Tired of singin' Kumbuya Part Deux

[Curley Cole]

Del
I was pretty sure it was Ian before I got to the end, he does write sweet. I wasnt puttin his cowboy stuff down any, it is just I am so hard headed about change...I think I need to pick up a copy of that my self..

For the last year I have been workin on puttin my albums (records) to cd. I have an amp and turntable stuck in my office hooked up to my 'puter, but I just haven't gotten very far. And they are putting a lot of old stuff on cd. I even got my dad some pretty scarce early Roy Acuff...But, alas a lot of Hoyt Axton just aint getting to cd, so will have to get busy.

I noted you perked up when I mentioned John Prine, not too many folks know him out here, but, that never stopped me and Old Top.

Today on the way to work I was listening to Emmylou Harris' Duets album. (a lot of the folks she sang with on it are dead, g. Parsons, J. Denver, R. Orbson and a couple of others), but that was a sweet disk.
curley

[Delmonico]

Sad Hoyt is gone, one of my favorites.  Most of John Prines music was bought by other musicians.  One of my tests, when folks say they are a musician it turn the conversation to John Prine.  If they say who i get suspicious.  If they are local I turn the conversation to a friend.  If they don't know Sean, ain't heard of John Prine they might play music, but they ain't a musician.

Try Ian's Live at Longview for a start.  A 2003 album, his newest till the next one comes out in a few months.  Ian sounds as good live as studio, rare.  His song about Charlie Russell is fantastic.  When the Ian one is over I am gonna put on some live Hank SR.  I got some.

[Uncle Eph]

that first John Prine LP is in a class all by its self.

I say lets break out the Sangria Wine and all join in and sing a little Jerry Jeff Walker, who remembers the words to La Freeway?

[Delmonico]

If we can just get off that LA Freeway
with out gettin killed or caught
i'd be down the road in a cloud a dust
to some land that I ain't bought.

I could go up and get my Guy Clark Ol' #1 record if ya want the words, since he wrote it and loaned it to Jerry Jeff.  The best song Jerry Jeff wrote is "Pissin' In the Wind" the one that he wrote and made them put on the NY album, can't rember the name, but have it upstairs.  Came out about 73 and since he did a Jesse Winchester song one it, he thought Jesse should help him on that song "Misssissippi on My Mind".  Well Jesse was stayin' up North cause he wasn't welcome back here yet, somethin' about an arson charge over a draft card. 

Well some way they got Jesse to the sudio and back to Canada and Jerry Jeff did the next one the double one in Austin.  Him and the Lost Gonzo Band got drunk and stoned and did Sterioooo Chickens as the openin' song.  Is that the fella ya mean Unk?

Just pissin' in the wind
and it's blowin on all our friends
will just sit and grin
and tell the grandchildren.



The answer my friend isn't pissin in the wind
the answer is pissin' in the sink.

That record was banned at my house about 1986, seems that little ears hear better than Dad thinks, when Grandma is over and the 3 year old is singin' bout pissin' in the wind, well, I was lucky I wasn't iron skilleted.

To para phrase Bill Cosby, "When it was explained to the child, the child thought is was silly to go potty into the wind." 

And I have turned another thread to potty things.

[Curley Cole]

Wen ya has to go ya has to go..
I for one liked it.

am off work in a couple so will have some gentleman jack to toast the singers we have been quoting.
nite keep the fire up for us..
curley

[Uncle Eph]

what was the JJW song about his old guitar?

I am listenin' to Levon Helm right now, it don't get any better then that.

[Delmonico]

You just want me to go up and dig through that stuff don't ya.  I can see the album, has "Hairy Assed Hillbillies" on it.   Might get up there thursday.  Got to go to bed soon, 10 hour day tommorow.

Not a broke horse one the place
Pickup truck won't go
Tractor lost a wheel 'bout a week ago
Wind is from the east
Blowing hard accross the plains
High and Lonesome waiting for a change

Chorus
Give me on broke horse
With a good fitting saddle
Thats easy on yer back
One good woman who makes up the differance
For everything I lack
Once chance to sell my calves
Before the prices go to hell again
Clear blue skies and 18 inches of rain

Coffee's kind of bitter
Is it the water ot the pot
Until I get to town
I'll make do with what I've got
Copenhagen's running low should quit it any ways
Me and this old outfits - we've seen better days.

