Lyric of The Week - Blake Mills

Blake Mills
"It'll All Work Out"

I don't feel a speck of hate
really now I'm trying to get my story straight
when you called me from the car when you were on your way
with your friend from San Francisco
that you told me was gay
well I guess he was a closet-straight
get it all out now
it'll work out

my mother was the youngest child
college education was never her style
but she knew just how to make a quarterback smile
it'll all work out

my father loved us right
stayed up at night trying to keep the
check book tighter than a ducks ass
going down a water slide
oh I know he tried
became a victim of the mortgage spike
collections calling every night since 1999
in ten more years you'd think the interest rates decline
it'll all work out

Blake Mills' Daytrotter Session
http://www.myspace.com/africadabra

Lyric of The Week

Paul Simon
"I Do It For Your Love"

We were married on a rainy day
The sky was yellow
And the grass was gray
We signed the papers
And we drove away
I do it for your love

The rooms were musty
And the pipes were old
All that winter we shared a cold
Drank all the orange juice
That we could hold
I do it for your love

Found a rug
In an old junk shop
And I brought it home to you
Along the way the colors ran
The orange bled the blue

The sting of reason
The splash of tears
The northern and the southern
Hemisphere
Love emerges and it disappears
I do it for your love
I do it for your love

Lyric of the Week

Bill Anderson

"My Life (throw it away if I want to)"

I've tried to plant my feet and stay with you
but all I feel is roots grow
and what man wants a woman
who won't satisfy his heart and soothe his ego

I sleep all day and run all night
and you tell me that ain't right
That ain't what the husbands of your friends do
But it's my life and I'll throw it away if I want to

Lyric of The Week

Blaze Foley

"Rainbows and Ridges"

"Interstate highways and buses and planes

they only take horses down memory lanes

if everything passes what past will remain"

Jonny Corndawg interviews Billy Joe Shaver

A few months back I teamed up with Davis from American Songwriter Magazine to go interview Billy Joe Shaver in Chattanooga. It's taken a while to restore the audio and edit this but here it is!

BILLY JOE SHAVER! from Kornman on Vimeo.

---------------------------------The Star in My Heart

I Couldn't Be Me Without You

One of the best love songs ever sung. Written by Billy Joe Shaver for his wife Brenda Shaver.
Ive heard him sing this song several times and he always does it a'capella. He does a wonderful job but I really love the melodic guitar accompaniment in this YouTube version. The singer is singing the song to a cat which we can only guess is no longer with us. The video gives no unneeded explanation to the well being of his furry friend and the recording is pretty good (considering it's a slide show video).
Well worth blogging about I plan on trying my best to extract the audio from this track and look forward to numerous mix tapes with this as a hit amongst friends.
Please enjoy Joseph Cormier's version of "I Couldn't Be Me Without You"

Lyric of The Week

Lyric of The Week - Jimmy Cousins "I believe that a fool has got more sense than the wisest sages, cause a fool does just what he's cut out for and never gets in no cages, my life story got wrote by the good Lord and I'm just turning the pages, striking out for a home where the road becomes the sky" Fools and Sages

Joe Diffie - Honky Tonk Attitude

Classic - Honky Tonk Attitude 1993
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAYDHpF0fEI

Clint Black - Killin' Time

This may be my favorite album of the 90's. I think it was actually released in 1989 but it really changed the pace of 80's overproduced-garbage-country. This is a throwback album with real stripped down production, unlike Nashville at the time. This album came straight out of Houston. Clint Black's debut album, he wrote every song on here!!! I might add that they are all really good songs.
Video for Killin' Time - notice how out of time his strum is with the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU_ow7LmHwY

Keith Whitley - Hard Livin' Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b37HVU9Xx5Q

Tracy Byrd - No Ordinary Man

Watermelon Crawl!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG76egCZXfo&feature=fvw

Aaro Tippin- You've Got to Stand for Something

You've Got to Stand for Something or You'll Fall for Anything!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hja0XND8Ms

Lyric of The Week- Jimmy Walker "The Legend of Skull Lake"

Lyric of The Week - "by the buzzard roost and the gator creek where the white man's life has little worth/ there's a sacred place to the red man where the earth around him shakes/ there's a hole in the middle of the quaking earth/ they call this place SKULL LAKE" From Skull Lake written by Jimmy Walker from the album Swamp Country

Billy Joe Shaver - Old Five and Dimers Like Me

Billy Joe Shaver's first album. Produced by Kris Kristofferson.

Billy Joe Shaver - Restless Wind

One of the best albums known to man.

Lyric of The Week - Billy Edd Wheeler

Lyric of The Week - Billy Edd Wheeler "Blistered"

"I got great big blisters on my blood shot eyes from looking at that long legged female up ahead. What she does simply walking down the sidewalks of the city makes me think about some stray cat getting fed /She's got a whole lott'a motion in her soul I know but her soul's not the place she let's it show/SHE'S got a body/she's got a motion she's gonna get me she gonna burn me she gonna tear my soul apart put big blisters on my heart, what a mighty crazy cookin' way to go"

Blistered by Billy Edd Wheeler

John Anderson - Seminole Wind

Feb. 1997
















Video for Seminole Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGoBQIhyFFM

John Michael Montgomery

Label: Atlantic
Released: 3/28/95


I like this album - a quintessential 90's country album. Good production, evident of a new decade, somewhat overdone but not nearly as bad as it would have been had it been recorded 10 years earlier. Best songs are 'Sold - The Grundy County Auction' and 'I Swear'. I think he may get the award for one of the weirdest/stupidest videos of all time - must watch until the end to understand.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/773471/3302519