I'm back, weaving tales from beneath the tarps and drop cloths, and I can't wait to share the whirlwind of my home makeover saga and how it’s breathed new life into my space. But it's not all paint samples and power tools; I’m also staring down the barrel of a root canal and gearing up to celebrate another trip around the sun. Remembering my late parents, I reflect on the bittersweet moments that come with milestone days and the solace found in memories and music.
Ah, music festivals. They're like a time machine for the soul, aren't they? Join me as I reminisce about the Strawberry Music Festival, where my love for bluegrass took root, and the Nevada County Fairgrounds, my sanctuary of sound. I pay tribute to John Prine and other late legends who've left their tunes echoing in our hearts. As festival season approaches, I urge you to find that sense of belonging and harmony in the throngs of music enthusiasts, just as I have. These melodic gatherings aren't just about the songs; they're about the shared human experience, the lyrical bond that connects us all.
To top it off, let's flip the record and give a nod to the B-side of life with Glen Campbell's "Just Another Man." This track might be overshadowed by its A-side counterpart, but it resonates with the struggles between freedom and the yearning for stability. Whether you find solace in the arms of a soulful ballad or the camaraderie of a festival crowd, let's keep tuning into those classic tracks that stitch us together with the power of music.
I'm back, weaving tales from beneath the tarps and drop cloths, and I can't wait to share the whirlwind of my home makeover saga and how it’s breathed new life into my space. But it's not all paint samples and power tools; I’m also staring down the barrel of a root canal and gearing up to celebrate another trip around the sun. Remembering my late parents, I reflect on the bittersweet moments that come with milestone days and the solace found in memories and music.
Ah, music festivals. They're like a time machine for the soul, aren't they? Join me as I reminisce about the Strawberry Music Festival, where my love for bluegrass took root, and the Nevada County Fairgrounds, my sanctuary of sound. I pay tribute to John Prine and other late legends who've left their tunes echoing in our hearts. As festival season approaches, I urge you to find that sense of belonging and harmony in the throngs of music enthusiasts, just as I have. These melodic gatherings aren't just about the songs; they're about the shared human experience, the lyrical bond that connects us all.
To top it off, let's flip the record and give a nod to the B-side of life with Glen Campbell's "Just Another Man." This track might be overshadowed by its A-side counterpart, but it resonates with the struggles between freedom and the yearning for stability. Whether you find solace in the arms of a soulful ballad or the camaraderie of a festival crowd, let's keep tuning into those classic tracks that stitch us together with the power of music.
it is good to be back rolling on the pats peeps podcast been a couple of days unfortunately. How are you? Hope you're doing well. It's the Pat's Peeps podcast. I'm Pat Walsh, talk show host, radio talk show host and podcaster. As I've said before, all God's children have a podcast. All God's children have a uvula and a podcast. That's what I've come to know in my years on this planet, which is going to be another year around the sun here coming up this week as I celebrate a birthday, but that's for later in the week.
Speaker 1:This happens to be the 13th day of May, my birthday, by the way, on the 16th. This is the 13th day of May. As I look out the studio windows into the beautiful foothills of Northern California today, it is a stunning day. It is gorgeous, so a little bit of a breeze, but it's just a beautiful day. Probably, I'm guessing, maybe temperatures in the 80s for the first time, something like that. But wherever you are, thank you for listening and I hope you're enjoying your day. I hope the weather is wonderful. I hope everything is going well. I hope you had a great Mother's Day.
Speaker 1:By the way, we did miss a few shows last week. I hope you noticed. I hope you did. If you didn't, okay, then you probably won't even hear me say this, but I'm trying to build the audience all the time. I try not to miss. I try to be a daily podcast.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, though, you know what Life gets in the way, and it did last week, but it was for a good reason. I mean, it was for very positive things. The fact is, if you've been listening, then you know that I've been remodeling my home and that's been going on oh man, I don't know maybe four, close to five years, certainly four years and the latest project they were doing inside my home was putting up the shiplap and they're painting the inside, my studio and all of this, my living room, my bathroom. So, really, I had nowhere to go last week and I kind of had to be here. I couldn't just leave. So I had to be here and, just because of the circumstances, just to kind of help move things I certainly trust the people who are here I just had to kind of help do things Anyhow. So I was not able. The studio was not hooked up and it just wasn't feasible logistically feasible last week. So, uh, yeah, I missed a couple, but that's not typical generally.
