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Michael Simmons
#1 Jake and the rest of the Jewels: A Lick and a Promise

2 Van Dyke Parks: The 7'' Singles Series*
3 Peter Stampfel and Jeffrey Lewis: Come On Board
4 Steve Earle : I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
5 Bruce Langhorne: Tambourine Man
6 Willie Nile: The Innocent Ones
7 John Sinclair & Hollow Bones: Honoring The Local Gods
8 Nick Lowe: The Old Magic
9 The Krayolas: Tipsy Topsy Turvy
10 NRBQ: Keep This Love Goin'
(*Not an album per se: but a series of 7 singles.)
HONORABLE MENTIONS: 11: Freddy Koella: Undone; 12: Roger McGuinn: CCD; 13: Ry Cooder:Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down; 14: Jackie DeShannon: When You Walk In The Room; 15: Brian Wilson: In The Key Of Disney

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The YCBA Staff Outing to the Brooklyn Museum, October 1999

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R.I.P. Fred Imus

Posted by Mando Lines on August 7, 2011 at 6:45pm. Fred Imus was found dead in his trailer this weekend after failing to show up to do his SiriusXM show, Fred's Trailer Park Bash. The weekend show had become a favorite of mine over the last few years - they played good music, told terrible jokes and gave each other a hard time. Fred's co-hosts on the show were Don Collier and Missy (a/k/a Nicole Cox). Here's a pic of the crew, with Fred on the right hand side

(photo by Michael Stoklos www.stoklosphotos.com):

Fred co-wrote the #1 Country hit, "I Don't Want To Have To Marry You" back in 1976. He was an author of two books and an owner of a business called Autobody Express for a time.

I suppose I first heard Fred's voice as a guest on his brother Don's radio show, which he produced at one point. For the last 5 years, Fred was the loveable grouch on his own show, Fred's Trailer Park Bash. It seemed as if Fred was always unlucky in love, and he shared just about every detail of his love life on the show. As he would try to explain himself, Missy and Don would hand out advice and/or abuse. The premise worked, and after carrying on a while they'd play Gillian Welch or Steve Earle or Waylon Jennings, then come back for another round.

Fred had a lot of experience playing country music on the radio. He was a DJ in Cleveland, Cheyenne and El Paso over the years.

Fred Imus served in the Army and was a brakeman for the Southern Pacific Railroad earlier in his life. He was born in 1942.

We'll miss you, son.

Marshall Grant dies at 83

Marshall Grant dies at 83; bass player, manager for Johnny Cash Marshall Grant, who worked as Johnny Cash's road manager and played bass for him for more than two decades, helped create the singer's famous sound. Marshall Grant poses with a copy of his book, "I Was There When It Happened:… (Wayne Risher, Associated Press)August 09, 2011|By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles TimesMarshall Grant, who played standup bass in Johnny Cash's original trio and helped create the legendary singer's distinctive, rhythmic sound in the 1950s, has died. He was 83.

Grant, who remained with Cash as a bass player for more than two decades and later managed the Statler Brothers, died Sunday in a hospital in Jonesboro, Ark., according to a spokesman for Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery in Memphis.

Interview with my bass mentor

Carol Kaye

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