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Sveriges hetaste nyhetsblad
Nyhetsbrev nr. 030 ? maj 2006
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Då jag skriver det här så är det torsdag
och jag har fått ett meddelande att vår server är under reparation vilket
innebär att Nyhetsbrevet kanske inte kommer ut idag heller! Men vem vet,
vi får se! I alla fall så har jag fått ordning på min dator nu, tack vare
Kåre Myrberg som fixat det hela. Evigt tacksam! Här kommer lite nyheter!
Janne Lindgren
1932 – 2006
BONNIE OWENS HAS PASSED AWAY
Reported By Tracey K. Houston & Tracy Pitcox
The
news is just breaking, but Bonnie Owens has just died at the age of 76.
She was a great lady and one that was always filled with joy and
happiness.
She was married to both Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, being one of only
two
ladies that were married to two Country Music Hall of Famers.
When Merle and Leona Williams married, Bonnie was even Leona's maid of
honor.
I spent some time with Bonnie in Ft. Worth, Branson (a couple of
occassions)
and in San Angelo, Texas. Each time she was very generous with her time
and
talents. She loved music, her fans and most of all the business so much.
She will be greatly missed.
Tracy
Pitcox
Hejsan Janne, (rapport från Michael Lindgren som är på rundresa i
USA)
Tack for mail igen med fler bra tips! Allt bra her! Vermen kommer, nu ca
28
grader. Har sjungit och spelat for alla mojliga i flera dagar, po gator, i
hem i taxibilar, kanske 4,5 timmar i snitt. Tevlade i Jimmie Rodgers
Festivalen igen, men trots samma nr (20) som forra aret - kan man inte
vinna
utan Birgitta!
Ska hyra bil idag och aka tilll Montgomery och Hanks grav samt till H W
Museum, der en av hans caddillacs finns, kanske den han dog i ? Men, det
er
vel som med katolska reliker - Johannes doparens venstra hand finns i
minst
sju katedraler i Europa. Kommer tillbaka till Meridian po sondag och tar
buss upp till Nashville po monday.
Veldiigt spennande och hittills har alla taxichaufforer jag sjungit for -
tre stycken - de er alla svarta, runda och glada - gillat min song och
sagt
" You gotta go for that Man.
Beautiful! You like gonna be a Big Star. Now, I
know singin, Man. And you got it!!"
Underbart! The
Ramlin' Hobo, Michael
Capital Country spelar
på Stampen (gamla stan Stockholm) söndag 7:e maj kl 19.00 Kom och heja !
Hälsningar,
Urban
Tack för plattan med Freja Bluegrass Band
som jag fick i brevlådan förra veckan. Jag har nu lyssnat igenom den några
gånger och ifrågasätter om det här verkligen är bluegrass. Det känns som
om det är mer åt old timeyhållet det som gruppen framför. Plattan är
inspelad ”live” och som ett minne för gruppens medlemmar passar den fint.
Men jag tycker nog att Freja kunde väntat någon/några år med att ge ut en
platta då jag faktiskt inte tycker att de är riktigt mogna för det steget
ännu! JL.
Mariahelena &
Slidebar spelar på ett abonnerat Katalin i Uppsala vid Östra Station
måndagen den 15 maj arrangerat av Artister i Uppsala – artistscen.se.
Ett stort tack till Thomas Buskhagen i
Göteborg som sänder mig de senaste utgåvorna av Mr. Music Country. Thomas
jobbar åt detta företag och plockar ihop ca. 14 – 15 låtar varje månad.
Musiken är ”pure country” då Thomas har både kunskap och vilja att ge oss
det bästa som finns att tillgå. Här finns massor av independentartister
men även sådana som har skivkontrakt på stora bolag. Bli medlem och få en
kanonplatta varje månad genom att gå in på
www.countrynews.nu JL.
Hej Janne
Håber, at du har det godt?? I forbindelse med diskussionen omkring
countrymusik, vil jeg tillade mig at citere den kendte producer, Dan Huff.
(Country Music
People, februar 2001):
"The market place determines where it's gonna go and people are gonna buy
what they're gonna buy. There are a lot of people putting their hands in
the air because it's in a state of change right now and that scares them.
They're saying it's too pop, let's take it back to its roots".
"But people are quick to forget. When Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
came on the scene the were so revolutionary. They were rock 'n' rollers.
Now, people are sying why can't it be like the old Willie and Waylon
stuff....."
På forhånd tak, Med venlig hilsen
Jørgen Young, Black & Silver
Denmark
STORY BEHIND THE
SONG
According to Billy Wallace,
Webb Pierce’s 1950’s hit song, “Back Street
Affair,” came from a
real slice of life. Wallace commented, “I know “Back Street Affair”
because I’ve lived one. There were songs written about married people
slipping around but none about young girls. I kept seeing married men
slipping around with younger girls. And then it happened to me and my own
“Back Street Affair.” The girl knew how to make a married man feel at ease
with her dark eyes and her winning smile. But that’s life. That’s a “Back
Street Affair.” I know it because I’ve lived it.”
Webb Pierce’s Decca
recording of “Back Street Affair” entered the country music charts
October 4th, 1952 and made it to number one, where it stuck
for four weeks. It was his 3rd charted song and was on the
country music charts for 23 weeks.
QUESTION: I
heard something about Emmylou Harris filming a video in Nashville. Do you
have any information?
ANSWER: Emmylou
Harris has filmed a video for “The River’s Gonna Run,” written by Buddy
and Julie Miller. The song is from the CD “Artist’s Choice: Music That
Matters To Her.”
QUESTION:
The radio guys were talking about something new about Roy Orbison at the
hall of fame. Do you have any information?
ANSWER: The
late Roy Orbison is the subject of a new exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, including artifacts spanning his career, ranging from a
Rockabilly Spectator tour program from 1958, to some of the costumes he
wore in the 1970s. The exhibit also has the handwritten lyrics to the
songs "She's a Mystery To Me," "Careless Heart," and "Windsurfer," the
production notes for the track "Mystery Girl," and the original acetate of
"Ooby Dooby." The Roy Orbison exhibit is now open at the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
QUESTION:
I heard on the radio that
Willie Nelson has a new Atlantic CD. Do you have any information?
ANSWER:
The
Willie Nelson 3-disc set, "Willie Nelson: The Complete Atlantic Sessions,"
is due June 20 on Rhino Records.
QUESTION:
Back in the 60’s the radio
guys were playing a song about “I heard from some memory last night.” Do
you know who the artist was?
ANSWER:
“I Heard From A Memory last Night” was a # 33 hit for Jim Ed Brown in 1965
QUESTION:
Many years ago, Faron Young
had a record about “Down by The River”. Do you know who wrote that song?
ANSWER:
“Down By The River” was a 1962 # 9 hit for Faron Young and was written by
Jan Crutchfield and Teddy Wilburn
QUESTION:
I just saw Mel Tillis singing a song about “Neon Rose” on the old Porter
Wagoner TV show. Did Mel record that song?
ANSWER:
“Neon Rose” was a # 3 hit for Mel Tillis in 1972
QUESTION:
I heard something on the
radio about a movie about Merle Haggard’s life story. Do you have any
information?
ANSWER:
Merle
Haggard says he’s thought about filming his life story for 20 years, and
on May 11th, he’ll start to film a documentary. According to
Merle, “I’m trying to get ‘em talked into doing a series like ‘The Waltons’.”
He says the series would be based on episodes in his life, and his role
would be as the writer or narrator. He hopes he’ll have the time to tell
his life as it really happened.
QUESTION:
The TV news mentioned a new
book about Johnny Cash. Do you have any details?
ANSWER:
“Literary Cash” is scheduled for January 2007 release and will feature
essays and short stories based on the songs of Johnny Cash. The 240-page
book may be pre-ordered from Amazon.com.
QUESTION:
The radio dudes were talking about Vince Gill performing at some benefit
for a hospital . Do you know anything about that?
ANSWER:
Vince Gill, Martina McBride, and Amy Grant will headline the annual
fundraiser for Max It Out, May 3rd at Nashville’s Wildhorse
Saloon. The organization raises funds for pediatric and meningitis
research at Vanderbilt Hospital.
www.maxitout.org has more information.
QUESTION:
My uncle used to sing a song about “It All Depends On Linda.” He said it
was on the radio years ago by Bobby bare. Do you know anything about a
song by that title?
ANSWER:
“It All Depends On Linda” was the flipside of Bobby Bare’s 1963 # 5 hit,
“500 Miles Away From home.”
QUESTION:
Back around 1970, there was a song played on the radio by a guy about “Is
That Me Lord.” It wasn’t played all that much but was a powerful song. Do
you know who wrote and sang that song?
ANSWER:
“Lord Is That Me” was written by Dallas Frazier and Whitey Shafer and was
a # 16 hit for Jack Greene in 1970
QUESTION:
Porter Wagoner’s “Cold Hard facts Of Life” is my favorite recording. Do
you know who played fiddle on that recording?
ANSWER:
Mack Magaha and Johnny Gimble played fiddles on Porter’s “Cold hard Facts
Of Life”
QUESTION:
The radio dudes were
talking about Alan Jackson’s gospel album being certified gold. What does
that mean?
ANSWER:
Alan
Jackson's gospel album, “Precious Memories,” has been certified gold for
shipments of 500,000 copies. He recorded the album as a Christmas gift to
his mother and mother-in-law.
QUESTION:
My sister says that Merle
Haggard and Bob Dylan do not get along and canceled their tour together.
IS that true?
ANSWER:
I believe your sister heard wrong!
Merle
Haggard and Bob Dylan were at one time politically opposed-- with
Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” appearing to be the exact opposite of
Haggard’s conservative “Okie From Muskogee.” But Haggard says he’s been a
fan of Dylan’s since he first heard “Blowin’ In The Wind.” Now the two are
touring together and have found their political opinions to be very
similar. Haggard now says that he and Dylan have exchanged thoughts on
politics and the two feel very much the same. Haggard says, quote, “We’re
just peons with opinions.” The tour continues on to Knoxville, TN on
Thursday, Atlanta on Friday, Asheville, NC on Saturday and Savannah, GA on
Sunday.
QUESTION:
The TV news had a thing about a Johnny Cash credit card. What’s that all
about?
ANSWER:
The image of Johnny Cash will be on one of the first celebrity-branded
pre-paid debit cards. The card will be available this month.
Hello
fellow players,
Ever notice the difference in styles of the different older players?
Listen to the difference between Don Helms and Buddy Emmons. The
difference between Little Roy Wiggins and Pete Drake. Just like the
differences in everyone's personality, there are tremendous differences in
their playing. Not everybody wants to play like Curly Chalker or Paul
Franklin.
I asked Don Helms the other day, how he felt about his own playing. He
said, "I'm comfortable with it, I've been doing it a long time and it has
paid well over the last 65 years."
I asked him, "Have you ever wanted to play like Buddy Emmons?"
His reply was, "It might be nice to be able to, but I probably wouldn't in
public. Again, I'm comfortable with what I do and I like what I do."
This is what got me thinking about the differences in playing styles.
Jerry Byrd could have gone to pedal guitar but preferred not to. Don
Helms went back to non-pedal guitar full time after playing pedal for 30
years. Most people say he sounds better now.
I remember someone asking Jimmy Day once, "What would you do if you could
play "Rocky Top" a hundred miles an hour and be the envy of all the speed
pickers and banjo players?"
Jimmy just smiled and said, "I wouldn't."
This brings up another great observation. Buddy Emmons has spent a
lifetime basking in the limelight as being one of the finest and fastest
steel players in the world, with good taste in Bebop, who's execution is
as good as anybody's possibly ever. However, the thing I admire most
about Buddy is his taste in knowing how, when and why to play the correct
thing at the right time.
