DBT #395 Mixed Tape - Kelly - 80's Folk Music
Recently we had a chance to see Kelley Smith and Kelly Hunt play at the Trempealeau Hotel. Regular blog readers might know both and especially Kelly Hunt because she has appeared with this blog EIGHT Times. Including a review of her last album, "Ozark Symphony"
Kelly Hunt stayed in the area until Thursday and we were lucky to host her Wednesday night for a night stay with a home cooked meal. Only right to cook for artists who play their hearts out in their music for us all the time. She loved the cats, and we had to stop her from taking Pete home. (just kidding)
Here's a video from the hotel, and there are more in Around Town playlist.
Pete did give Kelly a nuzzle for safe travels to Iowa.
Our after dinner conversation was so much fun and got us reminiscing on Mixed Tapes (or CDs) as we discussed some folk legends to Lori and I as we bonded as a couple in the late 70's early 80's. Well I don't Spotify, so I told her I would do a YouTube Playlist with the songs. You know if I go through that effort; I am of course going to share it would you too. (or at least save it for me in the blog.. ha)
With 29 songs, I'm going to briefly give a reason to why each artist is on the list, but to listen you will have to go to the playlist at the end. I tried to put at most three songs of an artist, and not always what some might consider their top hits. I also expected that Kelly would listen in the car with miles to go, so many are not the shortest of songs.
1) Stan Rogers... died way to early in fire on a plane sitting on a tarmac. I quoted his intro story of White Squall in a college paper that I aced on Great Lakes Fisheries. The songs show off his skill at story telling in song.
2) Paul Cebar and Claudia Schmidt toured together and we saw them at the Blue Whale Coffeehouse at the UW Green Bay. Of course they turned the "Baby It's Cold Out" song around. Paul was billed back then as "Occasionally Handsome" and would play very shy on the song. He was also covering a lot of Louis Jordan songs back then on a solo guitar but I don't think he ever released them. I of course needed Louis in the library to fill the gap and now he's in the playlist. Claudia's cover of Spoon River also inspired Allison Sattinger to cover the song as surprise to us at her stop at the Bluff View House Concerts.
3) Greg Brown, the master songwriter story teller who was a regular on Prairie Home Companion, Kelly has to hear his story and song around Canned Goods that we had discussed.
4) Bill Staines, oh my a legend that needs everyone to know some of his smoothest songs. He played the Blue Whale and his poster & Greg's are hanging in the hallway.
5) Lost Nation String Band is another Blue Whale first, but we saw pieces of them for a long time after at the Big Top Chautauqua.
6) Don Lange was introduced to us in Manitowoc by Fritz and Mary Shuler of the Golden Ring Folklore Center. Don mostly quit the industry and now makes fancy wine. Bonnie Black Hare is an example of fun songs I snuck into the playlist.
7) Jerry Rau was a Twin Cities performer and many time an interpreter of Bill Staine songs. One of his Bill covers inspired us to have it played at our wedding. I couldn't find the song I picked in YouTube, but trio of Paxton, Hills and Gibson I also own and is probably the better version of Tom's song.
8) Art Thieme was a good friend of Fritz and Mary's and many times played Fritz's concert series. We saw Art a lot, and I learned how to pick the guitar from trying to mimic him.
9) Cindy Mangsen, a great Chicago artist, we've seen at the Blue Whale, Fritz's, Great River Folk Fest, and yes our house concert. Rudy is not an 80's song, but Kelly loved cats so much this was a story we shared.
10) Peter and Lou Berryman didn't come up in conversation, so I put the conversation with you mother on the mix.
11) Edie Allen... a total must to hear his legendary song about the Trempealeau Hotel.
12) Jim Craig was a favorite of Fritz to host, and oh that voice and the smoothness he could play a guitar. There was nothing in YouTube so I took two songs and smashed them together in an audio video. Yes he also runs Hogeye Music in Chicago.
13) Sally Rogers played the Ironwood Festival where we saw the absolute best Northern Lights, and yes while Kelly was here, we saw this outside.
14) Me. Kelly asked if I wrote music so if you stay until the end you'll hear my two hits, my songs being covered, and the song I paid both the licensing cost and Randy Sabien to put his fiddle to. Finally our Rose River original "Eight is Midnight"
Here's where the playlist is located. Click either the link or picture.
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