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February —
March 2006
Re-Vues:
Music
- Roy Kay Trio
- Dusty Chance and
the Allnighters
- Phil Trigwell and
Los Bandhagos
- Little Neal & the
Blue Flames
Video
- Jenks 'Tex' Carman
At Town Hall Party
- Soupy Sales
Goodbye to:
Event pre-Vues:
Spinout Records Rock n’ Roll Party
Ponderosa Stomp
Rockabilly Rebel Weekend
Berghoff Closing Sale
Roebuck’s Jeans
Passings:
GrandPa Munster
Don Knotts
As always News, reviews, Event Notices,
Calendar And morE Inside this issue
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ReSorry we dropped the ball in February !! But better late
than never!
Re-Vue staff have submitted some great articles for February and
March. Although we’re a bit behind, we wanted to churn this issue
out and start out fresh with a high-quality issue for April.
Roy Kay Trio, Dusty Chance and the Allnighters, Phil Trigwell and
Los Bandhagos, and Little Neal and the Blue Flames releases are
reviewed this month by Detroit savage rocker, Matt Strickland.
Doug Freedman brings us a fresh review of the most obscure
sort every month and this time he pulls out yet another interesting
item. He reviews Jenks 'Tex' Carman At Town Hall Party. He also
came in under the wire with a piece on the Soupy Sales Collection.
We have had a lot of sad goodbyes to say in the last few months.
We already reported on the decisions to shutter the oldest
continuously operational restaurant in Chicago, the Berghoff. Now
we recently unearthed information that there will be a closing sale.
Now’s your chance to take home a piece of Chicago history with
you. Read more in the short article about the Berghoff closing.
We also have some photos to show the Berghoff over time.
One of the saddest reports I’ve had in lately relates to one of the
last bastions of vintage style denim. Sears, long type purveyors of
vintage dark looking denim overalls and painter pants decided to
call it quits on that line of denim. Ken Mottet breaks the news in
his article and offers some alternatives to the Sears line.
The end of an era… Western Union recently sent it’s last telegram.
They will continue to wire money world-wide, but they stopped the
telegram business. Now what will noir detective writers use for
material… “I received a text, ‘he’s dead”. Doesn’t seem to have
the right feel to it, now does it? We have some additional detail
available in the article. The end of a way of life? The Del Monte
company, famous for their HAWAIIAN pineapples, announced they
will be largely scaling back their pineapple production in Hawaii.
The pineapple and sugar plantations on Hawaii brought in the
money and tourism dollars that made Hawaii a major tourist draw
in the 40s and 50s. I guess the scenery didn’t hurt either… Read
more in this issue.
Those loveable Munsters. For such a short-lived comedy on TV,
the Munsters made a lasting mark on society. This month we say
goodbye to Grandpa Munster.
World’s biggest bumbling deputy? Yes, we say our good-byes to
Don Knotts too.
Rocko pipes in again this month with
his take on some influential Blues
greats.
We have some event pre-vues for you
this month. Eddie Angel, The HiRisers and Kaiser George team up and
bring their Spinout Records Rock n’
Roll Party to Fitzgerald’s Saturday
March 4. Coming next month, is Viva
Las Vegas, and we know most folks
are already kicking it way into gear for
that almost week-long party so we’ll
skip it. We’re giving you plenty of
warning for the upcoming Rockabilly
Rebel Weekend which will be taking
place in Indianapolis in June.
What does the future hold for Re-Vue?
Well, due to increasing work
responsibilities and other pertinent
factors, we aren’t positive there will be
a MONTHLY issue of Re-Vue. We will
keep you posted month to month, but
there may be a month that will have to
be skipped once in a while. In months
when a full issue cannot be printed, we
will try our best to make sure a printed
calendar is still available. We are also
investigating alternating print/ online
months. One month we would have a
print version and the next the issue
would be online only.
Covering all the angles all the time…
Susan E. Funk
Re-Vue
Ken Mottet
Rocko
Doug Freedman
Matt
Strickland
Desiree
Kiss
Susan E.
Funk
Fitzgerald’s
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By: Rocko
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2006
HOWLIN' WOLF part 1
MAGIC SAM
Somebody apparently decided it was the anniversary of Blues or
something because every time I turn around some mealy mouth is
making a kissy kissy face at BB King or there's a new entire series of
comps featuring Canned Heat and the Allman Brothers and shit. But
after all that glory, all that repackaging and promotion, after all the
sloganeering, after shuckin' and jivin' with BB King, after playing up
Satan with Robert Johnson, after all this, the people in charge of
reselling history forgot that one guy ate all their creamy asses with
milk gravy for breakfast:
Continuing after the Wolf in the Blues
Greats series...
The Tony Danza Sun tour guide motherfucker couldn't get straight
what Sam Phillips said when he heard
Howlin' Wolf for the first time, so I won't
assume that you know, gentle reader.
I'll tell you. He said "That's where the
soul of man never dies."
I was told about "Give Me Time" by a
friend who doesn't even
really dig Blues, and knew it
had to be something.
What the fuck is that? What? Huh?
That's an insane, nuts thing to say.
That's nuts. His voice is Heaven?
Purgatory? Hell?
There should be a 100 foot tall statue
of the Wolf at the end of Beale Street,
with his foot held up in a stomping
position, hovering eternally over the
Elvis statue.
Just now, I'm dubbing a tape of Magic
Sam's "Give Me Time" for somebody
who deserves it. It seems to be out of
print (again), so I'm not sticking to my
hardline "If you aren't ready to pay for
it, you don't need to have it" bit.
Blues 101:
Gather
round
children.
It’s time to
learn...
Every 15 year old alive should have a
rite of passage where they listen to
"Killing Floor" and then smash
something plastic with a wooden bat.
Every 17 year old should hydroplane through a sleepy suburban
neighborhood at 70 mph to "Smokestack Lightning."
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I found a copy in the place
to find it, the legendary
West Side of Chicago,
where Sam lived. It was in a
tape shop where the
proprietor accused my pale
white ass of being a BB
King fan, and wouldn't sell
me his copy of David
Ruffin's first solo postTempts record. But I can't
blame him, the sign out
front clearly said "TAPE
SHOP."
When I bought "Give Me
Time," Mr.Tape Shop
became very animated and said "This
is new, now." It was sealed, but then
in the car, we discovered it had been
listened to halfway through,
apparently before it went
through the plastic wrap
machine, possibly in the
back of the "TAPE SHOP."
