* - But FIRST released by Ian & Sylvia and Peter, Paul & Mary (Sept 1965 - minor US hit). Lightfoot's version was 1st released on his debut album, Jan 1966.
Now defunct , re-released on Steady Boy Records, 2024 / Formerly a founding member/ bass player in Moby Grape./// Just released for the first time in the USA / Click on Link above, left, to view the CD.
* - although Hopkins claimed credit on the original, 1948 record // B-side of 'Down Now Baby' /// Click on the Link above, to view the original 10" shellac record, to see the full billing of 'Lightnin' Hopkins, Singing and accompanying himself on guitar' (I love the embellishments on the inner labels of old 10" records! - LsA).
Time:
4:21
Artist:
Jimmie Rodgers [The Pop/ 'Honeycomb" Rodgers, not the "Singing Brakeman" Rodgers]
Billed as 'The Legendary Marvin Pontiac' // * - In 1999, John Lurie (founder of the Lounge Lizards) created the fictional character of the work of an African-Jewish musician "Marvin Pontiac" and released a posthumous collection of his work. It includes a biographical profile describing the troubled genius's hard life, and the cover shows a photograph purported to be one of the few ever taken of him, because he thought that taking a photograph steals a person's soul.
Time:
4:26
Artist:
Jean Shepard [Billed as ''Jean Shepard And Ray Pillow']
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)
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.
Time:
5:45
Artist:
Emmylou Harris [Townes Van Zandt] [Duet with Don Williams]
Klee Benally died December 30, 2023, in Flagstaff, Arizona, at age 48. // * - On their 'Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.' album; this is the original, acoustic version without the July 1965 electric/ Folk-Rock overdubs (done without Simon/ Garfunkel's knowledge) that made it a #1 hit single by the end of the year.
REAL name: Derek Rogers / Described as "Roy Orbison With a head wound" :)) . From Montreal, Québec, Canada. // Click on the Link above, left, to view the CD.
* - described as "a whizz kid guitar player from a nearby (English) college" / ** - The only album he released in his lifetime // Click on the Link above, left, to listen to the complete show. Frank offers commentary between songs; quite a find! - LsA
* - BUT, much better known by numerous live performances by The Grateful Dead in the early 1970s (it was on the 1973 album 'History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)'
