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
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