Chorus

18 inches of Rain by  Ian Tyson

Have really got inta his music the last year or so.  Find myself playin' it at work and at home.  Nice, I have about a 100 CD's at work to play,  all Western Music and I get to control it.  Everything from the 1925 Carl Sprague recordin' of Strawberry Roan (considered the first recorded Western song) to Ian Tyson.

Got the soundtracks to Quigley, Lonsome Dove, Rough Riders, Monty Walsh, Last Stand at Sabre River.

Plenty of Roy and Gene, MMM, Sons of the San Joquin, Don Edwards and much else.  Makes me sad to think the rest of the store has to listen to Top 40 Country.

[Uncle Eph]

that a fine list Del, but I gotta admit that I have quite a bit of Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye in my stack of most listen to CDs.

[Delmonico]

Ya but Otis would not sound right in The Old West Shop.

[Delmonico]

"Old Beat Up Guitar" that's the name, was up on a ladder messin' with boots and I thought of it.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Be careful on them ladders ,Del! don't need a repeat of the Frock incident............Buck

[Curley Cole]

Here is the Ian & Sylvia (actually Ian wrote it and sang it alone, so qualifies as a solo) tune that couldn't remember all the words. Is one of my alll time fav songs. (the guitar break toward the end is really nice:
Friends of Mine

These friends of mine, we shared some good times together
Days of sunshine days of rain
the many jobs the many towns we worked and never
Cared if we saw the same towns again
Then one day we weren't as young as before
Our mistakes weren't quite as easy to undo
Byt by all those roads my friends we traveled down
I a better man for just a knowing of yout.

These friends of mine
they never cared about tomorrow
it was too early in the game
They stay a while until the day
they get to wondering
if the far side of the hill looked the same
And they settled down somewhrer along the way
and some went wrong as some men do
Byt by all those roads my friends we traveled down
I'm a better man for just a-knowin of you.

I have loved this song since it came out in 1966, and never realized just how true the words are, pretty much until I just now typed them out....guess this thread can be medicinal...wonder ifn it can help other aches and pains....
curley

[Uncle Eph]

Curley, I had forgotten that song, glad you brought it up.

Del, I just came back from having lunch down the road in a little podunk town that has 1 church, 1 general store, and one tavern with a well used hitching rack out front and a empty lot next door to park tractors, a one armed go go dancer.... oops sorry wrong story anyway I was looking at the jukebox and low and behold it was 10% new country 40% classic C&W; Hank, Willy, George, and the rest was old R&B, soul, and blues with some old time R&R thrown in.  I have not hung out there on Friday night since I got old enough to figure out that I was not as tough as I once thought I was, it use to be a real "puke twice and show your knife at the door" kinda place. 

anyway Otis might not be that out of place.

[Curley Cole]

Me and Old Top used to drive our dates to this little mountain bar that had the greatest juke box in the world, was like we stocked it

[Old Top]

Curly,

I wonder if they have changed any of the songs yet?

Old Top

[Curley Cole]

I surely hope not, however we will have to wait til they fix the bridges afor we go up there...Hey we could go up and pan for some "color". Mostly all ever got was cold hands from the water.
Dang do you think Camp Williams is even still open..

cc

[Old Top]

Curly,

I was up there a year  or two ago and it was still there, but I did not check the coffee shop, and the bridges that went out are up the river more.

Old Top

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I say go! Pan a little and bring me back some color!!

<Thinks it would be a neat adventure, no matter how old you are>


AnnieLee

[Old Top]

Miss Annie,

The way that river is running at the minute I think the only color we would get would be blue, and I would hate to have to chase Curly all the way down to Long Beach when he fell in.  Just can't take that boy anywhere.

Old Top

[Delmonico]

He could have Jesse James make him a moootersicle when he gets there, then he could sing:

I don't want a pickle, just wanna ride on my motersicle.
I don't wanna tickle, just wanna ride on my motersicle.
And I don't wanna die, just want to ride on my motercie-cal