Speaker 1:I'm here doing the podcast every day. So again, thank you for listening and, uh, please tune into my radio show as well iheart radio, heard everywhere on your free iheart app and, of course, k KPK, locally in Sacramento. Now, tomorrow we'll have to see how it goes, because this is podcast 91. I can't believe we're almost to 100 now. Like I said, you know, life gets in the way. If you recall and it wasn't that long ago, I don't remember what episode it was, but it wasn't that long ago. I don't remember what episode it was, but it wasn't that long ago in this very podcast, the Pat's Peeps podcast. That is not this particular podcast, but an earlier podcast.
Speaker 1:Obviously I told you about how my blood pressure went up. I had to go get a root canal. Well, guess what? Guess who's got to get another root canal? This is the story of my life.
Speaker 1:So tomorrow, back to Dr Judd, back to the art of dentistry, back to yet another root canal. I cannot believe how many root canals I've had. So, first of all, I have to get an implant in the upper right portion of my mouth and then the next tooth in line breaks, and so now I've got to have a root canal in that tooth so you got to put a crown on it. There's not enough tooth there to put a crown on. So, yay, tomorrow I don't know if I'm going to be able to. I should just do my podcast while I'm in a dental chair. I'm going to be able to. I should just do my podcast while I'm in a dental chair. You know, just drill it. Just the thought of that is just so.
Speaker 1:Anyhow, this is just what happens. Life gets in the way. Hopefully I can at least do my radio show tomorrow, but the only time they could get me in is right late morning, so I don't know that I'll have enough time to do it tomorrow. So that's what I'm dealing with for my Tuesday. At least I can talk, even though I'm missing this tooth up here. But it's embarrassing, man, I don't want to smile. When I got you know you miss it up there. Uh, what else? Hey? Uh, then my birthday is, like I said, that's Thursday. So I just want this out of the way. I don't want to worry about this on my birthday. I am going to take Thursday and Friday off from my job just to kind of celebrate my birthday. I may do a podcast, though. I might do. That Just kind of depends on how things go. You never know, someone might throw you a surprise party, I don't know. But I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day.
Speaker 1:Yesterday was Mother's Day and remembering my mom. I love her so much. I lost my mother in 2006, over Labor Day of 2006. And my father, of course, father's Day is next month. I lost him on well in July of 2005. And you know, it just leaves a void in your life. As you know, if you are a person who has lost their parents or even one of their parents, it just leaves this void that you can never, ever fill. You can never. I mean you always, no matter what's going on in your life, you want to call your mom and tell her. You want to say, pop, did you see this happen? I did this, you know. Or how are you doing? Was your day, mom? Um? So yeah, it certainly leaves a void. So I think about my ma, and I know that a lot of people do on Mother's Day. If you're a mother, I hope you had a great Mother's Day and I hope you were treated with all the respect coming to you, because mothers are great. Jeez, thank God for mothers and fathers.
Speaker 1:But this was Mother's Day, you know, and I posted a picture of my mom on Facebook and it just cracks me up. It's a picture that I took in 1987 when I was going to Butte College and we were in Chico, we were living in Chico and this day we decided we would go have a barbecue for my mother. My brothers and I decided we'd barbecue for my mom at Bidwell Park. If you've been to Bidwell Park, you remember when we used to be able to drive through there and go find a place. Now I think it's all homeless encampments, which is very unfortunate, but even for a while there they stopped people from driving through. But it's a beautiful park. It was the original Sherwood Forest in Robin Hood. So we take my mom to this barbecue. We barbecue in four you can see this on Facebook from yesterday and at the same time I was taking photography classes at Butte College, just outside of Chico, between Chico and Paradise, and so I'm shooting black and white film at this point, and because I loved black and white.
