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
..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
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
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
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
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
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
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
