Re: Crazy Cajun (was Sir Doug Sahm: Alt.)
Jon Weisberger wrote: ...the guy in Cincinnati who had James Brown et al. Syd Nathan, inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame not too long ago. "You know, everybody told us he was really a bear cat, but we never had anybody to treat us any better than Syd Nathan." - Ralph Stanley Thanks, Jon, I drew a blank. I have a tape around here somewhere of him ranting and raving at a staff meeting one day that is just astounding. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Re: Crazy Cajun (was Sir Doug Sahm: Alt.)
Will Miner wrote: Sigh. I try not to get too sentimental for olden days but it's hard not to wish for such things. Too many of my favorite records are from those days when music was locally owned and made as were the records and the radio, when saying "that's a band from Memphis" would have meant something. Just yesterday, I read a review of a new book by two Cinti writers called "Little Labels--Big Sound : Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music." I can't find the review on the paper's website, but the book basically covers many of the small but influential regional labels, like King and Sun. The book apparently focuses pretty evenly on rock, jazz, and blues. Dave *** Dave Purcell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Northern Ky Roots Music: http://w3.one.net/~newport Twangfest: http://www.twangfest.com
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Will Miner wrote: I'll vote for that (not knowing whether a Gracey rampage might be too dangerous to the locals). Sigh. I try not to get too sentimental for olden days but it's hard not to wish for such things. Too many of my favorite records are from those days when music was locally owned and made as were the records and the radio, when saying "that's a band from Memphis" would have meant something. And too many of my other favorite records seem to be trying to recapture the feel of the music of those times. Ah well. I'm in the process of writing some things down, and I remembered an "old days" situation that relates to this. When I was in Jr. High I used to hang out at the local recording studio in Ft. Worth where Maj. Bill Smith had his headquarters (I got to watch some of them records being made) and the thing was, he would cut a single, make an acetate of it on the studio lathe, and walk upstairs with it to KXOL radio (where I eventually was a kid DJ) and if the PD liked it, he'd stick it into the night rotation to see how the kids responded to it. If it did anything, Major Bill would press it up and put it in the stores and the rest would be history. Sam Phillips used to do the same thing in Memphis with Dewey Phillips. These were major, mass-market radio outlets. I daresay you could not walk into your local A3 outlet with a DAT of your latest single and be taken very seriously, and HNC would look at you like you were a dangerous lunatic. The practical effect of this was to remove the layers and layers of bullshit a record has to go through now in order to even make it to a programmer's hands. It really is no wonder that records sound so watery and wimpy- there are about 500 non-musical opinions between it and the air. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Re: Crazy Cajun (was Sir Doug Sahm: Alt.)
he would cut a single, make an acetate of it on the studio lathe, and walk upstairs with it to KXOL radio (where I eventually was a kid DJ) and if the PD liked it, he'd stick it into the night rotation to see how the kids responded to it. If it did anything, Major Bill would press it up and put it in the stores and the rest would be history. Sam Phillips used to do the same thing in Memphis with Dewey Phillips. These were major, mass-market radio outlets. "A lot of record executives in their ivory towers could come down into a record shop and work on Saturday night in the ghetto behind the counter and learn a hell of a lot about the record business. That was the best test market in the world. We literally took the demos up there, put them on the turntable, and watched the reaction." --Jim Stewart, Stax Records, on the adjacent Satellite Record Shop
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On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Joe Gracey wrote: This is an essay I can't do justice to now, but Huey and his kind were great inspiration to me and I long for the days of freewheeling record making and real radio programmers in charge of their own playlists. I hope that era returns soon so that I can rampage across the land myself. I'll vote for that (not knowing whether a Gracey rampage might be too dangerous to the locals). Sigh. I try not to get too sentimental for olden days but it's hard not to wish for such things. Too many of my favorite records are from those days when music was locally owned and made as were the records and the radio, when saying "that's a band from Memphis" would have meant something. And too many of my other favorite records seem to be trying to recapture the feel of the music of those times. Ah well. Will Miner Denver, CO
Re: Crazy Cajun (was Sir Doug Sahm: Alt.)
Absolutely...they're all creeping their way into stores right about now too. The Collectors Choice catalogue is probaboy the one you're talking about, but I suspect lots of vendors and stores have them now. New Crazy Cajun discs include sets recorded in Texas or Louisiana by: Lowell Fulson Johnny Copeland Mickey Gilley Ronnie Milsap Delbert McClinton Moe Bandy Doug Kershaw And I believe you'll find a number of these guys on each others' sessions there; they played package shows together back when too; and the cuts tend to be ones NOT duplicateds elsewhere. UK Demon has these records back out. (I picked up the Sir Douglas when I was over in London.) Barr BTW, Barry, I discovered the disc you were talking about in a catalog where it was listed along with a bunch of other Crazy Cajun releases. The whole slew of releases was extrememly impressive, although the Sir Douglas is definitely what caught my eye. --junior
RE: Crazy Cajun (was Sir Doug Sahm: Alt.)
...the guy in Cincinnati who had James Brown et al. Syd Nathan, inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame not too long ago. "You know, everybody told us he was really a bear cat, but we never had anybody to treat us any better than Syd Nathan." - Ralph Stanley Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