Speaker 1:And so here's my ma sitting at a picnic table and I said mom, happy Mother's Day, say cheese. And what does she do? Because she's my mother, I'm happy Mother's Day, Say cheese. And what does she do? Because she's my mother, teresa Bernadette Walsh. I love you. She flipped the bird at me.
Speaker 1:I took this, I snapped the photo and this photo of my mother is the most popular photo amongst my siblings. Now that photo stands the test of time. Everyone started laughing. But that's my ma. That was the orneriness in my mother. She just flipped off the camera and, uh, god bless her. I mean it just really that's her personality right there in that snapshot.
Speaker 1:But I certainly, because I know I talk about my mom all the time, but thank god for her teaching me about music. Singing all the time to us, she, she would always sing. We'd be on vacation and she'd say, all right, kids, six kids in the car, you know, in a Falcon station wagon driving, and she'd say, all right, kids, you say a word, any word, and I'll sing a song with that word in it. And so right away, you know we're yelling, we're yelling outdoor, or you know, whatever you came to mind, car or whatever, and man, just like, just like that, she would come up with a song. And I believe that is why on my talk show or even here on my podcast, I don't do it as much on my podcast as my radio show, but, pete, you can talk about anything. People mention something, I can find a song about it, no problem. Within seconds it might just hit me. As soon as you say it, a song will come to mind. You know so, and I talked about her playing in a band and all that stuff, and so she's a person that never forgot any holidays. She was always with the holidays. That's why I have an appreciation for the holidays. Love you, mother, miss you very much. Same thing with you, dad. Same thing with you. So yeah, ma, let's see.
Speaker 1:Festival season is coming up, by the way, music festivals. I always love the music festivals. In May we have the Strawberry Music Festival. That's coming up on Memorial Day Strawberry Music Festival, a four-day music festival festival. This thing used to be up at make camp mather in yosemite, and I will tell you what that was. Heaven on earth to me. That place, that festival, I originally went in 93, a buddy of mine who I just kind of started knowing, really, this dude, uh, jeff hefe, my buddies, and now we've been friends for many, many years.
Speaker 1:So hefe says, hey, you know my parents, uh, who are older, obviously, but uh, he says my, my, my mom's got this rv and a new husband and they're going to go to this music festival called the strawberry music festival. You want to tag along and join us for this thing and hang out at this thing? We have an extra ticket. I said, hey, yeah, why not?
Speaker 1:So I go out to the music festival and, quite frankly, I had the time of my life. I did not know what to expect and I learned a lot about music and about people. I had artists I had never heard of at this music festival and it instantly, just I just fell in love with it. I mean, I felt right at home. I did not. After four days I did not want to leave the Strawberry Music Festival, I wanted to stay there. It's like this beautiful community, just a beautiful community of people, musicians, people that love to play. It was a lot, you know. Back then it was a little bit more bluegrass, which I just fell in love with. I already loved bluegrass, but I would hear artists that I had never heard, artists like John Prine.
Speaker 2:I got glue on my string.
Speaker 1:John Prine, who I had never heard about this guy.
Speaker 2:That's the way that the world goes round.
Speaker 1:What a great singer this guy was. He just passed away. Not just a great singer, but a great artist, a great songwriter. First time I ever heard of John Prine everyone's singing his lyrics I thought wow, how do I not know this man? Because everyone knows the lyrics. And when I started listening, I'm thinking well, no wonder.
Speaker 2:I mean, the guy's lyrics are just he's a perfect storyteller. Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose, beats his old lady with a rubber hose. Then he takes her out to dinner, buys her new clothes. That's the way that the world goes round.
Speaker 1:That's the way that the world goes round. Everyone would be singing this chorus the next you're down.
Speaker 2:It's a happening to water. You think you're gonna drown.
Speaker 1:That's the way that the world goes round. Now you can count me in as an audience member that sings the songs of John Prine. He wants you to sing his songs, Unlike John Mellencamp who chews you out in the middle of a show. John Prine had class. John Prine loved it when you knew the lyrics to his music and sang along with him at music festivals.
Speaker 2:I was sitting in the bathtub Counting my toes when the radiator broke. Water all froze. I got stuck in the ice Without my clothes, naked as the eyes of a clown, so I got to learn about.
