Here’s a radio show of some 60’s-70’s rarities. I love the ones by the Breakers and Flash and the Memphis Casuals. I bet they kicked ass live (I’m not old enough to have seen them, although I did see about half of the others on this list). Unlisted after the Tommy Hoehn song is a pretty terrible cover of “I Walk the Line” by a band called Hot Dogs, who had some good songs; why on earth was that chosen? I find Chris Bell’s acoustic version of “I Am The Cosmos” too slow, sludgy, and depressing–which I guess makes sense, as he was chronically depressed. It’s the sound of Quaalude abuse. The official single version moves along better, although there’s still about as much sludge as I can endure.
Tales of True Adventure for Rugged Men Not Unlike Yourself
Did Sid Selvidge have any success outside of Memphis? Did you know him?
He’d go play in New York pretty regularly, so he did have a small cult following outside of Memphis. I didn’t know him well, but we were on speaking terms. He played solo pretty much weekly at a club downtown called Jefferson Square, which burned down sometime in the 80’s. It’s a parking lot now. I saw him play there very many times. I loved his voice, I could listen to it all night and often did. I also admired how he kept up a low-key music career while being a professor at Southwestern (Rhodes, whatever). During that time I was white-knuckling between college and an insane band life, so I was impressed.
Thanks. His son is a gifted musician.
Somebody I know with a band needs to cover Don’t Send Me No Flowers. That song is a burner.
Oh, and I saw him play with Mud Boy and the Neutrons (Jim Dickinson and Lee Baker’s occasional band) a number of tmes. I’m thinking Sid might have been the first musician I encountered who was also a functioning adult. A rarity in Memphis, and maybe anywhere.