Roly Sally & Killing the Blues
John Morton
> Sally said that the song is on a recording he did in the 80s I
>think, which was a very small label, now out of print.
It is on the Rounder record, "Woodstock Mountains - More Music from
Mud Acres". It was issued maybe 1982 or so.
BTW the first Mud Acres record (which must have been one of
the first Rounder records) is fabulous. It dates from around 1974 I guess,
and is a one-weekend group effort with the Muldaurs, the Traums, Bill
Keith, John Herald, a bunch of other folks.
John Morton Mechanical Engineering Machine Shop
jmo...@euler.me.berkeley.edu University of California at Berkeley
David Kaatz
Killing the Blues. About a year ago last August, NPR did a feature story
on this song. NPR was interested because a few different performers they
had featured had played it. Among them was Chris Smither. Anyway, for
this feature they interviewed the song's composer, Rolly (Roland?) Sally.
Sally was at that time the bass player for Chris Isaacs. Sally performed
the song live for the interview, just singing with his own acoustic
backup. I thought it was really great. I later saw Chris Smither play
it, and it was not as striking to me.
Sally said that the song is on a recording he did in the 80s I
think, which was a very small label, now out of print.
Dave
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Brian Rost
>think, which was a very small label, now out of print.
The recording was by the Woodstock Mountain Revue, it was on Rounder
and went out of print in Rounder's big vinyl purge a few years ago.
No CD yet and it's not likely either.
An easier version to find (though not as good to my ear) is by John
Prine. Not sure of the original Prine album, but it's on the Rhino
2-CD set.
The odd thing about the song that's not apparent until you really
listen carefully is that there are no rhymes in the lyrics.
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LarryRup
writes:
: Killing the Blues by Rolly Sally out of print?
I noted with interest that I believe Rounder has re-issued Music from Mud
Acres and More Music from Mud Acres on one CD (a good buy!). Killing th
Blues is a highlight. Check it out!
Larry in Queens
LarryRup
ro...@nutshell.maelstrom.timeplex.com (Brian Rost) writes:
:No re-issue of More Music from Mud Acres from Rounder.
J&R Music World has both Mud Acres albums on one CD and it includes Roly
doing "Killing the Blues".
Regards,
Larry
HappyT
writes:
>J&R Music World has both Mud Acres albums on one CD and it includes Roly
doing "Killing the Blues".
I was very pleased to see that there is some interest in Roly Salley's
"Killin' The Blues," one of my favorite songs and one that I co-produced
and played on on the original recording. Roly is also one of my closest
friends, with whom I have had many travels and adventures, musical and
otherwise. He has been playing bass for Chris Isaak for many years, with
sporadic gigs with John Prine and others when Chris is off doing other
things. Aside from John Prine's and Chris Smither's versions, the latest
Shawn Colvin album has a terrific "live" version of her performing
"Killing The Blues." My favorite rendition, though, continues to be
Roly's.
The CD that has Roly's version of "KTB"is called "Woodstock Mountains" and
it includes 22 tracks compiled from four Rounder albums we made from '72
("Mud Acres: Music Among Friends") through '81 ("Back To Mud Acres"). The
other two albums we made were "Woodstock Mountains: More Music From Mud
Acres" and "Pretty Lucky." Roly was the bass player and occasional
vocalist on all the albums, and a key member when we toured (infrequently
though it was). For those unfamiliar with our musical smorgasbord, the
other members of The Woodstock Mountains Revue included my brother Artie
and myself, John Herald, Pat Alger, Jim Rooney, Bill Keith, Larry
Campbell, and with occasional appearances by Maria Muldaur, Eric Andersen,
Lee Berg, the late Paul Butterfield, John Sebastian, Eric Kaz, Gordon
Titcomb, Caroline Dutton, Bernie Leadon and possibly a few others that
don't come immediately to mind. Our most recent reunion was a concert we
did at the Bearsville Theater a couple of years ago, which was put out as
a double-CD in Japan! Usually, we get together just for fun these days,
which is how we started out back in the early seventies as friends who
liked to pick together.
I hope someone finds all this ancient musical history interesting.
Regards,
Happy Traum