Random thoughts while sorting through the rock & roll collection: Should I save this FedEx envelope Ike Turner sent me? It’s as good as an autograph. What about these extra Huey Meaux funeral programs? I wonder where the Doug Sahm one is - aha! Tucked in my autographed Texas Tornados photo! How many other people ya figure slid a joint into Doug’s coffin, too. I want to be cremated, not buried with my ashes strewn in places that will make those that take them there curse me to the end. I will never make a Bucket List. “There’s a hole in the bucket, Eliza, Eliza … Fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry …”. I sure love interviewing Eliza Gilkyson. She used to live down the street on Onion Creek but got flooded out. Is there any rain in the forecast? Things I will miss about Austin: The way radio stations play Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Texas Flood” when it rains really hard. Those of us who hung out at the One Knite, Alexander’s, Soap Creek etc. witnessed the woodshedding of Stevie first hand. He and I were born the same year, and that gave me an affinity for the younger Vaughan, as Jimmie was considered the master player and Stevie the little brother. Once I asked Paul Ray if he thought Jimmie and Stevie really had it out for each other in the 70s and he snorted. “Stevie was the younger brother. He was treated accordingly.” That sounded right to me, when, as brothers do, they became less rivals than independent phenomenons of siblings talent, kinda like Duane and Gregg Allman. I loved that Muscle Shoals documentary, with its portrait of Duane as a hungry young guitarslinger. Rick Hall is a remarkable talent and his role in the creation of Southern rock is indisputable, and as a doc, I liked it more than 20 Feet From Stardom. Entertaining as that was, the interviews felt limited, though I enjoyed Claudia Lennear, whom I met in 1971 on tour with Leon Russell & Shelter People, and admired since her tenure as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Which reminds me, should I keep this FedEx envelope from Ike Turner?
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 02:14:09 +0000
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