RE: Hank Big Mon collaboration?
This is presumably the song that Muleskinner (Richard Greene, Peter Rowan, David Grisman, Clarence White, Bill Keith - plenty of Big Mon alumni there) recorded as Blue And Lonesome. If so, any idea it would be credited to Walter Jacobs on the record? I suspect that's the product of sloppiness at several points in the process of putting the album together: Grisman (or Rowan, or...) to Sierra gofer: "That one's called 'I'm Blue And Lonesome'" Sierra gofer to PRO gofer: "I need the writer/publisher credit for 'Blue And Lonesome.'" PRO gofer: "Here you go. Walter Jacobs." One of the side effects of putting the BMI and ASCAP databases online is that everyone can see for themselves just how messy they are... Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
RE: Hank Big Mon collaboration?
"Jon Weisberger" says I suspect that's the product of sloppiness at several points in the process of putting the album together: Grisman (or Rowan, or...) to Sierra gofer: "That one's called 'I'm Blue And Lonesome'" Well, if you're right, it started before that, because the record was originally issued on Warner Brothers way back in '73 or '74 with the same credits. You'd think that a company with the resources of WB might get it right, right? Jim N.
RE: Hank Big Mon collaboration?
Jim Nelson says: I suspect that's the product of sloppiness at several points in the process of putting the album together: Grisman (or Rowan, or...) to Sierra gofer: "That one's called 'I'm Blue And Lonesome'" Well, if you're right, it started before that, because the record was originally issued on Warner Brothers way back in '73 or '74 with the same credits. You'd think that a company with the resources of WB might get it right, right? I did not know, or didn't remember, the original issuer, but IMO that it was a major makes this theory even more likely, because it's even less likely that an early-70s vintage WB flunky would know a Bill Monroe tune from a Little Walter one g. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Re: Hank Big Mon collaboration?
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Dave Purcell wrote: I'm about halfway thru Colin Escott's excellent Hank book and am intrigued by his mentioning a song that Hank and Bill Monroe wrote together. Since I don't have the book, I can't rememeber the name or the exact credit (credited to Ferlin B. Smith or some such), but I'd never heard this before. Anyone have any more info about this? Dave Bluegrass legend has it that the song was "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome Too." Marty Stuart covered it some time back. One listen to the song bears out the idea that Monroe and Hank co-wrote it - it's so very much the both of them stylistically. OK- Jon, correct me if I'm wrong on this, as always. -- Geff King * email [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www2.ari.net/gking/ "I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you." -- Anon.
RE: Hank Big Mon collaboration?
I'm about halfway thru Colin Escott's excellent Hank book and am intrigued by his mentioning a song that Hank and Bill Monroe wrote together. Since I don't have the book, I can't rememeber the name or the exact credit (credited to Ferlin B. Smith or some such), but I'd never heard this before. Anyone have any more info about this? That's "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome," credited to James B. Smith; Monroe, at least, used a number of pseudonyms, including Joe Ahr and Albert Price. Monroe recorded it on 2/3/50, with Jimmy Martin, Rudy Lyle on banjo, Joel Price on bass and Vassar Clements on the fiddle. Alison Krauss and Dan Tyminski did an absolutely stunning version of the song on the Prime Time Country episode devoted to Monroe that was aired shortly after he passed away. "I worked 21 days with Bill, with Little Jimmy Dickens, got to ride the bus and sing with Hank Williams. Well, Hank sung a song about the lonesome sigh of a train going by, Im blue, Im lonesome too. And I learnt that lonesome touch from Hank Williams, I said to myself, Im going to put a little Hank in his own song. And when Bill sang tenor, Bill would say, well, put as of that break in your voice like that and Ill put it in mine, you see." -- Jimmy Martin It seems like I heard somewhere that Williams wrote the verse and Monroe wrote the bridge, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
