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maa-pix · 9 months

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There are many song cues apropos to particular road trips, and vice versa. You might wonder about being born in the back of a Greyhound bus when riding on Highway 41 through Georgia. You might feel like stopping for a brew somewhere along US2 twelve hours out of Mackinaw City. Readin’, rightin’, and Route 23 might have put you Detroit City bound on that old Hillbilly Highway. You might be thinking about getting back to Ojai while hitching a ride up the PCH. Or about all those things that are easily done out on Highway 61. Not to mention the kicks on Route 66.

Myself, I’m way past seventeen and it’s more than a half century since 1965, but I was running up 101 the other day for the first time in my life, so I had to cue up some Jackson Browne.

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clatterbane · 5 years

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Dwight Yoakam - Readin' Rightin' Route 23

Dwight Yoakam's song about the 3 R's of Kentucky schools. They learned readin' rightin' and roads to the north that led to luxuries a coal miner can't afford.

More Dwight Yoakam. Not sure when or where this performance was, but it certainly looks like the '80s. The song was released on the 1987 Hillbilly Deluxe.

#i'm from not far away #family in the coalfields #and i'm currently sitting in london #dwight yoakam #readin' rightin' route 23 #hillbilly deluxe #1987 #appalachia

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krispyweiss · 3 years

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Album Review: Various Artists - Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy

With stories of coal mines and factories, hollers and cities and boozin’ and praisin’ the Lord, Industrial Strength Bluegrass is as much about Americana as it is about - as its subtitle says - Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy.

Produced by Joe Mullins and issued on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, this various-artists comp spotlights Ohio-centric songs and songwriting with performances from a wide array of bluegrass and country luminaries from Jim Lauderdale to Vince Gill to Union Station’s Dan Tyminski.

With the exception of Lee Ann Womack’s “From Life’s Other Side” and “Garden Tomb,” by the Isaacs and the Oak Ridge Boys - which lean more country - these are tracks characterized by guitars, banjos, fiddles, mandos and high lonesomes that paint a picture of hardscrabble lives in rugged territory.

The journey begins with Mullins & the Radio Ramblers’ sprightly take on Dwight Yoakam’s “Readin’, Rightin’, Route 23,” a working-class theme later revisited on Larry Cordle’s back-porch rendition of Tom T. Hall’s “The Rolling Mills of Middletown.”

Rhonda Vincent and Caleb Daugherty take it home from work on the tear-jerking slow waltz of “Family Reunion,” urging members to gather before Mother and Daddy die.

It might be the last time we meet, they sing before Sierra Hull washes away the melancholy with the rambunctious instrumental “Mountain Strings.”

Meanwhile, the barbershop harmonies of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver make a little slice of Heaven of “When He Blessed My Soul.”

The 16 tracks stretch nearly 55 minutes. And as often happens with such disparate collections, Industrial Strength Bluegrass doesn’t always hang together. But every bluegrass fan is sure to find things to like within its grooves.

Grade card: Various Artists - Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy - B-

4/13/21

#industrial strength bluegrass: southwestern ohio’s musical legacy #smithsonian folkways #sierra hull #jim lauderdale #vince gill #pure prairie league #the eagles #dan tyminski #alison krauss and union station #joe mullins #dwight yoakam #the isaacs #the oak ridge boys #lee ann womack #larry cordle #tom t. hall #rhonda vincent #caleb daugherty #doyle lawson & quicksilver

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chasenews · 3 years

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Smithsonian Folkways Celebrates SW Ohio’s Golden Age with Forthcoming Album – Industrial Strength Bluegrass

Smithsonian Folkways celebrates the golden age of Bluegrass music in Southwest Ohio with the release of Industrial Strength Bluegrass on March 26. The first single, “Readin’, Rightin’, Route 23″ is performed by Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers and will be available to radio on Friday, January 29. Industrial Strength Bluegrass is the story of bluegrass’ transformation from a music to a movement,…

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