I have seen Buddy play the exact melody to steel guitar rag the way it was
written, all the way through with no Bebop or Jazz anywhere in it. When
he plays "Midnight in Amarillo", "Sleepwalk", "Harbor Lights" or whatever,
he plays the melodies the way it should be, knowing that 98% of the people
listening want to know and recognize the melody throughout the entire
song.
I hear younger players today, playing the same licks in every song they
know and between songs they are practicing playing these licks just as
fast as they can play them. Somehow, they manage to fit these licks into
everything from "Rocky Top" to "The Waltz You Save For Me" and every other
song throughout the night. Many of these players, young and old, can play
some atrociously fast, pre-rehearsed licks, but would have to work on the
simple melody for ten minutes before they could play it.
You might say just playing the melody all the time, that's boring. Well
it's not boring if you try to play it with great soul, tone, feel and
execution. Listen to what I'm saying and think about it. If you play a
gorgeous turnaround in the middle of the song that everyone can
understand, to the correct inflections, tone and feeling, you'll get more
compliments from anyone than you would if you played "Foggy Mountain
Breakdown" in the middle of the song. After all, the singer doesn't sing
"The Auctioneer" in the middle of "Help Me Make It Through The Night" just
because he can.
It may be a good idea to think outside the box, the box being what you
hear every other steel player doing. Don't worry about what they are
doing or what they are playing or the licks they have come up with, but
instead worry about the bandleader, the club owner or anyone that's paying
you, the people that have come to see you and worry about those that want
to hear the melody to "Last Date" or "Sleepwalk", even "Steel Guitar Rag"
when they request it.
You want to show off once in a while? Sure, but don't make a career of
it. I was playing an extremely fast lick one time in a club and Doug
Jernigan walked in. I played everything I knew just as fast as I could in
4 bars. He walked up to me on the bandstand, shook his head and said,
"Hey man, don't do that. Think about your wife and kids."
He broke into a laugh and said, "That stuff will never get you into the
grocery store."
I must have listened to him a lot because as any of you that know me,
realize that I've been to the grocery store too much. As a matter of
fact, let's call this newsletter "Food" for thought.
Your
buddy,
Bobbe
Trots löften från databolaget att man
skulle kunna gå ut på nätet på torsdagskvällen så gick det inte. Jag
försökte att komma ut flera gånger under kvällen och även på
fredagsmorgonen men tji fick jag och tji Nyhetsbrev fick ni. Nu då jag
sitter här med en kall Guinness så har det plötsligt kommit igång igen.
Tack till han däruppe eller vem det nu är som sköter all Internettrafik.
Observera att jag inte har gått igenom alla
mail som kommit till mig de senaste dagarna så räkna med att det blir ett
långt Nyhetsbrev även på söndag. Det blir till att läsa mycket mail i
helgen, men det är kul, hade ändå inget annat för mig!
Tack Hasse Buhre för sponsringen av lite
mat till hustrun och mig. Hasse företräder Rydbergs som marknadsför
majonäser, olika supergoda röror t ex laxröra, hummerröra och äggröra.
Nja, det sista fixade jag nog till själv! Men prova några tuber med
laxpastej eller tonfiskpastej på mackan. Ja, jag menar innehållet i tuben
alltså! För att inte tala om quickdip som finns i olika smaker! Mums för
män ( och damer och även de unga i familjen)!
Tack också för alla gratulationskort och
mail som jag fick på min födelsedag!
Ha nu en fin helg så hörs vi på söndag
igen!
Janne Lindgren
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Nyhetsbrev nr. 031 ? maj 2006
Det här nyhetsmailet kommer
till er mailadress torsdagar och söndagar.
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Hej igen! Det har blivit lite konstigt med
utskicken den senaste tiden, men tro inte att jag slöat till. Nejdå! Det
är bara att det krånglat lite med servern här i Sätra då de fixat med
kablar och allt vad som hör därtill. För några veckor sedan var det min
egen dator som krånglade men det fixade Kåre Myrberg åt mig. Det gäller
att ha rätt polare, eller hur! Har man ingen kompis som kan datorer är man
såld! Kåre har hjälp mig enormt mycket med mina datorer.
Nu ska jag skicka iväg det här Nyhetsbrevet
och hoppas att allt funkar bättre denna gång! Håll tummarna! Janne
Lindgren
Hej Janne!
Efter
en tids aktiv frånvaro har jag själv inte varit så hågad att maila
hemifrån och orsaken är nog att norrländska naturen drar ut en så mycket
här uppe hemma i norra Sverige. Framförallt våren.
Idag lördag ( 6) har isen gått hemma i min hemby och har suttit vid
stranden en stund med far o sett den flyta så sakta fram mot Haparanda som
den sen åker ut till havet om det inte har hunnit tina så pass mkt till
dess.
Nu
är det planerade resor söderut o har eller finns det nån som kan ge tips
till evangemang eller country club man kan gå o lyssna på musik under Juni
veckan den första.
Vill så
gärna få den tillfället om det ges o inte bara de standarde krogar med
rock o blues.
Hoppas
medlemmar som bor söderut kan ge nåt råd åt mig första veckan i Juni ska
det vara o orten ska vara själva huvudstaden Stockholm.
Till dess blir det inte så många skrivna mail även om det kommer hem till
mig så önskar jag alla en jättefin sommar o ta vara på att vara ute i
naturen o friska luften med sol o värme.
Jag
kan rappa in om det händer nåt i sommar här hemma så skriver jag givetvis
så klart.
Till
dess vi hörs o ses Janne o alla medlemmar.
Vänligen
Karin ...
Hej! Tisdag den 9 maj går ett program i TV4 kl 20 som bland annat visar
hur ett team snyggade till ett rum i stugan. Programmet heter "Äntligen
hemma". Hälsningar Lars Lasse Valle Laban Jaja
(Michael
Lindgren rapporterar från amerikas sydstater)
Two big things has happened to me. First, I have been playing the No 1
replica of the unique Jimmie Rodgers Martin 000-45 guitar, the original
being made in 1928. The original is in a safety vault at the Jimmie
Rodgers
Museum here. That is valued to more than 1 million dollars. Last year I
had
the great honor of holding that priceless instrument in my hands, as
Birgiita took some good pictures. The copy I have been trying for a couple
of hours yesterday, is "only" worth 30.000 dollars, which certainly makes
it
a very valuable instrument here on this Earth. I can assure you I was very
careful.
Secondly, I have made some great discoveries at the Meridian Archives -
like
his personal photo albums from Jimmie Rodgers family. To my knowledge
these
have never been used, and there are fantastic pictures in them of this
great
artist and other big country stars of the time. As you may know, Bob Dylan
has made a tribute cd for Jimmie Rodgers. Please, listen to it, and listen
to Jimmie himself on his records, and remember to read what Bob says about
this son of Meridian. Being a scholar and a historian, and thus interested
in research as I am, I am going back to the archives tomorrow (third day
now) to dig up his personal belongings an more unknown photographic
material
from the 1920' and 30's. Yes, I take pictures with my digital camera. By
the
way, this is the first time I have ever sung and yodeled in a archive. I
did
that yesterday and today - many songs for staff and visitors - and armed
guards. The crowd grows for every day. Hitherto, I have had to be ever so
silent at Kungliga Bibliotekets reading room in Stockholm; The British
Library, and the Library of Congress and the National Archives. But after
this ...
I sung a lot during the festival for the professional BBQ teams that
entered
the great BBQ Contest they had here. They gave me beer, coca cola and
other
good drinks, and food. I made many new very kind friends among them.
Everybody was screaming to me - "Hey, come on over here and sing for us
and
we'll give you coffee or a piece of mighty fine grilled pork"! The team I
sung most for, while they were preparing the whole pig, won the contest's
Grand Prize. They said that it was the music that did it. I don't know.
But
now I know how to BBQ a whole pig, which is enough for 50 persons - if
anybody is interested in information directly from the winners. They even
won over the World Champion Team 2005 that participated!
Today I was at radiostation Classic Country 95.1 and sung with the radio
people there and made an interview their biggest radio man - Jay King.
Tomorrow I will drive over the border to Alabama and Montgomery to see the
Cadillac Hank Williams died in, in 1953, when he was only 29. There's
gonna
be a jam session with Hank's music at the Hank Williams Museum there on
Saturday night. I'll be there with my guitar! On Sunday I will be singing
in
a Honky Tonk, in a place called the Cab, here in Meridian again - with
Britt
Gully and his band = Jimmie, Hank and Carter Family songs. First occation
for me with a professional American band on stage. Britt Gully is the best
singer in Meridian.
I have been talking a lot to black men, like taxidrivers over here. They
all
like country music, here in the South. One of them said "You gotta get a
name, Man. Michael, that's fine, but that Lingrenn something won't do at
all! That ain't nothin' good. And you ain't no Hank, Man. Promise me ya'
gatta get ya'self a goo' name soon Man"! Well, I shook hand with him and
made him that promise.
I enclose a picture of a hog, some really kind nice big boys and me.
They are the winning BBQ team.
I am the one with the guitar!
Until next time, Y'all take goo' care o' ya'self!
Ramblin' Hobo Michael, Mississippi +30 degrees Celsius
(Direktrapport från Dan Ekbäck i Nashville)
Johnny
Cash's American V: A Hundred Highways is due out July 4 on the
American Recordings label through Lost Highway. The album will include the
last song Cash ever wrote and was recorded with producer Rick Rubin in the
months leading up to his death in September 2003...
The Dixie Chicks have been named one of Time magazine’s “Time 100:
The People Who Shape Our World.” They are the only country music artists
to make this year’s list...
More than 2.1 million people viewed opening night footage of Tim McGraw
and Faith Hill's Soul2Soul II Tour via television, satellite and
other outlets in three days after the show...
Charlie Daniels will be the spokesperson for Gravely’s 90th Anniversary, a
company which sells commercial lawn and garden equipment and is
headquartered in Brillion, Wisc...
Bill Anderson, Hank Locklin, Jim Ed Brown & The Browns, Lynn Anderson, and
The Bellamy Brothers are scheduled to perform on PBS's My Music Series,
which will be taped at Belmont's Curb Events Center on May 16...
Hello
fellow players,
I'm going to touch on a subject this week that affects steel players
directly but also anyone who can play any instrument and even affects
people who don't play an instrument but would like to. The subject is
resophonic guitars, most of which are commonly referred to as Dobros.
Dobro is a brand name coming from a contraction of the proclaimed
inventors of this instrument, the Dopera Brothers, so we will refer to all
brands as Dobros in this newsletter.
First off, let me say that the tone, sound and playing of this instrument
is very much in demand and has been for years. Remember that great movie,
"Waterhole Number Nine" that Roger Miller sang all the way through
accompanied primarily by Dobro? Many movies today and hundreds of
television shows use Dobro as a backup instrument.
Primarily an acoustic six string, square neck guitar, played with a steel
bar and metal finger picks. The strings raised off the neck so they do
not touch the fretboard when you use the bar on it. The bar itself is
technically the fret. This is an easy instrument to play, as I have said,
and some people have taken it to an incredible art form, such as Mike
Auldridge, Jerry Douglas, Tim Graves and many others that you'll see or
hear as you listen to all kinds of music.
Many great steel guitar players have taken advantage of the fact that they
already have the basics to play good Dobro, like the picks on the right
hand and bar technique with the left hand. However, Dobro requires a
different attack and mindset to make it sound authentic. What I'm saying
here is, why not take advantage of the abilities you already have and
expand your marketability and value as a player. There will always be
something that you can use Dobro on.
Remember the great Ray Price album that was done all acoustically? It
came out about 5 years ago. Buddy Emmons, true to form, played some of
the most tasteful Dobro sounds ever heard. I think of other steel players
who doubled on this fine acoustic instrument. Lloyd Green on all those
fine Don Williams recordings. Nashville's busiest studio musician, Sonny
Garrish is also a Dobro player as are Paul Franklin, Stu Basore, Tommy
White and many others.
