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🎙️Songs From the Bathroom #12 e̷d̷i̷t̷e̷d̷

🎧 Covers from Randy Travis • Keith Urban

I was talking with my uncle recently. He’s a guitar picker too.

He wanted us to jam today, but I told him my fingers are in pretty bad shape and that I’m giving them a few days.

We got on the subject of famous guitarists from the past. He mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughan and his struggles with his fingers, loading up on many pain pills before shows just to make it through. I don’t know if that’s true, but according to my uncle it is. I’ve done similar things over the years just to get by when i had to play, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of musicians have.

These next two songs were recorded recently, and I barely made it through them because of my current finger situation.

I’ve been listening to a lot of ’90s country the past few days, so I thought I’d share a couple.

Actually the Randy song was from 1989 and the Keith song was 2oO3 so I just lied lol they just felt ’90s to me 😁

Hope you enjoy, and thanks for listenin’ partner 🤠

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Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart
You’ll Think Of Me
Alternate A
Alternate B

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This is Rowdy… he is one of many
F chord 💁‍♂️

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21 Replies to “🎙️Songs From the Bathroom #12 e̷d̷i̷t̷e̷d̷”

    1. He’s a cool cat… that’s his favorite spot in the house. That specific couch cushion right by my head. We call him RowRow normally and Rowdy when he’s in trouble 😄

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  6. Never really lightly accessed or deep dived into country songs at all. Apart from a few songs which have surfaced out from somewhere that caught the listening opportunity from time to time. I do have an 8 album collection called ‘Take me home country roads’. It has little working titles for each album. Superstars/Superhits, Mule Skinner Blues, Lookin’ Back Stars, Country Gentlemen, Country Love, Country Roads, Guitar Country and Bye Bye Love. Funnily enough, it was the intention this coming week to clean them all up in the new vinyl washer machine and play them. Bought them from a Charity/Thrift Shop a fair few years ago for £5. Could it be the best buy ever? Who knows. I do recognise some songs. From my parents playing them when I was very, very young. They weren’t album buying country fans. But did have a fair few vinyl 45 country songs.

    To be honest, I loved the opening paragraph of explaining what to expect from the albums. The good part? ‘All by the original performers who made them great’. So straight into the roots maybe. The first album has a Chet Atkins song called Country Gentlemen ? from 1949. And a Sammi Smith ‘Help me make it through the night’ (Kristofferson written) from 1971. It will be interesting to see the time frame of the albums and changes in style. And whether they were traditional before becoming committed to recording.

    The intro to the albums vibe is too long to type here, but essentially the culture, emotion, the music of/for the workers, drifters and dreamers and the fact that it is the music of the soil and music of the soul is the summary.

    Once again. A great bunch of bathroom captures Bryan. Cheers.

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    1. Thanks so much! Honestly, £5 for that whole collection sounds like one hell of a thrift shop find. 😂 I love that you’re going to clean them up and actually listen through them properly. And having those old 45s in the background of your childhood makes it even more interesting to hear how some of those songs land for you now.

      I’m really curious what you make of the changes in style and the whole journey from the older country roots into what came later. There’s something pretty special about music that carries that much history with it.

      And as always, thanks for giving the bathroom captures a listen. Cheers, my friend.

      Oh and I love Chet Atkins!

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      1. Music is eclectic in this house Bryan. My grandson bought a 5 record collection of 78 rpm Beethoven vinyl yesterday from another Charity Shop. We have a wind up speaker gramophone out back. Not the trumpet kind, but a very antique sound nonetheless. So Classical has been playing this morning. We use different sized interchangeable steel needles on the vinyl. From fairly robust to really thin. They were there when we got gifted the player. So old 45s can be played too. Not sure I would use my decent singles though! There are about 200 various needles all sitting in a brass bowl that sits in a hole within the gramophone itself. Crackly, no volume knob to up or lower noise and with that old ‘listening at a distance’ vibe.

        You’re right. It will be interesting to listen again to those old country sounds.

        Cheers back to you too. 🙏🏽

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      2. Wow that’s so cool! I haven’t actually listened to vinyl since I was a kid probably… except like DJ’s scratching on duel turntables but that’s not the same haha

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      3. Vinyl has definitely made a huge comeback. It’s great for putting an album on the turntable and simply listening from start to finish. No switching in and out of songs after a short period of listening.

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