* - Longtime guitarist, songwriter with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976 - 2017). In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine named him #79 on their 'Top 100 Guitarists' list // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original album
* - According to Colin Escott's 2004 book "Hank Williams: The Biography", fiddler Jerry Rivers always claimed that when Hank came up with the opening line, "Today I passed you on the street," and then asked for suggestions, steel guitarist Don Helms replied, "And I smelled your rotten feet."
Ann Savoy is a member of several groups, including Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, Magnolia Sisters, Savoy Family Band and Ann Savoy & Her Sleepless Knights. She is also the author of "Cajun Music, A Reflection of a People", about the history of Cajun and Zydeco music.
Real name: María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz - a Mexican recording artist, actress, and television presenter./ Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original album
Full title: 'Waitin' For The Evenin' Mail (Sittin' On The Inside, Lookin' At The Outside)' / They were a jazz band formed in NYC in 1917, and recorded from 1922 into 1931. They recorded under a variety of other names including" 'Ladd's Black Aces', 'Jazzbo's Carolina Serenaders', Bailey's Lucky Seven, 'The Southland Six' and 'The Cotton Pickers'. // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original shellac record.
He was the "Bobb B. Soxx" of the Phil Spector-produced "Bobb B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans" vocal group before this single/ Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original single
Martell was the _very first_ African-American female vocalist to perform on the "Grand Ole Opry" show, with at least 12 appearances // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original album
* - They would not miss charting a single again on the "Billboard Hot-100" chart for another 12 years. (That's incredible!! - LsA) // This album was presented as a covers/tribute album of country songs, as Ray Charles had done with "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music". However, over half of the songs were written in-house by Motown staffer Clarence Paul. / * - released only 4 months after their 3rd LP, and their 3rd album was released _two_ months after their 2nd album. They REALLY cranked out those albums BITD in the mid-1960's - LsA
* - founded Stealer's Wheel ('Stuck In The Middle With You', 'Star') in 1972, along with Gerry Rafferty / Click on the Link above/ left, to read an article about this release, which calls their style "acid blues"
* - on the 'Rocket To Russia' album; it was also the B-side of the UK single "She's the One". / Listed at #145 on the "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list // ** - just one track