Bush-Overbey-Price-Emmons-Mathis

Steve Stallings · Post by **Steve Stallings** » 23 Jul 2002 5:42 am

I just picked up a J. Bush CD titled "Green Snakes". All of the above are playing on the CD but it is mostly Overbey. This guy has a sweet tone and chops till the cows come home.
Emmons plays on one cut "Driving Nails" and does his usual jaw dropping break. This CD is dated 2001 and is on the "Lone Star" label. Bush is of course, stellar.

stevie likes it

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Steve Stallings
Bremond, Texas

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 23 Jul 2002 6:31 am

Steve,

Were you lucky enough to get a copy with the bonus CD? If you did, what did you think of it?

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 23 Jul 2002 7:02 am

Glenn, I have the bonus cd. The quality is spotty at best, but it is still a fascinating piece of history. Willie's playing is darn good, Morrell's playing is darn good, Johnny's singing is darn good, the songs are darn good, it just doesn't sound all that great. That being said, I love it!!!

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 23 Jul 2002 7:49 am

Chris,

I agree entirely with you. Johnny ought to get the master over to a studio and have it digitally processed and release it outright. I'd buy the cleaned up version in a NY second.

BTW: I'm hoping to get my copy autographed by Willie Nelson this weekend at our gig in Dallas.

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Steve Stallings · Post by **Steve Stallings** » 23 Jul 2002 8:31 am

Bonus CD? Dang it! I bought this one used from second spin.com. It didn't have a bonus CD....drats!

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Steve Stallings
Bremond, Texas

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 23 Jul 2002 10:13 am

Steve, I think only the first 3000 came with the bonus cd. I ordered mine the day it was released, so I was one of the lucky ones.

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 23 Jul 2002 11:15 am

Steve,

Check with area record stores. There may be some that received early shipments of this CD and still have one sittin' on the shelf. It's worth looking for. Besides, if you find and buy one with the bonus CD, you can always give the non-bonus CD to your best friend.

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 23 Jul 2002 2:51 pm

Thats Buddy Emmons and Curly Chalker on that cut;; by the way.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 23 Jul 2002 2:59 pm

Ricky, what cut is that?

Jim Whitaker · Post by **Jim Whitaker** » 23 Jul 2002 3:37 pm

Is Tennessee to texas on the bonus cd ???
It had Emmons & Chalker both on that cut!!

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JIM
"Carter SD10" "73" MSA S10, "74" LTD & NASHVILLE 400, Profex II "55" Esquire, "63 Epiphone, "63" Precision,
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Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 23 Jul 2002 3:56 pm

no, chalker is not on that cut. emmons only.

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 24 Jul 2002 5:27 am

Jim,

I don't have the CD in front of me but, from memory, the bonus CD was a demo recording done in Ft. Worth in the early 60's. the only credits listed are Johnny (vocals), Willie Nelson (guitar) and Tom Morrell (steel guitar). The rest of the band may have been from Price's band. Herb might know for sure.

The songs are all classic honky-tonk. Many sound as though they came from the pen of Willie Nelson. Some did I believe. IMHO, if this recording were to be digitally re-mastered (it's rather muffled sounding) it would be right up there with all the great honky-tonk albums of that era.

It reminds me of Willie Nelson's "demo" recorded about that same time. You might know of it: "Face of a Fighter" released in 1978?? on the now-defunct Lone Star Records label. The bandmates on that recording are from Price's Cherokee Cowboys (Jimmy Day on steel). BTW: If you don't have "Face of a Fighter" and you ever come across it anywhere, drop everything you're doin' and BUY IT!! You won't be sorry.

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 24 Jul 2002 9:39 pm

Herb is right.....yeah wrong song.....heck I'm jet laggin' so help me out.....is it "window faces the south" that Buddy and Curly both cut on??? or what am I thingin' of???>
Ricky

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 25 Jul 2002 9:11 am

Ok my brain finally cleared up.....and I can't believe the uninformed garbage I put up there....ah.....ha.

I was thinkin' totally about something else....I believe I was thinkin' about a Darrel McCall cut....so never mind my babbling.....continue on.
Ricky

Gary Walker · Post by **Gary Walker** » 25 Jul 2002 9:05 pm

On the original "Tennessee To Texas" done back in the 70s it was Chalker all the way.