Hello Again…it’s been awhile since my last post, but I’ve got some great things to update my Friday Freedom Riders and Pards, so let’s get right to it!
Throughout April, Boss Radio (Fridays 4-6 pm) will feature some long awaited recordings re-issued by former Reginan Shawn Nagy’s Super Oldies label, concentrating on recordings made by Canadians who were recorded by Clovis, New Mexico dynamo (and Buddy Holly’s producer-manager) Norman Petty. Volume Three of Super Oldies’ series devoted to Wes Dakus and The Rebels, devoted to the mid-to-late 1960′s will be heard with some frequency this month. So will the extensive discography of that band’s guitarist Barry Allen, spanning the sixties up into the seventies’. You’ll also have the opportunity to hear waxings of six different groups of Canuck hopefuls throughout this early spring. If you like what you hear, get in contact with Mr. Nagy (www.superoldies.com) or your favorite local diskateria and dramatically enrich your Canadian Rock N’ Roll history section of your music collection right away.
After missing Saturday, March 31st’s appointment to do The Prairie Lily Special (sorry folks, had a case of the sniffles and was feelin’ pretty rundown), I’ll be back this weekend (6-8 pm Saturdays the norm) to conclude the two-week Bookender Spotlight revisiting the music of The Louvin Brothers. The final half-hour of the show will also present a tribute to The Greatest Banjo Player Of All Time, Mr. Earl Scruggs, who passed away last Wednesday, March 28th. Upcoming Bookender Spotlights in the upcoming weeks will feature:
April 14th & 21st – Faron Young Re-Visited
Country Music’s fair-haired boy of the fifties’ returns with a two-week Bookender presenting more recordings from his glory years with Capitol Records, none of it ever played before on TPLS.
May 5th & 12th – Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley
Long before Jeff Foxworthy put his loaded question to millions of Americans, admitting that you owned an album graced by their earthy mugs could have been the punch line: that is, if you liked your Country Music choked with gloss and urban cowboy references. But if you lack civility, pretension and care more about how it sounds as opposed to how it looks, these guys were the cure for what ailed a lot of the genre’s suffering fans as the seventies became the eighties. Highlights from their LPs “Just Good Ol’ Boys” (1979) and “Hey Joe! Hey Moe!” (1981) will be heard.
May 19th – Mel Tillis Re-Visited: Over To Elektra
I’ve brought you Mel’s early Columbia and Kapp Records sides from the 1960′s, now we’re gettin’ to the meat. Sure, we’ll be skipping the great stuff he did with MGM and MCA, but his move to Elektra brought three great albums (“Me and Pepper”, “Your Body Is An Outlaw” and “Southern Rain”) and lots of great singles. Hear the best of these discs throughout Hour One of the show…Extended Bookender style.
Oh…by the way, the April 28th edition will be Show #500 for TPLS. Don’t have nuthin’ special planned. Just me and my records, like it’s always been. I hope you’ll still be listinin’ in. It isn’t very often you get to do something five-hundred times in your life!
‘Later Friday Freedom Riders and Pards’ Of All Ages!
