My musical exploration had crept up to the 80s, but since this is mostly stream of consciousness anyway, I am going back to one of those many musicians who I found in the early 70s, Jerry Riopelle. I have always enjoyed and envied the piano players ever since I stopped taking lessons on our upright, piano-roll-player piano in the first grade. My lessons were cut short when I was told that my piano teacher (who came to the house) went back to Connecticut and died. For years I suspected that this was just what my parents told me because neither they nor my piano teacher could stand my playing (Years later, in a box of mementos my parents brought me, was a very sweet letter from said piano teacher praising both my diligence and my playing). Riopelle cranked out a series of albums in the 70s, and I enjoyed all of them very much. They have a light-hearted, free-wheeling, raucous, infectious approach to folkish, bluesish, countryish rock and roll, and they have the excellent guitarist, David Plenn, on most of them. Jerrys occasional collaboration with actor Stuart Margolin (of whom I was also a big fan, especially in his several James Garner series) also turned out some very fun pieces. I havent mentioned it much in these posts, but I actually had a chance to see many of the people that I have posted about, from Billy Joel and Danny OKeefe to Patrick Sky and Cheryl Wheeler. I first saw Jerry Riopelle at the Troubadour in the mid-70s. As with a number of folks who have continued to perform from this era, I have had the pleasure of seeing him several times in the last few years. Here is one of my favorites written for his wife, Naomi Riopelle, from a recent concert. https://youtube/watch?v=1qLrdeoGxIc
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:24:06 +0000
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