It felt like charm to me.
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L: Howlin’
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R: Magic Sam
By: Rocko
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Anyway, that aside, Magic Sam was another one who died too
young and before his legacy was properly secured. He had a great
and moving voice, and in fact could've not been playing Blues.
Magic Sam could've easily put down his guitar and gone to Motown,
where he could've been Marvin Gaye. But he did not do that.
Of the 4 or 5 albums available, all of them a very tuneful,
catchy kind of Blues, "Give Me Time" is the one to have.
It was put together from home tapes of Sam alone with
his guitar. You can hear his kids playing in the
background as their Magic Dad pours his soul out into a
primitive tape recorder. It's almost singular in its’ candid
emotional strength.
Almost nobody knows about it.
blank tape.
Now, you do.
Find a
HOWLIN' WOLF part 2
Just now I was driving home when Howlin' Wolf's
"Moanin' At Midnight" came on.
My knuckles went white as I gripped the wheel, the
February wind blowing over my ride, my eyes darting as
the song, if you could call it a "song," began with it's otherworldly
inhuman hum, then launched into a series of screeching guitar
attacks. The image is of an old TV test pattern with the Indian Head,
then the broadcast day beginning suddenly with a calf being slashed
with a machete repeatedly.
I glanced at the clock. 12:00. And the words began.
"Somebody's knockin' at my door..."
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I could feel the Devil riding shotgun. I couldn't quite make out what
he was saying.
BILLY LEE RILEY
Billy Lee Riley is the blue eyed entry in the Blues Greats series I'm
half-assing here, but he's really so much more. In 1956, a drop dead
super bad cool dad walked into 706 Union and led the crew of
session musicians, redubbed "The Little Green Men," through a few
Atomic Bomb Blasts, "Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll," "Pearly Lee," "Red
Hot." Riley makes a sturdy living from these tunes still today, and
they've taken him around the globe and given him great renown.
Riley owns a niche; where most Rockabilly elder statesmen favored
Country, Riley always favored Blues.
Not that anybody would know since most people never bothered to
listen to anything outside of his first year or so as a recording artist.
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songs
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Riley's
are
challenging me right
now, and they were
both from around
1960. Both were
probably released
under pseudonyms,
both were released
under two different
titles.
"Tallahassee"
or
"My
Old
Home
Place" is told in the
first person, about a
father who moves his family down to
Florida to ease his boy's
tuberculosis. He worked twice as
hard for half the pay, and he worked
nights, and he worked days. Now
he's back under the harsh winter of
his old home place, but "the little
grave is warm in Tallahassee."
Depending on which record you
bought, either "Gallow's Hill" or
"Potter's Field" is the place where
John Does are buried. "Nobody
cares at all, when another old bum
dies/But he once had a mother who
loved him, and sang him a lullaby."
Riley urges, "Everyone knows of the
troubled rich when they pass on/
Save your rations of compassion for
he who dies alone."
Both songs are crushing.
Both should be well known. Neither
are.
By: Matt
Strickland
The Roy Kay Trio
Re-Wind
"Rock-A-Way
Lonesome Moon"
(Rhythm Bomb Records)
This latest Roy Kay Trio CD is their third
release and they have managed to retain
the original line-up! Nice feat for any band, let alone a
traditional boppin' hillbilly and country boogie trio like
these boys! Roy Kay on rhythm guitar/croonin'
vocals, Robin Cady drivin' rhythm on upright bass and
the ultra smooth guitar pickin' Mike Geglia fill out the
trio's line-up nicely!
"Rock-A-Way Lonesome Moon" was engineered and
recorded by Axel Praefcke at the prolific lightning
recording studios in Berlin. The recordings were later cut
to acetate by Kearney Barton on an original 1940's
Presto lathe. Guaranteed fantastic sound quality!
The sound o-n the CD follows nicely in the tradition early
50's rockabilly & country with 11 new originals. My
favorites are "Everyday I'm Countin'" (mid-tempo
bopper), "Two Of A Kind" (nice rockin' guitar break!) ,
"Move on" (another nice hillbilly bopper) and their
version of "Long John's Flagpole Rock"! Roy's writing
style is upbeat and lighthearted…sure to lift your spirits
on a gloomy day!
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Track List:
Cadillacin' Model A
My Rockin' Heart
You're For Me
Cold Tears
She Tracked Me Down
I've Lost
Rockin' and Rollin'
Everday I'm Countin'
Two Of A Kind
Untie These Strings
Lonesome Moon
Long John's Flagpole Rock
Shadows Fall
Move on
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Dusty Chance &
the Allnighters
"The Real Deal"
(Wild Records)
Formed in October of 2004, Dusty
Chance & the Allnighters are a heavy
boppin' rockabilly quartet from the Bay Area of
California. Short a lead guitarist for the recording
session, the CD has none other than Omar Romero
(Omar & the Stringpoppers) on wild take-off guitar.
Omar's playing fits in nicely with Dusty Chance on
vocals, James Chance on Drums, Jamie Lee Bradley
on upright bass and Carlos Gomez (Hi-Strung
Ramblers) on rhythm guitar. The CD has a very lo-fi
recording style and was done at Rock & Bop Studios in
Hollywood, CA. A busy boy, Omar also recorded and
engineered the CD as well!
"The Real Deal" is a nice 12 song CD with 9 originals
and 3 less obvious cover songs. My favorite track (and
sure to be a favorite on the dance floor) is an original
called Meteor Bop…wild guitar, frantic vocals and lot's
of screams! I also dug their originals 40 Miles (midtempo bopper) and "Can't Scratch It" (heavy stroller
with hiccupy/reverby vocals). They do a nice cover of
Andy Frank Starr's "No Room For Your Kind" and one
of my favorites with Jack Earl's "Slow Down". Nice job
on their freshman CD…I look forward to more from
these fellas! They'll be playing Sunday night at VLV
2006 so come out and dig it!
Strickland
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www.roykaytrio.com
www.rhythmbomb.com
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Track List:
Thirsty Daddy
High-n-tight
Slow Down
40 Miles
Meteor Bop
No Room For Your Kind
Tell Me
Can't Scratch It
Make Love to You
Delirious
Howl at the Moon Do the Bop
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Phil Trigwell & Los
Bandhagos
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"Phil Trigwell"
(Tessy/Rhythm Bomb)
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Little Neal & the Blue
Flames
"Self Titled"
(Rhythm Bomb)
Phil Trigwell is a name I've
heard here and there for
many years now and I just
never got a hold of any of his
stuff or records…until now!
