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Subject: Buddy Tabor Music From: Ebbie Date: 04 Mar 12 - 07:13 PM Buddy's Anthologies, Volumes I, II and III, are on CDBaby now with previews of each song. It breaks my heart to listen to them- he sounds so alive. A couple of us transcribed all the lyrics of the Anthologies and had them bound in a book for $15.00 and that is available too. All proceeds go to Jeanette. Ken Melville's eulogy at the funeral: I've heard Buddy's songs everywhere in the last weeks their tunes and lyrics come unbidden to my mind but we are here today because while his music lives we mourn and miss the man He inspired friendship in people wherever he went because he was loving forgiving and attentive he met people on equal terms his empathy opened doors for him he gave of himself if you were sick he cared for you if you grieved he comforted you and if you were imprisoned he visited you Buddy could be difficult trying the patience of family and friends restless angry and stubborn criss-crossing North America on his perennial odysseys raging against wrongs real or perceived persisting in his way resisting argument and reason yet every facet was somehow essential without them how could he have written about America's people landscapes and lonely epics joyous or broken hearts the homeless downtrodden and aggrieved poetry is a way of knowing and Buddy Tabor was learned in poetry and scripture saturated in America's great music traditions folk gospel and blues student of Hank Williams Bob Dylan and Townes Van Zandt wise in words and guitar chords Buddy sometimes called me his teacher but in the weeks before he died i asked him to teach us he replied I'll show you how it's done he did with love and forgiveness thought and prayer was there anger a little was he stubborn sometimes did he indulge in the dark humor he loved yes but above all there was dignity if death is a lesson it is also a journey though last familiar things a conversation a cup of coffee or a kiss Jeanneatte has asked us to share with you the music Buddy listened to on his last great drive around Juneau seeing familiar sights and old friends this is Called to the Foreign Field |
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