Tim Schuller
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Tim Schuller | |
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Born | Fredric Thomas Schuller Salem, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | February 29, 2012 Dallas, Texas, U.S. | (aged 62)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Kent State University at Salem |
Occupation(s) | Columnist, historian, music critic |
Tim "Mit" Schuller (né Fredric Thomas Schuller; Salem, Ohio – 29 February 2012, Dallas, Texas) was an American, Dallas-Fort Worth-based music critic, who, for 37 years – from 1975 until his death – chronicled living blues and jazz musicians, mostly from Texas (particularly from the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the Southwest).
Career
Some of Schullers writings – notably those about Freddie King, Buster Smith, and Lightnin' Hopkins – have been cited in academic and encyclopedic publications. According to a Buddy magazine staff editor, Schuller provided blues pianist Boston Smith (né Boston Beverly Smith; 1907–1989) (Buster Smith's brother) with an epitaph worthy of his achievements.[1]
He also was an update editor of the 2002 revised edition of MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide (Schirmer Trade Books / Omnibus Press). At the time of his death, he had been writing a book, Scorning All Borders, covering 30 years of writing about Texas jazz and blues artists.
Early years
Schuller was born in Salem, Ohio, to Frederick Kane Schuller (1908–1956) and Mary Louise Layden (maiden; 1912–2005).[citation needed] Tim's father, who had been a newspaper journalist, died when he was seven. As a teenager, Tim attended Salem High School, graduating in 1967. During his senior year, he was the feature editor of the Salem Quaker, his high school newspaper.[2] Tim went on to study at Kent State University at Salem, but did not graduate. In Ohio, Schuller had worked as a musician (playing guitar), a factory worker, and a stringer reporter.[citation needed]
Schuller then moved to Chicago with his childhood friend from Salem, Tom "Mot" Dutko (né Thomas Lawrence Dutko; 1949–2017), a blues drummer.[3] Who went on to record with Little Al Thomas and the Crazy Horse Band, Billy Branch, and Eddie Shaw. In Chicago, Schuller played with Robert Lockwood Jr. and John Brim.[4] Dutko also played drums for Big Walter Horton, Sunnyland Slim, Homesick James, Jimmy Walker, Erwin Helfer, and Eddie Taylor.
Schuller moved to Dallas around 1977 and briefly embarked in the record business. In 1977, he was worked at Peaches Records & Tapes at Cole and Fitzhugh Avenues, Dallas.[a] Ken E. Shimamoto (born 1957), a music journalist in Dallas worked there with him.[5] In 1980, Schuller was assistant manager at Sound Town at the Valley View Mall in Dallas.[6][b]
Over the next 35 years, Schuller contributed to the following newspapers, periodicals, and records:
Periodicals and newspapers
- Guitar Player, Living Blues, Blues Access
- The Met (Dallas' arts & entertainment weekly)
- Southwest Blues
- DownBeat
- Buddy magazine
- Texas Jazz
- Juke Blues
- Coda
- Crazy Music (the journal of the Australian Blues Society)
- D Magazine
- Dallas Morning News,
- Dallas Observer
- Texas Observer
- Contemporary Keyboard
- Texas Highways
- Akron Beacon Journal
Discography
- Lucky Seven Records
- Black Top
- Trix
- Wolf Records (de) (Vienna, Austria)
- Bullseye Blues
- Fedora Records
- Blind Pig
- TKO Magnum Music
- Blue Moon
- Continental Blue Heaven (distributed by Harmonia Mundi)
- Cannonball Records (nl) 29110
- AudioQuest Music
- TopCat Records
- Mayhem Records
- JSP
Affiliations
- In 1987, Schuller – with Chuck Nevitt (né Charles Franklin Nevitt; 1956–2015) (record collector), Brian "Hash Brown" Calway (né Brian Everett Calway; born 1955) (blues musician) – founded the Dallas Blues Society.[7]
Tributes
- Tim Schuller benefit, Poor David's Pub, Dallas, May 27, 2012[8]
Father, family, and death
Schuller's father, Fred Kane Schuller had been a journalist in Pennsylvania and Ohio with over 13 newspapers,[9] He had been in the editorial staff with the Youngstown Telegram (around 1935), staff editor for several years at the Cleveland News, night sports editor at the Pittsburgh Press (around 1940), editorial staff of the Daily News (McKeesport, Pennsylvania), managing editor of the Lorain Journal, and, near his death, worked for a stint at the Saint Petersburg Times. He was also an AP writer and contributor to Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. He was a personal friend of John Barrymore, and after his death, corresponded with the family, including Lionel Barrymore.[citation needed]
Schuller's mother, Mary Louise Layden (maiden), died in 2005 in New York City.[citation needed] His older sister, Molly Davis (née Molly Lou Schuller), a 1953 graduate of Willoughby High School (Ohio), has lived in New York City since the 1950s.[citation needed]
Tim Schuller died February 29, 2012, in Dallas. He is buried in Salem at Grandview Cemetery.
