thank all you: & T FOR TAXAS ALL & gOD BLESH
― ZINE (ZINE), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Jimmie Rodgers & Kitty Wells (Fritz), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Saturday, 23 September 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)
― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Sunday, 24 September 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)
UH
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 24 September 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Sunday, 24 September 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)
― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 24 September 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)
― señor citizen (eman), Sunday, 24 September 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)
― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)
wow
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Sunday, 24 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)
TANKS FOR ALL THE ROANOKES ;-(
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― ZINE (ZINE), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)
― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)
Is this really the only Jimmie Rodgers thread on ilx? this is the weirdest thing I've ever read:
In the village of Kapkatet, Kenya in the early 1950′s, members of the Kipsigi tribe somehow came across a few 78 records of Jimmie Rodgers’ Blue Yodels. Convinced that such strange sounds could not come from a human, the voice was attributed to a centaur-like spirit they called Chemirocha. This half-man half-antelope is honored in fertility rites where young Kipsigi maidens dance seductively to the Jimmie Rodgers records, begging him to join them in a leaping dance in hopes that Chemirocha will jump completely out of his clothes.
http://porchofthemystics.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/chemirocha/
― second geir, lean right (little hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:07 (thirteen years ago)
No way.
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:57 (thirteen years ago)
Just a few days ago read the Jimmie Rodgers chapter in Tony Russell's Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/MusicHistoryAmerican/?view=usa&ci=9780199732661
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:00 (thirteen years ago)
if this is true, wowclearly chemirocha is an eggcorn of jimmie rodgers!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:11 (thirteen years ago)
Indeed. I couldn't remember the proper term, thanks.
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:14 (thirteen years ago)
this biography (haven't read; want to) gets into a little more detail. he apparently had a major following in Japan as well. Jim Reeves was also big in east Africa (and even more so in South Africa), but I don't think he was ever deified.
is that book any good, JRB?
― second geir, lean right (little hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:22 (thirteen years ago)
Very good, from the little I've dipped into, lively writing with strong images and presumably very well-researched.
Just downloaded the sample for that Mazor book right before you posted the link. Also have been reading around in the eye-opening Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard A. Peterson. Then if I ever finish that I'm onto The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry, by Diane Pecknold
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:34 (thirteen years ago)
Should also have said mercifully brief and concise.
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:45 (thirteen years ago)
Finally listened to that recording of Chemirocha. Wow.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:11 (thirteen years ago)
thanks for the recommendations! I hardly ever get around to reading books about music, but String Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont by Bob Carlin looks interesting.
I wish I owned a record label so I could release a compilation of "cargo cult" music (for lack of a more respectful term). I wonder if the tribe that worships Prince Philip has ever dedicated any songs/dances to him.
― second geir, lean right (little hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:41 (thirteen years ago)
No problem. I start a lot of such books and don't always end up finishing them, but at least I've got you and curmudgeon fooled. Don't know that book you mention but have my eye on Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South, by Patrick Huber.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:38 (thirteen years ago)
More about Chemirocha:http://oldtimeparty.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/chemirocha-jimmie-rodgers/
which has a broken link that presumably should lead here:http://excavatedshellac.com/?s=chemirocha
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:54 (thirteen years ago)
http://open.spotify.com/track/2xdo8DNgbi6TBciaTMrygp
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:54 (thirteen years ago)
the recording in the link I posted (+ the album track on Spotify) is known as "Chemirocha III", and the one on excavatedshellac (with the men singing) is "Chemirocha II". wish I could find "Chemirocha I" for completeness's sake (there's a 30-second clip here, but that's it.
― second geir, lean right (little hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:14 (thirteen years ago)