Do you feel inadequate, do you just feel out of touch, that you don’t know what’s going on, and when people play you new stuff you think it’s discordant and lousy?\u00c2\u00a0 Then you’re about to be rescued.\u00c2\u00a0 By Little Big Town.<\/p>\n
From: Tommy Daley<\/p>\n
\nBob- I don’t know if you’ve heard about this country band or not but they are the closest thing to Rumours era Fleetwood Mac I’ve ever heard. They are called LITTLE BIG TOWN. Bones is the name of this track. The album is great. I’m just a fan and thought you might dig this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Now Mac Mail embeds the MP3 right into the message, so I clicked the triangle to let the track play and I heard THE CHAIN!<\/p>\n
It might be hard to understand how big Neil Young was at the time of "Harvest", so big that he spawned an imitator, America.<\/p>\n
Now eventually America found its own sound.\u00c2\u00a0 Wimpy AM fodder that you wanted to shake from your sleeves.\u00c2\u00a0 But the debut was a distillation of the sound Neil Young evidenced on his early solo albums.<\/p>\n
America hit.\u00c2\u00a0 With "A Horse With No Name".\u00c2\u00a0 Vapid lyrics, but the right sound.\u00c2\u00a0 But on the album, there was that VIBE!\u00c2\u00a0 Just listen to "Sandman", it’s dark.<\/p>\n
This Little Big Town track "Bones" sounded SO much like "Rumours" era Fleetwood Mac that I was a bit creeped out.\u00c2\u00a0 It was as if someone had literally cloned the original group.\u00c2\u00a0 And when I found out there were two women and two men and relationship drama…<\/p>\n
Then I started investigating, and the resulting tracks I downloaded from their 2005 LP, "The Road To Here", were not imitation, they held their own, and they made me feel good.<\/p>\n
I went to college in the country.\u00c2\u00a0 That whole Paris Hilton thing, the hair, the makeup, the designer clothing, that didn’t wash in Vermont.\u00c2\u00a0 Where you had to endure the elements to get to your next class, to dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 It was not about sheen, what was on the outside, but who you truly were, what was on the INSIDE!\u00c2\u00a0 And when I started to listen to "Boondocks" I was reminded of nights at Mister Ups, down\u00c2\u00a0 by Otter Creek.<\/p>\n
The raging bar was the Alibi.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other side of the bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 At the Alibi, the jukebox ruled.\u00c2\u00a0 But at Mister Ups there was live entertainment.\u00c2\u00a0 The singer was Peter…\u00c2\u00a0 God, I looked him up in the early days of the Net, I suddenly can’t remember his last name.\u00c2\u00a0 But it doesn’t matter.\u00c2\u00a0 He wasn’t that good.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, his covers of James Taylor, et al, were good facsimiles, but his original material…it was a disappointment.\u00c2\u00a0 But the vibe…<\/p>\n
I can still remember that vibe.\u00c2\u00a0 Sipping on endless beers as you looked through the plate glass into the environment.\u00c2\u00a0 On Tuesday nights, I believe that was when Peter’s stop was in Middlebury, we’d trek down, oftentimes through blowing snow, but when you LIVE in the country the weather’s not an impediment.\u00c2\u00a0 You might stay home when it rains in L.A., but you still go if there is snow in Vermont, and upon arrival you stamp your boots on the floor of the overheated room and unwind your clothing thereafter, revealing the real you inside.<\/p>\n
I like a bludgeon record.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t live without "Back In Black", but too much of what passes for hip subsequent to Kurt Cobain assaults my exterior, but doesn’t penetrate.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven’t decamped for country,\u00c2\u00a0 but hearing Little Big Town I wonder if I’ve been out of the loop.<\/p>\n
From: Tommy Daley<\/p>\n
\nOn Nov 27, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Bob Lefsetz wrote:<\/p>\n
"You’re right, tell me more!"<\/p>\n
2 Girls and 2 Guys. I’d heard one of their songs on KZLA (before they flipped formats to pathetic) and it just sounded hillbilly but the sound stuck in my head. Then I saw them perform "Bones" on the CMA’s and they stole the show. They even looked like Fleetwood Mac. Dry ice all over the stage and spooky backdrops. They looked like the 70’s. So I went and got their album and the first 4 songs are great and the rest are pretty good. They have the country lyric cliche thing but damn they can sing and write melodies. I guess they are doing pretty well in the country world but there is nowhere to see or hear it in LA (#1 country sales market)<\/p>\n
I like them because they write and perform their own music. And they do it well. One of the guys just married one of the girls so it could be some fun drama down the road.<\/p>\n
Couldn’t find the CMA performance on You tube, but here is the aol session.<\/p>\n
Little Big Town – Bones (AOL Music Sessions)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Shit, they’d already made it and I was OUT OF THE LOOP??<\/p>\n
But in 2006 so many of us are out of the loop.\u00c2\u00a0 Top Forty isn’t the best forty tracks in the land, but the best pop and URBAN cuts.\u00c2\u00a0 And as much as we can’t deny a hit, a catchy song, we were schooled to like something deeper.\u00c2\u00a0 So, we’ve got nowhere to turn.\u00c2\u00a0 We just keep looking on and saying no, no, no, no to the mainstream.\u00c2\u00a0 We need to be turned on by buddies, we COUNT on our brethren to connect us.\u00c2\u00a0 We don’t believe in the filters, and we CERTAINLY don’t believe in the manufacturers.<\/p>\n
You can check out that AOL performance on YouTube, but I’d say to skip it.\u00c2\u00a0 It lacks a certain passion and energy, it’s like Little Big Town is afraid of fucking up.\u00c2\u00a0 But some of the user posted video…\u00c2\u00a0 You’ll get it.<\/p>\n
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