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As a boy, Booth showed his talent by winning a contest in New Port Richey, Florida for playing guitar at age 14. After high school, he attended the University of New Mexico with the intent of becoming a schoolteacher. But he decided to give music a try, and began his music career with the Mel Savage Band. Before long, he was touring with Jimmy Snyder.
Booth's first single, "Wishful Thinkin'" (backed with "I Think I Can") and album, Country '67 was released under the stage name "Johnny Booth" by Universal City Records in 1967. It featured a cover of Engelbert Humperdinck's "There Goes My Everything", a version of which had been released months earlier by Ray Price, one of Booth's longtime influences. The album, produced by Cliffie Stone, retains the vestigal sound of Rockabilly that Country music was moving away from at that time, ironically toward the softer sound then being pushed by artists such as Price.
When his first album did not yield a chart position, Booth formed a band called Modern Country in 1968 and performed for a time in Las Vegas, Nevada before moving to Los Angeles, California. The band, which renamed itself the Tony Booth Band, became the house band at L.A.'s Palomino Club. He cut a single with K-Ark Records, "Big Lonely World" (backed with "It's Alright") but it also had no chart success.
That changed in 1970 when his first single for MGM Records, Merle Haggard's song about interracial love, "Irma Jackson" (backed with Booth's own "One Too Many Times") reached the charts. His band also won an Academy of Country Music award, which they would take home for three consecutive years.
An album soon followed, On The Right Track, produced by Dusty Rhodes, and in 1971 Booth won the ACM award for Most Promising Male Vocalist. He signed with Capitol Records and became one of several artists to record under Buck Owens. His first single, "Cinderella", went midway up the charts.
Booth released two albums a year for Capitol between 1972 and 1974. The first was The Key's In The Mailbox which included three hit singles. The title track reached #1 on Cash Box, making it his best-ranked and best-known song. The last single from the album made it to #13, and "LOnesome 7-7203" from his next album peaked right behind at #6.
Over the next three albums, Booth produced five more singles which all charted. "When a Man Loves a Woman (The Way That I Love You)" made it to #19, and the next four all made the Top 50 including a cover of Doris Day's hit "Secret Love." He was also nominated for the ACM Male Vocalist of the Year award in 1973.
After two singles failed to chart, Booth's cover of Jim Croce's hit Workin' At The Car Wash Blues, made it to #22 and the album of the same name won an ASCAP award in 1974. Up to that album, his recordings for Capitol were largely penned by Buck Owens, but by that time Owens was retreating from the music scene following the death of his close friend Don Rich and the net for Booth's material was cast wider.
Booth left Capitol in 1975 after three more singles. He was picked up by United Artists Records in 1976, and unsurprisingly left the Bakersfield sound behind. The soaring strings didn't impress the charts, although his 1977 single "Letting Go" (backed somewhat ironically with "Nothing Seems To Work Anymore") just barely made the Top 100.
He went on to tour in Gene Watson's band and played bass and sang backup on many of his mid-1980s albums, and performed the song "Still on the Bottle" for the movie Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990).
Booth currently lives in Alvin, Texas with his wife and family, and appears frequently in the band at the Alvin Opry with his brother Larry. Tony Booth has also resumed touring on his own again playing mostly in southern states such as Texas and Oklahoma.
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ATTENTION" Media outlets - You will notice I have added a new feature to this Newsletter called "Getting To Know _________ " If you would like to reprint any of these mini-interviews there is no problem. Just make sure you leave the artist contact website intact and that you contact me with the name of your publication where it will appear so I can let the artist know. - Lonnie Ratliff NashvilleShowcase@comcast.net
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Picking Songs For Your CD By Lonnie Ratliff This is a hard subject to tackle so I will just start out by telling you how I find songs for the artists I produce. First off I get all the politics out of the process. My job as a producer is to make the very best CD or demo for the artist who is paying me as I possibly can. It is not to talk the artist into cutting mine and my buddies songs just so we will have another demo. I have about 400 songs that I have collected over the years that I have a lot of faith in and about 30 Nashville songwriters that I put the word out to when I need material so I have a pretty deep catalog to work from to begin with. The first thing I do is ask the artist to E Mail me a list of about a dozen or so songs they have heard in their lifetime that they wish they had been the first one to record. This gives me a starting place and I will then go through my pitch catalog and make up a CD of about 20 songs and send to them. On this first “Pitch” CD I do not send them lyrics or tell them who wrote what. Not only do I take my politics out in the beginning by sending them this blind CD they cannot be influenced by anything other than the songs they hear. Artist tend to want to cut songs by songwriters they have heard of and I have also noticed they will tend to want to cut a song that I wrote sometimes. They seem to think I may try harder on my own songs. I just make sure they are not influenced by this by not telling them who wrote what. This way they only listen for the best song. As far as cutting songs by famous writers go the truth is, you as an unknown artist, are NOT going to get the next “Hit” written by whoever it was that wrote “Jesus Take The Wheel” . That writer whoever it is can take his or her songs to the biggest artists in town and get “cuts” by someone they know will make them a lot of money so they can’t afford to tie up a song with an unknown artist. The trick is that you have to find the songs and recognize them as “hits” before some artist on music row does. One trick that is good to learn is how to hear beyond the demo. Just because a girl is singing the demo don’t mean a guy can’t record the song. If you can just learn to hear beyond this it will give you a lot more songs to choose from. You can also go back to the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s and find some great songs that are album cuts on albums that had one or two hits and eight other album cuts no one ever heard or if they did they have long forgotten. You need to remember that Nashville was going through their “We think we are “Pop” producers” during this period so they will be soaked down with “Strings” and the “Thousand Screaming Angels” background vocals. All you have to do on your recording is drop all that trendy bells and whistles production and replace the “A” Strings with one steel guitar track and you can come up with a great new recording. The one thing when it comes to songs, you will learn, is that the better the song is to begin with the easier and cheaper it will be to promote the record. Keep this in mind when looking for songs.
