Billy c farlow biography

He is on the road a lot. We are trying to put that together. That answers the next question, I wondered if you guys were going to do a reunion. There was one a year ago January. We also played around Ann Arbor. The fiddle player in the house band was our former fiddle player Andy Stein. He got us on that show and it was a quick one week tour that worked out real well.

We are trying to juggle everyones schedule so we could get together and do a longer one and go to Texas, and back to California, then to the east coast and do it right and come out with a live cd. What do you feel is the best Commander Cody album? That was our best crowd and our favorite gig. We just decided to do a live album there and we spent like four nights in a row there.

This was something they had never done, usually it was a different billy c farlow biography every night. Is the Armadillo still in existence? No, it got torn down around I am sitting here looking at a poster on my wall, actually an original poster from the Armadillo of the Marshall Tucker Band with the Ken Featherton artwork. I grew up around those fellows and they loved playing there.

I can only imagine what it was like. This was an old, huge warehouse building and the actual music area held about people and had a big stage. There was a place there that sold the best damn, hippie Mexican food that you ever had in your life. We used to live, just to go there and have them feed us. For a while there was a band playing outside while there was a band playing inside.

The place was just totally swamped with people everytime we were there. The Texans could have more fun than anyone I have seen up to that point in my life. I loved to go to Austin and hang out. I had a lot of friends there and we talked about moving there especially when the Austin music scene really got going and we all talked about it, but most of the guys in the band were already set in California and not willing to move back to the east.

We did not do it, but some good friends of ours, Asleep At The Wheel did move back and it turned out to be a great move for them. I tell you Micheal, that was a helluva a town when it was jumping. I could tell some stories. Maybe you will, I understand that you are in the process of putting a book together which ought to be interesting. I have done a couple of chapters and am encouraged to finish it and get it published.

What year did you leave Commander Cody band and what happened after that? The Commander Cody band disbanded in and I started my own band and Kirchen started his and Cody went off in a rock direction. I believe the rhythm section went out with the Byrds, and we all were scattered into the four winds. I played around California for another years opening for a lot of big country acts like Rick Nelson, Flying Burrito Brothers, Kenny Rogers and then decided to take a few years off to raise my kids and then in the mid 80s went back to Commander Cody for another 6 years or so and I was the only original member in the band during that time.

He had some good personel in those days. In the early 90's, Fred James in Nashville got a hold of me and I have been doing solo albums every few years. I have about 4 of them out now. I wondered how many solo albums you had out. I know about Southern Moon because, of course, I reviewed that one and named it one of the top 25 albums of this year.

Billy c farlow biography

Tell us a little about that album and how did you hook up with Zane Records. Well, thank you Michael. I met Peter from Zane about 10 years ago when he came back to Decatur doing some stuff with Eddie Hinton before he died. I met him and his wife and really liked them and then about upteen years later, Fred James and I do this Southern Moon thing and we sent it to Peter and he went for it in a big way.

I've had this theory for the past few years why not do the country and blues together and no one has given me any trouble about it yet. The guys in Chicago, are totally into blues and would not dream of doing a Rockabilly song or country song. A blues singer from the south might, and was probably raised on both. I know lots of black guys that do great country and western and they would if their record producer asked them to.

I think it is perfectly natural for someone from the south to do that. It is my roots and my music and I have written lots of songs. A couple of years ago there was a collection of stuff by me put out called Rockabilly Blues and this had some rockabilly stuff with Elvis' old drummer, D. Fontana, and Lonnie Mack on guitar and Joe B. Mauldin on base and so we called this Rockabilly Blues and that made me think that I should do all of the stuff that I can do rather than pigeonhole myself into one thing.

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