Phil is an Englishmen who's
lived in Sweden since 1971
and has toured across
Europe with the likes of
Wildfire Willie and the
Ramblers. The current line-up on the CD are Phil Trigwell
on vocals/lead guitar/upright bass and A.J. Hawkinson on
guitar/banjo/upright bass. These two fellers manage to
put out a fantastic full sounding set of recordings that
feature songs in the style of western bop, country boogie,
rockabilly and some just plain old hillbilly!
Little Neal & the Blue Flames
were originally formed in 1997
with Ike & Axel from the
Capers under the name Little
Neal and His Nightsurf. They
released two songs on the
Rough Rockin' compilation in
1998 and two more on Rough
Rockin' Vol. 2 later on. They
changed the name of the
group to Little Neal & the Blue Flames in 1998 and
never looked back! The line-up for the CD includes
Neal Laskowski on vocals/lead guitar, Maurice Hagler
on rhythm/electric guitar (ex-Capers),
Sascha
Korner on bass and Axel Praefcke on drums. The CD
also features some nifty piano work by Ann Kruth and
backing vocals by the Mellow Man. Recorded of course
at the fantastic Lightning Recording Service!
Phil's lastest CD has a whopping 18 songs that includes
some tasty new originals! They really shine with original
numbers like "Rock, Bop, Jump & Jive" ( Blue Caps style
rockabilly), "They Just Wanna Rock' n Roll" (nice midtempo boogie) and "Pretty Patty Baby" (western bopper).
Phil also does a good job with "Freight Train Boogie" and
pulls off a single handed (and single voiced) version of
Mickey & Sylvia's "No Good Lover". Nice listen through
and through.
Included on the CD are 15 songs: 9 originals and 6
aptly done covers. Standouts on the CD are the
originals "Ten Times Better" (killer stroller similar to
Johnny Kidd & the Pirates "Shakin' All Over"), "Till the
Cows Come Home" (rockin' jiver with heavy guitar) and
"Why Do You Need Proof" (nice mid-tempo bopper). I
also enjoyed their versions of Larry Donn's "Honey
Bun" and Bob Luman's "All Night Long". I'll look forward
to seeing this group of fine musicians play live!!!
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Track List: Ain't That A Dilly, Cooly Fooly Boy, Skip
Jack Rock, Stood Up, Honey Bun, Preachin' Shuffle
Blues, How Could She Be Bad, Everybody's Tryin' To
www.rhythmbomb.com Kiss My Baby, Ten Times Better, All Night Long, Cat
Shack, Tana Louise, Till The Cows Come Home, Do
Track List: Rock, Bop, Jump & Jive,
You Wanna Dance, Why You Need A Proof
Freight Train Boogie, They Just Wanna
Rock n' Roll, Boogie Woogie Cowboy, I'll Never Forget,
www.rhythmbomb.com www.littleneal.de
No Good Lover, When Payday Rolls, round, Welcome to
Paradise, Hillbilly Express, Pretty Patty Baby, Sugar
Moon, Travelling Light, Milk Bucket Boogie, Since You
Went Away To School, Hooray For That Little Difference,
Trouble Finds Me, A Picture of Me, Adios Bandhagos
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By: Doug
Freedman
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The
Soupy
Sales
Collection
Forget Barney the Dinosaur! Forget
Dora The Explorer! Forget Elmo! There
is only one undisputed king of childrens television. That is
Soupy Sales. From 1953 through 1967, and again in 1978,
Soupy had one of the greatest children's shows ever. Don't
take my word for it. We will use the objective measurement
that all children's show should be judged by. How much did
the parents hate it. In Soupy's case, it probably gets the
highest rating ever. There was nothing educational about
this show.
It was true nonsense in it's purest
form.
Unfortunately, the government requires some
education in today's children's shows.
"The Soupy Sales Show" was nothing but bad jokes and
slapstick comedy. Soupy's biggest strength was that he
could make a bad joke funny. Many times he would make
politically incorrect side comments and ad-libs. Many of
these ad-libs would go over a little kid's head. Unfortunately
for Soupy, Mom or Dad might be watching. Parents were
always complaining about his show. Soupy got in big
trouble in the mid-sixties when as a joke, while hosting a
New Years Eve special, he told the kids to go into their
mother's purses and send him all the green pieces of paper
they could find.
They ended up sending him
$80,000. Unfortunately with video tape and editing, stuff like
this can't happen anymore.
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The main gag of Soupy's show was pie throwing. Usually
after Soupy told a bad joke, he would get a pie in the
face. Soupy estimates that he has been pied over 20,000
times. There was a time during the early to mid-sixties
where it was the in-thing for celebreties to go on Soupy's
show and get pied. The list of piyees include Tony Curtis,
Burt Lancaster, Bob Cummings, and the Chairman of the
Board, Frank Sinatra. In this three-volume DVD collection of
the "Soupy Sales Show", you will see Alice Cooper, Frankie
Valli, and Dick Clark getting pied.
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If that isn't great enough, you will
get the 1965 sketch called "The
Waiter" in which Frank Sinatra,
Sammy Davis Jr., and Trini Lopez are customers in a restaurant, and of course Soupy is the
waiter. This ends up in a big
piefight. Of course when those
guys get together the humor gets
very politically incorrect.
For instance, Frank Sinatra asks
Soupy for Italian dressing for his
salad. Soupy brings out a short,
fat Italian man putting on his
clothes, and says to Sinatra,
"Here's an Italian dressing."
These days you don't hear jokes like that on any
show let alone a children's show.
In this collection you will get "The Naked Lady"
sketch. In 1960, the crew decided to play a joke
on Soupy. One of Soupy's main gags would be
the door in the back of his house. He would hear
someone knocking and he would open it up to see
who it was. It was usually some obnoxious person who would make his life miserable, or when
he opened it, he would get a pie in the face. One
day the crew hired a stripper and when Soupy
opened the door, there was a topless woman
dancing while David Rose' "The Stripper" was
playing. The crew had set it up to make Soupy
think that this was being broadcast over the air
when it really wasn't. Soupy's reaction is great
as he is thinking about all the trouble he will get
into for broadcasting this. If this actually had been
broadcast, Soupy's status as a children's TV host
host
would
have
been
untouchable
by anyone to
s u c c e e d
him.