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Fact: "No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH'."
I'd thertainly like to thee one jutht wunth.
Fact: "A snail can sleep for three years."
A snail doesn't have much to get up for.
Fact: "It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs."
I'll never sneak another cow up to my room.
Fact: "Horses can't vomit."
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They can jump if you touch them just right.
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If This Honky Tonk Could Talk is a straight ahead honky tonk shuffle I wrote with my pal "Gidget" Baird. We wrote the song Mirror, Mirror, (On The Wall) several years ago but this is the first time we have attempted anything together in a long time and I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. The honky tonk genre is a pretty difficult format to write in because both the music and subject parameters are pretty limiting. You get outside of either one and you no longer have a genuine honky tonk song. Add to this the fact that some of the greatest songwriters in country music have been working the genre for over fifty years. Writers like Lefty Frizzell, Harlan Howard and Hank Cochran and many others have a heck of a head start on you and I sometimes think they may have already laid claim to the best honky tonk titles and storylines and let's face it when one of those master songwriters write an idea you can pretty well bet they milked it for all it's worth. Although we may not have gone where no one's dared to go before in the honky tonk field I do believe we may have written something we can be proud of. I can't help but believe if ole "Faron" was still around he might cut If This Honky Tonk Could Talk.
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Getting acquainted with Red Dirt Music
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Critics say that Red Dirt can best be likened to the indie genre of rock 'n' roll as there is no definitive sound that can be attributed to all the bands in the movement.Most Red Dirt artists would be classified by the music industry as Americana, folk, or alt-country, though the range of sounds in the Red Dirt spectrum goes beyond these genres. It has been described as a mix of folk, rock, country, bluegrass, blues, Western swing, and honky tonk, with even a few Mexican influences. Singer-songwriter and former Stillwater resident Jimmy LaFave said,
"It's kind of hard to put into words, but if you ever drive down on the (Mississippi) Delta, you can almost hear that blues sound," he explains. "Go to New Orleans, and you can almost hear the Dixieland jazz. Go to San Francisco, and you get that psychedelic-music vibe. You hear the Red Dirt sound when you go through Stillwater. It has to do with the spirit of the people. There's something different about them. They're not Texans, they're Okies, and I think the whole Red Dirt sound is just as important to American musicology as the San Francisco sound or any of the rest. It's distinctly its own thing."[5]
Some define Red Dirt music as "country music with an attitude".[6] Others say it's a state of mind as much as it is a sound - a sound that successfully closes the gap between rock and country.[6]
Although many bands got their start in Stillwater, each band has a distinctive sound said Brandon Jackson, guitar for the band No Justice. "The sound is different from each band to band to band. Some guys are more rock, some guys are more country, and there's everything in between," Jackson said. Cody Canada, front-man for the band Cross Canadian Ragweed said, ""It's country, folksy, it's bluesy, it's rock, and it's just blue collar music. It's a lot about the lyrics. It's a lot about the feeling of it. It doesn't have a label, I guess. It's everything from Merle Haggard influence to full blown Rolling Stones."[3]
Marc Ringwood, founder of Texas Troubadours - a website dedicated to the sounds of Oklahoma and Texas - says, "I don’t think there is a true way to define it. Trying to analyze it, you see that a lot of artists carry the same influences going back to the days of Bob Wills and Woody Guthrie (for the older artists and bands), and then you have new guys who have followed in stride with their peers by feeding off their influences. Red Dirt also has more of a spiritual quality within the music. It’s more honest, and true and noncliched, like a lot of other music we’re exposed to in major markets."[7]
When asked to define Red Dirt music in an interview with Texas Troubadours, Red Dirt musician and Tahlequah resident Randy Crouch said, "Well, I don't think I'd be the one who's able to define it, but it seems to have Oklahoma values, you know how Okies are real good at doing everything themselves, maybe a sense of independence about it. It's natural, and honest, and about real life. You know, it's almost like the way Woody approached music."[8]
Ben Cisneros, a writer for The 9513 - a country music blog website - says Red Dirt is a "movement" that has managed to create an infrastructure enabling regional success. He states that "program directors and DJs all over Texas and Oklahoma have set up shows that feature Red Dirt music. Not only that, but many stations in major markets are including Red Dirt music in their regular rotation right alongside mainstream modern country."[9]
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Getting To Know Doug Jones
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It’s been awhile since WHP put out a DJ’s for DJ’s Compilation CD so we are getting ready to do another one in May 2009. If you are a Radio DJ and have some songs recorded, new or old, you can email me a MP3 or just mail me a copy on a CD. If you email them to me they have to be ripped at 320 kpbs and in MP3 format. I also need the Writers information. There are 30 slots open and it is first come first serve. They will be distributed through Airplay Direct, http://www.airplaydirect.com/music/ to the entire Globe Free of charge. For those emailing them to me use this email, gbradshaw3@cox.net. Both terrestrial and Internet Radio Jocks are welcome. For snail mail use the address below this.
