* - The Sadies have also recorded collaborations with Andre Williams, Jerry Teel & The Big City Stompers, Jon Langford, and Nekko Case / Click on the Link above, left to view the CD.
Backed by Clarence White, Michael Clarke and Chris Hillman of the Byrds, plus Red Rhodes on steel guitar. / Click on Link above, to view the original single
Click on Link above, to read a biography of Tullos (spoiler alert - he died in Nov 2020). All the artists on this album grew up in South Louisiana in the River Parishes, Joe Tullos started the project and enlisted drummer Kevin Aucoin and Subdudes guitarist, singer and songwriter Dave Malone. Tullos got cancer and died before the project could be completed, Malone and Aucoin finished the release. / Click on the Link above, left to read his biography.
From Wisconsin / The group includes includes Jerry Miller, lead guitarist of Moby Grape. . Rolling Stone included Miller at #68 on their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time" and Moby Grape's debut/ self-titled album, at #124 on the listing of "The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time".
From Wisconsin / The group includes includes Jerry Miller, lead guitarist of Moby Grape. . Rolling Stone included Miller at #68 on their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time" and Moby Grape's debut/ self-titled album, at #124 on the listing of "The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time".
Click on Link above, to read a biography of Tullos (spoiler alert - he died in Nov 2020). All the artists on this album grew up in South Louisiana in the River Parishes, Joe Tullos started the project and enlisted drummer Kevin Aucoin and Subdudes guitarist, singer and songwriter Dave Malone. Tullos got cancer and died before the project could be completed, Malone and Aucoin finished the release. / Click on the Link above, left to read his biography.
Label is co-founded by John Leventhal and Rosanne Cash (distributed by Thirty Tigers). // "Floyd Cramer" was a pianist, part of Nashville's "A-list team" team of first-call session musicians. He also had a successful solo career, recording over 50 studio albums, and having 21 chart singles from 1958 to 1980.
Warden has been around since the late 1980's; he is a rare two-time member of The Texas Music Hall of Fame, both as a solo artist and as a member of The Wagoneers.
Recorded in mono through valve microphones, and mixed live to tape, using a one-track 1/4" Ampex tape machine (professional recording usually used 1/2 inch-wide reel-to-reel tape)
* - Swamp Dogg's real name: "J. Williams" = "Jerry Williams" / “Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music, but it came from Black people. The banjo, the washtub, all that stuff started with African Americans. We were playing it before it even had a name.” - Swamp Dogg // Click on Link above/ left, to read an article about this release
