tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520743085834461738.post1187179701233750000..comments2023-10-28T05:17:36.517-05:00Comments on Wired For Sound: Floyd Tillman on Daffan 113Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520743085834461738.post-24275782420685974522013-03-03T17:32:34.171-06:002013-03-03T17:32:34.171-06:00Thank you for these two great songs!Thank you for these two great songs!leolhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10703918766452197410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520743085834461738.post-88478538136328311982011-05-27T10:10:43.868-05:002011-05-27T10:10:43.868-05:00I've lived in El Paso for many years. The old ...I've lived in El Paso for many years. The old musicians used to talk about how Tillman came to town in the mid 1950s to play a one-nighter and stayed for a year, playing with the house band and making the same money they did. This was a good place to vanish in those days. I've heard of people searching for information about Dennis Herrold, who cut some sides for Imperial and disappeared without a trace. He played out here in beer joints for years!Zoomer Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08119241176641816294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520743085834461738.post-60365417791407740192011-05-18T20:38:00.036-05:002011-05-18T20:38:00.036-05:00Thanks for posting, those were great fun. His acou...Thanks for posting, those were great fun. His acoustic leads are niiice. And that YouTube clip of "Slippin' Around," even with the goofy backup chorus, is fantastic!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520743085834461738.post-51079826163866385372011-05-17T18:40:14.749-05:002011-05-17T18:40:14.749-05:00I think that it was Tillman himself rather than ch...I think that it was Tillman himself rather than charitable writers who characterized these years as ones of semi-retirement. Wasn't it? Perhaps writers (me included I guess) have been charitable in not taking a more jaundiced view of this claim. But I don't think it's that simple. It's undoubtedly true, for reasons both specific to Tillman and not, that his career was on the wane well before he got dropped by Columbia in '54, and that he would have had a hard time finding any sort of full-time work worthy of his status and talent. But it is just as true that Floyd was an unusual case, a man of modest ambition and modest tastes, and his claim of having gone into semi-retirement in these years should not be viewed as simply a donning of rose-colored glasses. He had income from covers of his songs, and while that income was variable, it was often more than enough to keep Floyd in the spare sort of existence he seemes to have preferred. There were times that he had to bite the bullet and take deejay jobs, for example, that he was ill-suited for. But all in all, I think it's fair enough to take his "semi-retirement" claims at face value -- as a choice rather than something imposed upon him by conditions (even if these conditions did exist -- a full-time, mainstream career for him would very probably have not been feasible). Floyd claimed he pretty much worked when he wanted to and recorded when the opportunity arose. Daffan recalled this as a very loose session, a what-the-hell, let's-have-fun mood prevailing. And Tillman seconded that. I don't think either of them were under the illusion that it would sell. Floyd was in town(he was working in El Paso at the time) and thought it would be fun, so they did it. He'd done even smaller time stuff the previous year (Nucraft) and the following year would be recording for RCA in Nashville. This was more a lark than a signpost in the desert.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15887737884087502909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520743085834461738.post-64844893693204777892011-05-15T20:40:22.376-05:002011-05-15T20:40:22.376-05:00Thank you for the introduction to these tunes. I&...Thank you for the introduction to these tunes. I'm very interested in the musical cross-fertilization between blacks and whites from the 1920s up.<br /><br />I'm sorry to include this in the comment, but can't see any other way to contact you. Could you possibly let me know how you configured your divShare account for dling? I haven't been able to manage it on my black gospel blog(blessmybones.blogspot.com). Thanks in advance if you can help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com