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When the duo left to start the Eagles, Casey headed to Tulsa with Don Preston to record with the Shelter People, part of Leon Russell’s Shelter Records label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTulsa surprised him—the blues, country, and rockabilly had fermented there into a mellow blend called the Tulsa Sound, and he quickly discovered that the bands in town were playing as much Freddy King and B.B. King as Merle Haggard. Then he realized he was home, a place where the music vibes were right, and where you could get out of town into open country in five minutes. It took a while to find his way into the scene, but fairly soon he was in a band with Walt Richmond and Jim Byfield. And is once more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEventually, Casey joined Tulsa’s multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated band The Tractors, which included Casey, Walt Richmond, and the future Tulsa Groove member Ron Getman. Three members of the Groove (Richmond, Byfield, and Steve Hickerson), would back Bonnie Raitt during her tenure in Tulsa, playing shows in the area to (successfully!) protest the construction of the Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant. Walt would go on to play on Tulsan JJ Cale’s Grammy-winning Gold album collaboration with Eric Clapton, The Road to Escondido, so impressing Eric that he’s played on all of his albums since then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen they weren’t on the road collaborating with people like Clapton, Cale, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, or Bill Medley, they played around town. Casey and Walt Richmond began to get tight, first recording Christmas songs, then writing original Christmas songs, then gathering at Walt’s home studio to record more of their own originals and favorite covers, selecting the best players around to add their touches on a few songs at a time. This wasn’t to satisfy anyone’s record contract or dreams of stardom, but out of camaraderie and an enjoyment of each other’s musical company; music for music’s sake. There’s a purity to that. This record, produced by Walt Richmond, showcases what they are capable of when they focus their in-demand skills on their own music. Carrying on the legendary Tulsa sound of forerunners like Leon Russell, JJ Cale and Elvin Bishop, the band is adding their own new flavors while keeping that historic tradition alive for current and future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat’s where the Little Village Foundation came in. Little Village is a nonprofit record label which finds musicians who don’t fit the relentlessly commercial values of the music industry and helps them to be heard. 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It could make you cry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalt remarked that what really defined the Tulsa sound was the groove, and then proves it with his and Casey’s “Thinking About You.” If it doesn’t make you want to dance, you might consider rhythm surgery. Peppermint Harris, a running partner of Lightnin’ Hopkins’s, gave the band “I Got Loaded”—which seems to have been pretty much required to hang with Mr. Hopkins. Eddie Shuler founded an important outlet for Cajun music, Goldband Records, and wrote “Sugar Bee,” a song Casey’s been singing for quite a while, which interestingly brings out some of the most prominent guitar in the set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCasey and Charles Tuberville combined on “Superstitious,” which uses a dry wit to combine the title topic and romance. The trio of Casey, Tuberville, and Richmond wrote “If You Don’t Love Me,” which will tear your heart out: “If you don’t love me, sun don’t need to rise. Leave me in the dark, I won’t need the light.” “Whatcha Think About That” is a great dance groove that is the least mushy love song ever written. “Get On With It” is another love song—but it’s the song of someone who’s been around the block two or three times and then some. It rocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalt was right.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeaven Forever\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about the groove(s), deep, wide, and frequent. It’s wonderful American music that’s fresh and fine and brand-new and simultaneously honors its Tulsa roots. 