Of
course, a joke
we could all
play is to get
some
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The
Soupy Sales
Collection
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young mother show her this clip,
and make her think that it was
broadcast.
Then say to her
"Young lady, this is why children's
television was better in the 50's
than it is now."
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One of the drawbacks to this
collection is that most of the clips
shown here are from his 1978
show, but don't let that scare you. Soupy is funny no matter
what year it is. Plus you won't want to miss the Rat Pack
piefight. One thing that they did not include was Soupy
doing his 1960's minor dance hit "The Mouse" It is a take off
on the dance crazes of the early sixies where Soupy dances
around while sticking his teeth out to look like a mouse. Not
only is it great, it's better than the Cha-Cha Slide.
This 3 volume DVD set is available from Collector's Choice
Music at www.ccmusic.com or by calling 1-800-923-1122.
Jenks 'Tex' Carman
At Town Hall Party
(2003)
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Bear Family Records has put out quite a few DVD's of the
great country-western t.v. show "Town Hall Party". I could
have reviewed any one of them. I could have reviewed their
Johnny Cash DVD, or their Gene Vincent or Eddie Cochran
DVD. I could have even reviewed their Bob Luman DVD. I
could have even reviewed their many DVD's of individual
shows that they have released. So, why Jenks 'Tex' Carman? At the risk of having everyone think that I am weird (if
they don't already). I am a big Jenks 'Tex' Carman fan.
Everybody knows that Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent, and
Eddie Cochran are great. Everybody knows the greatness
of Hank Snow, Bob Luman and Merle Travis. So, I thought
it was about time that people knew of Jenks 'Tex' Carman. Before I go on, I just want everyone to know that he
does not belong in the same class as the artists that I have
previously mentioned. He is not as good as they are. He is
not even a great musician, but he had the ability to entertain .
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and connect to his audience and fans. Jenks 'Tex'
Carman is an acquired taste, and he will test your
love of hillbilly music. People have either one of
two reactions to his music. They either love it or
hate it, and their is no in-between.
I discovered Jenks 'Tex' Carman about ten years
ago. I had bought his CD "Hillbilly Hula" that was
a compilation of all the recordings he made for
Capitol Records. I can't remember why I bought
it. Maybe I liked the cover, or maybe it was a
Bear Family product, or it could have been the
word "hillbilly" in the title. I put it on and I was
knocked out! This was everything that an artist
was not supposed to be. He was not slick. He
was very raw and primative, and he sounded like
Granny Clampett with a deeper voice. I stood
there wondering, how did he get a recording contract from Capitol Records let alone any record
company? This guy would not make it in today's
overproduced music world. He would get kicked
off of "American Idol". If he were on "The Gong
Show" he wouldn't get gonged, but he wouldn't get
a perfect score of 30 either. The farthest he would
ever get on television would be cable access. Yet, in the 1950's he was a minor star, and
that was the beauty of it.
The best thing about owning the "Hillbilly Hula"
CD was the reactions of my non-rockabilly friends
when I played it. They would all have that same
look of disbelief on there faces. They were not
used to anything but the overproduced and slick
modern music that
they usually listened to.
They
couldn't believe that
anything like Jenks
'Tex' Carman could
make
it
to
CD. They would all
ask me that same
question. "Do you
really
like
this
stuff?". The best
time was when I
played it for my
brother. After hearing it he got very
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upset and angry. I said, "What's wrong?" And he
said, "This guy is on a major record label, and none of my
friends that have 'good' bands could get a recording contract.
I would watch all my "Tex Ritter Ranch Party" tapes and I
would always see Jenks 'Tex' Carman whenever they
would show the whole cast, but I had never seen him perform on one of these tapes. When Bear Family released
the "Jenks 'Tex' Carman At Town Hall Party DVD, I was
tickled to death. This DVD contains performances from
1958 and 1959. This was the one I had been waiting
for. Before I go on I would like to congratulate our good
friend Deke Dickerson on his wonderful liner notes for this
DVD.
In the DVD, Jenks 'Tex' Carman starts off with "Dixie Cannonball" and his signature tune "Hillbilly Hula". I never realized how strange and unique a performer he was until I
actually saw him perform. He plays a slide guitar and sings
like Granny Clampett, plus he sings "Hillbilly Hula" in Hawaiian. You could see some of the musicians laughing behind his back, and some of them looking like "Is this really
happening?" Then I realized how he made it this far in the
music business. The audience loved him. After each song
they would yell "more, more". He would do one or two
songs per performance,
and the audience ate it
up. It seemed like he was
required to do "Hillbilly
Hula" because it shows up
four times on this
DVD. Other songs include
"Wabash Cannonball",
"Dixie Cannonball", "El
Rancho Grande", "Giesha
Girl", "Tijiuana Rose", and
"Don't Feel Sorry for
Me". He is backed by such
stars as Joe Maphis, Merle
Travis, Johnny Bond, and
even Gordon Terry playing
fiddle on a couple of numbers.
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I believe it is a great DVD and I enjoyed it very
much, but it does cost $29.95. I mentioned before
that Jenks 'Tex' Carman might not be everyone's
cup of tea, so my suggestion is before you spend
that kind of money on this DVD, listen to some of
his recordings first. If you end up liking what you
hear, then there is no reason why you shouldn't
get this DVD.
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90 years of
Pineapples Out Luxury Crops In
On February 15, 2006 I noted an article in the Chicago Tribune which talked about the changing landscape in Hawaii. The tiny chain of islands which
has been well-known for the spiny fruit, is seeing a
sea of change to other crops of late. After 90 years
of operation in Hawaii, Del Monte decided to plant
it’s crops in other areas of the world because it is
cheaper. The last crop of pineapples was planted on
February 19. This move puts 700 Hawaiians out of
work. Another crop being phased out is sugar cane.
Sugar production on the islands plunged 67% from
1991-2001. But, all is not lost. Other boutique crops,
such as coffee and exotic flowers are taking over
the Hawaiian agriculture market, filling niches left
behind by pineapple and sugar. You can even lease
a coffee bean tree on the Love Family Farm on the
Big Island for $1100 a year. What do you get? 50
seven-ounce bags of roasted coffee from YOUR
tree shipped to you throughout the year.
