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Po' Girl — Old Mountain Line
Album: Home to You
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6.3

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Total ratings: 375









Released: 2007
Length: 2:08
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i'm standing here
by the side of the highway
i can see the city lights
stretched out before me
i'm coming home
my own true love
i wanna hear the voice
that i've been dreaming of
i'm singing here
by the old mountain line
i can hear the wheels turning
as i close my eyes
i'm coming home
my own true love
i wanna see the smile
that i've been dreaming of

i'm standing here
by the side of the highway
i can see the city lights
stretched out before me
i'm coming home
my own true love
i wanna hear the voice
that i've been dreaming of
i'm coming home
my own true love
i wanna hear the voice
that i've been dreaming of
i wanna hear the voice
that i've been dreaming of
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Saw their second ever show - if you discount the times I saw Alison Russell play with 'Fear of drinking".
They are more vivacious live.
Rating going down....

Isn't the definition of pop a catchy musical phrase repeated over and over again? 
 Shesdifferent wrote:
I want to hear LESS of this kind of stuff on RP
 
I want to hear less Classic Rock on RP - good luck.
 zjustme wrote:
People in Hell want iced water.
 
. . . and a mute button for the Michael Bolton CD on repeat.

{#Jump}


Tasty! I liked this and think the more musical diversity the better.

 Shesdifferent wrote:
I want to hear LESS of this kind of stuff on RP
 



People in Hell want iced water.
I want to hear LESS of this kind of stuff on RP
I love Po'Girl!! Thank you for adding them to your playlist!
Different, I can take this type of music in small doses.  This one was nice.
More like this please!{#Clap} kthxbai!
I like it. Just the kind of thing I have come to expect from RP! Great job!

{#High-five}

 Businessgypsy wrote:

Funny, that's almost the same argument posted when a Jazz selection is played, or dance music like Basement Jaxx, or Trance, or Ambient. "Radio Paradise is giving over to fill in the blank with the music you don't like". Hey, I'd be doing it if I heard a Gansta Rap selection. If you don't find classical music to have cutty edges, try Erik Satie.

Personally, I like psychobilly, punk folk, alt country and more traditional forms of the folk/roots/bluegrass/country milieu - but find this piece corny, contrived and not especially interesting from a melodic or rhythmic perspective. Eh. Price you pay for listening to a truly eclectic station that practices the lost art of set creation.

Mayne Sirius XMU or radioio.com's Darker channel would fit your groove better. Plenty of wonderful choices out there, but it's a little telling of a limited life experience to claim RP is an oldies station.

  Great post. Personally I am no fan of the country-fried, yet I listen often and am occasionally surprised by something country-ish that I like. (I'm afraid this is not one). If you want back-up, look at any thread for a Porcupine Tree song and the same complaints crop up.

Eclectic means that you will be exposed to music outside your comfort zones, people. Get used to it or stick with the same 14 CDs over and over.


Nice!!
Papernapkin wrote:
G-ho, that's not true or you'd hear more Black Sabbath, Beyonce, Lynard Skynard, punk, classical, and jazz. RP skews heavy toward Nico Case, The Talking Heads, Wilco, The Dead, folk, and hillbilly music. It's basically an oldies station with a folk influence with the occasional Billy Holiday and William Tell Overture thrown in to be able to say they're 'eclectic'.

Funny, that's almost the same argument posted when a Jazz selection is played, or dance music like Basement Jaxx, or Trance, or Ambient. "Radio Paradise is giving over to fill in the blank with the music you don't like". Hey, I'd be doing it if I heard a Gansta Rap selection. If you don't find classical music to have cutty edges, try Erik Satie.

Personally, I like psychobilly, punk folk, alt country and more traditional forms of the folk/roots/bluegrass/country milieu - but find this piece corny, contrived and not especially interesting from a melodic or rhythmic perspective. Eh. Price you pay for listening to a truly eclectic station that practices the lost art of set creation.

