I don't know if any one has told you guys, but the online magazine "subter":http://www.subter.com/ is no more. Bradley (aka "Known Human":http://mog.com/Known_Human) closed up shop just after the New Year. Brad, when you see this, understand I appreciate the offer. Really.To everyone else: The 'offer' I am writing about is the invitation to write for subter. Long story short is Brad had asked m...
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Fred leBlanc - "...here to *rock*..."John Thomas ("Griff") Griffith - smokin' lead guitarSonia Tetlow - heavy-duty bassVance Degeneres - rhythm guitar.Yes, his sister's name is Ellen, and he'll be taking a few days off the road to help her host the Oscars.Rhythm SectionGunfighter EyesTake me back to New Orleans...Tradin' LicksGimme a little rhythm, ya'all......workin' it..."...here i sit in pri...
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Just some videos, collected and posted because i'm afraid that one of the USA's few Real Cities may not survive Hurricane Gustav...Remembering what was Before the Storm: Paul's gone from Cowboy Mouth these days, and i guess they don't do Hurricane Party any more: The song's not about NOLa but it fits: New Orleans (Song for New Orleans) by Sedrick Fuliga - composed aboard USS Nimitz in 2005: ...
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That's me. I'm wearing step-daughter Helen's high school chemistry project.Fred's the hat. Can anyone guess why i named it that?I'll post the answer in a comment in a while.Bought that hat in 1986. Wore it to i-don't-know-how-many JazzFests, two Cropredy Festivals, at least one Nashville Riverwalk, and a lot of other thinsg. In '93 a guy in Nashville who worked in a hat shop offered to buy...
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Two verses, bridge, guitar solo, verse.One minute, forty-three seconds.All there and perfect. Hank coulda sung this one (and i don't mean Bocephus).Paul Sanchez is incredible.(And JTG is a guitar wizard.)
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Just about a month ago (25 May), i did "*a post with an MP3 of The Stars Remind Me of You*":http://mog.com/fairportfan/blog_post/77500, by *Cowboy Mouth*, and i said that at 1:42 for two verses, choeus, bridge and guitar solo, it was quite possibly the perfect country song - sort of the Platonic Ideal of "tear in my beer" lonesome lowdown country blues.Today, reading a book co-authored by my br...
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I'm not sure what brought this on - i was looking for the *Asylum Street Spankers*' video for Stick a Yellow Ribbon on Your SUV to include in a comment on another blog, and i started looking up other stuff. and...Ladeeeez an' Genullmen, children of all ages, may i direct your attention high above the center ring - peforming *without* a net - i give you ... Fred leBlanc and *COWBOY MOUTH*.....It...
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_Still wish you could do something to help those in New Orleans?_ _The Southern Comfort Music Fund was established to help bring post-Katrina New Orleans back to life by monetarily helping the musicians of New Orleans who were affected by Katrina._ _This is the text of an e-mail i received as a member of the "*Cowboy Mouth*":http://cowboymouth.com mailing list. I thought i ought to spread the...
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"{Originally posted as a comment to one of *Kid Charming*'s posts}":http://mog.com/Kid_Charming/blog_post/21447Fred leBlanc, the drummer, is the driving force behind "*Cowboy Mouth* {click on the black cat by the lamppost}":http://cowboymouth.com – an asskicking band from New Orleans, if you haven’t heard of them – but John Thomas (“Griff”) Grifith on lead and Paul (“Paul”) Sanchez o
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*Culture*:*Ten Second Shakespeare: _Twelfth Night_*:"My brother's dead, I'm living in disguise in an enemy country, and I think the Duke wants to sodomize me."_David G. Bell_*Philosophy*:Who would speak truth should have one foot in the stirrup._church reader board, Dunwoody GA_*Humanity*:If you take in a starving dog off the street, and feed him, and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.T...
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Originally my plan for last night was to go with my friend to see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in Richmond, because I like to go swing dancing with her and I thought a live big band, playing outdoors in the middle of the botanical gardens, would be a good place/excuse to do so. About a week beforehand, she discovered that Cowboy Mouth, who she'd been wanting to see for several years, were going to be ...
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When you hear a statement like this from someone at radio then it’s usually worth checking out the tune. Listen to Cowboy Mouth’s new song, I Believe, and find out for yourself. Randy Scott, 94.1 KMPS Morning Show in Seattle, says “Each time we play I Believe on our morning show the phones light-up wondering [...]
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there ain’t no looking for an answer when the question’s come and gone♫ Cowboy Mouth – Love Of My Life / 1996Cowboy Mouth never really blew and it’s too bad cause this is a great track. I was lucky enough to discover the New Orleans based quartet on a trip to the ‘96 Olympics in Atlanta. (How’s that for a one-two…
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