- Susan E. Funk
By: Ken
Mottet
Re-Vamp
I'M GONNA FREEZE MY BUTT OFF.
It was the bass player of the Gin Palace Jesters who brought me
the bad news. He had been shopping for overalls in the months
just before Christmas. And he had been looking specifically for
those big square blue overalls with the Roebuck logo that have
been sold at Sears since my daddy was a pup. He went to every
Sears store he could think of (he may have missed that one you
can just glimpse as you're approaching the big ass tollbooth on the
Skyway). And he finally came to terms with the harshest of harsh
realities...what else is new, they don't make 'em any more.
Roebuck's brand overalls--and by extension, Roebuck's
carpenter's jeans--were possibly the single greatest pair of denim
trousers still available in America's major department stores. Yeah,
you can wait all day at the Levi's store for the three hundred dollar
1930's repro bucklebacks to show up. But you're living in a fool's
paradise. Blue jeans ought to be like matchbooks in a nightclub-you shouldn't have to kill yourself every time you want a light. They
should just be there.
February/
March
2006
501 Blues?
A Sad
Farewell to
Roebuck’s
Denim
And I will admit that I was much too late to this dance. I spotted
many a young person at the Indy festival or the Barnyard Boogie
traipsing around in the glory that was Sears dark indigo with the
triple white stitching down the legs. I saw pictures of a teenaged
Jerry Reed wearing these work pants. I saw old photos of the
husband and wife who used to live in my house (Jerry and Lydia
Silhan) in the woods wearing matching big Roebucks. I thought
nothing of it until I wandered into Sears some two or three years
back hoping to replace my fadie fade faded work Wranglers (jeans
that are all well and good for that long-legged, Monty Clift cowboy
thing). There at Sears in the work wear section I found my babies-the carpenter jeans in a cotton poly blend (which means they don't
shrink and they hold their ink a tad longer).
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I was in heaven. I ran home with three pairs. Mind you, I couldn't
wear them straight off the rack. They required some customizing.
My tailor set to work opening the side seams, removing the
hammer loop and the pliers pocket (that's right, pliers pocket--it
ain't a cellphone pocket, trust me) and deftly covering his tracks.
Instantly I was the proud owner of prison jeans.
I have worn them every day to work since then. Every night I
carefully turn them inside out and wash them by hand in a bucket
of cold soapy water and hang them up to dry. And they haven't let
me down yet.
In the wake of such sad sad news, I do have a few options. Key
makes a similar product. So does Dickies. As does some no-name
company that is sold exclusively through Farm & Fleet (at the low
low price of $10 a pair). But they
aren't quite the same. Say what you
will about 100% cotton denim--in my
mind it is a defective product. It
shrinks and it fades---the only things I
want my clothing NOT to do. Only
Sears had the decency to throw a little
bit of the demon polyester in their
denim making them damn near
indestructible. Everything changes.
Nothing stays the same. And, as
always, I'm left flapping in the
breeze...like a pair of my own blue
jeans drying on the back porch.
Jesus, how poetic!
February/
March
2006
Rendezvous
Ponderosa
Stomp
#5
May 9th and 10th, 2006, at the
Gibson Factory, Memphis
Tennessee, from 5 P.M. till 2
A.M Nightly, Admission $40 per
Night ... Celebrating the Unsung
Heroes of the Blues, Soul,
Rockabilly, Swamp Pop and
New Orleans R&B
Artists slated to play include:
Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Joe
Clay, Jay Chevalier, Rebirth
Brass Band, Willie Tee, Eddie
Bo, Al "Carnival Time" Johnson,
Rockie Charles, Tammy Lynn,
Alvis Wayne, Warren Storm,
Lazy Lester, The Bad Roads,
Barbara Lynn, Roy Head, Lil
Buck Sinegal, Archie Bell,
Scotty Moore, DJ Fontana,
Sonny Burgess, Hayden
Thompson, Ace Cannon, Hi
Rhythm Section, Travis
Wammack, Willie Cobbs, Kenny
Brown, The Bo Keys, The
Nightcaps, Kenny & the
Kasuals, ? & the Mysterians,
Lady Bo, Billy Boy Arnold, Jody
Williams, Deke Dickerson & the
Eccofonics, Johnny Jones,
Chick Willis, Little Freddie King,
Clifton James, James Blood
Ulmer, Betty Harris, Dale
Hawkins, Dennis Coffey,
Wiliiam Bell, Fillmore Slim, The
Tennessee Three featuting
W.S. Holland and Bob Wootten,
Wiley and the Checkmates, Syl
Johnson, Herb Remington, and
The Fabulous Wailers. More to
come.
Early sponsors onboard for the
event include Gibson Guitars,
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
and The Blues Foundation.
Tickets
Tickets for the Fifth Annual
Ponderosa Stomp are still
available. All tickets are $40 per
night and are general admission
- re-entry is allowed.
Advance tickets will be
available online on January 20,
2006. Tickets will be available
at the door the night of the
show.
The
Gibson
Memphis
Factory,
The annual New Orleans roots
music romp that draws music
fans from all over the world, will
find a temporary home in
Memphis in 2006. The festival
will take place May 9 & May 10
at the city's multi-level Gibson
Factory.
Hotel Accommodations
Special discount rate for
Ponderosa Stomp attendees at
Wyndham Garden hotel, 300 N
Second St, Memphis, TN.
Rooms for 5/7,8,9,and 10 are
$150 per night inclusive of all
taxes. To make reservation call
hotel 901-525-1800 and tell
then you are attending the
Ponderosa Stomp. To get the
special rate, rooms have to be
booked by 4/2.
www.wyndhamgardenmemph
is.com
Website for the Ponderosa
Stomp is:
http://www.knightsmaumau.com/stomp_5.php
Rendezvous
The 14th Annual
ROCKABILLY REBEL
WEEKEND
June 22, 23 & 24, 2006
Clarion Hotel & Conference
Center
2930 Waterfront Parkway W.
Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46214
(317 )299-8400
ALL of the events this year
will take place right at the
Hotel. Shows, Vendors
(vendor room locks at night
for safety), Car Show, etc.
The hotel is really nice and
the air conditioning works
good!
The Seventh Annual Road
Rockets Rumble
Saturday June 24th, 2006
9am to ?
Pre ’65 Hot Rods & Customs
Only
Most of the rooms have a
refrigerator and microwave
too.