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(615) 742 0666 and I can issue you a Mechanical license (Cost is normally $45.50 or $91.00) to use + I have several (Music Tracks to these songs for lease for $250 where you can just add your vocal to my tracks). You can have original songs legally that you can perform live, use in contests, put on your CD or demo or sell downloads of on the internet. Keep your career legal and keep out of trouble. "Click Link Below" for 4 pages of Lonnie's original songs.
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Lonnie Ratliff ~ Record Production~ 5 Songs
1. Cost for 5 songs is $3,750 (Three Thousand Seven Hundred & Fifty Dollars). This includes Studio, Musicians, Etc! and you end up with a mixed CD of your project. There are not a lot of hidden costs that will be tacked on. The only additional costs I can think of would be $150 if you want us to Master it for you before it goes to your pressing plant. (Call me and I can explain Mastering to you) The other thing that could cost you later is that you might have to pay songwriter royalties if you have recorded someone elses songs and are gonna include it on your CD to sell. (Example = If you want to record a George Strait song or a Taylor Swift song then you will have to pay a royalty to use that song) I can help point you in the right direction to obtain a license from the Harry Fox Agency.
2. For those artist who are new at this, Production is just about getting your songs recorded and ready to be made into CD's that you can sell. I don't press up the 500 or 1000 CD's for you but I can recommend Karen Bruno at Amazon Audio who can take care of everything for you. I believe it costs about $1500 for a 1000 CD's. A lot of the artists I produce will cut a couple of 5 song sessions with me and then put them together and press up a CD they can sell and get their money back.
3. First thing we need to do is figure out if we can work together and come up with something we can both be proud of. You can listen to the artists I have produced (Click Here) and get an idea of what I do. If you are a decent singer and I believe we can make a respectable recording then I will probably be glad to work with you.
4. Deposits & Payments: The first thing required is a $200 deposit and once that is paid we can start putting together your session. I will help you find the songs if needed and will arrange them for you using any ideas you may have. Once we find the songs and have picked a date you send me the balance of $3,550 at least 2 weeks before the session date and I book your session at a studio on Music Row. I normally use Dixiana Studio. We will cut the basic tracks and overdubs there and then cut the final vocals, harmonies and mix at Smokehouse studio.
5. The Band normally will consist of Bass, Drums, Rhythm Guitar, Piano, Steel Guitar, Fiddle, Dobro, Electric Guitar & Mandolin. If I believe a particular song calls for a specialty instrument I will use it and there is no additional charge. I do not try to cut corners by taking short cuts on the musicians we use.
6. Original songs. I have about 200 songs in my Music Publishing Company that you are welcome to use (Royalty Free) if you are using them on any project I produce.
7. Time it will take to record. Figure that it will take about 3 days in the studio. If you are on a tight schedule you're part will be over in two days. First day we cut the tracks with a scratch vocal and the second day you will sing your final vocals. I figure you will have up to 45 minutes to sing each song.
8. Practice Guitar tracks if needed. If you think you may have trouble singing any of the songs you pick and do not play an instrument I can record and send you an acoustic guitar track of the song so you can practice it before you come to Nashville.
9. Final thoughts. Keep in mind that you are hiring me to make you sound good and I take my job very seriously. I will do my best to see that you have a good time in the studio. I work with some of the best studio musicians in Nashville and they will do everything in their power to make the best recording of your music as possible. Feel free to E Mail any of the artists I have worked with (Click Here) before and ask them any questions you may have about working with me. Once you have paid your deposit I am on your team and you can call (615) 742 0666 and ask me any questions you have and I will try my best to give you an answer. Probably half of the artist I work with are recording their first CD and have a lot of questions so don't be embarrassed to ask about anything you don't understand.
I look forward to working with you and hope I can be a part of your musical future.
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