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spacebuggy

HELP ME! I'm TURNING TRADj

Dec 01, 2006 14:33

HELP ME! I'm TURNING TRAD. o.k. this has been building up for several years, but pretty much just today I realized I am turning into a huge fan of DIXIELAND JAZZ. man we used to make fun of TRAD JAZZ idiots, but lately the most fun I've had is cooking red beans and rice and listening to Santo Pecora and the Rhythm kings sing "Bourbon street parade ( Read more... )

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whybark anonymous December 2 2006, 06:06:10 UTC

I SAY GO FOR IT AND LET THE PREELECTRICITY REIGN

Re: whybark spacebuggy December 2 2006, 16:11:10 UTC

I knew you'd love it Whybark. haha. my friend angie from lawrenceburg wrote me and told me I was suffering from "stockholm syndrom." HAhaha! perfect. I'm buying a Banjo.
you are going to be in the subculture, too....but in a rival gang. you'll be in the "Irish Channel Rats" (Irish channel" is where the irish people lived in New Orleans back in that day)
you'll be playing those irish bar-room songs and you'll be clashing with the other gangs...the "gatsbys", the "gangsters", the "hillbillys" etc....
I'm going to be a "rah rah boy" with a megaphone and a college sweater. and a beanie! hahaha!

anonymous December 4 2006, 16:02:29 UTC

Matt, I'm all for it too. My stepdad was a trad jazz trombone player back in the 50s. He loves the stuff and has a ton of good stories about playing the clubs along the US 41 strip between Evansville, IN and Henderson, KY. This was near the horse racetrack and was a notorious sin strip going way back through prohibition. Some preacher wrote a book about the "crusade" to drive out this rampant sin back in the early 60s. The first part of the book is more like a cool historical account of the strip before they ran it all out of town.

I wish I would have read this sooner. I was at a big library sale last Friday and got about 200 LPs. I probably coulda got you 100 trad jazz records for 50 cent per... Instant DJ collection!

anonymous December 4 2006, 16:09:16 UTC

That was me, the ripper, in case you didn't figure it out. How many people do you know from Evansville, IN anyway, right?

Here's the book I mentioned:
The Henderson crusade : a memoir /
Author: Dietze, Charles E.
Publication: Henderson, Ky. : GGL Pub. Co., 1983
Document: English : Book
Libraries Worldwide: 20

spacebuggy December 4 2006, 17:13:27 UTC

thanks ripper. yeah, I guess at this point you are the only person I know anymore from Evansville..besides TIM HAILEY. he lived in Bloomington, now he lives in New York, I see him once in a while. don't know if you know him. he's a little older than me. wow that library sale sounds like a doozey! damn. you still selling stuff? yeah, I'm going into trad a little, don't know if it'll just be a passing phase or not...I just realized yesterday after counting that I have about 30 hammond jazz lp's....Mcgriff, Mcduff, "Groove" holmes, don paterson, baby face willette, jimmy smith, shirely scott, etc....I guess I can't get enough. they basically all sound the same, but something about that sound..I love it...i guess the main factor is that you can still get them cheap, esp. if they are in rough condition.....but that doesn't bother me too much! esp. on those old really thick blue note records, you can't hear the scratches....

anonymous December 4 2006, 17:21:53 UTC

I always buy the organ LPs too. I got a couple by Shirley Scott and a Charlie Earland at the library sale. They do all sound alike, but its a good sound and they are cheap for beaters as you said. You need a beater copy of the Shadows of Knight Back Door Men or some Jimmie Rodgers LPs?