Sure, many of the steel guitar players may not burn one up like Mike
Auldridge, Tim Graves or Uncle Josh Graves himself, but then again,
sometimes just having that wonderful tone and beautiful things played on
the record, movie soundtrack or commercial is very welcomed after being
inundated with screaming, distorted Telecaster noise.
I'll never forget my first Dobro session. In 1972, I was called to play
steel guitar on a big band Johnny Cash session and they said "Be sure to
bring your Dobro". Well, I quickly traded Paul Yandel out of his metal
body round neck, put an extended nut to raise the strings and off to the
session I trundled. Well, this session went to number one and it was the
first session I ever played Dobro on. The next session I used Dobro on,
or the second time I ever played Dobro was on the great Johnny Rivers "Six
Days On The Road". I had the intro and the turnaround. The record went
to number one and stayed there for several weeks. I still don't call
myself a Dobro player because of being on these hit records, even though
luckily, everybody in Nashville thought I was.
So here is my suggestion. Get a Dobro regardless of what brand. There
are many great brands like Beard, Shearhorn, Dobro itself, Fluger and the
resonator guitars built by Todd Clinesmith in California. Heartland
Instruments here in Hendersonville, who are famous for their banjos, also
build great Dobros. I'm sure I'm leaving somebody out, but not on
purpose.
If you can already play steel, you'll find it easy to step into Dobro.
Use a "G" tuning, an "Am7" tuning, "E" or whatever you like. You can
invent your own style or pattern yourself after the greats like Mike
Auldridge or Josh Graves. No matter what you do, you will be appreciated
much more as a musician if you add this new dimension and learn to play it
well. I'm here to help you with this in any way I can.
If you're a country music fan who plays nothing now, Dobro may be an
instrument to introduce yourself to.
Your buddy, Bobbe Seymour
Det är
riktigt som Bobbe skriver att det är enkelt för en steelpicker att börja
spela Dobro. Jag har haft i lager ett märke som heter Regal och som jag
själv spelar på. Om någon är intresserad så kan jag beställa hem fler av
detta märke. Priset är mycket lågt!
Jag vill
också berätta att jag just har fått hem Goodrich volympedaler!
Ha en fin
vecka!
Janne Lindgren
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Tack Janne Rosqvist för
att du klippt ur alla artiklar du hittat om countrymusik och sänt till
mig. Det uppskattar jag verkligen då jag själv bara läser Expressen varje
dag. En tidning som inte skriver alltför mycket om countrymusik numera då
Börje Lundberg inte finns kvar där längre (hej Börje)! Däremot finns
dagligen massor av artiklar om musik för ungdomar i nedre tonåren, alltså
de som aldrig ens bläddrar i kvällstidningar. Sånt är intelligent!
De nya
Goodrichpedalerna jag har fått in är super duper. Här behövs inga
volympottar som rasslar utan de här går på ny teknik med batteri eller
från vanligt strömuttag. De är inte billiga men håller väldigt länge och
man slipper kosta på nya pottar lite då och då. Skicka mig ett vanlig
brevporto med adress så sänder jag den nya broschyren om dessa
förträffliga pedaler. Min adress är JL, Frösätrab. 10, 127 37
Skärholmen.
Här kommer lite nyheter
åt er, Janne Lindgren
Hej igen!
Jo
jag förstod nästan att du har något ”dator knas”
Tack för att du mejlade men det
gjorde ingenting eftersom arrangören bestämde sig för att ställa in det
hela på grund av dålig beläggning av bokningar. Med andra ord var det för
lite folk för att genomföra.
Jag har en fråga till publik, och arrangörer i detta avlånga
land: Varför är intresset för country musik åtminstone i den här delen av
Sverige så dåligt när det görs ex. countrykvällar? Det kan ju inte bara
hänga på att det var bra väder i helgen?
Arrangörer: Jag har skickat skivor till dom flesta
country festivaler i landet. Måste man
ha spelat country i 100 år eller heta
Alan Jackson för att ni ska engagera
en artist som brinner, äter och lever
för country musiken? Eller är det så
att man ska spela gratis för att få visa
upp sig?
Nej jag känner att jag har fått nog och kommer efter denna sommar att
lägga
cowboyhatten på hyllan och bara skriva låtar. Skulle nu någon mot förmodan
vilja höra dessa låtar live får nog branschen ta och shejpa upp sig lite
anser jag.
Hälsningar Tony i Västerås
Tony, ditt brev är verkligen deprimerande att läsa
med tanke på att vi i fortsättningen inte får höra din fina stämma och se
din trevliga nuna på countryfestivalerna. Men jag förstår det beslut du
tagit då jag själv funderat i samma banor många gånger under min karriär
som countrymusikant och ledare av Sveriges äldsta countryband Country
Minstrels. Hur många demos jag sänt ut under åren kan jag inte säga, men
det har kostat massor av pengar och vi har inte alls blivit engagerade i
den utsträckning vi hade hoppats på. ”Pure Country” är tydligen inget för
arrangörer av countryfestivaler och trots att vi nästan alltid finns med
i KKs årliga omröstning över populäraste band så blir vi inte engagerade.
I år är det bara Hasse Andersson som bokat in oss. Ett enda jobb alltså!
Idag har jag i princip tagit samma beslut som du med den skillnaden att
jag intresserar mig för min lilla studio jag har i källaren istället för
att skriva låtar.
Till din fråga
varför intresset är så svalt beträffande countrykvällar?
Vad jag har erfarit under åren som arrangör av t ex Svarta Pannan,
Country Palace, Miljonpalatset, TantoGården, Hee Haw, Bobby Flores besökt
här förra året med mera säger mig att det nästan är omöjligt att endast
arrangera enstaka kvällar på countrymusik. Om man ska lyckas med att få
folk till ett ställe måste det finnas kontinuitet d v s man måste köra
många gånger för att få människor att till slut upptäcka stället. Men………..
och det här är ett viktigt men, om det engagerade bandet inte håller hög
kvalitet så är det lätt att det ändå spårar ur. Det har jag sett många
exempel på!
En annan viktig sak som
jag upptäckte då jag körde Svarta Pannan i Spånga. Det gäller att även få
vanligt folk att upptäcka hur trevligt det kan vara på en countrykväll.
Därför gäller det att försöka locka folk som bor i trakten att besöka sin
lokala krog. På Svarta Pannan hade vi ibland upp till 600 personer i
publiken. Ganska mycket folk alltså för ett så litet ställe. Men att få
ihop så många countryintresserade människor till en liten krog varhelst
den än ligger i Sverige går givetvis inte. Blandningen av folk är en
viktig del.
I Stockholm finns det
massor av krogar som regelbundet satsar på ”levande musik” som t ex jazz,
pop, rock och visor. Men trots att staden har nästan en miljon invånare så
finns inget riktigt countryställe. Bluegrassvännerna har varit mer framåt
och har regelbundna sessions på krogar i staden, men för oss som är mer
inne på den moderna countrymusiken finns inget alls. Hur tänker man som
krogägare? Är det inte bättre att köra med något som inte alla andra gör?
Då Örjan Englund startade upp Lone Star här i Stockholm var det en kul
satsning, men problemet var bara att han gjorde det som en konkurrent till
Country Palace som vid det tillfället drevs av Mats Rådberg. Två stora
countryklubbar i Stockholm var givetvis en för mycket och Lone Star blev
heller inte så långvarig dels beroende på konkurrensen men dels på att
Örjan Englund bokade in en mängd olika artister som inte hade den minsta
countrymusikbakgrund. Sånt håller givetvis inte i längden eftersom ett
countryställe måste vara trovärdigt och inte spela musik som är utanför
gränserna för vad som kan kallas countrymusik. Idag ser vi samma problem
på många countryfestivaler. Men det är en annan historia!
JL.
Hei alle
sammen!
Da er jeg tilbake
igjen men masse nytt. Så følg med på hva som skjer i Country verden.
Rutinen er som den alltid har vert. Du må ha et passord for å komme inn på
siden...
Passord: country (liten skrift)
http://www.steffnevers.com/Norway-country-news.html
Vil du ikke ha denne mailen i fremtiden. Svar med "REMOVE" som tema.
Han en fin Country dag. Mvh Steff Nevers
Tack Erik Bolmsjö för
plattan med Burning Wheel Brothers. CDn består av 3 låtar av god
countryklass. Därmed inte sagt att jag gillar själva inspelningen. Den har
många brister trots de fina låtarna. I första hand vill jag nämna
gitarrspelet som är lysande men tyvärr håller inte de övriga musikanterna
samma klass. Sångaren är lite för bräkig för min smak men kan säkert låta
bättre om han inte tog i så hårt utan fick rösten att låta lite mjukare.
Steelen håller inte tonen riktigt bra utan hamnar ibland på sne´! För
övrigt låter det rätt hyfsat men jag rekommenderar gruppen att fila lite
mer på låtarna till nästa inspelning. OCH…… se till att stava rätt på den
plattan! Luckenbach stavas inte Luchenback. Jag vet eftersom jag varit
där flera gånger! JL.
Hej Janne,
Vet inte om du får nyhetsbladen från Webster ? Om inte så
kan ju detta vara en nyhet inför nästa utskick.
Ricky Van Shelton ”Slänger in handduken” och lägger utav…….Mvh
Noppi / MCWC
Hoppsan! Det är inte bara i Sverige som artister helt plötsligt lägger av!
Men klimatet för artister som inte är unga, vackra och sjunger en
oigenkännlig musik är ännu tuffare i USA än i vårt land. Det är tur att
man är pensionär och egentligen inte behöver bry sig. Men efter snart 50
år med att försöka sprida god countrymusik så känns det inte roligt med
den utveckling som nu är, framför allt i Nashville. Att det sedan har
spridit sig även till Sverige känns onödigt. Vissa kallar det för
utveckling, jag kallar det för förfall!
JL.
(Här
kommer ännu en rapport från Michael Lindgren som just nu är på ensamturné
i amerikas sydstater, rapport nr 3)
Howdy
all! Doin' fine all the way. Another short report:
Drove to Montgomery Alabama and visted Hank Williams Museum last weekend.
Was asked to sing for the staff and the visitors. Great success and these
people know the business! Went down to Georgiana, Hank Williams'
birthplace
and Boyhood Home Museum, and the H. W. International Fan Club. Sung for
the
staff and guests there too. Was invited for lunch. Was invited to sing
next
day at Hank Williams Museum. Sang 7 songs there that were sent on air -
RADIO WIKR Prattville, Alabama live - with a Hank Williams band with
lapsteel and all. Wonderful! They liked it and all invited me to come back
with my sweet Birgitta too sing again soon. Went up to Hank Williams' and
his wifes Audrey's gravesite at Oakwood cemetary in Montgomey. Sat there
and
honored them by singing their songs for them. Sung "Darling let's turn
back
the Years" when a truck pulled up. I went up to the man to talk, and he
had
that very song playing on his radio! Strange, we thought! He said, that he
had lived in Montgomery all his life, for 32 years, and always loved
Hank's
songs, when he all of a sudden decided to go up to see the grave.
Drove back to Meridian through raging thunderstorms. Had breakfast on
Monday
at Jeans' Restaurent and was asked to sing. Yodeled some Jimme blues away
and my breakfast was paid for by a happy guest. Got one dollar tip too,
and
found another dollar on the street. Good way to start a long trip. Took a
Greyhound bus to Nashville, Tennessee (8.5 hours) - and here I am!
Yesterday
I went to Gibson banjo, mandolin and dobro factory, where all those
original
fine USA Gibson instruments are hand made for the whole world, by 12
people!
Talked long to the guys and got some really interesting inside
information.
Went to the Grand Old Opry Tuesday show. Among other artist there were big
ones like songwriter and singer Bill Anderson, Porter Wagoner, and Del
McCoury Band.
