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Long Gone Lonesome Blues (Cover), Greg Trooper (H. Williams) Greg Trooper covers Hank Williams Jr.'s Long Gone Lonesome Blues to kick off 2008 in the (More) Greg Trooper covers Hank Williams Jr.'s Long Gone Lonesome Blues to kick off 2008 in the BloomBox House Concert series. Here he slips in some country yodeling and yes, it was worth the wait for it and the encore. Read more about the concert at the first Trooper/BloomBox youtube I posted, When My Tears Break Thru. In this song, Troop covers Hank but Troop has also been covered by some heavy hitters as well including an artist once hailed as the next Hank--Steve Earle--with many Billboard charted songs. Steve had this to say about "his" Little Sister on the Floating liner notes on Greg's album. It comes from someone else who writes almost all of his own songs, with Troop and a select few being rare exceptions. This tidbit from Steve's website raves about Greg and a few of his songs like Muhammed Ali and the meaning of Christmas, which Troop treated us to during the concert... === from steveearle.net Greg Trooper: Floating By Steve Earle I'm what they call a singer-songwriter. That either means that my gift is primarily literary and that if I didn't write songs no one would pay to hear me sing or that my songs are so weird that no one else will sing 'em, leaving me no option except to do it myself -- or maybe both. Having been hyphenated at a tender age, I have rarely covered other people's songs. I write a lot and my own studio records usually contain some thread (sometimes so thin that only I can follow it) that holds them together, somehow. Covers are out of the question for me in that arena. Forget about the soundtracks and the tribute records. Those types of projects have agendas of their own. For me the covers that really count are the ones that I do in live shows because they are the songs that I sing because I wish I had written them, myself. The list of songs is relatively short considering how long I've been doing this. The list of writers is even shorter: Bill Monroe, Jimmy Driftwood, Johnny Cash, Joe Maphis, Rose Lee Maphis and Max Fidler, Jagger and Richards, Lennon and McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, Lowell George, Kurt Cobain, Townes Van Zandt, Doug Sahm, Jay Farrar, Brain Henneman, Terry Adams and GREG TROOPER. I met Troop at the Lone Star Café in New York in the summer of 1986. I was hammered when I got there and in even worse shape when I left. When I came to on an airplane halfway back to Nashville the next day, the only thing I could remember was one amazing song call Little Sister. I never forgot it. I called my manager the next day and had him send me a copy of Troop's record and I discovered that not only were there a lot of other great songs on it, but to add insult to injury he was also a GREAT singer, which if you ask me is a slap in the face of the whole hyphenated ethic. But it was Little Sister that made me jealous. I learned it and I sang it for audiences and sometimes while I was up there singin' it I would pretend, just for that three minutes, mind you, that I'd written it myself. Last year I taped a TV show with Troop and some other songwriters sitting around in a circle singing songs and Troop played Muhammed Ali... and I immediately went home and learned it. That's two, Troop. — Steve Earle, Indianapolis, IN ("I think"), February 2003 ©2003 Steve Earle === end steveearle.net excerpt 16-FEB-2008 LONG GONE LONESOME BLUES By Hank Williams Jr. Performed by Greg Trooper Hosted by BloomBox House Concerts/ANGRYLaughter Be sure to pick up any of Greg's CDs and surf related info at: gregtrooper.com steveearle.net bloomboxhouseconcerts.blogspot.com angrylaughter.com monstertracks.net tangtechphoto.com P.S. I try to leave a little front/end matter on these to please both the ppl interested in the song and the ppl curious about (and maybe attending or performing at future) house concerts. (Less)
Long Gone Lonesome Blues (Cover), Greg Trooper (H. Williams) Greg Trooper covers Hank Williams Jr.'s Long Gone Lonesome Blues to kick off 2008 in the (More) Greg Trooper covers Hank Williams Jr.'s Long Gone Lonesome Blues to kick off 2008 in the BloomBox House Concert series. Here he slips in some country yodeling and yes, it was worth the wait for it and the encore. Read more about the concert at the first Trooper/BloomBox youtube I posted, When My Tears Break Thru. In this song, Troop covers Hank but Troop has also been covered by some heavy hitters as well including an artist once hailed as the next Hank--Steve Earle--with many Billboard charted songs. Steve had this to say about "his" Little Sister on the Floating liner notes on Greg's album. It comes from someone else who writes almost all of his own songs, with Troop and a select few being rare exceptions. This tidbit from Steve's website raves about Greg and a few of his songs like Muhammed Ali and the meaning of Christmas, which Troop treated us to during the concert...
=== from steveearle.net
Greg Trooper: Floating
By Steve Earle
I'm what they call a singer-songwriter. That either means that my gift is primarily literary and that if I didn't write songs no one would pay to hear me sing or that my songs are so weird that no one else will sing 'em, leaving me no option except to do it myself -- or maybe both. Having been hyphenated at a tender age, I have rarely covered other people's songs. I write a lot and my own studio records usually contain some thread (sometimes so thin that only I can follow it) that holds them together, somehow. Covers are out of the question for me in that arena. Forget about the soundtracks and the tribute records. Those types of projects have agendas of their own. For me the covers that really count are the ones that I do in live shows because they are the songs that I sing because I wish I had written them, myself. The list of songs is relatively short considering how long I've been doing this. The list of writers is even shorter: Bill Monroe, Jimmy Driftwood, Johnny Cash, Joe Maphis, Rose Lee Maphis and Max Fidler, Jagger and Richards, Lennon and McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, Lowell George, Kurt Cobain, Townes Van Zandt, Doug Sahm, Jay Farrar, Brain Henneman, Terry Adams and GREG TROOPER.
I met Troop at the Lone Star Café in New York in the summer of 1986. I was hammered when I got there and in even worse shape when I left. When I came to on an airplane halfway back to Nashville the next day, the only thing I could remember was one amazing song call Little Sister. I never forgot it.
I called my manager the next day and had him send me a copy of Troop's record and I discovered that not only were there a lot of other great songs on it, but to add insult to injury he was also a GREAT singer, which if you ask me is a slap in the face of the whole hyphenated ethic. But it was Little Sister that made me jealous. I learned it and I sang it for audiences and sometimes while I was up there singin' it I would pretend, just for that three minutes, mind you, that I'd written it myself.
Last year I taped a TV show with Troop and some other songwriters sitting around in a circle singing songs and Troop played Muhammed Ali... and I immediately went home and learned it.
That's two, Troop.
— Steve Earle, Indianapolis, IN ("I think"), February 2003
©2003 Steve Earle
=== end steveearle.net excerpt
16-FEB-2008
LONG GONE LONESOME BLUES
By Hank Williams Jr.
Performed by Greg Trooper
Hosted by BloomBox House Concerts/ANGRYLaughter
Be sure to pick up any of Greg's CDs and surf related info at:
gregtrooper.com
steveearle.net
bloomboxhouseconcerts.blogspot.com
angrylaughter.com
monstertracks.net
tangtechphoto.com
P.S. I try to leave a little front/end matter on these to please both the ppl interested in the song and the ppl curious about (and maybe attending or performing at future) house concerts. (Less)
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