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Attn. Southrons: A Mystery Solved!!!
Attn. Southrons: A Mystery Solved!!!
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...=8509#post8509
Back in 1999, I first became aware of a collection of Civil War songs by a country singer who sounded a lot like David Allan Coe and Billy Joe Shaver.
I became aware of it when my next-door-neighbor made a tape of said songs from some radio broadcast or other, and gave the tape to me on my birthday that year.
Unfortunately, I taped over the original master tape, and the copy I made fell on my bathroom floor, and, by the time I had realized it was there, it was, quite literally, soaked in piss.
Nonetheless, I made a third copy of what I could salvage of it, and, in 2003, got my then friend, Sir Calvin Mann, Earl Of Douchebagge, (a fat, pothead sack of shit from South Carolina, who ended up screwing me over to the tune of $200) to transcribe it to CD for me.
Of course, I had no idea who the singer was, although I always asked around, whenver I attended a re-enactment. Nobody seemed to know. Looking back, I wonder why I never asked about it on Stormfront or VNNF when I was posting there? Guess it just slipped my mind for some reason. Might've found out sooner if I had. When it came time to list an artist for the CD on my computer's MusicMatch jukebox, back in November 2003, I just copped out and labelled the artist "The Great Confederate Pizza Bandit" as a joke. (It was kind of an inside joke, about my getting banned from the Mr. Gatti's in Oak Ridge. When I first hit the one in Sevierville, I had quipped, "The Great Confederate Pizza Bandit strikes again!")
But, anyway, back in June 2011, I finally found out. It was only because I lucked out by running into a guy named Rick Revel, (www.rickrevel.com)---an actor, re-enactor, and musician in his own right,---at a Revolutionary War re-enactment, of all things, at Fort Southwest Point in Kingston. I met the older guy who had come there with him, and had a fairly long conversation with him. He was running the one sutler's tent that there was. Turns out, one of the things he was selling was a CD of Civil War songs by Rick Revel, which he played for me, and I ended up buying. I asked the old guy about the other CD, telling him what the guy sounded like, and the titles of a few of the songs. He said he didn't know, but surely Rick would, since he knew everybody involved in Civil War music.
So, I asked him, and he said the guy's name was Billy Ray Reynolds. When he wrote it down for me, (inside the cover of a paperback book he had written about Pvt. Todd Carter, C.S.A., who had literally died in his own backyard, in the Battle Of Franklin) he spelled it "Billie" instead of "Billy", which I don't know whether was intentional or not. Maybe they had a rivalry going or something.
So, when I got home, I went ahead and Google-searched the name, and found out that the album was called PRIVATES TO THE FRONT VOL. 1, but it was released on a small, local label, and had been out of print for years. I figured, at the time, that my chances of ever finding a copy would be pretty slim.
However, I decided to Google-search it again, a couple of weeks ago, and I found that the MP3 was available for download again, and, believe it or not, there was a guy selling a physical copy in the original shrink wrap on ebay for $12.50 + S&H, which I ordered.
Did another Google search just now, to see if the guy on ebay had anymore for sale, but he didn't. However, Amazon has a used one listed for $18.75. CDBaby has the download for sale.
It's a damn good album. I'd give it five stars, myself, and, believe me, I don't give five-star reviews often.
The CD contains 22 tracks, a mixture of traditional numbers like "Girl I Left Behind", "Lorena", "Dixie", and "Bonnie Blue Flag", and original compositions like "Charleston", "The Ghost Of Lee" (covered by Waylon Jennings), "Wesley Went To War", "Georgia Clay", "John Bell Hood Stood On The Hill", "Beulahland" and "Atlanta's Burning Down", and is a fine tribute to the Confederate soldier.
While I don't have time to write a formal review today, (Hopefully, I'll get the chance over the next few months.) I will simply point out here that Billy Ray, who started out as a rhythm guitarist in Waylon Jennings's band, is a damn good singer and guitar player, and is joined on this effort by a number of individuals who ought to be fairly well-known to country music fans: Gary Kubal on drums, Dave Palmeroy on bass, Al Perkins on dobro, and Ernie Reed on fiddle.
An interesting sidenote, that White Nationalists, in particular, should find amusing: When he sings the old traditional number, "Jubilo", aka "Kingdom Comin'" or "The Kingdom's Comin'", and rendered on the label as "Jubilio", instead of the actual lyric, which was "Yankees", for some reason or other, he sings the word, "NIGGERS", clear as a bell.
The song, for those unfamiliar with it, is an old minstrel show stomper, written from the point of view of slaves on the plantation, when their master "runs away" in the face of invading Yankees. Here's how the verse actually goes: "I 'spect he's tryin' to fool them Yankees
Into thinkin' he's contraband." Billy Ray substitues "niggers" for "Yankees", which, I suspect was, at the very least, a protest against political correctness, since the song fades out into the first bars of "Dem Golden Slippers", emphasizing the number's minstrel show roots.
