Dale Gribble Bluegrass Experience
You don’t have to read to many of my reviews to realize that I’m a huge fan of King of the Hill. I also love doing these music reviews. So I thought it would be cool to marry my love of music reviews with my love of KOTH to bring you (cue the fireworks and patriotic music) “KOTH Music Reviews.” This is the first review in a soon to be award winning multi-part series of reviews based on music from King of the Hill shows. If I don’t win a Pulitzer Prize for this series I’ll begin to believe that the whole process is rigged. Watergate schatergate, this is REAL journalism here people. I’m so confident that I’ll win the award that I’m already working on my acceptance speech. First, I’m going to thank my high school English teachers for not flunking me. A little insight for our high school readers here, know when, where and how to “kiss up,” “brown nose,” or whatever you call it now days. First mistake some make is that they constantly kiss up throughout the school year. That will just get you labeled as a “teacher’s pet,” and will generally get you beat up after school. And deservedly so, I might add. Another mistake that others make is putting in that brown nosing too early in the year. A compliment to the teacher in the first week of class will be long forgotten when it’s time to make out the grades. None of these strategies will work in bringing you a passing grade in high school English, well, aside from actually doing passing work. Here’s the secret to passing English without doing passing work, and I’m going to let you all in on this secret, but don’t tell anyone else. After all, isn’t the Internet our secret domain here? At my school, the first semester grades didn’t come out till after Christmas break, so what you do is, go into class the first day after break and discretely ask the teacher if she lost weight over the break. Works every time, never made less than a C+. (Warning, may not work on male teachers, if you have a male English teacher, I suggest changing schools) Next, I’ll thank my grandma who wrote articles from time to time for the Bucklin Banner. I will then berate the voters of the award for not giving her a prize for her wonderful Eads, CO article. (She and my brother thought someone had said, “Eat” instead of “Eads” and wondered if it was almost lunchtime. Classic stuff really, go to the Bucklin library archives to find more) Then I’d thank Van for thinking that it would be a good idea to give me a voice to be heard with. (Really, what was he thinking) Last, I’d thank Foghorn Leghorn for being an inspiration to us all. So, with out further ado, here’s my review of the Dale Gribble Bluegrass Experience featuring Connie Souphanousinphone.
The DGBE, as the cool kids like to refer to them as, came to us in February of the sixth season. DGBE consists of Hank on guitar, Boomhauer on banjo and lead vocals, Bill on washboard, Dale on the synthesizer bass, Connie on fiddle and Bobbie on the occasional jug. If you closed your eyes, you would swear that Boomhauer’s voice sounds just like Vince Gill’s. The similarities are un-canny. You don’t see to many synthesizer basses in bluegrass bands, but Dale does such a stand up job that I’m willing to bet that more bands start following his lead. I look for Allison Kraus and Union Station to employee this in their next tour. Hank has already played with Willie Nelson before, so we know that he is more than adequate on the guitar. (Look for a “Peggy Leg” review in the near or distance future) Of course the star is Connie, that is, till Hank runs her off. Can’t fault Hank too much, he knows how to motivate people in the propane game, but that doesn’t work well with 12 year old girls. I’d also like to see more of Bobby’s jug playing. Another complaint I have is that the only song the band seems to know is Blue Moon of Kentucky. But they picked that song up quickly so I expect the DGBE reunion tour to have more songs to play. When Connie left the band, Charlie Daniels does a great job of replacing her, but he doesn’t bring the novelty factor that a 12-year-old girl does. I’d also like to give a shout out to Bobby Hill for selling a joke to Yakov Smirnov.
In America, you have “In God We Trust” on your money. In Russia, we have no money.
So, what have we learned today:
- I learnt my English real well
- Brown nosing, if done properly, can lift your GPA
- There’s similarities between Foghorn Leghorn and Hank, “I say, I say, that boy ain’t right
- And Allison Kraus is about to add a synthesizer bass to her band
I give the DGBE 4 out of 5 Bucklin Banner articles.