Bob Soron wrote:
>
> At 12:11 PM -0800 on 3/5/99, Cheryl Cline wrote:
>
> >If they're not "alt country" or "alternative country" according to the
> >UT/No Depression revisionism, er, I mean yardstick, then, we're back to
> >the original problem being batted around back then (and when *did* this
> >start, btw? Bob Soron?) [...]
>
> I had *nothing* to do with it. Ask Gracey, who was there whenever
> something good happened. Or someone old, like Barry or Wyatt. <g>
>
> np - Stubb's Blues Cookbook. Come to think of it, you probably had a
> finger or two in this, Joe?
>
> Bob
Funny you should ask. Stubbs made the first commercial samples of his
famous barbecue sauce here on our kitchen stove. Stubbs was of course
good buddies with Joe Ely and his wife, and when he started to have the
idea of selling his barbecue sauce, Kimmie and Sharon went all over town
with Stubbs in his giant red cadillac, dressed in massive gowns and
cowboy hats, delivering samples of the sauce to people for Christmas
presents. They carried a blaster with Christmas tunes on it as well.
(C.B. Stubblefield had a barbecue joint in Lubbock that was
musician-friendly. He'd feed Ely and all of them and they'd play. It was
where Tom T. Hall had the famous onion pool game with Ely. We all played
there sooner or later. He then relocated to Austin and just before he
died, he was on Letterman (where he made Letterman look like a fool for
attempting to make fun of him) and his barbecue sauce/soul foods empire
began to take shape. Thus my pride that he cooked that first batch on my
Wolf stove.)
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Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
