nortonrecords.com:

I heard that some vinyl will be out...
maybe this two hours feature is a good introduction to Charlie Feathers' tunes.

my hero!

Considering your mix for MIU 9, I'm truly amazed. Am really enjoying the show though, thanks Mjungblu.

My hero! :lol: Charlie always gave it his best and some of his tunes are rockabilly classics. One Hand Loose is a particular favorite of mine. :) His daughter has a very nice short tribute to her father on youtube which is worth a watch. The Cramps covered a tune or two of his. He could have made a better living playing county but he stuck with rockabilly.

I like the idea of Charlie Feathers better than I actually like listening to Charlie Feathers.

I can see that; hes not everyone's cup of tea. His records certainly never sold well and his vocal style, though unique, did not endear himself to a whole lot of people. But he had his hard core fans and he was there at the beginning and he didn't waver....and he still didn't sell those records :lol:

Definitely my cup of tea. I'm a bit surprised by how much I like the Get with it compilation as I usually get a bit bored listening to rockabilly comps. It's varied and I love his voice. A few cheesy duds like Too much alike, but I love Jungle Fever and such. And the 80's Honky tonk man still has some awesome tracks, like a great version of In the pines. Did he really claim he taught Elvis the ropes?

Charlie's Honky Tonk Man CD, Rose 144, is apparently on its way to collector status. It seems not many were pressed and fewer sold. It's become pricy on eBay, if that's an indication. Love it. Who thought something new and good could be brought to Roll Over Beethoven at this late date? Hold on to this CD.
Charlie claimed that only Sam Phillips and he really understood "slapback" but others say Charlie was one to pad his resume, shall we say. I would not be surprised if he said he influenced Elvis but all of Feathers' output for Sun was more or less straight country so make of his claim what you will.
My other Charlie Feathers CDs are Gone Gone Gone on Charly and Uh HuhHoney on Norton.
I guess it's just me but I like Too Much Alike....

GET WITH IT, here's a BOTTLE TO THE BABY
You Troll ;)

CAN'T HARDLY STAND? Really you would rather "think about" CF than play "JUNGLE FEVER"? TEAR IT UP, mate. WHY DON'T YOU forget THAT CERTAIN FEMALE and stop thinkin SHE SET ME FREE to listen to Charlie?
A WEDDING GOWN OF WHITE aint gonna conceal the WILD WILD PARTY in your Feathery head, TODAY AND TOMORROW.
JUst ask for FOF advice from STUTTERIN CINDY and WHEN YOU COME AROUND and realise, WHEN YOU DECIDE that ignorance and you are TOO MUCH ALIKE, that saying UH HUH HONEY to TONGUE-TIED JILL don't mean "EVERYBODY'S LOVIN MY BABY", then you'll realise that your Charlie Feathers lovin babe is NOBODY'S WOMAN, but yours.

JUNGLE FEVER awaits, CT. You know what to do :)

PS How do I get a Heart in front of my posts like CT does? Do I get one by being meaner to him or nicer?

Thanks for the tip off about the show mjungblu. Never heard Jungle Fever before; what a great track!

amazing stuff!
heart and soul asided by energy.

what affects me is a track from his jukebox assemly
f.e cockroach
rare an weird sound

any records where I can find this and similiar on?

I Forgot To Remember To Forget to add that One Hand Loose is an all time Top-10er, at least in rockabillyland...with that, I'm Gone, Gone , Gone
thanks Daggerfall :) ]

Another weirdo name I'd never heard of turns out to hide intriguing music that is right up my alley. Thank you, gents B)

Yeah , his stuff makes The Sun Sessions almost sound overproduced.

And he looks like a serial killer or something. He could stare down a triple artic in a dust rise boy, with a flick of his ladypeepas, I tells ya.

hasil adkins, the legendary stardust cowboy and charlie feathers... the holy trinity. i like a lot of music.

You've got the basic three down all right! :lol:

:applaud: Yes! My favourite.

BTW At least five Charlie Feathers items in the John Peel 7'' box!

Hasil Adkins lived between Madison, WV, and Uneeda, WV, along Pond Creek.
If you didn't work in the coal mines, you had a hard time finding work; Hasil didn't work in the mines. [Uneeda is the name of a cracker made by the National Biscuit Company, since discontinued]. Easy drive from our house up there.

Unbelievable! I love those one-man bands. We used to have them in this German town when I was a kid long time ago. Kids flocking around them, few cars in the street sob.

BTW I still loathe pantomimes and clowns like everybody else. I haven't (completely) lost it yet.

So I take it you work in the coal mines, 'pin? :D
Keep diggin'! Dig 'em up!

Oh no not me; I moved here from Colorado[2000 miles west] and fought forest fires for my career. Also, did law enforcment and emergency medical work. I live outside the coal seams.
If you like one-man bands, and can stand USA music, I recommend the late Jesse Fuller, the writer of San Francisco Bay Blues. He played a 12 string guitar; a bass drum, a string bass device he call a fotella, and had a harmonica and kazoo around his neck with the microphone. He was very talented and his repertiore consisted of rags, old pop songs, blues and the like. I think there's a little bit of video on Jesse Fuller on youtube so you can make up your mind about him. I've liked him for years.

so many great hasil adkins legends - he kept sausages and potted meat in his pockets for extra energy, he decorated his house with rubber limbs and severed heads, he once unknowingly ate a tin of campbells soup autographed by andy warhol, he played drums and geetar at once because he thought all the people on the radio were doing the same.

and then there's his friend the dancing outlaw...

