【鄉村月 Day 26】Rosanne Cash – Seven Year Ache、Gene Autry – The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946

Rosanne Cash – Seven Year Ache (1981)

It was the third album by Rosanne Cash, the daughter of country giant Johnny Cash and his first wife. I actually clicked on this a few times, but every time I listened to the first two songs "Rainin'" and the title track "Seven Year Ache", I turned the channel. In all fairness, they actually sound pretty good, especially the latter, which not only won the number one country singles chart, but even if the pop rock genre moves to the mainstream, it will be a big deal. But I just can't get used to listening to it from a country perspective, and I wonder how an album that is so popular and not so country music can be a country classic and even make multiple charts!

Finally, I listened patiently, starting from the third song "Blue Moon with Heartache", it finally wafted out of the country flavor and continued to the end of the album, I don't understand why it was so popular. It is also said that popularization is the trend of the times. Don't you see that the Neotraditional country is rapidly forming a trend at that time. I talked about it on Day 8 . But obviously Rosanne Cash is more popular, this is the style dominated by her husband and producer Rodney Crowell. But the good times don't last, and Rodney's habit of playing with flowers makes her very sad, so she writes the pain of deception in the title song. Their marriage, which began two years before the album's release, dragged on for 11 years.

The two champion songs in the album were both written by Rosanne. They are the third song "Blue Moon with Heartache" and the title song to redeem me. It can be seen that what Jiangmenhunu said is true and paved a path for later country pop artists. The golden road to the wider market.

Gene Autry – The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946 (1992)

Yesterday I talked about Webb Pierce 's childhood fondness for Gene Autry, and today I will listen to this country patriarch who is as important as Jimmie Rodgers . Gene Autry also started out by imitating Jimmie's singing style in the early years. Since the 1930s, he has been singing cowboy and western songs. He even showed people directly in the image of western cowboys, and performed on the radio program he hosted and became very popular. At the same time, he also acts in movies, and is good at playing the tough guy role in Western movies who sings while throwing guns. The title of "singing cowboy" is named after him, which is very commensurate with his image. The big screen romanticized cowboy culture and assisted in the expansion of western music. Gene Autry flourished and became popular throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

After the rise of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, cowboy songs fell out of favor, and Gene Autry went to host a TV show and became one of the first stars to appear on TV. After the 1960s, he became more ambitious, started business, acquired radio, television and film production companies, became a media mogul, and in 1961 founded a major league team, the 2002 World Series champion, the Los Angeles Angels.

He recorded 640 songs in his life, half of which he wrote or co-wrote, and is quite good at writing. The film has performed 93 films, with a combination of audio and video, all-round development, and its influence in the United States is far-reaching. It has also become the only film, TV, radio, music, and live performance on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Stars' artist.

This collection features 18 of his most iconic pieces from his musical heyday from 1933 to 1946, including, of course, his signature classic—his autobiography and eponymous—"Back in the Saddles Again." Oh yes, Aerosmith's song with a similar name has nothing to do with this song, and there is no "Again" in the title~