Mayne Sirius XMU or radioio.com's Darker channel would fit your groove better. Plenty of wonderful choices out there, but it's a little telling of a limited life experience to claim RP is an oldies station.



 Papernapkin wrote:

G-ho, that's not true or you'd hear more Black Sabbath, Beyonce, Lynard Skynard, punk, classical, and jazz. RP skews heavy toward Nico Case, The Talking Heads, Wilco, The Dead, folk, and hillbilly music. It's basically an oldies station with a folk influence with the occasional Billy Holiday and William Tell Overture thrown in to be able to say they're 'eclectic'. 


 
You must have a really odd definition of "oldies station".

Of the following artists, who are all in fairly heavy rotation here and were all played in the past 12 hours, which would you call "oldies", "folk", "jazz" (Holliday), or "classical" (William Tell):

Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, RJD2, Dengue Fever, Artic Monkeys, Muse, Vienna Teng, Zero 7, Spoon, Beck, Air, Coldplay

Po' Girl are fantastic!

Alie and Awna are absolute sweethearts, and Benny, who builds the bands' guitars,  will offer up banjo tips if you ask nicely.

Get out and support live music!!
Again have to say, while playing this artist is fine, this is the kind of music that makes me switch the station often!
 Papernapkin wrote:

G-ho, that's not true or you'd hear more Black Sabbath, Beyonce, Lynard Skynard, punk, classical, and jazz. RP skews heavy toward Nico Case, The Talking Heads, Wilco, The Dead, folk, and hillbilly music. It's basically an oldies station with a folk influence with the occasional Billy Holiday and William Tell Overture thrown in to be able to say they're 'eclectic'. 

 
That is a useless argument without numbers to back you up.  And I suspect they wouldn't.  Quantitative illiteracy gets you nowhere.
 Gardenho wrote:


Get over it "shesdifferent" ...this is what RP is all about...intoroducing new sounds to a wide variety of genre. Some may like or dislike, I personally happen to like the "bluegrass" so suck it up princess...
 

G-ho, that's not true or you'd hear more Black Sabbath, Beyonce, Lynard Skynard, punk, classical, and jazz. RP skews heavy toward Nico Case, The Talking Heads, Wilco, The Dead, folk, and hillbilly music. It's basically an oldies station with a folk influence with the occasional Billy Holiday and William Tell Overture thrown in to be able to say they're 'eclectic'. 


 Shesdifferent wrote:
Songs like this are one reason I have not listened to RP as much as I use to. Can we do without this hillbilly folky stuff? Too much of this style is played on RP. 
 
Sorry, but you have to go with RP Style, or you have tu mute, like all the others Too!!

 Shesdifferent wrote:
Songs like this are one reason I have not listened to RP as much as I use to. Can we do without this hillbilly folky stuff? Too much of this style is played on RP. 
 

Get over it "shesdifferent" ...this is what RP is all about...intoroducing new sounds to a wide variety of genre. Some may like or dislike, I personally happen to like the "bluegrass" so suck it up princess...
Songs like this are one reason I have not listened to RP as much as I use to. Can we do without this hillbilly folky stuff? Too much of this style is played on RP. 

ooh! lovin' this! fact is,  love the whole album!  {#Clap} fact is, love 'em po'gals!


 jhuitz wrote:

American slang for poor...
 
Ah, of course. Didn't work with my accent!
 Pieter wrote:
Excuse my ignorance, but what's a "po"?
 
American slang for poor...
Excuse my ignorance, but what's a "po"?
If you go and see these guys on their UK tour, make sure you catch the support - the Carrivick Sisters are wonderful, and yes I am biased 'cos the girls have just finished a set not half an hour ago here in my pub

Nice country
Is this one of dem Christian songs?
 littletin wrote:
this is a great song and more importantly performed amazingly live! it seems there are a lot of people really not into the
be good tanya's on this page. well, just to clear things up for you all that don't have your facts straight. the lead singer of
the be good tanya's was never in po'girl. trish klein, the be good tanya's guitar and banjo player was in po'girl but quit in
july of 2007.
she is singing back up vocals on this song. unfortunately i don't think most of you even know this and are just looking for
a reason to slag their band. it is a good thing there are many types of music and bands out there for all of us to enjoy!
po'girl are still going strong and are better than ever and are about to release their new album called "deer in the night" in april of 2009.
 
