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Post by the Scribe on Jun 12, 2023 23:10:12 GMT
Joe Ely's Tornado Jam 3 #2
By Curtis Peoples
Published May 28, 2023 at 7:00 AM CDT
LISTEN • 56:34 radio.kttz.org/podcast/music-crossroads-of-texas/2023-05-28/joe-elys-tornado-jam-3-2
(Linda segment starts around 40 minutes into the show. This is not a recording of the concert.)
This week on the Music Crossroads of Texas, we continue our travel back in time to May of 1982 with music from artists who performed on Joe Ely’s third annual Tornado Jam. This week’s show is the second of two highlighting the concert. You will hear music from Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Joe Ely, and more. I hope you will join me, Curtis Peoples, for another hour of music.
Tracks
Saddle Tramp - Jay Boy Adams
Legend of Jack Diamond - Jay Boy Adams
Nine Hard Years - Jay Boy Adams
Stranger in a Strange Land - Leon Russell & New Grass Revival
More Love Song - Leon Russell & New Grass Revival
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Leon Russel & New Grass Revival
Victim of Circumstance - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
I Love Rock 'N Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Musta Notta Gotta Lotta - Joe Ely
Good Rockin' Tonight - Joe Ely
Different Drum - Linda Ronstadt
Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt
It's So Easy - Linda Ronstadt
Treat Me Like a Saturday Night - Joe Ely
Not Fade Away - Joe Ely
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Music Crossroads of Texas Music Crossroads of Texas
Curtis Peoples
Curtis Peoples, Ph.D., is the Archivist for the Southwest Music Archive and oversees the Crossroads Recording Studio for the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University. He is a musician who has worked in the music business for four decades, numerous recording studios, and has been a production manager for many events. Dr. Peoples teaches regional music history classes and American media studies; his research centers on music and place.
COMPANION THREADS
conservatism.freeforums.net/thread/709/unreleased-duet-joe-linda-ronstadt
conservatism.freeforums.net/thread/590/where-love-joe-ely
www.virtualubbock.com/stoCOTornadoJam.html
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 12, 2023 23:14:04 GMT
Jul 29, 2014 16:20:03 GMT -5 Belle said:
Linda joined our hometown boy Joe Ely at the Tornado Jam here in Lubbock TX where I finally got to see her perform live for the first time. It had rained the night before and turn out to be quite the mud-fest with 40,000'ish in attendance. She was wonderful, as was Joe:
She arrived a few days before the concert and they jammed with members of the Maines Brothers Band (Natalie Maines family) at a place called the Cotton Club outside the city. They were playing for a High School graduation party, the venue was rented until midnight, and in spite of the fact that Linda Ronstadt was in the house--among other excellent local musicians, the owner of the Venue ordered everyone to leave at midnight mid-jams... He was an idiot!
www.austinchronicle.com/music/2006-03-31/351190/
ronstadt.proboards.com/post/17814/thread
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 12, 2023 23:29:17 GMT
Oct 9, 2014 17:39:21 GMT -5 Belle said:
Found some new pictures of Linda from this event. A couple from Joe Ely's Facebook page, he wished her a Happy Birthday with one and congratulated her Medal with the other. I wonder if that's JD Souther on the left in that first pic? He is from Amarillo, just north of Lubbock.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 12, 2023 23:51:36 GMT
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Traces of Texas
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Linda Ronstadt and Joe Ely in Lubbock in 1982 for the last Tornado Jam. I'm a big fan of both of them and would have loved to have been there for this show.
Joe Ely is with Rita Martin.
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congratulations Linda Ronstadt for receiving the National Arts Award in Washington DC today. The highest achievement for an artist in our Nation, The National Medal of Arts, Linda Ronstadt, you are & will always be our National Treasure! Your voice cut right to our hearts forever. You captured every emotion possible in every note you sang for us, thank you, we love you.
Linda and Joe in Buddy Holley Park in 1982 for the last Tornado Jam in Lubbock Texas....photo by Milton AdamsManuela Ortiz
Just ran across this page. I was there, muddy as hell, but loved Linda!
Glenn Carnell
Really muddy day but great music!
Joanna Grimmer
I was there with my future husband who had a terrible crush on Linda Ronstadt. He still does!
Tom Grimmer
I was at the 1982 Tornado Jam! I went just to see Linda and was not disappointed even with the rain and mud! Classy lady with a great voice.
Claudio Verfürth
I was there - thank God!
AC Aikman
I was at the tornado in 70 and every jam we had in the early 80's, the mud slide, and Lucky Me I Live In Lubbock bumper stickers
Trey Sheppard
I was there.
Keith Stuart
I was there! What a day that was! Then the rain came and it ended up being a huge mud fest, people sliding into each others lawn chairs, rolling in the mud! Such a wonderful concert....ahhhh the glory days 😛
Jimmyc Chernega
Great show; The Crickets, The Planets, Linday, Joe. Yes muddy, and a fight or two, but great fun
Marshall E. Kuykendall
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My good buddy, Joe, lives in my old house-MEK
Winfred Bostick
You mean Jane Fonda wasn't available .
