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Topic: Joaquin Murphey article from Journal Of Country Music |
Mitch Drumm
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Posted 20 Aug 2010 4:07 am |
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In 2001, The Journal Of Country Music published a lengthy article on Joaquin, written by Chicago area musician/musicologist Kenneth Rainey.
It is easily the most thorough thing every published on Murphey. Rainey even managed to get an interview with the man himself and quotes Joaquin directly.
Download it here:
http://tangleweed.org/blog/uploads/earlJoaquinMurphey_jcm.pdf
It's PDF format and runs several thousand words. |
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Frank Freniere
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The First Coast
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Posted 20 Aug 2010 5:26 am
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| Great stuff. Thanks, Mitch. |
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 20 Aug 2010 1:40 pm
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| Mitch: That was a great article and ultimately a very sad Bio. I agree with Joaquin's take on Johhny Weiss's Guitar style of playing. I always thought it was the weak spot in where Spade and Tex were taking the Bands. Most of the Section work with the Guitars was Joaquin, Johnny, and Smokey Rogers playing one of the parts in the three part harmony melodies and riffs. Later on when Tex Williams took over the Band he hired Benny Garcia who fit in much better with the Band IMHO. There never has been and probably never will be another Joaquin. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 20 Aug 2010 4:13 pm
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| Strange as it would seem, Joaquin and Vance Terry appear to have shared a very similar destiny. |
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2010 4:38 pm
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Thanks for sharing that. I enjoyed it very much.
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Guy Cundell
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More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 22 Aug 2010 4:02 am
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Thanks for this article. Hearing Murphey for the first time was like a bolt from the blue and changed my life.
The C6, high G is noted. I wonder when he first used it?
The 'Murph" album is beautiful and very melancholic. His fate seems very unjust. Far from being obsolete as a result of the emergence of the PSG, his work still shines brilliantly. It is like comparing a charcoal drawing with an oil painting. The value has nothing to do with the medium. It is the artistry. |
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Herb Steiner
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Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 22 Aug 2010 5:03 pm
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| Guy Cundell wrote: |
| It is like comparing a charcoal drawing with an oil painting. The value has nothing to do with the medium. It is the artistry. |
Well put. I couldn't have expressed it better. 
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Anthony Locke
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Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Aug 2010 6:41 pm
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| Thanks for posting this gem! |
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Kenneth Rainey
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 23 Aug 2010 3:27 pm
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| Welcome to the Forum, Kenneth - way to make a splash! |
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 23 Aug 2010 9:21 pm
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| Harpist, Spike Featherstone also played Flute which was incorporated into some of the arrangements. I saw him play Flute sometimes at the Riverside Rancho. |
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