Author: Alan Ashworth

The great lounge lizard’s recording of a 1938 classic, complete with cool video.

Last of Matt’s country-on-country season and it’s a belter. He says: ‘Steve Goodman and an uncredited John Prine sat down to write the perfect country song and delivered this 1975 … Continue readingDavid Allan Coe: You Never Even Called Me By My Name

Sez Matt: ‘The Texan singer turned cowboy poet celebrates two of the state’s top exports in this western swinger from 1976.’

‘Emmylou had a 1975 hit with Buck’s 60s classic Together Again,’ says Matt. ‘Four years later they got together to sing this beautiful song about that beautiful song (if you … Continue readingBuck Owens and Emmylou Harris: Play Together Again, Again

According to Matt, ‘the gravel-voiced Floridian may have had yesterday’s Moe Bandy tearjerker in mind when he put this on his 1980 debut album’.

Matt says: ‘Magnificent Moe’s at his most maudlin on this classic from 1973.’

Continuing his series of country songs about country music, Matt says: ‘The Oklahoma-born singer-songwriter drowns her sorrows ‘a quarter at a time’ listening to George Jones in this slice of … Continue readingBecky Hobbs: Jones on the Jukebox

Another short season of selections from our friend Matt is long overdue. This time his theme is country songs about country music. He says:‘Nashville’s probably more obsessed with its own … Continue readingJunior Brown: My Baby Don’t Dance To Nothing But Ernest Tubb