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Flowers for sale at the Morro Bay Farmer's Market
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Back in the long ago of Coconut Grove, Florida, when I was in the thick of the music scene as a member of bebop legend, Ira Sullivan's, Friends Band, a chance meeting with a musician from Antigua, one Calvin 'Fuzzy' Samuel, set me on collision course with a reclusive songwriter by the name of Fred Neil. Fred had written one of the top twenty all time pop songs in "Everybody's Talking" . . . a distinction that grows in magnitude with each passing day. In a hundred years it will be as much a part of Americana as "Dixie" or The Old Folks at Home. There's a line in Fred's "Everybody's Talking," "I'm going where the sun keeps shinning, through the Pouring Rain." From those last words of that line I named my publishing company. In doubt, one day I asked Fred if I should change it, and true to his dry wit, he said, "no it has a ring to it." So it stuck and in 1984 (we - Hy Shore and I, Fred's sometime attorney and Greenwich Village resident), published our first songs on our home grown label, Baroque Records. I think it was in 1985 that Utah Philips suggested "Flat Baroque Records," and our next release in 1988 carried that amended name. |
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With The Shival Experience - B.B. King's - 2003, Hollywood, CA
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Now over twenty years down the road, Fred and Hy are gone and the world has changed. I still go abroad for the occasional tour with my old friend Fuzz . . . but back in the states . . . there's a little sweet spot in Los Osos where I like to park the caravan, just so happens it is an Orchid and Protea Nursery. And the sun shines bright through the coastal fog on my old California hat rack. The top picture has me at a local farmer's market, the bottom with Al 'Shival' Redwine and his band. We recorded a bit of AV then, courtesy of Tim Keenan and B.B. King's. Lately it has begun to trickle or "leak" out of the can. Most of our catalog and associated labels we have moved or are in the process of moving over to CDBaby where they have made it available both in the old and new digital media. My 1996 release, "Moodswing Woogie" is available there at www.cdbaby.com/denisfarley and now on iTunes as well as a host of other digital vendors.
And where have all the flowers gone? Well, we have a few here in Los Osos and also listed here in the Pouring Rain eBay store.
Locally you can find me setting up my portable sound system, plugging in the "Make Believe Band" via an iPod or if I'm lucky another musician will join in with me . . . mostly singing of love, that we just thought of . . . now it won't be long before we have some more of that intangible property for sale too! In the meantime, spend sometime among the flowers, courtesy of Michael Glikbarg at Orchids of Los Osos. As they say on Madison Avenue, "you'll be glad you did."
Enjoy. -- denis 2006 |
Favorite Links
Pouring Rain Music & Media Denis Farley - Artist page Orchids Of Los Osos
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May-14-07 |
Nov-29-09 20:11:59 |
$9.99 |
Denis Farley - Pryvit Blewz, rare indie reissue on CD |
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Jun-25-08 |
Dec-17-09 18:37:08 |
$800.00 |
Opal parcel, 7 pieces, Coober Pedy 19ct. |
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Jun-25-08 |
Dec-17-09 18:43:06 |
$250.00 |
Opal parcel, 12 pieces, Coober Pedy white 26.5ct. |
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Jun-25-08 |
Dec-17-09 18:47:03 |
$150.00 |
Opal parcel, 9 pieces, Mexican multi-colored 15.5ct. |
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Jun-25-08 |
Dec-17-09 18:57:35 |
$300.00 |
Opal parcel, 12 pieces, Mintabie multicolored 27ct. |
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Jun-25-08 |
Dec-17-09 19:04:18 |
$400.00 |
Opal parcel, 15 pieces, Mixed multicolored 23ct. |
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Jun-25-08 |
Dec-17-09 19:09:16 |
$800.00 |
Opal parcel 22 pieces Coober Pedy 33cts |
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Jun-25-08 |
Dec-17-09 19:15:55 |
$300.00 |
Opal parcel, 6 pieces, Queensland boulder 20.5ct. |
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Jun-25-08 |
Dec-17-09 19:21:44 |
$500.00 |
Opal parcel, 1 piece, Virgin Valley, NV 13ct. |
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Jun-25-08 |
Dec-17-09 19:28:43 |
$400.00 |
Opal, 1 piece, Virgin Valley, NV 4ct. |
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