Showing posts with label Cherokee County - North Carolina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cherokee County - North Carolina. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN THE SMOKEY MOUNTAINS
Where there's never a shortage of Christmas Trees back in the Smokey Mountains!
Saturday, October 6, 2012
(435) ME AND COUNTRY MUSIC : MY ROOTS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY
I grew up in rural Cherokee County North Carolina - The Smokey Mountains - where I ran with a kid gang, and as a teen followed my father's work to Oregon and then around the country to Akron, Ohio, where I got my big break. From there I would move to New York City as my base but tour throughout the South.
I grew up hearing Country Music and I've always loved it. Rockabilly, as you probably know, has strong roots in Country. Many of my peers in the business in the late 1950's and early 1960's also had country roots, people like Buddy Knox, Jimmy Bowen and Buddy Holly, who were from West Texas, and Glen Campbell, who was from the "Deep South".
As a song writer, I was just as interested in writing for Country music artists as ever and I was able to place some of the songs I wrote or cowrote with Country artists.
I grew up hearing Country Music and I've always loved it. Rockabilly, as you probably know, has strong roots in Country. Many of my peers in the business in the late 1950's and early 1960's also had country roots, people like Buddy Knox, Jimmy Bowen and Buddy Holly, who were from West Texas, and Glen Campbell, who was from the "Deep South".
As a song writer, I was just as interested in writing for Country music artists as ever and I was able to place some of the songs I wrote or cowrote with Country artists.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
FROM OUR ARCHIVES : (344) END OF THE YEAR HOLIDAY MUSIC MEMORIES
(344) END OF THE YEAR HOLIDAY MUSIC MEMORIES
Christine remembers that her family brought live trees that waited outside until Christmas eve to be brought indoors and decorated, which is, she tells me, the custom in Central and Eastern Europe, and I was thinking about living surrounded by evergreen trees in the Smokey Mountains where my family lived when I was growing up and I still have so many well loved relatives and friends who I don't get to talking to near enough.
We don't want to rush into Christmas here, but at the same time, as we blogged a while back, CHRISTMAS was the COVER TUNE ERA way back and ever since and that is on topic!
So we looked back upon some of our older posts, discovered that many of the videos we attached were, as happens, expired, and decided we would go ahead and replace those as well as update our Youtube station and represent some of the finest memory music in the Western World!
We hope you'll enjoy listening and remembering with us!
Wes Bryan and Christine Trzyna
Christine remembers that her family brought live trees that waited outside until Christmas eve to be brought indoors and decorated, which is, she tells me, the custom in Central and Eastern Europe, and I was thinking about living surrounded by evergreen trees in the Smokey Mountains where my family lived when I was growing up and I still have so many well loved relatives and friends who I don't get to talking to near enough.
We don't want to rush into Christmas here, but at the same time, as we blogged a while back, CHRISTMAS was the COVER TUNE ERA way back and ever since and that is on topic!
So we looked back upon some of our older posts, discovered that many of the videos we attached were, as happens, expired, and decided we would go ahead and replace those as well as update our Youtube station and represent some of the finest memory music in the Western World!
We hope you'll enjoy listening and remembering with us!
Wes Bryan and Christine Trzyna
Thursday, November 24, 2011
THANK YOU TO MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Just want to say "THANK YOU" to all of you who have been supportive of my efforts these last few years.It means a lot to me. Wes
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