Category Archives: Country

Nowhere Town: 100 Lost Places and Spaces

Posted on 2015/10/01 by Little Danny

Hi everybody, long time. So I’ve posted a third collection of 100 thematically related 45s over at the Exotica Project. The new page is named Nowhere Town, and it’s comprised of lonesome and atmospheric country, rockabilly and teen pop 45s … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015/10/01 by Little Danny | Posted in Country, Instrumentals/Surf, Nowhere Town, Rock 'n' roll, Updates | Leave a comment

The lonesome drifter’s tale

Posted on 2013/03/19 by Little Danny

Three mournful country melodramas this week.  All released between 1957 and 1960, these make for a fun, highly atmospheric bunch. These selections are somewhat tricky to place in the continuum of post-War commercial records.   They share some of the darkness … Continue reading →

Posted on 2013/03/19 by Little Danny | Posted in Country | Leave a comment

Bright Lights

Posted on 2013/01/15 by Little Danny

Like AM Radio Dust, its companion volume, Bright Lights is just as much an exploration of lost spaces and places as it is of sound. I hope you enjoy it. Bright Lights  (single MP3 file) Susan Rafey, “The Big Hurt” … Continue reading →

Posted on 2013/01/15 by Little Danny | Posted in Blues, Country, Exotica/Space-Age, Garage Bands, Girl-Groups, Gospel, Instrumentals/Surf, Jazz Obscura, Mixes, Now Sound, R&B/Vocal Groups, Rock 'n' roll, Soul | Leave a comment

Black night

Posted on 2012/07/30 by Little Danny

This is one of those weeks where three records get posted alongside each other not because they share some very specific theme or belong, musically- or culturally-speaking, in the same sub-sub-genre.  (Jazz, early rock ‘n’ roll, pop, R&B and country … Continue reading →

Posted on 2012/07/30 by Little Danny | Posted in Country, Jazz Obscura, Latin, R&B/Vocal Groups | Leave a comment

AM Radio Dust

Posted on 2012/04/23 by Little Danny

  A new, or new to Office Naps, mix this week. AM Radio Dust was my 2009 contribution to the annual CD mix swap over at the Waxidermy forums, the weird id of contemporary record collecting. AM Radio Dust is … Continue reading →

Posted on 2012/04/23 by Little Danny | Posted in Country, Exotica/Space-Age, Garage Bands, Gospel, Instrumentals/Surf, Mixes, Now Sound, R&B/Vocal Groups, Rock 'n' roll | 10 Comments

The teen art of lonesome

Posted on 2011/02/07 by Little Danny

Heartbreak and loneliness, as topics, had already been beaten to death in teenage popular music on the eve of the British Invasion. But that wasn’t necessarily the problem.  Rather, it was that heartbreak and loneliness were always so poorly and … Continue reading →

Posted on 2011/02/07 by Little Danny | Posted in Country, Psychedelic/Pop | 5 Comments

Early country rock

Posted on 2010/09/06 by Little Danny

Country rock is largely, and probably accurately, identified with late ‘60s Los Angeles. The new sensibility drew its earliest and most influential adherents from a variety of musical quarters and pedigrees.  In 1966 and ’67, when it first began to … Continue reading →

Posted on 2010/09/06 by Little Danny | Posted in Country, Psychedelic/Pop | 4 Comments