I took a drive yesterday. I had been sitting in front of the computer screen too long and accomplishing little of anything at all and I needed a break. Usually when I hit the road I take music I need to hear for writing reasons but this time I needed time to myself. I grabbed one I had the urge to review by Town Mountain which when I pulled open the CD cover discovered was minus the disc. I had left it in my computer player at home. I have lost more than one disc that way. The other two were there though and I had heard neither all the way through for over a year: Lisa Parade‘s Finding Flora and Maxi Dunn‘s Edmund & Leo. I couldn’t wait.
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Frank Gutch Jr: On the Road With The Lisa Parade and Maxine Dunn (Plus Them All-Important Notes)
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 7Horse, Alternate Roots Magazine, Bob Marlette, Carolyn Arends, Courtney Marie Andrews, Daisy House, DBAWIS, Delta Saints, Don't Believe a Word I Say, edmund & leo, Finding Flora, Frank Gutch Jr., George Clark, Green Monkey Records, Green Pajamas, Heidi, Howie Wahlen, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Kelly, Jilly Blackstone, Jimmie Spheeris, Joe Lee, Laurie Biagini, Leah Flanagan, Lisa Parade, Liz Stringer, Maxi Dunn, monowhales, music, No Small Children, Old Californio, Paige Anderson & the Fearless Kin, Peace River, Peter Hackett, Records, Rurin Brakes, Sarah Belkner, Sea of Glass, segarini, Seth Lakeman, Sneakers, Soundcarriers, susan james, Sweet Home Oregon, The Siulver Lake Chorus, Tommy Talton, Undergrunnen, Wayne Proctor, We the People, Wilderado on July 19, 2016 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: I Always Wanted To Be a Musician (Videos With Commentary)…
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Amelia Jay, Amy van Keeken, Angharad Drake, Anna Cordell, Chloe Albert, Clara-Nova, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Gileah Taylor, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jane Gowan, Jill Stevenson, kate & ruth, Kate Burke, Lisa O'Neill, Lucie Thorne, Majors Creek Festival, Melissa Payne, music, music videos, No Small Children, Records, Ruth Hazleton, segarini, Shade, Susannah Rose, Sweet Home Oregon, Sydney Wayser on May 24, 2016 by segarini
…but I could never pull it together. Of course, when I was young I thought I was a musician, piddling with the tonette in fourth grade, drafted into the junior high band in the fifth grade because they badly needed a bass drum player, playing drums in what could be called a jazz band then (though we were really not good enough to be called that), playing drums in the high school band and in a couple of rock bands and carrying it on through college. I loved music and was always around it but I was never really a musician.
Frank Gutch Jr: Confessions of a (Reformed) Vinyl Junkie, Plus Notes…..
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Alquin, bomp, Cargoe, Chloe Albert, cutouts, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, fotheringay, Frank Gutch Jr., Goldmine, Gypsy, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Intergalactic Trading Company, It's a Beautiful Day, Jerry Dennon, John Hammond Jr., Julia Easterlin, Magic Fern, Maxophone, music, Music Millennium, music videos, No Small Children, PFM, PH Phactor, Randy Burns & The Skydog Band, Records, Sandy Denny, Scrubbaloe Caine, segarini, Sweet Home Oregon, Undergrunnen, Vieux Farka Toure on March 29, 2016 by segariniI used to have over 10,000 record albums. That is really not that many when you really look at it. More than you could listen to fairly in a year, I suppose. Deep enough to impress vinyl junkies, too many to impress anyone sane. Way more than enough to make my life desolate when it came to relationships.
