JACOB CLYDE: News

CCR AT WOODSTOCK
Because of contract problems between Fantasy Records and Atlantic none of CCR's 11 song set appeared on the Woodstock LPs. The set list was:
1.) Born on a Bayou
2.) Green River
3.) Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do
4.) Commotion
5.) Bootleg
6.) Bad Moon Rising
7.) Proud Mary
8.) I Put a Spell On You
9.) Night Time is the Right Time
10.) Keep On Chooglin'
11.) Suzy Q

Jimi Hendrix was the highest paid performer at Woodstock, earning $18, 000 (plus $12, 000 for film appearances).
Blood, Sweat & Tears got paid $15, 000
The Who got $11, 200
CCR, Canned Heat, Joan Baez and Jefferson Airplane all got paid the same- $10, 000


MIDSUMMER DAY
I was born on midsummer day. I used to wonder how it could have been Midsummer Day when I always thought the first day of summer was June 21st but I have since learned the scoop: To the farmer, Midsummer Day was the midpoint of the growing season and was halfway between spring planting and fall harvest (and was therefore an occasion for festivity).

HOT ROD CATS & KITTENS!
Check out:
ART OF THE HOT ROD with Photography by Peter Harholdt, Motorbooks 2008
Some GREAT pix in this book!

HIPPIES!
Check out:
THE KALEIDOSCOPE BOOK: A Spectrum of Spectacular Scopes to Make, edited by Thom Boswell, a Sterling Lark Book

COWBOYS!
Check out:
BLUE STEEL AND GUNLEATHER by John Bianchi, Beinfeld Publishing, Inc.
This book takes the cake on cowboy holsters and has a lot of info on the fast draw.

DADDY COOL
Back before Rockpile, Robert Gordon (w Link Wray), Polecats, Matchbox, the commercial Straycats or Neil Young's "Everybody's Rockin'" there was DADDY COOL, the rock & rock-a-billy group from Down Under. I saw Daddy Cool way back when when they opened for Fleetwood Mac at a concert at Grand Valley and I still get a kick when I think of the title track "Daddy Cool" or their "Zoop Bop."

I'm going down down down,
My nose is in the sand.
I'm going down down down,
My nose is in the sand.
A cloud iof dust just came over me;
I feel like I'm drowning on dry land.
-Albert King, "Drowning on Dry Land"

"Tickle your tongue with fruit stripe gum."
-Sixties Gum Comercial Jingle

ARABIA SUNK!
The steamer Arabia bound for Council Bluffs struck a snag about a mile below Parkville and sank to the boiler deck- Boat and cargo a total loss.
-Kansas City Enterprise
September 6, 1856

THE STEAMBOAT ARABIA
In 1988 an old worn river map lead the way to where the Arabia had gone down so many years ago. The Missouri River's course changed over time and the boat ended up being buried deep beneath a farmer's field. It was found about 1/2 mile from the river's edge, lying 45 feet under ground. The Arabia went down in the late summer of 1856 and went down carrying over 200 tons of dishware, jewelry, guns, gold and many other items. Cool thing is- you can see all the rescued treasures at the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City.
For the steamboat history buff you can check out
www.1856.com
call (816) 471-4030
or write:
Arabia Steamboat Museum
400 Grand Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64106

TO YOU, JACOB
Life is real, life is earnest and the grave is not its goal. Let us, then, be up and doing. Learn to labor and to wait.
-Longfellow

Jimi Hendrix said that "Hey Joe" was a blues arrangement of a cowboy song.

