Thursday, December 15, 2005

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Yeah, but dig on their two 45s as THE WEBS (their actual name, they were given the "Candymen" moniker after the Orbison hit, when they became his backing band). LOST/CRICKET IN MY EAR is their first and best, featuring a pre-wimped out Bobby Goldsboro. They also did one single as the Webs on MGM13602 (People Sure Act Funny (which was covered by Arthur Conley)/You PrettyFool (midtempo with good Rodney Justo vocals and way-wacked guitar).
Honey I don't miss you and I'm not feeling good, see the funny little clown,ARGH!,
Jeff
Please check out my web page at:http://www.limestonerecords.com/

Experience translates to potential
"Ragged" Sharecroppers have roots to the core of rock 'n' roll.
By Michael A. Brothers News-Leader
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They may not be harvesting crops this fall, but the five members of the Sharecroppers are cultivating a diverse range of backgrounds and sounds for their act.
The band takes the stage Saturday at Nathan P. Murphy's downtown, with singer Mike Langlois opening. The group is relatively new, having come together this summer, but its members are long on experience.
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Vocalist, keyboardist and songwriter Bill Dees is the veteran, and his roots go back to the formative years of rock 'n' roll. Dees was a member of Roy Orbison's Candymen and co-wrote the hit song "O, Pretty Woman" with the legendary singer, as well as other Orbison songs like "It's Over" and "How Do You Start Over." The Sharecroppers play all those plus other originals by Dees, guitarists Jack Pribek and Mark Anthony, drummer Robert Arnold and bassist Sam Clanton.
"We're all writers, and we just really got together to start playing some songs we'd been writing," Pribek says. "It's just been a blast, and it's sort of developed into an act."
Pribek, Anthony and Arnold all have rock backgrounds, while Clanton is in bluegrass band Mulberry Grove. Those influences come together to create a danceable rock vibe "with some hillbilly leanings, some jazz tendencies and some blues mixed in there," Pribek says.
"We're getting a variety of sounds," says Clanton, adding that the blending of personalities within the band has made for both good music and good times on stage. "... It's a real interesting mix."
The Sharecroppers may be a fairly informal outfit at the moment ("Neil Young used to use the phrase 'ragged but right'," Pribek says in describing the group), but it's been a blessing for Dees, who underwent quadruple bypass surgery a few years ago.
"We've got potential," he says, laughing. "I guess you could say I've got a new lease on life."

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Hi There!
Back home in Edinburgh and busy as usual. Attached is the first photo for you to print out. I will send the others shortly. It was great meeting with you but I may want to do it all over again in April with a camera set up and possibly with other members with you. It would be great to get all 3 of you just reminiscing about the years with Roy..do you think you could all do that in Nashville?????. Meanwhile if you or Rodney can dig out ANY old photo's or recordings or tapes that would be great but please send to ME if possible. I wish we had met at the start of our visit,more could have been done but that leaves something to look forward to! I have sent the photo"actual size" if you want it sent smaller for quicker downloads let me know!
...Derek & Hazel.



ROBERT NIX WHEN HE WAS DRUMMER FOR ROY ORBISON'S CANDYMEN

Hey ya'll:

This is some top secret stuff. I came into possession of a little bank book #600 manufactured by Buxton & Skinner Stationary Co., St. Louis.

The lyrics of many old American songs are written on its pages. I'm gonna share two with you:

TEXAS RANGER

1. Come all you Texas Rangers wherever you may be,
Come and I will tell you what happened unto me,
My name is nothing extra.
The truth to you I'll tell.
I am a Texas Ranger.
I'm sure I wish you well.

2. At 16 years of age I joined this happy band,
We marched from San Antino unto the Rio Grande.
Our captain he informed us,

"Altho we thought it right before we reach the station I expect we'll have to fight."

3. We saw the Indians comeing.
We heard them give the yell.
My feelings at that moment no human tongue can tell.
I saw their glittering lances and arrows round me hurled.
My heart did sink with in me, my courage almost failed.

4. Twas then the bugle sounded our captain gave command,

"To arms, to arms!", he shouted, " and by your horses stand!"
I saw their glittering lances and arrows round me hurled.
My heart did sink within me my courage almost failed.

5. We fought for 9 long hours before the strife was oe'er.
The like of killed and wounded I never saw before.
There is 6 of the noblest Rangers that ever trod the West,
lies buried by their comrades with arrows in their breast.

6. Twas then I thought of Mother.
When in tears to me did say,
"To you they are all strangers. With me you\'d better stay." I thought that she was childish and that she did not know My mind was bent on rambling and I was bound to go. 7. Perhaps you have a mother likewise a sister too, perhaps you have a\n sweetheart to weap and mourn for you. If this be your condition altho you\'d like to roam I\'ll tell you by experience you\'d better stay at home. 8. I am a Texas Ranger but not as once before, My Mother and my sister are of this world no more. My situation altered and this you plainly see. I have no friends nor sweetheart to weap and mourn for me. 21 YEARS 1. The Judge said, "Stand up, boy and dry away your tears. You\'re sentenced to Nashville for 21 years." So kiss me good-bye and say you\'ll by mine for 21 yeas is a mighty long time. 2. The steam from the whistle, the smoke from the stack, Just say you\'ll be true dear until I come\n back, So hold up you head dear and dry away your eyes, The best friends part babe so must you and I. 3. I hear the train blowing. It will be here on time to take me to Nashville to serve out my time. So look down that railroad as far as you can see and just keep on waving your farewell to me. 4. Then go to the Governor and beg with your soul, Try to get me a pardon or get a parole. If I had the Governor, where the Governor got me, before Tuesday night that Governor be free. 5. Six months has gone by babe. I wish I was dead. ",1]
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"To you they are all strangers. With me you'd better stay."

