Way Over Yonder

Track Listings

1. Oklahoma Hills
2. Hard Travelin'
3. Blowin' Down the Road
4. Illegal Smile
5. Oklahoma Dust Bowl Blues
6. Dust Pneumonia Blues
7. It's So Very True (I'm Thinking of You)
8. Way Over Yonder (In the Minor Key)
9. Concrete and Barbed Wire
10. I Ain't Got No Home
11. So Long (It's Been Good to Know You)
12. Jesus Shines on You

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
I was born on Woody Guthrie’s birthday in 1951. This event took place in an unair conditioned hospital in Alva, OK, when the temperature was 116F. Also, I was breech and making no sounds or signs of life when being spanked on the buttocks. . . my first Near Death Experience. . . And, although this doesn’t qualify one for paying anywhere near the kinds of dues Woody had to, it certainly must have given me some kind of mystical connection to him, even though I really never came to know of him or his body of work until I was about 21. At this point I was a Woody junky from then on. Consequently, he’s the songwriter most represented in my catalog of material, and the author of seven songs on this CD.

In the early seventies I played in a country-western band as the lead guitar player. And, although I knew I wasn’t a lead player, that was my job. I never considered myself a singer until the mid-to-late seventies when Prof. Bill Koch, The Singing Cowboy, of K-State encouraged me.

I’ve been playing folk music, old country, Woody songs, John Prine, a few pop songs, and a few originals ever since. My playing and vocals and spirit are influenced by blues, rock, bluegrass, and by anything now considered Americana as well.

I’m an English teacher by trade. So doing that and raising two kids sidelined music for most of my life. But along the way I’ve struggled and paid some dues in the school of hard knocks. I’ve worked on farms and ranches most of my life, and in my younger days, hitchhiked around six thousand miles, and fought every fist fight I ever fought until the cops came. Then, somehow, have been divorced more times than I’d like to remember. But, through it all or after it all, as a professional educator have managed to be a good roll model and teacher/coach to thousands of kids.

Recently, with the encouragement of my wife Rebecca, I have been playing music, mostly just me and a couple of guitars, at ice cream freezins, church specials and socials, talent shows, open mics, house parties, festivals, and a few clubs and honky tonks. A friend of ours, John Herron, asked me to come out to his Rekordio recording studio in L. A. to make a record. He only had to mention it twice, and we were California bound! John’s a lifetime, God-gifted professional musician who’s played with nearly everyone you could name in the rock/country/folk scene, esp. rock. His first big band was the Electric Prunes. His most recent world tour was with Johnny Rivers (which nearly killed him--but that’s his story), and his most recent hook up is with Chuck E. Weiss and his work at Rekordio. So, John is a big influence on this record. And, he found exactly the musician friends of his to play the songs exactly as I always heard them in my head when I was playing them alone.

The musicians John got together were world-class and fun to be around as well. Rick Shlosser, the drummer, had a business card that unfolded about 20 times to mention "some" of the people he had played with! Zeke Zirngiebel had put tracks down on Korn’s next CD the day before he did a 360 and played country-folk with me. John’s engineer, Matt Quave, was working for Snoop Dog the weekend he was listening to Way Over Yonder before the final tweaking of it--hence the in-your-face vocals and enhanced bass you get here if your stereo has those capabilities. Greg Sutton had done time with Bob Dylan, and Mark "Pocket" Goldberg, Cody Le Pow, and Teresa James were equally as heavy.

On this CD I played acoustic guitar on every track. I used either a six string Lincoln, 12 string Alvarez, or an electric-acoustic 12 string Talkamine. This record is exactly as I hoped it would be or better. If I could have added anything, it might be my own vocal or guitar overdubs in places, more John Prine, more originals, more bluegrass instruments like dobro, fiddle, mandolin, and banjo; and more old, country style songs. But that might lend itself to my second CD. . .

Album Description
If you like Americana music, this is it. Folk music that rocks. A real and earthy voice up front singing Woody Guthrie songs and more. Hints of country, blues, bluegrass, folk, and rock.

