Alright, mighty fine, mighty fine. I hope my brother is reading today (tyler, you out there?), as we’ve heard the following (bizarre) tracks countless times throughout our childhood on road trips. This shit is ridiculous. But, you know, in that good kinda way.
The scoop is that back in the ’70s The Statler Brothers got together and created this spoof on old school, southern, redneck radio hosted by the brilliant, and ficticious, radio DJ Lester “Roadhog” Moran, and his band The Cadillac Cowboys broadcasted on W.E.A.K. This had LP been out of print for a long, long time, but thanks to iTunes I was able to pick it up in digital format last year.
Check these out, but be sure to listen to them in order — it’s the dialogue you wanna hear. . And if anyone has a vinyl copy, I’d love to buy it off you. Seriously.
Download:
MP3: Lester Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys :: The Saturday Morning Radio Show
MP3: Lester Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys :: Little Liza Jane (Theme)
MP3: Lester Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys :: Honky Tonk Girl
MP3: Lester Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys :: Why Baby Why
MP3: Lester Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys :: Folsom Prison
MP3: Lester Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys :: Angel Band
———-
Amazon: The Complete Lester Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys
+ Download tunes through eMusic’s 25 Free MP3 offer.
————————————————————————————————————————-
+ Visit The Hype Machine for additional MP3s.
Have been reading your blog for a good few months now, and I’ve kept meaning to say how much I’ve enjoyed it. Good work feller!
Thansk for the National tracks
Sweeny
1 | Sweeny May 24th, 2007 at 7:08 amhttp://partlyporpoise.blogspot.com/
Reminds me a bit of bluegrass band Hot Rize’s alter-ego - Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers. They were fun!
2 | Gram Lynch May 24th, 2007 at 7:15 amThis album does bring back tons of memories. Allthough, as your brother I do have a request. I am requesting that you post the hit track, “Super Socks,” from the Letter People’s sophmore album, “Let Me Spell it out for You.” As many will recall this is before Mr. S went into his deep depression, began eating anything he could find, had a barbeque in his bedroom, and rarely got out of bed……. Ah the memories of childhood.
3 | Tyler May 25th, 2007 at 7:17 am-TAG
THANK YOU for posting this!!!! God, I’ve loved this for so long. Memories…
4 | brother will May 29th, 2007 at 8:34 pmI grabbed my dad’s copy of this CD when I was home recently. As far as I can tell, this compilation was never on vinyl and dates to 1994 when the CD was released. The liner notes go with the joke and don’t indicate when the various parts were originally released. In fact, the Statler Brothers are never mentioned, only being included by name in the songwriting credits.
The first section, which you posted, was originally on their 1972 album Country Music Then and Now along with other, non-comedy songs, such as their hit “Class of ‘57.” The other two skits were from the comedy album Alive at the Johnny Mack Brown Hight School. Both of these LPs seem to be readily available relatively cheaply online at places such as musicstack.com. I’m not sure if the Ralph Emery interviews were ever released on record.
5 | Joel @ Postmodern Sounds June 23rd, 2007 at 11:55 pmP.S. If you want to read the liner notes to the CD, someone has scanned and posted them at http://www.wingazette.com/the_road_hog.htm.
6 | Joel @ Postmodern Sounds June 23rd, 2007 at 11:58 pm