Dawn Teague -Co-vocals on "Sandals", "Dead End Road", and "The Wandering Cowboy" (the highs and the lows - the voices from way down in the swamps of the Everglades)
Dave W. Joern -guitars, bass
Allen James Teague -piano, keyboards and engineering/mixing
D. E. Murphy -slide guitar on "Moonshine Shadow Blues". D.E. Murphy uses D.R. strings!
"The Wandering Cowboy" was written by my father, Wayne Arthur Joern in 1939 when he was working on the Grand Coulee Dam here in Washington state. I thought it needed to be put to music. You don't mind do you Pa? I wonder if he ever met Woody...
The Allen James Teague Solo Piano CD, "A Poet's Heart" is now available at cdbaby.
Recently one of his piano pieces, “The Light and The Dark” was used for background music in a public television documentary about the pen and ink art of Dennis Karl Joern.
Joy Bond, a Choreographer from the Cumberland Dance Conservatory, set "Tale of the Minstrel" to dance.
Choreographer Megan Abel of Duluth, Minnesota created dances with "Rain and Memories", "Forest", "A Poet's Heart" and "The Light and The Dark".
Delph, a dancer friend in France, produced two improvisational dance videos with "Tale of the Minstrel" and "Sorrow".
A&E channel used another of his compositions, “Birth of a New Day” for a piece about Anna Nicole Smith.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/allenjamesteague
For my adventurous friends, you may check out excerpts from the entire "Blues and Ballads" CD at the Band Website link above.
THE TALE OF THE "SANDALS" SONG
So it came to pass that one day we took off with the two youngest for the Pacific coast on a much deserved vacation and it was hotter than heck in my piece of doggiedoo ford fairmont. We had a great time at seaside and garibaldi, buying a crabbeast right there where it came out from the water, boiling its sorry carcass and feasting, then proceeded to camp there upon the waters edge... the next day it was getting really weird weatherly related, so we bebopped about our business until the day drew to a close, needing to find another place to camp. Then, without even a warning, holy grail, the skies opened up. We set the tent up in a 45 degree angle downpour, almost to the point of finding the answer in the wind! We went off to find food, finding a fine pizza joint not too far off. When we returned the tent was flat smack on the ground, everything inside was soaked so we were les miserables. Morning came as often it did, calmer with a slight drizzle, so we walked down to the beach to remove our foot apparel and dance shoeless in the sand. While this frivolity was transpiring, my sandals had been removed from terra firma and were well on their way, heading west, chasing the sun upon the Pacific Ocean! So thus it happened, my mind conceived a song, and my foots had no clothes!
MY FIRST GUITAR
My first guitar came at about the age of 11 in Kansas City, Mo. We actually lived on 12th Street. But not Vine… When The Beatles came out with “Paperback Writer” I had to have one. It helped a lot that Sir Paul was a lefty. My brain couldn’t make a right-handed guitar work. So I changed the strings around the left way. The guitar was a nameless dark red sunburst cheesecutter that cost all of $15. Pa paid half and I paid half. Brother Dave and I would go down the street to the local church where the pastor taught guitar in the evenings. Fifteen budding rock stars strumming “We were sinking deep in sin” until our fingers bled. “Gloria” and “Wild Thing” seemed so much easier but we couldn’t play those in church. Not that devil stuff! We moved back to Spokane and that poor guitar fell apart. A victim of humidity changes I suspect… I also was one of only five from Manchester Elementary School chosen to sing in the Kansas City All-City Chorus.