Selected work
Reference books
- "Freddie King"
The Voice of The Blues
Part I interview by Tim "Mit" Schuller
Part II interview by Bruce Iglauer, Hans Schweitz, Janne Rosenqvist
Jim O'Neal & Amy van Singel (eds.)
Routledge (2002)
Note: This is a re-print from the Living Blues, Vol. 31, March–April 1977
OCLC 491490329, 462816602 - MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide (2002)
Leland Rucker (editor)
Al Kooper (forward)
Tim Schuller (update editor)
Schirmer Trade Books
(Revised & updated ed.)
ISBN 0825672678; ISBN 9780825672675
Newspaper magazines
- "Blind Joe's Blues"[10]
(Blind Joe Hill)
By Mit Schuller
Photos by Paul Tople
Beacon
(Sunday magazine of the Akron Beacon Journal)
May 30, 1976, pps. 10–11, 14, 16, 20
(accessible at Newspapers.com) - "Robert Junior Lockwood and His Blues Guitar"
By Thomas (Mit) Schuller
Photos by Robert E. Dorksen
Sunday Plain Dealer Magazine
September 19, 1976, pps. 32–34, 36, 45
(accessible at GenealogyBank.com)
Guitar Player
- "Robert Jr. Lockwood: Master of the Blues"
By Tim "Mit" Schuller
Guitar Player
No. 9, No. 11
November 1975, p. 12+ - "Tutu Jones: South Dallas Soul"
(Tutu Jones)
By Tim "Mit" Schuller
Guitar Player
Vol. 30, No. 9
September 1996, p. 20
Downbeat
- "Profile: Alex Moore"
(Whistlin' Alex Moore)
By Tim Schuller
DownBeat
Vol. 46, No. 13
July 12, 1979, pps. 40–42
Living Blues
- "Blind Joe Hill – Akron's One-Man Band"
By Thomas (Mit) Schuller
Living Blues
No. 30
November–December 1976, pp. 12–13 - "Freddie King, 1934–1976"
(Freddie King)
By Mit Schuller &
Bruce Iglauer
Living Blues
No. 31
March–April 1977, pps. 7–11
(note: interviewed by Tim "Mit" Schuller at Robert Jr. Lockwood's house in Cleveland, October 25, 1974) - "Lightnin' Hopkins at the Granada Theater, Dallas, Texas"
(Lightnin' Hopkins; Granada Theater)
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues
No. 35
November–December 1977 - "Alex Moore: Whistlin' the Blues"
(Whistlin' Alex Moore)
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues
No. 35
November–December 1977, pps. 8–10 - "The Johnnie 'Two-Voice' Story"
Johnnie Morisette (aka Johnny Two-Voice; 1935–2000)
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues
No. 49
Winter 1980–1981 - "The Night of the Patriarch: An Account of the Recording of Alex Moore
(Whistlin' Alex Moore)
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues
No. 83
November–December 1988, pps. 28–29 - "The Return of Zuzu Bollin: Lone Star Bluemaster"
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues
No. 89
November–December 1989 - "Zuzu Bollin" (obituary)
(Zuzu Bollin)
By Tim Schuller
Living' Blues
No. 95
January–February 1991 - "Tutu Jones"
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues
No. 120
March–April 1995, pps. 39–41 - "Dallas Blues: Andrew 'Junior Boy' Jones"
(Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones)
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues No. 129
September–October 1996, p. 48 - "Dallas Blues: R.L. Griffin"[11][c]
(blues singer and club owner Robert Lewis Griffin; born 1939)
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues No. 129
