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Det är
attan vad tiden går fort när det lackar mot jul. Därför blev jag också lite
sen med mitt Nyhetsbrev.
Jag måste
plugga Grand Ole Opry igen som jag satt och lyssnade på mitt i natten mellan
fredag och lördag. Vilket fredagsprogram! Marty Stuart sjöng The Whiskey Ain´t
Working Anymore med Tommy White på steel. Klockan är 03.38 och nästa artist är
Jan Howard som sjunger Oh Lonesome Me, även hon använder husbandet. Jim Ed
Brown sjunger sången The Three Bells. It´s A Sin To Tell A Lie och Cold Cold
Heart fick vi höra med den fantastiska tjejgruppen The Qebe Sisters Band som
fick en standing ovation av Grand Ole Oprypubliken. Tjejerna kommer från Texas
och vet hur western swing ska spelas.
I mitt
förra brev så berättade jag om ett nytt ställe i Stockholm för countrymusik.
Boule & Tapas är inte så olikt Svarta Pannan där vi hade härliga kvällar för
15 år sedan. Det här kan bli lika bra och vi har bokat upp 6 lördagar med
början den 30 januari med både bluegrass och country. Band som är intresserade
att medverka bör sända in sina demos snarast direkt till mig: Janne Lindgren,
Frösätrabacken 10, 127 37 Skärholmen.
Hur är det med kommunikationer till Boule &
Tapas?
B&T finns nära Globen. Om
du väljer att åka kollektivt finns det goda kommunikationer via tunnelbana,
buss och tvärbana. Åker du tunnelbana och tvärbana är det hållplats Globen.
Söderortsbussar till Gullmarsplan. Om du åker bil. Parkera i Globen, Hotell-
och Restaurangskolans P-hus eller våra 9 P-platser utanför. (3
handicapplatser) JL.
Hej alla musikälskare,
Janne Lindgren har publicerat ett nytt Country, Country Music program
- CCM14-09.
Så låt datorn stå på och klicka på radion!
Hör gärna av er om önskelåtar och artister. OBC Music har ett jättearkiv med
inspelningar och skivor. Maila till
info@obcmusic.se
Lev väl och stressa inte upp er och bli hysteriska bara för att det lackar mot
jul.
Hälsningar
www.obcmusic.se
- gives you good country music to your computer –
Söndagen
spenderade jag tillsammans med Carolina Åkerlind I min studio där vi lyssnade
igenom förstamixen på hennes nya CD. Det låter kanon och den bör vara ute
någon gång i vår.
Den 6-7
mars åker vi alla - jo jag och hustrun ska med - på The Ultimate Country
Cruise med Viking Cinderella tillsammans med en mängd olika countryband både
från USA och Sverige. Det blir en upplevelse kan jag lova. Men skynda er att
boka, platserna börjar ta slut. För mer info gå in på
www.ultimatecountry.se
30-årsjubileum firar Country Music Julshow i Avesta nu på lördag. Biljetter
kan fortfarande finnas. Artister Billy Yates, Mats Rådberg, Red Jenkins, Cina
Samuelson och många fler. Info
www.tennfivemusic.nu JL.
Hello fellow players,
It’s Christmas time and I would like to invite everyone
to join me in a to salute our servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan and
everywhere in the world for the job they do. I’m sure they would rather be
home with their families and their families would rather have them home
instead of on the front lines.
War is a terrible thing and I wish it didn’t have to be, but our soldiers
marching in their streets are better than their soldiers marching in ours. As
long as there are people and nations in the world who are not content to live
and let live, there will be a need to defend ourselves. May God bless
America.
Robert Foster came in from Goodlettsville with a double neck custom built
Maverick, an experimental guitar that was built by Harry Jackson of Sho-Bud.
All the pull rods underneath the guitar were off the guitar and all bent up.
Upon checking the ownership history of the guitar, Robert told me that it
belonged to his father-in-law who had died a few weeks earlier.
Thinking that there was a chance that I would know him, I asked and he said it
was Buford Gentry. This shows how small the world of steel guitar is. Buford
was a man that had a very illustrious career working with Hank Snow and many
others from the Grand Ole Opry. He was one of the golden age of country music
steel guitarists.
For the last many years he lived in Goodlettsville, Tennessee and was a
welcomed visitor at my store when we were located on Main Street in
Goodlettsville. He always came in to say hello with his two little schnauzer
puppy dogs, Mighty Dog and Teddy Bear.
Buford told me many stories about working with Hank Snow on the road. Even
though he told me these stories in all seriousness, I found many of them so
hilarious I couldn’t contain my laughter. Many had to do with Hank’s hair
piece.
Like the time in the mid fifties that Hank was on the Grand Ole Opry at the
Ryman Auditorium and his hair piece has become partially askew with one side
of it sticking up slightly.
The great Chubby Wise was playing fiddle with Hank and during his solo in the
middle of Hank’s hit tune I’m Movin’ On, Chubby walked up to the microphone,
displacing Hank so the microphone could pick up his fiddle. While Chubby was
sawing away, he very skillfully aimed the rapid moving end of the bow under
Hank’s hair piece and flipped it up where it was standing straight up on the
left side of Hank’s head.
It was a full minute of great laughter from the audience before Hank realized
his hair piece was standing straight up. I don’t know where Chubby worked the
following weekend but I think it was with Bill Monroe. But that opens up
several other funny stories.
Buford’s death is yet another reminder that we should treasure the remaining
members of that select club of pioneers who created the golden memories of
yesteryear.
I am so very lucky to have a steel guitar store in Nashville because it keeps
me in direct touch with hundreds of great players that I would not be in touch
with any other way. This seems to be the hub that steel guitar players gather
around.
This is sort of like the cracker barrel in the general stores of the wild west
towns of yesteryear. One of the greatest things I appreciate about having and
being in the store here is getting to know the great steel guitar players of
yesteryear, like Joe Vincent with Faron Young, Johnny Sibert with Carl Smith,
Sonny Burnett with Webb Pierce and of course, Howard White and Buford Gentry
before him with Hank Snow.
If friendships and the love for steel guitars and its heritage have any value
at all, I’m a millionaire. Of course, part of my enjoyment is being able to
tell those of you that don’t have the chances that I have to stay in touch
with all the legends, anything you want or wish to know about them.
Yes, I enjoy telling these stories and hearing from you folks that may have
always wondered about some of these legends but never knew where to look to
find out.
Don’t forget to ask for Steel Guitar Nashville gift certificates which opens
you up for a little discount on anything you buy on top of the sale prices.
That makes it easy on the family to figure out what daddy wants.
I will be open every Saturday from now until Christmas. Hours are 10 AM – 2
PM.
See
our monthly specials at
www.steelguitar.net/monthlyspecials.html
Your buddy, Bobbe Seymour
Tack Thomas Johansson för att du sände mig
plattan med David Peterson. Den är mycket bra med superfint steelspel.
Tack också till alla som kom till mitt
steelguitarmöte den 29 november. Det är alltid kul att träffa likasinnade.
Det var allt för denna gång!
Lev väl!
Janne Lindgren
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