I went without a guitar for a year until I bought a Decca hollow body electric with f holes for $36 at Valu-Mart. Now I found after flipping it around that the knobs were on the top, right where my left elbow went. Of course by this time Jimi was playing that upside down Strat. I must be ok I thought, just work around it…
INFLUENCES:
Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Willie, Waylon and the Boys, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, John, Sir Paul, George, Ringo, Stu and Pete, Jimi, Noel and Mitch, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, The Stones, Jade Warrior, Louis Armstrong, Patsy Cline, The Allman Bros., Willie Dixon, Roy Clark, Cream, Bob Marley, Big Mama Thornton, CCR, The Masked Marauders, Son House, Kitty Wells, Little Stevie Wonder, Midnight Oil, Leon Redbone, John Lee Hooker, Tony Bennett, Memphis Slim, The Ramones, The Yardbirds, Blind Willie McTell, Rick Nelson, Robert Johnson, Peter Tosh, Cab Calloway, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Etta James, Rev. Gary Davis, John Mayalls Bluesbreakers, Elmore James, Little Richard, Dennis Day, Johnny Winter, Big Bill Broonzy, Pinetop Perkins, Sons of the Pioneers, Blind Boy Fuller, Carlos Santana, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Canned Heat, Thin Lizzie, ? and the Mysterians, Buddy Guy, The Who, Howlin' Wolf, Sir Elton, Doc and Merle Watson, Joan Baez, Woody, Arlo, Tony Iommi, Motown, Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Clash, The Tragically Hip, Pete Seeger, Bo Diddley, Ritchie Blackmore, Pink Floyd, Mama Cass, Otis Redding, Michael Hedges, Donovan, T-Rex, Alvin Lee, GFR, Leslie West, CSN&Young, Joni Mitchell...
SOUTHPAWS-
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, David Byrne, Glen Campbell, Vicki Carr, Natale Cole, Kurt Cobain, Phil Collins, Billy Corgan, Dick Dale, Don Everly, Phil Everly, Bela Fleck, Glenn Frey, Eric Gale, Errol Garner, Judy Garland, Crystal Gayle, Kevin Griffin, Thomas Hedley, Jimi Hendrix, Isaac Hayes, Tony Iommi, Albert King, Melissa Manchester, Chuck Mangione, Paul McCartney, Christie Marie Melonson, George Michael, Peter Nero, Robert Plant, Cole Porter, Lou Rawls, Johnny Rotten, Rich Szabo, Seal, Ringo Starr, Paul Simon, Tiny Tim, Rudy Valee, Lenny White, Paul Williams, Albrecht Dürer, M.C. Escher, Hans Holbein, Paul Klee, Michelangelo, LeRoy Neiman, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, James A. Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Joan of Arc, Lloque Yapanqui, Ramses II, Tiberius, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Napoléon Bonaparte, Josephine de Beauharnais, King Louis XVI, Queen Victoria, King George II, King George VI, Prince Charles, Prince William, Fidel Castro, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nicole d'Oresme, Henry Ford, David Rockefeller, Dwight F. Davis, Helen Keller, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, August Piccard, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, Wally Schirra, Dr. Mark Silver, Edward R. Murrow, Ted Koppel, Forrest Sawyer, Ray Suarez, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Vin Scully, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Lenny Bruce, Allen Ludden, Joel Hodgson, Wink Martindale, Uri Geller, Richard Simmons, Euell Gibbons, Marie Dionne, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Clarence Darrow, F. Lee Bailey, Melvin Belli, Marcia Clark, Alan Funt, Milt Caniff, Bill Mauldin, Cathy Guisevite, Matt Groening, Jean Plantureux, Pat Oliphand, Ronald Searle, Confederate general N.B. Forrest, John Dillinger, The Boston Strangler, Jack the Ripper, John Wesley Hardin, James Baldwin, Bet Bowen, Peter Benchley, Lewis Carroll, Richard Condon, Jean Genet, Marshall McLuhan, Diane Paul, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Don Adams, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Albert, Tim Allen, June