John D. Loudermilk plays "Windy and Warm"
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- See www.ihesm.com/L... for all about the song on the John D Loudermilk site.
John D wrote it, but never recorded it. John tells about writing the song with Chet Atkins and performs the song.
June 23, 2007, Ford Theatre, Nashville TN, in the Series Poets And Prophets, organised by the Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum.
One sorely underrated performer - we owe so many good songs to him.
First time I heard the song it was done by the ventures and the melody grab me
This guy Loudermilk is prolific! Is he in a Hall of Fame anywhere? He should be. I just stumbled on him while googling & saw all these great songs from my youth that are endelible favs, eg. Norman & a special favourite, 'Talk Back Trembling Lips". And he wrote them all. Thanks John, you write a solid song. And 'Language of Love' oobee-doo-be-doo-be-do. Amazing!
Perhaps America's most underrated songwriters. Wrote songs as diverse as "Tobacco Road", "A Rose and a Baby Ruth", "Thou Shalt Not Steal", the serious "Indian Reservation" & "Ebony Eyes", and the hysterical "James, Hold The Ladder Steady".
Love the foot tapping mic. A great song covered by so many great musicians.
there's something so beautiful, and so universaly appealing about this tune - I hope to someday write something as memorable as this
have loved this song forever .. sure puts a different slant on in listening to JDL .. he puts the melon in meloncholy!
this song sounds so much better slowed down like loudermilk does it. There's always a different element about a song when the original composer plays it, very well done John D.
Chet Atkins plays it slow and easy on S1Ep16 of _The Jimmy Dean Show_ in 1964. You should go find it -- it's a real treat.
John D.,a cousin to the Louvin Brothers[their real name. was Loudermilk].Windy & Warm is my favorite country instrumental.Good to see John playing it here.
The briiliant music of John D.Loudermilk is simply amazing.
One of my very favourites - didn't know John D wrote it! Great story about Chet recognizing the flow
He wrote "Paper Tiger' by Sue Thompson? I can't believe it! Up there with my favourite songs when I was a littly. My requested Xmas pres. was a hand-held littleTransitor Radio. Went nowhere without it. You'd wait for your favourites to be played. The joy would go on for weeks they stayed in the Charts. Those were the days! I Cherish the modern society we nurtured and love so much. And those memories.
In 1961-1965 he may have had a song on the charts at any time
Love the wooden Coke box he's tapping on. Good touch.
Clever man.
It is indeed warm and simple.
'Follow Your Drum' i what I was googling for. Heard on Oldies radio. Wow! Had to know more about it. So much is overlooked when hearing a great song. You only care it's a great song. Who writes them though? And his own voice on this one. Is sensational! I remember Indian Reservation too. You are a Huge Impact on music history, John.
Had no idea JDL had anything to do with this song. I learned it in 1954-65 off of a Ventures album.
I'm actually going the music school route next year. I know it won't give me any brilliant ideas, but I'm hoping it will help me structure the existing ones. Right now I'm "writing for the drawer", and I think it would help me to have a bunch of teachers hanging around with their "don't judge it, just finish it" attitudes. When that fails I'll just play your tunes... :) Keep rockin' man
I love Doc Watson's version of this song. It's not fancy, just simple, understated and direct. Of course, when Doc plays finger style guitar, he just uses his thumb and one finger.... kind a' like Merle Travis.
I love it. First of all, there is something about how this guy plays the song that really gets me going, it sounds almost like a lullaby. Second, I have my guitar tuned like that, really low, it just hits you in the chest when you play it. Very cool vid.
One of the Greats.
That damned mike stand obscures his fingerboard almost completely! I suppose he's playing it in Em, although it comes out as Fm on my guitar. The trouble with old recordings is that sometimes the pitch isn't spot on.
Motifs? I always thought there was LESS teefs in country music.
Im assuming he is talking about Chet at the beginning?
Absolutely, it was Chet he was talking about. I've heard this story before, and by the way, others just like it. Chet was a musical genius, but had to depend on people like Loudermilk, Jerry Reed Hubbard, and Boudleaux Bryant to actually write many of the songs he would play and have them turn into hits.
Play along with at home. It's in F minor. Can that guitar be tuned down that low? It's almost always played in A minor! Plus, I had no idea this guy wrote it. What an amazing catalog he has! Norman? Then You Can Tell Me Good Bye? Tobacco Road? What kind of weird genius was he? RIP John D Loudermilk!
John Sieger Indeed it's seriously low...I am surprised at how the guitar doesn't sound weird at all with that drop in tuning.
John Sieger .
It's a high end nylon string guitar. Nylon stringed gutiars in general produce a much less sharp tone, so there's less than can sound "wrong".
@punchdrunque This is a point that needs clarification. What 'LEGALLY' constitutes a song, is the main melody line, and words, if any. Thats it. If you went into a studio, only with a tune you hummed, and a lyric you thought out in your car,and the band came up with the perfect music to compliment it, they are not writers. That is considered an arrangement. Think on it. U can take any song, keep the melody, and play the support music any style, and make it work. Thats an arrangement.
It was so good and I thought they wrote it. It was unique and mysterious.. the second time I heard it what's 40 years later buy Tommy Emmanuel and I know I had to learn it. And the third time I heard it it was played by Doc Watson. This guy is the guy who wrote it so that makes it the fourth time I heard it. I play it to wait Tommy Emmanuel plays it which is a lot more bluesy had a lot more feeling than the one here. When I have my electric guitar it's a mix of Emmanuel and the ventures? Emmanuel has the most feeling Chet Atkins is more country and closer to Loudermilk . Watson is phenomenal life into the song. However Tommy Emmanuel is on top as far as I'm concerned Noki Edwards give it that psychedelic
I dunno about it El Capaton! The only song that I love is the very funny hillbilly tune " Goin to Hell on a Sled"....I heard it many times on the Doctor Demento show back in the good old days.....
@dhaeze You have to remember, that great music like this is passed around. So you get the best results (and sometimes the shittiest of results). But Doc Watson's cover is a great version, but it is just one of possibly many. So just be happy that there are both floating around in the world.
Gene Hutt played Chet on his Gretches... I love Gene Hutt
Fuckin hell it's Benny Hill back from the dead! So thats why they used Yakety Axe for the Benny Hill Show... its all starting to make sense.
The Little Grave song about the little bird. There's not a song that's ever been written like it. Wondering if it really happened. Sounds like it did. It was like - what am I doing this for? Finishing a little innocent bird's life forever. Glad it was 'turn around' circumstances but sad how.
Yeah; his bottom string is down to C. It doesn't do much for the resonance or the pitch, tuning that low. Wonderful tune; I'm still finding different ways to play it, and I'll never get it just right!
My last name is Loudermilk and I don't know this guy?
i always wondered why some fingerpickers like chet atkins and this guy play with a classical guitar with nylon strings? (or am i wrong?) Because if you look at doc watson's version of this song, with folk guitar and steel strings, it sounds a lot better, in my opinion.
Good point. All I can say is preference. Walk, Don't Run was written as a slow moving piece. I think, maybe a jazz piece. Not sure. Horrible. Then some maniac(can't remember names) zoomed it up and it was an immortal hit.
Nylon is soft and easy and good for noodling. You get on stage, you gotta put something out there. Nylon don't make it.
Chet wasn't blessed with strong nails. He said nylon strings didn't chew his nails up the way steel strings did.
I just uploaded a cover of Tommy Emmanuel's version of this! It's nowhere near as good but I'd be so happy if someone checked it out!
was he drinking or the guitar??? jeeez
this sounds bad