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Frank Gutch Jr: What Do You Say, Ray?— Music Anyone Can (and Should) Read… Plus Notes
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Blue Ash, Books, Buzzy Linhart, Country Dick Montana, Crawdaddys, Dan McLain, DBAWIS, Dead Beat Poets, Dead Boys, Dinettes, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Du Bellows, Ed Robbins, five americans, Frank Gutch Jr., Frank Secich, gary heffern, Getting Nowhere Fast, Glory, Gris de Lin, High Strung, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Marla, Michael Packer, Michael Rabon, music, music videos, No Small Children, Penetrators, Ray Brandes, Records, Ron Silva, segarini, Sunday Lane., Tell-Tale Hearts, The Auras, Ton House, Unknowns, Woody Guthrie, Woody Guthrie and Me, Zeros on February 23, 2016 by segarini
The quote in the header is from Frank Secich‘s Circumstantial Evidence, a look back at a life which could easily have been one long stint at various penal institutions instead of sixties and seventies music venues. Secich (pronounced SESS-ich, by the way) admits in his book that he was on the cusp but never really made the leap, thanks to music and the people involved with it. One such person was Ray Chizmar, a musician and early idol to Secich who would always greet him with “What do you say, Ray?” to which Chizmar replied “Whatcha got in the bank, Frank?”
Frank Gutch Jr: Music To Stuff Stockings By… And With; Plus No Notes… Consider It a Lump of Coal
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Amy van Keeken, Brady Earnhart, carl anderson, David Bullock, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Gold Heart, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jimmy Hanna, Keith Morris, Kip Boardman, Lost Leaders, michael fennelly, music, Music Radio, music videos, Nick Holmes, No Small Children, nocona, Ophelia Hope, Proutt and Gary, Ray Ruff, Records, Sage Run, seafair bolo records, segarini, Seldom Scene, Slamhound Hunters, The OF, The Viceroys on December 11, 2015 by segariniIt’s that time of year again, sports fans. Santa has been on the radio for the past two months, robot disc jockeys and purveyors of everything muzak beating us senseless with varying renditions of Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree and Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, hoping to lighten our mood enough to loosen the old purse strings. Hallmark Channel have kicked into full Christmas mode, plastering their channels with their cookie-cutter movies which vary mostly by the changing of leading ladies (this year’s favorite, by far, is Hilarie Burton, whom I saw in an old Castle episode and was floored by not only her beauty but the fact that the casting could not have been more right). I wish they had more creativity over at Hallmark, their overuse of the five plots and rotating stars coming very close to consumer abuse. But, hey, I’m a sap.
Frank Gutch Jr: Bullseye Canada— Let the Salvage Operations Begin: Conversations with Jaimie Vernon… Plus Notes (and One Really Cool Picture of Bow Thayer Guesting With No Small Children)
Posted in Opinion with tags Adam Marsland, Anna Cordell, Bob Segarini, Bow Thayer, Brady Earnhart, Bullseye Records Canada, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, It Was 40 Years Ago Today, Jaimie Vernon, Jon Gomm, kate & ruth, Klaatu, Lisa Millar, Moving Targetz, music, music videos, No Small Children, segarini, Sharon Vernon, Summer Children, Swindled, Toronto on August 11, 2015 by segariniThat would be Bullseye Records, Canada for those unaware, a label pieced together by DBAWIS‘s own Jaimie Vernon and friends— a record company caught in the digital tsunami which wiped out more than one music concern. In fact, if you define being wiped out as being wiped out, you could probably number them in triple digits, many being “absorbed” by major labels if they could find anything worth adding to their already bloated catalogues. I will tell you upfront that it is a tale of both success and crushing defeat, of both business and personal failure— not that it could have been avoided. When the music business started crumbling, it took with it most everything in its path. If you subscribe to the business as it was. If your yardstick was measured by the same standards the major labels had set up and followed for decades. Jaimie and his company took a beating, no doubt, but he is not down and out by a long shot. He has just, shall we say, been regrouping.