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That joy is embodied in the music of the Sons of the Soul Revivers (Walter Jr., James, and Dwayne Morgan), whose new album on the Little Village Foundation label, out June 19, 2020, is called Songs We’ll Always Sing – A Tribute To The Pilgrim Jubilees. The Sons began in 1970, when at the venerable age of nine, Walter Jr. gathered up his brother Sidney and some cousins and began his own gospel group, succeeding his father’s Soul Revivers the Sons of the Soul Revivers. Their lead singer, brother James, debuted with the Sons at the age of seven at the local playground with a song by the Swan Silvertones, “We’re Going to Have a Good Time.” As James modestly put it, “the people seemed to like it.” When you get on the stage to sing, something exciting, something spiritual, something magical, however you want to describe it, it’s going to be nothing but positive good vibes, and it’s going to flow from the stage out to the audience, and my prayer is that everybody will be impacted by that in some kind of way.” Former Huey Lewis \u0026amp; the News manager Bob Brown, a Sons fans, suggested to Jim Pugh of the nonprofit record company Little Village Foundation that he record the quartet. Jim signed them up and they produced a live album at Bob’s club in West Marin, the Rancho Nicasio, and then more recently the Sons went into the studio for Songs We’ll Always Sing – A Tribute to The Pilgrim Jubilees. Said James, “We definitely used the Pilgrim Jubilees as a blueprint for how the traditional gospel quartet sound should be. We got a chance to see those guys in 1977, and long story short, they blew us away. When they got on the stage, they sang. They didn’t have fancy gimmicks, they didn’t have a standout tenor singer where you can showcase his vocals, like Claude Jeters (Swan Silvertones), they were just a good, old-fashioned solid group who could really sing. And I said to myself, ‘that’s the way traditional gospel quartet should be.’ Songs We’ll Always Sing offers rocket-propelled rhythms, the kind of close harmony singing that only brothers who’ve practiced for decades can achieve, and the joyful bounce that Duke Ellington called Swing. The rhythm section of Ronnie Smith on drums and Daquantae Johnson is totally in the pocket, and Walter Jr.’s guitar is a delight, fully honoring his favorite early role model, Tito Jackson. 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Bass legend Jerry Jemmott, vocalist John Nemeth, saxophonist Terry Hanck, and supreme vocalists The Sons of the Soul Revivers all contribute mightily in guest appearances. The knockout punch may well be delivered by Mike’s talented and beautiful partner, vocalist\/percussionist Ms. Kimmy Pickens, featured in more than one Star-Is-Born musical and songwriting moment, co-writing 4 of these original witty songs with Mike that we all can cry, laugh, dance, and relate to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like Schermer’s live shows, the album runs a gamut of music styles from blues to soul to funk to rock \u0026amp; roll, country, Americana and nearly every stop in between. “I guess my music is kinda hard to describe” Schermer laughs “but it also can’t be pigeonholed. I was born in New York, raised in New Mexico. I lived in California for half my life, and Austin, Texas for another third of it. 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He has also carved out a solid solo career, releasing 7 critically acclaimed albums and garnering a ton of attention for his songwriting in particular. Schermer’s songs have been covered by blues award recipients Tommy Castro, Billy Price and the late Frank Bey, to name just a few. His autobiographical single “My Big Sister’s Radio” was recently hand-picked by none other than Bruce Springsteen to be included in The Boss’s “From My House to Yours” on Sirius\/XM’s and is now in regular rotation! His songs and albums have been nominated for multiple awards and he has performed in all 50 US States and 25 countries around the world in a journey that is far from over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHot young guitar shredders get run up the industry pipeline on an almost daily basis, intoxicating fans. Fireball shots and Jager-bombs intoxicate, too. Listening to Mighty Mike Schermer is like sipping a vintage Kentucky bourbon; sweet guitar licks burn smooth, mellow and go down easy. 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The record, built from songs spanning his decades-long career, was made with his brother,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTim Haggerty\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon keyboards and bass, and nephew\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAaron Haggerty\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon drums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaggerty built his reputation as guitarist for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jambase.com\/band\/sons-of-champlin\" class=\"band-link sc-band-link\"\u003eSons of Champlin\u003c\/a\u003e, a San Francisco band known for blending rock with R\u0026amp;B and a horn section. The group emerged just after the rise of acts like Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Jerry Garcia was among those who took notice of Haggerty's guitar talents, once describing him as “a unique and original player, who is highly inventive, incorporating the tone of rock and the harmonies of jazz.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Throughout my musical career I’ve been primarily known as the lead guitarist for the seminal ‘60s and ‘70s band, the Sons of Champlin,” Terry Haggerty said. “I have wanted to do a CD of my songwriting for a while now, and here I have the opportunity to do just that. My brother and I, with help from his son, Aaron, have taken my favorite tunes, reimagined and replayed them. 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