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I am trying to get a cd from Pokey Lafarge called Marmalade.
It was self published but somehow almost impossible to buy. I have a download, but just want to get the original. Any help would be great

The Freedom Man wrote:I am trying to get a cd from Pokey Lafarge called Marmalade.
It was self published but somehow almost impossible to buy. I have a download, but just want to get the original. Any help would be great

What an interesting roots music artist...a young man that sounds as if he has 50 years of Bayou music under his belt.

Pretty rare stuff...your musical taste is right up my alley. Ed. No CDs I can find. Probably an expensive ebay item. You've been in the roots rock lately....Rick Danko....Pokie...

Sad Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82rAxjpkc48

Indeed Scott, hard to find. Pitty for such brilliant music, it should be spread around the world.
Pokey is coming Holland next month and I bought a ticket. Maybe they sell cd's at the gig...

The Freedom Man wrote:Indeed Scott, hard to find. Pitty for such brilliant music, it should be spread around the world.
Pokey is coming Holland next month and I bought a ticket. Maybe they sell cd's at the gig...

Get a sig anyway! It figures that Pokey would be a Dutch treat.....your country has always embraced the world's under-appreciated artists:

Gene Clark, Arthur Lee, Iain Matthews, Pokey!

Hey Scott, Pokey is doing five songs at a Radio show here in Rotterdam.A friend of mine knows the soundguy/talkshowhost and he invited us at the studio.I'll be sure to bring my Pokey vinyl to get it signed.
Hopefully some pic's after next thuesday..

The Freedom Man wrote:Hey Scott, Pokey is doing five songs at a Radio show here in Rotterdam.A friend of mine knows the soundguy/talkshowhost and he invited us at the studio.I'll be sure to bring my Pokey vinyl to get it signed.
Hopefully some pic's after next thuesday..

That is very cool! Have a great time! Looking forward to some pix!

La La Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzmOZQdcYY

POKEY LeFARGE




This kid sounds like he's been singing funky roots blues for 60 years...brilliant stuff.

Pokey LaFarge is an American roots musician and songwriter. In 2009 LaFarge founded the group Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three when a group of three musicians joined him: Joey Glynn (bass), Adam Hoskins (guitar) and Ryan Koenig (Harmonica, washboard, and snare). The group is based in St. Louis, Missouri.



Pokey LaFarge was born in Bloomington, Illinois. He later moved to St. Louis, Missouri. The nickname “Pokey” was coined by his mother, who would scold him to hurry when he was a child.[1]

Pokey took an interest in history and literature during his childhood, and was greatly influenced by his grandfathers. One was a member of the St. Louis Banjo Club, who gave Pokey his first guitar and tenor banjo. The other, an amateur historian, taught Pokey about the American Civil War and World War II.[2]

Pokey always wanted to be a writer, and had a keen interest in American literature.[3] He enjoyed the writings of John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Jack Kerouac. As a teenager, Pokey combined his appreciation for history and writing with his new discovery of blues music.[4]

During his early teens while living in Normal, Illinois, Pokey first heard blues in a local pizza parlor run by a man named Juice who played artists like Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon.[2] He soon discovered an appreciation for older blues artists, like Skip James, Robert Wilkins, and Sleepy John Estes. After hearing Bill Monroe at age 16, Pokey traded the guitar his grandfather had given him for a mandolin.[4]

After graduating from high school in 2001, Pokey hitchhiked to the West Coast at age 17, where he earned a living playing music on the sidewalks, streets and pedestrian malls. He continued hitchhiking through the United States, and met Ryan Koenig and Joey Glynn of the St. Louis band The Vultures while he was playing on a street in Asheville, North Carolina. Adam Hoskins joined The Vultures to form the South City Three.[5] The band joined Pokey in 2009.[6]

Career
Pokey Lafarge 2011

Pokey self-released his first record Marmalade in 2006; the same year he toured as mandolin player with The Hackensaw Boys.[7] His second solo album, “Beat, Move & Shake,” was released in 2008 by Big Muddy Records. In 2009, Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three formed with Adam Hoskins (guitar), Ryan Koenig (guitar, washboard, snare drum) and Joey Glynn (double bass). They began touring across the United States, the U.K., and the Netherlands.[6]

The group released their first album, “Riverboat Soul” in 2010 with Free Dirt Records. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee over two days in 2009 through Georg Neumann microphones once used by John Hartford and Norman Blake.[2] "Riverboat Soul" won the Independent Music Award for best Americana album.

In 2011, the group released “Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time in Cheatham County” with Third Man Records, produced by Jack White, and their second album “Middle of Everywhere” with Free Dirt Records.[6]

Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three have appeared at the Big Chill Festival (U.K.), the Tønder Festival (Denmark), and the Newport Music Festival (USA).

