Sturgill Simpson and Wheeler Walker Jr. have a few things in common. They’re both from Kentucky. They’re friends. They employ bitchin’ slide guitarists. Dave Cobb has produced albums for both of them. They’ve each been hailed as country music’s savior—Simpson […]
I love some colorful charcters and have been blessed to know so many in last 38 years. It is what makes the world go round if you ask me. One of these guys was a fellow by the name of […]
Welcome to the front porch of The Real Easy Ed, where each week I curate, aggregate and update news, events, images, ideas, sound, fury, odds and ends. Just a little place to pause for a few minutes, get out of the […]
Hank Jr. has paid tribute to his daddy’s work many times, starting with the 1963 soundtrack album Your Cheatin’ Heart (and Rhino’s 1998 reissue, Hank Williams, Jr. Sings Hank Williams, Sr.) and continuing with 1969’s Songs My Father Left Me, […]
How many Slim Harpo recordings do you know? Perhaps you’ve heard “Raining in My Heart” (not the Buddy Holly tune), which made it to No. 34 on Billboard’s pop chart in 1961; “Baby, Scratch My Back,” which reached No. 16 […]
Hank Williams Jr.’s artistic collapse is among country music’s most embarrassing stories, not least of all for its excruciating duration. More than twenty years have passed since Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound, the last of his remarkable 1970s recordings that […]
Love him or hate him, Hank Williams Jr. is his own man. After years of growing up under the thumb of his mother and her desire to have his career serve only as a tribute act to his father, Hank […]
