![]() ![]() Randy Cullers, Alan Rush and Rob Galbraith, who do session with him here, were with him in Jubal. ![]() He had recorded an album (1972) as part of the band Nashville rock band “Jubal”. ![]() This was his second solo and last album for Elektra (and this third solo album overall). Elvis took his song “Burning Love” to #2 (#7UK) in 1972 (Elvis would record another two Linde tracks in the 70s) and that is enough to get a contract. Of course, to get your foot in the door you need something.ĭennis Linde had that. Linde, like many country singer-songwriters, started off as a songwriter working for a label (country is probably still the only music where a person can have a career as a non-jingle writing songwriter) and wrote hundreds of songs, though his own recorded output is quite small” ![]() Salinger and John Steinbeck, composers such as George Gershwin and Cole Porter and the rock'n'rollers Little Richard and Fats Domino, Linde developed the quirky, idiosyncratic, individual style which would lead him to write colourful hits such as 'Bubba Shot The Jukebox' and 'It Sure Is Monday' for the country singer Mark Chesnutt, and 'Queen Of My Double Wide Trailer' for Sammy Kershaw, another country star, in the early '90s” Īnd, as I have said elsewhere on this blog, “ Linde was a country singer-songwriter, but like his contemporaries John Hartford, Mickey Newbury, Billy Swan and Terry Allen, a lot of his music doesn't sound particularly country, in that he doesn't mind mixing up the genre, turning it on its head and bringing in other styles that he likes (Oddly, or perhaps not, Elvis covered most of these guys). This is on Elektra, one of my favourite labels and as I have said before on this blog “anything on Elektra in the 60s and 70s is worth a listen I reckon: David Ackles ,Tim Buckley, The Butterfield Blues Band, The Dillards ,The Doors, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Love, MC5, Phil Ochs, Roy Orbison ,Leon Redbone, Charlie Rich, Mark Spoelstra ,The Stooges ,Tom Waits to name a few”Īnd Linde was quirky, as this obituary refers to, “Drawing on the influence of writers such as Mark Twain, J.D. It was also a time for experimentation, self-expression and expansion of musical boundaries.Įspecially, on some labels more than others. It was an amazing time for country music.Ĭountry music, never shy of being blunt about the realities of life, was given extra realism with the new openness allowed in public and in the performing arts. The rising popularity and dominance of rock was one factor.Īlso, there were all the rock artists from the east and west coast who had incorporated country sounds into their music (and were recording in Nashville) and., there were all the younger country kids who had grown up familiar with rock. Whatever the reason, Nashville had to adapt to new sounds. This was all possible in the Nashville of the early 1970s.Īnd it is not something you normally associate (now) with Nashville. There are songs that range across several styles including blues, rock, country, funk.Īnd, there are elements of American and even experimental country. This isn’t a country album by any stretch of the imagination. To be sure he was based in Nashville and he was recorded by a number of country artists but his to pigeonhole him thus is unfair, only insofar as he wasn’t a strict country writer. Linde will forever be associated as a country songwriter (because of the number of country acts who have covered his songs) and performer despite the fact that his music encompasses all sorts of styles. Search this blog and you will see I like (love?) Dennis Linde.Ĭheck out my other comments for biographical details on the man. ![]()
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