That's Nice, That's Real Nice

I've already posted a few volumes of my Country Picks, but this is the one that started it. I was visiting Texas and going to shows, meeting women from Texas and thinking I might move there. This was some thirty or so years ago. I took another twenty-five years to do it, but eventually I moved. Anyway driving the countryside I was listening to a lot of mainstream country music, which was okay, but I longed for something more alternative. So this pick came into being. Some of the bands I had seen in Texas were the Starkweathers and the Cornell Hurd Band. I loved the punk attitude of the Starkweathers. Live they did a great version of This Land Is Your Land (I never found a studio version of it by them, but they did it amazingly well). The Cornell Hurd Band was originally from San Jose (where I had been living) and were reason enough to come to Austin. They had a weekly gig at a Mexican restaurant which is no longer there. And rocked the place. Another band that I heard first in Austin was Junior Brown! Wow! Goober & the Peas was a band I saw in the beginning of  their career (one of their early members was Jack White.) I saw them play in New York on the same night that Guns and Roses played at the CBGB's Canteen. GNR sucked and I predicted they would go nowhere and a week later they were no. 2 in the charts - I can call them. But Goober & the Peas were great! The title came from a Texas saying.

That's Nice, That's Real Nice

01 Starkweathers - Burn The Flag

02 Kelly Hogan & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - 13 Nights

03 Goober & The Peas - Hot Women (Cold Beer)

04 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down

05 The Hollisters - Roses Are Blooming

06 The Unholy Trio - Bring The Noise

07 Moonshine Willy - Roulette Wheel

08 Knitters - Poor Little Critter On The Road

09 The Roughnecks - Going Home

10 Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked

11 Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Mudhoney - Buckskin Stallion Blues

12 Red Star Belgrade - Highway To Hell

13 Br549 - Too Lazy To Work, Too Nervous To Steal

14 Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

15 Vandals - Long Hair Queer

16 The Cornell Hurd Band - Here Comes My Ball And Chain Again

17 Waco Brothers - Do You Think About Me-

18 Old 97's - Por Favor

19 Ween - Piss Up A Rope

20 Confederate Railroad - Trashy Women

21 Junior Brown - Doin' What Comes Easy To A Fool

22 Dead Kennedys - Rawhide

23 Trailer Bride - Ghost On The Highway

24 Starkweathers - White Trash Boy

25 Robby Fulks - She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died)