Re: Production-- Ralph Emery's take on this thread

1999-02-26 Thread Joe Gracey
Don Yates wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Joe Gracey wrote: I was a kid dj in Ft. Worth during this time, and my boss was the guy who wrote "Fraulein" Your boss was Lawton Williams?! Not only did he write "Fraulein," but he also wrote what may very well be my all-t

Re: Production-- Ralph Emery's take on this thread

1999-02-26 Thread Joe Gracey
did it both ways, in fact), I think it is striking to think about how utterly different and original each of these men were. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Production-- Ralph Emery's take on this thread

1999-02-25 Thread Joe Gracey
Everybody made fun of Lucinda for re-cutting her record umpteen times, right? -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Lucinda

1999-02-25 Thread Joe Gracey
lance davis wrote: I think it is a good sign that Lucinda got a grammy. It means there is still more than one way to skin that cat. Joe Gracey I agree, but to play devil's advocate, couldn't it also be asserted that she skinned an underfed, underappreciated, stray cat (contemporary

Re: SXSW query: Broken Spoke??

1999-02-25 Thread Joe Gracey
for David Lindley's family at the Texas Union Ballroom on Saturday night with Jimmie Dale Gilmore and a host of other people. More details as I know them. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: George Jones' phrasing (was Gag reflex)

1999-02-25 Thread Joe Gracey
Bill Monroe. Seems like a bluegrass thing to me. In fact, I'd say George is very much like a bluegrass singer doing honky tonk music. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Jack Clement

1999-02-24 Thread Joe Gracey
Bob Soron wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, ailin' Joe Gracey wrote: "Terry A. Smith" wrote: I think I'm gonna cut my ears off. But first I'll listen to the best version of Miller's Cave, by Don Williams. -- Terry Smith The P2 Van Gogh! But check out Charley Pride's ve

Re: Jack Clement

1999-02-24 Thread Joe Gracey
Bob Soron wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Joe Gracey listed some of Jack Clement's work: Johnny Cash Jerry Lee Lewis Charley Pride (he shared production duties, and his stuff is the best by far) The Stoneman Family John Hartford Townes Inspiration for the Don Williams/ Crystal

Re: Hyper produced Bobby Bare

1999-02-23 Thread Joe Gracey
fashion, and giving urbane lyricizing a glossier finish? Jesus, the way they arranged Miller's Cave, they may as well had Perry Como singing it. -- Terry Smith -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Bookstore gig question

1999-02-22 Thread Joe Gracey
. This reminds me of when we have done things at swanky hotels and they come up to us and ask us to use the service entrance to load in, obviously because they don't want us mingling with the guests. Some things never change... -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http

Re: Bookstore gig question

1999-02-21 Thread Joe Gracey
success! Second, when we do in-stores it is generally for free since it is to promote a record. sometimes at Borders they give us each a gift certificate, but I think this is at the whim of the person running the promotion. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http

Re: Compression in radio? (was MP3 article)

1999-02-13 Thread Joe Gracey
dashboard at about 150 decibels on a Texas summer eve. It sounded very, very good. Can I get an amen? -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: The East Tennessee Contigent Expands (Was: Re: The JudyBats(family tree))

1999-02-12 Thread Joe Gracey
ched songs to George Jones (Just A Girl I Used to Know, She Thinks I Still Care, etc.). This is where Jack became known as "Cowboy"- during one of his parties he rode a big white horse through the front door of his house, through the house, out the patio doors and into the swimming po

Re: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe

1999-02-12 Thread Joe Gracey
www.kimmierhodes.com/wonderfulsound.html -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe

1999-02-12 Thread Joe Gracey
. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: WOW! (from Alex)

1999-02-11 Thread Joe Gracey
e they did the confederate uniform routine. However, the food at them services is still unforgiveable. How they manage to suck all of the flavor out of a sausage is a mystery to me to this day. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: WOW! (from Alex)

1999-02-10 Thread Joe Gracey
ish person, but it happened a lot. Go Figure. Anyway, we love England and we love our London gigs and I thought the whole thing was a great experience. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Clip: First country music and now *this*?

1999-02-10 Thread Joe Gracey
tubby is gay Hell, we've all known this for years. Where has Jerry been? In fact, every man in America is gay except for Jerry but we haven't clued him yet. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Don Was info please....

