Member Since: 9/29/2006
Band Website: brothersjoern.com/cds/bluesballads/
Band Members: Dennis Karl Joern - lyrics, vocals and guitars
Dawn Teague - Lyrics and solo vocal on "I’m Not Your Sidedish"
Lyrics, backing vocals (the highs and the lows - the voices from way down in the delta south)
Allen James Teague - piano, keyboards and engineering/mixing
Dave W. Joern - guitars, bass
"Moonshine Shadow Blues":
Dennis K. Joern - lyrics, vocals and guitar
D. E. Murphy - slide guitar (...Mr. Murphy uses D.R. strings!)
Dave W. Joern - baritone guitar
Allen James Teague - organ
For my adventurous friends, you may check out excerpts from the entire "Blues and Ballads" CD at the Band Website link above.
THE TALE OF THE "SANDALS" SONG
So it came to pass that one day we took off with the two youngest for the Pacific coast on a much deserved vacation and it was hotter than heck in my piece of doggiedoo ford fairmont. We had a great time at seaside and garibaldi, buying a crabbeast right there where it came out from the water, boiling its sorry carcass and feasting, then proceeded to camp there upon the waters edge... the next day it was getting really weird weatherly related, so we bebopped about our business until the day drew to a close, needing to find another place to camp. Then, without even a warning, holy grail, the skies opened up. We set the tent up in a 45 degree angle downpour, almost to the point of finding the answer in the wind! We went off to find food, finding a fine pizza joint not too far off. When we returned the tent was flat smack on the ground, everything inside was soaked so we were les miserables. Morning came as often it did, calmer with a slight drizzle, so we walked down to the beach to remove our foot apparel and dance shoeless in the sand. While this frivolity was transpiring, my sandals had been removed from terra firma and were well on their way, heading west, chasing the sun upon the Pacific Ocean! So thus it happened, my mind conceived a song, and my foots had no clothes!
MY FIRST GUITAR
My first guitar came at about the age of 11 in Kansas City, Mo. We actually lived on 12th Street. But not Vine… When The Beatles came out with “Paperback Writer†I had to have one. It helped a lot that Sir Paul was a lefty. My brain couldn’t make a right-handed guitar work. So I changed the strings around the left way. The guitar was a nameless dark red sunburst cheesecutter that cost all of $15. Pa paid half and I paid half. Brother Dave and I would go down the street to the local church where the pastor taught guitar in the evenings. Fifteen budding rock stars strumming “We were sinking deep in sin†until our fingers bled. “Gloria†and “Wild Thing†seemed so much easier but we couldn’t play those in church. Not that devil stuff! We moved back to Spokane and that poor guitar fell apart. A victim of humidity changes I suspect… I also was one of only five from Manchester Elementary School chosen to sing in the Kansas City All-City Chorus.
I went without a guitar for a year until I bought a Decca hollow body electric with f holes for $36 at Valu-Mart. Now I found after flipping it around that the knobs were on the top, right where my left elbow went. Of course by this time Jimi was playing that upside down Strat. I must be ok I thought, just work around it…
Influences:
Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Willie, Waylon and the Boys, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, John, Sir Paul, George, Ringo, Stu and Pete, Jimi, Noel and Mitch, Stevie Ray, The Stones, Jade Warrior, The Allman Bros., Cream, CCR, The Masked Marauders, Allen James Teague, Midnight Oil, Ezekiel Kelly, The Yardbirds, Blind Willie McTell, Rick Nelson, Robert Johnson, Cab Calloway, Rev. Gary Davis, John Mayalls Bluesbreakers, Elmore James, Johnny Winter, Sons of the Pioneers, Carlos Santana, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Canned Heat, Buddy Guy, The Who, Sir Elton, Doc and Merle Watson, Joan Baez, Woody, Arlo, Tony Iommi, Motown, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Clash, Pete Seeger, Ritchie Blackmore, Pink Floyd, Mama Cass, Otis Redding, Michael Hedges, Donovan, T-Rex, Alvin Lee, GFR, Leslie West, CSN&Young, Joni Mitchell...
