[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jesse Dayton has signed to Columbia and is also expecting
to release a record in July.
Is there still a label called Columbia?
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Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
show on Sunday nights right after
"Live Set" by my old compadre Larry Monroe that features Texas artists.
Larry also does a blues show on Monday night and a show on Thursday
night. Saturday night is Paul Ray's great oldies RB show. KUT is one of
the best NPR stations around.
--
Joe Gracey
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
Presiden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joe Gracey writes:
.One example I have always
found particularly grating was the Dead's vocals, which are like
fingernails on chalkboards to me, but which apparently don't bother
their fans. I find Dylan's early stuff to be engaging, his later stuff
heir music, then they have now. This is
worthwhile. I'd like to roll up a copy of our play and shove it up this
guy's ass.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
ong 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
e question. If it shot up and
fell back off in a hurry, it might have never sold a lot of copies.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
-of-tune strat he plays on Hiway 61, etc. Its cool.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
ve the
strongest voice in the world. However, he figured out strategies for
evading those problems and became a great singer.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
M Rubin wrote:
I think Anon's beef is much more with the organizers, promoters, and
marketers of SXSW, but all the ire falls on the bands.
Nah, I'd say he's disturbed most by the infrastructure attached to that
particular scene that can't seem to diferentiate between the wheat and the
hese guys could ever sing anonymously like a typical "good singer" can.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
ething new but with an
understanding of where we come from.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
u are doing more than one time.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
t just Ray overdubbing with himself but another fiddle
player or someone. I've seen footage of the guy, in fact. A
heavyset guy whose name I can't remember.
I haven't listened closely to the harmony singer, so I'm just guessing
(read "bullshitting") as usual.
--
Joe Gracey
President
k Dylan up there at the top of the list,
methinks.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
idol king Elvis became.)
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
and Albert and Freddie.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
of course, but
that was the gist, and supposedly they did in fact back him up and he
did the whole show with them. Love to hear a bootleg of that baby g...
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
, but when
it comes to paying the bills, even Johnson apparently did
what a guy's gotta do.
Bob Wills made his guys learn the hit songs on the charts no matter what
genre they came from. They had to, even though he had hits of his own.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http
along with Ray's big
baritone...
I think it's Ray Price, doing the old (pre-multitrack) overdub technique
whereby you sing as the original master rolls and record the mixed
result onto a new master.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
t up to 85 and hold it way up there close to the redline
and it feels like musical sex.
This is what music is supposed to do to you.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
icane" Benz
We demand it back at once.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
OUT OF YOUR OWN BANK ACCOUNT. However, our CPA says
there are worse problems than having to pay taxes- it just means you
made some money this year. I'll buy.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
cause a lot of their customers are cedar
choppers and Hispanics. They also have the greatest food store in the
world, Austin's Central Market.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
out into the supermarket aisles. Sadly, though,
Muzak doesn't pay anything resembling a decent performance royalty rate.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
0's he had a gigantic big swing band with full horns as well as
stringed instruments and he sounds like a big jazz dance band to me. How
the hell anybody could have gone to Spade Cooley to be "less country" is
beyond me.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
er was Sam Houston's chief of staff, later founded the Austin
American Statesman, where I was the Rock Music Editor at one time.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Jerry Curry wrote:
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Joe Gracey wrote:
She and Kimmie co-wrote "Shine All Your Light" which was sung by Amy
Grant on the "Touched By An Angel" soundtrack CD and which is now
certified double platinum.
Many many congratulations Joe. By the way,
ully
fixed a short scale Gibson so it will tune?
And secondly, if I do decide to get a P-Bass or copy thereof, which ones
are good and which ones suck? Mexican P-Basses any good? Peavey? Yamaha?
Might as well do this off-list, I'm sure this is ultra boring to non-players.
--
Joe Gracey
Presiden
real to me.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
en I asked them to fwd info about their
company. They claim to be in Dallas.
Never heard of them, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
However, getting pissed when asked for info doesn't sound very good,
now, does it?
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Brad Bechtel wrote:
Blah blah Yeah, right, it's not of general interest, like vintage cereals g.
I daresay more of us have tasted Quisp than played bass. Otherwise an excellent
post, Jon.
I doubt it g.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
always sound nice to me, although they
obviously don't have the all-purpose overall quality of a P-bass.
I played one of those today and I liked it pretty good, but it still
doesn't have that long, unctuous sustain that I need for KRhodes new stuff.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope
"George L. Figgs" wrote:
I don't how similar the workmanship in P's and Jazz basses are, but for
what it's worth, I've got a mexican std jazz bass.
Thanks, George, and Jerry, and all you poor bass playing bastards out
there. It is a tool of ignorance.
--
Joe Gracey
Presiden
From the Fred Eaglesmith mailing list, a serious(?) religious take on
Terry Allen's "Salivation":
As for me,
I'd never let this guy babysit my young'uns.
My God, no. Terry Allen is crazier than Guy Clark. I won't even let him
talk to my duaghter.
