffalo Clover

Fly Golden Eagle

Needtobreathe

John Oates

The Secret Sisters

PUJOL

Promise Land Sound

Bully

Ranch Ghost

Photos by Amber Davis, Rhea Foote, & Jason Piffier

We have over 100 photos from the entire RSD experience. Check them out here. 

[americansongwriter]

Stugill Simpson Breaks The Mold 

During 2013, the women of country music were the ones to watch, cutting the most challenging and heartfelt songs, making bold statements in a sea of sameness. This year, Sturgill Simpson, a native of coal country in eastern Kentucky, is drawing attention from every direction with his sophomore record, Metamodern Sounds In Country Music, released on his own High Top Mountain label. Critics of all stripes praise him as an Outlaw reborn, and variety show hosts from Jools Holland to Garrison Keillor want him as a guest, but Simpson is most concerned with how his fans respond.

“The last year, every show all I heard from the fans is ‘Man, I don’t even really like country music, but I love what you guys are doing.’ To me, nothing tells me that we’re achieving our goal more than hearing somebody say that,” he says, calling in during a breather between moving into a new home in Nashville and leaving for a European tour. “There’s a lot of people out there who hate country, especially younger people, because they’ve never actually heard what I and many people call country.”

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[hellhoundmusic]

Buffalo Clover to release two records “Test Your Love’ and ‘Live At The Five’ Aug.12

[thejennybones]

Buffalo Clover at #southlandse #marathonmusicworks #the615 #buffaloclover @lightning100 #lovelocalnash

[thebluegrasssituation]

Buffalo Clover had one wild and crazy evening while on tour …  "Our navigation system directed us off the main road and onto a small gravel road leading to the festival we were playing. We hit a roadblock and things started to go south, literally. The officers took one look at us, (basically a bunch of long hairs driving late at night) and directed us to get out of the van."  … Read the rest right here.

[buffaloclover-blog]

All Is Vain

All my wheel's are runnin out of road/ I fell asleep on the train

I rode a horse straight out of town/ Let him carry me away

It's a scene that goes around, all around

Vanity, leave it all behind

There was something I forgot to tell you/ But I remember it now

I want so bad, for you to get better/ Don't let the blues get you down

You're on my mind, sometimes, all the time

Vanity, leave it all behind

Apocalypse this life is fleeting/ a bird fell from the sky

Out in the field, there are no treaties/ Everyone is grown to die

But in the end, it goes around, all around

Vanity, don't you think? 

Vanity, don't you think?

Vanity, pack your things

Leave it all behind

-Price/ Ivey

[andrewbaggott]

Visit Original Link

[theswinginsixties]

Bob Dylan — Baby, Let Me Follow You Down - 1962

[hartleymanages]

George Harrison selfie.

[buffaloclover-blog]

All American Made

I woke up from a movie I immediately forgot/ Had a heartache on the bottom and a headache on the top/ But the part of me that hurts the worst is the one I just can't spot/ And it's all American made

Everywhere I go somebody puts me in the dirt/ And everything I say, somebody says they said it first/ But I don't need ten million, just give me one that works/ if it's all American made

All the midwest farms are turning into plastic homes/ My uncle started drinkin when the bank denied the loan/ Now it's liver failure and his mad cow bein cloned/ And that's all American made

Well I have been all over but I can't help feelin stuck/ Somethin in my bloodline and somethin in my gut/ Says go to California in a rusted pick up truck/ That's all American made

1987 and I didn't know it then/ Reagan was selling weapons to the leaders  of Iran/ But it was not the first time and it won't be the end/ They were all American made

But I was just a child unaware of the effects/ Raised on sports and Jesus and the usual suspects/ So tell me Mr. Petty what do you think will happen next/ That's all American made

I wonder if the President gets much sleep at night/ And if the folks on welfare are making it alright/ But I'm dreaming of the highway, that stretches out of sight/ That's all American made/ All American made/ All American made

-Price/ Ivey

[tennesseewaltz]

Kodak Portra 

35mm Film

©Danielle Holbert

[buffaloclover-blog]

Abilene, Texas

Charlie went to Reno, came up MIA/ In an El Camino five hundred miles away/ Lydia was in Vegas, dancing at The Crown/ Wearing lots of rhinestones, when Charlie came around

He told a stranger without a doubt/ He'd would give that girl a ring/Settle down right outside of Abilene

Charlie got real lucky, found ten million bucks/ in the trunk of a rental when a coke deal got mixed up/ Instead of doing right, and turning that bag in/ Lydia quit her job and they went out on a bend

Should have stayed where they belonged/ instead of stuck between/ The law, the hit man and the ghost of Abilene 

Living in a penthouse when she came in the door/ What she saw made her drop the groceries on the floor/ Everything was smashed blood was on the wall/ Leading to the backdoor where Charlie tried to crawl

 Lydia ran  away from there/ Before the cops could get keen/ Took a Greyhound back to Abilene

-Price/Ivey                                                        

[americansongwriter]

Daily Discovery: Buffalo Clover, “The Ruse”

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[americansongwriter]

Breaking Out Of Inside Llewyn Davis’ Retro-Culture Of Despair

I’ve been in Houston, Texas for the New Year and am headed back to Greenwich Village tomorrow. It will probably be cold, post winter storm Hercules, but it will certainly not be as bleak as the Greenwich Village depicted in the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.

I appreciated the cinematography. Watching the performance scenes at The Gaslight, I felt like I was almost sitting in the room with the audience, and I was reminded of today’s intimate venues like Rockwood Stage 1 and The Bitter End. I enjoyed the intense exploration of the protagonist that we don’t typically see in film these days. I view this indulgence in the individual as an accurate depiction of the beginnings of the singer-songwriter genre—a genre that placed ultimate importance on self-expression and the “authenticity” of the self, paradoxically portrayed under the commercial spotlight. But I’ll be honest. As a songwriter living in Greenwich Village, the film’s singular message rubbed me the wrong way.

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[louiselesleyanne]

Buffalo Clover - Hey Child. Worth listening too!!!!!!!!!

[musiccityroots]

Scenes from May 8, 2013, when Music City Roots welcomed Buffalo Clover, Little Bandit, Don Schlitz, the Dex Romweber Duo and Jim Skinner. Photos by Scarlati. 

[drunkenwerewolfdotcom]

Buffalo Clover - Test Your Love

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http://www.drunkenwerewolf.com/reviews/buffalo-clover-test-your-love/

Emerging out of the Nashville scene, Buffalo Clover are a band criminally underrated in Britain, mainly because of their country roots and the UK’s infamous rejection of the genre. Despite this they made an impression on DrunkenWerewolf back in 2010 with their debut album Low Down Time. Ballsy…