LINKS OF STUFF WE DIG
| Traditional Country Music... |
| Faron
Young The Singin' Sherrif. From huge hits like "Hello Walls" to lesser known gems, Faron was one of the very best singers in all of country music history. |
| Ray
Price The Jesters like Ray so much, we have a clock on stage with us that says "Ray Price Time" so we can do a Ray Price song every 30 minutes! |
| Buck
Owens Buck and his Buckaroos are one of the innovators of country music. They are responsible in part for the "Bakersfield Sound". |
| Wynn
Stewart Another Bakersfield innovator. Wynn was the silver tounged voice on some of our favorite songs. Visit his site and hit the Jukebox first so you can listen to Wynn while you look around. |
| Hank
Williams By far, the king of all country music. Hank wrote and sang some of country music's best songs. |
| George
Jones Perhaps the best voice in country music history. |
| Lefty
Frizzell Lefty has changed the way country singers sing country music. |
| Hank
Thompson Hank is a true living legend. |
| Marty
Robbins The crooning and versatile voice of some of the most classic songs in music history. |
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Jean Shepard-This gal has alot of sass and alot of class! One of the great female honkytonk singers ever! This MP3 site is kinda slow loading but really...give Jean a chance! |
| McNett Brothers-The story of Pennsylvania natives Dean and Bob McNett the latter of which went on to play with Hank Williams. A GREAT award winning site! You better go to the bathroom and get a drink before you click on this one, you are gonna be here a while. |
| Johnny Horton-If you don't know about this guy then start a lernin'!!! |
| Webb
Pierce Webb Pierce is one of the coolest figures in all of country music history. This site is pretty funny. |
| Bakersfield Sound-This site was down for a while but now thankfully its back up and explains the whole phenomenon of how the West Coast Hard Country sound developed in the late 1950's and into the 1960's in direct response to Nashville which was cranking out overproduced watered down "Country-politan". Hmmm...Sound familiar? |
| Johnny Cash-The Man in black...Possibly the most ballsy country singer EVER...Oh wait...FOR SURE the most ballsy country singer ever! |
| Red Foley-Red sang some swingin' country boogie among other things. |
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Loretta Lynn-The Coalminer's Daughter...'nuff said. Don't get on her bad side or it's...FIST CITY boys! |
| Patsy Cline is the shit! Get Patsified! |
| Johnny and Jack-Sweet brother harmony...well, brothers in law harmony anyway. |
| The Louvin Brothers-Sweet brother harmony. |
| Everly Brothers-Sweet brother harmony. |
| Merle
Haggard A real living legend of Country music, the songs Merle has written has been a big influence on the Jesters. |
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Dolly Parton-A TON of songwriting and singing talent to back all that "personality" up. Sure, the theme park is a bit over the top and there were some things we'd like to put behind us in the 1980's but...c'mon, the woman is unstoppable. |
| Bluegrass |
| Del
McCoury Dave wants Del and the boys to know that they are his "big time bluegrass heroes". |
| Doyle
Lawson and Quicksilver Richer gospel and bluegrass vocal harmonies you are hard pressed to find on planet earth |
| Jimmy Martin-The King of Bluegrass and the most beligerant bluegrasser of all time. |
| Jim and Jesse McReynolds Sweet brother harmony...and damn they always had good hair! |
| Seldom Scene-These guys changed what bluegrass could be. |
| Ricky Skaggs The man jumped out of bluegrass to save traditional country music in the 1980's and then jumped back. Either way he's a fantastic musician. |
| Hillbilly, Rockabilly and Western Swing... |
| Hillbilly Music Dawt Com-All things sacred! |
| Rockabilly Hall of Fame-A great site of hopped up hillbilly boppers, wild guitar slingers and pill popping bull fiddle bass slappers. |
| Rockabilly Girls-Rockin' barfooted hillbilly wimmin gone wild! All about the gals we love from Patsy Cline to Patsy Montana. |
| Western Swing.com A site for Western Swing news and event information |
| Horton Brothers-Billy and Bobby, Bobby and Billy, Billy, Bobby, Bobby, Billy...Would Austin even exist without these boys? |
| Route
66 Rockabilly A HUGE site with all rockabilly related content. |
| Planet
Rockabilly Anoter HUGE rockabilly web site. Some great content and some great photos! |
| Johnny Gimble He IS Texas Swing! |
| High Noon Austin's Rockabilly Trio. A GREAT band and even better fellers! |
| Bones Maki and the Sundodgers-Our pals from Detroit City and a fine band to boot. |
| The Bellfuries (no longer have a website) Well, we all like the Bellfuries a lot. But the girls in Chicago like them so much we're all dang near sick of hearing about them! But still, these guys can rock...when Joey decides they should that is... |
| The Starlight Drifters A great rockabilly/hillbilly band fron Ann Arbor Michigan |
| Hi-Q's-Hop and Bop with Detroit's finest. |
| Chicago Country Music Information |
| Chicago Reader The local entertainment page keeps pretty good track of the Country related gigs but sometimes unknowingly lumps hillbilly bands in under the Rock & Pop so keep that in mind. |
| Chicago Bluegrass Big Gig Calander-Find out what's a happenin for Bluegrass courtesy of the Chicago Bluegrass Band |