--
Joe Gracey
Presiden
r followup hits after "Mover". They also had a hit with
"Mendocino" (which I have heard played by an orchestra on Muzak.)
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Joe Gracey wrote:
They also had a hit with
"Mendocino" (which I have heard played by an orchestra on Muzak.)
As opposed to an orchestra on Prozak...
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
ph 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
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
ai
in that town, so they say things
like "we're having a great day here in Lompoc" and horrible lame
horseshit like that.
Can it get any worse than this? Every time I think it has hit rock
bottom, somebody comes up with a big drill and takes us farther toward
Hell.
--
Joe Gracey
Presiden
er he
left the Quintet.
He is a force of nature. See him if you get a chance.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
, smilin'
Not only was doug a child radio star at 6, but guess why? He played the
steel guitar.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Barry Mazor wrote:
Mr. Gracey, you have the most interetsing friends--but then, so do they.
Barry
Goes to show that if you stand around long enough in one spot, the
whole world eventually comes by. try this at a party.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http
in, it has been standard
practice to throw in jazz instrumentals like "Home in Indiana" as break
songs, as a way to blow out the cobwebs and leave them with a nice
sparkly fresh feeling in their ears.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
, but it makes hit songwriters wealthy.
jg
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
le 10,000 word thing on our site for
awhile. The URL is http://www.kimmierhodes.com/welcome.html
Or I could just post it here g
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
released on CD.
Ole Rusty also wrote "Don't It Make You Want to Dance" which her majesty
Bonnie Raitt made into a smash hit. I've knowed him since 1969 and we've
had some memorable times together. I just wish somebody would help me
remember what they were.
--
Joe Gracey
President-Fo
ple reason that
it has already been done that way once, well, and I just don't
understand parroting old stuff.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
to
see if he could destroy the poor guy.
He is much like Jerry Lee in that respect; you never really know what
you'll get, but who cares?
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
I did do that session in fact, and Gabe helped me and played some guitar
on it, too.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Jamie Hoover wrote:
Well, my copy says:
Recorded by Joe Gracey at Pedernales Studio, Austin, Tx Assisted by Gabe
Rhodes.
Jamie
Joe Gracey wrote:
"Ph. Barnard" wrote:
Dwight's cut is indeed outstanding, but I kinda like Willie's as
well. Even though Joe Gracey's e
d deduct 1% of your royalties to
pay their overhead. In order to collect "mechanical royalties", or money
from record sales, you either have to have a publisher, be your own
publisher, or at least register yourself with the Harry Fox Agency (they
have a website) in order to collect your mechanica
in order to collect your mechanicals.)
...which is why BUG is so cool, they do BOTH!
All publishers do both. However, you still have to register your songs
with BMI or ASCAP.
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Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BMI is free to join, but may pay a little less in royalties. I believe they
deduct 3.6% for administrative fees.
1%
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
quot;
You can use any of those for free.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
(but
what fame that size isn't?) I fail to see why people demonize him.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
James Gerard Roll wrote:
It was reported last night that Garth's next desire is to tour with Kiss.
I AM NOT kidding.
Stay tuned . . .
-jim
I take it back. He is a idiot.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
ly defined the genre. Look for Les Blank's
great film documentaries about the border scene. Alegres De Teran. Lydia
Mendoza.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
0-$10,000
and above level. You only make money on record sales if you have massive
hits. Touring at the $500-$1000 a night level is not very much fun
unless you are in your twenties, single-ish, and ready for anything. On
the other hand, this is why I am 48 and look 84.
--
Joe Gracey
President-Fo
whatever they can, but the norm in Europe is better to start
with, so it is a pleasant suprise to Americans who go there. Plus, there
is the added compensation of being in Paris as opposed to Somewhere With
A Denny's.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
gives here? I just want to get
it right for something I'm working on. Thanking the collective wisdom in
advance.
M. Moore
look it up in the BMI website.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
and we brought them down to Willie's studio here
by our house to do a Kimmie record, and it was pure joy. It is such
pleasure to get a group of creative, competitive, exquisitely able
players assembled and then make a fun, loose record with them.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope
digest
factor, and having posts ignored, it's an honor to be debated by Joe Gracey.
And I'm not being facetious.)
Well, since you put it that way, you can tape the show.
JEG
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
hough tape trading may be harmless and not for
profit, there is still something there that bugs me. All I have to sell
is my music. If my music goes around endlessly for free, am I not being
deprived of compensation for what I do? I am not angry or blustering
about this, just slightly confused by it.
Mike Hays wrote:
Oh dear! From "People Online" 3/24/99:
* ARRESTED: Grammy Award-winning country singer Ray Price ("For the
Good
Times"), on a marijuana charge, near his Texas ranch. He was charged
with
possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and fined $700.
yeah boy, they got
Bob Soron wrote:
At 5:19 PM -0500 on 3/24/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so now that i've been beaten up for my views on bootlegging, am i to assume
that all those that have had a dissenting view point in one form or another
have never purchased, or even traded for, such an item? just
Bob Burns/Big In Iowa wrote:
My great uncle was a horse trainer for Ray. I wonder if he smoked dope
to? I hope so.
