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Post by casualplayerpaul on Oct 4, 2020 13:33:39 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxzgGHu5_RQ&feature=youtu.beRetrieved from a cassette in my basement. Pretty sure this cool song has not seen much daylight, so I put together a simple video to share. I could have the details wrong, but here goes: Lonnie worked on what would have been his third album, off and on, between gigs as a session player at Sound 80, around '76 to '77. Her never quite got around to releasing it, though he did digitize and press a very limited number on CD, titled 'Standing Around 'til the End,' in the early 2000's. I know Roadrunner had a handful of them. I can't seem to find my copy of that limited release, though I did find this on an old cassette. I think this is a wonderful song. Enjoy. * Likely line-up, Lonnie on vocals and guitars, with- Bill Berg drums, Bill Barber piano, Jimmy Johnson bass and (I think) Fred Argir and Pam Knight on backing vocals.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 4, 2020 13:49:42 GMT -5
Oh, that is so wonderful, a thousand thank-yous, Paul!
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Oct 4, 2020 13:59:58 GMT -5
One more for now- A song written by Jim Post. Lonnie opened for Jim Post more than a few times and wrote "There is a Dog in Rockford" staying at Post's place during a weekend gig at Charlotte's Web. Live at Sounds 80, engineered by Tom Mudge. LK, acapella. Dude could sing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoEGNFCoDOY |
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Oct 4, 2020 14:04:07 GMT -5
Oh, that is so wonderful, a thousand thank-yous, Paul! You are welcome, Bill. I made an audition tape to host a local music program when Blueberry Bill left his AM radio show on KDWB. Lonnie generously agreed to be my guest. KDWB decided to go with syndicated content, but I recently found the tape. That's the source for what I have posted here. |
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Post by billhammond on Oct 4, 2020 14:23:06 GMT -5
One more for now- A song written by Jim Post. Lonnie opened for Jim Post more than a few times and wrote "There is a Dog in Rockford" staying at Post's place during a weekend gig at Charlotte's Web. Live at Sounds 80, engineered by Tom Mudge. LK, acapella. Dude could sing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoEGNFCoDOYHoly crap, crying my eyes out here. Has Patti heard these? |
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Oct 4, 2020 14:44:22 GMT -5
One more for now- A song written by Jim Post. Lonnie opened for Jim Post more than a few times and wrote "There is a Dog in Rockford" staying at Post's place during a weekend gig at Charlotte's Web. Live at Sounds 80, engineered by Tom Mudge. LK, acapella. Dude could sing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoEGNFCoDOYHoly crap, crying my eyes out here. Has Patti heard these? I digitized most of the non-talk part of the tape. I have not been in touch with her about it, but I am planning to drop a disc in her mailbox, along with a note later this week. (She's still at the house on 26th, right?) |
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Post by billhammond on Oct 4, 2020 15:00:55 GMT -5
Yes.
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 4, 2020 16:01:46 GMT -5
With Flim & the BBs, yet.
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Oct 4, 2020 21:29:31 GMT -5
This one I like an awful lot. Lonnie committed this to a commercial release or two, but I just love it solo. Guitar. Voice. The way he does that thing he does on guitar when it rolls around to 'distant moaning of a train.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvpd5qFJ2V8 |
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Nov 10, 2020 16:55:14 GMT -5
Years ago I gave Lonnie some of his live radio concerts, on reel to reel, that I had recorded off the radio. Some of it he digitized and got CD's back to me. Last week I visited Patti and she gave me two shows he must have digitized, but that I thought had been lost. First time I have heard this jewel in years. "Nettle Wine." Seriously, how does anybody play like this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUTAv1PT_ao&feature=youtu.be |
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Post by billhammond on Nov 10, 2020 17:27:11 GMT -5
Years ago I gave Lonnie some of his live radio concerts, on reel to reel, that I had recorded off the radio. Some of it he digitized and got CD's back to me. Last week I visited Patti and she gave me two shows he must have digitized, but that I thought had been lost. First time I have heard this jewel in years. "Nettle Wine." Seriously, how does anybody play like this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUTAv1PT_ao&feature=youtu.beThanks so much, sigh ...  |
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Post by Marshall on Nov 10, 2020 19:39:02 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Nov 10, 2020 20:26:52 GMT -5
Years ago I gave Lonnie some of his live radio concerts, on reel to reel, that I had recorded off the radio. Some of it he digitized and got CD's back to me. Last week I visited Patti and she gave me two shows he must have digitized, but that I thought had been lost. First time I have heard this jewel in years. "Nettle Wine." Seriously, how does anybody play like this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUTAv1PT_ao&feature=youtu.beHow is it that I only now have become aware of Ralph McTell? Listening to this clip, I can only imagine that he not only influenced Lonnie, but James Taylor, as well. |
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Nov 10, 2020 20:44:35 GMT -5
Unsung and of the Bert Jansch/John Renborne school that I know Lonnie absorbed. Red House released a CD years ago that was my only other entry into Ralph McTell, other than Lonnie doing "Nettle Wine". (Wait. Just remembered, also, later, Nanci Grifith doing "From Clare to Here.") Anyway, it's a beautiful collection. "Hands of Joseph," is about Joseph Spence and includes incorporates "Great Dreams of Heaven," which Lon used to do in the 70's, though I always assumed LK got it from the second Ry Cooder LP. rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/ralph-mctell/from-clare-to-here-the-songs-of-ralph-mctell/ |
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Nov 13, 2020 19:46:13 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Nov 13, 2020 20:56:19 GMT -5
These are fantastic, Paul! Thanks so much for making them happen here. I love hearing Lonnie's voice back when it was free and loose and seemingly limitless. We've all been there, of course. I used to be a high baritone, but these days I am probably a borderline bass. |
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Nov 13, 2020 21:18:41 GMT -5
These are fantastic, Paul! Thanks so much for making them happen here. I love hearing Lonnie's voice back when it was free and loose and seemingly limitless. We've all been there, of course. I used to be a high baritone, but these days I am probably a borderline bass. |
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Nov 13, 2020 21:31:39 GMT -5
These are fantastic, Paul! Thanks so much for making them happen here. I love hearing Lonnie's voice back when it was free and loose and seemingly limitless. We've all been there, of course. I used to be a high baritone, but these days I am probably a borderline bass. I have posted the best (and tunes least available via other sources) from the KQ show. Windows videos are a pain. (Movie Maker was SO much simpler!) I think there may be one more track worth the trouble. Will try and make video and post it soon. I was a kid, listening in the bedroom I grew up in , in my folks' house, when I taped this show off the radio on my reel-to-reel. This was before I'd ever had an actual conversation with Lonnie. I knew him only as this massively talented player on stage at the Extempore'. I am so happy I saved these, and, later, became friends with Lon. Then, 30 or so more years later, shared them with him to digitize. Then, Patti got the music back to me to share again. Full circle. |
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Post by billhammond on Nov 13, 2020 21:48:15 GMT -5
I have posted the best (and tunes least available via other sources) from the KQ show. Windows videos are a pain. (Movie Maker was SO much simpler!) I think there may be one more track worth the trouble. Will try and make video and post it soon. I was a kid, listening in the bedroom I grew up in , in my folks' house, when I taped this show off the radio on my reel-to-reel. This was before I'd ever had an actual conversation with Lonnie. I knew him only as this massively talented player on stage at the Extempore'. I am so happy I saved these, and, later, became friends with Lon. Then, 30 or so more years later, shared them with him to digitize. Then, Patti got the music back to me to share again. Full circle. How wonderful, Paul. Thanks so much for your efforts, and for sharing them with us. Forumites, DON'T MISS THESE. |
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