Notes
INTRODUCTION
Music washes away from, Herb Galewitz, Music: A Book of Quotations (Courier Dover Publications, 2001), iii.
Of all noises, I, Nat Shapiro, An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (Da Capo Press, 1981), 134.
Difficult do you call, Oxford Dictionary of Quotations ed. Elizabeth M. Knowles (Oxford University Press, 1999), 418.
If it rained knowledge, John Wain, Samuel Johnson (Macmillan, 1974), 345.
Lives of the Poets, Wain, Samuel Johnson, 345.
if at times his, Conrad Aiken, Collected Criticism (Oxford University Press, 1968), 358.
greater or lesser heat, Karl Shapiro, In Defence of Ignorance (Random House, 1960), 275.
For it is your, Ford Madox Ford, The March of Literature (Allen & Unwin, 1947), 6.
GENE CLARK
Deprivation is for me, Philip Larkin, Required Writing (Faber and Faber, 1983), 47.
didn’t know the rules, John Einarson, Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of Gene Clark (Backbeat Books, 2005), 51.
as for Gene, he’d, Johnny Rogan, Timeless Flight: The Definitive Biography of The Byrds (Square One Books, 1990), 68.
When I got there, Johnny Rogan, Byrds: Requiem For the Byrds, Volume 1 (Random House, 2011), 393–94.
When Gene got with, Einarson, 134.
Remarkably, the best stuff, Rogan, 599.
Pretty soon he started, Einarson, 197.
I think if someone, Ibid, 196.
Gene was one of, Ibid, 207.
Gene was into [heroin], Ibid, 225.
Near the end Gene, Ibid, 229.
barely had management . . . barely, Ibid, 245–46.
RONNIE LANE
Outside our house the, Andy Neill, The Faces: Had Me a Real Good Time (Omnibus Press, 2011), 5.
We [the Muleskinners]had, Ibid, 15–16.
I remember this commotion, The Passing Show (DVD), 2006.
They didn’t seem to, CD Boxset: Faces: Five Guys Walk Into a Bar (Warner Brothers/Rhino, 2004), 39.
Faces—that’s my band, Ibid, 42–43.
I was a very serious, Uli Twelker and Roland Schmitt, The Small Faces & Other Stories (Sanctuary Publishing, 2002), 123–24.
They always used to, Neill, 302.
Ronnie Lane always used, Ibid, 288–89.
When The Faces toured, David Cavanagh, “One for the Road,” Uncut, July 2010.
It was a bloody mess, Neill, 299.
So, there I was, http://www.slim-chance.co.uk/pages/stories.html
It was in 1974, http://www.slim-chance.co.uk/pages/stories.html
One morning we woke, Neill, The Faces, 350.
Kate would be washing, Cavanagh, “One for the Road,” Uncut (July, 2010).
[W]e were driving along, Neill, 363.
I hated to see, Ibid, 347.
We got pawned off, Ibid, 348–49.
Ronnie was often right, Pete Townshend, Who I Am (Harper Collins, 2012), 297.
Ronnie would wake up, Neill, 389–90.
Ian Stewart called Ronnie, Ibid, 379–80.
Ronnie was still drinking, Ibid, 390.
had a brilliant innate, e-mail to author.
RAMONES
Once we all went, Everett True, Hey Ho Let’s Go: The Story of the Ramones (Omnibus Press, 2002), 13.
I passed my guitar, Clinton Heylin, Babylon’s Burning: From Punk to Grunge (Viking, 2007), 126.
Tommy was able to, True, 18.
All their songs were, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Penguin, 1996), 212.
It looked like the, End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, DVD, 2005.
Until I saw the, True, 31.
The Ramones had everything, Monte A. Melnick and Frank Meyer, On the Road with the Ramones (Sanctuary, 2003), 60.
I watched them and, End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones.
When I first saw, True, 31.
When the great innovation, Mark A. Runco, Problem Finding, Problem Solving, and Creativity (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994), 56.