Bob
no, but his horses all did.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
James Gerard Roll wrote:
My personal highlights were
1.) the Billy Joe Shaver Son show. I was a Shaver virgin and was not
expecting the amazing Charisma and lyrical power that he posessed. Every
word shook the earth as far as I could tell. That guy is a true poet and
his band was so
them get anywhere) so what they consider bad may
not seem so to a normal human. This is impossible to draw a solid line about.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
ny records in the giant picture)
BTW, this Cd just entered the Billboard Top 200 album charts this week.
This is a major accomplishment, especially for a cult band, and it
entered in the bottom of the top 100, at something like 78 I think.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Re
to approve.
I believe the culprit is Home Cookin' Records out of Houston.
Actually, I think this is a different session they are pressing. I can't
recall the name on the boot I saw of my sessions.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
on his own, and then he can prosper
as well.
course, he can always choose another career.
this is an insulting and outrageous thing to say. He has every right and
duty to find this bastard and prosecute him for theft. "Life" my ass.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Ja
in a studio.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
e flaws are not
only tolerated but admired. No modern artist will allow lousy
performances out of the studio unless being perverse.
I hope this is illuminating and not merely dense.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
t. A slave to fashion in the
jurassa-alt.country days, I wore the damn things for years, and the only
use I ever found for them was...
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
apparently was
a plumber until he hit 40).
What about Joe Gracey? He's so old he was telling me about standing on the
beach down there in Texas waiting for the Gulf of Mexico to finish filling
up. He knows a lot of them really old people too. Billy joe, Willie,
Waylon, Cowboy Jack, Moses
they're most interested in folks whose careers
either took off or changed radically later in life (e.g.
Walser).
TS
Willie.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
aware of are Jimmie Dale, Kimmie, and Hal
Ketchum. However, I think there are more and I will know that this week
when we rehearse.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
, if I could get Dave Pomeroy to do all of my bass parts and put
them into a loop it would be a great improvement to the act. I shall act
upon that at once.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Gilmore down until I get the correct info from him. He can be
pretty damn vague. We rehearse with him tomorrow.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
his sounds like what my mother tried to tell me about sex. I think I
need this.
As for music content, it appears that the gig Saturday March 20 will be
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Hal Ketchum, and Kimmie Rhodes at the Texas Union
Ballroom on the UT campus.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Re
ind it out.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
s for real?
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
ppies? How about "Badly Played Country That Sounds Really Cool If You
Are Stoned"? How about "Singing About Whiskey While High on LSD"?
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
It really was a misunderstanding, not meant in any part
for the list.
Tera
I thought it was hilarious. No harm done.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
. Bastards.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
handled himself like a gentleman. This is bizarre.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Anyway, I got through this whole post without using the word fuck. Maybe I
am growing up. : )
Lance . . .
Grow up, Lance, please. You cakehole.
Anyway, around here they say "piehole".
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
or 4 mics and mix it and the monitors into a fake blend.
People sing more in tune, they sing together, and they sing better.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
..
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
have them turn the lights on here so
everyone can see who the asshole is." (Steve Earle to persistent heckler,
Amsterdam, 1996)
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
ually ran out of gas and began to
repeat himself and become tiresome and clownish.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Plus: Stevie Ray Vaughn, who while inoffensive and sometimes soulful
in himself has inspired the worst teenage guitar boy fantasies since
Jim Morrison.
What does this mean? That stevie was a teenager? That he was a teenage
guitar?
--
Joe
(Paycheck's
stomping grounds), and I bet they don't in Bakersfield, either.
because it is more euphonius. My grandfather (a central Texas farm boy)
always said "milnk" for the same reason.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
outpouring dialectic, if you will
g, is a prominent feature of the style.
I always feel like bluegrass tenors are singing more up in their heads,
with their noses, rather than their mouths. To me, not a bluegrass
expert by any means, it almost defines the style. No vibrato, either.
--
Joe Gracey
onists and will play
something to death and go 'way past it.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
"Shane S. Rhyne" wrote:
I enjoying mixing metaphors as much as the next bartender, but, ahem, the
"cat" in question when "skinning a cat" is a fish and not a feline.
says who? I'm serious. Around these parts it has always been held to be
a feline.
--
try to slick up what
could be slicked up and left the rest alone.
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
. It
finally dawned on me what he was doing- he was removing himself from the
process so that all he could be aware of was the mix itself. Brilliant,
really. (Other guys do the same thing by leaving and just coming in from
time to time to see how it's going.)
--
Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope
tly in tune?
I think it is something we are missing from modern records.
And what with ProTools, you will never hear anything even approaching an
off-key note from a vocalist again. Imagine what they would do to
Sinatra now, tweaking every one of those little slightly-off notes to
perfection? It is a sad thi
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