A Sheila fave of a peacock-shirted Duane hitting the note.
Wail on, Skydog!
Here's a then unknown Dwight Yoakam performing from the EP that would soon be refashioned into the breakthrough classic album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
This is my favorite cover of "Ring of Fire" but not Mr. Cracker's. He said this one is too "chipper," causing me to ponder his emotional landscape. Elation not desperation, sweetie.
Another in the series on downtime on the road.
Wail on, Skydog!
And just to show you I'm an equal opportunity spritzer: Dickey Begone!:
Cheeseburgers and snow cones. Sooo good. Kind of expensive in St. Louis though:
St. Louis police say a teenager accused of killing a man over a cheeseburger will be tried as an adult.16-year-old Dominique Jacobs is accused of shooting 26-year-old Carl Sharp to death at 12:30 a.m. on August 2, 2008. Sharp was sitting on his porch eating a cheesburger when two people approached him and told him to give up the burger. Police said one of those people was Jacobs. Sharp would not give up his burger.
According to police, Jacobs returned to Sharp's home on a bicycle armed with a gun. Jacobs allegedly opened fire, shooting Sharp three times. Sharp died at the scene.
Police arrested Jacobs a short time later when they found him selling snow cones at the intersection of N. Grand Boulevard and Kossuth.
I wouldn't charge even this little viper as an adult. The concept of charging kids as adults is as repugnant to me as upping charges under the idiotic and selectively imposed concept of "hate crime."
The clothing industry has nothing on law enforcement when it comes to fads and fashions.
A long-fingered Duane, seen here with John Loudermilk, making his first recordings.
Summer of 1966.
Wail on, Skydog!
Pic via the wonderful Sheila in e-mail.
And from a nice new site I just discovered:
Prior to recording Hour Glass and Power of Love, Duane and Gregg had recorded as The Allman Joys for John D. Loudermilk in the summer of ‘66, and the single “Spoonful”/”You Deserve Each Other” was released on Dial Records that September. Loudermilk subsequently introduced the brothers to producer Buddy Killen and another session was recorded at Bradley’s Barn, a recording studio in Nashville. These ‘66 sessions were not released until 1973 on the album Early Allman by The Allman Joys. As a live act, The Allman Joys had played in small clubs throughout the South and Midwest with a repertoire consisting of hits by British bands such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Yardbirds. They would play Motown and other R&B hits as well. In their early days, the band even backed a teenage girl group called The Sandpipers, out of Pensacola. The Allman Joys urged the girls to follow them to New York where The Sandpipers landed a recording contract with Trude Heller and released a few singles with moderate success on Tru-Glo-Town records. The Allman Joys, however, were not chosen by Heller to be the studio backing band and the two groups parted ways. A bootleg recording of The Allman Joys backing The Sandpipers does exist as a testimony to this union and includes the song “Remember (Walking in the Sand).”
Obviously the person who made this collage appreciates a good GBG shot.
Wail on, Skydog!
