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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:30:42 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: (exotica) Hey, Joe (no, not that one)
Well, I just came back from listening to the Joe soundtrack and the verdict
is: Not Groovy, with an explanation. It's not groovy, in the Now Sound
sense, at least. It has a hard-rocking cut and a sitar break (hello,
Lounge Laura!) and a couple of vocals by the Iceman Jerry Butler, Bobby
Scott throws in a little Jazz and there is a song called Hey, Joe which is
most certainly NOT the Chester Powers/Jimi Hendrix/Leaves/Golden Cups
standard; it's a C&W song, with the memorable couplet "I saw a fella
selling junk to children/He gets nervous every time I pass/ 'Cause he knows
that if I catch him/I'm gonna kick his head and kick his fat *BEEP*." Yes,
it's censored on the record, but I am not certain as to what the missing
word is, because I am not really a songwriter.
In short, it's groovy in the oom-TAAH-ah-oom-oom-TAAH sense of the word and
even then, only in spots. Do not pay collector prices for this disk.. For
grooviness at a reasonable price, I would suggest the Midnight Cowboy
soundtrack, which has Now Sound sensations, "The Group" (The Band MUST have
sued!), the wonderful "Florida Fantasy" and most rocking "Jungle Gym At the
Zoo" by Elephant's Memory, which has been my favorite cut since childhood
(child-rearing clarification: no, my parents did NOT take me to see an
X-rated movie; my Mom is just a long time John Barry fan) on yet another
one of those soundtracks I heard for years before I saw the movie, the
others being MacKenna's Gold, The Big Country and On Her Majesty's Secret
Service and I still have not seen the first two!
Richard "SCHMOOVE (thank you, contest-winner DJ Bump)" Holmes
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:53:53 -0500
From: "Colleen Pyles" <colleen7@ireland.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New York / Tony Schwartz
Thanks, Ford
As soon as i get some down-time, I will peruse those links and take a
"vacation".
Colleen
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:20:33 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Robert McKinley Douglas
Robert McKinley Douglas
DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) -- Robert McKinley ``Uncle Bob'' Douglas, a renowned mountain fiddler who debuted at the Grand Ole Opry at age 100, died Wednesday of pneumonia. He was 101.
He was scheduled to receive the state's highest arts award, the Governor's Folklife Heritage Award, on May 15.
Douglas, a retired steamfitter who never pursued a commercial career, won the Smithsonian Institution's national fiddling contest in 1975 and performed at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville.
Robert McKinley Douglas, better known as "Uncle Bob" and "Fiddlin' Bob," was born in the Sequatchie Valley near Pikeville, Tenn. He didn't take up the fiddle until he was 23. His father, Tom Douglas, was the family fiddler, so Bob played guitar, making music along with cousin Al Ferguson on banjo for dances all over the mountains. Though Douglas liked the guitar, his daddy's fiddle kept calling.
"I just wanted to play the fiddle so bad," Douglas recalled. "Every time he'd take a rest, I'd pick it up. I could play a few tunes on it when he gave it to me."
Three months later, Douglas won his first fiddling contest. During his lifetime, he has won trophy after trophy, most of which are displayed in the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tenn., along with the prized fiddle, a 1725 Stradivarius.
But Douglas' contributions to music far outshine his rewards, say those in the business. Douglas was the first live act to appear on WDOD Radio in 1925, and he gave the Louvin Brothers their first playing job on the radio. He toured with the Allen Brothers and recorded for RCA Victor in 1928.
More recently, he has had recordings requested by the Smithsonian Institution, stole the show on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," and won hearts at last year's Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Seattle, where he taught a group of teen-agers how to play.
