![]() ![]() Michael Nesmith’s Nudie’s hat and boots, circa 1967-69 (Bob Delevante)Īn influential outfit if ever there was one in the genre. We thought it’d gotten too careful and too nice.'” Dave Alvin (of the Blasters) talks about it really well: ‘We wanted to bring energy back to it. There was a lot of hedonism around (the commercial style), and the whole idea of punk music was taking it back to the streets a little bit and taking off the gloss. ![]() The rise of a rowdier roots-rock in the ’80s “wasn’t so much a complete reaction against just country-rock, but against corporatization and glossy music and how slick things had gotten in general. Says McCall, “That’s something a few of ’em talk about” in the exhibition’s video installations. “It became the biggest music in America, along with hard rock and some of the other things that were going on, but it all came out of this small community that was built around the Troubadour at first.”Īnd after the Lear jets faded, it was back to the vans, as the cowpunk era emerged. And then everybody goes their own way, on their own Lear jets,” he laughs. The two curators also spoke about a number of the artifacts on display, from numerous Nudie’s-tailored jackets that set the visual tone for the era to key musical instruments to handwritten scores and setlists and even band flyers - see the gallery of photos below.Ĭhris Hillman stage outfit ( Photo by Bob Delevante for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum) Bob DelevanteĪdds McCall, “It’s complicated, but we really wanted to show those connections where all these bands sort of interchanged members and played on each other’s records and recorded each other’s songs, and how there was this real sort of community aspect of it - until you get into the ‘70s. Variety recently visited the museum and spoke with co-curators Michael Gray, the facility’s executive senior director of editorial and interpretation, and Michael McCall, the museum’s senior editor, about why the ’60s through ’80s were a golden age for country-inflected rock in Los Angeles. rock that expands to include the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers and Michael Nesmith in the 1960s the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris in the ’70s and Dwight Yoakam, Lone Justice and Los Lobos in the ’80s, among many other influential and sometimes commercially impactful figures. The must-see walk-through traces a history of roots music in L.A. A major exhibition, “Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock,” has just opened and will run through 2025. ![]() California is in the house, and will be for the next three years, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. ![]()
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