John Bassette - Weed & Wine

The late great folk'n'soul singer, John Bassette from Hessler Street in Cleveland Ohio. "Weed & Wine" is from a 4 song EP also titled "Weed & Wine", on Tinkertoo Records that I bought at the Hessler Street Fair about 1978, maybe a year or two earlier. I scanned the cover of the EP at one time, but since the hard drive fried that I had it stored on, and I have the record stored away, I can't include the image at this time. I plan to re-scan and edit this to include that soon. The LP also has "Country Soul", "Hello Cleveland", and "Oh, How I Miss You", which I hope to post also in the future.

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Music

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• Cleveland
• John Bassette
• folk
• Weed and Wine

[eddyh53]

Remember hearing this live many times at the Stone Jug coffee house near Akron U. Am missing this guy; one of the best people I have known. There was also a version that added "weed and beer" as a last verse. Alex Bevin put out a collection of John's songs (original versions) on CD-rom, and there is a tribute album by various Cleveland artists.

[ragman3170]

Miss you JOHN !!!!!



[threadbare1]

Thanks for this...I thought for a while that I had dreamed it...ha You tube has everything...great tune great memories

[mikegerski]

John was one of a kind and the most undersung singer/songwriter of all time. Wish we could find some video!

[jbal778]

Norm Tischler is playing flute and David Krauss is on harp. Just a "tiny" liner note.

[williamofcoventry]

oops

[williamofcoventry]

John was a dear friend and a wonderful talent, would you ki\\like some artwork to go with this piece , I have copies of all his albums including the EP this was originally released on, let me know, thanx

[MrFog5]

I was just down Hessler Street early this summer, All I could think about is how lovely, John Bassette's voice is, and the Coffee break concert on WMMS back then featured him if i recall correctly. WOW THANK YOU dannykewl, I'm an old John Bassette fan from long ago. !

[lehooper]

Awesome, Thanks!