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Post by amanajoe on Sept 14, 2022 19:18:27 GMT -5
From a post on Facebook, Bruce Kort had let a friend know that irreplaceable singer songwriter and lately full time mark twain, Jim Post had died this morning.
I was just talking about him on Saturday. Guess I'll have to find my music for mighty big river and uncle John's farm and play them at the jam this weekend.
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Post by Dub on Sept 14, 2022 19:54:20 GMT -5
From a post on Facebook, Bruce Kort had let a friend know that irreplaceable singer songwriter and lately full time mark twain, Jim Post had died this morning. I was just talking about him on Saturday. Guess I'll have to find my music for mighty big river and uncle John's farm and play them at the jam this weekend. Oh, MAN. I'm very sorry to see this. I haven't talked to Jim in a very long time but we used to know each other back in the Chicago days. A great loss, IMO. |
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Post by John B on Sept 14, 2022 20:10:43 GMT -5
Yes, you were just talking (and playing) about him on Saturday!
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Post by drlj on Sept 15, 2022 7:42:05 GMT -5
I used to see Post at The Earl and Piper’s Alley. Barb & I saw Galena Rose and a couple of his Christmas shows at small theaters in Chicago and he has been performing Mark Twain and the Laughing River in Galena for the past 6-7 years. He loved Galena. He had a powerful tenor voice and I recall several friendly conversations with him. Barb doesn’t remember, but she once had a conversation with him about the movie Dances with Wolves, which had just come out at the time.
Back in the late 60s and 70s he was a Chicago staple along with Goodman, Kolac, the Holsteins, and Prine, and he hosted the live variety show Flea Market from Navy Pier back when WBEZ actually believed music had some importance.
He had a sense of humor about himself, too.
R.I.P. Jim Post.
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Post by billhammond on Sept 15, 2022 8:01:39 GMT -5
Some interesting tidbits from Wiki, especially the "City of New Orleans" one.
Post performed and recorded in the 1960s as the duo Friend and Lover ("Reach Out of the Darkness") with his wife at that time, Cathy Conn Post. He worked as a solo singer-songwriter in Chicago and throughout the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. Post was a regular performer at the Earl of Old Town and other Chicago folk music bars,and was a contemporary of notable singer-songwriters Steve Goodman, John Prine, Fred Holstein and Bonnie Koloc, and a frequent collaborator with singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Mick Scott and Tom Dundee. In 1971, he produced and played on an album of Chicago folk musicians, "Gathering at the Earl of Old Town," that included the first recording of Goodman's "City of New Orleans." Starting in 1985, he hosted the Flea Market folk show played on WBEZ live at Navy Pier.
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Post by Marshall on Sept 15, 2022 8:05:54 GMT -5
First ran into him back about 1970. My girlfriend at the time, had a summer job working at "It's Here Coffeehouse." up in Roger Park area, right behind Loyola University on Sheridan Rd. One night a guy and a girl walked in; husband and wife. They had been on a long trip in Colorado mountains. They wanted to get some musical practice in, before rejoining the performance circuit. So, they were given a slot in the show. It was Jim Post and his (then) wife. They were the duo, "Friend and Lover."
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Post by dradtke on Sept 15, 2022 8:09:48 GMT -5
We saw him do Mark Twain in Galena a few years ago and talked with him a while afterwards. Interesting guy.
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Post by billhammond on Sept 15, 2022 8:48:41 GMT -5
How did we ever survive '70s typography? |
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Post by drlj on Sept 15, 2022 8:51:44 GMT -5
Post took a lot of ribbing for a couple album covers. I don’t recall which, but one is often shown in lists of worst album covers.
I Love My Life, maybe, with the shower picture?
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Post by billhammond on Sept 15, 2022 8:58:44 GMT -5
Post took a lot of ribbing for a couple album covers. I don’t recall which, but one is often shown in lists of worst album covers. I Love My Life, maybe, with the shower picture? Well, at least he was alone. Remember THIS one???  |
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Post by casualplayerpaul on Sept 18, 2022 13:13:01 GMT -5
Jim Post was one of the most dynamic solo acoustic performers I have ever seen live. He has some good albums, but even the live ones don't quite capture what he was like in front of a crowd, in-person. If I have my stories straight, Lonnie Knight wrote "There is a Dog in Rockford" (which he recorded and released at least twice) while staying with Mr. Post in the mid-70's. Mr. Post also inspired an unreleased LK tune called "Jimmy's Guitar." This is LK performing a Jim Post song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoEGNFCoDOY |
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Post by PaulKay on Sept 19, 2022 7:17:51 GMT -5
I remember a Jim Post concert when I was in college.
The one line that stuck with me all these years was that he had just done a performance in a WI town called “Beloit”.
His comment was “just did a performance in Beloit WI. What kind of name is Beloit? Sounds like a turd dropping into the toilet.”
I just laughed my ass off at that one.
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Post by billhammond on Sept 19, 2022 7:56:23 GMT -5
I remember a Jim Post concert when I was in college. The one line that stuck with me all these years was that he had just done a performance in a WI town called “Beloit”. His comment was “just did a performance in Beloit WI. What kind of name is Beloit? Sounds like a turd dropping into the toilet.” I just laughed my ass off at that one. Detractors use the alternate pronunciation of "Below-it." |
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Post by amanajoe on Oct 4, 2022 9:41:29 GMT -5
If anyone is interested (posted by Small Potatoes Music on facebook) JIM POST MEMORIAL GATHERING IN GALENA I am a little tardy at posting this but you still have plenty of time to respond if you wish. Again, a memorial for Jim Post will be on Monday, Oct. 10th at Turner Hall in Galena, Illinois from noon to 7:00pm. Yes, Galena is a bit of a trek, but it is a lovely drive and both Galena and Jim are worth it. BYOB potluck, Jim stories and music. Anyone wishing to participate musically or otherwise please let me know or leave a comment, so I can pass it along to Bruce and the organizers. There are several obits on line but I personally think the best one is here: chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2022/9/23/23367059/jim-post-folk-singer-reach-out-darkness-mark-twain-friend-lover-so-groovy-now-galena |
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