The Great 28

Not much to say

Chuck Berry.

Legendary pervert. RnR pioneer.

Enjoy

THE GREAT 28

1. Maybellene

2. Thirty Days

3. You Can't Catch Me

4. Too Much Monkey Business

5. Brown Eyed Handsome Man

6. Roll over Beethoven

7. Havana Moon

8. School Days

9. Rock & Roll Music

10. Oh Baby Doll

11. Reelin' and Rockin'

12. Sweet Little Sixteen

13. Johnny B. Goode

14. Around and Around

15. Carol

16. Beautiful Delilah

17. Memphis

18. Sweet Little Rock & Roller

19. Little Queenie

20. Almost Grown

21. Back in the U.S.A.

22. Let It Rock

23. Bye Bye Johnny

24. I'm Talking About You

25. Come On

26. Nadine

27. No Particular Place to Go

28. I Want to Be Your Driver

Lubbock on Everything

Lubbock, TX. Buddy Holly. Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Joe Ely.

And then there's Terry Allen.

Terry is a conceptual multimedia country artist, if there is such a thing. Born in Kansas, bred in Lubbock, educated in L.A., and now in Santa Fe, Terry writes wry lyrics about art, good ole boys, pillpopping and the Nashville country establishment, among other things. And he's a sculptor. I actually got the chance to meet and talk with him when I was getting my mfa in New Orleans in 1997. Nice enough guy, very unassuming. At the time, I was undergoing a small existential conflict about Art, so when I heard this song on a wonderful country show on WWOZ, It really hit a nerve:

Well I give up all my sculpturing
'Cause my life had gone all sad
An I went to work down at the factory
It weren't art...but it weren't bad
So They put me on the assembly line
Puttin plastic leaves on the plastic palms
Then they shipped them off the Los Angeles
Yeah it weren't art...but it weren't wrong
Now some say it's pathetic
When you give up your aesthetic
For a blue collar job in the factory
But all that exhibiting
Was just too damn inhibiting
For a beer drinking
Regular guy...like me

This double album was recorded in Lubbock in 1979, with the participation of folks like Joe Ely and Lloyd maines. To be more precise:

Engineered & Mastered by DON CALDWELL & LLOYD MAINES
Produced by: everyone on this record

Musicians
Piano & Vocal/Terry Allen
Pedal steel, acoustic & electric guitars, dobro, mandolin,
tenor banjo, bell tree/Lloyd Maines
Bass/Kenny Maines
Drums/Curtis McBride
Percussion, marimba, jawbone, skin castanets/Alan Shinn
Fiddle/Richard Bowden
Accordian/Ponty Bone
Saxophone/Don Caldwell
Harmonica/Joe Ely (courtesy MCA Records)
Jazz Guitar on "Cocktails for Three"/Luis Martinez
Flatland guitar on "Flatland Farmer"/Jesse Taylor
Trumpet/Tommy Anderson
Trombone/Mark Anthony
Tuba/Russ Standefer
Strings/Ruth Ann Truncale (violin), Susan Allen (viola), Karen Blalack (cello),
Leslie Blackburn (viola)
String arrangements/Don Caldwell
School song/Monterey High School Marching Band
Harmony/Lloyd Maines, Kenny Maines, Sylvester "band-aid" Rice, Gwen Hewitt, Suzanne Paulk, Jo Harvey Allen
"Whooooit" Harmony/Freddy Pride, Mike Austin, Vincent Thomas, Jimmy Sampson

LUBBOCK ON EVERYTHING:

1 Amarillo Highway
2 High Plains Jamboree
3 Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)
4 The Wolfman of del Rio
5 Lubbock Woman
6 The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma
7 Truckload of Art
8 Collector (And the Art Mob)
9 Oui (A French Song)
10 Rendevouz USA
11 Cocktails for Three
12 The Beautiful Waitress
13 Blue Asian Reds
14 New Delhi Freight Train
15 Ffa
16 Flatland Farmer
17 My Amigo
18 The Pink and Black Song
19 The Thrity Years Waltz
20 I Just Left Myself

NOTE: tracks in compressed file are out of order. Reorganize at will!!

I'm a gentle man

In the early 90's, the Afghan Whigs was (one of) THE band(s) for me. They had the punk rock at ti tude, the soul pimp swagger I never knew I admired, and their lyrics read like therapy session transcripts. True to form, the small notoriety achieved thus went to foreman Greg Dulli's head (sais I, anyhoo) and they fizzled like a humid leftover Alkaseltzer tab.

I see they're back now, but I haven't heard their new thang. Good luck to 'em! This is when I knew them best, loved them best, and whence they rocked my puny lil teenage world. Check out the Sally Mann-esque cover, too.

Enjoy. Oh, and check out John Rasmussen's much better-informed take on this disc.

THE AFGHAN WHIGS: GENTLEMEN

		1.	If I Were Going
		2.	Gentlemen
		3.	Be Sweet
		4.	Debonair
		5.	When We Two Parted
		6.	Fountain And Fairfax
		7.	What Jail Is Like
		8.	My Curse
		9.	Now You Know
		10.	I Keep Coming Back
		11.	Brother Woodrow / Closing Prayer

GENTLEMEN


DEBONAIR