Merle on Iris

[larry@hal.com (Larry Hernandez)]

-Hounds, ectites, what have you: 

A little ditty from "Musician" for you all..  If you have not heard Iris,
please please do.  Note: if you have no room for real country music, don't
waste your time. :-) 

Larry "Iris-Head" Hernandez                 Larry: "I'm mad at Kate."   
larry@hal.com                     Karen: "You're always mad at Kate."        
                                       - An old Katemas conversation
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Hey, check this out! gail@country.hal.com (Gail Larrick) actually wrote:
[...]
*    An interview with Merle Haggard appears in the September issue of the
* magazine "Musician".  There were two recent Merle tribute albums, one
* by big name country folk, the other by more folk oriented singer-
* songwriters.
*    Merle's comments:
*      "Tulare Dust surprised me.  I didn't know about it until after
* we'd gone through the acceptance of this Hungry Eyes thing; which was
* great, you know, I was overwhelmed by that.  But somehow the
* songwriters' tribute, coming from the other side of the country,
* having to do with different songs, and with people who chose to
* make their own approach rather than try to do it my way, there
* were some things in there that made me maybe a little more emotionally
* appreciative of it all."
*      "And I discovered an artist on this tape I'd never heard before-
* Iris Dement- who knocked me out.  I gotta say this, I didn't come 58
* years to have a girl knock me out as a singer. [laughs]  Girl singers
* are not my favorite thing in the world.  But boy is she great!  She's
* like a female Jimmy Rodgers or Lefty Frizzell or somehting"
*   
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