Well worth a listen.
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...=8509#post8509
Back in 1999, I first became aware of a collection of Civil War songs by a country singer who sounded a lot like David Allan Coe and Billy Joe Shaver.
I became aware of it when my next-door-neighbor made a tape of said songs from some radio broadcast or other, and gave the tape to me on my birthday that year.
Unfortunately, I taped over the original master tape, and the copy I made fell on my bathroom floor, and, by the time I had realized it was there, it was, quite literally, soaked in piss.
Nonetheless, I made a third copy of what I could salvage of it, and, in 2003, got my then friend, Sir Calvin Mann, Earl Of Douchebagge, (a fat, pothead sack of shit from South Carolina, who ended up screwing me over to the tune of $200) to transcribe it to CD for me.
Of course, I had no idea who the singer was, although I always asked around, whenver I attended a re-enactment. Nobody seemed to know. Looking back, I wonder why I never asked about it on Stormfront or VNNF when I was posting there? Guess it just slipped my mind for some reason. Might've found out sooner if I had. When it came time to list an artist for the CD on my computer's MusicMatch jukebox, back in November 2003, I just copped out and labelled the artist "The Great Confederate Pizza Bandit" as a joke. (It was kind of an inside joke, about my getting banned from the Mr. Gatti's in Oak Ridge. When I first hit the one in Sevierville, I had quipped, "The Great Confederate Pizza Bandit strikes again!")
But, anyway, back in June 2011, I finally found out. It was only because I lucked out by running into a guy named Rick Revel, (www.rickrevel.com)---an actor, re-enactor, and musician in his own right,---at a Revolutionary War re-enactment, of all things, at Fort Southwest Point in Kingston. I met the older guy who had come there with him, and had a fairly long conversation with him. He was running the one sutler's tent that there was. Turns out, one of the things he was selling was a CD of Civil War songs by Rick Revel, which he played for me, and I ended up buying. I asked the old guy about the other CD, telling him what the guy sounded like, and the titles of a few of the songs. He said he didn't know, but surely Rick would, since he knew everybody involved in Civil War music.
So, I asked him, and he said the guy's name was Billy Ray Reynolds. When he wrote it down for me, (inside the cover of a paperback book he had written about Pvt. Todd Carter, C.S.A., who had literally died in his own backyard, in the Battle Of Franklin) he spelled it "Billie" instead of "Billy", which I don't know whether was intentional or not. Maybe they had a rivalry going or something.
So, when I got home, I went ahead and Google-searched the name, and found out that the album was called PRIVATES TO THE FRONT VOL. 1, but it was released on a small, local label, and had been out of print for years.
I figured, at the time, that my chances of ever finding a copy would be pretty slim.However, I decided to Google-search it again, a couple of weeks ago, and I found that the MP3 was available for download again, and, believe it or not, there was a guy selling a physical copy in the original shrink wrap on ebay for $12.50 + S&H, which I ordered.
Did another Google search just now, to see if the guy on ebay had anymore for sale, but he didn't. However, Amazon has a used one listed for $18.75. CDBaby has the download for sale.
It's a damn good album. I'd give it five stars, myself, and, believe me, I don't give five-star reviews often.
The CD contains 22 tracks, a mixture of traditional numbers like "Girl I Left Behind", "Lorena", "Dixie", and "Bonnie Blue Flag", and original compositions like "Charleston", "The Ghost Of Lee" (covered by Waylon Jennings), "Wesley Went To War", "Georgia Clay", "John Bell Hood Stood On The Hill", "Beulahland" and "Atlanta's Burning Down", and is a fine tribute to the Confederate soldier.
While I don't have time to write a formal review today, (Hopefully, I'll get the chance over the next few months.) I will simply point out here that Billy Ray, who started out as a rhythm guitarist in Waylon Jennings's band, is a damn good singer and guitar player, and is joined on this effort by a number of individuals who ought to be fairly well-known to country music fans: Gary Kubal on drums, Dave Palmeroy on bass, Al Perkins on dobro, and Ernie Reed on fiddle.
An interesting sidenote, that White Nationalists, in particular, should find amusing: When he sings the old traditional number, "Jubilo", aka "Kingdom Comin'" or "The Kingdom's Comin'", and rendered on the label as "Jubilio", instead of the actual lyric, which was "Yankees", for some reason or other, he sings the word, "NIGGERS", clear as a bell.
The song, for those unfamiliar with it, is an old minstrel show stomper, written from the point of view of slaves on the plantation, when their master "runs away" in the face of invading Yankees. Here's how the verse actually goes: "I 'spect he's tryin' to fool them Yankees
Into thinkin' he's contraband." Billy Ray substitues "niggers" for "Yankees", which, I suspect was, at the very least, a protest against political correctness, since the song fades out into the first bars of "Dem Golden Slippers", emphasizing the number's minstrel show roots.
Well worth a listen.
---CGO. 1/20/'09.
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