IndyRoadRockets@aol.com
There is also a bar and a
restaurant at the Hotel. This
will be a Great one!!!
Hot Rod Car Show!
Prizes !
Pin Up Girl Contest !
Saturday June 24th
Twistin’ Tarantulas, Wanda
Jackson, The Lustre Tones
The Buzzards, Hot Rod
Hucksters
Live Music By
The Cowtown Playboys, Hot Rod
Hucksters, The Freightliners, The
Knuckletones
Friday June 23rd
The Gin Palace Jesters, Art
Adams. The Star Devils
The Freightliners, The
Cowtown Playboys
Thursday June 22nd
Buck Stevens, Pat Cupp,
Thommy Burns & His Sterling
Cowboys
Ace Brown & His Helldivers,
The Knuckletones
Above; Wanda Jackson
Below: Pat Cupp
February/
March
2006
Tickets: Thursday $25, Friday
$30, Saturday $35.
Checks or Money Orders
Payable to:
JADE Productions, PO Box
55, Fairmount, IN 46928
VISA, Mastercard, American
Express & Discover
(765) 998-2080 or (765) 9483326
Paypal Payments to
DL@JamesDeanGallery.com
In the parking lot
For Info: Tom (317) 244-8271
www.RoadRocketsIndy.com
Vintage and Retro Clothing,
Jewelry, Records, CD’s,
Novelties, Collectibles and More
inside the Hotel on all three
days! For Vendor info: (765) 9982080 or (765) 948-3326
Swimming, Sunbathing & Jam
Sessions by the Indoor Pool and
Jacuzzi under a clear bubble
dome.
The entire Clarion Hotel is
reserved for RRW#14 Guests
with a special room rate of $70.
per night. When making your
reservations you must mention
Rockabilly Rebel Weekend or you
will be told that it is sold out!
For Reservations Call: (317) 7878341
The Clarion Hotel is just minutes
away from The Indianapolis
Motor Speedway and Speedway
Museum.
By: Susan
E. Funk
Rendezvous
February/
March
2006
March 4
Berghoff
Closing Sale
The Berghoff just served up it’s last Tom
Turkey. Yes, indeed, it closed it’s doors
after a continuous 107 years in business
in downtown Chicago.
Maybe they got the idea from all the stuff
that went missing in the last days of
Trader Vics, but they decided to sell off
These photos show just alittle of the rich
history of the Berghoff. They are all
Chicago Tribune file photos.
Berghoff in 1959
Berghoff in 1962
Berghoff Bar*, unknown date
The Berghoff bar will stay in operation. So make sure
you make a trip there soon.
much of the history of the restaurant.
And that sale is just two days away. This
Saturday, March 4. You can check out
the items available online at:
www.auctionconsultantsinc.com.
Some of the items range from the small,
ashtrays and steins, to medium sized,
chairs and tables, to large, murals and
stained glass.
Now might be your last chance to take a
piece of history home with you and give it
a new life.
Regarding
… Telegrams go the way of the
Pony Express…
JOIN THE ROY ORBISON
COMMEMORATIVE US STAMP
CAMPAIGN.
In February, the last telegram was sent
by Western Union. Founded in 1861 in
the US, it originally sent coast-to-coast
messages about and during the Civil
War. It was the first such service anywhere on earth—to send transcontinental—and later, international messages.
As we often find, the reason behind the
demise is a lack of profits coming from
the telegram service. My fondness for
telegrams stems from their use as plot
devices in countless noir detective novels and movies. It just isn’t the same
saying “Fat Sam received the text message”… or “the dame faxed her ‘Dear
John’ letter”… WESTERN UNION
TLGRM. Stop. RIP. Full stop.
Susan E. Funk
Follow
the
link
at
www.royorbison.com to send a
letter of support to our nation’s
leaders in Washington urging the
creation of a commemorative US
stamp honoring the lifetime
achievements of Roy Orbison, a
true American music icon.
Dear Friends
I am actively petitioning the US Postal
Service to issue a stamp for my husband, Roy Orbison in honor of what
would have been his 70th Birthday. This
is a grass roots campaign from my heart
and I am calling on everyone that loved
Roy and his music. In political circles, the
petition I have circulating the US House
of Representatives is nearly complete
including a personal letter of support
from the President of the United States! I
have an on-line petition which now has
over several thousand names and I want
to thank all the people who have taken
the time to VOTE FOR ROY. And now…
I am asking you TODAY…to please
VOTE FOR ROY by simply clicking on
the below link, scroll down and then click
on to sign petition and join some of Roy’s
friends like Olivia Harrison, Bono, Will
Jennings, Dan Aykroyd, Pamela Anderson and many others. Thank you for
your vote and thank you for forwarding
this request to all of your friends.
All my Love, Barbara Orbison
Fats Domino "Alive And
Kicking"
He is one of New Orleans's
greatest treasures, but Rhythm
and Blues legend Fats Domino
was nearly lost when Hurricane
Katrina made landfall.
His 9th Ward home was flooded to
the roof when the storm laid its
deathblow upon the Gulf Coast
and the reclusive singer went
missing. Byron Pitts reports that
family and fans alike feared that
the man who'd been the musical
heartbeat of the Big Easy for a half
century might have perished.
He was rescued by boat and taken
to the Superdome. Eventually, he
was evacuated to Baton Rouge.
He and his wife have made
neighboring Algiers their temporary
home.
Fats Domino is indeed alive and
kicking. It is a fitting title to his
brand new album - his first in
nearly two decades. "I recorded
that many years ago, but never did
worry about getting it out too much,
you know?" says Fats.
He released it exclusively through
the Tipitinas Foundation, the
charitable arm of the legendary
nightclub of the same name, to
benefit one of New Orleans's
February/
March
2006
greatest natural resource ‹ its
musicians.
Nicknamed more for his
sound than his size, Fats
domino made his first hit in
1949 and it wouldn't be the
last. His beat was big and his
smile was broad. All he ever
needed was a piano and an
audience.
More than 65 million records,
in fact, and he's performed
around the world. But nearly
all the mementos of that brilliant career were washed
away by Katrina. "No, that's
all gone," laments Domino.
