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- From: Patrick E Fleming <pfleming@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Subject: If you like Buffett, check these out . . .
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- Organization: The Ohio State University
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:58:42 GMT
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- I grew up listening to a great deal of Folk Music mostly
- because this is what my parents liked to listen to. The main
- groups from my earliest memories were the Weavers (and Pete Seeger
- in general), the Kingston Trio and Harry Belafonte. I enjoyed this
- kind of music because it is the kind which is so easy to sing along
- with. We also had an album on which Cisco Houston sang Woody
- Guthrie songs. It proveded the majority of early music I first
- learned on the guitar.
-
- Later on, as my brothers' record collection began to shape my
- musical interests, I started hearing a lot of John Denver, Gordon
- Lightfoot, Jim Croce, Cat Stevens and Crosby, Stills, Nash and
- Young. They also introduced me to Jimmy Buffett back when he had
- only two or three MCA albums. Other groups for which I developed
- a liking out of theis gumbo background include the Eagles and Styx.
- Former Eagles Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmidt appear on "Last
- Mango in Paris" and Schmidt played bass in the Coral Reefer Band
- for a while. Also, Jimmy Buffett appears on the Eagles album "Long
- Run" so there is a big connection there.
-
- I know very little Little Feat, although I certainly did
- enjoy hearing them when they opened for Jimmy at Blossom Music
- Center in the summer of 1990. Later that summer, I saw him again
- in Cincinnati (at one of the concerts taped for "Feeding Frenzy")
- and was very taken by Zachary Richard and his Cajun/Zydeko sounds.
- (And as I told my friend Zachary Richard many times, some things
- never change!) His CD "Women in the Room" comes highly recomended.
- I also picked up a Johnny Clegg CD at one point to hear what he is
- all about (he wrote "Spirit of a Great Heart".) It has a very
- jungle kind of exoticism to it - very Afrikans (in fact, some of
- the lyrics are Afrikans!)
-
- So I would add to the list of "If you like Buffett, check this
- out": Zachary Richard and Johnny Clegg.
-
- - Pat
-
- - Patrick E. Fleming ----------------------------------------------------------
- - Department of Chemistry ----------- Sometimes I see me as an old manatee ----
- - Ohio Wesleyan University ---------- Heading south as the waters grow colder -
- - pfleming@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu ------------------------------------------
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