Speaker 1:John Prine, and I saw you know what else I saw there. So I got to learn about John Prine. I saw you know who else I saw there, and I saw two people at that show that I really loved. One was Leon Redbone, the great Leon Redbone, who I also saw open up for George Carlin many years ago, and like, oh, two people I loved and I got to see Leon Redbone again at that show. And David Lindley, who also just passed on recently.
Speaker 1:David Lindley, I knew of him from El Rey OX David Lindley and El Rey OX and I thought this dude is different. He was huge in Chico when I was living up there. And then I see him and he's playing with Hany Nasser, david Lindley with Hany Nasser. Both of them are passed on now, but that's when I heard David Lindley excuse me, david Lindley and Hany Nasser play together and I thought, man, you know, this is just different. I just love it. I love the style of music. Again, I just fell in love with this. Let me play a little. David Lindley and Hany Nasser. I just fell in love with this festival. I mean, listen to how cool this is. David Lindley and Hany Nasser.
Speaker 1:David Lindley played guitar for Jackson Brown. He played for a lot of very popular artists and bands. Extremely talented guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, hany Nasser, great percussionist. It just provides a mood. If you could imagine being in Yosemite, in this meadow, surrounded by pine trees, and everyone's grooving to this music. People, you're getting up onto the side of the stages Not on the stage, but on the sides on the grass on the meadow Everyone's dancing to Lindley and Nasser Just be alone in San Diego.
Speaker 3:Do you want the land of broken dreams?
Speaker 1:So that's going on here in May on Memorial Day weekend and then next month it's the Bluegrass Festival at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, which is another one of my favorite events of the entire year. I just love, love the Bluegrass Festival as well, you know. Speaking of Strawberry, another guy that I've seen at Strawberry, seen him numerous times in Dixon in Davis at the Palms Playhouse. I've seen him at Hardly Strictly Another guy, robert Earl Keene, playing at Strawberry. Another great songwriter from Texas, the great Robert Earl Kane.
Speaker 4:She was a waitress at the old John Town. She had a reputation as a girl who'd been around. Now, my side of midnight, a brand new pack of cigs, a fresh one hanging from her lips, a beer between her legs, she'd ride down to the river and meet with all her friends. The road goes on forever and the party never ends.
Speaker 1:These boys rock and roll country style. I love it. Love it man.
Speaker 4:Sonny was a loner. He was on the wrist, he was going in the Navy but he couldn't pass the test so he hung around town. He sold a little pot. The law guy went to sunny One day. He got caught but he was back in business when they set him free again. The road goes on forever.
Speaker 1:And the party never ends. This guy gets them going man in the meadow at Strawberry. I'll tell you what Robert O'Keefe, some going man in the meadow at Strawberry.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what, robert O'Keefe, when you see people jump out of those chairs and start dancing, man, it's just. It's like your spirit is just so free, absolutely awesome. Not your typical kind of a concert, and I was at the Strawberry Music Festival and I had my chance to. I spent a lot of time introducing bands at the strawberry music festival, which is one of the things I really really always wanted to do. And, speaking of robert earl keen, I had a the great honor of sitting down and interviewing robert earl teen in 2012.
Speaker 1:Walsh here once again and I am extremely honored to be sitting with this man right here. Robert Earl Keane, you are one of my musical heroes. I'm not just kissing up here, man. I've seen this man here at Strawberry. You know I'm a veteran here. I've seen him at the Harvey Strictly. I've seen him at the Palms and Davis and Winters. I know I love this guy's music. First of all, let me just ask you, since I know this is not your first time at Strawberry, do you have any special Strawberry memories that you just think of when you come back? Anything that comes back to you when you come here?