Fats is hoping to return to
New Orleans some day. "I like
it down there," he says
through a huge smile. Like so
many here, New Orleans isn't
simply his home ‹ it's his
heart. Fats turns 78 this Sunday, March 5th and like his
beloved city, he's "alive and
kicking." (CBS)
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Re-Late
Pals Lovingly
Remember Don
Knotts…
People Magazine March 2,
2006
The life and career of
beloved comic actor Don
Knotts are paid
tribute in PEOPLE's latest
issue.
Perhaps not surprisingly,
Knotts's final hours included
his costar on the classic
'60s sitcom The Andy
Griffith Show, Andy Griffith
– who was at his old pal's
bedside on Feb. 24, just a few hours before Knotts succumbed at
81 to complications from lung cancer in an L.A. hospital.
"I told him I loved him and I held his hand," says Griffith, 79. "I said,
'You gotta breathe, Jess!' Jesse was his (real) first name. 'You
gotta whip this thing.'" Though Knotts was unconscious, "his chest
heaved several times, and I believe he heard my voice."
So deep was the friendship between the two men, "They would talk
on the phone for hours and share the deepest confidences,"
Knotts's third wife, Francey Yarborough, tells PEOPLE. Diagnosed
last November, Knotts, who'd quit smoking decades ago, "was
upbeat and getting chemo," she also says. "But he didn't even tell
his own children. He figured he'd beat it and go on with his life."
The real Don Knotts was nothing like blustery Barney, says Griffith.
"He was modest, he was humble and he was very bright." Adds
director Ron Howard, who played Andy's son Opie: "He was just
one of those truly kind people, very unassuming and very
respectful."
But there was another side to Knotts. "Dad was kind of wild," says
Karen Knotts, his actress daughter by first wife Kathryn Metz, with
whom he also had a son, Thomas, now an electrical engineer. "He
was really quite a ladies' man, especially between marriages."
Says Joyce DeWitt, best known as Janet Wood on Three's
Company, on which Knotts played landlord Ralph Furley: "He was
also a gracious, kind, lovely, clever, interesting and rather
sophisticated man, and he was suave in his own elegant way. He
was our darling Don."
February/
March
2006
Still, insists pal Tim Conway, the Carol
Burnett Show veteran who performed
with him on The Steve Allen Show and
teamed with him in five movies from
1975 to 1980: "He was Barney Fife,
there's no question about it. He had the
front of being a very secure guy until
things started to crumble around him.
He's the confident guy who has no business being confident. ... He left us with
a wonderful, gentle character who can
never be duplicated."
Celebrity deaths: Will the cycle be unbroken?
By Harriett Hendren—Lexington HERAL
With the death of actor Don Knotts over
the weekend, those of us in the business of
news had an inkling of what might come
next.
So it was no surprise to some that in the
same Sunday newspaper containing
Knotts' obituary, the death of Darren
McGavin, star of the movie A Christmas
Story, also was noted. Then we learned
that Dennis Weaver, TV's McCloud, had
died Friday.
The celebrity trinity of death was complete. It caused us to wonder -- as we did
when Prince Rainier III, Saul Bellow and
Pope John Paul II died within a span of five
days in 2005, and upon news of countless
other deaths -- do celebrities really go to
the Great Beyond in triplicate?
"Yes, it is absolutely true that celebrities
do die in threes," said Tony Orciuoli, who
maintains CelebrityDeathBeeper.com, a
Web site that e-mails subscribers when
famous people die. But "celebrities also die
in ones, twos and fours."
Orciuoli says we might never have the
concrete numbers needed to prove a pattern of three. "Just determining who is famous enough to be called a celebrity
causes major problems," he said in an email. Also, "is it a coincidence when three
celebrities die in the same week? What
about the same month?"
For more, visit http://members.aol.com/
mtic/shorts and click on "Celebrity Death
Trios."
Re-Late
'Grandpa Munster' Al Lewis Dies
Al Lewis, Actor Who Played Grandpa on 'The
Munsters' and Worked as a Basketball Scout, Dies
By LARRY McSHANE NEW YORK Feb 4, 2006 (AP)
Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose
work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate
never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died
after years of failing health.
Lewis, with his wife at his bedside, passed away Friday night, said
Bernard White, program director at WBAI-FM, where the actor
hosted a weekly radio program. White made the announcement on
the air during the Saturday slot where Lewis usually appeared.
"To say that we will miss his generous, cantankerous, engaging
spirit is a profound understatement," White said.
Lewis, sporting a somewhat cheesy Dracula outfit, became a pop
culture icon playing the irascible father-in-law to Fred Gwynne's
ever-bumbling Herman Munster on the 1964-66 television show. He
was also one of the stars of another classic TV comedy, playing
Officer Leo Schnauzer on "Car 54, Where Are You?"
But Lewis' life off the small screen ranged far beyond his acting
antics. A former ballplayer at Thomas Jefferson High School, he
achieved notoriety as a basketball talent scout familiar to coaching
greats like Jerry Tarkanian and Red Auerbach.
He operated a successful Greenwich Village restaurant, Grandpa's,
where he was a regular presence chatting with customers, posing
for pictures, signing autographs.
Just two years short of his 90th birthday, a ponytailed Lewis ran as
the Green Party candidate against incumbent Gov. George Pataki.
Lewis campaigned against draconian drug laws and the death
penalty, while going to court in a losing battle to have his name
appear on the ballot as "Grandpa Al Lewis."
He didn't defeat Pataki, but managed to collect more 52,000 votes.
Lewis was born Albert Meister in upstate New York before his family
moved to Brooklyn, where the 6-foot-1 teen began a lifelong love
affair with basketball. He later became a vaudeville and circus
performer, but his career didn't take off until television did the same.
Lewis, as Officer Schnauzer, played opposite Gwynne's Officer
Francis Muldoon in "Car 54, Where Are You?" a comedy about a
Bronx police precinct that aired from 1961-63. One year later, the
duo appeared together in "The Munsters," taking up residence at
the fictional 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
February/
March
2006
The ser i e s ,
about a
family of
clueless
creatures
plunked
down in
middle
America,
was
a
success
and ran
through
1966. It
forever
locked
Lewis in as the memorably twisted character; decades later, strangers would greet
him on the street with shouts of "Grandpa!"
Unlike some television stars, Lewis never
complained about getting typecast and
made appearances in character for decades. "Why would I mind?" he asked in a
1997 interview. "It pays my mortgage."
