Vibe Confessional
Sometimes I get so excited about music — listening to it, writing about it, playing it — that I just get this overwhelming vibe of peace, like something really good is on the horizon. Weird, huh?
I got nothing else, ‘cept for these:
So, the Standells, who wrote about the “mighty River Charles,” were actually from L.A?
Hmmm…
I’d like my band (and I use the word “my” delicately) to do this one. But, we’re having a hard enough time getting the bass player to count to 4…no lie.
For some reason, the name “Whitey” scares me. Must be my experience with my racist slumlord uncle that I spent time with in Virginia, back in the 70′s.
Whitey Pullen, whose real name was “Dwight,” was Gene Vincent‘s road manager in the late 50′s while, at the same time, trying to cut his own career as a rockabilly singer. He recorded this one in 1960, the year before he died of prostate cancer at age 31.
