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Topic: Jack Curly Evans |
George Redmon
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Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
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Posted 23 Dec 2016 9:44 am |
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| Anyone know anything about an old player named Jack Curly Evans. I heard him on an old video playing behind Ray Price. Plays well, what has he done and with whom? |
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 23 Dec 2016 11:17 am Re: Jack Curly Evans
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| George Redmon wrote: |
| Anyone know anything about an old player named Jack Curly Evans. I heard him on an old video playing behind Ray Price. Plays well, what has he done and with whom? |
There are other threads about Jack Evins on this forum.
The only other artists he backed that I know of are Roger Miller and The Browns--all in the 1956-58 time frame.
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Ian Worley
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Sacramento, CA
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Mike Spaeth
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Springdale, Arkansas
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Posted 23 Dec 2016 3:01 pm re
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| It looks like his brother Dan was the founder of Cracker Barrel restaurants. |
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Diane Diekman
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South Dakota, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2016 9:32 am
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Jack Evins was working with Ray Price when Marty Robbins came to town in 1953, and Jack filled in as his steel player, too. I interviewed Jack in 2007 for my Marty Robbins biography. "It was around '59 when I made my last recordings with Price and left," he told me. "I was a United States marshal for 22 years. I had quit once before, and Ray had called me and I'd gone back. Cuz I loved the music so much. He said why are you going to quit? I said one of these days we'll be sixty years old. I'm not a Chet Atkins, and our fingers will start getting old, and there'll be a town full of good young musicians out here, and we'll be out beating this road to death. I said I'm gonna find me a career someplace." He died several years ago.
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Diane Diekman
Sioux Falls SD
Author of "Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story"
Author of "Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins" |
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2016 10:13 am
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| I always admired Jack's playing. Thanks Diane for that tidbit of wisdom. Makes us day jobbers feel good about our steel guitar hobby. |
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George Redmon
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Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
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Posted 24 Dec 2016 11:04 am
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| Thank You all so much for the info. Much Appreciated |
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