| Rockabilly Central Find out about Rockabilly and roots music shows in Chicago, Milwaulkee and beyond at the Chicago calander. |
| Country Music Holiday-Has been discontinued... |
| Big C Jamboree-Open mic for Rockabilly, Hillbilly and thumpin' Roots music acts the first Thursday of every month at Martyr's at 3838 N. Lincoln. No cover. A different host band featured each month. Sign up to play and remember, this crowd wants to dance! |
| Sauk Village Bluegrass Jam-Every Sunday, Sauk Village, IL behind the police station. |
| Pizza for Pickers..Ray's Pizza 2825 W. 127th St. Blue Island, IL (708)385-1240. This is cheifly a bluegrass jam and the owner Tom buys pizza for all pickers the first and third Sundays of each month from 6-9pm. A friendly small jam. |
| Special Consensus Bluegrass Band-28 years and countin'! |
| Hoyle Brothers Honkytonk Happy Hour EVERY Friday at the Empty Bottle (1035 N. Western) from 5:30-7:30. Go cheer Jack and the boys on through some classic country with an ice cold one and start the weekend off rightously! |
| The Riptones-16 years and countin'. |
| The Honeybees A lovely mix of country, hillbilly and rockabilly from some fine lookin' women folk! Seriously, they are a REALLY good Chicago based band. |
| Brent Hoodenpyle and the Loners- playing traditional country music. This is Cousin Buddy's other gig! |
| Long Journey Home-Former Gin Palace Jesters' steel player Keith Baumann's Monroe Brothers style duet. |
| Bloodshot Records Alot of bands, alot of music, alot of tour dates, alot of information. |
| Kent Rose-The Voice That Remembers! |
| Long Gone Lonesome Boys -Crawling back to you. |
| Fulton County Line-Friends of ours |
| Some NEW Country that doesn't suck...by all means NOT a complete list! |
| Big Sandy and his Fly Rite Boys Just about the coolest band in the country! |
| Wayne Hancock Wayne is a great songwriter and a man who KNOWS how to deliver a song! |
| Dale Watson A Gin Palace Jester favorite, Dale is keeping real country music alive. Do yourself a favor, check him out immediately. |
| Starline Rhythm Boys - Good music. |
| Junior Brown-What the heck is a "guit-steel"? It came to him in a dream! |
| The Derailers Start with the Beatles covering Buck Owens "Act Naturally" and go from there. Bakersfield Country for a new milennium |
| BR-549 Like minded compadres from Nashville. They dropped the "dash" but we refuse to let 'em. |
| Roger Wallace A fantastically cool guy with a great set of pipes. |
| Lucky Stars-Great Western Swing and Honkytonk from California. |
| Hot Club of Cowtown-It's hard to believe such a full swinging sound can come from only 3 people! |
| The Spurs-A FANTASTIC band from Boston |
| Rosie Flores-The "Rockabilly-Philly" but hey...let's not pigeonhole her now! Rosie sang on our CD and is a REAL sweetie-pie. |
| James Hand-A real Texas Honkytonker with a voice full of character. |
| Justin Trevino-Buddy Carter loves Justin Trevino and with damn good reason. |
| Dwight Yoakam-He's back in form! |
| Publications |
| Country Standard Time-If claims to be country they do NOT discriminate and review it and we applaud them for it. |
| Real Country-We think these folks have drawn a line in the sand! |
| Twangzine-they review the good stuff. |
| Country Music People-the title says it all. |
| No Depression-If it's American music then they'll know about it. |
| Events and Festivals... |
| Sangamon Valley Roots Revival Springfield, Illinois. A fantastic regular parade of the nations best rockabilly, hillbilly and REAL country acts. |
| Television |
| RFD Channel-Rural Free Delivery. Direct TV channel 379 is airing the Wilburn Brothers show, The Porter Wagoner Show, Pop Goes the Country as well as the added bonus of the Jimmy Sturr show and Big Joe's Polka Hour. Truely the best channel ANYWHERE!!!! Contact your Direct TV satellite person TODAY!! |
| Radio |
| KSEY-Seymour, Texas. The good stuff! Listen on line. http://www.radioksey.com/ |
| WSM-The "aircastle of the south" in Nashville, Tennessee. Radio home of the Grand Ol Opry. Listen live or to the Opry archives right now. |
| WQNA-Sangamon Valley Roots Revival-Wednesday Evening 7-9pm CENTRAL Time Zone where Sean Burns can be heard broadcasting GODDAMN HILLBILLY MUSIC!!! Listen online |
| Twangtown USA-Web radio that shuffles all damn day long! |
| Traditional Music.net-U.K. based web radio playing Country, Western, Rockabilly, Skiffle, Irish folk, English ballads, work songs and more from London, England. Basically alot of blood, sweat and tears and very little "electricity." |
| Third Coast Music Network-Americana radio from San Antonio, Texas simulcast on the web with the really good stuff from 3-7pm. |
| WSDS-AM 1480-Ypsilanti Michigan. is gone...RIP! |
| Other fun stuff |
| Cal Sharp- Cal Sharp was one of Faron's deputies and played pedal steel with the "Singin' Sherriff" Faron Young in the late 1970's and 1980's. Cal has some HILARIOUS and somewhat frightenly truthful stories of what life on the road is like. If you just want to laugh your ass off at some country related tales go here to the music section and start reading. There is also a nice interview with Pete Drake on there. |
| Steel Guitar Forum-All about steel guitars from tablature, tunings, techniques and message boards along with a mighty fine Steel Guitar Radio site that has (of course) all steel guitar music. |
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LINKS COMING SOON!
There's nothing else down here!!!
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