1/31/11
"and the higher we get the more informal we are"
Ralph Emery is the Dick Clark of country music. His first television show was Opry Almanac, which aired at 6:00 in the morning on WSM-TV in [listen] Nashville. On this particular broadcast in 1966, Ralph's guests were Roger Miller, Thumbs Carlisle, Jerry Allison and [listen] Charlie Louvin. Legend has it that they had been up all night partying before the show...and it shows. TV was much better back then. Here's some more of the excerpt.
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1/30/11
60's sunday nights on nbc was a wonderful world, i think.
I Stole T H I S post from T H I S blog.
(cuz it made me smile and cry)
"Looking at Disney Nature Films Where the Title includes the Main Character’s Name, What Kind of Animal it is, and a Modifier"
The April 30, 1961, episode of “Walt Disney Presents” was entitled “Flash, the Teenage Otter,” and was the story of a figuratively teenaged otter whose name was Flash. Presumably it was considered a success, as six months later, by which time the program had been retitled “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color,” there was an episode called “Chico, the Misunderstood Coyote.” Three months after that, it was “Sancho, the Homing Steer.” This formula was so successful that January 1976’s “Twister, Bull From the Sky” was the 25th of these to air on the Disney weekly television show (which had become “Wonderful World of Disney” in 1969). Two of them, “Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon” and the best-remembered one, “Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar,” had been released originally as theatrical features before airing on television. Here’s the complete list, with original TV air date (and please keep in mind that I’m not making any of these up):
Flash, the Teenage Otter 4-30-61
Chico, the Misunderstood Coyote 10-15-61
Sancho, the Homing Steer 1-21-62
Sammy, the Way-Out Seal 10-28-62
Greta, the Misfit Greyhound 2-3-63
The Ballad of Hector, the Stowaway Dog 1-5-64
Ida, the Offbeat Eagle 1-10-65
Concho, the Coyote Who Wasn’t 4-10-66
Joker, the Amiable Ocelot 12-11-66
Brimstone, the Amish Horse 10-27-68
Pancho, the Fastest Paw in the West 2-2-69
Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar 11-2-69
Cristobalito, the Calypso Colt 9-13-70
Lefty, the Dingaling Lynx 11-28-71
Chango, Guardian of the Mayan Treasure 3-19-72 [okay, this doesn’t exactly fit my parameters, since the title doesn’t tell you that Chango was a spider monkey]
Nosey, the Sweetest Skunk in the West 11-19-72
Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon 11-26-72
Salty, the Hijacked Harbor Seal 12-17-72
Chester, Yesterday’s Horse 3-4-73
Carlo, the Sierra Coyote 2-3-74
Ringo, the Refugee Raccoon 3-3-74
Shokee, the Everglades Panther 9-29-74
Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West 12-8-74
Deacon, the High Noon Dog 3-16-75
Twister, Bull From the Sky 1-4-76
Did I mention that these are all real? My inclination was to make fun of these by thinking up even sillier-sounding ones, but I’m not sure that’s possible—half of these sound like jokes already. I mean, after “Joker, the Amiable Ocelot” and “Brimstone, the Amish Horse” there’s really no way to take it any further…
(Let me make it clear that I’m not ridiculing the programs themselves, just the titles—I have very fond memories of “Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar” and like to imitate Rex Allen’s narration when I have a cold and my voice gets nice and resonant, and I’ve probably seen most of the others even though I don’t remember them.)
my cents;
the rex allen voice takes me way back.
these disney features were supposed to be so innocent yet it always seemed sad to me.
the "chico" episode in particular had the "human footprint" sadness even back then.
Duane & Greg Allman - demos
Here is one of the pre-Allman Brothers Band albums by the brothers themselves. It is technically by the 31st Of February, a band featuring drummer Butch Trucks, who were joined by the Allman brothers after the break-up of their group The Hour Glass. The bands were old friends, and upon meeting up, the 31st Of February fired their own lead guitarist and joined forces with the Allmans. These demo recordings were recorded in 1968, but never actually saw release until 1972, when it was credited to 'Duane & Greg Allman'. Not long after this album was recorded, the Allman Brothers Band was formed, and 21st Of February drummer Butch Trucks joined them. This album is some great soul-rock, with colours of folk and blues, mostly dominated by Greg Allman’s vocals. It contains covers of folk singer Bonnie Dobson’s “Morning Dew”, the blues standard “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down Out”, and a song called “Melissa”, which would later become a treasured part of the Allman Brothers Band repetoire. The actual band line-up here is Greg Allman (vocals, organ, piano), Duane Allman (lead guitar), Scott Boyer (guitar, vocals), David Brown (bass) and Butch Trucks (drums and percussion). Boyer sings the last song on the album - "In The Morning When I'm Real", and has a very good voice. If this lineup of musicians had continued to play together they could have become a really brilliant folk-soul group. But then again if that was to have happened, we would never have had The Allman Brothers... Nevertheless, this is a great glimpse at what might have been.
