<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>In a message dated 1/22/03 12:38:58 PM Central Standard Time, barbonestreet@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Charlie Hooks wrote (that he could integrate Country Western, and<BR>
Dixieland)<BR>
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I could, and it wouldn't be hard at all. Think: "San Antonio Rose" as a<BR>
classic C&W that is easily dixiefyable (is that a word? It should be.).<BR>
All you need is the properly phrased lead line (think Wild Bill<BR>
Davison--he<BR>
could dixify damn near anything, easily SAR) PLUS a trombone player who<BR>
knows his job. Like Beebe, for instance. Put Billy Kyle on piano and<BR>
you wouldn't even need Arvell on bass, although he would certainly help.<BR>
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Come to think of it, just imagine Louis' band playing ANY tune--Trummy<BR>
and Louis, Barrett and Arvell and Billy, and take your choice of<BR>
clarinet players--those guys could take "Pomp and Circumstance" and<BR>
swing the hell of it--much less "Country Roads." And any audience would<BR>
love it, even the C&W audience, although (duh...) they wouldn't know<BR>
why.<BR>
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I would think Charlie and Jim Beebe et al could do it easily also,<BR>
though he is too modest to say so. ;-). Barbone Street crosses over all<BR>
the time with songs like "Sioux City Sue" etc. And certainly a lot of<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> Charlie Hooks has negleted to mention that he and I played some country music traveling about with Gary Miller's Celbration Road Show.<BR>
We did a lot of school shows and found that the only way we could do country songs for kids ( and for our night club audiences as well) was to do parodies. So we did the 'Lyin' Time parody on 'Cryin' Time.' Another tune we did was "She's only a barmaid in the Honky-tonk Downstairs." We did this one as straight as we could because it parodied itself. I played country piano on these tunes and I think that Charlie sang backup. Or more likely he was at the bar, the appropriate setting for 'drinkin' and cheatin' music.<BR>
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Country music in its way is a very creative field and there is a lot of music and artists within this genre that I've always liked. I have found that a lot of country artists really like Dixieland jazz and some of them like Merle Haggard have recorded tunes more or less with a dixie line-up.<BR>
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As Charlie points out Louis Armstrong and his bnd could could take any country tune and swing the bejesus out of it. Louis did record many country tunes throughout his career.<BR>
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