Hell, I thought they, Clinton Heylin, From the Velvets to the Voidoids (Chicago Review Press, 2005), 252.
The Ramones didn’t stand, True, 66.
The first indication to me, Mickey Leigh and Legs McNeil, I Slept with Joey Ramone (Simon and Schuster, 2009), 174.
as a gesture of, Ibid, 169.
[w]e got known as, Ben Edmonds, “ . . . Tomorrow the World,” Mojo (November, 2005), 78.
He was Mr. Negative, Melnick and Meyer, 43.
We used to call, Ibid.
first wife Vera Davie, Ibid.
I had no idea, Vera Ramone King, Poisoned Heart (Phoenix Books, 2009), 72.
He used to walk around, Melnick and Meyer, 46.
We had a central, Ibid, 155.
He’d get in and, Ibid, 153.
of the biggest things, Rocket to Russia, CD reissue (Warner Archines/Rhino, 2001).
[T]he Ramones mowed down, True, 87.
The metal fans were, Ibid, 85.
in Manchester, in some school, Ibid, 88.
the Ramones didn’t socialize, Leigh and McNeil, 178.
Marky is the character, True, 114.
We [the band] came, Ibid, 117.
Phil just loved their, Mick Brown, Tearing Down The Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector (Bloomsbury, 2007), 323.
Phil never came to, King, 40.
The sessions were grueling, Melnick and Meyer, 207.
Too many people around, Leigh and McNeil, 218.
Monte [Melnick] was a, Melnick and Meyer, 175.
The friendship died after, Ibid, 174–75.
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
It was just her, Gayle F. Wald, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Beacon Press, 2007), 20.
She would sing a, Wald, 31.
There is no such, Oscar Wilde, The Portable Oscar Wilde (The Viking Portable Library, 1971), 138.
I said, ‘Say, man, Wald, 70.
[M]y favorite singer, Sister, Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard (Pan Books, 1984), 29.
One day when Sister, Ibid.
The first morning in the, Robert Gordon, Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters (Back Bay Books, 2002), 187.
When I saw Rosetta, Anthony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times (Limelight Editions, 1975), 316.
TOWNES VAN ZANDT
For sweetest things turn, G. Blakemore Evans, The Riverside Shakespeare (Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 1766.
We had been drinkin’, John Kruth, To Live’s to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt (Da Capo, 2007), 28.
None of us were, Ibid, 48.
[i]n the first apartment, Robert Earl Hardy, A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (University of North Texas Press, 2008), 64.
In the back room, Kruth, 49.
It breaks my heart, Ibid, 83.
[a]fter J.T. [their son], Hardy, 81–2.
It was one of, Brian T. Atkinson, I’ll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt (Texas A&M University Press, 2012), 126.
[O]ut comes this guy, Ibid, 181.
Townes bet me $100, Ibid, 21.
Townes would call up, Hardy, 98.
The years are tragic, Wilifrid Sheed, Essays in Disguise (Knopf, 1990), xi.
When J.T. would swing, Hardy, 108.
[H]e would fuck with, Kruth, 125.
I don’t even remember, Lauren St John, Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle (Fourth Estate, 2003), 81.
Goddamn you, you motherfucker! Kruth, 124.
Whenever Townes would show, Ibid, 144.
pretty much drank all, Hardy, 126–27.
—such a price/The, Matthew Arnold, Poems (Macmillan, 1928), 194.
The last show I did, Atkinson, 30.
LITTLE RICHARD
was the most trouble, Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock (Pan Books, 1984), 18.
I was having lunch, Ibid, 47.
I want to do, Charles Shaar Murray, Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock ‘n’ Roll (St. Martin’s Press, 1989), 39.
There had been no, White, 59.
You couldn’t get a, Ibid, 45.
He’d just burst on, Ibid, 74.
the races together. When, Ibid, 75.
I was so naïve, Arnold Shaw, Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues (Macmillan, 1986), 209.
