How interesting this 1961 time. With 'Wagoner's Lad', is this the point where the the 60's truly became the 60s? A time of pushback against the norm in America? I was 4 years old, my parents in early 30s. My father was a depression baby. Raised poor in the south. God Damn poor. Old people were found on their rural places in the Spring having been starved and frozen to death. My dad once lived with his mother in a shack on a sack of cornmeal for a month, cornbread only morning and night in the Winter cold.
This is where the music of the 50s and 60s originated from. The hurt became music. My father sometimes took me along to the taverns where hard men drank their cold beer from dark bottles. Men with calloused hands from hard work, sad memories, but a kind word. Elvis, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard etc on the juke box. This is the stuff of the 60s I was born into.
Yes, well, I think Joan comes from a background that had it more easy. Most of the Greenwich Village kids were middle-class college students who could only approximate that vibe. To get real close to it, we'd at least have to go back to Woody Guthrie...
I disagree. Vol. 4 is where the strain and lack of original ideas already begin to show after the massive sonic breakthroughs of Master of Reality. Uh... what were we talking about again?
How interesting this 1961 time. With 'Wagoner's Lad', is this the point where the the 60's truly became the 60s? A time of pushback against the norm in America? I was 4 years old, my parents in early 30s. My father was a depression baby. Raised poor in the south. God Damn poor. Old people were found on their rural places in the Spring having been starved and frozen to death. My dad once lived with his mother in a shack on a sack of cornmeal for a month, cornbread only morning and night in the Winter cold.
This is where the music of the 50s and 60s originated from. The hurt became music. My father sometimes took me along to the taverns where hard men drank their cold beer from dark bottles. Men with calloused hands from hard work, sad memories, but a kind word. Elvis, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard etc on the juke box. This is the stuff of the 60s I was born into.
I look forward to the reviews coming.
Yes, well, I think Joan comes from a background that had it more easy. Most of the Greenwich Village kids were middle-class college students who could only approximate that vibe. To get real close to it, we'd at least have to go back to Woody Guthrie...
Vol. 4 is the best album!
I disagree. Vol. 4 is where the strain and lack of original ideas already begin to show after the massive sonic breakthroughs of Master of Reality. Uh... what were we talking about again?
Probably, you'right! But anyways on Vol. 2 she intentionally toned down her.. her guitar, I guess. She did it in the name of SaTAn!!!