Take the "A" Train, Thumbs Carllile, 1987
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Used to work with Thumbs on the old Ozark Jubilee. What a great guitarist. He was paired up with the great Curly Chalker on steel. They played some great stuff. RIP fellows.
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Thumbs was a seasoned pro working for Jimmy Dickens before Emmons started shaving.
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I wish I could have walked into a mall and hear Thumbs playing. Acoustics are pretty good. I play A Train, too, but not like this! I would have went out of my way to hear him play. If I only knew back then...
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@Pickinbuddy As ne of these musicians, I can only strongly agree with you! Any place where there's any of these factyors is a welcome:
- decent money
- great fun
- Good audience
- great food
And if you can get two of them "factors", life's a treat!
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Why are we wasting time with the idjit announcer?
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Thumbs died July 31, 1987. This video seems to have been recorded on July 4, 1987 -- less than 4 weeks before he died.
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Jazz in a mall. Ugh. Poor Thumbs. And the bass player definitely deserves points for his glasses!
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bauersnarky 8 months ago 6
There are PLENTY of top-rate jazz players doing commercial 'casuals' like these all over the world--when they're not in the studio doing sessions-like Thumbs spent many years doing. Of course none of them are major label-signed "rock stars" like the names you listed. Besides, until they got signed in the first place, they'd play anywhere they could--pubs, honky tonks, juke joints, strip clubs. They didn't have malls back then. Even the coffeehouses today are all Starbucks.
Pickinbuddy 2 years ago 2