On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Matt Benz wrote:
Anyway, I love the record, but am surprised to hear the tag team of
Yates and Weiss claim this stands out from the UT "genre". I hear plenty
of overt UT influence on this album. Strains of New Madrid lurk in the
banjo strains, etc... Also, do you really
my opinion,
Slonedog
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From: Don Yates
To: passenger side
Sent: 3/3/99 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Damnations TX vs tired UT sounds
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Matt Benz wrote:
Anyway, I love the record, but am surprised to hear the tag team of
Yates and Weiss claim this
Slonedog writes:I think too many of the others are flat-out boring. They
sort of
sound like the Indigo Girls with inferior songs and a banjo.
Whoa! I don't hear any of the Girls whitebread folkiness or unbridled (read
over the top), er, enthusiasm on the Damnations record. If you've never
seen
[Matt Benz]
Now, I need to get back to the Kelly Willis disc.
Do you mean listening to the disc or drooling over
the cd booklet?
marie
, March 03, 1999 12:29 PM
To: passenger side
Subject: RE: Damnations TX vs tired UT sounds
Whoa! I don't hear any of the Girls whitebread folkiness or unbridled
(read
over the top), er, enthusiasm on the Damnations record. If you've
never
seen this band live, you owe it to yourself
Both, baby! g. And to find out she's playing in Columbus this April,
well, smack my hind with a melon rind!
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From: marie arsenault [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 1:01 PM
To: passenger side
Subject: Re: Damnations TX vs tired UT
Oops, forgot to reply to this. I can't speak for Neal, but for me anyway,
it stands out simply because it's so much better than yer average
run-of-the-mill alt-country album -- quality songs performed well, with
some of the most deliciously soulful singing that I've heard from an
After driving around the entire outerbelt searching for an elusive copy
of this album, I weaved my way back to the "impeccable indy store" and
of course found it. Learnin lessons the hard way here.
Anyway, I love the record, but am surprised to hear the tag team of
Yates and Weiss claim this
The first time I saw The D-Nation, I had the same feeling.
A little too ND for me, but they do it so well that it grew on me. And
since then they have branched out a lot.
Rob and Keith are so far beyond what anybody in any other country band
(except the Gourds, of course) can do for me, it's not
