ChattyKathy

Now what were you saying about torture.

If you wanted to torture me you could lock me in a room with Barry Manilow singing and I would go insane. ha ha ha

Linda,

Glad all turned around so quickly.

My love,

Kathy

Rick,

My prayers are with you both.

Kathy

Dear Tim and Kay,

Godspeed you through these days. Brighter days await you both. May you both feel the comfort and touch of the Masters hand today.

Love and prayers are with you,

Kathy

Hope,

HA HA HA HA

Kath

A la prochaine,

You are correct, I saw the one you're talking about, but could not obtain it to bring here for some reason. Glad you enjoyed.

Kathy

Peruser,

Hope this brings your wonderful heart a smile my French friend.

QQ,

Yes a duxymoron it is.

Perceptive, well I have my occasional moments.

Thanks!

likeaeagle, see yours is working now, this one not needed anymore.

[This message was edited by ChattyKathy on December 14, 2002 at 19:36.]

Cool yall, thanks bunches.

Zixar,

Good points, more realistic I am sure. For me a matter of taste I guess, which does not make it a point of fact.

Socks rocks the world on its basis. And my Dad is just incredible, can not read a word of music but can hear any instrument one time and pick it up and play it like a pro. He is just incredible. We did not get along, but I have memories of his music that play in my head still today (he is still alive and playing his heart out).

Kathy

Merle Travis

Biographical Notes

Travis was the son of a tobacco farmer, but by the time he was four-years-old the family had moved to Ebenezer, Kentucky, and his father was working in the mines. Travis's father often remarked, ?Another day older and deeper in debt?, a phrase his son used in Sixteen Tons. His father played the banjo, but Travis preferred the guitar.

He played with several bands, becoming one of the first to appreciate that a guitar could be a lead instrument, and he had success as a solo artist for the newly-formed Capitol Records. He co-wrote Capitol's first million-seller, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette with Tex Williams, who recorded it. Burl Ives and Josh White were spearheading a craze for folk music, so Capitol producer, Lee Gillette, asked Travis for a 78 rpm album set of Kentucky folk songs. ?I don't know any? said Travis. ?Then write some? was the reply.

Travis himself was also enjoying a country hit with a revival of Wildwood Flower with Hank Thompson, and he won acclaim for his portrayal of a young GI in the 1954 film FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, in which he sang Re-enlistment Blues. Travis's WALKIN? THE STRINGS is a highly-regarded album of acoustic guitar solos. His style influenced Doc Watson, who called his son after him, and Chet Atkins, who did the same with his daughter.

In 1948 he devised a solid-body electric guitar, which was built for him by Paul Bigsby and developed by Leo Fender. ?I got the idea from a steel guitar? he said, ?I wanted the same sustainability of notes, and I came up with a solid-body electric guitar with the keys all on one side.?

A posthumous album of blues songs played on 12-string guitar, ROUGH, ROWDY AND BLUE, included a tune from his mentor, Mose Rager, Merry Christmas, Pretty Baby. His friend and fellow guitarist, Joe Maphis, wrote a tribute Me And Ol Merle?, which concluded, ?We liked good whiskey and we loved the pretty girls, And we loved them guitars-Me and Ol? Merle.?

Socks, oh you mean back when time first began when this thread started. ha ha

I think we are going to get back into some things that will tie twi back in here. Guess should anyway since I started out that way back in the old ages. ha ha

And you should be in the list of Rock and Rollers.

Kathy

A few of the seventies albums:

A fe Eat A Peach - The Allman Brothers Band

Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

Candy-O - The Cars

London Calling - The Clash

Into The Purple Valley - Ry Cooder

Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper

B**ches Brew - Miles Davis

Self-Portrait - Bob Dylan

Hotel California - The Eagles

Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Ooh La La - The Faces

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic

Cats Under the Stars - The Jerry Garcia Band

The Parkerilla - Graham Parker and the Rumor

American Beauty - The Grateful Dead

The Idiot - Iggy Pop

Look Sharp! - Joe Jackson

Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin

Sailin' Shoes - Little Feat

One Step Beyond - Madness

The Joker - The Steve Miller Band

Hejira - Joni Mitchell

Weasels Ripped My Flesh - The Mothers of Invention

Honey - The Ohio Players

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Live Peace in Toronto 1969 - The Plastic Ono Band

Metal Box - Public Image Ltd.

The Ramones - The Ramones

The Slider - T. Rex

Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Country Life - Roxy Music

Abraxas - Santana

Never Mind The Bollocks... Here's The Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols

Playing Possum - Carly Simon

There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly and the Family Stone

Horses - Patti Smith

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Never A Dull Moment - Rod Stewart

Breakfast In America - Supertramp

Fear of Music - Talking Heads

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic

Catch a Fire - The Wailers

Who's Next - The Who

Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants - Stevie Wonder

Relayer - Yes

[This message was edited by ChattyKathy on December 10, 2002 at 21:03.]

Thanks for coming back Ted.

The seventies, gotta think on that one now.

Signed the Slave Driver

I emailed Ted, he has been busy but said he plans to post more today. Goodie!

Welcome Oakmom,

So very fine to meet you, please stay around and grace us with more. Your insight and heart would be such a welcome addition to this group here.

Kathy

Kathy

Have a blast, your buddy Kathy.

OCEAN OFF THE FLORIDA KEYS:

tranquil

colorful

inviting

John,

You don't have Clapton in your folder

I don't think he is the greatest in regards to skill but my oh my, can he make that puppy say what is in his heart.

Kathy

QQ,

Ain't #2 an oxymoron?

Kathy