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11-23-2016, 02:35 PM
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11-23-2016, 06:43 PM
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Fred Kaiser, who used to book the Philadelphia Folk Festival, once told me this story:
Leon was scheduled to play the festival and by chance was hanging out with Fred at his home before heading over the the festival grounds. While the world knows next to nothing about Leon, this can be certain. According to Fred, Leon is an EXCEPTIONAL pool shark, who beat the pants off of him.
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11-24-2016, 04:48 AM
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11-24-2016, 08:06 AM
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Saw Mr. Redbone play a number of times in Toronto in the 70s, usually at the Riverboat. Still have his first two recordings (LPs!!)...bought the first one, On the Tracks, just because I love the WB/Bugs Bunny frog on the cover. You have to admit that that frog and Leon were a good match. Of course, the camel was no slouch either.
My mother heard it and said, "It's about time you started listening to real music!" So, I took her to see him and she had a ball...ended up taking her to see Gord, Neil, Cat Stevens and a whole lot of other acoustic acts over the next few years. But Leon started it off. Ah, the memories... Phil
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11-24-2016, 08:29 AM
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I think it was the mid or later seventies my brother said, 'check this out'. It was a Leon Redbone album...one of those big black round things you would put on a turning apparatus. I loved it. Very much different from the music I was listening to at the time. So every chance we got, my brother and I would introduce it to our friends when they stopped around. It was interesting to see the response. "What is this?". And they all loved it too. Leon opened up musical avenues that high-schoolers never knew at that time. My father would just grin. We look for timelessness. Good stuff sticks. I still hum 'Lazy Bones' even after all these years.
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11-24-2016, 08:32 AM
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Leon Redbone is one of my musical heroes. I love his eccentricity, his presentation and delivery, and his repertoire which I would define as Hokum and vaudeville.
I've had two duos doing lots of his material, with me playing archtop guitar, dobro, mandolin, Hawaiian, etc. I miss those gigs. I once saw him sitting with friends in a local village pub. A fellow muso confirmed that it was definitely him and that he had a house in the village (a very quiet, arty and affluent part of the country) He said "we have a tacit agreement in this village - we don't approach celebrities. I left him in peace ....kinda wish I hadn't. Very saddened to hear that he has retired from performing and recording. I have all his albums. c
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11-24-2016, 10:00 AM
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I remember Leon Redbone used to appear on Johnny Carson's show quite often for a while. Evidently, Carson had interesting and unexpected musical tastes and helped several people like Redbone reach a much bigger audience.
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06-04-2019, 07:09 AM
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Well of the tunes presented today, those were standards out of the american songbook. I dont see them as blues at all. Would you call Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong blues? I dont really think of them as jazz either though at the time that is what they called it. My dad had tones of those albums from the 40's so I guess it could be called 40's jazz but thats not the term that is usually used.
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