Our love for pedal steel guitar will never end and this is yet another mix drenched in that sad and lonesome sound of the magical instrument. The summer holiday is over, but there is a definite warm breeze of soft focus on a couple of these tracks.
I've been hooked on Three Dog Night's version of Never Been to Spain for a while now. I remember first hearing the Waylon Jennings version when I first started to discover the great sounds of country and western. This version is a favourite though and I got reminded of it via a live-clip by the great CRB. One of my favourite bands, and a great source of brilliant and heady songs from the heyday of country rock and related headiness.
There is no specific theme to this mix, but I sense that I've been having some sort of nostalgia at the end of summer because this is a soundtrack for those long hot nights and lazy mornings. Mostly old classics like Terry Reid, Chris Darrow, Manassas and Humble Pie but also a new favourite in the outstanding guitarist/songwriter Joe Bourdet. I first heard his beautiful guitar sound with Painted Hills and Whispering Pines. He released a classic sounding seven-inch last year, hopefully there will be an album soon. Brilliant stuff.
Brilliant is also a fitting word for Help Yourself and their song Your Eyes Are Looking Down. A hidden gem if I ever heard one.
So help yourself to some good times.
- Stian
||| Three Dog Night - Never Been to Spain | Terry Reid - Dean | West - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues | Chris Darrow - Shawnee Moon | Steely Dan - Pearl of the Quarter | Crazy Horse - Outside Lookin' In | Joe Bourdet - El Capitan | Manassas - Colorado | Humble Pie - Down Home Again | Help Yourself - Your Eyes Are Looking Down | The Outlaws - Song in the Breeze |||
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Innlandet Hestejazz Society is a moniker that my good friend David Jønsson and me use when we are dj'ing around Oslo. Though to call it dj'ing might be an overstatement, we play records and have a good time. As crate diggers and heads we were drawn to the country-rock and the flying freak flags when we met behind the counter of a record store many years ago. Moonshine Blends are mixes of tunes we would have played in bars, but since we are confined to our own living rooms we are putting them up on the net for everyones pleasure. So tune in for some vibey west coast, hillbilly hobnobs, no-depression and blue collar country. Jerry Garcia, Johnny Paycheck and Jeff Tweedy hand in hand. Keep on truckin'!
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