September–October 1996, pps. 42–46 - "The Second Coming of Bobby Patterson"
(Bobby Patterson)
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues
No. 139
May–June 1998, pps. 36–39 - "Record Reviews: Johnny "Guitar" Watson: "The Essential Johnny 'Guitar' Watson"
(Johnny "Guitar" Watson)
Living Blues
By Tim Schuller
Vol. 33 No. 6
2002, pg. 78
(ProQuest) - "Take It From Uncle Sneed: Andrew 'Junior Boy' Jones"
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues
No. 168
June–July–August 2003, pps. 42–47 - "Big Al Dupree" (obituary)
(Al Dupree – né Alfred William Dupree; 1923–2003)
(tenor saxophonist and pianist)
By Tim Schuller
Living Blues
No. 171
January–February 2004, pps. 63–64
D Magazine
- "Music: Bella, Bellissima"
(Karen Bella; née Karen Jean Bella; born 1951; vocalist)
By Tim Schuller
D Magazine
October 1977 - Music: Marchel Artistry – The natural sound at the Recovery Room,"
(Marchel Ivery; 1938–2007; tenor saxophonist)
By Tim Schuller
D Magazine
March 1978 -
(Bill Tillman; né William Wayne Tillman; 1947–2012; Blood, Sweat & Tears saxophonist)
By Tim Schuller
June 1978
D Magazine
-
By Tim Schuller
February 1979
D Magazine
- "Music: Rebirth of a Bluesman"
(Zuzu Bollin)
By Tim Schuller
D Magazine
July 1989 - "Music: No Limits"
"For musician Dennis Gonzalez, creativity prevents 'a living death'"
(Dennis Gonzalez)
By Tim Schuller
D Magazine
December 1989 - "The Way of the Taper"
By Tim Schuller
D Magazine
May 1990 - "What's Bugging Bugs?"
(Bugs Henderson)
By Tim Schuller
D Magazine
January 1991 - "Creative Spirit: Roy Hargrove"
(Roy Hargrove)
By Tim Schuller
D Magazine
May 1992 - "Sara Speaks Out"
(Sara Hickman)
By Tim Schuller
D Magazine
June 1992
- "Keeping up with the Joneses"
By Tim Schuller
Dallas Observer
May 22, 1997 - "I made this!"
By Tim Schuller
Dallas Observer
October 23, 1997 - "Blues Bothers"
By Tim Schuller
Dallas Observer
February 26, 1998 - "Behind the Lines"
By Tim Schuller
Dallas Observer
January 22, 1998 - "Blues in '97"
By Tim Schuller
Dallas Observer
January 8, 1998 - "Roadshows"
By Tim Schuller
Dallas Observer
March 5, 1998
Juke Blues
- "The Metroplex Blues"
By Tim Schuller
Juke Blues
No. 9
Summer 1987, p. 22 - "The Boston Smith Story"
By Tim Schuller
Juke Blues
No. 12
Spring 1988, pps. 20–22 - "Alex Moore"
(Whistlin' Alex Moore)
By Tim Schuller
Juke Blues
No. 16
Summer 1989, p. 35 - "Zu Zu Bollin"
By Tim Schuller
Juke Blues
No. 22
Winter–Spring 1991 - "R.L. Griffin: The Renaissance Man of South Dallas"
(blues singer Raymond Lewis Griffin)[11][c]
By Tim Schuller
Juke Blues
No. 28
Spring 1993, pps. 14–16 - "Magnum Force Blues: The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band Featuring Bnois King"
By Tim Schuller
Juke Blues
No. 28
Spring 1993, p. 16
Blues Access
- "Jimmy Rogers: Not Giving Up on the Blues"
(Jimmy Rogers)
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
Spring 1991 - "Cleveland's Finest Goes on Record"
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 6
Summer 1991, pps. 22–26 - "Dallas Blues Survival"
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 10
Summer 1992, pps. 6–10 - "R.L. Griffin"
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 10