Allyson, Harry Anderson, Amitabh Bachchan, Herschel Bernardi, Robert Blake, Matthew Broderick, Bruce Boxleitner, Carol Burnett, George Burns, Ruth Buzzi, Sid Caesar, Keith Carradine, Khaled Chahrour, Charlie Chaplin, George Gobel, Chuck Conners, Hans Conreid, James Cromwell, Tom Cruise, Quinn Cummings, Daniel Davis, Bruce Davison, Matt Dillon, Marty Engles, Olivia de Havilland, Robert DeNiro, Michael Dorn, Fran Drescher, Richard Dreyfuss, W.C. Fields, Larry Fine, Peter Fonda, Greta Garbo, Terri Garr, Paul Michael Glaser, Whoopie Goldberg, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Peter Graves, Mark Hamill, Rex Harrison, Goldie Hawn, Joey Heatherton, Tippi Hedren, Jim Henson, Rock Hudson, Angelina Jolie, Gabe Kaplan, Danny Kaye, Diane Keaton, George Kennedy, Nicole Kidman, Lisa Kudrow, Michael Landon, Hope Lange, Joey Lawrence, Peter Lawford, Cloris Leachman, Hal Linden, Cleavon Little, Shirley MacLaine, Andrew McCarthy, Kristy McNichol, Steve McQueen, Howie Mandel, Marcel Marceau, Harpo Marx, Marsha Mason, Mary Stuart Masterson, Anne Meara, Sasha Mitchell, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Morse, Anthony Newley, Kim Novak, Ryan O'Neal, Sarah Jessica Parker, Estelle Parsons, Anthony Perkins, Ron Perlman, Luke Perry, Bronson Pinchot, Joe Piscopo, Robert Preston, Michael J. Pollard, Richard Pryor, Robert Redford, Keanu Reeves, Don Rickles, Julia Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Eva Marie Saint, Telly Savalas, Jean Seberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Christian Slater, Dick Smothers, Brent Spiner, Slyvester Stallone, Terence Stamp, Jessica Steen, Rod Steiger, Alan Thicke, Terry Thomas, Emma Thompson, Rip Torn, Peter Ustinov, Brenda Vaccaro, Karen Valentine, Rudy Vallee, Dick Van Dyke, Graham Walker, Wil Wheaton, James Whitmore, Treat Williams, Bruce Willis, William Windom, Oprah Winfrey, Mare Winningham, Joanne Woodward, Keenan Wynn, Stephanie Zimbalist, Greg Louganis, Mark Spitz, Bruce Jenner, Dorothy Hamill, Jimmy Connors, Norman Brookes, Rod Laver, Henri LeConte, John McEnroe, Thomas Muster, Martina Navratilova, Manuel Orantes, Niki Pilic, Renee Richards, Marcello Chino Rios, Monica Seles, Roscoe Tanner, Guillermo Vilas, Whitey Ford, Paul Gibson, Ron Guidry, Al Habrosky, Steve Howe, Bruce Hurst, Carl Hubbell, Randy Johnson, Tommy John, Bob Kipper, Joe Magrane, Greg Swindell, Brady Anderson, Steve Avery, Harold Baines, Barry Bonds, Lou Brock, Brett Butler, Will Clark, Ty Cobb, Adrian Dantley, Lenny Dykstrav, John Franco, Tom Glavine, Lefty Gomez, Leon "Goose" Goslin, Ken Griffey, Jr., Lefty Grove, Tony Gwynn, Rickey Henderson, Kent Hrbek, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Reggie Jackson, David Justice, Wally Joyner, Sandy Koufax, John Kruk, Kenny Lofton, Dave Martinez, Don Mattingly, Jackie Mitchell, Stan Musial, John Olerud, Mel Ott, Rafael Palmeiro, Dan Pasqua, Babe Ruth, Deion Sanders, Warren Spahn, Casey Stengel, Darryl Strawberry, Lou Whitaker, Ted Williams, Fernando Valenzuela...
OTHERS- my son Sam, Wes Torres, Linda Painter, Denny Yasuhara, Lee Knouse, Crazy Horse, Leonardo, Albert Einstein, Hillary Clinton, MLKjr, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Chief Joseph, Vincent Van Gogh, RFK, Freeman Dyson, Rosa Parks, Curly, Moe, Larry and Shemp, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Muir, Babe Ruth, Salvador Dali, Steven Hawking, Ghandi, Calamity Jane, The Marx Bros., Liv Tyler, Sitting Bull, E.A.Poe, Nelson Mandela, Julia Roberts, Jackie Robinson, Neil Armstrong, Eric the Red, Stan and Ollie, Red Cloud, Yoko Ono, Abbie Hoffman, Kitt Carson, Ma & Pa Kettle, Joan of Arc, Claus Oldenberg, JRR Tolkein, Davy Crockett, Robin Williams, Picasso, Cole Younger, Marlene Deitrich, Pres. Jimmy Carter, Robert Frost, Kate Hepburn, Joe Namath, Oliver Cromwell, Humphrey Bogart, MC Escher, Maj. Gen. George Picketts' Virginians, William Wallace, Eleanor Roosevelt...
