Riding My Horse and Playing Those Cowboy Chords...

gasket said:
Then as Robert said "Cool memories". Is she still with us?
Mine is 87 and starting to slowdown, it's early Wednesday morning here and time for me to take her on our weekly shopping adventure.
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She is! 75 this year. She was a great influence on my musical taste. Her album collection included such greats as Frank Zappa, Savoy Brown, Johnny Winter, Ten Years After...and the list goes on.

My 1st concert at age 12 was with her and my step-father and on the bill was Rare Earth, Uriah Heep, and the Edgar Winter Band with Johnny and featuring Rick Derringer!

She had me at a young age (16) and we actually hung out and went to a lot of shows when I was a teenager including Zappa, Trower and Aerosmith to name a few.
 
Sp8ctre said:
She is! 75 this year. She was a great influence on my musical taste. Her album collection included such greats as Frank Zappa, Savoy Brown, Johnny Winter, Ten Years After...and the list goes on.

My 1st concert at age 12 was with her and my step-father and on the bill was Rare Earth, Uriah Heep, and the Edgar Winter Band with Johnny and featuring Rick Derringer!

She had me at a young age (16) and we actually hung out and went to a lot of shows when I was a teenager including Zappa, Trower and Aerosmith to name a few.
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Too cool... :dood:
 
Sp8ctre said:
She is! 75 this year. She was a great influence on my musical taste. Her album collection included such greats as Frank Zappa, Savoy Brown, Johnny Winter, Ten Years After...and the list goes on.

My 1st concert at age 12 was with her and my step-father and on the bill was Rare Earth, Uriah Heep, and the Edgar Winter Band with Johnny and featuring Rick Derringer!

She had me at a young age (16) and we actually hung out and went to a lot of shows when I was a teenager including Zappa, Trower and Aerosmith to name a few.
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Awesome!!!

Mine is 76. She sang with Bob Wills as a little girl in San Antonio Texas, performed in her Stepfather's band and as a solo artist in San Antonio's Historic Keyhole Club, became a back up vocalist for Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, established herself as a commercial jingle artist, cowboy poet and solo artist too.

She wrote this original in 1978 (and recorded it with The Buckaroos) about a woman she knew growing up. We cut it together in 2011 as a blues tune.

She did all the vocals and I let her do it exactly how she wanted:

Crazy Lizzy MP3
 
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gasket said:
So she was 69 or 70 when this was put down? Great voice for her age! ... No, great voice for any age!!!
Nice clean backing also.
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Now Mom never tells her true age, but she was born in 1940 and we recorded this in my home studio using Cool Edit Pro and a HP computer microphone in April of 2011, so she was 71 when we cut this. Mom is still recording cowboy poetry and commercial jingles.

The fact that Lizzy was a real person makes her story so chilling to me...

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San Antonio's Keyhole Club was one of the first multi-racial dance clubs in Texas...
 
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Sp8ctre said:
She is! 75 this year. She was a great influence on my musical taste. Her album collection included such greats as Frank Zappa, Savoy Brown, Johnny Winter, Ten Years After...and the list goes on.

My 1st concert at age 12 was with her and my step-father and on the bill was Rare Earth, Uriah Heep, and the Edgar Winter Band with Johnny and featuring Rick Derringer!

She had me at a young age (16) and we actually hung out and went to a lot of shows when I was a teenager including Zappa, Trower and Aerosmith to name a few.
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Fabulous! Three Cheers!
 
Robert Herndon said:
Awesome!!!

Mine is 76. She sang with Bob Wills as a little girl in San Antonio Texas, performed in her Stepfather's band and as a solo artist in San Antonio's Historic Keyhole Club, became a back up vocalist for Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, established herself as a commercial jingle artist, cowboy poet and solo artist too.

She wrote this original in 1978 (and recorded it with The Buckaroos) about a woman she knew growing up. We cut it together in 2011 as a blues tune.

She did all the vocals and I let her do it exactly how she wanted:

Crazy Lizzy MP3
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This is fantastic Robert, both the song and the story! Very Cool...
 
Robert Herndon said:
We are so fortunate to still have our Mom's....and my heart goes out to those of us who do not....
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I'm also fortunate to still have my Grandma who turned 94 last month. She is still mobile and has all her wits. She was the 1st and biggest musical
influence in the family. She still has an organ, piano, lap steel, harpsichord, and an accordion...

Here she is at around age 17 with an Orpheum Acoustic.

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