Frank Gutch Jr: Kate & Ruth Brian Cullman Stu Nunnery Bill Jackson No Small Children — Plus Notes
Posted in Opinion with tags Adam Marsland, bill jackson, Brian Cullman, Byron Isaacs, Crushed Out, danny schmidt, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Fur For Fairies, Goanna, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Karma Frog, Kate Burke, Loose Ends, Lost Leaders, michael fennelly, music, music videos, No Small Children, Paul Curreri, Peter Cole, Pugwash, radio, Records, Ron Kristy, Ruth Hazleton, segarini, Sera Smolen, Stu Nunnery, T-Bone Burnett, Terry Burns, Tom Dyer, tom kell, Tom Mank on July 28, 2015 by segariniPlease allow me to start this column with an aside. Each year, I compile a list of albums I consider the best. Last year, I picked Lost Leaders‘ self-titled album because it had that indescribable something which made me come back to it again and again. I mean, I love this album!!!
Frank Gutch Jr: My Memories of Capricorn; Plus Notes
Posted in Opinion with tags Allman Brothers, Capricorn Records, Captain Beyond, Cowboy, Dave Carter, Dave McGraw, DBAWIS, Dixie Dregs, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Duke Williams, Eddie Hinton, Frank Gutch Jr., Hayden Pedigo, Hydra, Indie Artists, Indie Music, James Montgomery, Judee Sill, Mandy Fer, music, music videos, No Small Children, Phil Walden, Records, Sam Roberts, segarini, Tim Krekel, Tracy Grammer, White Witch on July 21, 2015 by segariniGuy walks into the barracks, tosses a couple of albums on my bunk and it is a benchmark moment. You’ve heard it before, probably too many times, but it happened. The albums? The Allman Brothers Band‘s first album and Steve Young‘s Rock Salt & Nails. Both lodged themselves permanently in my collection and in my heart. Young’s was to take awhile but the Allmans’ was immediate. From the first note of Don’t Want You No More, I was hooked. Desert island time. Hall of Fame.
Frank Gutch Jr: The Saga of Jim Colegrove, Chapter Six: Plus Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Amy Correia, bill jackson, Bo Grumpus, Brady Earnhart, C-Leb & The Kettle Black, Circus Maximus, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Felix Pappalardi, Frank Gutch Jr., Hello People, Indie Artists, Indie Music, jim colegrove, Jimm McIver, Kangaroo, Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton, Kora Feder, music, music videos, N.D. Smart II, No Small Children, nocona, Ransom & The Subset, Records, Rita Hosking, segarini, Stevie Wright, The Easybeats, The Madisons, Tom Dyer, Zombie Garden Club on July 7, 2015 by segariniHaving given you five chances to look behind the curtains of a life of a rock ‘n’ roller of more stature than most people these days could possibly know— that of Fort Worth’s Jim Colegrove— I have decided to give you a sixth. Call I a bonus, if you will— a chance to experience second-hand an era of music most of you could not possibly know. A chance to see the machinations of an industry, for that is what it became, in its growth stages. So far it has involved a string of names many would recognize— Felix Pappalardi and Gene Pitney and Lou Adler and so many more. Let us add a few more as the band he is in at this point of his career, Bo Grumpus, prepares to spark a major label career.
Frank Gutch Jr: The Best of Notes (and new notes too)…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Andrew Johnston, Audrey Rose, bill jackson, Carla Olive, Chloe Albert, Danny O'Keefe, Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, fauntella crow, Frank Gutch Jr., Freedom Hawk, Greg Godovitz, hannah gillespie, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jane Gowan, Mad Anthony, music, music videos, New American Farmers, No Small Children, radio, Records, segarini, The Minnows, The Winterpills., Tom House, Zombie Garden Club on June 16, 2015 by segariniI wrote half a column about my father before I realized it was way too personal to put out in the Net, so I’ve decided to glean what I consider the best Notes I have posted over the past few years. Notes, for those new to my process, are the small items I usually place at the end of each column, usually the more newsy or just musical items. Lots of videos, a bit of news and a lot of fun to put together.