MOON MULLICAN-NEW PRETTY BLONDE (JOLE BLON).wmv

PART 2 OF MOONS BIOGRAPHY FROM CMT:::::He was born Aubrey Mullican in 1909 in Corrigan, TX, a little more than an hour's drive north of Houston, to a family that owned an 87-acre farm that was worked (at least partly) by sharecroppers. It was one of them, a black blues guitarist named Joe Jones, who introduced Mullican to the blues before he was in his teens. This in itself constituted an act of rebellion on his part, because Mullican's family were devout churchgoers -- his father attended three times a week -- and abhorred anything to do with the elements of sun and excess with which the blues and the places where it was usually played were associated. He would spend most of his life attempting to reconcile -- or at least find a livable middle ground between -- these two sides of himself. He got good on the guitar and the bass, but Mullican's instrument of choice was the keyboard: first the family organ, which had been bought so that his sisters could practice playing hymns, and later the piano.

By the time he was 14, he was able to make 40 dollars -- a good deal more than a week's wages in 1923 -- for two hours of piano playing at a local cafe. Music was not only something he loved, but it offered a lot more renumeration than farming (or even overseeing land worked by tenant farmers) seemed to; it was also something that his father despised. Mullican had already made a habit of hanging out at the roadhouses in East Texas, taking in the blues and barrelhouse music that poured off of their stages along with the rougher sides of life. Finally, at 16, Mullican left home for the big city of Houston, where he quickly fell in with people that his family would have pegged as "wrong." He made his living playing music and earned the nickname "Moon," short for "Moonshine," which stuck for the rest of his life, and all but trumpeted the direction his life was taking where sin and music were concerned. During the mid-'30s, he joined the Western swing band the Blue Ridge Playboys, and moved from there to playing in Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers, as well as recording with the Sunshine Boys and Jimmie Davis in Louisiana, and then returned to working with Bruner for a time in the early '40s.

Mullican's talents at the ivories were long established by the end of the '30s -- he played the piano like it was a part of him, and sometimes with surprising flashes of elegance -- but he moved to the lead singer's spot in 1939 when Bruner recorded the pioneering country trucker song, "Truck Driver's Blues." He turned out to be every bit as good a singer as he was a pianist, with a stunningly expressive voice even if it didn't have an overly great range. This recording and the advent of the '40s heralded the busiest phase of Mullican's career, as he juggled a long-term association with Bruner and a stint in the backing band for Jimmie Davis during the latter's successful campaign for governor of Louisiana, and finally put together his own band, the Showboys, known locally as the "band with a beat," an attributed sometimes referred to as "East Texas sock."

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[oldtexasmusic]

@rstawarz111 No, I am sorry but I do not. I do have 29 songs by Elton Britt and Kentucky Waltz by Doc Watson,Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Hank Locklin, Hank Snow, Pee Wee King, Osborne Bros, and Slim Whitman.Probably cannot post it by Doc Watson or Slim Whitman because of copyrights and maybe another one or two.

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@rstawarz111 That's the trouble with the lives of many people. To form an opinion of something, we need to know all we can find out about it. Music? Religion? Socialism? Islam? Anyone that forms an opinion without enough facts is doomed to be wrong. My point in this is that we have to LISTEN before we form the opinion. Those that do not hear are not listening.

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@rstawarz111 I just can not see anywhere that I was offended. Thanks for commenting.How you gonna hear the music if you are no longer here?

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@rstawarz111 I sure do not remember the comment I made about the wiles of the devil. I am of the opinion that we have country music in common and when I said "birds of a feather flock together, I only meant that lovers of country music are birds of a feather and the same ones are members of mostly the same channels on You Tube.

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@rstawarz111 Sorry but I do not understand what you are asking. Would you be a little more precise?

What is Icog? Hey, if something is bothering you, by all means, get it out in the open. I would never be angry about any legitimate question. Legitimate means that one has a reasonable reason to ask it. I have many friends on You Tube that I do not know ANYTHING about them. I figure their lives are their business and have no reason to know about them because we are only friends online.

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@rstawarz111 LOL!!! used to be that the robbers had masks on now they have business suits and propose how they are gonna help you. LOL!!! Thaniks for the friendship, Bobbie.

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@rstawarz111 Robert, I have LONG AGO rid myself of albums. I can only tell you the songs I have without doing a great deal of research to find the albums they were on. I do have2 of the songs you asked about here. I do not have Dixie Cannonball. Hank sr. is difficult to get posted on You Tube because of the copyright cops.

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@rstawarz111 Starting tomorrow, I will post at least one truck drivers song per day for a few weeks, excluding Sundays. I have only 13 Jack

Green songs but neither of the ones you mentioned.If you were/are addicted to country music, we are birds of a feather. LOL!!

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@rstawarz111 Well, I do have a bunch of truck drivers songs but am not sure if I have the one you asked for here. Are there any particular singers you want to hear the songs by and if you want particular songs, let me know. I suppose we are gone if WE think we are. LOL!!

Marcus

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@rstawarz111 All the work of the ole devil. The legends of yesteryear will remain for a while but all things will change.