Roky Erickson

Stu Cook produced this shortly after The Evil One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=wPNN5AhN0uU

Light In The Attic to issue a new tribute LP for RSD (CD coming later)

https://pitchfork.com/news/new-roky-erickson-tribute-album-features-jeff-tweedy-margo-price-neko-case-and-more/

Would rather have Nels Cline, but can actually see Tweedy maybe doing okay by some of the relatively mellow songs on 90s collectionsAll That May Do My Rhyme and Never Say Goodbye, and the 2010 True Love Cast Out All Evil, with material spanning 40ss, and, wiki notes,members of Okkervil River on most songs as Erickson's backing band. The album also includes field recordings of songs from Erickson's time in a Texas insane asylum. (Good, more rockin' Roky collections:ou're Gonna Miss Me[Restless, 1991], and I Have Always Been Here Before [Shout! Factory, 2005]

Neko Case! That might work, whatever song she chooses.

Been a long tyme since I listened, but Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye seemed like a pretty good tribute, with ZZ Top, Doug Sahm, Butthole Surfers, blues-rocker Chris Thomas King + his swamp pop Dad Tabby Thomas, and, since I had it on cassette, with more songs on the CD, I got to hear the Angry Samoans and some others.

And if I didn't mention it, upthread, the DVD of 2007 doc You're Gonna Miss Me is an improvement on the original screen version, for illuminating/intriguing bonus material (don't know if biographers have ever adequately dealt w family situations, for better and worse, but we get glimpses here, among other things).

material spanning 40 *years*, I meant to say. Cassette had more songs *than* the CD.

"family situations, for better and worse": classical musician brother seems helpful, mother not so much, though she tries (eerie home movies of her from way back too)

Oh yeah, Richard Lloyd is on Where The Pyramid... too, doing "Fire Engine"---think Television used to cover that.

Neko Case! That might work, whatever song she chooses.

She's doing doing "Be and Bring Me Home"

The full tracklisting (from the link):

01 Billy F Gibbons: “(I’ve Got) Levitation”
02 Mosshart Sexton: “Starry Eyes”
03 Jeff Tweedy: “For You (I’d Do Anything)”
04 Lyyn Castle / Mark Lanegan: “Clear Night for Love”
05 The Black Angels: “Don’t Fall Down”
06 Neko Case: “Be and Bring Me Home”
07 Margo Price: “Red Temple Prayer (Two-Headed Dog)”
08 Gary Clark Jr. / Eve Monsees: “Roller Coaster”
09 Ty Segall: “Night of the Vampire”
10 Lucinda Williams: “You’re Gonna Miss Me”
11 Chelsea Wolfe: “If You Have Ghosts”
12 Brogan Bentley: “May the Circle Remain Unbroken”

Oddly enough, Billy Gibbons is covering the same track he handled with ZZ Top on the earlier tribute.

Oh wait, my bad. That was "Reverberation (Doubt)", another parenthetical Elevators title.

Holy Shit

actual Golden Age of TV was 1990
Bongwater w/ Screamin' Jay Hawkins singing Roky Erickson on David Sanborn's Night Music https://t.co/FSe7lVQWLg

— Emmet Matheson (@emmetmatheson) February 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glYVGKMTAD0

That's neat! Viewers beware that YT apparently muted the last minute or so of the video for copyright reasons.

Also cool seeing what Waterloo Records looked like back then. Not sure if they'd yet split off the vinyl to a separate shop around the block in '90, as they definitely had by '92, when I first visited (the vinyl shop) as a tyke, tagging along with my older sister. Obviously they eventually brought the records back to the main store, which during the separation was known as Waterloo CDs; Waterloo Video took over the space vacated by the vinyl store.

..The records back to the main store, which during the separation was known as Waterloo CDs; Waterloo Video took over the space vacated by the vinyl store. Waterloo Sunset? Now the vinyl could have taken back over, like Napoleon's return (for a while, of course).
Prob mentioned it way upthread, but don't miss the DVD edition of Roky doc You're Gonna Miss Me, with updates and misc. bonus video short subjects....just step inside this house---dunno if any of that made it to blu-ray, don't suppose somme streams incl. all that, but hopefully they do (I've reached my own Waterloo Sunset of onlife, but glad for others to go furthur).

https://michaelcorcoran.substack.com/p/rokys-return-to-the-river-of-golden

"if the blues are empty/hell is filled"

Is it pronounced Roe-key or Rock-ee?

It's a contraction of his forenames, Roger Kynard, so it's Rocky, I suppose.

Ah, ta.

yup