alaska54
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Lake County Musical Bounty - 2007/01/30 05:24
Thurman,
I so enjoyed your update on LC musical heroes.
Have fallen out of touch with some very good music but you just brought it all home again.
Twice As Good I just never could miss when I was around. Even tried to get a message to Charlie Musselwhite about the young guitarist. Maybe it did get through, after all. Figured he might want another Robben Ford at some point.
Noteman and Mojo Larry always knocked my socks off not to forget David Neft and the rest of the group. Glad to hear they are doing so well.
Rob Watson I remember from going to several Joe Louis Walker gigs with his then Lake County based drummer, Stan Hale. Stan moved to Ireland from Nice a few years go. Was also the drummer for Maria Muldaur and James Armstong and previously toured with the non pariel Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.
I wonder if Rob Watson and any of the other players with Vallejo backgrounds remember Bia Al Killingworth, a bass player who I worked with when I taught in Vallejo. Big Al used to be Prince's bassist until he found religion. James Armstrong's bass player told me he had studied with Al. Big Al remains one of my favorite people of all time.
What's going on with Barry Finnerty?
Betty Mae Fikes who came damn close to giving me religion?
Is A.J. Franks still around? One of my closest friends who I have lost contact with?
How is Easy doing? First time I met him , and it took me several years to actually find him he walked into a Mike Wilhelm concert in Lakeport wearing what I can only describe as a "baby shit yellow" coat and a Lester Young pork pie hat. I just walked right up to him and said: "You must be Easy Andrews."
He sat in with Lionel Hampton at a very early age when Hampton's piano was sleeping one off on the bus and Easy said he knew the book and so he played with Hampton at, I think, 17.
Anyone named Easy - as in Easy Rawlings - gets extra points just for having the name.
I'm gonna look up a couple of these cats using the websites you gave. Writing a whole lot online and in New Mexico and even SF and Oakland and am always on the prowl for material and subjects.
Warmest Regards,
Gary Peterson
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