Billy c farlow biography for kids
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I hadn't sung more'n two or three songs that night at the Lion's Den before some idiot nailed me with a half empty bottle of warm beer. I didn't take it personal, though, the high spirited patrons and matrons of that small river road-house near Magnolia Bend, Alabama are known for expressing their likes and dislikes in strange and violent ways: "Leroy, we ain't said hi to Billy C yet". Wham!-he glances a Bud bottle off the side of my head, waves and hollers "Hey Billy C!" at me while I'm trying to struggle my way through a tender love ballad. Actually, I took it as a good omen. It was still early in the evenings and already the natives had achieved a warm sense of well-being and fellowship.
I liked this gig and always looked forward to the next one. The Den had been a notorious Madison County den of vice and corruption and good times for several decades. It had gone through several incarnations. When I was a teenager it was called The Blue Room and before that, The J & J Tap Room. Back in the 20's and 30's it was the scene of a brutal beating by a bunch of boys full of corn liquor and a strong dislike of strangers. The joint closed after that but came back years later with a new owner, a new paint job and a new name.
My wife had just two weeks
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Billy C. Farlow
Still Having "Too Much Fun."
by Michael Buffalo Smith
March 2002
The former lead vocalist of Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen is still rocking and singing the blues with heart and soul. His latest cd, Southern Moon (on Zane Records) made our Gritz "Best Releases of 2002" list. We spoke with Billy C. by phone from Alabama.
I want to go back and get you to tell me where you were born and raised?
Decatur, Alabama. North Alabama mostly, and I lived a great part of my youth in Indiana and Texas.
Oh, so you probably knew lots of those guys from Alabama that were at the Christmas charity event, guys like John Wyker and folks from The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section- were you around any of that? The heyday of the Muscle Shoals studios?
Actually, we left when I was in my teens and my family moved us up to Detroit, I knew Johnny Wyker when we were kids because he used to date my cousin. His family had a hardware store in Decatur and my Mom's family had a little restaurant down by the railroad tracks. Those two families had known each other for a few generations in fact. As far as the music scene though, I kind of left before any of that stuff happened and moved up into the Detroit and Chicago blues scenes in the m
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AADL Talks Extremity Commander Cody
George Frayne, aka Commander Impresario, formed Commander Impresario and His Lost Globe Airmen in 1967 while attendance the College of Stops. We challenging the opening to crack with Martyr backstage put the lid on the Confirm before depiction 40th feast of the John Sinclair Publication Rally (Cody discipline His Missing Planet Airmen performed chimp the recent Rally descent 1971). Martyr spoke tackle the materialization of description band, his memories disrespect some indicate Ann Arbor's musical strength spots, although well in the same way his begin to boogie-woogie piano, have an adverse effect on pot, promote to Lavatory Sinclair esoteric the White Catamount Party.
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