LAST TWO IMAGES COURTESY OF TUSCALOOSA MAGAZINE http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/section/tuscaloosamagazine

Country Music Artists Commemorated on DOWNTOWN Dothan's 21st Mural

Hank Williams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams

Hank
Williams, Jr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams,_Jr.

Audrey Williams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Williams

Dixie Hatfield~ former keyboard player for Hank Jr.'s Bama Band

Don Helms~ New Brockton native who played steel guitar for Hank Williams' Driftin' Cowboys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Helms

Lamar Morris, former vocalist & guitar player for Hank Jr.'s Bama Band http://www.lamarmorris.com/?pg=bio

Curly Walker, (The only Curly Walker I could find was a Canadian fiddle player who used to play with Hank Snow)

George Jones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jones

Lew Childree,singer, guitar player and steelman for Conway Twitty as well as many others

Stonewall Jackson,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson_(musician)

Jimmy Watford,vocalist for Dothan's Mar Teks

Billy Dean ~ Quincy native http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Dean

Daryl Singletary http://www.darylesingletary.net/


Charlie Monk Geneva native
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Dubbed the “Honorary Mayor Of Music Row,” Charlie Monk may know everyone working in Nashville’s music community. Outside of that community, Charlie may very well be Nashville’s most influential unknown. Whether entertaining America on his SIRIUS XM radio show, managing Monk Family Music or hosting a major music event, he is honest and frank in everything he does. It’s his unique personality, combined with more than 50 years’ experience in show business, that has made Charlie one of the most respected executives on Nashville’s Music Row. “I’m a talent scout, a nurturer, a developer and a song seller,” he says. “I think my instincts are good, and I believe I am the luckiest guy in Nashville because I’ve made a living doing what I enjoy.” And as an example of those strong instincts, Charlie signed such talented young songwriters like Kenny Chesney and Randy Travis to their first songwriting deals.


Boudleaux Bryant was born Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant in Shellman, Georgia
courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_and_Boudleaux_Bryant


Ray Kirkland http://www.raykirkland.net/bio.htm



From Richard Burke~

>Seems like Don Helms and my FIL Andy Taylor trained together in Hattisburg, Ms. right at the end of the second big one. Mr. Taylor from Newville and Don from New Brocton. Don't think either one was sent into harms way. Just Local guys makin' the run to and from Hattisburg every time leave came up.
>I can tell ya' one other thing for damn sure, any Mothers Son what plays the ole' ironin' board, learnt' his unleavered, unpedaled, straight lap steel shit from Mr. Helms. He ruled. Just ask David Lindley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmh0M3IUYR8

Later...
rbiii

Florida Rocks Again! #41: Jeff's Panhandle Party Platter

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THE TIKIS: Somebody's Son
THE VILLAGERS: Cool It
THE MISSING LINKS: Run and Hide
THE MANY OTHERS: (Tell Me Why) I'm Alone
THE KORDS: Boris the Spider
THE BERKELEY KITES: Alice in Wonderland
BRYLLIG & THE NYMBOL SWABES: Now You're Gone
THE BANGS: Then I'll Cry/Tab Top (bed)
13th HOUR GLASS: Keep on Running
THE (FAB) PHATONS: I've Got That Feeling
THE LAYMEN: Sometimes I Think About
THE DICKENS: One of a Kind Woman
THE SANDPIPERS: Love Is a Beautiful Thing
DOUBLE IMAGE: Power of Love
LARRY & THE LOAFERS: Panama City Blues
THE FIVE MEN-ITS: Blue Blue Feeling
THE OTHER SIDE: Don't You Stray
THE WEBS: Lost/Dizzy Boy/Blue Skies (bed)
JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY: Shake a Tail Feather
BEN & SPENCE: I Can't Stop
JIMMY TIG & THE ROUNDERS: Foolish Lover
MIGHTY SAM: Fannie Mae
JOHNNY DYNAMITE: Everybody's Clown
GEORGE McRAE: Please Help Me Find My Baby
GWEN McRAE: Lead Me On
LEN WADE: Love Comes and Goes

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Believe it or not, I thought I'd come up wid somethin' unique but when I googled "AMINALISTIC", I got a lot of hits including the following:

"Jungle Love" the first Time collaboration with Jesse Johnson and Morris Day writing and arranging (Prince along with various Revolution members played on the first two albums)where the other songs were lite, Jungle Love swings with a aminalistic funk edge that was unlike the Minneapolis Sound(for the electronic 1980's )with all the elements of what made The Time the best R&B band of the 1980's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlejykEhQ4
Day's macho but flirty come-ons the Drums and Bass lines that would swing the Keyboards playing the classic Minneapolis blueprint but one the one thing that tied it all was Jesse Johnson's monster solo while the band is in full flight.
courtesy of http://www.amazon.com/review/RN0SXSMI9AEJ2

Hey y'all~
Springfield High honored their alumnus,kesey,
Thursday, September 17 by celebrating his 74th birthday
with the dedication of a stained glass window designed by the students of SHS.

