Knute's Tune [2015] - Happy Blues Orchestra
Album: Knute's Tune (Single)
Year: 2015
Label: Digitalia Records
Format: CD-R
Track-list:
Polehouse: Recorded at
Personnel:
Eureka Brown: Piano, Violin, Electric Guitar, Banjo, Arranged by, Recorded by, Mixed by
Elmo Townsend: Bass
Beat Sinclair: Drums, Percussion
Guido Sinclair: Written by
Alissa Bauer: Saxophone
Kris Bauer: Photography, Artwork
Recorded @ Polehouse → "Knute's Tune" by Guido Sinclair
Performed by Happy Blues Orchestra / 2015
Track-list:
- Knute's Tune
Polehouse: Recorded at
Personnel:
Eureka Brown: Piano, Violin, Electric Guitar, Banjo, Arranged by, Recorded by, Mixed by
Elmo Townsend: Bass
Beat Sinclair: Drums, Percussion
Guido Sinclair: Written by
Alissa Bauer: Saxophone
Kris Bauer: Photography, Artwork
Recorded @ Polehouse → "Knute's Tune" by Guido Sinclair
Performed by Happy Blues Orchestra / 2015
Related: Like many of the songs on Variety In Motion, Volume 1, Knute's Tune is named from Guido's CU circle. Whereas Seredy, Tyson, Ella, and Liza, are all siblings from "The Table" (who I was in a group with, called Shumari, that was led by Patience Mudeka, at the White Street Art Center in Champaign), Knute's Tune is named after Nature's Table's videographer, my old man, his friend and student, Knut Bauer.
Guido mentions the "Variety In Motion" cable TV program my Dad produced, about twelve seconds in to this 1987 Paul Boyev interview that sounds like it was taped inside of a car:
By the way, tonight at 6:30, if you've got a cable TV, look at it, you'll see I'll be on TV tonight, live from Nature's Table, Variety In Motion program, called Variety In Motion, produced by Knut Bauer, you know Knut?
I don't now if Boyev's ever met me or my Dad, but we both share album credits with Henry Frayne. He played bass on Area's 88 album, Perfect Dream, and I'm in Lanterna's Sands for "technical assistance."
When I was back in CU, around 2015, I went upstairs to the Archives at the Urbana Free Library, and scanned the music from Guido's song book so we could record this version of Knute's Tune that came out a couple years before we included it on the hologram record. When the librarian came back with the book she had this huge grin on her face, "we must know a lot of the same people," she said, as she handed me the ring bound sheet music.
My Dad took the cover shot for Mosaic's 78 LP, that featured Champaign's Rocky Maffit, who also played percussion with the Clones. When I was about five years old, Guido said I was gonna be a drummer, when I was playing a beat with him and my Dad at our old house. About ten or so years later I wound up on stage with Rocky Maffit, at Taste of Champaign, playing hand drums, with the group led by Patience Mudeka that included all of those siblings who the numerous VIM tracks are also named after (Maffit was a member of Patience's band). So not only did I end up becoming a drummer, but even a drummer of his favorite pupils—Kris B.
Also, it turns out, Patience Mudeka was "a former member of the Blacks Unlimited," the backing band of Thomas Mapfumo, of Eugene, OR.