Speaker 5:Oh, I have a ton, you mean like a particularly great memory, just when you look out in that, yeah, a particularly great memory. Well, I played here with Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt one time and it was really early on and you know, stepping up on that stage and all those people standing there and them actually listening to what I had to say, because I mean, you know, I kicked and screamed my way into any kind of music life at all, to the point where I brought my own little cassette recorder with applause recorded on it. So when it was a bad show I just pushed, you know, applause and all of a sudden I'm standing up there with, you know, two serious, you know songwriting icons and everybody's listening. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1:All right. Now I know what. I think it was maybe 1988. You come to Strawberry and back then you played a couple of sets. You didn't just play the one set and you come out here solo, you bring your guitar out, you knock everybody's socks off, you do this great job. So the difference of I mean, do you remember those days when you came here solo versus bringing a band out here, what are some of the differences that you feel when you have the two different people?
Speaker 5:Well, you definitely want to, you know, make friends in a hurry, because you do. I mean, one of the things about a band is you get to be pals and hang around together somewhat. Sometimes you isolate yourself a little bit, so, solo, you want to kind of blend in and meet some people. So I got to meet a lot more people than I do normally, but back then that was kind of how I was doing it. So it was about getting here and making some friends. I made some lifelong friends here.
Speaker 1:And, if I'm not mistaken now, jeff and I Jeff is my camera guy here, my producer we went and had breakfast this morning at the Breakfast Club. Now, as I recall, you played the Breakfast Club one morning. I played the Breakfast Club. Now you go. I recall you played the Breakfast Club one morning. I played the.
Speaker 5:Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1:Now you go to the Breakfast Club. You're getting your scrambled eggs, you're getting your bacon and you expect to hear an amateur up there singing their heart out. It's Robert Earl Kane. It catches your attention. What made you decide I want to go to the Breakfast Club and do this?
Speaker 5:Really, really, pat. I think somebody just asked me and I went yeah, sure, you know. I mean this is about music, so and I play music, so when people ask me to play music, I usually play Nice.
Speaker 1:And okay, obviously you play music, great music, and, as I said, I've seen you in concert do just incredible shows. How does it feel to you to be one of the most revered songwriters really going today? Because you have. You've worked so hard to build a name for yourself and now here you are, out there playing great shows. You're traveling a lot and you're known as a great songwriter. How does that?
Speaker 5:feel to you. Well, what I keep thinking and this is sort of a thing that people ask me a lot of times what would I have done otherwise if I hadn't decided to be a songwriter? And I just never thought of anything else that I could do or I really wanted to do. I think I kind of put all in like they do in the poker games. I was all in on the songwriting. So I feel like you know I was at least you know I wasn't something that my dad would say son music is an advocation, not a vocation. So it became my vocation. It worked out. Now, where are you from?
Speaker 1:Obviously Robert O'Keefe. Where are you from? Robertston, texas, houston, texas? Then why is it when I hear songs, like I can go back to farm fresh? I listen to songs and I think of central california, I think of places I've been. You've traveled a lot, obviously. Where do you get?
Speaker 5:your inspiration for a lot of these songs. I'm a landscape guy really. I mean, if, if I a painter, I'd be a landscape painter because I think, in terms of what's out there, what not necessarily impresses me but makes some kind of impact on me, and then I start with my songs with some kind of landscape, and then maybe it becomes a cartoon at some point, sort of like Farm Fresh Onions is sort of a cartoon landscape, but at the same time I try to fill that in and I think people kind of you know relate to that.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, oh sorry, Robert, Didn't mean to interrupt there. Robert Earl Keene having a chat 2012.
Speaker 5:As I've seen. I go out, you know, and go out. It doesn't matter if it's New York or Phoenix, arizona or wherever. You know Texas, a lot of Texas landscapes, so that's how the music translates from you know what I see and I have to say this I've always been a much stronger lyric guy than I have been a music guy. I always strive to be a better musician, but I always felt really strong about the lyrics and getting those out there.
Speaker 1:Again. That's my interview with Robert O'Keefe backstage at the 2012 Strawberry Music Festival. We're at Yosemite. There's a part of this interview that comes up At the time.