Yeah Jesco White. It's very common in the Southern Apps for people to have, or take, a board to put on the grass to dance....not tap dancing like Jesco but flat footing or clogging.

Bells Potted Meat Product - comes in little cans. Pork ears, lips, brains, skin etc...very popular and priced right. Also, Vienna sausages.

Erm, I was just enjoying a rocking blues track which I thought, hmm, some people should hear it. I thought the Fall forum, what thread tho, clicked on the forum and i saw this thread, and thought there could be worse places.

Barroom piano, electric slide guitar, and a great white blues voice (no it's not me :rolleyes: :D )...I had to edit out an, erm, curse from this track using Audacity in the early hours of this morning (it worked brilliantly - no-one word ever know what sounds like 'muddy' or 'monday' half way thru was until yesterday, erm, motherf***ing :rolleyes: . I'd put an ad in the local paper that comes out today, and I'm trying to get posters into a big local paper so the last thing i needed with the publicity was getting grief if someone took offence to such language...

what am i on about? - 'Stormy Monday Blues' - surprisingly enough an improvised blues workout, doesn't sound like it tho - on here

http://www.myspace.com/waggonopenmic :devil2:

:)

Can't listen to it now - gotta be quiet in the house - but I'm looking forward to hearing it tomorrow. Always liked T-Bone Walker's version of Stormy Monday Blues....great song.

I don't know if it bears any relation to that song or not...it certainly uses pretty standard blues chords, but like I said I was pretty pleased it worked so well and to have been there recording it for them at my event :)

I also hope your event went well for you....and, if you care to post about it sometime, I would be very interested in hearing the details. Cheers.

Hmm...last night was fun, but it's one of those 'you had to be there' type things. I actually recorded a Jonathan Richman cover last night and tried to record a new song I wrote last night (but forgot to tell one of the girl singers I roped in I was recording :rolleyes: and she'd made a pig oinking noise for some reason on it, so didn't want me to use it :D ).

The JR cover is not really blues or rock and roll (so slightly off topic for this thread) but I was pleased about it, particularly as a girl I know who plays piano beautifully loved it. I put it on that page anyway as myspace have strict rules about covers and since my event prospers more from facebook nowadays i thought if the worst happened and they closed any page i'd rather it was the waggon page. :o

sure that won't happen tho :)

It's terrific that your musician piano-playing friend liked the song. Congratulations. I have just mastered youtube so most of what you said about where to find the song, etc, went by me without comprehension. Sorry. Glad everyone had a good time and I hope something good comes from it.
Gonna sign off and catch the last of the sunlight out on the balcony.

Don't get me wrong. I have a Charlie Feathers CD on mp3 (via eMusic). Back in the days of cassy-tape I had a Charlie Feathers tape. I like the guy's music. I lissen to it/them.

I was just saying that I find his story / oeuvre even better than the music. Sort of how like you think FWM music is okay, but not gr8, but know, deepdown, that I am a super-kewl guy, the coolest.

The old time rockabilly guy I rly luv is WARREN SMITH. Best vocalist ever, even if his bio isn't as intriguing as Feathers is. :wub: :wub: :wub:

likewise the Ooby Dooby on the same album.

Not much to add except, probably the greatest rockabilly cat of irish-indian descent ever!

Oh it's simple

just click on the link below

http://www.myspace.com/waggonopenmic

the song - Stormy Monday Blues - I've mentioned will start.

Simple as that. :)

The other one would start fourth if you're curious, or you could try clicking on the fourth song...don't have to tho, I do feel a bit self conscious drawing attention to such things here, but the blues one with the slide guitar tho, I did feel some would like it in this forum, and like I said this thread seemed the best place.

:)

A Charlie Feathers thread :banghead: ?
and not "music made by forum members"? :rolleyes:

Because I didn't make the track I was referring to as being relevant to this thread.

Pedantic twat.

:devil2: :finger: :D

I have the Bear Family CDofWarren Smith. I remember liking Rock n' Roll Ruby but didn't buy it. I jumped on Ubangi Stomp right away and still have that Sun 45. He probably had the best pure voice of anyone at Sun except Elvis. His cover of Red Cadillac & Black Mustache is quite good; also, Sweet Sweet Girl. Apparenly he got above himself and ended quickly and badly. Several good songs on the CD but none tops Ubangi Stomp, imo. I actually saw Bob Dylan perform Uranium Rock,one of Warren's numbers....wasn't too impressive compared with W

Is an oxymoron...

why? :rolleyes:

If by good you mean in the top 10 songs of all time. Don't like the casual racism of "Ubangi stomp." Other than that, his 25 or so Sun trax are abso unassailable. That voice!!! "Black Jack David" also dsrvs spcl mentch. His Bear Family Country disc (Wagon Wheel? or is that just the cover pic?) ain't none too shbbie uther. "Cave In" is spooky -- hard to take, but gr8.

I'm looking forward to following your link tomorrow when I don't have to be quiet. Thanks for helping an illiterate! T-Bone Walker played his guitar face up, except when he was playing it behind his head...heavily influenced by Charlie Christian but considerably less sophisticated....still good though; urban blues, not country blues.

I've always thought that Ubangi Stomp was more casually ignorant than racist....I mean an African chief who speaks in a Hollywood American Indian accent :o Maybe not; I can't argue the point. Black Jack David is the B side of Ubangi Stomp.The CD I have says "Classic Recordings, 1956 - 1959". The front cover of my disc just has Warren on stage singing with two backup musicians in view. So you like Warren's version of "Red Cadillac..." better than Bob Luman's who I think had the hit with it; me too.