Don Yates wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Steve Gardner wrote:
>
> > For those of you who like the Ray Price Essentials CD I'd recommend going
> > out and getting the Roy Acuff Essentials CD. They aren't exactly the same,
> > Roy is a little more oldtime and a little less honky tonk when compared to
> > Ray Price. I seem to think though that if you like one, you'll like the
> > other. I, at least, do.
>
> "A little more oldtime and a little less honky tonk"? How about a *lot*
> more oldtime and a *lot* less honky tonk. There ain't a lot of
> similarities between the two, near as I can tell. I'd recommend Acuff to
> folks who were checkin' out the roots of Hank Williams though -- Acuff was
> one of his biggest singin' influences.--don
Well I'm not sure *lots* is the right level of difference. Sure different, but a
lot of similarities too, particularlly in voice. Whiskey and Blood on the
Highway comes to mind, or Night Train to Memphis. But I was trying to remember
this novelty nonsense song he did, I would guess in the 40s, with the line
"What's the use of counting like Caesar when Caesar is dead" Help me out here
somebody. And where can I find it?
Stuart
who's gonna start looking for that essentials disc