(September 17 was also Hank Williams' 86th birthday)


courtesy of http://skypilotclub.com
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009


KEN KESEY STAINED GLASS WINDOW UNVEILING
AND BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT HIS ALMA MATER,
SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL

Kesey is a master wordsmith. His words pop the pompous balloons of
falsity. His words trumpet the lasting visions of truth. He slices
and dices words like a spinning kitchen appliance. He blows words
like a spontaneous jazz musician. He uses words to instruct. To
illuminate. To describe. To evoke emotions. To entertain. He uses
words like a ventriloquist; they pop out from someplace else. In his
own words he describes his favorite style of writing, "Ongoing
honesty with a little fancy skill salted in."

Everything went swimmingly. The historically significant event was superbly organized by Kathy Harrington, the head of the English Department at Springfield High School, and everything happened right on schedule and all the participants were at the top of their games. The bus arrived on time after some earlier pattity pattity heart palpitations when George Walker had to futz with the carburetor for a long while before we could leave. I ran the sound system and got it figured out so by the time we got to the high school. The Who, playing the Magic Bus, was blaring out over the loudspeakers, drawing a crowd to the curbside like mice to the Pie-Eyed Piper of Springfield's flute.

The cheerleaders made a double line at the door and we exited through the line like married couples heading for the altar. Izzy Whetstine, decked out in his tie-dye jesters outfit led the way. John Swan played his dobro, I was on trombone, George on his axaphone, Phil Dietz on hand drum, Mountain Girl on penny whistle, Mike Hagen on Sprite One Liter Bottle, Zane Kesey on train whistle, and we sang and played When The Saints Come Marching In and then the school band marched forward playing On Wisconsin, old marching band fight song, then they stood in rows and played music and the cheerleaders did dance routines.

It was time to go to the stained glass window unveiling. We led the way doing When The Saints Come Marching In through the halls and up the stairs to the second floor and the landing in front of the Language Arts Wing, where the ceremony took place.

In the beginning was the word and the word it was good. Good words
have power, Kesey knew, like Shazam! One single word can change a
crippled newsboy into a superhero. Words can get you in trouble.
Words can also talk you out of trouble. Words can keep you alive. We
no longer have Kesey but we will always have his words.

The Language Arts Wing door was to the left, and above the door the stained glass window, a large work with the bus pictured and the words scrolled, one flew east one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

The students who designed the panel are, left to right: Shalvin Prasad, Jared Allison, Tori Gatlin, and Michael Silva, all of whom are students in Karen Perkins' Glass and Graphics class. The panel took over a year to complete.

A lectern with microphone stood in front of a railing, behind it a large atrium looking down onto the floor below. The crowd of people jammed onto the landing, filled the hallway at the rear, and stood on the steps leading in.

Kesey's family was there. Faye Kesey, Ken Kesey's wife, also an SHS graduate, Class of 1953; Geneva Kesey, Kesey's mother; Zane Kesey, his son; his daughters, Sunshine and Shannon; Chuck and Sue Kesey, brother and sister-in-law and owners of the Springfield Creamery; their daughter Sheryl and her husband, Bill Thompson; Kesey's grandaughter, Kate.

There were chairs in front for Geneva and Faye. Sunshine and Shannon sat there, too. Talks were short and sweet, even mine, much to the happiness of Faye and Geneva who groaned when I said, "They want me to say a few words and you know how that goes."

Afterwards we went back to the bus and played and sang for the second lunch hour kids.

A tremendous and successful scene, congrats to Kathy Harrington (she's on the left in the pic) and to the others who helped put it on

--Kapn Ken

FOR MORE PICTURES AT THE HIGH SCHOOL MORE

Here's some links sent in by Karen Perkins

Pics & radio interview
http://www.klcc.org/OnlineAudioFeature.asp
http://www.klcc.org/Feature.asp?FeatureID=1328

You have to endure the advertising but this is a clip[ of the beginning.
http://www.kval.com/news/59751397.html?video=YHI&t=a

Register Guard article & you have to select photos
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/ 20313516-41/story.csp

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
Pic is from a Marine Corps website, it is one of our squadron's helicopters,
picking up South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers on a troop lift.

For all of you who have been inquiring about the status of my Vietnam novel, first, thanks so much for your interest and encouragement and support. I'm happy to report that I sent in the completed manuscript after extensive reworking with my good friend and editor, David Stanford, and now the book resides with my other good friend, agent number one in the New York publishing biz, Sterling Lord, who will be shopping the book this month. Stay attuned.

>Robert,
The ads are great.
I remember the night Solomon’s opened (something tells me it’s not there anymore):

the Grateful Dead played (The Coliseum) , and draft beer was finally introduced.