Thank you!  I was about to ask about Po' Girl with respect to the Be Good Tanyas.  If Po' Girl is sounds like this often, I will like them as much as I do the Tanyas, which is a lot.  


Even though I know it's not true, I'm convinced this is a Dolly Parton cover.{#Eh}
This is how BGT's should annunciate
6 up to 8
Nice young grassroots band. I like èm. 8

 
  {#Arrowd}{#Roflol}

voll vor'n po. {#Grumpy}

David Bowie "Ashes to Ashes" to this- I've heard of transitions but I think I got whiplash.


 Yukila wrote:
Old Mountain Line is a really amazing song. It's given me shivers up my spine when I've heard Awna and Allison sing it live. I love this recording of it too!!
  yeah!!!!! isn't it the best thing you ever heard!!!!! :)


Old Mountain Line is a really amazing song. It's given me shivers up my spine when I've heard Awna and Allison sing it live. I love this recording of it too!!
this is a great song and more importantly performed amazingly live! it seems there are a lot of people really not into the
be good tanya's on this page. well, just to clear things up for you all that don't have your facts straight. the lead singer of
the be good tanya's was never in po'girl. trish klein, the be good tanya's guitar and banjo player was in po'girl but quit in
july of 2007.
she is singing back up vocals on this song. unfortunately i don't think most of you even know this and are just looking for
a reason to slag their band. it is a good thing there are many types of music and bands out there for all of us to enjoy!
po'girl are still going strong and are better than ever and are about to release their new album called "deer in the night" in april of 2009.

Love it. MORE please.
no comment  -  8.
 FlatCat wrote:
Wait! It's an RP theme. Women with exaggerated, quavering vibratos. Be Good Tanias. Ane Brun. Po' Girl. 

Like fingernails on the blackboard. (Update: It's the same lady from BGT? Sigh.)
 
So where can we go and hear your superior singing skills?

 
 nigelr wrote:

Love it. Must be my Irish roots...............


 
me 2, must be my Irish roots.........

Irish down under!

Wait! It's an RP theme. Women with exaggerated, quavering vibratos. Be Good Tanias. Ane Brun. Po' Girl. 

Like fingernails on the blackboard. (Update: It's the same lady from BGT? Sigh.)

I'd be willing to listen to a song by this group that didn't feature the BGT idiot.

As it is, she makes this song a 1.

Love it. Must be my Irish roots...............


reason06 wrote:
TOO Country
Just bluegrass enough to be not TOO country.
wenatchee wrote:
The BGT singer that has "issues" really tossed this one off kilter
Agreed, it would have been good otherwise.
TOO Country
As far as I'm concerned, Bill G has perfect pitch when it comes to country on RP. This one proves my point.
manbirdexperiment wrote:
The BGT singer that has "issues" really tossed this one off kilter
mandolin wrote:
...a bit too country for my rock-and-roll...
Yup ...find most country hard to tolerate 'cept for some of the stuff by Johnny Cash.
Oh no... the sucky lead singer from the Be Good Tanyas is infecting other bands! All folky music groups: Run for the hills! Save yourselves!
Reminds me when the handful of Po' Folks restaurants (country cooking) in Atlanta were renamed to "Folks" out of political correctness. Not a bad song. The clapping has to go, though... and that fiddle is way out of tune.
A little too reminicent of the Be Good Tanya's...clapping, banjo, knee slapping. screeeeecccchhhhh-no thanks.....you can have this stuff "shudder"
...a bit too country for my rock-and-roll...
n4ku wrote:
I like it!
Me thinks me do too.
Sounds like it wants to build towards something but never quite gets there. Knocks it down a peg for me, I'll give it a 6.
I like it!
Just heard of this band last weekend.. lo and behold... here they are. Bill you rock.