LHI unveiled

My first post with a photo, trying to see how it looks. Lee Hazlewood, announcing the debut of his new label, LHI (Lee Hazlewood Industries).

Dolly Parton

Is playing at the San Francisco Bluegrass Festival next weekend. It's not really a "bluegrass" festival, but there is *some* bluegrass involved--just most of the music is basically country and/or old time folk. Not that I'm complaining. The festival is free, the music's GREAT, and extremely well organized.

Charlie Poole

This guy's story is pretty wild. He was a Southern singer, regional appeal, who wound up with quite the reputation as a boozer and ladies man, but also a top-notch musician and front man. And quite the charmer, or so they say. He cut at least several dozen songs (I don't know how many), and believe it or not, Sony (which owns Columbia, for whom Poole recorded in the 1920s) is releasing a four CD (yep, four) box set on the guy. Pretty cool, must say.

Here's the goods on Ted

Check out Ted Daffan's bio from the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.


Or if you're curious where he's buried (he died in '96), this little site will tell ya.

Heading Down the Wrong Highway

Ted Daffan recorded that song in the 1940s - Ted's a sadly overlooked country artist, an original honky tonker. He wrote "Born to Lose," one of the classics of the genre. I'll dig up a version and post it soon.