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Had a lot of older siblings, so grew up with folk, rock & roll, and a bit of soul music from late 50s thru late 60s. Lots of mid/late 70s stuff was pretty bad. So was glad that glimmers of rock 'n roll, folk, R&B, and real country saw revival in alternate/independent/underground music of mid 80s. Moonlighted running live sound for original music bands on small label, from 84-94 or so, in central Midwest. I guess they called us cowpunks.

150yo Riverboat Stomp song

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I met Pokey about 5 years ago when he was wearing a pin stripe suit. Must have been all of 5’5″ tall 120 lbs soaking wet with sweat. Nobody was too interested in his music at little blues bar, even tho spossedly a retro crowd.  Cupl weeks after he signed the only Cd he sold that night, he’s on Letterman.  I grew up watching Leon Redbone and Steve Martin on SNL. Maybe this is what pre-Dixieland sounded like in bars and on steamboats? The greatgrandmother of rock’n’roll that was birthed from Storytown NOLA…

Gotta love the instrumentation.

Pokey LaFarge - "Central Time" (Official Lo-Fi Cherokee Music Video)

 

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