I don’t know why I am surprised that whenever I watch Austin City Limits I find another band I had never heard of, and I love their music.
I saw that the Los Lonely Boys were going to be on last Suturday, and since The Meester has fallen in love with his “ta-tar” (guitar), I thought that he would should see some of the best guitar music I’ve heard in a long time.
After we watched rocked out to Los Lonely Boys a band called the Gourds were up next. Wow. What a bunch of great good ole’ redneck feel good music.
From their website:Austin, Texas’ The Gourds have never been much on sentiment. Since the band started defining Gourds Music, as it has come to be known, … they have chugged through America fueled by music and a near-pathological need for a good time. And while songwriters Kevin Russell and Jimmy Smith have written the most dense, reference-laden country songs of the last 10 years and almost single-handedly made a place for deep thought in a genre of “Honky Tonk Badonkadonks” they have, for the most part, shied away from the tear-in-my-beer ballads that made country music a commercial powerhouse over the last 50 years.
You got that right. Here’s my favorite new song of the week…The Lower 48.
Soon to be appearing on T-Shirts and bumper Stickers throughout the greater KTOWN and surrounding areas…
KNOXVILLE…STICK AROUND. YOU’LL GET IT.
With 19 total votes cast, Knoxville’s new slogan (#5) just beat out the closest competitor by just 1 vote…7 to 6. An honorable mention goes out to #1 in a distant 3rd place with 3 votes.
Thanks for participating in the contest and you can order your T-shirts and bumper stickers here.
Thanks for castig your vote, sending in your comments, and I hope this proved to those outsiders that us locals not only have a sense of humor about our little laid back part of the world, but also you’ve got to live here a while to appreciate the flavor of KTOWN.
(NOTE: Knoxville’s new slogan “KNOXVILLE…STICK AROUND. YOU’LL GET IT.” is a trademark of KTOWNLOWDOWN.COM and any reproduction or unauthorized use of the slogan…oh I’m just kidding. Feel free to use it all you want. My gift to you Knoxville. Enjoy.
But, alas, they had no idea just who would come — youthful Wiffle ball players, yes, but also angry neighbors and their lawyer, the police, the town nuisance officer and tree warden and other officials in all shapes and sizes. It turns out that one kid’s field of dreams is an adult’s dangerous nuisance, liability nightmare, inappropriate usurpation of green space, unpermitted special use or drag on property values, and their Wiffle-ball Fenway has become the talk of Greenwich and a suburban Rorschach test about youthful summers past and present.
Best line from the article:
“They think we’re a cult,” said Jeff Currivan, 17. “People think we should be home playing ‘Grand Theft Auto.’ ”
Yeah, don’t these kids know that playing outside is so 20th century.
I know you’ve been checking back to see if your NEW SLOGAN FOR KNOXVILLE has made the cut…oh wait you haven’t submitted your slogan yet? No worries…you still have time.
Submit your slogan by this Friday the 11th (midnight). Voting will be held the following week with the winning slogan and prizes and fame will follow.
Here are the entries to date:
Knoxville–City of Big Balls
KNOXVILLE: Home of the Sunsphere!. . and No I don’t know what’s in it!
Knoxville: The great city of the almost
Knoxville would be snoozeville without the Heartland Series
“Knoxville…. meh.”
Knoxville….You know what I mean.
Knoxville? Why?
Knoxville: James Agee, Cas, Preacher Mull, and you!
It was good for Dolly Parton…It was good for Tarantino…It was good for Pat Head Summit…And it’s good enough for me.
KTOWN has gone green and we are influencing our entire community here in SoKno (”south Knoxville” for those not in the Kno).
Now don’t get me wrong, we aren’t separating glass and plastic from the rest of our trash, we aren’t composting, we turn the flood lights on in the evening and sometimes forget to turn them off all day, we use lots of electricity to run the filter for the above ground pool, and we cut down as many trees as possible and burn them in our backyard in order to keep the brush from overtaking our yard…..but nevertheless WE’VE GONE GREEN.
How?…you may ask. We throw stuff away.
Last week, we finally received our new mattress set and like the ‘Greenies’ we are, we took the old mattress and box springs and after using them like a redneck trampoline on the deck, we hauled them out to the road for placement in the local landfill. This was Friday night.
It rained all night Friday. Why add this little piece of meteorological info? Because Saturday morning when I took the rest of the garbage out to the road, I noted that I was very glad the Wife and I moved the old mattress set out to the road while it was dry. The mattress was so soaked that you could see water seeping out of it even after it stopped raining.
Now if you are familiar with SoKno you may already know where this story is going…. and why KTOWN is SoGreen.
Later Saturday evening, I was outside with a friend of mine enjoying an adult beverage and talking about my old truck when I noticed the mattress and boxsprings were gone…or I believe they call it ….recycled. And no the trash truck didn’t come…it runs on Mondays.
So that just adds to the list of stuff that KTOWN has “Recycled”….
A lamp
A 27″ TV with crappy picture
Shoe Rack
Outdoor glass top table….with no glass
Old windows
Lawnmower
Easy Chair that sat out in the elements for 6 months
Another lamp
A soaking wet mattress and boxsprings
Oh, and our dog’s bed. (You don’t even want to know.)
After over four agonizing weeks waiting for our new mattress, it finally arrived this morning. I received a call from The Wife and she and her mother, Momo as she is called by the grandkids, and the Meester and E were all bouncing on the new mattress…a little family time on the bed. I can’t wait to get home tonight and finally get a good night’s rest.
Along with a new mattress to improve the quality of life, I have instituted (more…)
