Highlighting A Bunch of Tracks Chosen By Larry Azrin Downliner's Sect {Recent Death}, Glen Glenn {Recent Death}, Bob Luman {May birthday} and more // Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin, check out the links at your leisure.
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BED:Music Played Whilst Talking
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BILLED as 'Steve Earle & The Dukes' // Originally on the Jerry Jeff Walker album '¡Viva Terlingua!', 1973 / Click the Link above, left to view an article on this.
Mead moved to Nashville in the mid 1990s and fronted the popular group BR549. / Pig Hargus {piano} , Bob Moore {bass} played on this // Click on the Link above, left, to view the CD.
FORMER WMBR DJ Joan Hathaway: "More stellar playing from the master of the telecaster (and other axes), Duke Levine. Never disappoints." // BUT best remembered by Freddie Fender, who had his biggest hit with it in early 1975
Don Craine {born 'Mick O' Donnell'}, singer and guitarist in British R&B group The Downliners Sect, died Feb 24th at age 76. / They had many well-known fans, including Van Morrison, Steve Marriott, and Rod Stewart; the latter two had even auditioned to join the band, but were turned down because they both wanted to be frontmen. Click on the Link above, to read an article that puts this unusual album in perspective.
Don Craine {born 'Mick O' Donnell'}, singer and guitarist in British R&B group The Downliners Sect, died Feb 24th at age 76. They were basically a cruder and less successful version of The Pretty Things. / They had many well-known fans, including Van Morrison, Steve Marriott, and Rod Stewart. // Click on the Link above, to read an article that puts this unusual album in perspective.
Time:
4:20
Artist:
Glen Glenn [Glen Trout {Glenn's real name}, Bobby George]
Rockabilly singer Glen Glenn, born as 'Orin Glenn Troutman', died April 18, at age 87. He was related to Porter Wagoner by marriage. He had three singles on the label, which are regarded as classics, and have been covered by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan. / Click on the Link above, left to view the original single.
Don Craine {born 'Mick O' Donnell'}, singer and guitarist in British R&B group The Downliners Sect, died Feb 24th at age 76. They were basically a cruder and less successful version of The Pretty Things. / They had many well-known fans, including Van Morrison, Steve Marriott, and Rod Stewart; the latter two had even auditioned to join the band, but were turned down because they both wanted to be frontmen. Click on the Link above, to read an article that puts this unusual album in perspective.
Rockabilly singer Glen Glenn, born as 'Orin Glenn Troutman', died April 18, at age 87. He was related to Porter Wagoner by marriage. He had three singles on the label, which are regarded as classics, and have been covered by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan. / Click on the Link above, left to view the original single.
* - This was first released, in a different version, on the English comp 'No One's Gonna Change Our World', Jan 1969 // FORMER WMBR DJ Joan Hathaway: "More stellar playing from the master of the telecaster (and other axes), Duke Levine. Never disappoints."
Rockabilly, then country singer Bob Luman was born on Tax Day {April 15th}, 1937. His big hit was 'Let's Think About Living' {UK #6, C&W #9, Pop #7/ 06-60} / * - BUT better known by Billy Lee Riley, whose version {also on Sun records} Luman covered _immediately_ after it was released in Sept 1957/ Click on the Link above, to view the original single.
Rockabilly, then country singer Bob Luman was born on Tax Day {April 15th}, 1937. His big hit was 'Let's Think About Living' {UK #6, C&W #9, Pop #7/ 06-60} // Click on the Link above, to view the original single.
Don Craine {born 'Mick O' Donnell'}, singer and guitarist in British R&B group The Downliners Sect, died Feb 24th at age 76. / They had many well-known fans, including Van Morrison, Steve Marriott, and Rod Stewart; the latter two had even auditioned to join the band, but were turned down because they both wanted to be frontmen. Click on the Link above, to read an article that puts this unusual album in perspective.
Rockabilly, then country singer Bob Luman was born on Tax Day {April 15th}, 1937. His big hit was 'Let's Think About Living' {UK #6, C&W #9, Pop #7/ 06-60}
Rockabilly singer Glen Glenn, born as 'Orin Glenn Troutman', died April 18, at age 87. He was related to Porter Wagoner by marriage. He had three singles on the label, which are regarded as classics, and have been covered by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan. / Click on the Link above, left to view the original single.
Rockabilly singer Glen Glenn, born as 'Orin Glenn Troutman', died April 18, at age 87. He was related to Porter Wagoner by marriage. He had three singles on the label, which are regarded as classics, and have been covered by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan. / Click on the Link above, left to view the original single.
This Scottish/ Irish folk song is also known as 'Purple Heather', or 'Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?'. There have been many versions since 1958, but probably best known by Judy Collins (1961) and The Byrds (july 1966, the 'Fifth Dimension' LP)
Originally on his first solo album ;'Ace' {Warner Brothers}, May 1972 - it is essentially a Grateful Dead album, as almost all of the members of The Grateful Dead at the time played on it.
Sydney songwriter, long-time lead singer of Smudge, frequent collaborator with Nic Dalton in Sneeze, and writer/ co-writer of many Lemonheads songs, see track ABOVE
... Singer-songwriter Paul Siebel died April 5th, at age 84; "Louise" is his most well-known song. / * - the oldest song on the list, and number three on "100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time". // Click on the link above, left side, to view the album
Time:
5:45
Artist:
Molly Tuttle [Billed as 'Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway']
* - At Wabash College, Crawfordville, IN // This album of previously unreleased Son House recordings from Easy Eye Sound, the independent label operated by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, is the premiere release from Dick Waterman’s personal cache of ’60s recordings by some of the titans of Delta blues. His collection of quarter-inch tapes — which are being restored by Easy Eye Sound — have gone unreleased until now.
Pioneering female Country singer: '... a hard-living, feisty and opinionated woman - musically and physically aggressive onstage and off. She wore men's slacks and cowboy shirts. She leapt from stage amplifiers. She sang while lying down. ..." // Click the Link above, left to view the original single
* - but a Country hit for Ray Price also {in a Western swing version} by Skeets McDonald, and a bigger Pop hit for Perry Como, all within a month of the original release // Click the Link above, left to view the original Canadian single