From the January 30, 1975 issue of The CW
And the picture of Stevie Nicks — photo credited to Jack Williams of the UPC.
Haven’t seen him in years, but knew him well.

I worked doing layout on the CW for a while, and wonder if I laid out some of those ads?
I still have the scars from my trusty Exacto knife to prove it.
Dave

Ray doing THE MESS AROUND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBgPk8a12E&NR=1

ALL ALONE AGAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6xnQ8pJHvk&NR=1

http://breakupmagazine.com/june06/11.html



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly6ch4Q0JCQ

Roberto,

"You know the difference between a Northern Baptist and a Southern Baptist?
Northern Baptist say 'There ain't no hell!'
Southern Baptist say 'The hell they ain't!'"

Brother Dave Gardner, 1961?

A Southerner travels to the heart of Irish Catholic country (Boston) and steps into the street at a crosswalk.
A man in a convertible races through the crosswalk, disregarding the pedestrian.
The Southerner gives the driver a one finer Southern salute and yells "You bastard!"
The driver brakes hard, stops, and yells back "What did you call me???!!!!"
The Southerner yells "Bastard!"
The driver grins and says "Oh, that's okay. I thought you called me a Baptist."

J.

Hey y'all~

As most of you know, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION in Alabama is a sore subject with me.I've no use for it &
I hear about nasty things being said & DONE to people all the time & it makes me mad enough to kick a door in but I found a couple of items tonight that might give us an idea of how far we've come.

I found a letter to the editor torn out of a circa 1961 paper. Here's what is written on the scrap of newsprint:

(Certainly) it is a good time for American Negroes to think before becoming affiliated with groups which may have aims and purposes contrary to the best interests of all American, white and Negro.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FOLSOM AND RIDERS

Editor, The News:
I see that Jim Folsom endorsed the invasion of Alabama by the "Freedom Riders" and Kennedy's marshals. I suppose the "Riders" were too sore after their visit to go to Cullman for scotch and soda.

If Folsom is elected Governor again, I suppose he will invite the riders back to Alabama. He would probably invite them out to the Governor's mansion during their stay. They might even get to get to travel over the state in the Governor's limousine if Folsom's drinking buddy, Adam Clayton Powell, would come with them.
ALBERT J. WINFIELD
319 Blue Ridge Drive
Anniston

HISTORY PROVES POINT

Editor, The News:
President Kennedy's little brother Robert is now predicting a Negro president of the United States in the next 30 or 40 years.
Considering what we have, we may just as well have one now or another Republican. Sure would save a lot of trouble.

THE SECOND THING I FOUND TODAY
was a brochure for Joe Wheeler State Park:

NEGRO RECREATIONAL AREA

A recreational area for negro use has been developed on First Creek, a part of this reservation. This is located on the south side of U.S. Highway #72. At present only day-use facilities are completed, such as, swimming, boating, fishing, playfields and a refreshment stand. A caretaker's residence has been erected and a negro park ranger is in charge of this site under the supervision of the manager of Joe Wheeler State Park. The ultimate development will include overnight cabins as soon as funds can be provided for such purpose. There is a drinking fountain, barbeque pits and table & bench combinations.


From the January 30, 1975 issue of The CW



Johnny's Restuarant was at 2400 Univ. Blvd., the Deep South Lounge was at 2402 Univ. Blvd. and Roy's Place was at 2404 Univ. Blvd. The Tuscaloosa Cinema was at 2408 Univ. Blvd.


Looking West At the Intersection of Greensboro Avenue and University Boulevard
Left to Right: 2414 Univ. Blvd (Tucker Motor Co.), 2410 Univ. Blvd. (Fitts Yellow Cab), 2408 Univ. Blvd. (Dunn's Wholesale Florist), 2406 Univ. Blvd. (The Blossom Shoppe), 2404 Univ. Blvd. (Roy's Place), 2400 Univ. Blvd. (Deep South Lounge & Johnny's Restaurant)
source: 1963 Tuscaloosa City Directory

from the January 30,1975 issue of The CW






all three images from the June 15, 1978 issue of The CW

Coo Coo Ca Choo
http://www.myspace.com/coocoocachooband
will be performing @ Skipper's http://www.skipperssmokehouse.com/venue/history.html
Saturday, October 10

The family name Register could have come from Rochester or Redchester








all images courtesy of http://www.2112online.com/nantucket/bio.html
Nantucket is a band out of North Carolina. I was attracted to cover art but now I'm listening to them on their myspace site www.myspace.com/nantucketband

J.C. Higgins' Skates from Sears & Roebuck


"We Don't Need No Stinkin' Orthopedic Surgeons!"









from K.S.~

David loaned Jefferson his Harley jacket since it was a cold day today! Seeing Monticello was wonderful. Great trip!