Summer 1992, pps. 8 - "North Texas Blues"
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 20
Winter 1994–1995, pps. 22–29 - "Niche busters – Six Who Are Kicking Down New Doors"
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 24
Winter 1996 - "'Till I Find My Way Home:' The Lost Brownie McGhee Interview"
(Brownie McGhee)
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 26
Summer 1996 - "Lacy Gibson – Switchy Titchy"
(Lacy Gibson)
Black Magic 9002
CD Review
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 27
Fall 1996 - "'Little Boy' Comes Into His Own"
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 36
Winter 1999, pps. 22–23, 25 - "Tag Team From Texas: Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King Make Candid Revelations About Their Prior Lives"
By Tim Schuller
Summer 2000, pps. 30–33
Blues Access
No. 42
- "Willie Willis (1923–2000)"
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 42
Summer 2000, pps. 56, 58 - "South Side Slim: The Left Coast's Strong New Voice"
By Tim Schuller
Blues Access
No. 46
Summer 2001, pps. 16–18
Buddy
- "Anson Examined"
By Tim Schuller
Buddy (magazine)
September 1992 - "Bugs Henderson Bares His Guitarist's Soul"
(Bugs Henderson)
By Tim Schuller
Buddy (magazine)
August 1993 - "W.C. Clark Opens the Books"
(W.C. Clark)
By Tim Schuller
Buddy (magazine)
October 1994 - "Where's the Smoke ... Smokin' Joe Kubek Reveals Rule-Breaking Tactics Behind Fourth Bullseye CD"
(Smokin' Joe Kubek)
April 1995
By Tim Schuller
Buddy (magazine)
- "The James Clay Story"
(James Clay)
By Tim Schuller
Buddy (magazine)
May 1995 - "Has Brave Combo Gone Too Far?"
(Brave Combo)
By Tim Schuller
Buddy (magazine)
June 1995 - "The Johnson Testimony: Truth From The Tall Man of Texas R&B"
By Tim Schuller
Buddy (magazine)
December 1995 - "Can The Killdares' Celtic Rock Stop the Murder Virus?"
(The Killdares)
– "Musical expansionism might save our lives"
By Tim Schuller
Buddy (magazine)
December 2008 -
(Doyle Bramhall)
December 2011
By Tim Schuller
Buddy (magazine)
No. 13
Texas Jazz
- "Music Out of Clay"
By Tim Schuller
Texas Jazz
Vol. 3, No. 1
November 1979
The Met
- "Soul Trained"
By Tim Schuller
The Met
July 27, 1995 - "Back to the Future: Sumpter Bruton's Brand of Retro Blues Makes Nostalgia Sound Subversive"
(Stephen Bruton's brother)
By Tim Schuller
The Met
November 24, 1995
Coda
- "The Buster Smith Story"
(Buster Smith)
By Tim Schuller
Coda
December–January 1987 – 1988
ISSN 0010-017X
Other publications
-
By Tim Schuller
The Salem Quaker, Bi-weekly newspaper of Salem High School (Ohio)Vol. 52, No. 2
September 23, 1966, p. 2
- "Anthem of the Damned"
By Thomas (Mit) Schuller
Starwind
Autumn 1977 - "Robert Junior Lockwood Story"
By Tim Schuller
Crazy Music
No. 11
December 1977, pps. 4–9, 61 - "Alex Moore: Granddaddy of Texas Blues Piano"
(Whistlin' Alex Moore)
By Tim Schuller
Contemporary Keyboard
Vol. 6, No. 1
January 1980 - "A Bright New Jazz Voice"
(Review: Paquito D'Rivera)
By Tim Schuller
Dallas Morning News
February 25, 1984, Sec F, pps. 1, 4
(GenealogyBank.com) - "The Barrelhouse Men of Austin"
Texas Observer
n.d.