Speaker 1:The guy running the cameras I mentioned here, jeff's a very good friend of mine and I had another best friend by the name of Mark Mark Cullen, and Mark Cullen decided, I guess, on January 6th, when the folks decided they'd go into the Capitol on January 6th, which at the time I had COVID. I don't mean to drift off from Robert Earl Keene here, but my point being is that somehow my friend, mark I'm not even a political guy quit talking to me for whatever reason on that day, actually, even before that, said we had nothing to talk about because of somehow the people going into the Capitol, which I don't even talk about Didn't even know what was going on. So I'll just play a couple of more seconds because I think it's right here, because Mark loved Robert O'Keefe, just like me. So I had Robert O'Keefe give a special message to Mark and the landscape speaks to you. So you've seen a lot of landscape.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, so I'm finishing up the interview here. It makes you wonder. Here's a guy who's very successful. It makes you wonder why a friend would just not be friends with you any longer, defriend you over politics. You know what I mean. But again, robert O'Kane, it's the very end here. I love the show.
Speaker 5:So it's all about just getting to the show right, and there's a certain amount of travel weariness that you experience, or just everyday bumps and grinds about things. But every day that I'm out here on the road or anywhere that I'm playing that night, that's the big payoff. That's when you pull the lever and it goes.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you taking a couple of minutes and just talking to us before you go on stage tonight. We're obviously really looking forward to your performance tonight.
Speaker 5:Thanks, pat. Thank you very much for your time. Thanks, pat, I really appreciate it. All right, pat and Jeff.
Speaker 1:So I think I take a little break there for a second and I go back to Robert O'Kane. But again, what I was trying to say is it's remarkable to me that you would lose a friend simply over politics, when you have absolutely nothing to do with any of it and really had no idea, even think any of this stuff was going on. So I'll play this little excerpt from myself and Robert Earl Keene for my friend Mark. Here we go.
Speaker 3:Don't you wait for me, cause I've been running late. Don't you wait for me.
Speaker 1:My buddy's name is Mark Cullen. Can you say hi to Mark Cullen?
Speaker 5:He's your biggest fan. Hey, mark, this is Robert Earl Keene. Keep it real, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Mark, wherever you are man, you lost a true friend. I was a true friend, I thought you were too. That's what makes me think, makes me feel sad about that. So to pick myself back up thinking about the and I just kind of got off on this tangent today about these festivals and the Strawberry Music Festival, it's a beautiful place. It's the kind of place where you know people camp there and there'll be this little lake in the middle of the campgrounds. When it was in Camp Mather, now it's at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley. Much different, but still in itself it's a beautiful place, beautiful venue. But the idea is that people camp there for several days at a time, or as many days as they feel like it, and at night or during the day you will see the campgrounds with musicians and they've all got the little jam sessions going, and then you've got the main stage and you've got all of the food and all of the booths where you can buy really cool clothes and kids' face painting. It's really Americana. It's a special slice of life and one of the great memories here, as we, uh, get ready to play my spin, my 45 of the day that I pull from my rare 45 collection which, by the way, boy with my, keep my 45 45s. It looks so much more beautiful now they painted inside of my home. Like I told you, american River Flooring support local business. The inside of my home looks so much better than it did a week ago. The paint is beautiful. So on my records I had to take them all out and put them all back in, but the shelves look fantastic. Thank you to American River Flooring for what they did. But the shelves look fantastic. Thank you to American River Flooring for what they did.
Speaker 1:But so to kind of tie the music festival, the Strawberry Music Festival, into my record spin of the day, one of the other things that I really vividly remember from going to the first Strawberry Music Festival was another cat that I had only heard of several years ago Well, probably, well 78, so many years ago and I heard about this from a guy who I talked about on a previous episode, indian Dave Corvell's friend, who I told you, you know, turned me on to the Rolling Stones and all that. Anyhow, he turned me on to this guy by the name of John Hartford, and I just remember this song by John Hartford hey, baby, want a boogie. And he wore like this cool hat, he had this vest on, he played a fiddle and he jumped off the stage and again you got a picture of Meadow in Yosemite jumps off the stage, he's playing a fiddle. All of a sudden he's got the what do you like? The conga line. Everyone who was sitting in their chairs gets up. Now everyone's in this conga line or whatever you want to call it behind John Hartford who's dancing around the meadow playing a fiddle and everyone's dancing behind him. It was like I was in a weird like Grateful Dead fantasy movie thing. It was happening and it just I got caught up in it. It was so cool and I but I didn't know that John Hartford was such a great songwriter. I had no, no clue.