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Unreleased Demo Recordings for The Band "31st Of February", On Which Gregg and Duane Played As Studio Musicians. Sessions Recorded In September, 1968. Includes An Early Version of "Melissa"
Recorded at TK Studios in Hialeah, FL.
Artists:
Bass - David Brown
Drums - Butch Trucks
Featuring - The 31st Of February
Guitar - Duane Allman
Producer - Steve Alaimo
Vocals, Guitar - Gregg Allman, Scott Boyer
Tracklist:
01 - Morning Dew 03:37
02 - God Rest His Soul 03:47
03 - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 04:23
04 - Come Down And Get Me 03:25
05 - Melissa 03:03
06 - I'll Change For You 02:49
07 - Back Down Home With You 02:21
08 - Well I Know Too Well 02:06
09 - In The Morning When I'm Real 02:31
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1/29/11
green lite/ light green
Established in 1930 as Southern Counties Oil Company, SC FUELS is the oldest and largest petroleum distributor in the West. Serving 35,000 customers annually ranging from small family owned businesses to Fortune 500 companies, SC FUELS delivers branded, unbranded, and alternative commercial fuels in 10 western states at competitive prices.
prices yet to be set but rumored to be HIGH QUALITY and CHEAP.
we'll see.
goodbye BP.
also;
SC FUELS is proud to offer a wide range of alternative fuels, including Ethanol blends and Bio Diesel products.
real live prunes
whilst the u.s. was in love with the control of the tv lip-syncing of music, across the
pond they did it right.
here is 2 from the electric prunes complete with electric auto harp.
1/28/11
Steel Guitar Favorites
Jerry Byrd was arguably the best lap steel player of all time. I`m not going to attempt to go into any biographical information on Jerry Byrd, as there is plenty of information about him on the internet.
This LP has some great songs and is very well titled as Steel Guitar Favorites. About all the tunes are required standards of lap steel and even if you play country Dobro, these are still great tunes in that style.
Most of these tunes are old standard Hawaiian type songs, although the tunes are not "real" Hawaiian tunes. Steel Guitar Rag is likely the best known tune here, but was originally recorded as Guitar Rag by Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland in the late 20`s in a standard guitar duet. Lime House Blues was a hit of Sol Hooppi, a popular Hawaiian player in the 20`s & 30s.
About my favorite here is Wabash Wah-Wah Blues. I play Dobro and sometimes play the old Wabash Blues. The "wah-wah" is an effect Jerry Byrd pretty much invented that can be made only with the old electric steel. I don`t play lap steel, but I believe the "wah-wah" effect is made either by tweaking the volume of the tone knob up and down quickly.
Jerry Byrd is hugely responsible for the steel guitar being used in country music. He is also enormously responsible for keeping Hawaiian music popular after the Hawaiian music "boom" of the teens, 20`s and early 30`s started dying out.
Enjoy this great record! Listen to it and you`ll see how much influence Jerry has had on country music sounds we heard in the late 40`s and 50`s and later.
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1/27/11
dog day afternoon
yeller lab and friend surfing tandem
yeller is a happy dog
so much so that doing the "worm" was in order!
Gabby Pahinui - Gabby (the brown album)
# Hi'ilawe 1947, Luau Hula (1972)
# Lihue
# He'eia [Older Version Instrumental]
# Ka Makani Ka'ili Aloha
# Le Ohu
# Royal Hawaiian Hotel
# Keawaiki
# Leahi
# Wai O Ke Aniani
# Ka'ahumanu
# Lei Nani
# Lei No Ka'iulani
# Ka Moa'e
# Hula O Makee
# Hi'Ilawe - 1972 -
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talking Gabby Story - Good ol days with Gabby Pahinui
note; legend says Gabby lifted the "Shambala" riff from TDN. Greatness. as Shambala as a song SUCKED, Gabby lifted the best part and sped it up and made it HIS!!
i have yet to find it but it supposed to live on the brown LP here.
story and music clip of Gabby's version in the video link above.
