tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post7056017102695178462..comments2024-01-27T20:58:12.878-05:00Comments on Boogie Woogie Flu: World Boogie Is ComingTed Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07975741901400619750noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-4426082776428394332009-11-19T00:54:52.301-05:002009-11-19T00:54:52.301-05:00Just discovered this and it's wonderful. Thank...Just discovered this and it's wonderful. Thank you Ted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-57683385024993322252009-10-04T22:18:37.577-04:002009-10-04T22:18:37.577-04:00Thank you oh thank you! I came for the boogie, sta...Thank you oh thank you! I came for the boogie, stayed for the rockabilly.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17594564949739406550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-89983495958503761152009-08-28T11:14:07.308-04:002009-08-28T11:14:07.308-04:00Thank you, Ted. Sad & great! All the best &...Thank you, Ted. Sad & great! All the best & safe travels, Fritsch.Fritschhttp://www.hobokollektiv.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-40072326984042722102009-08-23T23:34:28.194-04:002009-08-23T23:34:28.194-04:00I lived in Memphis in the '90s. I met Dickins...I lived in Memphis in the '90s. I met Dickinson a couple of times. The second time was the day I left Memphis (for good, it turned out) to move to Boulder, Colorado. It was in record store on Union Avenue. Jim Dickinson was buying a Fleetwood Mac CD. He said he was interested in how they got that drum sound. I told him how his work had changed my life, how "Like Flies on Sherbert" and "Dixie Fried" and "Beale Street Saturday Night" (I had bought that latter LP on Beale Street in around 1992) had twisted my head around. Maybe he had heard all that before, but he was nice to me. <br /><br />Years later I interviewed him for a piece I wrote for "No Depression." This was at the time of "Killers from Space," which I think is his most consistent solo record. He was still nice and gave me a lot of great stuff to work with, I sensed that he, like Sam Phillips (whom I once sighted from not very far away in a bar on Beale Street, kind of like seeing William Randolph Hearst or someone equally outsized walking around in some pedestrian mall), was always thinking in terms of boiling stuff down to a pithy essence for people whose misconceptions were, to be honest, probably even more pronounced than mine. About American music and what it takes to make it (music, not success). <br /><br />I also saw Jim Dickinson perform a couple of times. I vividly remember him doing this song that B. B. King had done in the late '70s, "Never Make a Move Too Soon," at a show on Mud Island. He was good, good choice of material. And I saw Mud Boy & the Neutrons once, at a place on Main St. in Memphis--I think it was this southwestern/Pacific Rim eatery called Automatic Slim's Tonga Club, or something real '90s-sounding like that. They were a bunch of grown men doing "Little Queenie" and I thought they were great. This was obviously before Lee Baker (whose guitar adds so much to "Sherbert") died.<br /><br />As a song-picker, Dickinson was up there with any of the similar Memphis personages who took pride in coming up with cool covers of totally obscure songs, or totally "inappropriate" songs. I think he was a great producer but it could be I'll remember Dickinson as fondly for making me appreciate numbers like "Hungry Town" and "Roly Poly" and "Wine." Or "Can't Beat the Kid." And I think that "Beale Street Saturday Night" (with the excellent liners by Stanley Booth) should be taught in public schools as a reminder of how specific locales can create world culture...and world boogie. And how neglect can do more for MUSICAL culture than canonization--unless you think Nashville's contribution to said culture is more vital than Memphis'. Something to do with the blues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-2990899867218926012009-08-23T17:16:42.211-04:002009-08-23T17:16:42.211-04:00Great tribute ,but more importantly good to read y...Great tribute ,but more importantly good to read your thoughts and listen to your influences. Thanks welcome backterrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-46290436878626179192009-08-23T07:41:22.932-04:002009-08-23T07:41:22.932-04:00thank youthank youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-4090301940918375632009-08-21T17:55:29.404-04:002009-08-21T17:55:29.404-04:00Hey Man- Thanks for the stuff. Any idea how I coul...Hey Man- Thanks for the stuff. Any idea how I could get to hear the Mudboy & the Neutrons cd's?<br />Ken ViolaUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10464624957612164748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-9364566021912318132009-08-21T14:35:26.098-04:002009-08-21T14:35:26.098-04:00Excellent tribute. I'd also like to add that t...Excellent tribute. I'd also like to add that the Mudhoney album Jim produced in 1998, Tomorrow Hit Today, was terrific, hand's down the band's finest moment.Joe Ehrbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01009454933610648438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-56596555486980238272009-08-20T21:11:48.515-04:002009-08-20T21:11:48.515-04:00A tender tribute. Thanks. W.A tender tribute. Thanks. W.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-38976396256560312772009-08-20T18:00:45.534-04:002009-08-20T18:00:45.534-04:00thank you, jim was a close friend i was hoping to ...thank you, jim was a close friend i was hoping to see some recognition on the web. He wil be missed greatly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-21504280886291816652009-08-20T11:28:40.504-04:002009-08-20T11:28:40.504-04:00Thanks for the fantastic tribute and the songs, es...Thanks for the fantastic tribute and the songs, especially the Beale St. Saturday Night LP.Mr. Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00164137669276160575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-61080280700118090492009-08-19T13:49:53.156-04:002009-08-19T13:49:53.156-04:00Thanks for this - Beale St Sat Night was the one r...Thanks for this - Beale St Sat Night was the one record missing from my JLD collection. Now if I could just find me a copy'a JD and the Hoods doin' Rumble, oh yeah and also bring the man himself back to life to tell the story of how it got recorded, that'd be pretty much all I want for Xmas.Maximhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11118448629588487452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-46927705599732492092009-08-19T10:11:07.736-04:002009-08-19T10:11:07.736-04:00well I`m glad to see someone appreciates the leg...well I`m glad to see someone appreciates the legacy of Jim...<br />thanks boogie woogie...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35422342.post-25046256300403936312009-08-19T09:08:17.977-04:002009-08-19T09:08:17.977-04:00Ted--
I had a feeling you were going to do a Dick...Ted--<br /><br />I had a feeling you were going to do a Dickinson tribute, and this is a really fine one. Thanks--esp. for Beale St. Saturday Night, which i've never heard...<br /><br />chrisC.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13443852290634827698noreply@blogger.com