{"id":48,"date":"2005-04-25T17:39:18","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T23:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-04-25T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T01:18:53","slug":"hard-knox-and-durty-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/hard-knox-and-durty-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"HARD KNOX AND DURTY SOX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nope, no mis-spelling…… This is from the liner notes of the album that would be my answer to the old question of,”If you were stranded on a deserted island with no hope of rescue and you had your choice of only one music album to listen to, what would it be?”…..<\/p>\n

I’d be interested in other people’s choices – BUT, there are parameters: (1) Only individual albums by a single group….. (2) Can be more than one record\/disc if the album was originally issued that way, BUT, (3) No “Greatest Hits”, “Various Artists”, or compilations….. Definitely (4) No 500 song MP3 discs…. (5) You MUST like EVERY track on the album – The only way the album can be played is from start to finish – No skipping tracks….., And, (6) It must give you the same tingly, goose-bumpy, spirit-lifting feeling every time – just like the first time you ever heard it…… Makes that coconut soup taste great!….. S-o-o-o, give it a lot of thought….. Not just an “off-hand” answer, or the latest album you’ve just been listening to….. Let’s see if we can come up with a list of “Kick-Butt” music and check-out everybody’s musical tastes at the same time…..<\/p>\n

Talkin’ ’bout the album I selected…. I was goin’ to make a guessin’ game…. Yeah, Tellin’ ’bout the album I decided….. To you I’m sure it’s all insane…<\/em>
\n(Sung to the tune of “Midnight Rambler”, the song from which I took my user name, “MRambler”…. Before the web, BBS’s, and the internet, I used it as my “handle” on the CB…. Tellin’ my age now…)<\/p>\n

If you haven’t figured it out by now, the album is Let It Bleed<\/a> by The Rolling Stones…. Please click on the link and at least read the first two spotlight reviews….. I think you will find them interesting to say the least….. <\/p>\n

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I personally have listened to this album hundreds of times and it still raises the old goose-bumps everytime and meets all the parameters I specified above….. Every song is great and there are a vast number of guest musicians including a fellow Oklahoman, Byron Berline<\/a> who plays Fiddle on the countrified version of their hit “Honky Tonk Woman” which is named “Country Honk” on the album…..<\/p>\n

According to what I heard, Byron recorded his part on a street corner and the car honking that you hear in the song was a natural occurance and was left in the recording….. Byron moved back to Oklahoma in ’95, settled in Guthrie, and now owns and runs The DoubleStop FiddleShop and Music Hall<\/a>…. He most recently played the memorial concert last Friday (22APR05) for the Oklahoma City Bombing…. Check out the links, he’s played with the best and has lots of great albums available with his band….<\/p>\n

I have an old UK Decca vinyl copy of “Let It Bleed” that I’m going to dig out and hopefully get him to autograph it for me…..<\/p>\n

“THIS RECORD SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD” – another liner note in large bold type…….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nope, no mis-spelling…… This is from the liner notes of the album that would be my answer to the old question of,”If you were stranded on a deserted island with no hope of rescue and you had your choice of only one music album to listen to, what would it be?”….. I’d be interested in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}