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Listen to: "Some Rainy Blue Monday Mornin" - Blues piano and guitar. A demo Session.
"The Meaning Of Love" - Classic girl background. "Sara Ruth" - A demo session and never heard before. |
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| The Mike Smith Story | Rockabilly Charts | Fifties Artists Links | Rockabilly Links | Sun Records Links | Rockabilly Radio |
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People and Places
Do I know you? Have I been there? Tell me about it. |
Stockton and Modesto
Fun and Games in the San Joaquin Valley. Bring me up to date. |
Feature Article:
Blue Suede News |
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| Session Timeline:
Has been described as "how not to do it." But this is how it was done, from Wichita to Nashville, with stops of
New York, Hollywood, Modesto, Nevada, and Tulsa on the way. |
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Time out. Before you begin the saga of a country boy in the big world, take a moment to go into these links and bookmark them for a daily routine. Send them to your friends and share this free feel-good fix: Clicking on each of these each and every day can bring wonderful changes to people's (and critter's) lives. I suggest putting them in your favorites file and together we can nickle and dime poverty and pain off of our planet.
| The Hunger Site | The Breast Cancer Site | The Child Health Site | The Literacy Site | The Rain Forest Site | The Animal Rescue Site |
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"Buy you a guitar and put it in tune, and you'll be a-rockin' and a-rollin' soon." From All American Boy - Bill Parsons (Bobby Bare).
My first guitar was from Montgomery Wards and it was a brutal thing with a neck like a fence post and the strings about a quarter of an inch from the fret board. The tips of my fingers turned green and the side of my first finger was sliced from making an A7. I was sixteen and didn't know any better, so I practised about a year, wrote a bunch of songs, got a cheap tape recorder, sent tapes (not cassettes) off to the major record labels - they even wrote me back, but declined - so then I went to Hollywood to get on records. Too easy.
I took the opportunity of assistant driver to California and we hit the Hollywood Freeway at 9 a.m. on July 2, 1958. Driver's Ed in Winfield, KS had not prepared me for this. The rule was one car-length for every ten miles an hour, but everytime I would try to adjust, as soon as there was any room a car would fill that space. So there we are, bumper-to-bumper at 80 mph and scared to death. I was dropped off at the Hollywood bus station and so began my: First Day In Hollywood
| Special Artist Spotlight: Park Family Bluegrass Band. Update August 2008. New photos - new CD info - new contact. |
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| Special Artist Spotlight:
Paul Ansell.
He sent me a CD and I was impressed. Then he sent me a Press Release
and I was amazed. Thank you, Paul! I will be doing several of these songs - licks worth stealing - a must buy. |
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Special Artist Spotlight:
Neil w Young & The Legendary Bear Creek Band
Think 1954 rockabilly while it was still pure and had that country thang. Thanks Neil! |
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This page - Four Corners Postcard - began in about 1996 as news concerning the five tribes - Navajo, Hopi, Jicarilla Apache, Southern Ute, and Ute Mountain Ute - of the Four Corners area. It took on a life of its own as people sent me news and the links page grew. The topics on Four Corners Postcard are relevant to the daily life of all peoples, and include women's issues and the environment. Talented artists are featured and there are links to the personal web pages of many interesting folks.
We are under construction at SheVonne Enterprises.
Email: Mike Smith