How's about a Setzer country album?

I'm not the biggest country fan in the world but everytime Brian does a country song, I love it.
'Gentle on my mind' is a superb song in my book and Brian could do a studio cover that would for sure stand next to Glenn Campbell's or Elvis's. I always loved 'Broken man' off the Rock Therapy lp as well.

It got me thinkin' that he would record an absolutly brilliant country album, would he ever have the desire to do so.

Or is it just me?

If it's not, what songs would you like him to cover?

DP's 9 to 5

Hehe, nahhh ummm.. I'm not sure.. Brian can make any song awesome.. a country album would be cool.


Kid.

Gentle On My Mind...when i saw him do his version in Glasgow,i thought it would be cool to do a country/blue grass album.

Foggy Mountain in deed.

That would be great. We already know he loves country music. He picks a mean banjo. I could see a reved up rockabilly/country album with some banjo, honkey tonk piano and pedal steel. He could also make a mean Jazz trio or quartet album. But I bet we're much more likely to see these loved influences to just keep making small appearances in his regular solo albums. Which is great. I love how diverse the solo albums are.

Speaking of albums, I really hope there's still plans on a Rockabilly Riot volume 2.

Kid Setzer wrote:

DP's 9 to 5
Kid.

Admit it Kid, you're actually serious about this!

Hellvis wrote:

Kid Setzer wrote:

DP's 9 to 5
Kid.

Admit it Kid, you're actually serious about this!

Haha Hellvis! I reckon it would be a fun tune!


Kid.

Dolly picks a pretty good banjo herself... I can see the duet now...!

Only half-joking-billy

thats a cool idea! Like the Blues Brothers said in the movie" country and.....western"
There are so many open things to imagine....Setzer & / Albert Lee / John Fogerty / Mark knopfler /Edmunds /Hank Marvin/ Joe Walsh / me ;-)) /and anyother cool constelation would makes me happy... i´m sure any kind of that will happen in the future......let wait and hear!

go cats go

see u

A duet between LeAnn Rimes and Brian
That will be great

Rockabilly

I always thought IGNITION was a pretty solid country album. Actually, it may be a little TOO country for pop-country radio, or what passes for "country" these days. And Rockabilly Riot could have EASILY existed on some form of country radio in the past.

That said, I'm all for a "Setzer Goes Country" album, maybe with Pete Anderson producing. He could even work in a little BSO sound on a track or two, (ala Lyle Lovett and His Large Band). That'd be awesome. Yeeee-har!

Some ideas like :

- A tribute to Hank Williams
- The Barbwire Fence (part 2)

Brian and Dwight Yoakam could be a cool show. Double live album on vinyl only.

Maybe he & Julie can do a duet album of Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn songs

PPK

I think Workin Man Blues would sound great Setzerized! Very honkytonkabilly.

The Cat's Grand Ole Opry gig was a blast, I think it was Skunk Baxter on the pedal steel, they had a great country sound, Looking Better Every Beer sounded terrific. IU think that style of country album would fly off the shelves.

There are so many really great country songs, going back to Hank Williams, or even as far back as the Carter Family, that he wouldn't even have to write any original stuff, a la Rockabilly Riot. How about these:

Good Hearted Woman (Waylon)
It's Only Make Believe (Conway Twitty)
Hey Good Lookin/Your Cheatin' Heart/Cold Cold Heart, etc. (Hank)
He'll Have to Go (Jim Reeves)
Big John (Jimmy Dean)
I Fall to Pieces (Patsy Cline)
Walkin the Floor Over You (Ernest Tubb)
Dueling Banjos (versus himself!)
White Lightning/The Race Is On/The Grand Tour (George Jones)
Flowers on the Wall (Statler Bros.)

I was raised in a country music household, so I do know my oldies fairly well...anything after, say, the Oak Ridge Boys or Alabama, and I have no idea!

So, anyway...add to the list!

Twang on,
Bear85

too obvious, not very original choices, some even boring ones. I would not buy that.

sidelakebob wrote:

Brian and Dwight Yoakam could be a cool show. Double live album on vinyl only.

Ditto....
Rob

This is a great idea, this is the kind of music I acrually buy, when people kinda go off and do something interesting instead of following the same old rut of pop music. It would be cool to see the B covering traditional country and record with the original artist if they are still alive. Hearing Brian trade licks with Willie Nelson would be a trip.

Twang On

Flattop Rob wrote:

sidelakebob wrote:

Brian and Dwight Yoakam could be a cool show. Double live album on vinyl only.

Ditto....
Rob

Two fantastic artists, Can`t be wrong.

I would buy that!!!

What about long gone lonesome blues by Hank??I love that song!!!
Oldgreenteeth.

EskimoPie wrote:

Dolly picks a pretty good banjo herself... I can see the duet now...!

Only half-joking-billy

hey Buff

Bet he'd do a great version of 9 to 5 y'know!

Mikey xx

It's a shame Brian's not bothered about fame and fortune etc (LOL) cos, like Robert Plant has teamed up with Alison Kraus, wouldn't a Brian and Amy Winehouse collaboration work sooo welll???

Whilst i'm on the subject, when do we all think that the Zutons, or Arctics or the like will cover Runaway Boys????


Come on guys, you know EXACTLY what i'm talkin' about! I mean, how valid is that song today???

However, us Yorkshire folk never heard of a lunceonette, it'd have to be modified a little:

get kicked out for comin' 'ome reight late
mom and dad gimme such a freight
throw tha cloes in' tut adidas bag
shoutin' as tha slams do-er - whole bits a drag

We're can a gu tu
we're can a stae
i'n 'eard a place that's oppen all neight an' all day
There's a place tha can gu, we're cops dun't know
THa can act reight wild, thi dun't treat thi like a child

Yorkshire Boys

Thee 'airs all greasy and tha feels like a slob
only 43 and tha dun't wanna job
nip int'ut cafe and 'ave agame o' pool
all me cash got nicked by a scouse from Li'pool
Nick a couple o' quid to gerra new toy
Slip int;ut alley w'it yorkshire Boys

Runnin' faster. faster all't time
Thy art jailbait, tha kno-as that's a crime

Yorkshire Boys

(with apologies to Sir Brian of Setzerville, Viscount James of McDonnelldom, and Lord Leon of Drucker Central)

How about "Take This Job and Shove It"?