RIP - Music related

Ojai Sam said:
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Ashland country music pioneer Don Maddox dies at 98

An Ashland rancher and fiddler who performed at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry in the 1940s and again in the 2010s has passed on. K.C. “Don Juan” Maddox, who rose to prominence in the 1940s and ‘50s playi...
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Last of the legendary Maddox Bros. & Sister Rose band. I had no idea Don was still around and performing in his 90’s.

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Maddox was born to sharecroppers in Boaz, Alabama, Dec. 7, 1922. His family migrated to Modesto, California, in 1933, and by the 1940s his siblings — Cal, Fred, Rose and Harry — began performing a playful style of western swing in California’s Central Valley by the 1940s that they called “hillbilly” and preceded the genre of country music.
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Wow - he was Country, and Western!

Bolstad would pester him with questions about his touring days in the ‘40s and ‘50s.

One story he remembers Maddox sharing was that of a Texas performance in which the siblings shared billing with an up-and-coming performer named Elvis Presley.

Presley at the time was performing in blue jeans, while the Maddoxes had colorful sequined suits from a Hollywood tailor.

Apparently “Mama Maddox” caught Elvis wearing his jacket on stage, Bolstad recounted.

“She was so upset, like, ‘Get that off of him,’” Bolstad recounted.
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This amuses me to no end.
 
Joe Siracusa, RIP

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Joe’s the one on the far right.

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Stonewall Jackson has passed away at age 89.

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Grand Ole Opry country singer Stonewall Jackson dies at 89

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country musician Stonewall Jackson, who sang on the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and had No. 1 hits with “Waterloo” and others, died
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Named after the Confederate general, in 1956 Stone achieved the impossible feat of landing a spot on the Grand Ole Opry with a single audition and no record contract. He had a long run of hits on Columbia, the best known of which, "Waterloo", crossed over to pop big time. On the legal side, Jackson sued the Opry for age discrimination and gained a settlement that put him back on stage until his death.

I saw him perform many times with his tight road band led by son, Stonewall Jr., aka "Turp". Apart from his honky tonk-oriented hits, Stonewall always added an unusual twist by singing his version of the old sentimental ballad "The Black Sheep":


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lpfreak1170 said:
Listening to those wonderful albums when they started doing more/all themselves...then some First National Band.
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I was a big fan of "Mike Nesmith's TV Parts". There were only a few episodes, but they were funny as hell. The two I remember well and laughed at were him going on a date with a Miss America-type who had to sit up on the top of the back seat of a convertible and wave to the people on the street, and a language lab where you learned to speak Irish. "Ah, Andrrrrew! Where are ye going with sack of.....potaaaaaatoes?"
I need to see if I can watch those on a streaming service.
 
Nickyboy said:
I was a big fan of "Mike Nesmith's TV Parts". There were only a few episodes, but they were funny as hell. The two I remember well and laughed at were him going on a date with a Miss America-type who had to sit up on the top of the back seat of a convertible and wave to the people on the street, and a language lab where you learned to speak Irish. "Ah, Andrrrrew! Where are ye going with sack of.....potaaaaaatoes?"
I need to see if I can watch those on a streaming service.
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I've never seen it, but that really sounds funny and makes me want to see it!
 
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