1/26/11
country music of the Hawaiian cowboy (paniolo)
one of my favorite Slack-key groups of all time: Hui Ohana. Ledward Kaʻapana and featuring his brother Nedward and cousin Dennis Pavao, Hui Ohana were at the forefront of the Hawai'ian Music Renaissance of the 70s.
one of many stories of the Slide Guitar's origins
"While some guitars may have made their way to Hawaii in the early 1800s along with the many European sailors who visited Hawaii, the origin of Hawaiian guitar music is generally credited to the Mexican and Spanish cowboys who were hired by King Kamehameha III around 1832. It was from the Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolos, that the tradition of Hawaiian slack key guitar music finds its roots.
This Spanish guitar was a gut string guitar, however, the actual origins of the Hawaiian steel guitar may never be known for sure. Legend has it, however, that in the mid 1890s Joseph Kekuku, a Hawaiian schoolboy, discovered the sound while walking along a railroad track strumming his Portuguese guitar.
He picked up a bolt lying by the track and slid the metal along the strings of his guitar. Intrigued by the sound, he taught himself to play using the back of a knife blade. Driven by the faint rhythm of an inner sound, he went to the machine shop at the Kamehameha School and turned out a steel bar for sliding over the strings. To complete the sound, he changed the cat-gut strings to steel and raised them so they wouldn't hit the frets. In doing so, he is credited with treating the first Hawaiian steel guitar.
Over the years the sound of the Hawaiian steel guitar has found its way into many forms of American and world music including blues, "hillbilly", country and western music, rock and pop and also the music of Africa and India.
1. Nani Waimea
2. Salomila
3. E Liliu E
4. E Mama E
5. 'Ulupalakua
6. Sweet Lei Mokihana
7. U'i Lani
8. Kaloaloa
9. Pua Lililehua
10. Nanakuli
11. Pua Maeole
12. Hula O Makee
13. Pui Lilia
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1/25/11
Ulupalakua
"Everything you play, every time you play, there's a mood, an energy. If you plug into it, the music just flows. Even in a simple song, there are so many different ways to play the melody, the rhythm, the harmony. It never stops if you stay open to it".
Ledward Kaapana
1/24/11
backhanded belly ballyhoo
starring: hippie johnny on a cockeyed liddle.
and an emerald bonus from a natural.(not a goof)
Cluster - Sowiesoso (1976)
Ah yes, one of the best albums I've ever heard. The world takes on a nice sepia tone when this short, 7-track beauty is on. By '76, Krautrock legends Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius had moved away from their noise/proto-industrial beginnings, were living in a cottage in a forest and were incorporating state-of-the-art analogue synths into a blissfully relaxed new sound. It could be termed ambient (there aren't many beats), but that does not do it justice. "Sowiesoso"'s overlapping, building melodies can be eerily unsettling and totally blissful, often at the same time. Tracks like the majestic "Zum Wohl" and "In Ewigkeit" hit heights which weren't scaled again for another 15, 20 years, until the likes of Aphex Twin, Tortoise and Boards of Canada came along. Part of what makes the album so special is its magnificent restraint...if a piece needs 7 minutes or more to stretch out and build, that's what happens. Cluster's aim was 100% true with this one, there is no filler. Moebius and Roedelius had some other fantastic albums, both as Cluster ("Zuckerzeit", especially) and as two-thirds of Harmonia (with Michael Rother of Neu!), but to me this is their pinnacle.
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1
Sowiesoso
8:08
2
Halwa
2:48
3
Dem Wanderer
3:52
4
Umleitung
3:26
5
Zum Wohl
6:51
6
Es War Einmal
5:23
7
In Ewigkeit
7:24
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1/23/11
1/22/11
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is a compilation album of sorts. Mingus, probably the most famous jazz bassist of all time, compiled an album of retakes on some of his most classic tracks like "Haitian Fight Song" and gave the tracks new titles and slightly new vibes. So this album is a greatest hits album for people who hate the sterility of greatest hits. Every song has a little extra life and verve in it as a result of the newer recording session. At the very least, it's a good place to start with Mingus because of the variety and musicianship.
Tracklist:
01. II B.S.
02. I X Love
03. Celia
04. Mood Indigo
05. Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul
06. Theme For Lester Young
07. Hora Decubitus
08. Freedom
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1/21/11
stub y stub y stub
JW with a snazzy bonzer stub carve.
JW little liddle stub
Mr. Mason big liddle stub
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