Others-
my son Sam, Wes Torres, Crazy Horse, Leonardo, Albert Einstein, Hillary Clinton, MLKjr, Rembrandt, Chief Joseph, Vincent Van Gogh, RFK, Freeman Dyson, Rosa Parks, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Salvador Dali, Steven Hawking, Ghandi, The Marx Bros., Liv Tyler, Sitting Bull, E.A.Poe, Nelson Mandela, Julia Roberts, Jackie Robinson, Eric the Red, Stan and Ollie, Red Cloud, Yoko Ono, Abbie Hoffman, Ma & Pa Kettle, Claus Oldenberg, JRR Tolkein, Robin Williams, Picasso, Cole Younger, Marlene Deitrich, Pres. Jimmy Carter, Robert Frost, Kate Hepburn, Oliver Cromwell, Humphrey Bogart, MC Escher, Maj. Gen. George Picketts' Virginians, William Wallace, Eleanor Roosevelt...
Films-
Harvey, Lust for Life, Them, A Hard Days Night, Smoke Signals, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Little Big Man, Caveman, Way Out West, Quest for Fire, Rebel Without a Cause, The Quiet Man, Battlefield Earth, Goonies, Metropolis, The Island, Citizen Kane, The Vikings, The Postman, Independence Day, Enemy at the Gate, The Sandlot, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Some Like it Hot, The 5th Element, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Mars Attacks!, King Creole, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Man Who Fell to Earth, They Died with Their Boots On, Waterworld, Lost Boys, Forrest Gump, Harry Potter (all), A.I., The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Borrowers, Field of Dreams, How I Won the War, Casablanca, Before Sunrise, Spartacus, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World...
Songs-
For What it's Worth, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, War Pigs, Masters of War, Girl From the North Country, Working Class Hero, Teach Your Children, Machine Gun, 400 Years, Dust My Broom, Bridge of Sighs, I'd Love to Change the World, Roland the Headless Thomson Gunner, Prodigal Son, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Subdivisions, Lola, Diamonds and Rust, Great White Buffalo, John Barleycorn Must Die, Time Has Come Today, Snowblind Friend, Lonesome Town, Song for Europa, Stand By Me, Don't Let Me Down, Whiter Shade of Pale, You Got Me Floatin', Crazy, Jailbreak, Two of Us, Snowshoe Thompson, Little Red Rooster, Rain on the Scarecrow, Oh Very Young, The Mess, Cottonfields, Gimme Shelter, Detour, A Love Bizzare, Ballad of a Thin Man, Beware of Darkness, Werewolves of London, Volunteers of America, Darkness Darkness, Simple Man, Alladin Sane, Yer Blues, How Much is that Doggie in the Window?, Third Stone From the Sun, Coal Miners Daughter, Tears of a Clown, Love in Vain, Minnie the Moocher, Pictures of Lilly, Ohio, Goodnight Irene, The Pusher, Little Deuce Coupe, Act Naturally, Shake Rattle and Roll, Graveyard Train, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Duke of Earl, Jackson, Don Quixote, Child of the Moon, Mamas Don't Let your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys, For Emily (Whenever I May Find Her), Ferry Cross the Mersey, Sugar Magnolia, Donna, Angel from Montgomery, Walk on the Wild Side, Love Me Tender, America, Ballad of the Green Berets, Travelin' Man, Grandmas Feather Bed, Wooden Ships, Train Kept a Rollin', Hot Tamales, Time in a Bottle, Bleeker Street, That's Alright Mama, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Let Me Roll it to You, Billie Jean, Love Child, Careful with that Axe Eugene, The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp, The Goon Squad, Your Song, John Sinclair, If 6 was 9, No Expectations, Singin' the Blues, The Boll Weivel, Don Quixote, Maggie McGill, Big Bad John, Little Miss Strange, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Old Man River, The Slider, Hey Bulldog, Tales of Brave Ulysses, The Ballad of Ira Hayes, Sweetleaf, El Paso, Child in Time, The Crossroad Blues, Helter Skelter, Roxanne, Nantucket Sleighride, Voodoo Chile, Black Cat Moan, Walking After Midnight, Lover of the Bayou, The Boxer, Cowgirl in the Sand, Tea for One, Plastic Fantastic Lover, Midnight Rider, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Desolation Row, Spoonful, Madman Across the Water, Message in A Bottle, Mr. Limousine Driver, That'll Be the Day...
