Sunday, July 23, 2017

The history of… Knowbody Else! - Glennray Tutor interview for Bands Of Dixie (Original version of the interview published in Bands Of Dixie #111, 2017, fourth trimester)



For a long time, Knowbody Else's discography was limited to the one and only LP released in 1969 on Hip Records, a subsidiary of Stax, to which we didn't clearly know if we had to add or not "Early Times" released in 1974 under the Black Oak Arkansas name. 2012 saw the release of "Soldiers Of Pure Peace". Its content was the band first recordings, done by Jim Dickinson at Ardent Studios between 1967 and 1968 and never before released. This publication would have never been released without the determination of a Knowbody Else's fan, Glennray Tutor, to find those tapes. The interest of this CD is of course musical but however isn't imited to the solely listening of those unearthed archives. Indeed, it is coupled with an important documentary interest due to a high quality booklet written by Glennray Tutor. The information sources about the band being usually contradictories, quite fancifuls and full of errors, make us want to ask Glennray Tutor to tell us about Knowbody Else. Having closely known the band in the sixties and having researched its history, he's probably the best Knowbody Else connoisseur. But Glennray Tutor is also an artist - an internationally-renowned painter - and the interest of his answers go beyond the information they contain, it is also on the specific way, related to his artistic sensibility, he looks at other artists.
English version of the Bands Of Dixie interview with Glennray Tutor

"Early Times" on this blog.

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Pat Terranova (Rambler) interview for Bands Of Dixie (English version of the interview published in Bands Of Dixie #109, 2016, second trimester.)


Bands Of Dixie has the mission to introduce the emerging bands, those who represent the succession of the seventies famous names that everyone expects in the Southern rock community. With Blackberry Smoke we obviously hold a band to which a very few is missing – just not to be born at the right time – to play in the big leagues. Just behind is a handful of bands excepting to become its challengers. There is – I should say there was - Swamp da Wamp and Rambler that, with his second album "This Town Is Not Pretty", has obviously reached the next level. A very fine album whose perpetrators deserve to be on the cover of our magazine. Interview with its leader Pat Terranova ... 

English version of the Bands Of Dixie interview with Pat Terranova.

Saturday, July 08, 2017

Henry Paul and Billy Crain interviews for Bands Of Dixie (English version of the interview published in issue #108, first trimester of 2016)



The announcement of the Henry Paul Band's original players reunion for two shows with the current Outlaws band joined by some of his "historical" band members has caused a huge excitement in the Bands Of Dixie editorial team. Just imagine: the Outlaws, probably the most exciting of the still active legendary bands, offered one of the most exciting family reunion with his putative brother: the Henry Paul Band! Band Of Dixie had the duty to question the figures (Billy Crain here and Henry Paul) involved in what is almost one of the great events of the "Outlaws Family" history!


English version of the Bands Of Dixie interview with Henry Paul


English version of the Bands Of Dixie interview with Billy Crain