Balladeer
Jody Adams
You'll read among the bio-info of these CDs some "right-place-right-time" sorta monikers. My uncle would say, "fingerprints of the Lord, all over it!". I cannot disagree. On a cold Rocky Mtn morning, I'm out for a walk, before sunrise and I pull in a station on my wireless headset. It's a new show I haven't caught before called, Morning in America, featuring Dr Bill Bennett. I listen for a while and really enjoy his solid moral, foundational tenets of traditional America. His on-air producer (Seth, I so came to so appreciate him), were talking. They didn't have a theme song for their show and they didn't wanna just cut-paste a country song to open the show or take them out of or into segments of their broadcast. Later that same morning they are having a discussion about the difference between an old song, Ballad of New Orleans and an even older fiddle song, 8th of January. Discussion goes back and forth about songs are same, different,etc.... I decide to call in and never thought I'd get through (but after all, it is 6am/MT) and I DO get through. Seth is a real nice fella and I explain that they are really-and-truly two different songs with many parts of their melodies extremely similar. I tell him, "I have my fiddle right here if you'd like to hear one then the other?" He says, "heck, yaw". So I get the old family fiddle, 130 years old and tear into each one for about 20 seconds each. They are all applauding having a good time for fellas in the morning, before dawn, ha! When that was all done I told them I'd heard they didn't have a theme song and I had an idea I'd like to finish up (over the weekend) and send to them for consideration. Seth was all over it (as my granddaughter says)....gave me a way to send it and then I had to go to work, ha! ....I only had a couple measures of a melody and the name of Dr Bennett's show, "Morning in America". So I started working on Friday and by Sunday night/11pm-MT, I sent them a finalized composition of "Morning in America". So I'm listening Monday morning, getting ready for same-early-hour walking with my wife, and low-and-behold, my song is playing on Bill Bennett's, Morning in America Radio Show !! That was the start of a wonderful relationship with them, Dr Bennett, Seth and Jeff (engineer). Over the next few years they requested or I sent them several other compositions and they'd feature them on the show; a wonderful platform for a mountain-country-boy to be showcased. At the end of the CD, last track is an extended interview that Dr Bennett conducts with me. I could never say thank you enough to these fellas, though big time, found time to listen to a less-known-fella like me and placed my music in areas of the world my wife and I had only dreamed could be. Blessings to all those folks that had a hand in it !!
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03 - Purple Finger 2:280:00/2:28
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05 - Palmer Divide 3:180:00/3:18
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08 - What a Friend 3:190:00/3:19
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09 - News to Me 3:430:00/3:43
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11 - Laredo Lament 4:020:00/4:02
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12 - I Keep Tryin' 4:220:00/4:22
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