The Same Damn Song Twice. Maybe Even Three, Four Times

So a little while ago and it feels like months now.

Oh wait it was,

but it happened nonetheless.

I had a little period where the only music that made any sense to me at all was the recorded output of one of the greatest live bands to currently stalk the Earth, Southern Culture on the Skids.



 So I was listening to them quite a bit.

One of their perennial live highlights is their rendition of a song called "Daddy was a Preacher but Mama was a Go-Go Girl" Mary Huff just sings the living shit out of it.

Despite how easily it fits with the rest of their catalogue this song is actually a cover.

Joanna Neel (1971)

The songs was on the label as being coauthored by Joanna & her husband Bob and released as a B-side to a song called "Perfect Strangers" with a nice Nashville professional sound to it. But fortunately (!?) hers is not the only contemporary recording of the tune.

Betty Jo Bangs (1971)

A lady by the name of Betty Jo Bangs also released her own recording around the same time which she credits to herself. (The difference seems to be the inclusion of the word "but" in the title.
It's a little less polished, but no less charming and sincere a recording as you could want. Hers was backed by another Betty Jo credited song "Journey into Yesterday".

Based on the promo picture linked above she seems like a fine, upstanding lady with excellent posture. (I have been unable to locate a shot of Ms. Neel)

I also haven't readily been able to determine who the real songwriter is from ten minutes of casual googling nor do I really care. They both are. I like them.



But wait! That's not all!

But I did find that there was yet another recording by  one Miss DeLois & the Music Men that was released in 1972. I haven't been able to track down a copy of that one for myself, but I did locate a video of her doing the song on Youtube.

Good luck scrubbing that from your eyeballs..

More Familiarity

I kind of set myself a three post quota for the past few nights.

This is the third post.

Short Stories (1989)

The Black Watch are this guy's band. They are better than the kind of pretentious picture on the front page of his website would imply.

If you want to scroll back to February 1, 2017 on here there's another single by them.

Of minor interest (and mostly because I  just learned about this stuff right now) is that the violin, guitar, vocals person on this particular 12" ep (and part of the Black Watch up to 2002), J'Anna Jacoby (who let her website die in 2014) was apparently the California State Oldtime Fiddle Champion: Junior Division in 1975 & 76, but she also earned her mortgage at the beginning of  the century by playing in Rod Stewart's live band which I hope paid well. (I mean, Rod seems like he could likely be a pretty Ok person, but I have a very visceral dislike of his recorded output.)

The More You Know...

Bob Denver

Another short and sweet one.

Brother Love & his Far Out Space Nuts (1994)

As per the previous post. From New Zealand. A single sided slab of psychedelic nonsense that is thoroughly unrelated to the 1975 Sid & Marty Krofft tv show that featured the triumphant (?) return of Bob Denver to your television.

Don't confuse them. Bob Denver didn't play guitar this well.

From B to B in short distances

Short and to the point. 

Both from New Zealand

Apparatus of Love (1990)

The Axel Grinders.

King Acid (1994)

Brother Love

Other things by Familiar Faces

I have other things I want to be doing.

I'll make this quick.

I have posted items by both of these acts previously, plus you're already on the internet.

Be your own best resource if you're curious.

I have other things I want to be doing.

Grow Up - Joanne (1980)

If you liked the previous one this is even better.

the Higsons - The Lost and the Lonely (1981)

If you liked the previous post, this is more of the same, but different.