I thought that she was childish and that she did not know
My mind was bent on rambling
and I was bound to go.

7. Perhaps you have a mother likewise a sister too,
perhaps you have a sweetheart to weap and mourn for you.
If this be your condition altho you'd like to roam
I'll tell you by experience you'd better stay at home.

8. I am a Texas Ranger but not as once before,
My Mother and my sister are of this world no more.
My situation altered and this you plainly see.
I have no friends nor sweetheart to weap and mourn for me.

21 YEARS

1. The Judge said, "Stand up, boy and dry away your tears. You're sentenced to Nashville for 21 years."

So kiss me good-bye and say you'll by mine for 21 yeas is a mighty long time.

2. The steam from the whistle, the smoke from the stack,
Just say you'll be true dear until I come back,
So hold up you head dear and dry away your eyes,
The best friends part babe so must you and I.

3. I hear the train blowing.
It will be here on time to take me to Nashville to serve out my time.
So look down that railroad as far as you can see and just keep on waving
your farewell to me.

4. Then go to the Governor and beg with your soul,
Try to get me a pardon or get a parole.
If I had the Governor, where the Governor got me,
before Tuesday night that Governor be free.

5. Six months has gone by babe.
I wish I was dead.
This dirty old jail house, \n The floor for a bed. It\'s raining, it\'s hailing. The moon gives no light. Oh baby, please tell me why you never write. 6. I\'ve counted the days I\'ve counted the nights I\'ve counted the minutes I\'ve counted the lights I\'ve counted the footsteps I\'ve counted the stars I\'ve counted a million Of those prison bars. 7. I\'ve counted on you dear to get me a brake. I guess you\'ve forgotten I\'m here for your sake. You know who is guilty. You\n know it to well But I\'d die in this jail house before I would tell. 8. Come all you young men With hearts brave and true. Don\'t believe in a woman. You\'re beat if you do. Don\'t trust any woman no matter what kind For 21 years boys is a mighty long time.",1]
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This dirty old jail house,
The floor for a bed.
It's raining, it's hailing.
The moon gives no light.
Oh baby, please tell me
why you never write.

6. I've counted the days
I've counted the nights
I've counted the minutes
I've counted the lights
I've counted the footsteps
I've counted the stars
I've counted a million
Of those prison bars.

7. I've counted on you dear to get me a brake.
I guess you've forgotten I'm here for your sake.
You know who is guilty.
You know it to well
But I'd die in this jail house before I would tell.

8. Come all you young men
With hearts brave and true.
Don't believe in a woman.
You're beat if you do.
Don't trust any woman no matter what kind
For 21 years boys is a mighty long time.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

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BLOUNT : Home of #8!

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Sunday, December 11, 2005

Register, GA


Register is a town in Bulloch County, in the Statesboro metro area. The community is in the Eastern Standard time zone.The latitude of Register is 32.366N. The longitude is -81.884W.The population, at the time of the 2000 census, was 164.

To:
"robert register"
Subject:
Re: JEFF MIAMI KNOWS WHAT GOES WITH THE PLATTERS THAT MATTER!
Date:
Sun, 11 Dec 2005 09:23:52 -0500

I'm sure that Robert meant to say the we tuned Roy's guitar up two half steps not two octaves.Or, the guitar would have looked like a bow (if the strings could have taken it) Of course,considering the nature of the songs being able to sing them even a half step higher would have been an accomplishment.
Big Bob,I had the pictures from that plane ride home with Otis.
Unfortunately, my then wife, sent them to a Teen Magazine hoping that they would show up in the magazine, ensuring adulation from the entire country for the Candymen.
What can I say, good-Bye photo, hello argument.
My recollection is, that there were other acts on that plane ride home.
Otis was the headliner of a "competing" STAX/VOLT tour that was taking place at the same time as the Orbison/Small Faces tour.
On that tour with Otis were Booker T and the MGs, Thr Bar-Kays, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas , Arthur Conley,and maybe a couple of other acts.
We were the only ones in first class along with Otis and his managet Phil Walden.
By the way,when we left New York on this same tour,(let me point out that some of us,most notably John Rainey Adkins,Roy and I, hated to fly.) half way across the Atlantic Ocean this woman gets up and starts shouting "when the bomb goes off we'll all be dead" every 15 minutes or so. That, along with repeated shouts of "Fuck-Shit" made us really uncomfortable.
I had the same aforementioned camera and since something about her looked vaguely familiar I decided to take a picture of this crazed, and by now drunk woman.
Lady Sarah Churchill ----we were told by the authorities, as they were loading her off the plane, upon landing.
The shoe store was Anello and Davide which was for many years on Drury Lane, and now makes only "theatrical shoes" and, for some reason I'm told, tries to distance itself from its ties to it's rock n' roll history.
Now, let's talk about that archaic, battery powered, reel to reel, tape recorder.
No, we better not. But I CAN tell you that we were the heroes of the tour bus one day.
RODNEY JUSTO