Re: Floyd Tillman comp/ Jimmy Wakely
John Flippo wrote: Don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet but there is a new cd that just came out on Glad called Herb Remington Instrumentally Salutes Floyd Tillman. I believe Remington was in the Texas Playboys. I haven't heard it yet but it sounds awful interesting. Flippo Herb was one of Will's greatest steel players. He was in the same band as a very young Johnny Gimble, and you can hear him on the MGM (?) stuff playing "Remington's Ride". He uses only a couple of pedals and plays more in a pedal-less style. He's one of the great ones. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Re: Floyd Tillman comp/ Jimmy Wakely
..and I in fact got hold of that new Collectoir's Music/Sony Tillman comp--and it's alredy set to be up there among the reissues of the year for me. Interesting side point: Floyd is an early practitioner of blues jazz vocal-influenced baroque folk singing...he regularly irregularly bends and breaks and takes notes in almost always interesting and affecting directions, and he usually does it in keeping with the rhythm of the produced number, not even strictly by the lyric meaningthat's part of what would someday be the mid-sixties Dylan singing approach. (And there HAS always been one!) Barry
Re: Floyd Tillman comp
Jon Weisberger wrote: The talk about Willie Nelson's singing style reminds me that I had meant to mention that the Collector's Choice Tillman CD that has a couple dozen of Floyd's Columbia records,including "Slipping Around," "This Cold War With You," "It Had To Be That Way," "I Gotta Have My Baby Back," etc. is now available through regular retail channels. Oh, baby. Floyd Tillman is one of the least appreciated great American songwriters. His chord structures just floor me every time I hear or play one. He literally had the first cheatin' song hit. His melodies are beautiful. Get him. He is still very much alive and plays occasionally in Texas. He was big in Houston and was the resident influence there on a whole generation of young guys, including Willie. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Re: Floyd Tillman comp/ Jimmy Wakely
Jon Weisberger wrote: t the Collector's Choice Tillman CD that has a couple dozen of Floyd's Columbia records, is now available through regular retail channels. Oh, baby. So these would be all those key late-40s cuts missing from the Hall of Fame comp--and not just those 3 cuts I've had on the Columbia "Honky Tonk Heroies" comp? Oh Baby indeed. In a related area, I've also just been catching up with--and really admiring and liking--the smooth honky tonk of Jimmy Wakely. Got a hard-to-locate comp while in Austin called "Million Sellers" on the obscure but apparently legit "Country Legends/KRB" label... But the larger and recent Capitol Vintage comp seems to have disappeared as suddenly and quietly as it appeared, so I have to keep checking for that. Any other recommendations there? Barry
RE: Floyd Tillman comp
Floyd Tillman is one of the least appreciated great American songwriters. In a lot of places, for sure, but not in Nashville g, where he's a charter member of the Songwriters Hall Of Fame (1970) and was inducticated, as Jimmy Martin says, into the Country Music HOF in 1984. Biggest shortcoming of the new comp is that "A Small Little Town" didn't make the cut. I sure hope they put it on Volume Two g. Jon Weisberger, Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger
RE: Floyd Tillman comp/ Jimmy Wakely
Barry "Mr. Good Taste" Mazor says: Jon Weisberger wrote: t the Collector's Choice Tillman CD that has a couple dozen of Floyd's Columbia records, is now available through regular retail channels. Oh, baby. So these would be all those key late-40s cuts missing from the Hall of Fame comp--and not just those 3 cuts I've had on the Columbia "Honky Tonk Heroies" comp? Oh Baby indeed. That's correct; 2 dozen cuts made between 1946 and 1952. In a related area, I've also just been catching up with--and really admiring and liking--the smooth honky tonk of Jimmy Wakely. Got a hard-to-locate comp while in Austin called "Million Sellers" on the obscure but apparently legit "Country Legends/KRB" label... But the larger and recent Capitol Vintage comp seems to have disappeared as suddenly and quietly as it appeared, so I have to keep checking for that. Any other recommendations there? Simitar, a label about which I know nothing more than what it says on their website (http://www.simitar.com), has a nice 12-cut selection that's very badly annotated (the sum total of recording info is that the cuts "were made in the 1940s"). It might be transcription stuff from when he was on Autry's radio show, or from his movies made for Monogram. Nothing really famous on it, unless you count what I guess must be the original version of "Too Late," which folks might know from the Louvin Brothers' version (Wakely wrote it), but it's good stuff; Wakely was awfully consistent. That's bad news about the Capitol Vintage comp. Jon Weisberger, Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger
Re: Floyd Tillman comp/ Jimmy Wakely
Don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet but there is a new cd that just came out on Glad called Herb Remington Instrumentally Salutes Floyd Tillman. I believe Remington was in the Texas Playboys. I haven't heard it yet but it sounds awful interesting. Flippo