Today I have played at small bar, Bobby's at Music Row, and tested some of
my songs on builders, carpenters and other workmen. They want me back
tomorrow evening to pay more. Just now I sung four songs at Legends Corner
at Broadway and had two expert musicians playing guitar with me - Bart
Hansen (Loretta Lynns guitar player) and Eddie Lange (who plays steel
guitar
for Bill Andersson - and did yesterday on the BIG stage). I was stopped on
my way to this computer (internet place) and just did a couple of songs in
the street for air hostesses from North Carolina - on Broadway - good
respons and pictures.
That's
all for now. Representing Sweden here., All the best!
Ramblin' Hobo Michael
Your Long gone Smile
Downtown Nashville
+24 degrees Celsius
This
Sat. May 13th
we'll be having a big time in
Junction, TX. at The
Hill Country Fair Association Rodeo Dance, 9 - 1. The
Fairgrounds are located on CR 2169. Call 325-446-3399.Bring your favorite
dancin' boots!
Thanks,
Bobby Flores
Jag har fått in nya National
picks bl a det traditionella NP2originalet! Dessa är lite dyrare men
sitter fint på fingrarna.
Goodrich LDR2 (pot.lös) är hur bra som helst! Stoppa i sladden i
strömuttaget och kör! Lättare kan det inte bli och jag har två stycken i
lager just nu!
Tack för lunchen Bosse Bodén. Thailändsk mat är fantastisk och den här
krogen som ligger i Sickla (Nacka) kan jag verkligen rekommendera.
Tack Hasse Buhre för lax/tonfisk och andra röror! Supergott från
Rydbergs!
Idag kommer förresten Evas äldsta dotter Ebba hit från Paris där hon
numera bor med sin fransman. Bäst att träna lite franska (den köper jag
nybakad på CityGross).
Det
var allt jag hade denna gång men som vanligt är jag tillbaka på söndag om
inget konstigt inträffar. Förhoppningsvis är det i alla fall slut på
datakrånglet nu för en lång tid framöver.
Hälsningar,
Janne Lindgren
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A nonprofit organisation to promote country music
Sveriges hetaste nyhetsblad
Email:
steelguitar@swipnet.se HomePage: www steelguitar.nu
Nyhetsbrev nr. 033 14 maj 2006
Det här nyhetsmailet kommer
till er mailadress torsdagar och söndagar.
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Fasligt
vad veckorna går fort numera. Jag tycker inte det var så många dagar sedan
jag sände mitt förra Nyhetsbrev. Men så är det endast tre dagar sedan!
Ändå har jag hunnit få in lite nyheter åt er. Träffade bluegrassgruppen
Hillfillies igår och diskuterade lite samarbete framöver. Hillfillies är
en grupp bestående av något så ovanligt som endast tjejer (och en stackars
gubbe). Berättar mer då jag har mer att komma med. Här lite övriga
nyheter! Janne Lindgren
Hejsan
Janne!
Jag
såg att du gör lite reklam i ditt nyhetsbrev för de potlösa pedalerna.Det
gör du rätt i, den jag köpte funkar fortfarande kanon. Jag är speciellt
nöjd med den på inspelningar då man nu slipper allt knaster och sprak från
en dålig pot! Har du någon nytta av det så får du gärna nämna att jag har
köpt en sådan av dig. Den pedalen tillsammans med steelkingen och Uffe
Sterlings gamla emmons-(som jag oxå har köpt) lär ge mig problemfritt
spelande under lång tid!
Hoppas allt är väl med er. Mvh Berra
Kul att du är nöjd med pedalen. Det blir väl så i
framtiden att den digitala volympedalen tar över. Men det finns
fortfarande enormt många pedaler på marknaden som behöver en potentiometer
och man kan inte begära att alla ska byta ut dessa omgående. JL.
Hej Janne
Hoppas att allt är väl i huvudkommunen.
Eftersom vi på Radio 94,3 numer har våra lokaler i f.d Music Mill studion
i Kumla så ligger det nära till hands att Country Road uppmärksammas
speciellt av oss på radion. Nu söker vi någon som kan tänkas ha video-band
med Country Road-uppträdanden (från tex. TV) som vi kan få låna och
kopiera. Eftersom CR var med i en del program under åren så kanske det
finns någon som har dessa inspelade. Du som känner dig träffad kan höra av
dig till mig, Thomas Hydén på tel. 019-583774 eller till Bosse Nilsson på
tel. 019-236383.
Hälsningar,
Thomas
Det finns säkert många som kan hjälpa er
att få fram plattor. Ni som har en bunt Country Roadplattor hemma kan väl
höra av er snarast till Thomas eller Bosse! JL.
STORY
BEHIND THE SONG
According to Eddy Arnold,
his 1948 top ten hit , “Molly
Darling” was
not that big a hit , but it turned out to be a song that everybody seemed
to like.
Eddy commented, “I don’t
even remember who I first hear sing that song, but I actually learned the
song from an old song folio that I found....I don’t even remember where I
found it...but I liked the song and started singing it. It’s a great old
tune. I started singing it on radio and personal appearances and everybody
liked it and kept asking for it so I kept singing it. “
-
·
* * According to
the record books, “Molly Darling” was written by Civil War composer Will
S. Hayes, who lived from 1937 -1907. * * *
Eddy Arnolds record of
“Molly Darling,” entered the country music charts February 7th,
1948 and made it to number ten. It was Eddy’s 10th charted
song.
STORY
BEHIND THE SONG
According to Sonny James,
his recording contract with Capitol Records came about as a direct result
of Chet Atkins, although Chet was with RCA Victor Records. Sonny says he
had just received his military discharge following 15 months overseas. He
immediately went to Nashville, Tennessee and was spending a few days at
Chet Atkins’ house. During that time, Capitol Records’ Ken Nelson dropped
by Chet’s home for a visit and Sonny sang him a few songs while they all
sat around in Chet’s den. As a result of that impromptu meeting, Nelson
offered Sonny James a Capitol recording contract. It was also Nelson’s
idea to change to change Sonny’s name from James Hugh Loden to Sonny
James.
Sonny received the song “Heaven
Says Hello” from his
longtime friend Cindy Walker. And the arrangements for Sonny James
recordings came about because he would go over and over the songs while he
was on the road-before each recording session.
Sonny said, “I’d always
have a very specific arrangement in my mind. I never wrote them down, but
they were in my mind. I’d just hear those arrangements and they would
stick. Each time I would hear a song for the first time that we were going
to record, I would start working on that arrangement in my mind.”
Sonny James placed 72 songs
on the country music charts between 1953 and 1983...including twenty three
number ones.
“Heaven Says Hello” entered
the country music charts June 1st, 1968 and made it to number
one. It was Sonny’s 27th charted song and was on the country
charts for 17 weeks.
Hello
fellow players,
Words to the working musicians from the old musicians who have been
there. All songs should have intros and instrumental breaks in the
middle. For dances, especially in the world of Western Swing, the intro
should usually be 16 bars, which could either be a verse, a chorus or what
would normally be called the release, or the last verse out after the
bridge.
Where people are dancing, there should be long intros, long instrumental
turnarounds, meaning 16 bar intros and a minimum of no less than 32 bar
turnarounds. The fault of many country bands playing around the United
States is, they feel in order to be like the record, they should play a
little short intro of 4 bars and an instrumental of no longer than 8.
This is a poor way to run a song to dance to. By the time a guy gets up,
decides whether he wants to dance or not, puts his beer and a cigarette
down, walks over to the pretty girl he wants to dance with 7 tables away,
asks her to dance and she puts her cigarette and beer down and by the time
they get to the dance floor, the song is over.
At least the Western Swing guys in Texas and Oklahoma who grew up on Bob
Wills, Billy Gray, Hank Thompson and the great Western Swing dance bands
of yesteryear, know to make the song at least 6 to 8 minutes long. And
also don't be afraid to put a little space between the songs. Let the
dancers on the floor have a little silence to whisper in each others ears
without your PA blasting them with a lot of musical nonsense before they
can get back to their seats and pick up their beer and cigarette again.
Remember this, the reason that intros are short on Nashville country
records and instrumental breaks in the middle are short, is because there
is very little time to present the singer and the words on a CD that will
be acceptable for airplay. When you are in a club playing a dance, you're
not on the radio. To do your job well for the dancers in the club, don't
play a 2 minute and 30 second version of a song for folks to dance to
because that's the length the CD was when you heard it on the radio.
Remember, most of the dancers aren't paying attention to the singer and
the words anyway. They are feeling the bass and the drums and each other
and the overall ambiance of the tune. If we have any singers reading
this, let your band do the work. Don't start off singing "Welcome To My
World" all by yourself with no intro regardless of how good you may think
you are. You're paying the band, let them work.
Next band rehearsal, start working on making your dance tunes longer by
extending intros and instrumental breaks.
I remember one time, I was working with George Jones and after an
especially hard night, I got up out of my motel room bed, knocked on
George's door and entered and looked him in the eye and said, "George, I
dreamed you died and went to Heaven and you walked in through the Pearly
Gates and there was our Lord standing in a white marble auditorium,
wrapped in purple velvet with ermine trim, singing the most beautiful
country music song that has ever been sung." God said, "Here you are
George, and you thought you were the greatest country music singer ever!"
George looked at me from across the motel room and said to me, "Seymour, I
am. You MUST HAVE been dreaming!" Remember that George?
Your buddy, Bobbe Seymour
Något mer har jag inte till er
för närvarande men det kommer in saker varje dag. På torsdag är jag
tillbaka igen med fler nyheter!
Janne Lindgren |
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A nonprofit organisation to promote country music
Sveriges hetaste nyhetsblad
Email:
steelguitar@swipnet.se HomePage: www steelguitar.nu
Nyhetsbrev nr. 034 18 maj 2006
Det här nyhetsmailet kommer
till er mailadress torsdagar och söndagar.
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Hej alla! Jag
hoppas att ni haft en skön vecka så här långt! Själv har jag tagit det
rätt lugnt med ålderns rätt och klistrat in lite bilder från 2001 och
framåt. Ja, så långt ligger jag efter med mina album. Jag började redan
som ung pilt med att iordningställa album med bilder från min
musikkarriär. Det är väldigt roligt att ha att bläddra i då man blir
gammal och det vill jag tipsa om till alla nya countryartister och
musikanter. Spara bilder i ett album, de blir värdefulla för er själva med
tiden! Här lite nyheter!
Janne Lindgren
Hej! I Nyhetsbrev 33 står det att Will S. Hayes levde 1937 - 1907,
ovanligt med negativ livstid. Jag har kollat Will S. Hayes, han är född den 19 juli 1837
och avled den 22 juli 1907.
I programmet (Country,
Country Music på Radio Lidingö 97,8 JL.)
den 16 sa Du att vi ska skicka önskningar till
www.steelguitar@swipnet.se Varför www?
Hälsningar, Björn Helgesson
Du har rätt Björn, ibland blir det fel! Du
har själv rättat det första. Beträffande min webbsida så är den
www.steelguitar.nu och mailadressen är
steelguitar@swipnet.se Sådär, nu har vi rett ut det hela. Att det
blir fel ibland beror på att jag skriver 2 Nyhetsbrev i veckan och har ett
program på Radio Lidingö en gång per vecka. De flesta av er skriver
ingenting eller pratar i radio och kan därmed aldrig heller göra fel. Det
är bra! JL.
Hej Janne
Det var länge sedan jag skrev till dig men nu tänkte jag klämma till med
några rader igen.
Jag är en riktig Country & Bluegrass freak och under 2005 besökte jag 3
Country festivaler + Lonesome Pine Countryfestival och The Ultimate
Country Cruise som jag själv är med och arrangerar. Så nu är jag lite
nyfiken på vilka Countryfestivaler du syftar på när du säger att det inte
bokas några Svenska Country band? Den festivalen jag känner till som kör
lite annat är Ydre som tar in något rock.n roll gäng men det tror jag bara
höjer Country musiken?