Speaker 1:Speaking of John Prine, a great songwriter, robert Earl Keene, who you just heard me talking to, a great songwriter, and certainly John Hartford is a great songwriter. So it ties right into the record that I pulled off my shelf today, which is a yellow label. It is on Capitol Records. It's got a radio station sticker on it. It says 1967. Let me take it out of the sleeve here. Looks in pretty decent shape, not the best of shape, but pretty good, this is a promotion record. It says in big letters promotion record. Like always, I don't have the license to these. I'm just turning people on trying to educate. I know that I can do that just because I'm trying to educate. I'm not trying to make money off of this. Just so you know I don't own this music and it's a yellow record. Of course not for sale. It says right there on the 45.
Speaker 1:So this particular song was written by John Hartford who was at Strawberry. But it's not by John Hartford. This is a very popular song from 1967, which was written by John Hartford and recorded originally by John Hartford, which was released on his second studio album, earth Wins, or, excuse me, earth Words and Music. So he writes the song after watching Dr Zhivago. Remember that movie? He watches Dr Zhivago in 66. He was inspired by the film and his own personal experiences. So what he's singing in the song he is describing, or I guess, reminiscing about a lost love, about a lost love. This guy apparently is traveling through the country and it's about a lost love, about sort of like a hobo who is reminiscing about someone he loved and then lost Caught the attention of this particular artist who recorded his version with a group of session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, which is a great documentary.
Speaker 1:If you've not seen the Wrecking Crew, all these songs that you thought you knew and you thought you knew who was playing them, all these hit songs from the 60s and 70s I mean it was the Wrecking Crew. I'm talking about the Beach Boys, I'm talking about the Wall of Sound. There's so many examples. Anyhow, he recorded it and this artist was part of the Wrecking Crew. That's why he had them record it, because this artist at this time was part of the Wrecking Crew or he had been.
Speaker 1:This song peaked in the top 30 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in 1968. The song by this artist earned four Grammy Awards and it's been recorded by several other singers Dean Martin, aretha Franklin, frank Sinatra, andy Williams, elvis Presley sang this. This one went to let's see, went to number eight, adult AC 1968. But in 1967, it went to US Hot Country Songs, went to number 30, number 62 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Did very well around the world. So this song is called Gentle On my Mind and it was recorded by Glenn Campbell. So let's take a listen to Gentle On my Mind, glenn Campbell. Mono, by the way.
Speaker 3:It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk that makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag Rolled up and stashed behind your couch. And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds and the exchange that are dried upon some line that keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory and keeps you ever gentle on my mind. It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now they find me, or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together to walk in. It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing.
Speaker 1:Definitely a song I grew up with in my mother's record collection, my mom. Thank you to my mom. Again, going back to Mother's Day, she took me to see Glen Campbell when I was probably this probably the year this came out. To be honest with you, sonny Curtis opened for him, no Sonny James. So let's see what's on the other side. The other side here is called hold on a second Hold on. Let's see Just Another man, just Another man. This is promotional. We have a big old promotional record on there. All right, just Another man. The B-side of Gentle on my Mind.
Speaker 3:I'd like to stay with you a while, but I have promises to keep. I could be happy here with you, but I must sow wild oats to reap. My strength tells me, my weakness shows you make me think of coats and ties, of baby's home security.
Speaker 1:That song comes in at a brief 2 minutes and 13 seconds.
Speaker 3:by the way, and in knowing that I know that I'll get more or less what I can get, so I do what I can.
Speaker 1:I have many steps to take. Just another man, glenn Campbell, flip side of Gentle on my Mind. Hopefully you'll get to go to one of these music festivals. Hey, thanks for listening to Pat's Peeps, number 91. So good to be back. I'll see you on the radio tonight on the Pat Walsh Show and then for Pat's Peeps 92 on all your streaming platforms get.
Speaker 3:So I do what I can, but if you should not, let me go.