Durst Family Papers (Lavada Durst) - "Postcards: All the Right Notes"
"The Texas Musician's Museum Rewards a Hillsboro Visit"
by Tim Schuller
Texas Highways
June 2010 - Gunsmoke Blues (video)
Filmed in October 1971 at the University of Oregon, EugeneReview by Tim Schuller
ThatsLiveTV.com
Liner notes
- Liquid Magic (1987)
Ahmed Abdullah Quartet
Ahmed Abdullah (trumpet, flugelhorn, piano), Charles Brackeen (tenor sax), Malachi Favors (bass), Alvin Fielder (drums)
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Silkheart SHCD 104
OCLC 847968062 - Hot Rhythm & Cool Blues:
Texas Style (1992)
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
TopCat Records 119201
OCLC 795516195 - Chain Smokin' Texas Style (1992)
Smokin' Joe Kubek
Featuring B'nois King
Recorded and mixed at Ardent Studios, Memphis
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Bullseye Blues BB 9524
OCLC 873674084 - Radio Mojo (1993)
Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Lucky Seven Records LS 9203
OCLC 812791834 - Let The Dogs Run (1994)
Mike Morgan & Jim Suhler
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Black Top CD BT-1106
OCLC 225959508, 69200796 - Texas Blues Party, Vol. 1 (1995)
U.P. Wilson: The Texas Tornado Live at Schooner's Dallas
With Tutu Jones
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Wolf Records (Vienna, Austria) (2) 120.630 CD - Texas Blueswomen (compilation) (1996)
Chonita Turner, Jav-Lyn, Lady Lotion
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Topcat Records TC01962
OCLC 42472774 - Blue Texas Soul (1996)
Tutu Jones
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Bullseye Blues
OCLC 37558245 - Robert Jr. Lockwood ... Does 12 (1996)
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Liner notes by Tim Schuller and
Peter B. Lowry
Artwork by Raoul F. Vezina (1948–1983)
Trix 3317
OCLC 35579519 - Whirlwind (1996)
U.P. Wilson (guitar, vocals); Shawn Kellerman (guitar); Big Joe Turner (bass guitar, Hammond organ); Anthony Gonzales (bass); Jordan Petterson (harmonica); El Torro Gamble, Steve Meek (drums)
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
JSP Records
OCLC 50984909 - Blues Across America
The Dallas Scene (1997)
Henry Qualls, Big Al Dupree, Charles Young, Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Cannonball Records (nl) 29110
OCLC 40100479 - I Need Time (1997)
Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Bullseye Blues CD BB 9588
OCLC 225998149 - Texas Blues Party, Vol. 2 (1998)
Pete Mayes, Joe "Guitar" Hughes, Robert Ealey, Curly "Barefoot' Miller, and Robin Sylar
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Wolf Records (Vienna, Austria)
OCLC 228413968
- Best of the Texas Blues Guitar Tornado (1998)
U.P. Wilson
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
JSP Records JSPCD 808
(on container: CD 808)
OCLC 41953060 - Staying Power (1998)
Tutu Jones
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Bullseye Blues CD BB 9611
OCLC 39866911, 873058485 - Texas Blues Guitar Summit (1998) Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones, Henry Qualls, U.P. Wilson, Bobby Gilmore, J.B. Wynne, with Brian "Hash Brown" Calway & C.B. Scott
- Grease, Grit, Dirt & Spit (1998)
Randy McAllister
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
JSP Records
OCLC 183209121, 937655890 - Can't Help But Have the Blues (1998)
Willie Willis & the Wildcatters
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Fedora Records FCD 5009
OCLC 51651352, 884722200 - Burnin' Up (1998)
Shawn Pittman
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Cannonball Records (nl) 29110
OCLC 42786547 - U.P. Wilson: The Good, The Bad, The Blues (1998)
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
JSP Records JSPCD 2103
OCLC 41665784, 812755722 - Positive Thinking (1999)
(Al Dupree – né Alfred William Dupree; 1923–2003)
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Fedora Records
OCLC 44013106 - I'm Here & I'm Gone (1999)
Kirk Fletcher
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
JSP Records
OCLC 608095024 - The Lost Tapes (1999)
Muddy Waters
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Blind Pig Records
OCLC 42457894 - Journeyman Blues (1999) Muddy Waters
- Live at Blue Cat Blues (2000)
Jim Suhler & Alan Haynes
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
TopCat Records
OCLC 873792126 - Leavin' Chicago (compilation) (2001)
Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, George "Harmonica" Smith, J.B. Hutto, Edward "Bee" Houston, Blues Revue All Stars
Recorded at the University of Oregon, Washington State University, and Monroe State Prison, Washington in 1971
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
TKO Magnum Music CDBM 141
Blue Moon CDBM 141
OCLC 50327269 - Put Your Trust in Me (2001)
Johnny Rawls
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
JSP Records
OCLC 47662215 - Big Gilson With Bruce Ewan & The Solid Senders (2002)
Big Gilson
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
TopCat Records
OCLC 270976647 - Big time in big D (2003)
Memo Gonzalez and the Bluescasters
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Continental Blue Heaven – CBHCD 2008
Distributed by Harmonia Mundi
OCLC 658981992 - South Side Story (2004)
Little Al Thomas (born 1930)[d] & the Crazy Horse Band
Little Al Thomas (vocals); John Edelmann (guitar); Dave Clark, Van Kelly, Paul Mundy (saxophone); Sidney James Wingfield (piano); Bob Jacobs (organ); Ed Galchick (bass); Tom "Mot" Dutko (drums)
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Cannonball Records (nl) 29110
AudioQuest Music
OCLC 49676607 - Tricked Out (2004)
Robin Sylar
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
TopCat Records
OCLC 681556778 - Hoochie Coochie Mannish Boy: On the Road 1971–73 (2006)
Muddy Waters
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
Mayhem Records
OCLC 75296091 - It's About Time (2017)
Carol Fran, Clarence Hollimon
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
JSP Records
OCLC 1013833671
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
JSP Records
OCLC 156097586, 669768695
Liner notes by Tim Schuller
TKO Magnum Music
OCLC 48200928
Presentations
- Music Library Association, Texas Chapter, November 3, 1989, at the Dallas Public Library in the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library: Tim Schuller, opened Friday's session with a presentation entitled, "Writing in the Grip of the Blues." He focused on the heritage of the blues, especially in the Dallas area.
Notes about cited periodicals and labels
Books
- MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide (1998)
Edited by Leland Rucker
Foreword by Al Kooper
1st Paper, 1st Printing edition (1997)
Visible Ink Press
OCLC 44504664, 244114213
ISBN 1-5785-9030-2
ISBN 978-1-5785-9030-8
––––––––––––––––––––
Revised & updated (January 1, 2002)
Leland Rucker (ed.)
Al Kooper (forward)
Tim Schuller (update editor)
Schirmer Trade Books
Omnibus Press
OCLC 49244319
ISBN 0-8256-7267-8
ISBN 978-0825-6726-75
Periodicals
- The Met, Dallas-Fort Worth area arts and entertainment weekly, founded in 1994 by Randy Stagen (born 1970), an SMU alumnus. Eric James Celeste (born 1967) was founding editor; ISSN 1075-2501
- Living Blues, a partner publication of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi; digital version at digital
.livingblues .com; ISSN 0024-5232 - Blues Access (suspended publication 2002); Leland Rucker (né Leland Garold Rucker; born 1947) was editor for 5 years; digital access at www
.bluesaccess .com /ba _home .html; ISSN 1066-4068 - Editors: Warren DiLeo (né Warren Anthony DiLeo; 1941–1992) – Autumn 1974–Spring 1976Elbert Lindsey, Jr. – Fall 1976–
Record labels
- Lucky Seven Records is a U.S. label founded in 1992 by Terry Manning and was initially distributed by Rounder Records, then of Cambridge, Massachusetts; in 2013 the label partnered with Blake Morgan and ECR Music Group
- Wolf Records International is a blues label based in Vienna, Austria. The label was an outgrowth of the Hot Club de Vienne (a blues fan club), founded in 1974 by 20 Austrians. Four of its members (two of which remain, Dr. Herbert Pessiak and Hannes Folterbauer) started the label in 1982. The label was formed with two objectives (1) re-release original country and blues recordings of the 1930s and 1940s, as compiled by Johnny Parth (de), focusing on Chicago blues styles and (2) produce new recordings[13]
- Fedora Records was founded in the late 1990s in New York City by Joe Fields; it is a blues label that operates with its sister jazz labels, HighNote and Savant