Jag vill också passa på att slå ett slag för ett nytt evenemang vi tänker
köra uppe i Torsby. Midsommarafton och Midsommar dagen har vi hyrt ett
område runt Torsby Herrgård i vårt lilla centrum och där tänker vår
förening bränna av ett skivsläpp för Country bandet The wanted . Deras
första fulllängdare. Det blir en stor scen och serverings tält på ett
område som sväljer några tusen besökare om turen är med oss. Det blir fler
band som spelar under helgen bla. Moonstompers (succé på ultimate country
cruise-06) så har ni inget bättre för er än att dansa små grodorna är ni
välkomna till en riktig Country helg på självasta midsommar. - vågar man
inget vinnar man inget är vår paroll.
Ha en trevlig Country sommar!
Peter Jonsson
www.lonesomepine.nu
Kul att du skriver några rader ibland Peter!
Kul också att ni satsar på en festival i Torsby på midsommarafton. Men att
det skulle komma flera tusen besökare till festivalen är väl att sikta
lite väl högt? Eller…….? Beträffande din nyfikenhet över frågan varför det
inte bokas några countryband till våra countryfestivaler så kan jag bara
svara att jag aldrig uttryckt mig på det sättet! JL.
Till SCMCmedlemmar och andra intresserade!
Hej ni medlemmar som vi har mailadresser
till!
Hoppas ni
kommer på klubbträffen nu på torsdag den 18 maj! Vi börjar vid
18-tiden.Hoppas vi får se många av er!
Hälsningar från GunSan
- Kenneth - Elisabet - Rita - Sussie
PS Adressen är
Östgötagatan 19,
närmsta T-bana Medborgarplatsen. Tryck på “festlokalen”.
Janne
Bear Family
söker kontakt med folk som har info om detta.
Kent H.
There
were a few tours in Europe I am looking for pictures, and people who have
seen the shows.
1. Country Music
Tour (1949)
Hank Williams,
Little Jimmy Dickens, Red Foley, Minnie Pearl
(this was on
the continent only)
2. Nashville Stars
On Tour (April 1964) Jim Reeves, Chet Atkins, Bobby Bare, The Anita Kerr
Singers (this was on the continent plus in Sweden and Norway) Lillies
Ohlsson has seen it. I have lost contact to him.
3. American Folk &
Country Festival (März 1966)
Stanley Brothers,
The New Lost City Ramblers, Roscoe Holcomb, Cousin Emmy, Cyp Landreneau
(this has
poss. been in Sweden)
Finns det någon därute
som har bildmaterial så förmedlar jag kontakten? JL.
Hei alle sammen!
Gratulerer med
17.mai! Da har siden blitt oppdatert igjen med nyheter.
Rutinen er
den samme. Du må
bruke passord for å komme inn på siden.
Passord:
country (liten skrift)
http://www.steffnevers.com/Norway-country-news.html
P.S! Steff Nevers
har konsert på Aust Agder Country Klubb, Lørdag 20.mai. Møt opp for en
trivelelig kveld.
Ha en riktig god Country Nasjonal dag.
Mvh Steff Nevers
Nasjonaldag var ordet! Sverige ligger som
vanligt efter Norge även i detta fall!
Om ni bor i Stockholmstrakten så kan ni
lyssna på Country, Country Music på Radio Lidingö 97,8 på tisdagar kl.
20.00 med repriser onsdag/torsdag natt och lördag klockan 15.00 Har ni
svårt att få in programmet så ställ radion på mono och vrid och vänd
antennen. Mer info om Radio Lidingös övriga utbud kan du läsa om på
www.radiolidingo.se
Flera stationer i Stockholmsområdet har
countryprogram, t ex Radio Haninge, och här finns utrymme för dem att göra
lite PR för sin egen station. Tänk på att Nyhetsbrevet läses av ca. 500
countryentusiaster varav många bor i Stockholm.
Mer än så här hade jag inte till er idag!
Men jag är tillbaka på söndag igen med fler nyheter! Åh du grabbar och
tjejer, GLÖM INTE att SCMC har klubbträff i kväll! Se info ovan i detta
Nyhetsbrev!
Janne Lindgren |
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Stockholms
Country Music Club hade klubbträff i torsdags i klubblokalen på
Östgötagatan i Stockholm. Det var faktiskt första gången jag var där och
det var kul att se den fina lokalen. Roffe Wetterskog (tidigare Country
Minstrelsmedlem) är den som rekommenderat den här lokalen och vederbörande
var också på plats med sin gitarr. Tillsammans med Kenneth och Gunnar så
blev det lite spontan underhållning. Det tackar vi för!
I fredags blev jag
bjuden till en annan Country Minstrelsmedlem nämligen Christer Rosenkvist.
Firman han jobbar på är Tengboms och de har nyligen flyttat till det stora
glashuset vid Slussen (f d KF-huset). Där bjöds på pilsner och härliga
snittar som Christer hade snitsat till. Händig grabb det där. Nästa gång
brygger han säkert ölet själv också! Ca. 400 personer kom till denna
invigningsfest!
Ni kanske har märkt att
jag inte skriver om countryfestivaler som arrangeras i Sverige. Jag får
mig en del sådant material tillsänt men det är ofta lite för stora för
mina Nyhetsbrev och är dessutom skickade i ganska god tid. Jag vill att
mina Nyhetsbrev ska vara så dagsaktuella som möjligt. Dessutom så finns
det sidor på nätet där du kan få komplett information om allt som händer.
Kolla med era klubbar i första hand.
Här lite nyheter,
Janne Lindgren
Hej
Janne,
Läste i brevet om Bear Family som sökte bilder. Du har kanske redan den
uppgiften men... jag kollade efter Lillies på eniro och fick följande
svar:
Sture Lillies Olsson
Mobil 073-0265555
Bännerstigen 120, 733 95 SALA
Jag tror det är rätt Lillies, hörde för flera år sedan att han flyttat
till Salatrakten. Jag har inte träffat honom på många år.
Jag blev bara litet nyfiken, för som grabb på 70-talet brukade farsan och
jag slinka in i Kountry Korral-butiken här i Västerås. En guldgruva för en
ung liten cowboy...
Hälsningar
Per-Erik Jonsson
Hallo cowboy och tack för uppgifterna!
JL.
Hej
Janne,
Nu har dina nyhetsbrev börjat komma igen, och det tackar och bugar man
för.
Du skriver, apropå radiolyssnande, att man skall vrida och vända på
antennen. Det finns mellertid en annan sak som dom flesta inta är medvetna
om. Alla lägenheter som har kabel-TV från Comhem har också ett uttag för
radioantenn. Det är bara att ansluta radion med en vanlig antennkabel, så
har man tillgång till alla radiostationer i Stockholmsområdet (c:a 25 -
30 st). Utan denna möjlighet sjulle jag inte kunna lyssna på Radio
Lidingö.
Hälsningar
JR (Janne Rosqvist)
Ett
mycket bra tips Janne! Tack!
COUNTRY
MUSIC PARTY
FOLKETS HUS I HERRÄNG
LÖRDAG 17 JUNI KL 19.00
MATS RÅDBERG & RANKARNA
KONFERENCIER RED
JENKINS
Bokning och information
Benga Jansson Tfn 0175-14083 eller 0734-213 756
Det blir
COUNTRYKVÄLL i Säterdalen
Lördag 27 Maj
kl. 21 - 01
med DCMCs stolthet
Country Cream
och ca. kl. 23
Sveriges "DOLLY PARTON"
Cecilia Karlsson
Pub,lättare mat.
Entré 100:-
Åldersgräns 18 år.
Mer info: Dalstugan 0225- 500 91 eller 070- 491 82 88.
http://www.janssonscafe.se/
Se också http://www.countrysweden.com/dcmc/aktuellt.asp
Ottar Johansen och
Grete har gjort en barnskiva som heter Drömmeland. JL.
(Rapport direkt från
Nashville av Danne Ekbäck)
Alan
Jackson’s new record will be produced by Alison Krauss. They have already
recorded a few songs and will finish the project, due out in late
September on Arista Nashville. They also collaborated in 1993 on “The
Angels Cried,” a duet for Jackson's first holiday collection, Honky
Tonk Christmas...
Wynonna, Amy Grant, Randy Travis, Brett James and George Jones appear on
the recently released soundtrack Music That Inspired the Hit Television
Show 7th Heaven. The album is out on Treadstone Records...
Kenny
Chesney will perform on Good Morning America’s “Summer Concert
Series” on June 9. Others tapped for the series are the Dixie Chicks,
Prince, Pharrell with Kanye West, Rob Thomas and Jewel...
Hank
Williams Jr. is on his first ever radio tour to promote new single “That’s
How They Do It In Dixie.” He traveled over 3500 miles in one day,
including a stop to visit Cincinnati Reds player Jason LaRue, who has “A
Country Boy Can Survive” played every time he goes up to bat...
The
CMT special Fan Mail will feature Rascal Flatts as they surprise a
family with a private home performance. The family was chosen because of a
fan letter they wrote detailing the effect of their music on their child
who has cerebral palsy. The special premieres on June 2 at 9:30 CT...
Sara Evans performed last night at the Ryman Auditorium with the show's
proceeds set to benefit Centerstone, a Nashville behavioral healthcare
center...
Miranda Lambert's Mirandaville, a new store and fan club
headquarters, opened May 13 in her hometown of Lindale, Texas...
Hello fellow players,
Many people have asked me about Hendersonville through the years knowing
that several of their idols in the music business live here and it was the
home of Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty & Twitty City, Roy Orbison, Marty
Stuart, Connie Smith, Billy Walker, Dan Seals, Jean Shepard, Ricky Scaggs,
Gary Allan, David Allan Coe, our neighbors The Oak Ridge Boys and at least
a hundred music stars who are household names.
All this in a town so small you can drive from one end to the other in 5
minutes if the lights are right. It's hard to go anywhere in town without
running into someone you've heard of all your life in the music business.
Hendersonville is to the country music business what Beverly Hills is to
the movie industry. We work downtown on Music Row and come home to
Hendersonville.
Steel guitar players such as Don Helms, John Hughey, Smiley Roberts, Penn
Pennington, Lynn Owsley, Barbara Ann Mandrell, Sonny Garrish, Monte Good,
Weldon Myrick, Russ Hicks, Steve Hinson, Gary Hogue, Frank Arnett, John
Bechtel, Jim Vest, Jimmy Crawford, Mike Douchette, Harold Fogle and Paul
Franklin to name a few, all live or have lived in Hendersonville.
Hendersonville has many, many miles of coastline on beautiful Old Hickory
lake which to many of us steel players, is an added plus to living in this
little town. I have been here for forty years and being on the road and
seeing everywhere, I can understand why Kiplinger has chosen Nashville as
the number one town to live in in the U.S. and Hendersonville is one of
the best suburbs of Nashville. After all, we have the lake.
Let me quote from the Kiplinger website.
"The Kiplinger 50
To come up with this list of cities, we began by surveying you, our
readers, to see what factors you consider most important when choosing a
place to live. The top two were cost of living and cost of housing.
Quality health care and a low crime rate were also among your top
requirements.
To broaden the appeal of the cities on the list, we also factored in
economic vitality, we gave points to well-diversified economies that are
good places to start or expand businesses. In addition, we looked at
quality of life, which by our definition means the variety of cultural and
recreational activities available."
Naturally, I feel if you are in the music business, as most steel players
are, if you can't move here, at least come and visit me in Hendersonville
next time you're in Tennessee. How many other small towns in the United
States have "Johnny Cash Parkway" or "Barbara Mandrell Blvd"?
Every week many cherished friends and steel players come by to visit.
