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What Are You Listening To? Part 14 [W: 2921]

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Gina said:
What's to acquire? I love that kind of music!





I love me some Taj, too. :)
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See there we go again. Taj has been a favorite of mine for decades. “Paint My Mailbox Blue” is one of my favorites and from the same album “You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond.”
 
Risky Thicket said:
See there we go again. Taj has been a favorite of mine for decades. “Paint My Mailbox Blue” is one of my favorites and from the same album “You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond.”
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Natch'l Blues is a great album, beginning to end. :) I like all the songs. "She caught the Katy" is just tight. His eponymous album is sweet too. :)

There is another song of his, I cannot find. I heard it over 30 years ago on someone else's stereo. The lyrics go, "You get a chicken and you kill it/ you put it in a skillet and fry it till it's nice and brown. That's southern cooking/and that's mighty nice." And so forth I just had a yearning to hear it again. LOL
 




Ach, and here's to green beer. :)
 
Gina said:
Natch'l Blues is a great album, beginning to end. :) I like all the songs. "She caught the Katy" is just tight. His eponymous album is sweet too. :)

There is another song of his, I cannot find. I heard it over 30 years ago on someone else's stereo. The lyrics go, "You get a chicken and you kill it/ you put it in a skillet and fry it till it's nice and brown. That's southern cooking/and that's mighty nice." And so forth I just had a yearning to hear it again. LOL
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Dammit, now I’m racking my brain to remember it. Is it the same song with “you cook the [something] till it’s nice and brown/put it with the hoe cakes/ and eat it on down”?
 
Risky Thicket said:
Dammit, now I’m racking my brain to remember it. Is it the same song with “you cook the [something] till it’s nice and brown/put it with the hoe cakes/ and eat it on down”?
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You remember it better than I do. Gah, it's bugging me now! LOL
 
Risky Thicket said:
Dammit, now I’m racking my brain to remember it. Is it the same song with “you cook the [something] till it’s nice and brown/put it with the hoe cakes/ and eat it on down”?
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That lead me to Fishn' Blues! :)

 
Gina said:
Natch'l Blues is a great album, beginning to end. :) I like all the songs. "She caught the Katy" is just tight. His eponymous album is sweet too. :)

There is another song of his, I cannot find. I heard it over 30 years ago on someone else's stereo. The lyrics go, "You get a chicken and you kill it/ you put it in a skillet and fry it till it's nice and brown. That's southern cooking/and that's mighty nice." And so forth I just had a yearning to hear it again. LOL
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Glen Campbell Lyrics - Merle Travis Music

"Kentucky Means Paradise"

You take a K and a E N and a T U and a C K Y
And that spells KENTUCKY and it means paradise
You take a chicken and you kill it and you put it in the skillet
And you fry up a golden brown
That's southern cookin' and that's mighty nice
It don't cover lot when you look on a map
But I once studied geography when I sat in my mama's lap
You take a K and a E N and a T U and a C K Y
And that spells KENTUCKY and it means paradise

Covered by Ricky Nelson, Sonny Boy Williams, Greg Allman, Dr. John, Dolly Parton, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Keb Mo, Mike Smith, Honey Redna (Muddy Waters daughter), Dan Hicks, Rory Block, Doc Watson, The Earls of Leicester (not recorded), among many others.

Glen and Merle were drunk together one of many nights, is a bar somewhere in middle America, while touring. They discussed opening a "chicken joint" and settling down. Wrote the song as jingle for their chicken shack that never was. So goes the tale? :) Guy Clark said he would play the 45 regularly, to prove to himself that he hadn't written the most stupid of songs a man could write. He'd laugh and play "The Frog That Ate Austin." He claimed he wrote that, but he really stole it from Jimmie Dale Gilmore who claimed he wrote it, but who stole it Butch Hachette. Butch wrote some, many far more stupid songs, and was proud of doing so. Kinky Freedman covered a few of Butch's songs. Never forgave himself. :)

Took me awhile, but I found the lyrics which sounded familiar, in one of my cheat books, then it all fell into place. One of those songs I couldn't bring myself to play, tho I've played worse.
 
OldFatGuy said:
Glen Campbell Lyrics - Merle Travis Music

"Kentucky Means Paradise"

You take a K and a E N and a T U and a C K Y
And that spells KENTUCKY and it means paradise
You take a chicken and you kill it and you put it in the skillet
And you fry up a golden brown
That's southern cookin' and that's mighty nice
It don't cover lot when you look on a map
But I once studied geography when I sat in my mama's lap
You take a K and a E N and a T U and a C K Y
And that spells KENTUCKY and it means paradise

Covered by Ricky Nelson, Sonny Boy Williams, Greg Allman, Dr. John, Dolly Parton, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Keb Mo, Mike Smith, Honey Redna (Muddy Waters daughter), Dan Hicks, Rory Block, Doc Watson, The Earls of Leicester (not recorded), among many others.

Glen and Merle were drunk together one of many nights, is a bar somewhere in middle America, while touring. They discussed opening a "chicken joint" and settling down. Wrote the song as jingle for their chicken shack that never was. So goes the tale? :) Guy Clark said he would play the 45 regularly, to prove to himself that he hadn't written the most stupid of songs a man could write. He'd laugh and play "The Frog That Ate Austin." He claimed he wrote that, but he really stole it from Jimmie Dale Gilmore who claimed he wrote it, but who stole it Butch Hachette. Butch wrote some, many far more stupid songs, and was proud of doing so. Kinky Freedman covered a few of Butch's songs. Never forgave himself. :)

Took me awhile, but I found the lyrics which sounded familiar, in one of my cheat books, then it all fell into place. One of those songs I couldn't bring myself to play, tho I've played worse.
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Yay! You figured it out! :) Looks like I conflated the song with Taj. It makes sense, though. I was listening to a lot of country at the same time. Off the beaten path kinds of country.