The group was featured by NPR on the Tiny Desk Concert series in 2011.

Pokey wrote a song for the soundtrack of “Brick By Chance and Fortune,” a documentary directed by friend of the band Bill Streeter, released in 2011.[8]

Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three also opened for The Raconteurs at Ryman Auditorium on September 15, 2011.

The group is touring in the United States and in Europe where it will play successively in the Netherlands, Great Britain and Ireland before returning to North America where it will run in Canada.

On New Year's Eve 2012 the band appeared on the UK BBC2 Jools Holland's Hootenanny television show.

Music Style
Instruments

His acoustic music uses the guitar, guitjo, bass, kazoo, tenor banjo, washboard, snare drum, cornet, trombone, piano, lap steel guitar, fiddle, upright bass, and harmonica.


Genre

His repertoire consists of a mix of Americana, early jazz, ragtime for string instruments, country blues, Western swing, Vaudeville, and Appalachain folk.[4]

"American music is the tops: People respond to it all over the world because it's expressive and powerful," Pokey told the Ismthus Daily Page in 2011.

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Freed will see him soon in Netherlands...and promises pix!!


What a brilliant new discovery for me, Ed!! Thanks So much!!


In The Jailhouse Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgGfOk6 ... re=related

Chitlin' Cookin' Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G5WDCPB ... ure=relmfu

Man, this kid just makes me smile!!

His music kinda sticks on you, isn't is , Scott.
Still two days to go before I meet him, should be fun!

Latest news:

Big bummer, Pokey's tourbus broke down or something in Denmark, so NO radioshow in Rotterdam tomorrow. DAMN!
Guess I'll have to wait till the 18th when they play another gig in Rotterdam.

The Freedom Man wrote:Latest news:

Big bummer, Pokey's tourbus broke down or something in Denmark, so NO radioshow in Rotterdam tomorrow. DAMN!
Guess I'll have to wait till the 18th when they play another gig in Rotterdam.

Damn mechanical contraptions!


Good luck on the 18th!!

What do you have by Pokey, Ed?

I have two with the great South City Three...that harmonica player is genius!

I have "Middle Of Everywhere" & "Riverboat Soul".

I have four tracks off Marmalade and it is Pokey without the South City Three...they are amazing tracks but more Dylan-esque and without the harmonica, but with guitar, organ ...I wish I could find it all!


"Don't Come Here"...doesn't this sound like Dylan with Al Kooper on organ...fantastic

Is this old? He has a beard!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHuHQOz ... =endscreen

jamestkirk wrote:What do you have by Pokey, Ed?

I have two with the great South City Three...that harmonica player is genius!

I have "Middle Of Everywhere" & "Riverboat Soul".

I have four tracks off Marmalade and it is Pokey without the South City Three...they are amazing tracks but more Dylan-esque and without the harmonica, but with guitar, organ ...I wish I could find it all!


"Don't Come Here"...doesn't this sound like Dylan with Al Kooper on organ...fantastic

Is this old? He has a beard!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHuHQOz ... =endscreen

The early LaFarge sounds a bit like a Bayou Dylan if you know what I mean...some Al Kooper organ sounds.



Don't Come Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHuHQOz ... ure=relmfu


Sweet Seventeen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TugKC8_H ... ure=relmfu


Sad Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82rAxjpkc48


Fake In Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU8O-qqAXbw


WE WANT THIS ALBUM, ED!!!

I have The middle of Everywhere on lp. River boat and Marmalade on cd.
There's another one from 2008 called Beat, Move amd Shake. Same like Marmalade without the South City Three.I haven't downloaded that one, you can find it on Itunes. It's not as good as Maramalade though.
Yes, Marmalade is a fantastic album. Love the organ also.It gives a nice touch to the songs, especially "Don't come Here"

By the way, what does Pokey sing after," Don't come here...."
Is it, "It's not much safer"?Maramalade is from 2010 by the way.

The Freedom Man wrote:I have The middle of Everywhere on lp. River boat and Marmalade on cd.
There's another one from 2008 called Beat, Move amd Shake. Same like Marmalade without the South City Three.I haven't downloaded that one, you can find it on Itunes. It's not as good as Maramalade though.
Yes, Marmalade is a fantastic album. Love the organ also.It gives a nice touch to the songs, especially "Don't come Here"

By the way, what does Pokey sing after," Don't come here...."
Is it, "It's not much safer"?Maramalade is from 2010 by the way.

Yes....

"Don't come here
It's not much safer"


with guitar tabs....