This week we were blessed with the appearance of a dear friend, Terry
Bethel, who is back with Mel Tillis for the third time around. So if you
see Mel Tillis in the next few weeks, Terry said he'd buy you a cup of
coffee.
All the black Peavey 112's are gone and will not be back in stock for a
couple of months. The colored ones are still available, Terry loves the
ostrich burgundy one, so give me a call while I still have a few.
Talking about old friends, Gary Talley came up in conversation yesterday.
Gary is one of the finest, most tasteful players out there. He has that
rare ability to play exactly what is needed at exactly the right time and
all my regular readers know that players who can't do this are one of my
biggest pet peeves. This is something everyone should strive for. If you
don't know who Gary is, you should visit his website at
www.garytalley.com and find out.
Your buddy,
Bobbe Seymour
(Här kommer
ytterligare en rapport från Michael Lindgren)
Hi Dear
Friends,
This is the 26th day in USA. Still in Nashville. I will leave for Los
Angeles on Monday morning. Many nice little things have happened, and keep
on happening, and this sure is a good school of life and music. A lot of
job
too, carrying the guitar and the cameras, writing etc..
I have spent many hours at the world famous Ryman Auditorium. This is the
scene of the oldest, still going on radio show in the world - The Grand
Old
Opry - broadcasted live since 1925. (Now from another place). On this
stage
Hank Williams sung his "Lovesick Blues" in 1949 - and the women fainted!
Probably first time in music history. They called him in to sing it 9
times!
Well, I have now sung that good powerful song on the same stage too,
several
times, for the staff and the visitors.The small groups that come in varies
between 20 and 80 people at the time, and they sure like the old stuff.
The Ryman is also a museum and a stage for shows, still very much alive.
Last week e. g. James Taylor performed here. The boss and the staff want's
me to come and sing all the time, and I am there about every second day,
singing for about 3 to 4 hours! I can now come and go as I please, since
the
supervisor of the Ryman has given me free tickets and told his staff about
it. This is a very special place for yet another reason. The acoustics are
the third best in the country - and I can tell you - it is unbelievable to
stand and sing Hank's songs, Jimme's, Carter Family's and Birgitta's and
my
songs at the Ryman! I have had to do requests all the time - and I just
love
this.
I have been singing at many open mic-places - the songs that I have
written.
I have tested about 10 of them. Very good and much appreciation. All the
people that I have met, wanna hear the old songs. They are really tired of
the modern stuff the radio stations produce, against the majority of the
listeners, it seems. I agree, much is, but not all, I would like to say,
another form of "air pollution".
I am opened minded and walk around with hat and my guitar - so little
wonderful things happen all the time. I stood in the street the other day
and a car pulled up. - Where are you from, said the couple inside? From
Sweden. I sung them one song and they gave me 20 dollars tip! A group of
tourists waited for the driver in a small bus. They asked me to sing them
a
song. The driver came - we rode around the block and I sung 5 or 6 songs.
They were so happy that gave me 52 dollars. A soldier gave me a big
genuine
silver dollar from 1922 at the Ryman after I took some pictures of him,
and
sung his request song - "Long gone lonesome Blues" - by Hank! That was a
very very fine gesture. He asked me if I could come out to Fort Campbell
and
sing for 20.000 soldiers. I said yes! He was to check it out with the
generals he knew if it was possible before I left town. If not this time,
he
said, hopefully in the future! So we will keep in touch. When that day
comes, Birgitta must be singing by my side.
It is a miracle just to be here and walk the streets. Just to talk to e.
g.
the Hells Angels types, as I did this week, on their new Harleys about my
old ones (1931 and 1946) - that makes them so excited. Probably nothing
else
does. One very tough looking guy said; - "I had to beat up three guys to
get
this bike". - "I said, only three"? He looked mean, but then he laughed -
and the the others too! Was he the leader? I am walking down and up
Broadway, in and out in the bars. My guitar in my hand. Wrote some new
songs. Good but lonely life and VERY educating - to talk and sing to all
these ordinary people - all the time - policemen, waitresses, attorneys
and
bums - what thoughts, what stories, what knowledge and experiences! I
walked
in to this bar on Broadway yesterday, and a very BIG guy came up after a
while, as I stood in the sun in the door with my hat and guitar. He said:
I
just have to shake your hand, Bad Ass Man. You see, we made a bet, and the
other guys in my gang thought that I was the only one big enough to handle
you." (In the event this Ramblin' Hobo of yours, would beat him up, I
understood).
"You sure look like a Mean Ole Bad Ass Dude from the Deep South that just
came in from the Crossroads."
These little things sort'a makes ya' feel a little bit more comfortable in
this big land.
I met Dan Ekbaeck at Bluewatermusic here in town. He is a very nice guy
from
Stockholm who has been in the music business long. He took me for lunch
and
he learned me a lot about the country music business here, during the
almost
5 hours we spoke. Thank you, Danne!
After many trials and tribulations, I finally found at got to meet with
Don
Helms yesterday. He was Hank Williams' steel guitar player, and is the
only
surviving member of Hank's band the Drifting Cowboys. As you know, Hank
died
in 1953, 29 years old. We had some wonderful hours together and he played
those great songs on his original Gibson guitar for me, from back then. He
and his wonderful wife Hazel, told me amazing stories about the old times,
about their personal fiends Hank, Ray Price, Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline -
all great stars Don had played with! I will write article about all of
this!
I found a Friend there, and I appreciate that meeting immensely. He is 79
years old but will keep on playing the old songs as long as he can.
Yesterday, I also visted the grave sites of Mother Maybelle Carter, Anita
Carter and Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter. Fine moment. In this
place,
Luther Perkins, the wild and funny guitar, who played with the special
Johnny Cash sound, also rests. They all sleep in a pieceful cemetary in
Hendersonville, where Johhny and June, and their best friend and neighbor
Roy Orbison, all lived by the lake.
I have many pictures and videofilms showing it all.
All for now. They staff are waiting at the Ryman.
Then I just must try to play in the street - Broadway.
Best regards.
Ramblin' Hobo
Michael
Your singin' reporter in Nashville
Något mer än
detta hade jag inte idag, men det kommer en torsdag snart och då är jag
förmodligen tillbaka igen!
Janne Lindgren |
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CountryMusicSweden
A nonprofit organisation to promote country music
Sveriges hetaste nyhetsblad
Email:
steelguitar@swipnet.se HomePage: www steelguitar.nu
Nyhetsbrev nr. 036 23 maj 2006
Det här nyhetsmailet kommer
till er mailadress torsdagar och söndagar.
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Breaking News
Hei janne,
Jeg fikk denne E-mail
fra en venn i Norge,
Hilsen Brit och lars
-----
Original Message -----
From:
Arne Benoni
Sent:
Monday, May 22, 2006 5:02 PM
Subject: FW: Sadness
Hei!
Jeg fikk denne
triste meldingen fra Marty Martell i dag. Jeg kan legge til at barnebarnet
Joshua Brooks som omtales som skadet, nå rapporteres død som følge av
skadene han pådro seg i bilulykken.
ARNE
From:
martymartel [mailto:martymartel@legendsfest.com]
Sent:
21. mai 2006 23:24
To:
MSP, Inc.
Subject: Sadness
There
is no way that I can find the right words to say with this email. My
heart is heavy and I have prayed as hard as I know how. I regret to send
the following news:
Approx. 12:40AM (5/21/06)
Billy Walker, his wife
Bettie Walker, musicians Charlie Lilly Jr., and Daniel Patton Sr., lost
their lifes in a one car accident on I-65-11 miles N. of Ft. Deposit, Al.
Injured in the accident was Joshua Brooks who was traveling with the
group. He is in an Alabama hospital, and I do not know the extent of his
injuries at this time. (I do not have details of the accident at this
time)
Please keep in your prayers
the families of our lost loved ones, and special prayers for Joshua Brooks
that he will recover.
The Grand Ole Opry and our
country music industry has been devastated once again by this terrible
accident. We have lost a great man, a great christian, a super
singer/entertainer and songwriter. His wife, Bettie Walker was by his
side as a driving force in his super successful career, and she was so
much a part of the country music industry and the Grand Ole Opry-always
working within the industry for charitable events and promoting events
that focused on the veterans of country music and The Grand Ole Opry.
There are no words that
can express the empty feeling that our Hendersonville community, The Grand
Ole Opry, and country music and all music genre's are experiencing at this
time. The lost of Charlie Lilly and Danny Patton who were so much a part
of country music, not only as musicians, but as family men and wonderful
human beings.
I do not have any funeral
arrangements at this time, but I will pass them on as I receive them.
Please ask our Blessed Lord
to hold each of their families in his loving arms and comfort them in
their needs through his powerful intercession. I know that he has
received Billy, Bettie, Charlie and Danny into his arms and they are
at home with their Lord.
And once again, please pray
hard for Joshua Brooks.
MAY BILLY, BETTIE, CHARLIE
AND DANNIE'S SOULS REST IN PEACE.
Ännu en stor artist är borta. Tänk så många
gånger jag varit vid Suspension Bridge som leder över floden Brazos i
Texas och tänkt på Billy´s ”Cross The Brazos At Waco”, en fantastisk
inspelning. Jag har spelat den många gånger i mitt Country, Country Music
på Radio Lidingö. Även ”Matamoros” är en höjdare som jag spelade så sent
som förra veckan!
Billy Walker har en fin box på Bear Family
som jag kan beställa hem åt er om ni vill och om ni gillar lite
TexMexinspirerad musik.
Janne Lindgren |
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CountryMusicSweden
A nonprofit organisation to promote country music
Sveriges hetaste nyhetsblad
Email:
steelguitar@swipnet.se HomePage: www steelguitar.nu
Nyhetsbrev nr. 037 25 maj 2006
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Som ni redan vet så har Billy Walker omkommit i en bilolycka vilket ni
kunde läsa i mitt extra Nyhetsbrev för några dagar sedan. Nedan får ni
lite mer information om denna fina artist och hela artikeln som Danne
Ekbäck sände mig finns på
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060522/ENTERTAINMENT01/605220338
Billy Walker, 77, a star of the Grand Ole Opry for 46 years, died early
Sunday morning in an automobile accident that also claimed the lives of
his wife, Bettie, 61, and band members Charles Lilly Jr., 44, and Daniel
Patton Sr., 40.
The Walkers’ grandson
Joshua Brooks, 21, of Hendersonville, was also critically injured in the
one-vehicle crash that took place on Interstate 65 south of Montgomery,
Ala. Walker and his band were driving back toward Middle Tennessee, having
performed Saturday night at the Palm Lake Opry & RV Park in Foley, Ala.,
when their van ran off the interstate and overturned, according to Alabama
state troopers.
Known as “The Tall
Texan,” Mr. Walker is known for country hits including “Funny How Time
Slips Away,” “Cross The Brazos At Waco” and “Charlie’s Shoes.” With
dashing looks and a smooth tenor voice, he emerged from the Dallas-area
music scene and became a Nashville luminary, joining the Grand Ole Opry in
1960.
Hi Janne,
Jeg ved ikke om min eller din opdatering af den triste nyhed er den
seneste, men for at gøre din nyhedsmail så sand som muligt, syntes jeg du
skulle have min nyhed ang. disse dødsfald.
Hilsen fra Dann
This email
is to ask everyone's forgiveness for posting that Joshua Brooks had passed
away this morning. At this time he is still in critical condition in a
hospital in Alabama. I am truly sorry for this mistake of such a great
magnitude. I took the information from a source that I know would not
have sent it to me if they had not heard it from somone. But that is not
like me, because I am so very cautious in sending out information that
needs to handled so delicately.
Please
accept my deepest apologies and we need to continue to pray that Joshua
recovers from his injuries.
With
Deepest Sorrow I am asking all of you for your understanding for this
mistake.
