Nicole, old LPs, 78s, 45s, old 8mm films, cheap guitars, old music footage, old sheet music, cheap vintage clothes, swap meets, yard sales, Sanford and Son, dancin', strummin', pickin', grinnin', candid pre 1940's photos, First hand account literature of prewar hobos, Musicians autobiographies, grapes, orange juice
I'd like to meet:
The living people
Keely Smith, Sam Butera, Bill Murray, Siouxsie Sioux, Adam Ant, Tom Waits, Leon Redbone.....
The dead people
Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Cliff Edwards, Louis Prima, Louis Jordan, Willie Dixon, Bing Crosby, Eddie Lang, King Oliver, Jimmie Rodgers, Emmett Miller, Hank Williams Sr., Robert Preston, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cab Calloway, Son House, Johnny Cash, Connie Boswell (oolala!), W.C. Fields, Blind Willie Mctell, Blind Blake, Lee Morse, Fats Waller, Jay C. Flippen (with 2 legs), Johnny St. Cyr, Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton, Papa Charlie Jackson, Billie Holiday, Cole Porter, Eddie Condon, Scat Man Carruthers, Chaplin, Buster, Roscoe, Louise Brooks, Pola Negri, Will Rogers, Mack Sennett, Bill Robinson, Jabbo Smith, Frankie Jaxon, Ralph Peer & many many more
Music:
Hobo Jazz , of course.... as well as; Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Ferd Morton, Cab Calloway, Mississippi Sheiks, Big Bill Broonzy, Washboard Sam, Willie Dixon, Big Maceo, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Bob Wills, Cliff Edwards, Johnny Cash, Son House, Dinah Washington, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Blind Willie McTell, Belefonte, Buddy Reed, Emmett Miller, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, The Boswell Sisters, The Andrews Sisters, Blind Blake, Josh White, Clarence Williams, The Nat King Cole Trio, Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys (great bass player), Big Sandy, Chuck Berry, Fats Waller, Fats Domino, The Coasters, The Clovers, The Jolly Boys, Uncle Vic, Memphis Jug Band, Ray Condo, Bo Diddley, King Oliver, Jug Bands, Fiddle Bands, Washboard Bands, Blues, Stomps, Rags & Gospel, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Adam Ant, The Doors, James Brown, Hot Jazz, Tom Waits, Ray Charles, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Jack Teagarden, Carter Family, Eddie Condon, Dean Martin, Roy Brown, Howlin' Wolf, Bing Crosby, Haywire Mac, Jay C. Flippen, Al Green, Papa Charlie Jackson, Brownie McGhee, Johnny Dodds & so much more!..
Movies:
The Great McGonigle with W.C. Fields, A Night At The Show with Chaplin, New Orleans, The Razor's Edge, Hey Boy Hey Girl, Devil got my Woman, The Music Man, Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas, O Brother, Mary Poppins, Three Amigos, Take me Back to Oklahoma, Willy Wonka pre-Dep, Paper Moon,
Television:
CSI Vegas, that's it unless there's something about old music on. Or History Detectives,The Office, If These Walls Could Talk, or Antique Roadshow. The Adams Family & The Munsters really go without saying. As does most any pre 60's cartoon.
Books:
Mister Jelly Roll - Lomax
Pops Foster's autobio
Satchmo - L.Armstrong
We Called It Music - Condon
Really the Blues - Mezzrow
Will Rogers autobiography
New Orleans Jazz Family Album
Of Minnie the Moocher & Me - Calloway
Autobiography of Nell Kimball (amazing!)
Heroes:
My Wife Nicole, My Mom Maria, My Pops Rich, My Grandfather Weto, My Grandmother Ita, Louis Armstrong, Steve Martin, Dean Martin, Louis Prima, Will Rogers
the bassmen
Pops Foster
Willie Dixon
Dave Brown
Wellman Braud
Ed Garland
Milt Hinton
Chester Zardis
Bill Johnson