B7/F# Em
It's not today, it's not tomorrow

B7/F# Am
See my face, nor my sorrow

G C/G
No don't come here, no don't come here

Em Am Em
It's not much safer mmmmm

B7/F# Em
My cigarettes, they lack filters

B7/F# Am
My black fingers are getting sicker

G C/G
So don't come here, no don't come here

Em Am Em
It's not much safer mmmmm

B7/F# Em
All the day embraces now are sleepin'

B7/F# Am
The sun is set night is creepin'

G C/G
Around here, around here

Em Am Em
It's not much safer mmmmm

B7/F# Em
The river rat pack is hittin' the town

B7/F# Am
Takin' there money and throwin' it down

G C/G
All down there, saying don't come here

Em Am Em
It's not much safer mmmmm


Piano Solo


B7/F# Em
Charlie Chaplin took his shoes off

B7/F# Am
put 'em in the river heard the wind cough

G C/G
Don't come here, no don't come here

Em Am Em
It's not much safer mmmmm

B7/F# Em
I tell you lies and you say you like it

B7/F# Am
but the truth in my eyes you do deny it

G C/G
So don't come here, no don't come here

Em Am Em
It's not much safer mmmmm

B7/F# Em
I'll dance the tango for two in time

B7/F# Am
When I need a partner I've go you in mind

G C/G
When I come there, when come there

Em Am Em
It will be much safer mmmmm

B7/F# Em
But it's not today, it's not tomorrow

B7/F# Am
See my face nor my sorrow

G C/G
Nah don't come here, nah don't come here

Em Am Em Am G F# Em
Cause it's not much safer mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmm mmmm mmm
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Ed....I thought "Marmalade" was from 2006?

That would be a find....yes, self published!

I'm really starting to get into Pokey!

Yes, my bad!
Thanks for the lyrics.
Hooefully in the not so far future Pokey plays in a town near you!

The Freedom Man wrote:Yes, my bad!
Thanks for the lyrics.
Hooefully in the not so far future Pokey plays in a town near you!

Me too.

I found a nice full d/l of Marmalade...impossible to find the original it seems.

Maybe it was just released on the web for a while, not on cd.

The Freedom Man wrote:Maybe it was just released on the web for a while, not on cd.

It's so cheap to self-publish, even on CD...hopefully there are some out there.

Can't imagine anyone giving up a Pokey self-published CD ...probably only a few hundred sold. Maybe he sold them at small clubs...I see that a lot today. Local bands selling CDs at bars or festivals they play.

I guess he self-published it while he was playing out there solo...at that time he was also mandolin player for the touring Hackensaw Boys.

Good news Scott, Monday 13:30 going to Pokey at the Radioshow!It's their day off, but agreed to come after they missed last week.
Pics will follow!

The Freedom Man wrote:Good news Scott, Monday 13:30 going to Pokey at the Radioshow!It's their day off, but agreed to come after they missed last week.
Pics will follow!

GREAT! LET US KNOW HOW IT GOES AND PIX PLEASE!

You betcha!

Just returned from the Radio studio with some pics, Youtube clip is still loading and I haven't got a link yet, but will follow.
















Me, my friend and Pokey and the guys


My signed LP


And last a signed poster.

FANTASTIC, ED!!

Those pix are very cool...excellent shots. Was that a radio braodcast? How did you swing getting to see them?

Can't wait for the youtube SOUNDS!!

I've never seen a KAZOO on a harmonica neck brace !!!

The neighbour of my friend is the host of the radioshow, so he got us in.
We went to the studio, he opened the door and said to Pokey, "Here's some fans of you guys"
Next thing I know I was shaking Pokey's hand and got my stuff signed.It was really cool, great buncha guys, great music!
Gonna see them at a venue in Rotterdam this Wednesday, so more fun!

Here's the youtbe url, hope it works.I filmed it with my Iphone and the studio was a bit dark, but sound is ok:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9cq29v8q4

Radioshow is online already, scroll down to see the 6 songs they played:
http://www.rijnmond.nl/programmas/live- ... city-three

Enjoy

Very cool, Ed! They're good! "Bayou Dylan" is a perfect description of their sound. Ha ha.

The Freedom Man wrote:The neighbour of my friend is the host of the radioshow, so he got us in.
We went to the studio, he opened the door and said to Pokey, "Here's some fans of you guys"
Next thing I know I was shaking Pokey's hand and got my stuff signed.It was really cool, great buncha guys, great music!
Gonna see them at a venue in Rotterdam this Wednesday, so more fun!

Here's the youtbe url, hope it works.I filmed it with my Iphone and the studio was a bit dark, but sound is ok:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9cq29v8q4

Radioshow is online already, scroll down to see the 6 songs they played:
http://www.rijnmond.nl/programmas/live- ... city-three

Enjoy

Ed, that iPhone clip you filmed is fantastic!! How cool is that?!

Their harmonica player is GENIUS!!

You must still have a buzz!!!

Hey thanks, really cool.

Yeah, They're great, if they are in your neighbourhood you should check them out.