The Last Bass Outpost

If it's lightweight, which I'm pretty sure it is, I'd like it.  With a few exceptions, I tend to stick with lightweight basses because of a neck/shoulder problem.  Usually it works out.  Sometimes I just have to guess.  Like with the Danelectro Hodad I bought a few years ago.  It's all right, but there is something about its neck which I've never been able to quite get used to. 

I'm just wondering what happened to the Contemporary basses.  It doesn't matter to me personally since I bought two a few years ago--one of them a Cavern model.  Still, I didn't expect the Contemporary basses to start vanishing so soon like that.  You can still find one here and there, but places like Sweetwater and MF no longer offer them at all.  Usually, when something like this happens, it's when I try to buy something and then find out it has been suddenly discontinued.  This time I was able to draw first. 

In the spirit of posting offbeat Christmas videos, here is another one.  It stays weird right to the very end. 

I didn't know whether to post this here or in the Gibson bass section.  But Rick Danko is already well represented there.  Plus, it's almost Christmas. 

I'm not a country music listener and hadn't heard of her, but I listened to that and thought "her voice DRIPS country music." Even though it isn't a country song or done country style, that inflection rings out in every word.

So I looked her up, and sho'nuff, country music from her early years.

Yes, that's true.  I felt the same way.  I looked her up yesterday, though.  She is from Texas.  She was better known there and in New Orleans where she moved to for a while.  I think later she moved to Nashville.  Someone wrote on one of the comments beneath one of her songs that he was in New Orleans once at an open mic night.  She came up and asked to sing that song.  The guy asked her what key and she said the key of the record.  He asked if she was sure because that was a rather high key.  She said I'm the one who sang it for Vince.  Of course it came out just right.  At some point, Lisa Layne was involved in doing Patsy Cline songs, but I don't know the details of that at all and haven't heard any of those songs she did. 

I heard this at the chiropractor's office today and had to look it up.  He told me I needed a vacation, by the way.  This is Lisa Layne on vocals.  What a voice she has.