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^^ Got that sent to me from family in Michigan last night. Hillarious.
 
redneck joe

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yeah just showed to the wife she doesn't quite get it. She is born and taised down here.
 
redneck joe

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my dads folk music band, circa 1964. R.F Trio. He is the one standing, I'm named after the other two. The following link was recorded in 1973, dad doing vocals.



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17 Truly Do.mp3

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redneck joe

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ha, pretty sharp wit this morning....

Dave - on the right - passed about 30 years ago.


This is joe, he is on the left in the above pic. He's a year older than dad so 81. He also played banjo and imo had a better voice than my dad.

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redneck joe

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heres dad.

they apparently were doing quite well touring in/around Portland and had made a couple demo records (he still has them) but then the whole veitnam thing got in the way, then life in general after they came home.

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the coffee table is still in the family - this would have been grandmas house in portland. I was born in may of the same year so he must have some home on leave as I was born at Cannon AFB and after that we moved to moffet AFB.


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redneck joe

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here is his latest blog post and song

Not too long after getting to Vietnam I bought a guitar.
It wasn't much, but it wasn't bad.
And it let me fill my off hours as I had filled my off hours since late high school days.
I sat on my bed and strummed, played chords, practiced barres and sang songs.
The trick had always been to figure out beguiling strumming/picking patterns and transitions laid on top of basic chords.
Except for a few snippets here and there I never played tunes on individual strings.
I learned to finger every chord I could find on the Nick Manloff chord wheel and attempted to embellish the not very interesting sound of a strummed chord with picking patterns.
I had never learned to read music so that was pretty much a time-consuming exercise of brute force.
One other source of music for me in Vietnam was the stereo set and records that I had bought - or records that my friend Ron Hatchett had given to me - at the Base Exchange.
Those records were mostly artists that were new and rising, among them Simon and Garfunkel.
One of their songs that I particularly liked was a mélange of chords I couldn't figure out overlaid by rhythms of which I was not familiar.
(More accurately, they were rhythms whose nuance I suspected I was not capable.)
But, like the infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters, since I had nothing but time - until DEROS (Date Estimated Return From Overseas) at least - I persevered and came up with a simulation of Cloudy.
Here it is from that 1973 recording I mentioned in a recent post.


02 Cloudy.mp3

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a Stray Cats car song that's not really about cars......
 
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