Monday, January 29th, 2018 Music ThreadAll Music Is Welcomed, we'll just post early, Bill Kirchen's birthday!
The rock website is down again, so we have a few from the other website:
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/january/29Tommy Ramone, drummer, Ramones (Locket Love)
David Byron, Uriah Heep (The Wizard which some local band performed as well, I guess they thought it was good).
Irlene Mandrell, one of the Mandrell Sisters:
Noel Harrison, Rex's son I think, singing Cohen's "Suzanne", good version too.
And the "Titan of the Telecaster", the father of Dieselbilly, the guitar on Hot Rod Lincoln with 'Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen' besides his solo career, Bill Kirchen, born in Connecticut, those guys met up at the University of Michigan and put out a lot of good songs.
Tommy Collins' "Roll Truck Roll"
Here Kirchen has an instructional video on how to play "Hot Rod Lincoln", he has a few instructional type of videos on guitar:
And their original version, of course, they did not write this originally, it was unearthed years after Charlie Ryan wrote it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Rod_LincolnThey also made hay with a good version of "Smoke that cigarette"
They are a lot like the swing band, "Asleep at the wheel", well, before either band made it "big" or achieved relative success, they knew each other. Last year, I was in this forum, I told this guy in London, "oh, Bill Kirchen is touring over there" and sure enough, he went to see him.
And lastly, John Raitt: