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Topic: Pete Wade and Jenks Carmen ?? |
Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 4 Apr 2005 10:23 am |
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I have an old "Design Records" LP titled "Kings of the steel guitar" that a friend asked me to burn to CD. It's all non-pedal.
It has two steelers on there I'm not familiar with, Pete Wade and Jenks Carmen (the other two on the LP are Leon McAuliff and Herb Remington).
Jenks Carmen is playing traditional Hawaiian and it sounds like it's all accoustic - no amplified instruments on his cuts. |
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Fred Jack
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Bastrop, Texas 78602
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Posted 4 Apr 2005 12:07 pm
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| Jack, Jenks ( Tex ) Carmen was popular in So Cal, LA area in the 50's and 60's that I am aware of.Probably even before the 50's.He most always wore a big indian headress and played his guitar dobro style.He stayed busy.Quite a bit of TV work.Regards, Fred |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 4 Apr 2005 4:28 pm
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Fred thanks. I also got e-mails from Mike Gross and Rick Ulrich, that personally knew Jenks.
I had never heard of him, but then I've never head of a lot of people  |
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Apr 2005 8:46 pm
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Surely you guys have heard of Pete Wade, one of Nashvilles first and one of the greatest studio guitar players.(still working sessions today). He also worked the road with Ray Price in the fifties, playing lead and singing the high harmony parts. He also did some of the singing on Rays early records.
Pete Is from "Five Points" section in Norfolk VA. called "Norview. He left VA. in 1955 to work the road with Ray. Don Helms was on steel with Ray at this time. It wasn't to long after this that Pete Wade started doing sessions and the rest was history. He and Elvis Presely both dated GiGi Emmons, who later married-------, well, this is another story , buy my book, it's all in there,
bobbe [This message was edited by BobbeSeymour on 04 April 2005 at 09:47 PM.] |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 5 Apr 2005 2:04 am
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Bobbe, I didn't associate him with steel guitar, so I thought it was a different "Pete Wade".
However, after listening to it more closely it does sound more like a "lead" guitar bending strings rather than a steel. Another "farce" by the record company.[This message was edited by Jack Stoner on 05 April 2005 at 03:52 AM.] |
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 5 Apr 2005 5:41 am
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I agree Jack, Pete's name really shouldn't have been so prominant on a "Steel Guitar" album.
bobbe |
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Martin Abend
From:
Berlin, Germany
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Posted 5 Apr 2005 6:59 am
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Jack,
I recently saw a DVD about Jenks Tex Carman, I think it's out on Bear Family and pretty cool. It featured different Gigs on somekind of show over a course of, like, 5 years or so.
Best,
MArtin
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 5 Apr 2005 9:05 am
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I remember seeing Tex Carmen on Town Hall Party live and on TV when I was a teenager. He'd come on stage with an old Martin with a raised nut that he'd play like a Dobro. It had decals on the side facing the audience of square dancers. He'd do that old song a lot that started like:
I have no record now of time,
For you are always on my mind.
I think of you both night and day,
Each hour, each minute you're away.
I'd always thought he was one of the forerunners of chicken pickin'. He had kind of a spitting, chicky-picky sound. His intonation was a little suspect, but he wuz cool...........JH in Va.
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 5 Apr 2005 2:00 pm
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| I've been getting some good info on Jenks from forumite Rick Ulrich who lived in the same part of California as Jenks and personally knew him. Apparently he was more a "character" and showman than a "musician". |
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Fred Jack
From:
Bastrop, Texas 78602
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Posted 5 Apr 2005 2:24 pm
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| Yes! |
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