Frummox - The Man With the Big Hat

Steve Fromholz and Dan McCrimmon made this excellent vinyl album way back when. I bought it in the cut out bin at the Batavia Mill Outlet for a buck or less. Same with Townes Van Zandt. It was Western New York in 1970, I'm pretty sure, and we liked Texas Music better than they did in Texas. Hell, everbody was was wearing cowboy boots anyway. Townes was kind of far out but so is Fromholz and I'm getting that way myself, so I can't complain. Enjoy.

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[thxkid]

This did come out as a CD in UK and Austraila under the Smartweed label, extremely hard to find I had one sent to me from sydney for $23 worth every penny of it, nice to have on digital without the pops, snaps and cracks that you get from the albums, check out Amazon I see there is a used one for sale for $13.99 but it ships from Korea.Should make a video showing the CD cover and CD itself also.

[FRSGUMP]

I have two of these albums.  I love these guys. Awesome cowboy tunes. I have nearly 3000 albums in all.

[Bigsnakedaddy1]

I would love to have a CD of this record. I won a copy back in the late 60's at a easter egg hunt (I was 9 or 10 years old). And I bet I listened to it maybe a thousand times. I still know every word by heart almost 50 years later! I guess that says alot of the impression it made on me. I am so glad I found on you tube a real blast from the past.

[KaraokeJerry]

My brother picked this out of the bargain bin at a K Mart way back in the 1970s and we fell in love with the music. No idea of where the record went to. Has anyone every put this on a cd?

[Dunkelberg]

So many beers and good times went down with this song.

[82bianchi]

This song and TEXAS TRILOGY.... wonder if Cormac McCarthy ever heard these? Amazing. I still have the vinyl but no turntable. CN

[stretcherbearer]

Got to see them live in 1970 at a tiny club in Dallas call the Rubaiyat. Very enjoyable concert and the guys were nice enough to share some "tunes" with us in the parking lot between sets. Used to own the vinyl which has long since disappeared into the ages but did score a bootleg CD which is still played quite frequently.

[RAINRIEN]

Dear Steve Fromholz and Dan McCrimmon,

Way back in 1967 I was at one of your places in Denver Colorado... I remember it was the first time I had seen

the first or secondThe Incredible String Band Album...

Anywho there were some DRAWINGs that is to say

REAL ART LINE WORK of a Frum Ox that never we

never saw on any Album or anywhere after that...

Does anyone have a scan of that Frum OX. Thanks !

[blaisepscl]

Great post--I do like the Jerry Jeff Walker version much better

[teenonator]

I was just thinking of this tune. Thanks for posting it & Tejas Trilogy