Way Over Yonder, Music, Ron wheeler, If you like Americana music, this is it. Folk music that rocks. A real and earthy voice up front singing Woody Guthrie songs and more. Hints of country, blues, bluegrass, folk, and rock.

Average customer rating:

Vintage Bolling Manufacturer: Milan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, Vol. 2 Bolling: Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio Bolling: Concerto for Guitar & Jazz Piano Trio Claude Bolling: Suite for Cello & Jazz Piano Trio Suite for Chamber Orch and Jazz Piano Trio ASIN: B0000015KK Release Date: 1995-11-21

Tracks:

1. Baroque and Blue
2. Sentimentale
3. Fugace
4. Hispanic Dance
5. Mexicaine
6. Africaine
7. Romance
8. Gavotte
9. Slavonic Dance
10. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans/Do You Know What It Means to Miss ...
11. (Back Home Again In) Indiana

Average customer rating: Marvelous!

Claude Bolling - Cross Over U.S.A. [Milan - BMG] Claude Bolling Manufacturer: Fremeaux & Assoc. Fr ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Strictly Classical Ragtime Bolling & Boogie Bolling: Picnic Suite Bolling: Concerto for Guitar & Jazz Piano Trio Toot Suite ASIN: B000085JDF Release Date: 2003-06-17

Customer Reviews:

Marvelous!.......2005-02-27

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Way over Yonder Reverend Charlie Jackson Manufacturer: St. George Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: God's Got It: The Legendary Booker and Jackson Singles ASIN: B00005YKR8 Release Date: 1997-03-11

Tracks:

1. Wrapped Up
2. Way over Yonder
3. God's Got It
4. Storm of Life
5. Somewhere to Lay My Head
6. Power
7. Something's Got a Hold of Me
8. What a Time
9. I Gave up All I Had
10. You Got to Move
11. Morning Train
12. Man over the River
13. Holy Ghost Boogie

Average customer rating: Good, but by the "She Came Along to Me" ep instead! one gem of two

Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key Billy Bragg , Natalie Merchant , and Wilco Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Urban Folk | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Alternative Folk | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | CD Singles | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000G4ZM Release Date: 1999-01-12

Tracks:

1. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
2. My Thirty Thousand (Non LP Track)

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Customer Reviews:

Good, but by the "She Came Along to Me" ep instead!.......2000-06-09

"My 30,000" is a full-band romp blasting the KKK. Also fun.

I would suggest, though, that you buy the "She Came Along to Me" ep instead because it contains BOTH of the afforementioned songs, PLUS two other tracks:

If you loved both of the "Marmaid Avenue" CDs, then you should get the "She Came Along to Me" ep -- if only for the beautiful accoustic version of "At My Window Sad and Lonely." I wish this version had been on the album instead!

The live version of "California Stars" is alright too, with a different spin taken on the song later on -- more rock instead of folk.

Buy it before it goes out of print.

one gem of two.......1999-12-17

Average customer rating: A great way to keep Woody Guthrie's music alive

Way Over Yonder Ron Wheeler Manufacturer: Ron Wheeler ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000070IVL Release Date: 2002-08-31

Tracks:

1. Oklahoma Hills
2. Hard Travelin'
3. Blowin' Down the Road
4. Illegal Smile
5. Oklahoma Dust Bowl Blues
6. Dust Pneumonia Blues
7. It's So Very True (I'm Thinking of You)
8. Way Over Yonder (In the Minor Key)
9. Concrete and Barbed Wire
10. I Ain't Got No Home
11. So Long (It's Been Good to Know You)
12. Jesus Shines on You

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

A great way to keep Woody Guthrie's music alive.......2002-12-18

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Songs of War and Peace Manufacturer: Skylark ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sibelius | Sibelius, Jean | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tormis | Tormis, Veljo | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Partsongs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003Y2C Release Date: 1999-07-13

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