Index
Glavni Meni
· Home
· Members_List
· Reviews
· Stories_Archive
· Submit_News
· Topics
 
Ostali Artikli
Saturday, March 11
· Mississippi Queen - Did you say love? (17)
Tuesday, February 07
· Koncerti: Neno Belan - Beograd SKC - 14 Februar 2006 (17)
Sunday, July 31
· Mile Lojpur - 1930 - 2005 (16)
Wednesday, June 15
· Chuck Berry u Zagrebu i Beogradu! (15)
Tuesday, June 14
· Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Riot Volume 1 Novi CD (17)
Friday, March 25
· James Dean - 50 godina posle - NOVI Websajt (15)
Sunday, September 19
· Big Bad Shakin? (15)
· Rockabilly Rumble (17)
Wednesday, July 28
· Chet Atkins (16)
Sunday, January 04
· Ray Campi (13)
Friday, September 26
· Billy Adams umesan u Rockabilly Riot! (17)
Monday, September 15
· Johnny Cash 1932 - 2003 (17)
Sunday, August 03
· The Polecats (19)
· Sam Phillips otac r'n'r umire u 80-toj (16)
Friday, July 04
· Restless (13)
Saturday, June 28
· Tenessee Ernie Ford (15)
Saturday, June 21
· The Blue Cats (16)
Friday, June 20
· The Jets (17)
Wednesday, May 07
· Wanda Jackson (16)
Wednesday, February 12
· 4 Nove Recenzije: Dragstrip 77, Bovine, Paladins, Raging Teens, (16)
· Dragstrip 77, Bovine, Paladins, Raging Teens (17)
Monday, February 03
· Swing nekad i danas (17)
Sunday, December 22
· The Stray Cats (20)
Saturday, December 21
· Bettie Page (16)
· Charlie Feathers (18)
Saturday, December 14
· Sleepy LaBeef (18)
Monday, December 02
· Jerry Lee Lewis (16)
Sunday, October 27
· Carl Perkins (14)
Tuesday, October 22
· Zasto Elvis? (14)
Monday, October 14
· Reverend Horton Heat (12)
Wednesday, July 17
· Istorija Swinga (14)
Tuesday, July 16
· Izvestaj iz Brian Setzer tabora (17)
Monday, July 15
· Johnny Cash (18)
Saturday, July 13
· Buddy Holly (15)
Wednesday, July 03
· Dodate 3 nove recenzije (14)
· THE CHOP TOPS ?Always Wild? Rollin Rock Records (14)
· THE BLUE CATS ?Early Days? Nervous Records (12)
· AMAZING CROWNS ?Payback Live? Monolyth Records (11)
Monday, July 01
· Gene Vincent - 1971 (15)
Tuesday, June 25
· Deke Dickerson (18)
Thursday, June 20
· Prica o Crazy Cavan 'n' the Rhythm Rockers (15)
Saturday, June 15
· Ne samo ne on! - Neil Foster se seca Ron-a (17)
· Brian Setzer - Koncert isvestaj (12)
Thursday, June 13
· Zoot Suit neredi (17)
· Sonny Burgess = Memfis Zvuk (17)
· The Reverend Horton Heat (16)
· Prica o Teddy Boysima (15)
· Eddie Cochran (16)
· Billy Lee Riley - Intervjuisao Ken Burke (18)
Wednesday, June 12
· Johnny Burnette (14)

Older Articles
 
Koliko Posetilaca
There are currently, 9 guest(s) and 0 member(s) that are online.

You are Anonymous user. You can register for free by clicking here
 
Login
Nickname

Password

Don't have an account yet? You can create one. As registered user you have some advantages like theme manager, comments configuration and post comments with your name.
 