- TKO Magnum Music Limited was a British label, based in High Wycombe; It was founded as Synergie Logistics Limited and TKO Magnum Music Limited in 1980 by Charles Nigel Molden, PhD (born 1948); Molden formerly had been a label manager and general manager for WEA and its successor, Warner Bros. Records; his wife, Hilary Julia Molden (née Hilary Julia Lichfield; born 1950), was the corporate, secretary; they've been married since 1971
- Blue Moon, along with Magnum Force, Thunderbolt, Sundown and Meteor, were labels of TKO Magnum Music
- Continental Blue Heaven (distributed by Harmonia Mundi)
- TopCat Records, LLC, was founded around 1993 in Dallas by Richard Franklin Chalk (born 1961)
- Mayhem Records is a defunct label that was founded around 2006 in Dallas by Izanama Shunto Sullivan, Sr. (born 1976)
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ Peaches Records & Tapes, Inc., was a Los Angeles-based retail chain of record superstores, some as large as 15,000 square feet. Peaches was a subsidiary of Nehi Record Distributing Corporation. Tom Heiman founded Peaches in 1963 and went on to become president of Nehi. At its peak, Peaches had 50 stores in 22 cities with over 2,000 employees. In 1981, Peaches filed a petition for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 citing $20 million in debts for its 35 stores coast to coast. ("Record Industry's Upheaval," by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, June 10, 1981)
- ^ The Texas Record Town chain called itself Sound Town in Dallas. Record Town was founded in San Antonio, around 1968, had, in 1980, three Dallas locations: Red Bird Mall in Dallas, Town East Mall in Mesquite, and Valley View Mall in Dallas. On December 18, 1980, Amarillo-based Western Distributors, parent of Hastings Books and Hastings Records, acquired the 26 Record Town, Sound Town, and Sundown stores in Texas. The deal also included the acquisition of the parent, Galaxy Distributing (formerly called Galaxy Sales when it was in San Antonio), a Dallas-based rack jobber that distributed to the Record Town chain. Valley View was torn down in 2016 to make way for a new mall, Dallas Midtown. ("Western Merchandisers Acquires Western Chain," Cash Box, January 12, 1980, pps. 9, 24)
- ^ a b R.L. Griffin (né Raymond Lewis Griffin) is a Dallas-based blues singer. He owns and manages Blues Palace II in Dallas at 3100 Grand Avenue, near Fair Park ("R.L. Griffin," Where I Come From, by Bryan Woolley, Number 2: A.C. Greene Series, University of North Texas Press (2003), pps. 135–139; ISBN 1574411640; OCLC 606990994, 51817605)
- ^ Little Al Thomas (né Albert Thomas; born 22 November 1930 Chicago) grew up in Chicago in the Maxwell Street neighborhood. He is a blues vocalist.
References
- ^ "Not Fade Away: Buddy writers and photographers recorded the 1973 Kerrville Folk Festival, Willie’s first Fourth of July Picnic, the Texas Jam, the rebirth of Deep Ellum and the rise of social media," by Bellicose Bullfeather (pseudonym of Stoney Burnes; né Brent LaSalle Stein; born 1942), Buddy, July 2018, p. 12
- ^ "How Safe is Safe? – Bus's Flat Tire Awakens Concern," by Tim Schuller
Salem Quaker Vol. 52, No. 13, June 2, 1967, p. 2(note: Schuller's title as "feature editor" is displayed in the masthead, below the article on page 2)
- ^ "Obituaries: Thomas Dutko," Tribune Chronicle, July 2, 2017
- ^ "Tom 'Mot' Dutko" (obituary), by Justin O'Brien, Living Blues, October 2017, p. 77
- ^ Blog of Ken Shimamoto, The Stash Dauber, March 10, 2012
- ^ "Texas Heat, Winds Give Disk & Tape Sales a Push," by Kip Kirby (in Nashville), Billboard, July 12, 1980, p. 12
- ^ "Blues to the Rescue," by Clay McNear (né Clay Medford McNear; born 1961), Startime, a magazine of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 3, 1987, p. 25 (accessible via GenealogyBank.com)
- ^ Tim Schuller benefit
- ^ "Obituaries: Fred Kane Schuller, 45, Veteran Newsman, Writer," St. Petersburg Times, May 5, 1956 (accessible via Newspapers.com)
- ^ A Blues Bibliography (2nd ed.), by Robert Ford (born 1964), Routledge (2007) (Schuller cited on pps. 437, 551, 561, 598, 659, 912, 1073, 1283); OCLC 71842605
- ^ a b "R.L. Griffin (bio)," by Eugene Chadbourne, AllMusic (retrieved October 29, 2018)
- ^ "Dallas Blues and Jazz Historian Tim Schuller, Once an Observer Contributor, Has Died," by Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Observer, February 29, 2012
- ^ "Wolf/Best of Blues" (entry title), The Blues Encyclopedia (Vol. 2 of 2), Edward Komara & Peter Lee (eds.), Routledge (2006), p. 1095; OCLC 836558377