Cigarette Trees and Other Fun Songs Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
Time
Performer [Composer]
Song
Album [Format]
Misc
Misc –
REQ:Request
BED:Music Played Whilst Talking
NEW:New Release
( ):Label, Year Rec/Rel
Live/Solo in New York] [bonus track on the CD release *
Small Town Romance [Live/Solo in New York] [bonus track on the CD release *]
Misc:
[This was his his 1st live LP] • BED • (Hannibal, 1986)
Comment:
* - The three bonus tracks were deleted from subsequent CD versions. Thompson was unhappy with the quality of the recordings and the performances and later persuaded Hannibal to delete this LP. But the demand continued, and in the face of high prices being paid for second-hand copies, the album was re-released, with Thompson's consent, in 1997, along with the bonus tracks.
Time:
4:16
Artist:
Peg Leg Sam [Billed as 'Peg Leg Sam Featuring Louisiana Red']
Real Name: Arthur Jackson / Recorded on February 10th, 1975, at Minot Sound Studios, White Plains, NY. / Click on the Link above, to view the original album.
* - BUT, much better known by numerous live performances by The Grateful Dead in the early 1970s (it was first on the 1973 Grateful Dead album 'History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)'
Real Name: Howard Armstrong; these first recorded titles of his were released as by "Louie Bluie {real name: Howard Armstrong} and Ted Bogan {Blues guitarist and singer, born 1910 in Spartanburg, SC} ". / Click on the Link above/ left to view the original, EXTREMELY rare and valuable shellac 10" record
In 2003, CMT voted Hank Williams' original version No. 19 on CMT's "100 Greatest Songs of Country Music" / Click on the Link above/ left to view the original album
In 1974, the writers of NME voted the "Blonde On Blonde" album the number-two album of all time. // It was ranked second in the 1978 book "Critic's Choice: Top 200 Albums", and third in the 1987 edition. / * - just beating out The Mothers of Invention "Freak-Out" by exactly one week // Click on Link above, left, to view the original single, with a _lovely_ color picture sleeve displaying Dylan's full-blown "Jewfro" hairstyle
Live/Solo in New York] [bonus track on the CD release *
Small Town Romance [Live/Solo in New York] [bonus track on the CD release *]
Misc:
[This was his his 1st live LP] • BED • (Hannibal, 1986)
Comment:
* - The three bonus tracks were deleted from subsequent CD versions. Thompson was unhappy with the quality of the recordings and the performances and later persuaded Hannibal to delete this LP. But the demand continued, and in the face of high prices being paid for second-hand copies, the album was re-released, with Thompson's consent, in 1997, along with the bonus tracks.
The Ducks (formerly known as the Jeff Blackburn Band) were a short-lived hard rock supergroup formed in the summer of 1977 by singer-songwriter Jeff Blackburn (who died this Jan 6th, at age 77). / The band included Bob Mosley (an original member of Moby Grape - bass player; also one of their songwriters and singers), Neil Young, and Johnny Craviotto (drummer - later, a drum maker). The band played a series of impromptu bar gigs around the Santa Cruz area in 1977. The set lists were very democratic, with each member of the band taking the lead in turn. / This will be their first official release - click on the Link above, left to read about it.
TX guitarist, producer and songwriter; he has been inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame, the Austin Music Hall of Fame and was named "Instrumentalist of the Year" by the Americana Association.
Time:
6:17
Artist:
John Mayall [Muddy Waters] [Also billed as 'The Bluesbreakers, featuring Eric Clapton *]
Chris Strachwitz, died May 5th, at age 91 - he was the founder (in 1960) and president of Arhoolie Records, the label this was released on. He released hundreds of albums of what we now call "Roots" music or "Americana", starting in 1960 with Mance Whitcomb. He released archival material (this album, as well as Clifton Chenier, Big Joe Turner, Lowell Fulsom and many others) but also made new recordings, often traveling to make field recordings. / The label name is another term for "field holler". ... ALSO ... Ross's given name was "Isiah Ross"; he was best-known for recording the original version of 'Cat's Squirrel' in 1961, covered by both Cream and Jethro Tull. // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original 10" single.
[This was his his 1st live LP] • BED • (Hannibal, 1986)
Comment:
* - The three bonus tracks were deleted from subsequent CD versions. Thompson was unhappy with the quality of the recordings and the performances and later persuaded Hannibal to delete this LP. But the demand continued, and in the face of high prices being paid for second-hand copies, the album was re-released, with Thompson's consent, in 1997, along with the bonus tracks.
* - With a little bit of "Earth Angel" (Penguins, late 1954) thrown in at the end ...) // The lyrics were inspired by Judy Bowles, Wilson's first serious girlfriend, whom he had dated for three and a half years.
" T marie and bayou juju play traditional and original Louisiana music. They bring together the sound of friends gathering at fires, suppers, porches, levees and jams… blending together Cajun, Creole, Swamp Pop, Country, Blues, New Orleans, and original tunes… Just like how the band began. "
Featuring Tommy Stinson, bass player for The Replacements, then after their breakup in 1991, Stinson formed "Bash & Pop", and in 1998 he joined Guns N' Roses. / Click the Link above, left to read an article about this release
Time:
6:38
Artist:
Billy Strings [William Apostol] [Featuring Willie Nelson]
Song:
California Sober [Recorded for Willie Nelson's 90th birthday - April 29]
