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Mine are SRV, Mike Campbell and Grissom. All unique...instantly recognizable. Next on the list for me. Rich Brotherton. Can play anything, any style........always fantastic....never recognizable. For that reason, maybe he should be first in my list.

Bruce Robison wrote a song about him and the faux British stuff called "It Came From San Antonio" Sadly, not on youtube.

Thanks for the info. She played on that Better Oblivion Community Center project. Never heard of her before that.

That's really cool. Didn't know that. I LOVED Funland.

Holy shit. Is that Will Johnson on guitar?

I was talking with a buddy from treatment last night. He said, "The troubles I'm dealing with now? I would have PAID for them back when I was drinking".

In the interview, she describes herself as fierce. No shit. And Dave Alvin on guitar. I LOVED that first album of hers....and she NAILS this.

The early unplugged with Jules Shear were outstandingly fun. I think the first one had Syd Straw on it.

I initially read this as you and Carrie went to see Chip Taylor. I was extremely jealous there for a bit. 😁

Charlie, Bruce and their brother-in-law, Lunchmeat, used to have a band called the Weepers. Their tag line was "Sad songs for your happy hour". Lunchmeat is married to Robyn and together, they own Devil's Backbone Tavern. Robyn is also a good songwriter and Lunchmeat plays a killer standup bass. Wade Bowen and Holly Williams recorded a killer version of this song on Vol. 1 of The Next Waltz, but here is Robyn with Kevin McCarthy on her song, Bars Ain't Closin'

Caring for elderly parents. Mom with dementia but still very physically able, trying to keep dad at home instead of getting him into nursing home. He can barely feed himself but his brain is still like he is 40 years old. Every fucking day is groundhog day, while wife is 1,000 miles away, bitching every day asking when I'm coming home. I've stayed off of the dementia/Alzheimer's thread because I would probably start talking about wouldn't shut up and that does no one any good, but the entire situation fucking sucks. I've probably had more stressful, single moment events that pass quickly (being in incinerator explosion, rollover car crash) but this shit is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Pick up Bernie Taupin's autobiography, "Scattershot". It will cleanse your mental palate. The audio book is very well done.

I had never heard of him until I started seeing him ads/posts on Facebook several years ago. Did he just self-promote his way into fame?

No. He apparently grew up poor in a small, country town. His dad ran a farm and then they started raising chickens. He left school at 14-15. My brother met him once at a radio interview in the mid-80s. He said, "I really enjoyed you work with..." and Bernie started to say Thanks....and my brother finished, "....with Alice Cooper." Apparently Bernie lit up and they had a long conversation about "From The Inside". Said he was a super nice, humble guy.

I have been listening to Bernie Taupin's autobiography, "Shattershot". He mentions Alan Lomax, who was MAC's great grandfather. Taupin also references Buster Welch (Hall of Fame cutting horse trainer) and a ton of other folks. I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book and I'm also have a hard copy that I'm going to read after listening. Taupin's vocabulary will force me to have a dictionary and thesaurus handy while reading it. He doesn't talk much about his lyric writing process or very much at all about specific songs. But it is a name dropping bit of music and American entertainment history. It is much more about how he spent his time, traveling all over the world and hanging out with, well, everyone. What a cool dude. This book isn't at all what I expected and even Elton has said that he had no idea what Bernie was up to.

The Bottom Forty. Greg is a fan of the original college radio stuff and plays occasional older songs but a ton of new stuff. The cool thing, he clears all of the songs directly with the artists. Primarily self-releases or indie labels. Great show. Great guy. https://radiopublic.com/the-bottom-forty-Ww39Rg

Man, I had no idea Sammy Ash was that young. Holy shit.

to; two; too; 2 .....fucking phat phingers

Rich Brotherton and Mark Patterson played with Bruce and also with REK. I can't imagine a nicer pair of guys than those to. Usually, it's the bass and drummers who are buddies but the team work between Rich and Mark was incredible.

May have told this story before. I've known Bruce since he played basketball at WT in the early 80s. He and my brother were running buddies. First time I met him, this tall dude kicks in the door of my brothers apartment playing air guitar to the Hoodoo Gurus, "Bittersweet". Anyway, in 2000 Bruce, Charlie and Jack Ingram were touring together (they made the live Unleashed album from that tour) so I met up with Bruce at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA to have dinner and catch up. That was the first time I met Charlie. We were sitting at the bar and Bruce was looking through some pictures in my wallet of me kids. He showed them to Charlie. When I got my wallet back, all of my check cards and cash were gone. The look on his face was the best part. Then he just kind of shrugged and gave it all back to me. When each guy was playing their set, the other two sat at the table with me. It was a really cool night, listening to two great songwriters talk about the other one while he was playing. They each had a band with them....some members were common between all 3. Listening to Jack talk about the musicianship of certain guys was really cool. At the end of night, I was having some cocktails with Mark Patterson who had been playing drums for Charlie. I've known Mark for a while since his time with Robert Earl Keen and told him what Jack said about him. He was deeply touched what Jack said about his drumming. Just a cool night. After that night, I told a buddy of mine that Charlie was the guy you wanted planning your bachelor party and Bruce was the guy you wanted as your next door neighbor for life.

This is the new song McMurtry is doing as his encore. Pinocchio in Vegas. About as autobiographical one we will ever get from him.....and him acknowledge such.

Sadly. Rather post this. https://apnews.com/article/obit-charlie-robison-dies-7c2712b1200a44b1e17fa6622c3ffa9b

Listening to the studio version, I never really paid attention to the meaning of the song, but when he did it this way live, it shot me in the soul. To me, he is the best songwriter, ever. How can you take that story and make it that powerful without saying, outright, what was happening?