New to Bass :P

[Michedelic]

Down here they do. Same with "Wagon Wheel."

The country bands I go to see play Hank, Ray, Buck, Merle, Waylon, Patsy, Tammy, and sometimes Emmylou. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone play PPL.

 

[Michedelic]

Funny how the better songs are avoided at all costs.

While I have no idea why those tunes in particular have been singled out as the perpetual butt of the jokes about overplayed songs here(but it still gets a laugh), there’s nothing exceptional about them either. Or “Strange Brew” for that matter. I frequent actual blues bars often, and the last thing those audiences want to hear is some watered down British version of the genre.

 

[GretschWretch]

The country bands I go to see play Hank, Ray, Buck, Merle, Waylon, Patsy, Tammy, and sometimes Emmylou. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone play PPL.

Historically, PPL was a part of that Texas-centric outlaw country music of the early 1970s: Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clarke, Steve Fromholz, Michael Martin Murphy, et al. Emmylou and perhaps Nanci Griffith could be included here as well, as could Waylon and Willie.

I hear almost none of that around here. The trend is to that modern formalized Nashville music which I refuse to dignify by calling it country. And I have three friends who are contract songwriters in Nashville and way back in the day I did a few open mikes with Riley Greene, and I still don't like the music.

 

[Jeff Scott]

The country bands I go to see play Hank, Ray, Buck, Merle, Waylon, Patsy, Tammy, and sometimes Emmylou. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone play PPL.

A friend of mine and I did a bunch of PPL songs in the mid '70s. We were a (mostly) acoustic duo; he sang and played 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, and I played 6-string acoustic guitar, mountain dulcimer, and electric bass (the '67 4005WB).