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Topic: OT-- What song's on your mind right now?
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MrNubbz · « **Reply #3360 on:** March 11, 2026, 10:27:25 PM »

Local College Station cranking out some Gems - I'm not familiar with but inclined to give a listen

Rock Roots, Rockabilly and Branches. If it Twangs, Jumps,Boogies and Woogies you'll find it here.

Listen to this Rockabilly Blues and surf sound meets the munsters theme

https://youtu.be/497ZmAsGAT4?list=RD497ZmAsGAT4

utee94 · « **Reply #3361 on:** March 11, 2026, 11:31:42 PM »

Junior Brown is a treasure. He's not originally from Texas but he's lived and played here in Austin since the 90s. I've seen him play probably 10 or 12 times, always a fantastic show.

MrNubbz · « **Reply #3362 on:** March 12, 2026, 06:49:10 AM »

If he ever wanders past these parts I'll be in line

utee94 · « **Reply #3363 on:** March 12, 2026, 08:49:11 AM »

He's a pretty darn good picker. This is one of my faves for just listening to him go to town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDQRtvu2sXc

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #3364 on:** March 12, 2026, 09:09:17 AM »

Quote from: utee94 on March 11, 2026, 12:03:46 PM

Yup that's on the album version, which of course I own. It always made me mad it wasn't on the radio release or video release. Brilliant work.

I don't have the album, but that song was just kinda always around while I was growing up. Probably radio, maybe I saw a music video, don't remember. Then one day when I was in college I was laying in bed almost asleep, with the radio on, and they played the full version. The different ending jumped out at me because I knew I'd heard that song a hundred times before, but never heard that. It jolted me fully awake, but because of the dreamy state I'd been in, it left me wondering did I really hear that, or did I dream it?

The next day I talked to one of my buddies, the main guitarist I was playing with back then, and asked him about that song, did it have a "secret" ending, and if he'd ever heard it. He stared at me blankly for a few seconds, and then with a look and a tone that might as well have patted me on the head, scratched me behind the ears, and patronizingly cooed "Good boy! Yes you are a good boy!" at me, he proceeded to tell me, yes, the guy's name is Nuno Bettencourt, it is the "real" ending to the song, and he is a well-known commodity amongst serious guitar players.

I don't remember if he actually shook his head at me and said "Let's don't ever tell anybody you didn't know this, okay?" as he walked away, but that's what it felt like.

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #3365 on:** March 12, 2026, 09:16:47 AM »

Quote from: utee94 on March 12, 2026, 08:49:11 AM

He's a pretty darn good picker. This is one of my faves for just listening to him go to town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDQRtvu2sXc

I don't ever seek out that kind of music, but I like it when I hear it and I don't rush to turn it off. Reminds me of a lot of the older musicians I grew up around in Louisiana. This is the kind of stuff I had to learn to play when they gave me some of my first gigs. It always seemed to draw a sort of scorn from the hard rock crowd, but imo there's quite a talent level on display with people who can do that stuff. Chicken-pickin', as I call it, is no joke, and the guitar players I've known through the years, whether they do that stuff or not, seem united in the opinion that guys like Junior Brown are monster players whether you can bang your head to it or not. I don't play much guitar, but those guys would know. One thing I can say, the brush work on the snare line that makes up the main drum part on this song, which is so common in that kind of music, is also a lot harder than it sounds. At least to do it right. Always seemed to me that a lot of folks underestimated the chops these players actually have.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3366 on:** March 12, 2026, 10:36:24 AM »

yup, I really enjoy that type of music

youtube knows this and shuffles it into my rotation regularly

FearlessF · « **Reply #3367 on:** **Today** at 11:53:35 AM »

We can safely say that the 1980s were a time of massive, hooky arena bands riffing and romping their way through an endless ocean of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Big chords, big choruses, and flashy showmanship were in, and subdued songcraft was out. This is the scene into which AC/DC stepped, a band perfectly tailored for and from its time, starting with its 1975 Australia-only debut, "High Voltage." In 1979, it released "Highway to Hell" from its album of the same name, a song that exemplified rock history's transition into the '80s.

In terms of function (revelry) and form (mostly chorus), "Highway to Hell" stands in not just for other rock-out tracks from 1979 (such as "I Was Made for Lovin' You" by Kiss and "Dance the Night Away" by Van Halen), but basically any other AC/DC track. The song's lyrics summarize the entirety of AC/DC's catalogue and also the rock decade to come: "Don't need reason, don't need rhyme / Ain't nothin' I'd rather do / Goin' down, party time / My friends are gonna be there too, yeah." That's pretty much it.

Okay, there was a bit more going on behind the scenes with "Highway to Hell." Focusing on groove and rhythm over other aspects of songwriting, producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange wrung as much from the track as possible (and went on to work with bands like Def Leppard). Then there was the response from the band's American record label, which freaked out about the word "hell" in the title — pre-1980's Satanic Panic, mind you. Even this kind of lip-pursed response amongst certain sectors of the public jives with rock's history.

https://youtu.be/l482T0yNkeo

Read More: https://www.grunge.com/2119238/songs-1979-define-rock-history/