Review: Great Oregon songwriters

Subject: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: mg
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 02:28 AM

I was looking for something else and I came across this song
click here

See if this works....anyway, by Jinx Davis. He has a couple of others on Mudcat. He is an absolutely wonderful songwriter, from Oregon, which is quite close to Washington..I could swim there if I was stronger...I think he wrote the one that MK sings about kids jumping off the trestle..Does anyone know if he has CD's or songbooks out?

The other one I really like is Michael Smythe. Same question. He sang one at Rainycamp years ago about child abuse that was a wonderful song..sad of course..

Anyway, I am hoping either or both will be at Singtime and I strongly urge everyone to get their CDs etc. if indeed they have them..and if it is OK with them to post lyrics here of their songs.

Of course, Meryle Korn is another great writer...from witty to profound. And Craig of the Mudcat..somehow I put him in Washington though. There are others....


mg

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: mg
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 02:32 AM

Goodness gracious. How could I forget Mary Benson. Excuse my memory lapse. Sounds like they were written by Trad Anon herself some of them...mg

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 04:04 AM

Mary, I know Jinx put out a tape, because I have it. I don't know if he turned it into a CD. He has written some beauties. Plays a mean swing guitar, too.

I'd like to know more about Michael Smythe's song about child abuse...because I have one, too.

Have a wonderful time, wish I could be there.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: leprechaun
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 05:39 AM

Mickey Newberry was from Oregon.

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 11:37 AM

Tom Dundee was from Chicago, but lived in Oregan and recorded an LP there. Does that count?

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 11:39 AM

OOPS! I mean O-r-e-g-O-n...slip of the fingers...sorry, Oregonians.

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: mg
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 11:44 AM

From Smythe's song..

look tot he east, look to the west, look to the north in the morning
where is the baby I love best where is my dancing darling

all I remember..I have a Rainycamp tape of it.
Why don't you post your song on a new thread...there should be more of them.

mg

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Lane
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 02:50 PM

Thats ORYGUN :)

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 03:10 PM

Speaking of Orygun, I have a Juneau friend who grew up in Oregon, as I did, - but she pronounces it 'Aura-gun'. She claims that's how Oregonians pronounce it. I haven't told her but my theory is that since her family moved from Minnesota when my friend was six years old, they never learned to pronounce it correctly and she got the pronunciation from them. (Isn't it funny how we all insist on this kind of thing!)

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: mg
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 03:17 PM

I grew up on a border town..in Washington on the Columbia River we call it Or'igun

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 05:21 PM

Old friend Andrew Calhoun bases his operations out of Oregon now. He is a great guitar picker, writes some fine songs---and does traditional ballads exceptionally well too. Runs Waterbug Records from there. --------------Carol and I moved to Depoe Bay, Oregon from Chicago in 1967 and started the FOLK ART SHOP there. Back then there was one church-run coffeehouse in Lincoln City---and that was the entire folk scene for the whole state. I loved Oregon and would've stayed for sure if I could've made a living with music. (Salmon fishing made me seasick and lumberjacking ddidn't seem my cup o' tea either.) Went broke, but had fun doing it. Went back to Chicago. ...and that has made all the difference."

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Lane
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 06:45 PM

Art.... come back today, you'll find a much more active music scene, I believe. I'm a native Oregonian, and biased - but have just moved across the river. From my living room window, however, I look across the great Columbia and can clearly see "ORYGUN" - which IS the proper pronuciation :)

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 06:51 PM

Art, at least by 1969 there was a small group of folkies who met every Friday night in a Peedee store (Real name - small town about 15 miles outside Dallas. (NOTE: not The Dalles; Dallas is close to Salem). A year or so later they moved to an old school gymnasium in an oak grove about 5 miles from Dallas. A few years later, the site came up for auction and one of the musicians made the successful bid.

Last I knew, it was going strong. It's called Guthrie Park Opr'y and draws about 30 + players and a number of listeners. I remember the big deal when they built a stage, although when I left Oregon 15 years ago they didn't have a sound system. But it's a fun place.

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Genie
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 09:18 PM

Mary, Jinx didn't write the one about The Trestle. He once told me who did, but I forgot who it was.

He did write a lovely song for Julie, called "The Sunlight, The Shadows, And You," as well as "Christmas In Oregon" and others. Yes, he writes very good stuff and is a fine quitarist; he and Julie sound great together, too.

When it comes to Oregon songwriters, though, don't forget Mason Williams, who wrote not only "Classical Gas" and "The Tomato Vendetta," but "Them Poems" and the quintessential country/western song, "You Done Stomped On My Heart."

Genie

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: mg
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 10:36 PM

We got to find out who wrote the trestle song...it is a classic..

mg

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 11:10 PM

Mary, my song, These Hands, is in the D.T. I wrote it after I moved away from Oregon, so I guess that doesn't count. But this one I did write when I lived in Portland ("the mountain" in the last verse is Mt. Hood--as you can tell from its distinctive silhouette).

Aloha,
Mark


      SOFT IS THE SOUND

      (Chorus)
      Soft is the sound of your voice as you sing to me
      Warm is the touch of your skin
      Bright is the morning with you lying next to me
      Happier I've never been

      Caught in the rush of the everyday comedy
      No time to stop for the view
      Along comes a song that sounds peaceful and calm to me
      I look around and it's you (CHO)

      Rain on the windshield and noise on the radio
      I'm leaving Philly behind
      Though the signs on the turnpike say many more miles to go
      You're always near in my mind (CHO)

      Off in the distance the mountain is glistening
      Lark in the morning flies high
      He's singing a song to the whole world that's listening
      Listen again, so am I (CHO)

(c)1984 Mark Cohen

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: mg
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 11:19 PM

a great lovely song...mg

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: GUEST,winnie in Costa Rica
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:47 AM

No one has mentioned Dave Carter; ¿how can this be?

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Art Thieme
Date: 26 Jan 03 - 12:18 AM

Ebbie and all,

I figured there were folkies somewhere there. Great to know at this late date that our sojourn to Oregon was just a bit premature. We had dulcimers and hand-made fretless banjos--Pete Seeger records for sale as well as all kinds of hand-made folk art. Hattie Presnell from Beech Mountain in N. Carolina made all kinds of folk toys and whimmy-diddles, corn husk dolls and sun bonnets for the shop. Also Native American pipes from Pipestone, Minnesota and woven items from the Florida Seminoles. Alaska Native Arts And Crafts, a fine organization then (1967) provided carved walrus tusk art---whales and sea lions. The music we'd brought with us in the VW bus was always playing in the shop...
But the tourists running the coast highway 101 bought salt-water taffy and driftwood rather than our dulcimers and records. And, truth be known, we were more citified than I ever wanted to admit back then. I missed the noir and the cement of the big city folk scene. I'll always have a huge warm place in my heart for Oregon and the splendid coast vistas and getting up a 4:00 AM to get down below Cape Foulweather for a minus 2-foot tide where all the alien life forms you'd ever want to see were revealed in all their glory. -----------More o' dem good memories. This thread makes me want to dig out the slides I took back then. Think I will.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Review: Great Oregon songwriters
From: Art Thieme
Date: 26 Jan 03 - 12:27 AM

DON LANGE a truly great songwriter and singer now makes his home in Oregon---where he is a wine maker. Check with Frank in Toledo, Oregon for info on Don.

Mr. Lange wrote, among many others, the fine song, HERE'S TO YOU ROUNDERS when he was living back in Iowa. If you good people could coax Don into doing a concert it'd be well worth your time and effort. (And tell him Art sent ya.)

Art Thieme