Reply #125: I sing and play harmonica ,sax and flute [View All]

[abq e streeter]

Which favorites? Towns or music styles(guessing the latter)? The ones I mentioned are just things Peter Guralnick has written. I've never met Peter ,but his brother is an acquaintance of mine here in Albuquerque ( I think Peter lives somewhere in the northeast). Tom is a badass jazz sax player ( way better than me-I'm just a barroom rock n soul honker). BTW, there's a website of a semi-defunct band I was in ( and I guess we haven't officially disbanded) till recently; you can check it out at bluerhythmkings.com if the spirit moves ya, or you're hopelessly bored, or both........ I miss it musically but the two newest members were people I didn't particularly get along with ( both republicans, although the bass player was a conservative Christian , and he's a sweetheart of a guy, just misguided), and it always did sort of feel somewhat creepy to be playing black music with republicans. In fact the only other real progressive ( out of 7 people) was the lead guitar player, ( if you check the website out its pretty easy to look at any band pic and figure out which one's Big Dan).......switching gears here, I have a CD called Southern sampler 2000 that came inside an issue of either Oxford Journal or Oxford American or something like that; a journal of southern culture ; I assume being an Ole Miss grad that you're familiar with it. An incredible eclectic bunch of stuff; Starts with Doc Watson, and ends with Alison Krauss. In between it runs the gamut including Todd Snider, Mose Allison, , ,Tom Petty, Dolly Parton,Ronnie Millsap, Alejandro Escovedo,The Derailers, Asie Payton...and Gov. Jimmie Davis......I love blues and soul but I'm pretty eclectic myself ,( huge Dylan, Springsteen and Clash fan)but on a random evening I might listen to, I don't know... Rancid, Elmore James, Marty Robbins, REM, The Doors and Wilson Pickett... I made a pilgrimage to Memphis about 3 years ago, and was in awe of being in the Sun studio....hoping to get back someday... Did you sing , or play, or both , to get a music scholarship? Do you still play ( or sing)? Have a good rest of the evening........abq e streeter