From: justus@dejazzd.com
Hi
I remember The Ole Sheriff. I'm not a player but i remember him when he had
the
Shindig In The Barn down on rt. 30 where Rockville Square is now.They had good
shows every Sat. night with top names coming in and they always filled the
place. People like Ralph Stanley and Mac Wiseman. This was back in the middle
1970s. They had the Burkheart Family come out first before the main act..And
they had 2 shows for about 3.00.
And than there was his radio show from wgcb in red lion, pa. This was on
from
4 to 6 pm and he would always have a conversation with Chet E. They would
always
joke around with each other.Well thats a little bit of what i remember about
the
ole sheriff God rest his soul.
John Jerrell Strasburg, Pa.
Michael DeBusk wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:05:44 +0000, Ken Shafranko wrote:
>
> > and could hear Bob's show on WIOV-FM out of Ephrata (which I recall
> > he would pronounce as E- Fray- tah).
>
> I pronounced it that way the other day in front of a lady who has
> family there. She looked at me quizzically and said, "Where?" :)
>
> > It was he who I hold responsible for my having the musical
> > equivalent of figuring out the broccoli tastes pretty good after
> > all.
>
> Broccoli *does* taste good, if it's cooked correctly. Most people screw
> it up (they cook it way too long). It only needs to be cooked until
> it's hot, keeping its crispness.
>
> (No, I didn't leave the metaphor behind. )
>
> > Much enjoyent has been mine, the result in no small way of Bob
> > Montgomery's radio show.
>
> Same here. I didn't get to hear much of it back then (we lived too far
> away for the signal) and I wasn't all that interested anyway. Like
> those folks who grow up in New York City and have never visited the
> Statue of Liberty, I grew up bathed in old country and old-time music
> (Bob promoted the DeBusk-Weaver Family pretty well) and didn't really
> find anything compelling about it. It was only when I "discovered"
> bluegrass, in my teens, that I woke the heck up to what's good.
>
> > Thanks, Michael, for triggering that memory for me.
>
> You're welcome.
>
> You'd probably have enjoyed the look on his face when...
>
> See, I'd known him since I was a little boy, and one day in my late
> teens I was watching an old re-run of Hee-Haw. Out of nowhere (which
> that show tended to cultivate) this guy comes out on camera and starts
> playing "John Henry" on an electric dobro. (He'd mounted a lap steel
> into a guitar body. That sucker was way heavy.) Then two guys come out
> on either side of him and lifted him up by his ankles and he never
> missed a beat. He kept playing. As a Dobro player yourself, I'm sure
> you can appreciate how tough that would have been.
>
> I realized for the first time that, hey, I knew someone famous. Sure,
> not as famous as Ronald Reagan (who was President at the time), but
> famous enough for me. So the next time I visited his restaurant, I went
> to the window where he passed the plates to the servers and asked for
> him. When he came to the window, I asked, "Can I have your autograph?"
>
> The look on his face was hilarious and went by way too quickly. He
> recovered himself almost instantly and gave me his autograph. I still
> have it here somewhere. :)
>
> My sister has a bunch of old photographs of him which she'd bought at
> his estate sale or a yard sale or something. She has his Dobro mandolin
> as well; I haven't seen that one yet. If I'm not mistaken, she has a
> bunch of ancient reel-to-reel tapes of his radio shows, and age has
> taken its toll on them; those she's tried to play have broken, and some
> of them stick together. Sad. They could probably be restored, but a
> financial sponsor would be needed.
>
> --
> Michael DeBusk, Co-Conspirator to Make the World a Better Place
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