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Here's a rather blues based tribute rendition of Arkansas Wildman Bobby ...
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Here's a rather blues based tribute rendition of Arkansas Wildman Bobby Lee Trammell's "It's All Your Fault". Bobby Lee is undoubtedly best remembered in rock'n roll circles for his outstanding selfpenned Rockabilly double sided Fabor (later leased to ABC-Paramount) release "Shirley Lee" b/w "I Sure Do Love You, Baby", his best offerings on wax ever!
Trivia...
Bobby LeeTrammell was born January 31, 1934 in Jonesboro, Arkansas to Wiley and Mae Trammell, who were cotton farmers. Wiley played fiddle and Mae was an organist at a local church; in addition to these influences, Trammell also listened to the Grand Ole Opry and attended services at the local Pentecostal church, where gospel music was sung.
As a high schooler, Trammell played country music, and when Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash toured in Trammell's area in the middle of the 1950s, Perkins invited him to sing a song and told him to talk to Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records. The meeting came to nothing, but Trammell moved to Long Beach, California soon after in hopes of landing a recording contract. While in California, he took a job in a Ford manufacturing plant. He saw Bobby Bare play at a carnival and convinced Bare to let him come on stage for a few songs. Lefty Frizzell. who was in attendance at the fair, asked him to open for a show at the Jubilee Ballroom, a venue in Baldwin Park, California. Trammell soon was performing there regularly, and won a reputation for Elvis Presley-like spastic gyrations and wildness on stage that occasionally caused controversy.
Manager/record label owner Fabor Robison signed Trammell to a contract, and he released his first single, containing the self-penned tunes "Shirley Lee" and "I Sure Do Love You, Baby". The recordings included session musicians James Burton on guitar and James Kirkland on bass. The single sold well and was picked up for national distribution by ABC-Paramount. The song never hit the national charts, but may have sold as many as 250,000 copies. Ricky Nelson covered "Shirley Lee" soon after.
Trammell's career then went through a series of mishaps. He auditioned for The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet but was not offered a spot. Ricky Nelson had expressed interest in looking at more of Trammell's work, but Trammell did not take the offer seriously. During the recording of his second single, "You Mostest Girl", he was backed by an orchestra and chorus, and he nearly quit his contract over the difficult recording session. Both this single and its follow-up, "My Susie J - My Susie Jane", failed to chart, and by the end of the 1950s, Trammell was performing strictly local dates in California. He staged a practical joke on the top of a broadcast tower, but when the structure began to collapse, he had to be rescued by local authorities, and was barred from performing in the state.
After returning to Arkansas, Trammell sparred with Jerry Lee Lewis before a gig and destroyed Lewis's piano. After stories of Trammell's misbehavior made the rounds among promoters, he was effectively blackballed as a public performer everywhere.
Trammell continued recording for small local labels, but his reputation prevented him from getting much radio airplay. He self-distributed the records from his car in the 1960s. He was offered licensing contracts with Warner Bros. Records and others, but he refused them; he recorded for Sims Records through the end of the 1960s. In the 1970s, he played country music, and in the 1980s, he found some success in Europe during the rockabilly revival there.
In 1997, Trammell was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives where he served until 2002. He died on February 20, 2008, in his birthplace of Jonesboro.
Hope you like my rather laidback version of this rather obscure Bobby Lee song, a Tribute to yet another of those gone but not forgotten heroes of true '50s style Rock'n Roll!!
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Here's a track I've been receiving a few requests for lately. It was ori...
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Here's a track I've been receiving a few requests for lately. It was originally included on my 2nd Sonet album, "Rockabilly Gasseroonie". I have to admit that I had a 'raw model' in the shape of a '60s somewhat funky version (which I didn't like one bit!!) spinnin' around in my head when I wrote it and it all went down on tape from there. The only guitar I used was my Country Gent and the rest is pretty much history, except that I couldn't resist to ad something 'special' at the end of the song, so keep your earplugs out, he, he!! Enjoy...
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"Don't Leave Me Now" was included as one of the 7 songs featur...
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"Don't Leave Me Now" was included as one of the 7 songs featured in Elvis Presley's third film and MGM debut, "Jailhouse Rock" (directed by Richard Thorpe). Besides Elvis' the film stars Judy Tyler and Mickey Shaughnessy in the leading roles.
The movie was premiered on October 17, 1957, in Memphis and was released nationwide on November 8, 1957. It peaked at number 3 on Variety box office chart, and reached number 14 in the year box office, grossing $4 million. By 1969 the movie grossed between the United States and Canada a similar amount to the Wizard of Oz. The movie earned originally mixed reviews, with most of the negative ones directed to Presley's persona. I recorded "Don't Leave Me Now" (Aaron Schroeder & Ben Weisman), by lack of nothing better to do (lol!), in the mid-'70s and it clearly shows that I just ran through it single handedly just for fun. Still, I kinda like it in a mysterious way (hm!) and since I'm going through a LOT of the thousands of tracks I've recorded throughout the years, I might as well share some that's never been even close to a release with you, instead of just concentrating on stuff that you might already have heard, in case you have bought some of my records/CD's. Enjoy...
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Another outing from that infamous '97 session that brought life to no le...
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Another outing from that infamous '97 session that brought life to no less than 62 tracks in just one month!! I must've ran out of ideas when I cut this one as it's a pretty simple tune, but yet again with a pretty heavy Cash type backing, which I seem to prefer in a country song when I think
about it. I first heard an excellent vocal version of this one by country songstress Billie Jo Spears (I even think she had a hit with it) and that's most likely what triggered me to record it! The title, "´57 Chevrolet", might seem a bit out of place at first until you hear the vocal version of it.