Marty
Martel, NNT
Vill ni göra CDfynd! Göran
Lundqvist rear ut nästan tusen plattor till superpris.
kriv en rad till
honom så sänder han en lista.
goeran.lundqvist@telia.com JL.
Hei Janne !
her er lita info om den norska country
artisten B-Thomas
officiell web:
www.bthomas.no uta med en
country skiva nu kan du laga lite stoff på dina sider
kanskje ? her er lite info:
Pressemelding
B.Thomas er en country artist fra Narvik i
Nord Norge, som er godt etablert som sanger og entertainer. Med erfaring
fra duo og trio konsepter som ”Brooks & Tucker” 1999 – 2002 og
”Western Boots” fra 2002- 2005 før han startet som soloartisten B.Thomas,
han har gjestet flere steder både i Midt Norge, Nord Norge og på diverse
country arrangementer, og på countryfestival i Sverige. Musikkstilen er
fra amerikanske artister som Clint Black, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson og
George Strait. 28 April 2006 lanserte han sitt solo Album
”In The Shadow of The Stars” som består av kjente coverversjoner.
Platen
er utgitt på plateselskapet Redneck Records.
country
hilsen RN Records, Lise Therese Larssen, Manager
Hei
country venner!
Her er siste nytt
fra innland og utland. En meget trist nyhet fra Nashville. Husk ACM Awards
går av stabelen i Las Vegas i kveld. Men, det får ikke vi sett
dessverre..Rutinen er som før.
Passord
for å komme inn Passord: country (liten skrift)
http://www.steffnevers.com/Norway-country-news.html
Ha en fin country kveld., Mvh Steff Nevers
Hej Janne.
Nu var det ett tag sedan vi hördes via ditt suveräna nyhetsbrev.
Lite nyheter från Östergötland kommer här.
Nu på söndag (Mors dag) kommer vi att göra ett 30 min uppträdande i
samarbete med Barncancerstiftelsen. 100% sponsring från vår sida.
Det hela görs i samband med ”Kanaldagen”. Ett event straxt utanför
Linköping som skall uppmärksamma Göta kanal och dess historia. Många tusen
besökare brukar det bli. Vi hoppas att någon i våra krokar läser ditt
nyhetsbrev och vill komma. Fri entré. Massor av musik och andra
upplevelser hela dagen med start kl 10.00 till ca 16.00. Vi avslutar dagen
med vårt framträdande tillsammans med linedansgruppen Hitch Hikers, också
från Linköping.
Om någon har RealPlayer installerad så går det att lyssna på oss via
lokalradion i Östergötland. De gjorde en liveinspelning när vi var i Kisa
folketshus i tisdags förra veckan. Vi är glada att kunna få vara med i
Sveriges Radio även om vi själva är lite blygsamma och tycker att vi inte
är riktigt mogna för detta ännu. Men kul var det i alla fall. Det är
huvudsaken att man har roligt. Det delar vi gärna med oss av. Håll till
godo. Här är länken. Skrolla in ca 42 min i sändningen. Hoppas den
fungerar!
http://sr.se/webbradio/webbradio.asp?typ=fil&namn=/ostergotland/diverse/appdata/godmorgon/sounds/godmorgon4b.ram&intUnitID=
Många country-hälsningar från Linköping.
Kjell Törnlund, The Coyotes, 070-511 15 19
The 41st
Annual Academy of Country Music Awards
were held last night, May 23, at the Las Vegas MGM Grand, where Kenny
Chesney was dubbed Entertainer of the Year, Keith Urban won Top Male
Vocalist, and Sara Evans was named Top Female Vocalist. Also at the show,
Brad Paisley went home with three awards, Brooks & Dunn won their 20th and
21st ACM awards, the late country music legend Buck Owens was honored with
an all-star musical tribute, and Vince Gill won the Academy of Country
Music/The Home Depot Humanitarian Award. Rascal Flatts was named Top Vocal
Group for the fourth consecutive time and Carrie Underwood picked up two
awards.
Artists from all walks of popular music joined together to salute the late
Buck Owens in a special performance. Dwight Yoakam, ZZ Top guitarist and
vocalist Billy Gibbons, Brad Paisley, Buddy Alan Owens (son of Buck &
Bonnie Owens), original Buck Owens & The Buckaroos steel guitarist Tom
Brumley, Chris Hillman (The Byrds) and blink-182/+44 drummer Travis Barker
played together in the tribute, which was introduced by Vince Vaughn.
Entertainer Of The Year
Kenny
Chesney
Top Male Vocalist
Keith
Urban
Top Female Vocalist
Sara
Evans
Top Vocal Group
Rascal
Flatts
Top Vocal Duo
Brooks &
Dunn
Top New Male Vocalist
Jason
Aldean
Top New Female Vocalist
Carrie
Underwood
Top New Duo Or Vocal Group
Sugarland
Album Of The YearBrad Paisley
Time Well Wasted
Producers: Chris Dubois, Frank Rogers
Arista
Single Record Of The Year
"Jesus Take The Wheel"
Carrie Underwood
Producer: Mark Bright
Arista
Song Of The Year
"Believe"
Writers: Ronnie Dunn (BMI), Craig Wiseman (ASCAP)
Sony / ATV Tree (BMI), Showbilly Music (BMI), Big Loud Shirt Industries
(ASCAP)
Brooks & Dunn
Video Of The Year
"When I Get Where I’m Going"
Producers: Mark Kalbfeld, Peter Tilden
Director: Jim Shea
Artists: Brad Paisley And Dolly Parton
Vocal Event Of The Year
"When I Get Where I’m Going"
Brad Paisley And Dolly Parton
Producers: Chris Dubois, Frank Rogers
Arista
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION:
I was very saddened to hear of Billy Walker’s death. Do you have any
information as to funeral services?
ANSWER:
Funeral services for Billy Walker and his wife, Bettie, will be held
Friday at 2:30 p.m. at Cornerstone Church in Madison, TN. Burial will be
in Springhill Cemetery in Madison. Walker, his wife and two band members
were killed when the van the singer was driving veered off the road on
I-65 near Fort Deposit, AL, Sunday morning. Walker’s grandson, Joshua
Brooks, is still in intensive care in an Alabama hospital.
QUESTION:
I’ve heard the radio folks
talking about Willie Nelson have a park concert in Austin, Texas with some
other folks. Do you have any
details?
ANSWER:
Willie
Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel, Nickel Creek, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Guy Clark
and Los Lonely Boys will perform at the 2006 Austin City Limits Festival,
September 15th-17th, featuring 130 artists on eight stages in
Austin, Texas’ Zilker Park.
QUESTION: There
was a mention on the radio about Bobby Bare and his son doing concerts
together. Do you know anything about it?
ANSWER:
Bobby
Bare and his son, Bobby Bare Jr., performed for the first time in more
than 30 years, in Portland, Oregon on May 17th; Seattle,
Washington on May 18th and Chicago, Illinois on May 26th
& 27th. The last time they sang together it was to sing Bare
Sr.’s hit, “Daddy, What If,” at the Grand Ole Opry and taped a segment of
the television show “Hee Haw.”
QUESTION:
I have heard that a big boxed set of Jerry lee Lewis recordings is on the
market. Do you know anything about that?
ANSWER:
“Jerry
Lee Lewis: A Half Century of Hits,” will be in stores June 13th,
featuring the first two songs he ever recorded -- “New Orleans Boogie” and
a cover of Lefty Frizzell’s “Don’t Stay Away,” plus his hits including
"Great Balls of Fire," "Whole Lot of Shaking Goin' On" and "Chantilly
Lace." The discs also include several previously unreleased live
performances from 1964 -1981 and an in-studio argument between Lewis and
Sun Records founder Sam Phillips about the religious implications of rock
‘n’ roll.
QUESTION:
My sister in law says that
they are going to induct The Gatlin brothers into the hall of fame. Is
that true?
ANSWER: The
Gatlins
Brothers--Larry, Steve and Rudy, will be inducted into the Texas Country
Music Hall of Fame in Carthage, Texas on August 19th.
QUESTION:
Jim Ed Brown is my favorite
singer and the radio folks mentioned that he was performing at some “Opry
trust” this summer. Do you know anything about that?
ANSWER:
Wynonna,
Joe Nichols, Jason Aldean, Steve Wariner, Tracy Byrd, Joe Diffie and Jim
Ed Brown will perform at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium June 8th
for the annual Grand Ole Opry Trust Fund Benefit. The show has become a
tradition as one of the CMA Music Festival week late-night concerts. The
Opry Trust Fund assists members of the country music community in need.
Det
var väl bra att ni fick lite att läsa nu under långledigheten. Men sitt
inte för mycket vid era datorer utan gå ut och rör på er lite mellan
varven. Annars blir ni som supernördarna!
Jag sitter just nu och
tittar ut på vår gård där vår gårdshare sitter och käkar i gräset helt
oberörd över att det kommer bilar och människor helt nära den. Det är
alltså en vild hare som har sitt bo i närheten men varje morgon sitter han
här. Jag brukar skrika åt honom….. harevattnåt? Ja, ja dåligt
Stockholmsslang och skämt! En sån här dag ska man ju inte skämta utan
hellre gå till kyrkan! Vi får se hur det blir med detta.
Ha en fortsatt skön helg,
Janne
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Hej vänner! I helgen var jag i Uppsala och
hälsade på hos svärmor och hjälpte till lite i hennes trädgård då hon
börjar att tappa orken för att rensa ogräs och kratta. På lördagen firade
vi min svågers 50-årsdag med party i hans trädgård i Knivsta. Jag berättar
detta för att ni inte ska tro att jag glömt bort Nyhetsbrevet. Nejdå, jag
har bara haft det lite körigt som sagt! Men här kommer ett låååångt
Nyhetsbrev! Varsågoda!
Janne Lindgren
This is a real sad day for us in Tomboola band.......
We lost our dear old friend Mary Nielsen
from Odense Denmark yesterday....after a looooong struggle against
her big pain.....a BIG heart for humanity and for Countrymusic has
stopped....
Our
hearts bleeds for her....and tears are running......We hope that there is
a life for you somewhere without pain....
Mary you are our hero, we will never ever forget you!
Mary
may our God be with you
Kenneth, Benny, Jonte, Salle.
Hi Janne,
Her er atter en trist nyhed hvis det er noget for dit nyhedsbrev.
Mary Malling Nielsen fra Odense i Danmark er afgået ved døden den 24 Maj
2006. Mary havde været syg den sidste måneds til på grund af en brækket
hofte og hun led ganske forfærdeligt. Mary som led af muskelsvind og var
jo lænket til en kørestol og afhængig af hjælpere til at hjælpe hende med
forskellige fornødenheder. Mary stillede op til alle country
festivaller, og hendes hjælpsomhed kendte ingen grænser, ja selv dette
nyhedsbrev har benyttet indlæg fra Mary, hvis liv var tilegnet country
musikken. Utallige er de artister som har draget fordel af hendes
hjælpsomhed og know how, og de danske country klubber har mistet en
kapacitet som vil blive savnet af mange. Selv skylder jeg Mary stor tak
for hjælpsomhed når det drejede sig om radio arrangementer for artisterne,
som uden hendes hjælp ganske givet ikke var blevet nogen success. En
Country musik kapacitet har fundet hvile.
Dann Hansen
Hej,
Jag heter Timo och bor i Finland. Jag tänkte fråga om ni kunde möjligen
hjälpa mig sälja en Deering Black Diamond banjo jag har. Den är i mycket
bra
skick. Jag har haft den i två år och jag köpte den när jag var på besök i
USA. Jag tänkte 3000 euro skulle vara ett passande pris på instrumentet.
Om
någon vill köpa min banjo, kan jag komma till Sverige med den förutsett
köparen betalar priset på bilfärjsbiljetten. Om intresse väcks, kan jag ge
mera info om banjon till den prospectiva köparen genom nätet. Tyvärr har
jag
inga bilder på banjon eftersom jag inte har digital kamera, men banjon är
som ny och den som är intresserad kan kollar på någon annanstans på nätet.
