Big Taylor & Lee Roy
Here's a short list of people who HAVE heard of us:
Glenn Adams maintains the Delta Kitchen Home Page
and some very interesting lists.
Afternight,
and their lists of unsigned bands..Worldwide!
"Armadillo Slim" At Highway
49 , Australia.
[Armadillo, Yum, Yum! Possum on the half shell!].
Doug Ashby, "Roots" programming at radio stations WXLV, WDIY.
"Beef Stew", a radio personality who
maintains a fine list of Musicians and Bands. (Or is it maintains a list of
fine Musicians and Bands?). Anyway, we're on it.
Bob Benson, webmeister for the Down Home,
a great club we've played before. The "Down Home" is one of the few places
in East Tennessee where you can hear a name artist in a small room; where
you might even talk to them on breaks. Cover charges are understandably
high, but it's a great place, and they have everything musicians would
need for an acoustic performance. It's in Johnson City, Tennessee, go there.
Kevin Boyle at radio WCDE, Beverly, West Virginia.
Hal Brolund, a fine acoustic
guitarist-songwriter, from way out on the wind-swept prairie of Manitoba,
Cananda. His song, "Nick's Cafe" oughta be the national anthem for all us
independent musicians.
Don Brown aka "Dr. GitsDown", radio host of "Steepin' in Da Blues" at KRUA, Anchorage, AK.
William Bultas of the Chimera
web site. I think we have a case of mistaken identity here, and that Mr. Bultas
believes one of us to be among the "highly intelligent". It sure ain't me, and Lee Roy's
not too smart either. But what the hell, reciprocal links are free
advertising!
Don Campau, radio host of "No Pigeonholes"
at KKUP, Cupertino, CA. And also owns
and operates "Lonely Whistle Music", where you can find music that's really
out of the mainstream.
Mike Carlson: Webmaster of four different sites -
- Minnesota Music Scene
- Flying Buffalo Designs
- Nightmare Records
- Gemini On-Line
Chicago Blues Explosion, WCBR
radio. Though they didn't play our tape because cassette tape is too hard
for a modern radio station to queue up, at least one DJ there really liked
our music. (We didn't have the dough for CD). This station is a
high-powered "Drive Time" FM blues radio station in a big city way up north,
so we were understandably flattered. Said they would give the tape away in
a contest when they were done listening to it. So maybe someone in Chicago,
maybe the third caller who calls in and tells them correctly just how many
wings a wombat has, will get a copy of "The Blues: Man's Best Friend".
My beautiful wife, Cindy, who is a business lady in local real estate.
- Click if you want to BUY real estate.
- Click here if you want to SELL some.
Pat Cook of the Electric Rag Band,
a great musician, and kindred spirit. The band has one of the finest versions of "Bullfrog Moan",
since Lonnie Johnson and "Blind Willy Dunn"(Mr. Lang) played their famous duet.
Crossroads Blues Society, Kalmar, Sweden.
Martin Dunstan, Radio 3 Way FM, Warrnambool, Australia.
Dead Angel,
the notorious music ezine, with especially good coverage of new and
avant garde music (except for country & rap). They reviewed us in issue #30.
Friends Blues Band.
I can't read the language on their site. It might be Italian, but they
promise to have English up soon. Then we'll know what they said about us.
Richard Gillman, a radio host at KBCS, Bellvue, WA. He also is an authority on fingerstyle guitarists, check out
Fingerpicking Guitar.
Jai Goulding hosts the Rhythm & Blues Show, Australian Community Radio.
Al Handa, Editor/Publisher of the
Delta Snake News , the Online Blues 'Zine.
Hell Blues Club, Hell, Norway.
Doug Henkle, Editor/Publisher of the
Folk Book Index. Proud to be listed as acoustic blues fingerstyle guitarists, cause we do it with our fingers.
Hershal of Rouge Records, Aukland, New Zealand.
"Charlie B" Hicks, radio host at WMTN, Morristown, TN. I got married
on his radio show.
Inwave Area Home Pages.
Got no idea what this is about, but if they link to us, we'll link to them.
William Lewis of the Jewel-Paula
Records. Another web-based music company which does not sell our music, but
with whom we maintain friendly relations in case some day they might.
Mark Naftalin, radio host of "Mark Naftalin's Blues Power Hour"
at KALW, San Francisco, CA.
Robert Neill. A friend of
mine. On Robert's behalf I would ask each of the next 2000 visitors to his
site to each send him one dollar, so that he can afford a
euphonium, and
thus give him the opportunity to play bass with us.
Glenn Nelson At Highway 49 in Australia.
Ron Nethercutt at KSLU, Hammond, LA.
Omega Productions.
From the looks of their Web Page, they do it all.
Dave Page, radio host of "Blues in the Night"
at WHQR,
Wilmington, NC.
Ken Paul of Desi Boyz records, an on-line music store which even though
does not sell our music, we are nonetheless inextricably
linked..
David N. Pyles, of the "Folk Acoustic Music Exchange",
Music Alive!.
Ralph & Kacoo's, a fine restaurant in New Orleans French quarter. Check their famous bread pudding!
Marcel Roy of Memphis, Tennessee, has a cool
home page, with lots of local Memhis music info.
Songs OnLine, a really cool experiment. Songwriters of all
genres - country, pop, gospel, etc - submit two or more songs to this site.
The songs are loaded in on their server in real audio format, and can be listened
to all over the Web. Then all the other participating songwriters get to evaluate these songs.
We gave 'em two: "Hound Dog Blues" and
"Slick Willy Blues" which have remained
happily near the bottom of the list with some other really good tunes. I just
wished that my fellow songwriters who scored "Slick Willy Blues" so poorly
for musical content realized that actually we are playing (note for note and
impeccably) "Steady Rollin' Man" by the great Robert Johnson. I don't care
if they gig the lyrics; it's a political song, and maybe they like Bill
Clinton.
Sean Smothers, radio host of "6 O'Clock Blues"
at WSIE, St. Louis, MO.
Marty Spaulding, "Sunday Blues" programming, WRKR, Kalamazoo, Michigan..
Jim Taylor, no relation to me, but a fine musician-songwriter out of Asheville, NC. And though he didn't write the I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain song, let me tell you he's written some tunes that would make James proud.
Peter Thompson of
Zane Records, A U.K. record company that almost signed and produced us,
had it not been for the interference of phases of the moon. But he's still
a good guy, Zane's a good company, and who knows, it might happen yet!
Bob Unger, photographer and blues archivist, check his NetPic site.
Pascal de Vries, curator of
lyric archives
for ours and thousands of other songwriters. In case you didn't know, song lyrics are kept for
posterity in an impregnable vault buried deep beneath a mountain in the Swiss Alps,
near Bottminger, Switzerland.
Wayne Winkler, radio host of "Blue Monday" at WETS, Johnson City, TN. He owes us some favors.
"St. Wishnevsky" a talented poet, songwriter, and musician-composer, in or about Salem,
NC.
Jeff Yelton of the Mount Lion website.
And of course we're considered to be one of the
Ultimate Bands on the Internet.
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