Craig Maki - vocals, guitar
Nate Gibson - upright bass, backing vocals
Lee Bidgood - fiddle, backing vocals
Greg Reish - mandolin, backing vocals

Craig Maki and the Country Music Doctors - Slow Down

Shooby Taylor's "Blowing My Mind (Part 1)" and Lloyd Green's "Panic (A Trip)" sound even better served together...

Shooby's Panic

Back to the Country with Bill Malone, March 1, 2017
The Starday Story Edition with guest co-host Nate Gibson
Radio Station WORT (www.wortfm.org) Madison, WI

Playlist:
Oil On My Land - Tommy Hill (Starday 45-429)
Blue - Kenny Roberts (Starday 45-788)
Talkin' Starday Pt 7
Oh Death - John Reedy (Starday SEP 166)
Born of the Spirit - The Oak Ridge Quartet (Starday SLP 130)
On the Cross - Margie Singleton (Starday SLP 116)
Talkin' Starday Pt 8
The Spook - Pete Drake (Starday 45-575)
Coffee Break - Joe Maphis (Starday SLP 316)
John Henry Breakdown - Hoss Linneman and Uncle Josh (Starday SEP 237)
Talkin' Starday Pt 9
A Word From Our Sponsors 2
The Folk Calendar with Bobbie Malone
Talkin' Starday Pt 10
Pinball Machine - Lonnie Irving (Starday 45-486)
Give Me 40 Acres (To Turn This Rig Around) - Willis Brothers (Starday 45-681)
Freightliner Fever - Red Sovine (Starday 45-898)
Talkin' Starday Pt 11
Suicide Blues - Stringbean (Starday SLP 179)

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Back to the Country with Bill Malone, March 1, 2017
The Starday Story Edition with guest co-host Nate Gibson
Radio Station WORT (www.wortfm.org) Madison, WI

Playlist:
Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County - Sam and Kirk McGee (Starday SLP 182)
Just Because - The Shelton Brothers (Starday SEP 160)
Talkin' Starday Pt 12
The Cat and the Rat - Betty Amos with Judy and Jean (Starday 45-756)
Sold the Farm - Cowboy Copas (Starday 45-595)
Make A Date With Me - Johnny Nace (Nashville NV-51114)
Talkin' Starday Pt 13
A Word From Our Sponsors 3
Talkin' Starday Pt 14
Thinking Tonight - Johnny Bond and Cowboy Copas (Starday SLP 187)
That's Good-That's Bad - Archie Campbell and Ralph Emery (Starday SLP 177)
Talkin' Starday Pt 15
The Lumberjack - Willie Nelson (Willie Nelson Records 45-628)
Sweet Love On My Mind - Orangie Ray Hubbard (Dixie 45-662)
Got Another Baby - Lucky Wray (Starday 45-575)
Talkin' Starday Pt 16
Y'all Come - Bill Monroe (Decca 78-29021)
A Satisfied Mind - Porter Wagoner (RCA 447-0417)
Tall Tall Trees - Alan Jackson (Arista CD, The Greatest Hits Collection)
Talkin' Starday Pt 17
Carolina Bound - Nate Gibson (Goofin' Records GRCD 6177)

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Back to the Country with Bill Malone, March 1, 2017
The Starday Story Edition with guest co-host Nate Gibson
Radio Station WORT (www.wortfm.org) Madison, WI

Playlist:
Back to the Country Jingle - Bill and Bobbie Malone
Talkin' Starday Pt 1
Take It Away Lucky - Eddie Noack (Starday 45-159)
You Can't Play In My Playhouse - Patsy Elshire (Starday 45-115)
Too Hot To Handle - Sonny Burns (Starday 45-118)
Talkin' Starday Pt 2
Shadow My Baby - Glenn Barber (Starday 45-249)
Rockin' Daddy - Sonny Fisher (Starday 45-179)
Duck Tail - Rudy Tutti Grayzell (Starday 45-241)
Talkin' Starday Pt 3
A Word From Our Sponsors
Talkin' Starday Pt 4
Cup of Loneliness - George Jones (Mercury-Starday 71224)
Poor Little John - Roger Miller (Mercury-Starday 71212)
Crazy Blues - Jape Richardson and the Japetts (Mercury-Starday 71219)
Talkin' Starday Pt 5
Mary Dear - Bill Clifton (Mercury-Starday 71200)
Rank Stranger - The Stanley Brothers (Starday 45-506)
Hard Hearted - Jim and Jesse (Starday 45-412)
Talkin' Starday Pt 6
Black Land Farmer - Frankie Miller (Starday 45-424)