Thank you! It was driving me crazy! Whew!
 
I saw this band back in the mid to late 1970's in northern VA & DC. A mix of progressive bluegrass and rockabilly with an impressive pedal steel player (Tommy Hannum).





 
Gina said:
Yay! You figured it out! :) Looks like I conflated the song with Taj. It makes sense, though. I was listening to a lot of country at the same time. Off the beaten path kinds of country.

Thank you! It was driving me crazy! Whew!
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You didn't miss, Taj covered it also. He performed it on the King Biscuit Flower Hour decades ago. Those shows sent you a copy of the show on vinyl when you donated enough money. I've got a couple of them, one with Robert Fripp and the Roche sisters.





Suzzy is alive and well. Still performing with her daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche by her former husband Louden Wainwright III, also father of Rufus Wainwright. Sadly, her sister Maggie passed last year at 65.
 
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Gina said:
Ha! Yeah. I just came across Stagger Lee. I could spend the day listening to Taj. :)
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did someone say Stagger Lee-this might be Jerry's best

 
A few songs from Shelli Coe (David Allan Coe's daughter).





 
I keep coming back to this, never watched till a few months ago, have not found anything else of theirs that I like, but this I like, a lot:

 
OldFatGuy said:
You didn't miss, Taj covered it also. He performed it on the King Biscuit Flower Hour decades ago. Those shows sent you a copy of the show on vinyl when you donated enough money. I've got a couple of them, one with Robert Fripp and the Roche sisters.





Suzzy is alive and well. Still performing with her daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche by her former husband Louden Wainwright III, also father of Rufus Wainwright. Sadly, her sister Maggie passed last year at 65.
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Maybe I did hear the Taj version then. :) That's pretty cool they gave away the vinyl version of the show for donations.

I read Loudon Wainwright III, and I'm thinking right away about that classic:

 
Gina said:
Maybe I did hear the Taj version then. :) That's pretty cool they gave away the vinyl version of the show for donations.

I read Loudon Wainwright III, and I'm thinking right away about that classic:
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I can remember like it was yesterday, when Louden first got on a stage at the Skidmore Coffee House, nervous, yet pompously shy (how's that for a contradiction?), and his voice kept breaking. :) Then at an open mic night at Cafe Lena's, both in Saratoga home of Skidmore College. In those days, Skidmore was still all women, a seven sisters school for rich and smart young women. Saratoga became his home away from home.

I truly miss Mama Lena, tho she's long gone. She would pay musicians who were just starting, a meal and a place to sleep for the night. Hearty meals. Lena's was where a very young Bob Dylan would perform for a hot meal, Eric Anderson, Phil Ochs, Tom Rush, Paul Geremia, Tim Hardin and many others did the same. Judy Collins, Joan Baez and Buffy St. Marie performed there well before anyone knew who they were. Mama made everyone feel like they were playing in her living room. I didn't get there until they had all moved on to bigger and better things. Fortunately, there's always new talent.



I remember when he was skinny. :)
 
OldFatGuy said:
I can remember like it was yesterday, when Louden first got on a stage at the Skidmore Coffee House, nervous, yet pompously shy (how's that for a contradiction?), and his voice kept breaking. :) Then at an open mic night at Cafe Lena's, both in Saratoga home of Skidmore College. In those days, Skidmore was still all women, a seven sisters school for rich and smart young women. Saratoga became his home away from home.

I truly miss Mama Lena, tho she's long gone. She would pay musicians who were just starting, a meal and a place to sleep for the night. Hearty meals. Lena's was where a very young Bob Dylan would perform for a hot meal, Eric Anderson, Phil Ochs, Tom Rush, Paul Geremia, Tim Hardin and many others did the same. Judy Collins, Joan Baez and Buffy St. Marie performed there well before anyone knew who they were. Mama made everyone feel like they were playing in her living room. I didn't get there until they had all moved on to bigger and better things. Fortunately, there's always new talent.



I remember when he was skinny. :)
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Thank you for sharing that story. :) I like "pompously shy". I can almost figure that out. :)

Mama Lena's sounds like it was the happening back in the day, which was only a skosh before mine. ;) I missed out on so much.
 
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Three Dog Night - One Man Band
 
Gina said:
Thank you for sharing that story. :) I like "pompously shy". I can almost figure that out. :)

Mama Lena's sounds like it was the happening back in the day, which was only a skosh before mine. ;) I missed out on so much.
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Cafe Lena is still open, still nurturing talent. A bit more strict as to who gets the mic, but still a gathering place. Come spring, or any other season, Saratoga NY is still worth a visit, and Cafe Lena is just one of the cultural places to enjoy. Rich in history since before the Revolution, there are also the hot sulfur pools, the grand hotels, open and packed during the horse racing and philharmonic seasons, the many restaurants and boutiques. Over the years my wife and I enjoyed many of the B&B's that offer hospitality in the suburbs. The Roches were Skidmore girls, as was Judy Collins, Jony Mitchell, the McGarrigle Sisters, Liz Grant, Mimi Farina and many more. And the boys from Cornell still hunt there for wives.
 
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