[78-L] Bad news on record

[Robert Shirer]

Steve Goodman was a musical treasure.  As with so many, what a pity we lost 
him so young.  I once went to hear Martin, Bogan, and the Armstrongs at The 
Earl of Old Town in Chicago.  They billed themselves as an old time string 
band.  Sitting in with these old and wonderful black musicians was Steve, 
and he held this own very well indeed.  I thing his song for Carl Martin is 
one of the very best of his many good songs.
Cheers,
Bob Shirer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill McClung" <bmcclung at ix.netcom.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 11:27 AM
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>I totally agree. I just played the Goodman medley and was reduced to
> laughing tears (again). If ever you get the chance to hear the Born to Be
> Wild/Tell Laurie I Love Her sequence, it willl show you what a 
> knowledgable
> and musically gifted performer Steve Goodman was.
>
> (And getting this back to 78 land) He often performed with Jethro Burns 
> and
> wrote a great song about Carl Martin and did a song where he talks about
> Alfred Brumley then launches into a slide guitar version of I'll Fly Away
> (a song, he says, that proves you don't have to know much about spirituals
> to like gospel music).  Goodman was a true songster that could play
> whatever his audience wanted to hear.
>
> Having the chance to hear Goodman live was one of the few reasons I would
> have traded living in Austin for living in Chicago in the seventies.  I 
> got
> to hear my other three college musical favorites (David Bromberg, Loudon
> Wainwright, and Taj Mahal) at Armadillo World Headquarters but not 
> Goodman.
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Robert Shirer <rshirer at neb.rr.com>
>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: 7/9/2009 11:32:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Bad news on record
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Some have mentioned the Smothers Brothers Chocolate song, but they also
> did
>> a wonderful version of "Hangman, Hangman Slack Your Rope", which resulted
> in
>> in "slack it for a gllllp. . . . "  Quite gruesome, if you think about 
>> it.
>>
>> And with specific reference to StevenC's reference of the teenage death
>> songs of the fifties and early sixties, Steve Goodman did a wonderful
> medley
>> of,. as he put it, "dead girl songs" which is on the 2 CD compilation of
> his
>> wonderful stuff: "No Big Surprise: the Steve Goodman Anthology".   He
> wanted
>> to borrow a cowboy hat from the audience, but all they had was a
> motorcycle
>> helmut.  So he did "Born to be Wild", followed by "Teen Angel", "Tell
> Laurie
>> I Love Her", and, as he said, "I'll never have another chance to sing
> this":
>> "(Laurie) Strange Things Happen". I don't have the specific information,
> but
>> Rounder put out an lp, many years ago, with a range of teenage suicide
>> songs; it grandly included a kleenix dispenser.  I kindly gave my brother
>> and sister copies, but hadn't the wit to buy one for myself.  Oh well. . 
>> .
>> Cheers,
>> Bob Shirer
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
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>> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:55 PM
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>>
>>
>> > Also, we mustn't forget all the doleful msical tales of the late
>> > fifties...
>> > like "Tell Laura I Love Her" (and others I can't recall) in which the
>> > singer/protagonist gets in a fatal automobile accident...?!
>> >
>> > ...stevenc
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