FILMS- Harvey, Lust for Life, Them, A Hard Days Night, Backbeat, The Sixth Sense, Smoke Signals, Dear Brigitte, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Point, Little Big Man, Caveman, 300, The 300 Spartans, Silent Running, Way Out West, A Shot In The Dark, Giant, Jumanji, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Zoot Suit, Quest for Fire, Transformers, Duck Soup, Enemy Mine, Polar Express, It's a Wonderful Life, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Shane, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, How Green Was My Valley, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, A Night at the Museum, Meet John Doe, The Grapes of Wrath, Fantasia, The Petrified Forest, Rebel Without a Cause, Monkey Business, Outland, Eight Legged Freaks, Animal House, Sergeant York, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Quiet Man, Braveheart, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Battlefield Earth, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Birds, Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Hustler, Ground Hog Day, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Monsters Inc, What Dreams May Come, Pinocchio, The Shakiest Gun in the West, Life of Brian, Goonies, The Commitments, Pollyanna, The Spirit of St. Louis, Pleasantville, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Scrooged, Meatballs, Van Helsing, Follow That Dream, Zathura, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Toy Story, Evolution, That Thing You Do, Metropolis, The Island, Sin City, Citizen Kane, The Vikings, The Postman, Independence Day, Indiana Jones (I,III,IV), The Swiss Family Robinson, Enemy at the Gate, Unforgiven, The Astronaut Farmer, The Sandlot, Me Myself and Irene, Total Recall, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Galaxy Quest, The Rocketeer, Some Like it Hot, The 5th Element, Jason and the Argonauts, Signs, Pride of the Yankees, The Maltese Falcon, The One, The Wizard of Oz, Underworld, Evolution, Back to the Future (I, III), The List of Adrian Messenger, Minority Report, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Mars Attacks!, Kangaroo Jack, King Creole, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Time Bandits, They Died with Their Boots On, Waterworld, Lost Boys, Forrest Gump, Harry Potter (all), AI, ET, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Borrowers, Total Recall, Field of Dreams, Pathfinder, How I Won the War, Casablanca, Before Sunrise, Spartacus, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World...
TUNES- For What it's Worth, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, War Pigs, Masters of War, Girl From the North Country, Working Class Hero, Teach Your Children, Machine Gun, 400 Years, Dust My Broom, Bridge of Sighs, Geronimo's Cadillac, I'd Love to Change the World, Roland the Headless Thomson Gunner, Prodigal Son, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Subdivisions, Lola, Diamonds and Rust, Great White Buffalo, John Barleycorn Must Die, Time Has Come Today, Snowblind Friend, Lonesome Town, Song for Europa, Stand By Me, Pappa was a Rolling Stone, Don't Let Me Down, Sylvia's Mother, Whiter Shade of Pale, You Got Me Floatin', Crazy, Jailbreak, Two of Us, Snowshoe Thompson, Little Red Rooster, Rain on the Scarecrow, Oh Very Young, The Mess, Cottonfields, Gimme Shelter, Detour, Green River, A Love Bizzare, Ballad of a Thin Man, Beware of Darkness, Werewolves of London, Volunteers of America, Darkness Darkness, Simple Man, Alladin Sane, Yer Blues, How Much is that Doggie in the Window?, Third Stone From the Sun, Coal Miners Daughter, Tears of a Clown, Love in Vain, Minnie the Moocher, Pictures of Lilly, Ohio, Goodnight Irene, The Pusher, Little Deuce Coupe, Act Naturally, Shake Rattle and Roll, Graveyard Train, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Duke of Earl, Jackson, Don Quixote, Child of the Moon, Mamas Don't Let your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys, For Emily (Whenever I May Find Her), Ferry Cross the Mersey, Sugar Magnolia, Donna, Angel from Montgomery, Walk on the Wild Side, Love Me Tender, America, Ballad of the Green Berets, Travelin' Man, Grandmas Feather Bed, Wooden Ships, Train Kept a