1999-02-07 Thread Joe Gracey
. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: kd and Yoakam and Ely

1999-02-07 Thread Joe Gracey
Will Miner wrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Joe Gracey wrote: I think k.d. just ran into basically the same wall that a lot of us have run into in one form or another over the years. She made it deeper into alien territory than most, but so did yoakum and Ely and several of them in those

Re: EV 664 (was re: Don was...)

1999-02-07 Thread Joe Gracey
Geffry King wrote: Joe Gracey wrote: All the old banja players in these parts insisted that the ElectroVoice 664 was the best mic of all for the infernal things. It was that long silver cardiod with the mesh grill front and the sort of fin down the back. It has a sort of thin, high

Re: Macs

1999-02-06 Thread Joe Gracey
Karen Cunningham wrote: Not to beat a lame horse but: Joe Gracey said: I think it is a little bit unfair macs blah blah blah snipped All Right!! I knew I loved this man! Thanks for the showering of affection, but this thread should die a quick death, as it has no answer, no end

Re: What's that Mag? (was: Macs..beating)

1999-02-06 Thread Joe Gracey
, let us hope. If I know how to open an image in Photoshop, does that qualify me for a free subscription? -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: k.d. lang (was Re: Heather Myles Injustice)

1999-02-06 Thread Joe Gracey
an out as well as we all hoped. There was no way she was gonna make those kind of records just to get into the charts. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Don Was info please....

1999-02-05 Thread Joe Gracey
consider to be the Grail. They sound sort of "round" and real, like real musicians playing real music. Or something. And he uses a Focusrite. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Don Was info please....

1999-02-05 Thread Joe Gracey
. I'd kill for one but I ain't rich enough... -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: TwangCast for Macs

1999-02-04 Thread Joe Gracey
. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Hank Snow's toupee

1999-02-04 Thread Joe Gracey
charming or utter bastards, sometimes in the same ten minute period. I wonder if this is true of other fields like politics or big business, etc. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Hank question

1999-02-03 Thread Joe Gracey
retty damn weird. I dunno, I think I get him all mixed up in my mind with Roy Acuff and Richard Nixon, or something, that whole era of politics and music. Musically, he's pretty dang good. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Hay Check this out!

1999-02-02 Thread Joe Gracey
. If they are in it to make money, then they need to pay the license fees. Period. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: GE SMITH

1999-02-01 Thread Joe Gracey
that and when John Conquest dissed him for it I thought it was just fucking stupid since Dave is anything but a poser, but then Conquest specializes in talking about people he knows nothing about. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Jimmy Day

1999-02-01 Thread Joe Gracey
that is... not Day. np Steve The McCourys (write me offlist and I'll tell you how much I really think it stinks! g) advanced stomach cancer. Took everybody by suprise. Sonofabitch just up and died on us. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Jimmy Day

1999-01-29 Thread Joe Gracey
"Ferguson, Dan" wrote: A little behind the 8-ball being in digest mode, but that was beautiful Joe. Muchas muchisimas gracias, amigo. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: soul, etc

1999-01-29 Thread Joe Gracey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile, outside of town, James' estranged wife had come up to New Hampshire and tried to burn down the motel where James and his band were staying, not knowing that he was at the fairgrounds at the time. this is cool. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life

Jimmy Day

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Gracey
Amy Haugesag wrote: The prospect of a new Kimmie record and our own Sir President Joe Gracey Sir back amongst us is almost too much good news to take in at once. Luckily, there's no heat in my apartment (er, that is, the one room of my apartment that's habitable), so I can't get *too* happy

Re: soul

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Gracey
Claire Nixon wrote: Does anyone here like motown? I'm not real fond of the records, but I love the bass player... -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Jimmy Day

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Gracey
ain, thank youRW Shamy WDVR-FM Thanks, RW. My pleasure. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Outlaw Blues

1999-01-27 Thread Joe Gracey
te and get you an MP3 player ready to go... -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Outlaw Blues

1999-01-27 Thread Joe Gracey
a hit from the ground up. My brains are fried from going to Jimmy Day's funeral today. I think something changed in the world for good. Joe -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

Re: Outlaw Blues

1999-01-26 Thread Joe Gracey
ers here bigger than a thimblefull of horseshit. However, the live scene is still cool. And with Seagrams (!) owning half of the world now, I don't think banking on major labels will get any of us very far... -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com

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