Often Imitated. NEVAH DUPLICATED. ROBERTOREG KEEP THANGS SIMPLICATED!
rr hopes you understand I just had to go back to the island.
Robert,
| Sam Price Jones Jr. | ||
| Sam Price Jones Jr., a resident of Dothan, passed away on Monday, June 22, 2009, at his residence after an extended illness. He was 59. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, 2009, at the Sunset Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Jim Sanders officiating. Burial will follow in Memory Hill Cemetery with Robert Byrd directing. Mr. Jones was born on May 2, 1950, and he resided in Dothan most of his life. He was a 1968 graduate of Dothan High School and he attended the University of Alabama. He was employed with United Distiller Asia for several years as regional director. Mr. Jones was a member of First United Methodist Church. Survivors include special friends, Jean and Mike Dagostin of Dothan, Eura Thomas of Dothan; an uncle; several cousins, family and friends. Robert Byrd of Sunset Funeral Home (334) 983-6604, is in charge of arrangements. For more information, visit www.sunsetmemorialpark.com. Sign the guest book at www.dothaneagle.com. | ||
HEY Y'ALL:
Dedicated to the memory of Joe Rudd, Tippy Armstrong, Eddie Hinton, Lou Mullenix, Jerome Hopkins, Johnny Shines, Jimmy Young, Jimmy Kinkead,Bryan Wheeler,Billy McClain,Richard Kent,Travis Rozzelle,Al Connell,Jim Coleman and other Tuscaloosa musicians.
posted by roberto at 1:24 AM 0 comments 
Love Song
A sonnet
courtesy of http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/106.html
In sixty years I've learned love can't be spoken,
The words that tell it drift deceptively
Like scent of roses heavy in the garden,
Avoiding questions bent on what might be.
You gone, an ocean and a continent between,
Something returns from everything we've seen
To spin a new creation that's been won
Against the pain and grief we've brooded on.
Something wild and strange is happening
As lives untangle, yielding freedom now
From tactical defense and bargaining.
Rather, let's sing again life's song, and so
A new world is begun, and we are part of it
With God - who spins the thread - and everyone.
Robert,
--Thanks for forwarding the info about Travis Rozzelle...
but I'm beginning to think that the uncanny parallel life may be a different Travis Rozzelle...
or there are even more strange things in the mix.
The Travis I knew was supposedly a blood relation to Earl Scruggs
(of Flatt & Scruggs country music fame)--Earl's nephew, to be exact, according to my friend Travis,
who was a lead guitar player and singer.
We met in Selma, Alabama, just shortly after Travis had gotten out
of the U. S. Air Force, in the late Sixties, in a cafe at the foot of the "Edmund Pettis" bridge,
which still had visible blood stains on it from the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
Travis said he had changed his name from Scruggs to Rozzelle,
picking the Rozzelle name out of the air, with Coach Rozzelle as the source,
but with no connection to the coach.
He said he had changed his name when he went into the military to distance himself from his father, he described as an abusive alcoholic.
We played music together in Selma for a very short time,
in a band called "The Societies Future" (coined by Travis),
and then went down to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and from there,
Travis went to California for a while, then came back to Mississippi,
and we were in a few other bands, with varying members--
playing a LOT of gigs on military bases and miscellaneous clubs in Mississippi,
Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana, over the next few years.
The last guitar I knew Travis to play was a
cherry red Gibson GS Standard solid body guitar,
with the traditional Humbucking pickups.
He liked Gibson Sidewinder strings, in those days.
At that time, he and his wife, Joanne, had one daughter and a son--the daughter by marriage,
and the son by the Grace of God...his child with Joanne.
He loved "Clarence Coldwater Revival" and "Jimini Henderi", as he called them,
as well as Pink Floyd and all the rest...
This info will probably not fit your man,
but you never know what this life unfolds--
there's a new surprise around every corner, it seems.
Thanks for your time!
--Charlie Moore
CM~
I will be happy to answer any questions you might have about me. My email address is robertoreg@gmail.com
