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by Gary E. Andrews - 04/15/24 07:08 PM
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Can anybody tell me about the Kerrville Folk Festival? We are thinking of making the trip to Texas this year.
Thanks,
Mab
------------------ "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." ~~ Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) American phsyicst and professor
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." ~~ Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) American phsyicst and professor
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The Kerrville Folk Festival is a hoot. I attended a few years ago, performing with Richard Dobson and State of the Heart. It's a large festival with several stages and late night songfests at the campfires. Kerrville was the mainstay for folks like Townes Van Zandt, Nancy Griffith, the Flatlanders, Guy Clark, and folk elite from around the world. A list of their contest winners would include many of today's stars. While playing there with Richard, I found that a parody I had written became quite popular there. It seems one year an avocado truck had crashed on the highway nearby, creating a massive traffic jam. Someone there had heard me sing my parody of "Guantanamera," and thought it apropos..."One Ton Tomato, I need a One Ton Tomato." All the Best, Mike ------------------ You have to practice improvisation. -Art Tatum Mike Dunbar Music
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Mike,
If you wrote that then someone else a few years ago recorded a cover of it and submitted it to our awards. I haven't been able to track down who it was, but that was the line in the song and it was the same parody of the same song. Interesting. I don't think they credited you however. I think it was 3 awards back and I am not sure if I can find it.
Brian
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Yep, I have heard "one ton tomato," parody of Guantanamera. I mean, a recorded song.
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Cool, I wrote the parody with Gene Kaleta, an old college chum, back around 1969. We only parodied a verse, so I'd be interested to hear the whole song if you locate it. I used to sing it a lot at the Earl of Old Town and Somebody Else's Troubles during the Chicago Folk Scare of the 70's. When I got to Kerrville, I was told by a few people that someone who heard me started singing it after the avocado incident. Funny, it was a girl who first said, "We sing your song a lot here!" I asked if it was "The Medicine Show" which got a lot of airplay on the Midnight Special, a syndicated folk show from Chicago. "Nope" she said, "One Ton Tomato." My flattery was flattened. Well, good luck to whomever took our parody and ran with it! It may also be simply a co-incidence. I've always wondered, for example, if Ronnie Dunn from Brooks and...had just come up with the line "outlaws, in-laws" which is not a far stretch, or if he'd heard me sing my song "the Oulaw In-Law" at one of Nashville's writer's nights? It was at one of these writer's nights where Beth Travers would sing her song "Whiskey Under the Bridge" which later was the title of a Brooks and Dunn song. Co-incidence? Could be, either way it makes no difference...more power to them. All the Best, Mike ------------------ You have to practice improvisation. -Art Tatum Mike Dunbar Music [This message has been edited by Mike Dunbar (edited 02-24-2005).]
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash It's only music. -niteshift Mike Dunbar Music
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I did a quick web search and found several versions of a "One Ton Tomato" song including on a Pete Seeger oriented web site. I wonder if they are all descendants to your campfire song?
Brian
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Wow, I'll do a search too. I'd guess they probably are descendants of our parody. I used to sing the verse as a "throw away" comic relief back in the 70's. We had a lot of folksong writers (which is a non-sequiter, I guess) from around the country dropping by the Chicago folk clubs. It could also have been a Kerrville writer, and it's not too far-fetched that someone just came up with it independantly. I'll do a search and get back. ------------------ You have to practice improvisation. -Art Tatum Mike Dunbar Music
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash It's only music. -niteshift Mike Dunbar Music
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The recording is probably a guy named Mike Farrow. I can't find much info on him, but in 2004 it was on the playlist of the Midnight Special, the Chicago radio show I mentioned earlier. Could be? I also found a site that mentions how many variants of "mondegrens" there are to Guantanamera. Pretty interesting, it could easily be coincidence. Mondegrens, by the way, are like: Richard Stands Excuse me while I kiss this guy There's a bathroom on the right and so on... They come from an old english ballad which says somehting like: They took poor Arthur's body and laid him on the green which is misheard as: The took poor Arthur's body and Lady Mondegren. Mike ------------------ You have to practice improvisation. -Art Tatum Mike Dunbar Music
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash It's only music. -niteshift Mike Dunbar Music
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Thanks for the information, Mike. I'll let everybody know how it goes if we make it there. Will also keep my ears open for renditions of "One Ton Tomato!"
Mab
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Contact Arlon Bennett, he makes it there.. has won an award or two there. Personally I don't know anything about it.
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Thanks, Jill. I'll try to do that.
mab
------------------ "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." ~~ Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) American phsyicst and professor
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." ~~ Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) American phsyicst and professor
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