| Subject: Re: Hat Trick - & just adding a bit of nostalgia |
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Boyd
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Date Posted: 20:04:27 06/11/10 Fri
In reply to:
dotB
's message, "Re: Hat Trick - & just adding a bit of nostalgia" on 00:29:38 06/11/10 Fri
>Actually, what your character is going through sounds
>darn familiar, as a young kid I learned to handle
>crowds as well as play guitar and fiddle as well as
>sing both country and old-time music. As a teenager I
>got into early rock&roll and rock-a-billy. When I got
>older I learned to play the banjo - which led to
>bluegrass. A trip through the southern US led to a bit
>of blues and a touch of jazz. To me, it was all just
>part-time fun, but oh the characters I met.
>
>As an example, one winter we were badly snowed in and
>my older brother, Chick, went out to look after the
>cattle. Even though a blizzard was blowing, he
>happened to see a car stuck on the road about half a
>mile from our house. Dad, Chick and I fired up the
>tractor and went to help out the guy in the car. It
>turned out to be Hank Snow, his wife Minnie and his
>son Jimmie - you might know Hank Snow as Montana Slim.
>They stayed at our place for two days until the
>snowplow came through.
>
>I ran into Hank a few years later and he had a guy
>named Presley along, singing mostly hymns and
>religious stuff. Not long after that though I was
>watching TV on a Sunday night and I saw Presley again-
>WOW what a difference in what he sang and how he sang
>it. (It looked like Ed Sullivan had swallowed a
>pickle.) Since Hank didn't like Rock & Roll much, I
>knew right away that he and his partner must have
>split up and Parker had taken Presley under his wing.
>
>By the way, Hank Snow had his last concert in my home
>town before he retired from touring. Every one of my
>family was invited and he took the time while onstage
>to thank my mother and our family for saving his life.
>I guess he figured he and his family would have froze
>if we hadn't gone down there and towed his car up to
>the house.
I enjoyed your reference about Hank Snow. When I was a boy in the 1950s, my dad used to play his guitar and sing country songs. I later learned that Hank Snow had written many of his favorites.
Boyd
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