Thanks my friend. Glad you enjoyed it!

So great to hear from you! Tell hubby thanks from me. I hope you are still making music??!

Hi Don,
Just taking a bit of a break. Been working on my other hobby.
Still have all of my keyboards though, so no doubt I'll take it up again.

Heck with the music, I want a BEAR!

Ooh! Might have to send one. Only give them away nowadays to family and friends.

Might be good for advertising if I ever go back to selling them.

"Bears to the Stars"

Rikki Bear owners

Don Mason , singer, keyboard player extraordinaire.
Col B drummer and founding member for Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs.

Gave our neighbour Col a ted for his 3 year old grand daughter a while back, I have a sneaking suspicion he's hanging onto it till she turns 18. Haha

Just read that Tony Joe White passed away at 75.


Singer-songwriter Tony Joe White, a prolific tunesmith whose swamp-soaked 1968 pop hit “Polk Salad Annie,” reflected his Louisiana upbringing, died yesterday, Wednesday, October 24th, of natural causes at his home in Leipers Fork, Tennessee, just outside Nashville. He was 75.

White, who had a Top Ten record with “Polk Salad Annie,” also saw it popularized by Elvis Presley. He was also perhaps best known as the writer of the deeply atmospheric and soulful “Rainy Night in Georgia,” a Number Four pop hit for Brook Benton in 1970 and covered by a number of other acts including Hank Williams Jr., B.J. Thomas, Shelby Lynne, and as a duet by Conway Twitty and Sam Moore.


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Yes, Tony Joe is a big loss for the music industry and for us "cajuns". I'm not really a Cajun, but neither was he. He was from North Louisiana.
Our friend Bill Pittman (semilivemusic) wrote a song a few years ago entitled "Tony Joe White is Black". It is pretty good too. I'll try to find a recording of it. Despite the title, it is anything but racist.
R.I.P. Tony Joe.

I'm again reminded that my good friend Don Reeves passed away August 28th, 2017. He was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and had a severe reaction to the drug. They tried to treat it with large doses of steroids but he didn't make it. His faith was strong until the end and he emailed me shortly before saying he didn't think he would survive this, and he was prepared to go on to a better place. In response to my next email, his wife responded telling me he was gone.
What a wonderful person he was, in addition to being an extremely talented singer, songwriter and player. I miss him.

Don:

I don't care if you recorded it using a washboard and a kazoo... LOL... you are a performer to be "reckoned with"... as they say in Polk Salad Country up in Sebastian County, Arkansas. I agree with Gary, your version is as good, if not better, than all the rest.

Thanks for sharing. B-T-W... I'm starting to really enjoy the 970 you practically gave me. What are friends for?

Give ol' Pittman a kick in the chins for me. Great guy!

----West Mayberry Dave

Damn,
I'm gonna have to stop listening to your posts Don. Makes me want to go buy a Korg and I know I still won't sound like that!