Tack för hjälpen om du tror att det går för dig att hjälpa mig.
Vänliga hälsningar, Timo
QUESTION:
I heard that George
Hamilton IV was celebrating some kind of anniversary. Do you know
anything about that?
ANSWER:
George
Hamilton IV is celebrating his 50th anniversary as an
entertainer with a new book, album and European tour this fall. The book –
the “50th Anniversary Scrapbook and PhotoBiography” –traces his
career, beginning with the pop success of the million selling “A Rose and
a Baby Ruth” in 1956. It continues through his country hits of “Abilene,”
“Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston” and “Steel Rail Blues.”
QUESTION:
The radio guys were talking
about Little Jimmy Dickens receiving some kind of award at the Academy of
Country Music Swards. I watched the whole thing and didn’t see that.
ANSWER:
The
Pioneer Award winners, (Outstanding Pioneers of Country Music) announced
prior to the telecast were Kris Kristofferson, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs
and Little Jimmy Dickens.
QUESTION:
Someone said that
Alison Kraus and Alan Jackson were doing an album together. Do you have
any information?
ANSWER:
Krauss
and Jackson are working on an album that will be released in September.
This is not the first collaboration for the two – Alison and Alan dueted
on “The Angels Cried” for Jackson’s “Honky Tonk Christmas” disc.
= = =
(Direktrapport
från Danne Ekbäck i Nashville)
PURE COUNTRY: CMT will launch new network CMT Pure
Country on May 26 at 5 a.m. CT. The new digital channel will program only
uninterrupted country music and will make its on-air debut with Hank
Williams Jr. introducing his 1983 hit video “The Conversation," featuring
Waylon Jennings. CMT will pre-empt its regular programming to air CMT Pure
Country on Monday, May 29 from 5 a.m.- 12 p.m. CT. Beginning Sunday, June
4, CMT will debut a new weekly one-hour music block, also called CMT
Pure Country, airing Sundays at 8 a.m. CT...
BMI COUNTRY AWARDS: BMI will salute the year's most popular country songs
on Nov. 4 at the 54th Annual BMI Country Awards. Staged at the company's
Music Row offices, the black-tie, invitation-only event spotlights the 50
most performed songs of 2006. The evening's highest honors will go to
BMI's Songwriter of the Year, Publisher of the Year, Most Performed
Country Song of the Year (the Robert J. Burton Award), and a
yet-to-be-announced new BMI Icon...
Brooks & Dunn have inked a two-year deal with the Las Vegas Hilton. The
duo, who won two ACM awards at Tuesday night’s show, will perform at the
National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas Dec. 4-6, and then again at the Hilton
in March and July 2007. Finally, they will return for the rodeo in
December 2007...
Hello fellow players,
I
know we all hate rehearsals unless we are getting paid or reap a mutual
reward.
Rehearsal is the chance for everyone in the group to meld their ideas and
sound together into a tasteful, quality sound. Unfortunately, most
rehearsals do no accomplish this task. I am not a real rock n roll fan at
all, however, I was totally impressed by a live Eagles show that I had the
privilege of witnessing. The slow songs were quiet, big, beautiful and
tasteful. Even the faster, loud, raucous songs were tasteful and
extremely listenable.
Upon hearing one of the members talk later, I realized why this band was
head and shoulders above most others. This member relayed and confirmed
many thoughts that I have had in the past. He said rehearsals are the
heart of any good, tasteful sounding band.
As we all know, the voices are a big part of the Eagles band. They sing
individually, then they sing all together. During rehearsals they pull
five chairs around in a circle, they all listen intently to each other,
what they're saying, how they're thinking, along with how they're
singing. This really made me think. I have worked several jobs in
Nashville live in the past few years and witnessed many local bands where
the individuals in the band didn't even act like there was anybody else on
the stage. Everyone was so wrapped up in themselves that they paid no
attention to being part of the team.
A well thought out rehearsal and then people playing what they rehearsed,
could make the band sound much more like a team effort. I'm saying this
because I remember rehearsing with one so-called new Nashville star
recording artist for three days to do a very important showcase. When we
got to the showcase, this vocal "star" ruined every arrangement by adding
extra lines, kicking off songs himself, not giving the band the rehearsed
instrumental breaks and ruining most of the endings.
Which reminds me of another case. I was hired to do a Doug Kershaw album
by a major label in Nashville. Doug wanted all of us in the recording
band to work a week on the road with him ahead of time to totally get the
new songs down well and have them smooth. We had two rehearsals then hit
the road for a week.
At the end of the week we got to Atlanta to the great Southeastern Music
Hall to do our live album. The big Nashville producer flew in, walked up
to the stage and immediately said, "I don't want any of you guys to do
what you've been playing on the road. I want this to be instantaneous and
just what you're thinking at the moment."
Needless to say, if any of you now own this album, it was a ridiculous
fiasco, a musical disaster, a total waste of time and money for everybody
concerned. Hard to believe that this was a famous Nashville producer, but
then again, he's not the first producer to ever single-handedly ruin a
recording session and an artist's career.
And then there was the Porter Wagoner all girl band that was commissioned
to back Ray Price up on the Nashville Now television show. All the girls
were great players, but whoever made the choice for lead guitar to kick
off "Way To Survive" and the piano to do the turnaround should have been
thrown totally out of the business. You don't arrange two rhythm
instruments to play lead and leave the lead instruments, in this case
fiddle and steel, to play rhythm behind the guitar and piano.
If the vocalist wants to rehearse at his or her house and wants to set the
PA setup for the voice, the rehearsal isn't going to work, as they are
setting up the PA to hear themselves. Rehearsals should be done with a
minimum of volume from everybody, quietly with a lot of verbal
communication and a lot of chart-note taking.
Remember, a rehearsal is not a jam session or a sound check. When you
leave, you need to feel that you know a lot more than you did when you
came. Listen to each other. Every band member should get into what every
other band member is doing. Mutual respect here wouldn't hurt a thing.
Now the money. A rehearsal should be paid if you are doing it for a star
that will be getting all the glory and the big money themselves in the
future. A rehearsal should not be paid if everyone gets paid equal on the
jobs and not just one person will be getting all the benefit. This means
if you are hired to back up Leeann Rimes for example, you have three days
of rehearsal, no time on camera for the TV show, you should get paid for
the rehearsal. However, if you get the intro, the turnaround, on camera
and she says your name, the benefit of just being there may be worth more
than the $75 a day you'll get for rehearsal pay.
If you are working the VFW on Saturday night, only playing established
cover tunes and you have a predetermined method of distributing the
intros, fills and turnaround, rehearsals may not even be needed at all,
but the band does need to have some sort of predetermined modus operandi
to be smooth and sound professional. If you need to learn eight new
songs, back to the rehearsal. If it's a band effort, no one needs to get
paid. If you're backing a star, you do.
As you can see, rehearsals are not to be taken lightly. The issues are
pay, what you want to accomplish and how to rehearsal to accomplish a
better end product.
Your buddy,
Bobbe Seymour
Och så är vår vän Hans Rosén tillbaka i Nashville och delger oss här nedan
av sina erfarenheter från staden. JL.
Howdy Janne here's a report
from Nashville, TN.
Hotter than usual in Nashville - Saturday 060527
Left a boring Stockholm last Thursday... Took the 08.15 Finnair
flight from ARN to Manchester, where the big American Airlines
plane was waiting.... had a pleasant flight to Chicago... could sleep
a lot and they served excellent meals as usual... first a nice steak
lunch and just before arrival... pizza, just as usual...
Lot of people arriving at the same time.... all lines were filled at
the Homeland Security check points.... however it didn't take
too long to get the papers settled and the index fingers photographed..
Took a small plane to Nashville.... unfortunately the ground control
weren't
so effective this day... we had to spend a lot of time taxing around the
airport... sometimes 22 planes ahead of us and then silence for 45 minutes
etc... However, 2 hours delayed, the trip to BNA was really pleasant...
lots of fantastic clouds, since there had been thunderstorms... a little
jumpy at times but still nice... touched ground in Nashville about
19.37...
the suitcases were intact this time and in almost no time I was at my
Midway motel on Murfreesboro road. This time Bob welcomed me and he
had installed new carpets in the room, so now it didn't have the old
smell,
but fresher than ever... Spent the evening resting and listening to
Country radio or watching CMT or GAC on TV. Drifted off to sleep around
24.00 after some coffee and cake.... never miss that... homebaked as
usual!
Friday I spent visiting with some friends, had my regular Arby's meal this
time
it's possible to select 5 items for $5,95.... so I had 3 Arby melts and
curly fries,
and topped it off with mozzarella sticks.... had to save some melts for
later..
was really filled up... picked up some records, some for as low as 25
cents...
they had a flea... Spent the evening sorting things out, and listening to
WSM
Grand Ole Opry, they paid tribute to Billy & Betty Walker & Co. with a
minute
of silence... otherwise the show was just as usual... noticed that Bill
Anderson
sang a duet with Jean Shepard... "Dear John Letter" where Bill forgot the
words,
so even Whispering Bill is gettin' older... The rest of the evening I
spent looking
at CMT or GAC... heard from a wellinformed source that the old Ohio boy,
and
harmony singer, Darrell McCall is moving back to central Texas... probably
giving up
Nashville for good this time... Hot, during the day, up to 93 F and that
would be
more than +31 C.... sunny and warm... too hot for me... and probably for
Chesnutt too...
Today, Saturday, I went to the Nashville flea market, and met some
dealers, and
found some cd's.. not so much people there as there is a Memorial Day on
monday
so they are celebratin' their war heroes... for 3 days and spending time
outdoors..
Will probably have my Arby's soon and listen to Opry tonight, I'll round
it off with
Rhonda Vincent at the Midnite Jamboree... she has a new album out "All
American
Bluegrass Girl" where Dolly is guesting... checkout:
www.rhondavincent.com
nd
ETrecordshop.com a nice site for weather prognosis etc is
www.weather.com you
just enter the US postcode and a 10 day forecast can be displayed... seems
everybody
is thinking about the CMA Music Fest starting on June 8th..
Will be back later on with more reports.../ Hank
signin' off, Hank
Slutligen så undrar
jag hur det kan komma sig att två av Sveriges äldsta countryband med en
repertoar som kan sägas vara “pure country” inte längre platsar på årets
countryfestivaler. Banden är Tennessee Five och Country Minstrels! Man
frågar sig om vi kanske är FÖR country med tanke på hur festivalerna
oftast ser ut idag eller om vi helt enkelt har blivit FÖR gamla och spelar
FÖR taskigt. Men konstigt nog har båda banden fått idel beröm från
publiken de senaste åren de deltagit i festivalerna. Här en liten
information om årets engagemang för banden:
Tennessee Five = 0
bokningar
Country Minstrels =
10 juni Valsverket, Degerfors (Tack Hasse Andersson).
Andra band = fyll i
själva
Ni kanske minns vad
Tony från Västerås skrev i Nyhetsbrevet för några veckor sedan? Han har
under vintern skickat ut massor av reklamskivor till olika arrangörer och
fått lika många jobb som Tenn5 i sommar!! Han tänker alltså lägga av med
sjungandet.
Som jag förstår har
följande countryfestivaler upphört fr o m i år:
Lane Loge
Duved
Ransäter
Säger det här er något? Är det någon som
tycker det här är skrämmande? Vad kommer att hända med countrymusiken i
det här landet i fortsättningen? Det här är några frågor som i första hand
Sveriges countrymusikklubbar bör ta upp i sina program i höst. Om
intresset finns får jag väl tillägga eftersom jag inte är så säker på det!
Nåväl, med dessa tankegångar önskar jag er
alla en trevlig vecka!
Janne Lindgren |