Lewis rarely slowed down, opening his restaurant and hosting his WBAI radio program. At one point during the '90s, he was
a frequent guest on the Howard Stern radio
show, once sending the shock jock diving
for the delay button by leading an undeniably obscene chant against the Federal
Communications Commission.
He also popped up in a number of movies,
including the acclaimed "They Shoot
Horses, Don't They?" and "Married to the
Mob." Lewis reprised his role of Schnauzer
in the movie remake of "Car 54," and appeared as a guest star on television shows
such as "Taxi," "Green Acres" and "Lost in
Space." But in 2003, Lewis was hospitalized for an angioplasty. Complications during surgery led to an emergency bypass
and the amputation of his right leg below
the knee and all the toes on his left foot.
Lewis spent the next month in a coma. A
year later, he was back offering his recollections of a seminal punk band on the
DVD "Ramones Raw." He is survived by
his wife, Karen Ingenthron-Lewis, three
sons and four grandchildren.
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mwrab@yahoogroups.com, chicagorockabillycom (Amy Ott), Desiree Kiss, and yeproc.com.
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Honeybees
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Potawatomi Casino, Free Show!
Sat
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Clipper; Eddie Angel,
Kaiser George and HiRisers @ Fitzgeralds;
Crown Vics @ Rolling
Lanes in Countryside
9:30P ; D.O.A.
(Alternative TentaclesSudden Death) MASSACRES @ Nite Cap
Lounge 6pm
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8 Neverly
Brothers @
MURPHY'S
PUB Orland
Park 7:30pm
9 Split Lip
Rayfield @
High Noon
Saloon, Madison (WI)
10 Lee
Rocker, Hot
Rod Huckster
@ Fitzgeralds
11
13
14
15 The Crown
Vics @
Frankie's Blue
Room
16 Legendary
Shack Shakers
@ High Noon
Saloon, Madison
(WI)
CALAVERA,
Boneyard Brawlers @ Milwaukee Club Any-
17 TWISTIN TA-
18 CALAVERA, Mas-
RANTULAS, WESTBOUND TRAIN,
Lavender Cabaret
Burlesque LORDS
OF HIGHWAY
THREE BLUE
TEARDROPS @
Nite Cap
sacres. Boneyard
Brawlers, Gravetones
@ Beat Kitchen
Legendary Shack
Shakers @ Abby Pub
Eddy The Chief Clearwater @ Harmony
Bar, Madison (WI)
22 The
Crown Vics
@ Frankie's
Blue Room
23 Neverly
24
25 Neverly Brothers
29
30
@ Oneida
Casino, Green
Bay, Free
Show! (WI)
Be sure to check with venues before Shows.
Schedule subject to change. Dates are compiled through several Sources:
Wed
19 Nick
Willett @
Oneida Casino, Green
Bay (WI)
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27
21
28
Brothers @
MURPHY'S
PUB Orland
Park 7:30pm
@ CAPONE'S
MARTINI BAR &
TRATTORIA
31
Sundays- Honky Tonk Bingo 7 Fulton County Line 9 @ Pontiac Cafe
Noon - 2pm Casey McDonough @ MoJoe's Hot House
Tuesdays- DJ Pete spins rockabilly, doo-wop, blues, 50's, R & B, & Trash Rock @ Streetside
Bar & Grill 10- 2 $3 wells
Devil In A Woodpile (roots) @Hideout
Wednesdays- The Rhythm Rockets @ Frankie's Blue Room
Most Thursdays- The Sidewinders @ Green Dolphin
Thursdays - Psychobilly DJ Kevin Massacre @ Exit
Susie Gomez's Open Mic Nite @ InnerTown
Urban's Hog Wranglers at the Smoke Daddy
Fridays - The Hoyle Brothers @ The Empty Bottle (5:30-7:30)
True Historians @ Betty's Bluestar Lounge 7-9 pm No Cover
Every other Friday- Susie Gomez and Her Multiple Cats at Caifornia Clipper
Saturdays - Roots and Blues at Cal. Clipper
Noon-2pm Matt Schnieder & Friends @ MoJoe's Hot House
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Be sure to check with venues before Shows.
Schedule subject to change. Dates are compiled
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gunthermurphys.com, beatkitchen.com, abbeypub.com,
fitzgeraldsnightclub.com, schubas.com, metromix.com,
martyrslive.com, mwrab@yahoogroups.com, chicagorockabillycom (Amy Ott), Desiree Kiss, and yeproc.com.
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11 Saturdays
Matt
Schnieder &
Friends @
MoJoe's Hot
House 12-2pm
15 Neverly
Brothers
@ CANOE
CLUB RESTAURANT
Orland Park, IL
7:30PM
16 Neverly
Brothers
@ HACKNEY'S
Full Band Palos
Park, IL 7:30
PM - 10:30PM
17 The Git
Gone Boys
@ The Red
Line Tap
18 Saturdays
Roots and Blues
@ Cal. Clipper
22
23 Thursdays
24
25
7 Tues-
8
20 SASQUATCH &
SICKABILLYS, RIGOR
PHALLUS
ROCKIN BILLY &
THE WILD COYOTES
@ Nite Cap
21
27
28
Sat
4 Mercury
Express...@
California
Clipper
1
14
Fri
3 BR-549
2 Big"C"
@ Shank Hall
Jamboree
Milwaukee
with Twistin’ .357 String
Tarantulas band , Boneyard
@ Martyr’s Brawlers @ Nite
Tuesdays
DJ Pete
spins rockabilly, doowop,
blues,
50's, R &
B@ Streetside 10- 2
Wednesdays
Rhythm Rockets @
Frankie's Blue
Room, Naperville
Cap
Toasters, Deals
Gone Bad, go
Jimmy Go WestBound Train @
Beat Kitchen
BR-549 @
Schubas
days
Devil In A
Woodpile
(roots)
@Hideout
12
Thu
Susie Gomez's
Open Mic Nite
@ InnerTown
Urban's Hog
Wranglers at
the Smoke
Daddy
Vics @ Rolling Lanes
Countryside,
IL 708-3527262 9:30PM
Fridays
Hoyle Brothers
@ The Empty
Bottle (5:307:30) True Historians @
Betty's Bluestar
Lounge 7-9
ANDRE WILLIAMS, The Diplomats of Solid
Sound @ Beat
Kitchen
Upcoming in March:
17th TWISTIN TARANTULAS, WESTBOUND TRAIN, THREE BLUE TEARDROPS @ Nite Cap