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Here are some thoughts from some blues writers:

The blues is a personal statement made in musical terms which is nevertheless valid for all members of society.
-Frank Tirro

More specifically, singers associate the feeling of blues with uncertainty, ambiguity, loneliness, the nighttime and being "in the dark," worry, powerlessness, longing, poverty, hunger, wanderlust, evil thoughts, and, above all, dissatisfaction. "Got the blues and can't be satisfied" is one of the oldest and most frequently heard traditional verses. Feelings such as these can produce in some people a sense of paralysis and hopelessness, but they seldom do so in a setting where blues music is found. Although all of these themes are common enough in blues lyrics, the very expression of them seems to produce the opposite effect in singers and audience alike. Blues music thus can function as a form of personal and group psychotherapy. Singing or listening to the blues exorcises the feeling of the blues, at least for the time being.
-David Evans, in THE NPR CURIOUS LISTENER'S GUIDE TO THE BLUES

The blues exists as a finest body of folk poetry in a modern industrial world.
-R. P. Jones, from JAZZ

The blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Blues music is not. With all its so-called blue notes and overtones of sadness, blues music of its very nature and function ois nothing if not a form of diversion. With all its preoccupation with the most disturbing aspects of life, it is something contrived specifically to be performed as entertainment. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so it is actually expected to generate a disposition that is both elegantly playful and heroic in its nonchalance.
-Albert Murry

The blues can differ in mood, theme, approach, or style of delivery. Blues are not intrinsically pessimistic even though they often tell of defeat and downheartedness, for in expressing the problem of poverty, migration, family disputes, and oppression, the blues provides a catharsis which enables the participants to return to their environment with resignation, if not optimism. There is an expressive sensuality in the blues that is almost exultant in its affirmation of life, and the music eases the pain, providing an outlet for the frustration, hurt, and anger the blues singer and his audience feel.
-Frank Tirro

Back in 2002, Sean Costello was asked what his thoughts were on the state of the blues today, and he said, "We're coming out of a time when the mainstream has been very much pop, and I think there's gonna be a backlash to that, and the better blues artists are going to be in a good position to benefit from that."

THE HOUSE OF TRIBULATION
Experience is the best teacher, since it offers individual instruction.
-Have a Good Day

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
-David Lloyd George

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song.
-Carl Perkins

Experience is the hardest teacher because you take the test before you learn the lesson.
-Anon.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting pearls.
-Jem Paul Richter

I think one of the biggest ways to overcome any trial in life, to heal from any kind of experience is by helping those around you.
-Elizabeth Smart, who was rescued; after being kidnapped, tortured, raped and held captive

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
-Shelley (the poet)

The mark of rank in nature is the capacity for pain, and the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.
-Sarah (Sadie) Williams

As is all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasure even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows.
-George MacDonald

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
-Frederick Phillips

Unexpected detours in life can lead to the best roads of all.
-Mort Crim

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein

The things I had to do to survive back then have made me what I am
-Doug Kershaw, Cajun Fiddler

He has seen but half of the universe who has never been shown the house of pain.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
-O. Henry

Pain nourishes courage.
-Mary Tyler Moore

The source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
-Mark Twain

Listen. Just take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest as evidence that you're on the right road.
-J. E. Tada

I find it very interesting that when George Harrison was reflecting on the past, he talked about "disasters" that, "When looking back, were not disasters at all."

The BLUES GUITAR DELUXE CD won the 2004 Jammie Award for Best Local Blues Album and has recieved much acclaim and notice.

I tried to translate this from the Dutch:
"Maybe a good anedote for the future"
"He really wants to say that we should dare innovate"
"It all sounds very good"
"Sometimes sober like somewhere on a cottonfield and then is like the rush live in N.Y."
"I can only give this tip: buy this food and a thousand times dispatch"
-Blueswalker

A fresh treat! What Jacob Clyde does is suberb!
-Erick, Blues & Company Magazine (France)

4 bottles for a True-Blues Indie release that will appeal to both Blues Guitar fans and Southern/Texas aficionados.
-Andy Grigg, Editor- Real Blues Magazine

The songs are well performed and the guitar work is excellent.
-Kristy Hanson, Music Revue Magazine

Jacob Clyde's versatility will amaze you.
-Lefty

This Texan-turned-Grand Rapidian who plays slow-cookin' blues guitar says he's "into doing a new blues thing." His approach owes plenty to old blues guitar greats, but he also spawns some chops of his own.
-John Sinkevics, G. R. Press