All tagged BB Palmer

B.B. Palmer: Krishna Country Gold

B.B. Palmer: Krishna Country Gold

Derek Scudder

What is Consciousness?

What is Godliness?

What is the Eternal Living Soul?

What is Heaven or Nirvana, Salvation or the Brahma?

Is it All Just Lies That We Are Told?

This could be a lesson plan for a college-level course in Existentialism or the topics for a really deep intellectual conversation among religious scholars. Could be. But what they really are is the opening verse of the song “God Consciousness” from BB Palmer’s new EP Krishna Country Gold, released August 19. There’s a lot going on here lyrically and musically. The words continue to explore some of the basic questions man has been asking about his existence for centuries, set in ¾ time with honky-tonk instrumentation, including a fiddle break which shifts into an electric guitar-driven groove with actual sitar melodies and all sung in Palmer’s unique voice, which has been best described as a “barroom tenor.” That’s a lot to take in for a song that clocks in at just under three minutes.

The Train to Birmingham: Shout Bamalama! Rising Stars from Alabama

The Train to Birmingham: Shout Bamalama! Rising Stars from Alabama

Derek Scudder

The state of Alabama has a rich history of producing musical talent. Hank Williams is a good place to start since he set the standard for every country star since and his son made quite an impression as well. “Bocephus” had quite a run from the late 70s through 80s with a string of hit albums mixing his version of outlaw country with Southern rock and a bit of the blues. The group “Alabama” was the first to make the concept of a self-contained band in country music popular with the mainstream and rose to unprecedented heights in the 80s.