My first impression of it, when I saw the title, was that it obviously was headed towards a country rock type of thing, which it isn't. But if you get a chance to hear Billie Jo's original (?) it all falls together quite neatly! Anyway, here's my humble instru version of it, with a Charvel HM axe taken the front seat (!!) and a Paisley Tele for the 'do-whacka-do' rhythm. For High Quality definition click on the HQ button on the lower side of the YT screen! Hope you like it...
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"Wildwood Flower" is an American perennial favorite, best know...
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"Wildwood Flower" is an American perennial favorite, best known through performances and recordings by the Carter Family. Originally recorded by them on May 10, 1928 in Camden, New Jersey, the Carter Family, with A. P., wife Sara and Sara's cousin Maybelle, are one of the most influential performing acts in American music. This tune sold around one million copies between 1928 and 1929. However, the song predates them. The original title was "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets". The song was written in 1860, with words by Maud Irving and music by Joseph Philbrick Webster (1819-1875).
Now, after this, how the heck does a true blue rock'n roller like yours truly fit into the concept of a song like this, you might ask? Well, after I signed up my first record deal in 1966 with the US Blue Horizon label out of Warrington, Florida, owned and run by a heck of a nice half-Cherokee guy named Larry Stevens, I was more or less forced into changing my musical background from rock'n roll to country because Blue Horizon was a strict country label and Larry was a country performer of some stature himself, with a few minor local country hits under his belt on different small labels throughout the South before he decided to branch out on his own. That didn't mean that I didn't like country though! I had a weak spot for great '50s type country performers like Marty Robbins, Carl Smith, Lefty Frizzell and Johnny Cash, to name but a few, and I still have, so I wasn't totally 'out on limb', even though Elvis, Carl and all them other SUN cats, in particular, was my guiding light! So with that in mind and with my somewhat crazy way of thinking sometime (WHAT??), I decided, more or less just for fun, to totally re-arrange one of the true perennial favorites of American folklore, "Wildwood Flower" (to Larry's BIG delight, lol!).
This toe-tapping, up-tempo, country rock, instru swinger is in fact my 2nd biggest hit to date, only outrun (naturally) by the 1976 "Spinning Rock Boogie" million seller on the Sonet label, which to this day has sold close to 9 million copies, placing it on just about every imaginable Hit list throughout the globe (not bad for a track that was cut in a makeshift garage at the dawn of the '70s on an old Tandberg reel-to-reel machine, using an old beat-up Hagström 'plank' from 1960, a Supro lap steel from '66 and a German made Lefima snare drum, with an 'attached' cymbal the size of an ordinary dinner plate, as the sole instruments available!).
Apart from getting an honourable no. 7 spot on the U.S. Tri-State Distributors D.J.'s listing, "Popular Pick Of The Week", "Hank's Wildwood Flower" also made the second half of Record World's HOT 100 in the States and was used to insanity on radio stations in and around the Nashville area and throughout the South in late '69 and the early '70s. The original backing was recorded shortly after I signed with Blue Horizon, but the lead guitar and all the different effects that went with it (I even use the opposite end of a pencil instead of a regular pick in one verse and even put in some whistling and other mindblowing stuff (lol!) towards the end...crazy, man, crazy...but fun!) was added during a somewhat hectic session three years later in time for the final release. This was my 2nd solo record/U.S. release, issued as the initial outing on Larry Slevens' newly formed Seagull label, operating out of Nashville, Tenn., on Aug., 1969. Due to the incredible success sales wise, it was re-released in early '71 in yellow vinyl on the US Kountry "44" label, a Seagull subsidary. Due to the fact that the original tapes and matrix's were destroyed a long time ago and the original Seagull copies were somewhat badly pressed, the version included here has been dubbed off a 10" acetate demo record, cut in Nashville in June, 1969 by the Nashville Record Productions Co. Although the sound is a bit scratchy in places (due to the record being mistreated in various states of playfulness by my dearly beloved son in his childhood days!), it's nevertheless still a lot clearer and more acceptable than the original pressing. Happy listening! Hank C...
P.S. OOOPS...almost forgot...FULL CREDITS TO THE REMARKABLE VIDEO CREATION GOES OUT TO MY FRIENDS SUZANNE (wiscsuzski) IN THE USA AND, OF COURSE, THE MASTER OF SPECTACULAR VIDEO CLIPS, MY DANNISH BUDDY, ERIK ADELFRED (formerly working under the pseudo of Duke 618/Adelfred, but now for certain reasons doin' his thing under a new YT account, PositivFritid!). And, while I'm at it, the DJ plug during the intro and ending is kindly contributed by Larry Adams of Radio Medway in England (without any sponsorship from yours truly, I might add, lol!). And if there's anything else I've forgotten, blame it on the constant confusion amoung the brain cells I still have left, LOOL!!!! D.S.
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kolla på Blocket, Tradera och på vinylmässor....Ginza och Cdon kan ha men
troligen inte HCB...det finns en del second hand butiker här i Stockholm...
Har en polare som brukar få tag på allt möjligt och omöjligt kan kolla med honom...
Annars är det väl annons som gäller...kolla in min lista "guitar-goodies mix"...finns fler
som gillar Fender Strata...ha de bra---keep on rockin //Ove
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Just stopped by to listening... nice one man band channel
regards MJA
Thanks for subscribing to my channel. I subbed you back and hope to listen to more of your music !
Best regards,
Algaron JP