Nichole Chevrie
I was there is was a huge muddy mess but fun as hell!
Grace Fulton
Saw her perform in Houston in '75 or '76. Amazing.
Sherhonda Perdue Ginn
I was at that Tornado Jam! AWESOME!
Kathleen Mahanay Hardage
Still and always a Linda Ronstadt fan.
Mike Wiley
Two of my favorites, I had a crush on her too.
Lillie Sullivan
Wish I could have been there, but l982 was not one of my better years...It might have been if I could have heard them!
Debra Adams
I have her "Heart like a wheel"album which I wore the heck out of it.
Johney Larned
Will never forget that mudslide and all of the great music! Also got to meet CB (Stubb) Stubblefield that day. Great memories!
Marsha Womack
I was there! I worked at the front desk of the Hilton Hotel at the time and most if not all of the them stayed there! I got Linda Ronstadt's autograph, among others!
Linda Marie Kirkpatrick
I would have loved it to. So sad about her illness. A voice just silenced.
Reneé Wheeler
I went to all of the Tornado Jams. Most memorable moment was Joan Jett and all the mud that year.
Dru Ann Jamison
Joe Ely is a favorite of mine ...especially Bamboo Shade
Top fan
Christine Montgomery
Joe Ely used to play at a little club in Lubbock, at 4th St and Ave R. I was listening one night to his band, and it was my turn to get the refreshments. I walked up to the bar, and he turned around and shook my hand, and said "I'm Joe Ely". I replied: "You sure are". Very nice man.
He also used to play at a small club on Slide Rd across from Classic Lanes, about 30nd/Slide. .
Jim N Gail Yeary
I was there
Top fan
Tim Griffin
Love, love, love
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I recognized Joe right away, but not Linda, and I am a huge fan of hers!
Kim Kapuscinski Davis
I was there.
Peter Stevenson
One for you Allan Orrick!
Pamela Rattan
I was there!!! It was an ocean of mud!!!
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Vickie Reid Harrison
I missed that, had to work, I was really sad. However, I gave Joe Ely the opportunity to blow out one of my ear drums in San Antonio a couple of years later.
Tamsin Rain
Haha he played Pool with Tom T Hall in The Great Broadway Onion Championship. 😃
James Bell
I got her autograph at a playing of Lilian Gish's silent film La Boheme in 1993 in California.
Mark Coffman
I was!
Dave Witt
and as far as pictures of Linda, the one for me was this one: l.yimg.com/.../06/Ethan-Russell-American-Story_08.jpg
Randall Whipple
Joe Ely!!
Danced many a dances in college and beyond with Mr Ely and band playing
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Dave Witt
There are some great stories about Linda and Joey taking the show to the Cotton Club for an impromptu performance for some unsuspecting honky tonkers. She was so nice to make the trip to Lubbock, btw.
Vince Lundberg
I remember it well!
Whitney Rix Victory II
I was there running limos back and forth...
Geoff Gentry
I was there. It was a little muddy if I am thinking of the right year... And Linda was very good.
Dwayne Cullers
President Obama said that when he was younger he had a crush on Linda Ronstadt, to which I said, "Didn't we all?"
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No kidding, Dwayne. For me, it was this photo that did it:
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Carolyn Wood Doolittle
Linda has parkinsons or something similar now and it's been reported she can't sing anymore..so sad.
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Gail Turner
She has grace, style and a brain. Loved the way she handled a certain politician out west...LOL!
Manuela Ortiz
My photo.
May be an image of 8 people and crowd
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 13, 2023 0:06:05 GMT
Memorable shows: From rock, to country
www.lubbockonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2014/10/02/memorable-shows-rock-country/15018600007/
A-J Media's William Kerns lists his most memorable concerts from over the years
Staff WriterLubbock Avalanche-Journal
Joe Ely's Tornado Jams, 1980-82
Much can, and has, been written about the Tornado Jams, which began on the 10-year anniversary of Lubbock's destructive 1970 tornado.
It was a concept that city fathers thought might attract a few hundred people. By 1982, the Jam lured an uncounted tens of thousands of music lovers.
All-day concerts at the Buddy Holly Recreation Area featured Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joan Jett, Linda Ronstadt and so many more. A couple of cars (a Rolls and a Caddy) wound up in a playa lake, and my tennis shoes wound up stuck in the mud when unavoidable rain made the park into a quagmire one year - giving a frightened City Council ammunition to kill an annual festival, and come close to killing Lubbock's music reputation.
No music allowed in a park named after Buddy Holly? Fears of killing "buffalo grass" that millions of buffalo had trod on? The decision by the City Council, in 1982, in effect, convinced Ely to pack and move from Lubbock to Austin.
Unforgettable music, unforgettable concerts. Poor decisions. Lubbock bounced back, but not right away.
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