Albums-
Robert Johnson- King of the Delta Blues
The Beatles- The White Album- Revolver- Rubber Soul
Spooky Tooth- The Last Puff
Marty Robbins- Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Johnny Horton- Johnny Horton Makes History
Jade Warrior- Autumn's Dream
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced- Electric Ladyland- Band of Gypsies
AC/DC- Back in Black- For Those About to Rock- Fly on the Wall
Doc Watson- Southbound
Cat Stevens- Mona Bone Jakon- Tea for the Tillerman
The Who- Live at Leeds- Tommy
The Rolling Stones- Let it Bleed- Beggars Banquet- Flowers- Some Girls
Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs- In City Dreams
Bob Dylan- Good as I Been to You- Blood on the Tracks
Neil Young- Harvest- Living With War
Led Zeppelin- I- II- Runes- Physical Graffiti
Janis Joplin- Pearl
Johnny Winter- Guitar Slinger- Saints and Sinners
Pink Floyd- Meddle- The Wall
Blind Willie McTell- King of the Atlanta Twelve String
CSN&Y- Deja Vu
James Gang- Rides Again
Ten Years After- Cricklewood Green
The Grateful Dead- American Beauty
Black Oak Arkansas- Keep the Faith
Elmore James- Whose Muddy Shoes- Blues After Hours
Jethro Tull- Aqualung
Jefferson Airplane- Bless Their Pointed Little Heads
Michael Hedges- Live on a Double Planet
Moody Blues- On the Threshold of a Dream
Fleetwood Mac- Kiln House- Bare Trees- Tusk
Prince- Purple Rain
Deep Purple- In Rock
The Allman Brothers- Eat a Peach
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Santana- Abraxas
Steppenwolf- Monster
Blind Faith
Black Sabbath- Master of Reality- Paranoid
Johnny Cash- at Folsom Prison- Now Here's Johnny Cash- Man in Black
Simon and Garfunkel- Wednesday Morning at 3am- Bookends
George Harrison- All Things Must Pass- Living in the Material World
John Mayall- A Hard Road- Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
The Doors- Morrison Hotel
T-Rex- Electric Warrior- The Slider
ART SHOWS/GALLERIES (Past & Present)
SFCC Student Show- Eastern Washington State University- 1978- Cheney, WA
One Person Show- The Galleria/Riverfront Park 1978- Spokane, WA
Designer Show- SFCC Fine Arts Gallery 1978- Spokane, WA
Carnegie Art Center Show 1978- Walla Walla, WA
J. Harken/Meyers Gallery- Spokane, WA
The Snowgoose Gallery- Spokane, WA
Two Person Show- Daults Paint Palette- 1978- Spokane, WA
Ruth Mayer Gallery- Laguna Beach, CA
Second Street Gallery- Santa Monica, CA
One Person Show- 1, 2, 3, Arts- 1985- Spokane, WA
Best Black & White Of Show- Westercon '90- Seattle, WA
Quicksilver Fantasies- 1990-1992- Post Falls, ID
Cheney Cowles Museum Sampler- 1993- Spokane, WA
Cheney Cowles Museum- Works From the Heart- 1993- Spokane, WA
Colburns Gallery- Spokane, WA
Cheney Cowles Museum Sampler- 1994- Spokane, WA
Cheney Cowles Museum- Works From the Heart- 1994- Spokane, WA
Cheney Cowles Museum- Works From the Heart- 1996- Spokane, WA
Ra-Tels- 1997- Spokane, WA
Pend Oreille Artists Regional Show- 1999- Metaline Falls, WA
CREATE Art Auction 2000- Newport, WA
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2001- Spokane, WA
Panida Theater, three artist collaboration: May 2001- Sandpoint, ID
Allen James Teague, solo piano concert
Photography by Dave Joern
And my Pen and ink drawings and paintings
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2002- Spokane, WA
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2004- Spokane, WA
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2005- Spokane, WA
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2006- Spokane, WA
TELEVISION
2005- PBS episode of Northwest Profiles featuring my drawings and a soundtrack solo piano composition by Allen James Teague of "The Light and the Dark"
Original Works included in Private Collections:
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Laguna Beach, Atwater, Mill Valley, Midpines, Venice,
Yosemite, Santa Monica, CA
Seattle, Spokane, Newport, WA
Portland, OR
Portland, MA
Atlanta, GA
Jackson, MS
Galveston, Houston, TX
St. Vincent, MN
Kansas City, MO
New Orleans, LA
New York, NY...
and Bali
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None