Search

 
  
 Welcome to eurorockabilly 
Biografije: Sleepy LaBeef
Posted by: lontosh
Biografije Sleepy LaBeef je radio mnoge poslove sve od prodavaca pa do drvosece i vozaca kamiona. Sve to je napustio pre 31 godinu, i pored pauze zbog pozara u njegovom autobusu Sleepy nije pravio pauzu duzu od par nedelja. "Dole na jugu poceo sam sa gospel muzikom koju smo izvodili bez instrumenata" kaze LaBeef. "Onda bi cuo blues na blues stanici, hillbilly muziku, bluegrass iz Nashvillea, Bob Willsa iz Texasa. Bio sam zahvalan svoj toj muzici, sve je bilo dobro. Ali mnogo puta bih cuo od ljudi, 'Neznamo kako da te predstavimo, promovisemo, neznamo kako da to nazovemo'. Sve zato sto sam oduvek mesao stilove, a sa tim cu i da nastavim.

Sest meseci mladji od Elvisa, LaBeef ima staza koliko i svi ostali u sou biznisu. Sleepy je najmladji od desetero dece u familiji (originalno prezime je bilo LaBoeuf, ali su ga promenuli u LaBeff, a Sleepy ga menja u LaBeef). Ziveli su od uzgajanja pamuka i lubenica. U to vreme kao i svi ostali bivaju prinudjeni da prodaju 40 hektara zemlje za samo 300 americkih dolara nekoj naftnoj kompaniji.

Thomas je postao "Sleepy" u prvom razredu zbog karakteristicnih ocnih kapaka koje su mu davale pospan izgled. U cetrnaestoj godini menja svoju .22 pusku za gitaru i pocinje da svira u crkvi. U osamnaestoj, napusta Arkansas i odlazi u Houston u kompaniju za gradnju puteva, gde usput svira u klubovima za 8-9 dolara po noci.

Prosle su 42 godine od kako je Elvis pevao "Blue Moon of Kentucky," cega se LaBeef jos uvek seca. Dok Sun Recors i Sam Phillips u Elvisu cuju verziju bluesa, LaBeef cuje juznjacki Gospel ritam. Ta pesma i dalje poseduju ogromnu snagu i ispunjava narod.

Jos uvek radeci na putevima, LaBeef pocinje da snima obrade, ali i sprijateljuje se sa Pappy Daily (covek zasluzan za otkrivanje George Jonesa) u Del Riou, koji je radio u radio stanici XERF. Posle toga LaBeef pocinje da snima i menja veliki broj izdavaca - Starday, Dixie, Gulf, Crescent, Wayside, Picture i Finn - sve dok nije dobio poziv iz Columbiae i coveka Don Law 1964 godine, koji ga zove da dodje u Nashville. Posle 6 godina i 6 singlova, od kojih niti jedan nije bio hit - LaBeef oflazi u Sun Records, gde mu je bilo dozvoljeno da svira gitaru ponovo, pa cak i da snima Gospel muziku, mada nista od toga nije izdato. Snima 6 pesama sve dok "Blackland Farmer" ne povraca Sunu nesto od ulozenog u Sleepy LaBeefa. Posle snima jos 80 pesama.

U Nashville, tih godina, izdavacke kompanije su pokusavale da kontrolisu citav proces, kaze LaBeef, sto je izazivalo negodivanje kod dosta ljudi. Ali u poslednjih nekoliko godina desavaju se promene i umetnici dobijaju vise prostora za kreativnost.

Sleepy se nastanjuje u Amesbury, Massachuesets, i pocinje ponovo da izgradjuje svoju karijeru. Dve godine nakon incidenta sa autobusom, Sleepy potpisuje ugovor sa Boston Rounder kompanijom, u kojoj je i dan danas, radeci ono sto najbolje zna i snimajuci najbolje stvari zivota.



 
Related Links
· More about Biografije
· News by lontosh


Most read story about Biografije:
Bettie Page

 
Article Rating
Average Score: 4.5
Votes: 2


Please take a second and vote for this article:

Bad
Regular
Good
Very Good
Excellent


 
Options

Printer Friendly Page  Printer Friendly Page

Send to a Friend  Send to a Friend
 



All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 2002 by eurorockabilly
You can syndicate our news using the file backend.php or ultramode.txt
Web site Engine's code is Copyright © 2002 by PHP-Nuke. All Rights Reserved. PHP-Nuke is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL license.