Band members include:
Smokey Smith (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Morrie Jones (lead guitar)
Bob Stafford (steel guitar)
Don Edwards (guitar)
Garland Dye (bass)
Lew Martin (fiddle)
Don Mills (square dance caller)
I will start to put recordings of Morrie here for all to enjoy. There are many boxes of tapes - reel to reel, cassette, even some old lacquer radio station direct cut transcription discs!For now, these recordings are quick and dirty conversions. In time, I hope to do some noise reduction on these tracks, and clean them up a bit, in hopes of putting together a CD of dad's playing. I will upgrade these copies if I get some of that processing completed.
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Band members include: Smokey Smith (rhythm guitar, vocals) Morrie Jones (lead guitar) Bob Stafford (steel guitar) Don Edwards (guitar) Garland Dye (bass) Lew Martin (fiddle) Don Mills (square dance caller) |
This first batch of tunes is from the January 6, 1956 show :
Maggie (mp3)
South (mp3)
Yellow Rose (mp3)
This number is from the April 13, 1956 show :
Snow Deer (mp3)
Wildwood Flower (mp3)
This is a casual recording from a club date, and not the best recording. But this number displays a lot of Morrie's versatility of style. In addition to straight ahead lead flat picking, at 0:38 he does some of his famous jazzy block chording arrangements, and at 0:46 he breaks into some good old Merle Travis style picking, which he loved so much. He then rotates through all those styles again throughout the piece.
Somewhere My Love - coming soon - featuring his use of the GuitOrgan
Check back! Much more to come!
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revised 07/14/06