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Thanks for your encouragement! There are several other clips from that show posted already, and I have one more I'm going to post in a few days. There are a couple songs also from a reunion show a couple years or so ago, at a memorial for the king hippie of our valley out here, all on a playlist together. Later editions of the band are also on a playlist. The band evolved into The Honky Tonk Sweethearts, which also has a playlist at my channel.

Thanks!

Thanks for watching! I'm not sure if that's an incomplete comment, or if perhaps in another language.

We had a reunion show in 2022 out at Henley's place in Carnation, a memorial for Henley put on by his son Morgan. I posted a couple videos from that back then here at my CZcams channel. Where's your open mike?

Thanks for watching - glad you enjoyed it! There are more videos from this show at my channel, including some with me on the washboard.

BTW, if its washboard playing that interests you, I've carried on with it and there are a number of videos at my channel here where I play WB with Filé Gumbo and a few with The Devils of Duvall, perhaps one also with the Sno-River Drifters.

Thanks! I don't actually recall about the dancing, though you could one step to it, and it's got a swing feel. I assume people did dance, we played dances out here in our valley about 3 times a year for a while, though I'm not sure if "Moonglow" went back to that era in our repertoire. But we had played the Saw Festival in Santa Cruz, CA the year before our record came out, which I suppose prompted us to add saw to the repertoire.

Hi Mondo! Great to hear from you, and Happy New Year! There's more where this came from at my channel, but it sounds like you've seen at least some of it.

Thanks! I'd love to do a conceptual video for it, if I could get some rolling shots of lakes of mist above snow! There is a video of the studio version of this that CDBaby posted to CZcams, and I have added to playlists at my CZcams channel here, featuring just the cover shot of the album for graphics.

I'll take it! Cute isn't what I was going for, but I played harp a bunch on my solo gigs. It's on "This Feelin'" also, and on many of the songs on that LP.

Thanks Chris!

Thanks Wendy, we've had a lot of fun through the years on vacations!

Thanks Thomas! Of course The Dusty's next piano player Micah also moved on to bigger and better things. He's in Nashville now, and was playing with Margo Price and organ at baseball games last I heard.

@@MBristol49 I remember Micah he was good & a nice guy I sat in once doing 1 song with the Dusty's at the Owl & Thistle & later again sat in on a solo gig Micah did after he left the Dusty 45's, this was in 2005.

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Thank you kindly! And thanks for checking it out!

Thanks for the encouraging words!

Thanks! Pete and Mark were also in a band called The Skyline Drifters (at the same time) who won $5000 in a local Country band contest and also managed to appear on the nationally syndicated TV show "Fire On the Mountain," so they were ringers. Pete has posted at least one or two songs from that "Fire On The Mountain" show, well worth checking out!

I do have one more clip from that show I intend to post, of the song "My Ol' Rockin' Chair," which I think may be in the book. I have thought about making the book available digitally. The original resource section is entirely out of date, but with the internet now folks can find that information, the current versions, easily. There is another chapter I might add to the newer edition. I found out that another musician I know in this area Stickshift Annie Eastwood, was an illustrator for The Mother Earth News before the time I wrote my columns for them! Her husband has a copy of that book too!

Nope, I guess "My Ol' Rockin' Chair" isn't in the book, I just looked. but it IS on the album I made that came out same time as the book, which has been reissued on CD and is available directly and through CDBaby and the various streaming and download services they connect to. Will post the video in a couple weeks or so.

Silly me! No LP title: "This Feelin'"

@@MBristol49 I honestly think the music instruction is worth quite a lot. You could update several of the sections on home recording. We’ve gotten into the digital age and some of the equipment now make recordings that are often better than most professional studios. You are an inspiration to me about making music. I enjoy simple sounds and it’s easy when a person thinks in more simple ways to achieve it. Thanks again.

@@eddiemoore8468 You're right! The digital age has made the DIY approach even more valid and cheaper to pursue than when I wrote the chapters in the book on that! I DID also make a video based on the "Homegrown Music: From the Horse & Buggy To The Edge Of Space" school assembly program, when funds for that type of performance had dried up for the most part. The segment on playing the jug is one of my most viewed ones on CZcams, and at the end includes another version of this song with my other band Filé Gumbo, though we had to cannibalize the stand for the jug to use for a mike on the mandolin. Result: folks (including David Hamilton, who crosses in front of the camera in the clip) complain about the lack of jug, not getting my "invisible jug" concept.

Thanks Ken!

Those were the days, weren't they? I'm still in touch with Dan (whose song this is), but Quentin hasn't responded to any communications in recent times. The band evolved into the Honky Tonk Sweethearts, though it might be possible we'd still play a gig under that name. Last time we did was 2013 during the 100th anniversary of the founding of Duvall, complete with piano drop which I missed as me and Dave Harmonson had another gig in Kent later that day.

@@MBristol49 Wow! I'm glad to hear you guys have been keeping it going! I did read what you all did after Oke Doke. I got to say, we Washington types are loyal to our local musicians,even over decades. I live in Texas now, but I sure miss home. And I miss all the great music and love to see what people are doing up there wrt music.🪕🎶😊

It's great to hear from you Michelle!

Sorry we were a day late to catch your show there! I see the little pub where we met is now gone!

Thanks!

Actually, the whole "Rockabilly Rhythm & Blues" CD really rocks. Got about 50 of them left.

Hi Will! There are 2 more songs from that video already posted to CZcams at my channel (MBristol49), and both feature your dad singing: "Snake Charmin' Baby" and "Struttin' Chickens." I actually do have I believe 2 45 minute sets from that Good Earth Expo, taped by the band leader for a band called the Cascade Mountaineers. I used to joke with him that I was going to start a band called the Cascade Mountain Noses. I can't quite recall his name at the moment, though I knew him well, and have several of his business cards in my files I'll bet. I'm sure he's passed away by now. A year and a half ago or so a guy from Japan bought the mixer that was hand wired for us by Doug Schauer's ex-wife, and I put together a pdf story on the band with a lot of pictures, in case it might make it more valuable for him when he brought it home. I don't know that it would, but I enjoyed putting that together, and I intended to print a 3 or 4 page version of it in Blue Suede News, but that got bumped by a huge story on Little Richard submitted at the last possible minute by a writer who'd been doing stuff like that to me for 3 decades by then, though that one topped them all, and that was the last issue I did. Okie Doke ended up being a 1/4 page photo with a caption instead. Anyhow, I'd be happy to send you the pdf, your dad has it. I actually just added another page to it because I finally found the letter I got from Ronny Weiser at Rollin' Rock Records, his reaction to the record when I sent it to him. I'm in the process of selecting another batch of photos for another page, but they'll all be from after Dan left the group. Anyhow, great to hear from you! Oh yes, in answer to your other question, I also put out a CD that I recently renamed "Snake Charmin' Baby," which has the 4 songs from the EP, some radio performances and some live performances on it, plus maybe one or two home recorded demos. Subtitle "The Best Of Okie Doke - Studio, Radio & Live." My original version of it featured 3 or 4 songs from after Dan left us, but in the end I decided it should only be the original band, plus Larry VanOver who was with us for a year and a half about.

Will, if you send me an e-mail address (you can get mine at BlueSuedeNews.com) I'd be happy to send you the tracks of the "Snake Charmin' Baby" CD and cover art via WeTransfer or one of those - which is the same as the EP, but colorized. Unless maybe your dad has just copied it for you already.

Thanks Andrew!