Rollin', Hot Tamales, Time in a Bottle, Bleeker Street, That's Alright Mama, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Let Me Roll it to You, Billie Jean, Love Child, Careful with that Axe Eugene, The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp, The Goon Squad, Your Song, John Sinclair, If 6 was 9, No Expectations, Singin' the Blues, The Boll Weevil, Don Quixote, Maggie McGill, Big Bad John, Little Miss Strange, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Old Man River, The Slider, Hey Bulldog, Tales of Brave Ulysses, The Ballad of Ira Hayes, Sweetleaf, El Paso, Child in Time, The Crossroad Blues, Helter Skelter, Roxanne, Nantucket Sleighride, Voodoo Chile, Black Cat Moan, Walking After Midnight, Lover of the Bayou, The Boxer, Cowgirl in the Sand, Tea for One, Plastic Fantastic Lover, Midnight Rider, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Desolation Row, Spoonful, Madman Across the Water, Message in A Bottle, Mr. Limousine Driver, Pictures of Matchstick Men, Old Brown Shoe, In the Gallery, It Takes a Worried Man, Born on the Bayou, The Heebeegeebee Blues, Under My Wheels, Time Was, Richard Cory, Amanda, Lather, Porterville, Flowers on the Wall, I Am the Walrus, Chains, Don’t Take Your Guns To Town, It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, I am Free, Hot Rod Lincoln, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Your Cheatin’ Heart, Junior’s Farm, The Battle of New Orleans, White Rabbit, Like A Rollin’ Stone, Wild Horses, Journey to the Center of the Mind, The Needle and the Damage Done, Ain’t It A Shame, I’m Eighteen, You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), Ring of Fire, Baba O’Reilly, King Bee, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, White Lightnin’, Goin’ Up the Country, The Ballad of John and Yoko, Tears On My Pillow, Psycho Killer, Love Shack, The Sultans of Swing, I’m Goin’ Home, Jenny Wren, Poem on the Underground Wall, Guinnevere, Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Duece, All Things Must Pass, Maggie’s Farm, For Earth Below, Fairies Wear Boots, The Stomp, Words of Love, Candy Kisses, Jolene, Fortune Teller, Panama Red, Five Feet High and Risin’, Barbara Allen, It’s Only a Northern Song, The D-Day Dodgers, Sittin’ On Top of the World, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Child of Mine, Can’t Go Huntin’ With You Jake, Sentimental Journey, Operator, Wipeout, Rescue Me, Gimme Shelter, I Walk the Line, Lay Down Your Weary Tune, Whiskey in the Jar-O, Cryin’, Woodstock, Big Balls, Mister Sandman, On the Road to Find Out, Shakin’ All Over, Basketball Jones, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, Bohemian Rhapsody, I Fought the Law, The Day They Drove Old Dixie Down, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Be Bop A Lula, Green Onions, Set Me Free, Oh Suzanna, The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice, El Condor Pasa, Terraplane Blues, Have You Seen the Stars Tonight?, Mona, Take the Last Train to Clarksville, Goin’ Up Cripple Creek, Sir Galahad, I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone, Back in Black, Longer Boats, Wooden Indian, Jambalya, Vincent, We Come From The Land Down Under, Heart of Stone, I Am A Rock, At the Hop, Someday Never Comes, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,Stone Free, When I Was Young, I Put a Spell On You, I Heard it Through the Grapevine, Whole Lot Of Rosie, Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On, Everyday, Castles Made Of Sand, An Axe, An Apple and a Buckskin Jacket, Heartaches By the Number, A White Sport Coat, It Was A New Day Yesterday, A Whiter Shade of Pale, Dancing Barefoot, Across the Universe, Ahead By A Century, I Ain’t Got You, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Living in the Material World, All Along the Watchtower, Shelter From the Storm, All My Ex’s Live In Texas, Peggy-O, All the Young Dudes, All’s Quiet on the Eastern Front, Had to Cry Today, Allegheny Moon, Handsome Molly, Among My Souvenirs, A Daisy a Day, Animal Crackers In My Soup, Time of the Season, Are You Experienced?, Frederick, Ashes the Rain and I, At Seventeen, I Love Rock and Roll, At the Hundredth Meridian, Ball and Chain, Be My Lover, Dreams of Milk and