It is through the, Logan Pearsall Smith, All Trivia: Trivia, More Trivia, Afterthoughts, Last Words (Constable, 1947), 135.
Malt does more than, A.E. Housman, The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman (Jonathan Cape, 1948), 88.
We were recording one, White, 104.
We were late because, Ibid, 111–12.
ALAN WILSON
The blues is a, Bruce Cook, Listen to the Blues (Da Capo Press, 1995), 241.
When he’d wake up, Rebecca Davis Winters, Blind Owl Blues: The Mysterious Life and Death of Blues Legend Alan Wilson (2007), 14–5.
Anything harmony-based, with, Ibid, 66.
His apartment was pretty, Ibid, 33.
used to pull at, Ibid, 24.
He could not be, Daniel Beaumont, Preachin’ The Blues: The Life and Times of Son House (Oxford University Press, 2011), 144.
Al Wilson taught Son, Ibid, 22.
What really happened was, Ibid, 23.
Wilson refused to take, Winters, 64.
Why don’t you take, Stephen Calt, I’d Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues (Chicago Review Press, 2008), 269.
Alan was just a, Winters, 102.
If it wasn’t for, Charles Shaar Murray, Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the Twentieth Century (St. Martin’s, 2002), 328.
He thought that he, Winters, 99–100.
He just looked kind, Ibid, 23–4.
We’d check into a, Ibid, 147.
you could almost see, Ibid, 84.
He would be extremely, Ibid, 153.
His whole outlook on, Ibid.
stopped rappin’ and laughin’, Bob Greenfield, Rolling Stone, Issue #68 (October 29, 1970).
I say that man, Murray, 384.
[W]e were all in, Fito de la Parra with T.W. and Marianne McGarry, Living the Blues: Canned Heat’s Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival, 165.
WILLIE P. BENNETT
lived initially for a, e-mail to author.
first heard Willie sing, e-mail to author.
Willie and his band, e-mail to author.
It was a tough, e-mail to author.
I first heard about, Chris Vautour, “Willie P. Bennett: Squirrel of the Rodeo,” No Depression, Issue #13 (January/February, 1998).
I first played with, e-mail to author.
Poetry is the spontaneous, William Wordsworth, Selected Poems and Prefaces (Houghton Mifflin, 1965), 460.
We were at a, Werner Bergen, “Peterborough musicians remember Willie P. Bennett,” The Peterborough Examiner (July 10, 2007).
Willie was bored with, e-mail to author.
was always mystified about, e-mail to author.
Playing with Willie was, e-mail to author.
GRAM PARSONS
Gram was a sweet, David D. Meyer, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music (Villard Books, 2007), 32.
Gram would get anywhere, Ibid, 33.
his mother stayed at, Ibid, 65.
I played this version, Ibid, 73.
Gram’s mother was dying, Ibid, 141.
I started right away, Ibid, 161.
met . . . in a bank, John Einarson, Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock (Cooper Square Books, 2001), 84.
We just hired a, Ben Fong-Torres, Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons (St. Martins Griffin, 1998), 87.
Chris Hillman never got, Meyer, 335.
Unfortunately it’s all, ‘Gram, John Einarson with Chris Hillman, Hot Burritos: The True Story of the Flying Burrito Brothers (Jawbone Books, 2008), 23.
How can you compete, Ibid, 22.
I felt like I was, Bob Kealing, Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock (University Press of Florida, 2012), 182.
a wild beast—tamed, Brian McGuinness, Approaches to Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2002), 22.
I was into experimentation, Meyer, 221.
We got into the, Ibid, 223.
Gram was the boss, Ibid, 238.
With Gram’s energy, Ibid, 223.
Gram used the ISB, Ibid.
spiritual greed, V.S. Pritchett, The Complete Essays, (Chatto & Windus, 1991), 784.
As far as Nancy, Meyer, 248.
I had a sniffer, Ibid, 241.
