Recent addition to albums now streaming: Instrumental Western Swing Album TEXAS BANDSTAND FAVORITES by Herb Steiner

Tunes: All of Me / When I Fall in Love / Westphalia Waltz / Liberty Drive / My Bluest Day / Take the “A” Train / A Thing Called Sadness / September in the Rain / Panhandle Rag / Deep Water.

The personnel is: HERB STEINER, pedal steel guitar; JOHNNY CASE, piano; LEON CHAMBERS, lead guitar (tracks 1-6); JUNIOR KNIGHT, lead guitar (tracks 7-10); DONNY McDUFF, rhythm guitar; MAC McRAE, acoustic bass; PAUL POLISH, drums. Recorded in 1995 at Garland Recording Studio in Garland, Texas.

Thanks to 45ripping78 for providing this full album on YouTube.

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES has new additions: See Entry No. 3 : MEMENTO SUITE, issued in 2022; Entry No. 4: Johnny Case and his Texas Swingtet featuring Billy Briggs, issued in 2016; Entry No. 5: LAST NITES by Johnny Case (solo piano recorded live at Sardines Ristorante Italiano). This was recorded September 19, 2001 - one week and one day after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. My notes, dated November 2001, address the circumstances which led me to make this record and how an unsavory business alliance brought about the demise of the original Sardines.

REMEMBERING SUSAN ALCORN: An intelligent, adventurous and uncompromising musical artist and gentle spirit who was also an advocate for politically oppressed people everywhere.

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In last night’s dream my brother

Appears months belatedly

For the first time since his death.

From a party of strangers

All of whom smile kindly

As tho we are friends-to-be:

“Who is he?” one wants to know.

I say to them: “That’s my Bro!”

Would an aura of love be withheld

Had this man been in their lives?

“His name is Jerry Case.”

Any ills the skies will erase,

For what’s left please know…

“To my hero as well let your warmth go.”

- closure -

I hasten to sit at his side

Among the bereft ones who smile…

Johnny Case 12-12-2024

Johnny CaseDecember 17, 2024

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