Back to the Country with Bill Malone and Guest Co-Host Nate Gibson - Starday Edition Part 1/3

It is with great sadness that I report that we’ve lost another Starday legend. My friend Rudy “Tutti” Grayzell passed away last week after a day of romping around with family and chasing his granddaughter around the house. Rudy recorded for several influential record labels in the ‘50s and ‘60s such as Abbott, Capitol, Sun, Award, and Dexter, but it was his Starday recordings that he loved the most and that earned him a touring spot with Elvis Presley for a year and a half in the mid-50s. 

Growing up in San Antonio, he frequently performed alongside Johnny Cash, Charlie Walker, Roy Orbison, Link Davis, Doug Sahm, and many others and he made his first recordings for Abbott Records with Jim Reeves’ band in 1953. He was randomly seated next to Starday president Don Pierce on a flight to Texas in 1956 and was immediately offered a contract with Starday Records. He went on to have one of the most storied careers in show business and was one of the leaders of the European rockabilly revival (and eventually became a Rockabilly Hall of Famer). After a spell in Vegas, Rudy moved to Portland, OR and kept active in music, theater, and film in the Pacific Northwest, as well as becoming the national spokesman for Pine Bros. cough drops. 

I first met Rudy in August of 2005 when I was working on the Starday Story and his stories about the early Texas honky-tonk and rockabilly days were both hilarious and wild. We kept in contact throughout the project and when the book finally came out, Rudy became one of its biggest promoters. Later, I recorded a tribute to Starday Records for Goofin’ Records and included a cover of Rudy’s Starday tune ‘Jig-Ga-Lee-Ga.’ Rudy loved it and offered to write the liner notes for the record and they are great. In 2013, Carlos Diaz invited both of us to Spain to perform at his Screamin’ Festival and I consider it among my life’s highlights to sing ‘Jig-Ga-Lee-Ga’ with Rudy on his 80th birthday (many thanks again to the amazing Tennessee Rhythm Riders band!). 

When I began working on the Stars of Starday project in May of 2017, Rudy was among the first artists I talked to about it and he enthusiastically accepted my invite. We recorded two tracks together, ‘Let’s Get Wild’ and ‘Duck Tail,’ and I think our banter at the end of each song shows how much we appreciate being around each other. Rudy was hilarious as always and I can’t thank Roy and Ramona enough for making the session possible! I think listening to those recordings (with many thanks to Nico and Bear Family for making them available!) gives you a pretty good idea of Rudy’s wild antics, but he was also among my sweetest and most thoughtful friends. I kept all of his voicemails from the past year or so because repeated listenings always cheered me up. I won’t share the main content of them of course, but for those who loved Rudy, you might enjoy hearing his laugh, which was how he began nearly every message. And every time Rudy called me he also had an idea for some kind of project we could do together. He was always positive, always creative, always inspiring, always lifting me up, and always laughing. The guy was just downright funny and a tornado of positivity. I’ll miss ya, Rudy. Rest in peace, and in your own words, may the good Lord take a likin’ to ya!

His service will be Dec. 6, 2019

Rudy Grayzell Voicemail Compilation

Wade Jackson's Three-Legged Pig Joke

from Goofin' Records GRCD 6177
available www.goofinrecords.com

Shadow My Baby

Much like Starday Records, whose slogan was "Preserving Our Nation's Musical Heritage," so too is Nate Gibson. Nate has spent more than a dozen years researching and writing about American roots music and during that time he has continued to tour, record, and write his own original music. Whether playing frantic rockabilly, traditional country, honky-tonk, western swing, bluegrass, southern gospel music, or any other genre under the mighty "Americana" umbrella, the sound is sure to put a smile on your face and rhythm in your step. Nate has performed at numerous festivals including the Screamin' Weekender (Spain), Green Bay's Rockin' '50s Fest (USA), Viva Las Vegas (USA), Montreal's Red Hot & Blue Weekender (Canada), Helsinki Rockabilly Week (Finland) and others, and his albums have been released by Goofin' Records (Finland), Cow Island Music (USA), and his own Gibson label. Listen to any album just by clicking on the album cover below!

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