Gram came over and, Johnny Rogan, Byrds: Requiem For the Byrds, Volume 1 (Random House, 2011), 445.
People to this day, Ibid, 449.
Gram wasn’t going on, Ibid.
He probably got me, Einarson/Hillman, 87.
There was a brotherly, Einarson/Hillman, 101.
After he left The Byrds, Ibid, 85.
It was unbelievable. He, Ibid, 114.
There was no way, Ibid, 115.
[A]ll of the other, Ibid, 130.
they greeted us with, Pamela Des Barres, Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon, (Macmillan, 1996), 233.
We were more than, Sid Griffin, Gram Parsons: A Music Biography (Sierra Books, 1985), 87.
[t]wo models we wanted, Ibid, 95.
The volume, which was, John Einarson with Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson Four Strong Winds (McClelland & Stewart, 2011), 217.
Our first showcase after, Einarson/Hillman, 141.
One night Hank Thompson, Ibid, 174.
Gram was hanging out, Einarson, 167.
It was like, ‘Here’s, Fong-Torres, 134.
Chris [Hillman] used to, Meyer, 323.
He [Gram] would sometimes, Einarson/Hillman, 192.
He showed up late, Einarson/Hillman, 224.
About four thirty in, Meyer, 341.
So I got a, Griffin, 153.
There is a quality, Ibid, 164.
The first night Gram, Meyer, 368.
By singing with Gram, Ibid, 370.
They went crazy for, Ibid, 388.
Gram was blasted out, Ibid, 387.
You were silly like, Gary Geddes, 20th-Century Poetry & Poetics (Oxford University Press, 1969),134.
He was a good, Meyer, 439.
HOUND DOG TAYLOR
[T]heir equipment [was], Jason Gross, “Hound Dod Taylor,” Perfect Sound Forever (online music magazine) (June, 1998), http://www.furious.com/perfect/hounddogtaylor.html, and email to author.
[O]ur goal . . . was to, email to author.
After I began to, Gross, http://www.furious.com/perfect/hound
dogtaylor.html, and email to author.
Hound Dog was very, email to author.
When my friends and, email to author.
Only mediocrities develop, Philip Larkin, Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Boom Reviews 1952–1985 (Faber, 2001), 26.
poetry begins to atrophy, Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (New Directions, 1960), 14.
usually the guys got, email to author.
Brewer Phillips was over, email to author.
On the weekend of, email to author.
WILLIS ALAN RAMSEY/PAUL SIEBEL
Proper words in proper places, Deborah Baker Wyrick, Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word (UNC Press Books, 1998), 46.
I remember [singer-songwriter], Kathleen Hudson, Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs (University of Texas Press, 2007), 205.
We make out of, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman, Olga Taxidou, Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (University of Chicago Press, 1999), 492.
a little unsure as, Petter Doggert, http://ca.myspace.com/paulsiebel
I learned every song, Lyle Lovett, http://www.willisalanramsey.com/biography/
I’ll never forget my, Jan Reid, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock (University of Texas Press, 2004), 325.
JOHN HARTFORD
Our life together was, email to author.
I don’t think he, The Old-Time Herald: A Magazine Dedicated to Old-Time Music, Volume Eight, Number One, http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-8/8-1/full-hartford_remin.html
One day we were, Ibid.
After you deliver, Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography (Random House, 2002), 381.
He did not want, email to author.
[T]he end of a, email to author.
Out of discord comes, Philip Wheelwright, The PreSocratics (The Odyssey Press, 1983), 77.
John let us play, Steam Powered Aereo-Takes CD booklet.
[W]e’d sit around and, http://johnhartford.com/pdf/bromberg.pdf
I was trudging through, email to author.
Happiness writes white, Claude Rawson, The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 531.
He lived on the, The Old-Time Herald: A Magazine Dedicated to Old-Time Music, Volume Eight, Number One, http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-8/8-1/full-hartford_remin.html//www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-8/8-1/full-hartford_remin.html