Honey, Begin the Beguine, Instant Karma, Belly Button Window, Happy Together, Birth Of The Blues, Little Wing, Black Dog, Black Diamond, Redemption Song, Blitzkrieg Bop, Blue Christmas, Take Me Home Country Roads, Blue Condition, Blue Jean Blues, Song to Woody, Blue Jay Way, Tangled Up In Blue, Watching the Detectives, Blue Moon of Kentucky, Blue Suede Shoes, The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Blue Yodel 10, Sink The Bismarck, Blue Trail of Sorrows, No Quarter, Blue Skies, Born Under a Bad Sign, Wildwood Flower, Smokestack Lightning, Catch the Wind, Call Me the Breeze, Planet Caravan, Caravan to Midnight, Red House, Catfish Blues, Can’t Get No Nookie, Blue Moon, Cold Shot, I Threw It All Away, Chatanooga Choo Choo, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, House of the Rising Sun, Aqualung, When the Music’s Over, It’s Only Rock and Roll, When the Levee Breaks, Welcome in from the Storm, If I Had a Hammer, I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail, Incense and Peppermint, Hello Susan Brown, Sympathy for the Devil, Black Jack Davy, Young Love, Maybeline, Rastaman Vibration, Muddy River, Crazy Arms, Give Peace a Chance, Mama Tried, Beautiful Dreamer, In the Year 2525, Cover of the Rolling Stone, Walk on By, Cry for a Shadow, The Tennessee Waltz, Black Mountain Rag, Dazed and Confused, Chapel of Love, Battle Hymn of the Republic, King of the Road, Welcome to My Nightmare, I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo, Tangerine, Salt Creek, Photographs and Memories, San Francisco Bay Blues, The Wild Side of Life, Eve of Destuction, Hello Walls, I Shot the Sheriff, Paranoid, Hey Good Lookin’, Memphis, That Old Black Magic, Power to the People, 500 Miles, Hello Mary Lou, Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay, Spooky, As Time Goes By, Willie and the Hand Jive, Rock Island Line, I’m a Believer, Hi De Ho, In the Jailhouse Now, Twilight Time, For Your Love, 16 Candles, Deportee, Rock Around the Clock, White Room, It Wasn’t God who Made Honky Tonky Angels, Roll Over Beethoven, Just Dropped In (to see what condition my condition was in), I Got Stripes, Dolly Dagger, Honky Tonk Women, Me and My Arrow, La Bamba, War, Dance the Night Away, Sixteen Tons, Pretty Woman, Our House, Stoned, Let the Good Times Roll, Someone’s in the Kitchen With Dinah, Welcome to the Machine, Tired of Waitin’, Moon River, Tom Dooley, Now That The Buffalo's Gone, Both Sides Now, Early Morning Rain, Violets of Dawn, Hey Joe, Thirsty Boots, There But for Fortune, This Little Light of Mine, Shuffle Off To Buffalo, We Shall Overcome, Talking Vietnam Blues, Draft Dodger Rag, Walk Right In, The Sound of Silence, Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation, Alice's Restaurant, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol, Mothers Little Helper, Bang Your Head, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Cowboy Song, This Land is Your Land, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Oh Freedom, Buffalo Skinners, 1913 Massacre, Talking Dustbowl Blues, Dark as a Dungeon, Monterey, Blowin’ In The Wind, Because the Night, Visions of Johanna, Song For A Dreamer, Well Alright, Conquistador, Wang Dang Doodle, Gallows Pole, Six Days On The Road, Bad to the Bone, Like Dreamers Do, Boris the Spider, Crazy on You, Summertime Blues, Love Potion 9, Mack the Knife, Behind Blue Eyes, Maybe I’m Amazed, Peace Train, Magic Man, Love is the Drug, Joe's Garage, Cold Turkey, Night of a Thousand Dances, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Dreamboat Annie, The End, That'll Be the Day...
ALBUMS-
*Robert Johnson- King of the Delta Blues- Complete Recordings
*The Beatles- Live at the BBC- Meet the Beatles- With the Beatles- Beatles '65- Beatles for Sale- Please Please Me- Beatles VI- Yesterday and Today- A Hard Days Night- Help- Yellow Submarine- The White Album- Let it Be- Revolver- Rubber Soul- Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band- Magical Mystery Tour- Hey Jude- Abbey Road
*Spooky Tooth- The Last Puff
*The Masked Marauders
*U2- War- Joshua Tree- Auchtung Baby- Unforgettable Fire- How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb- Boy
*JJ Cale- Roll On- Naturally- Troubadour- Anyway the Wind Blows- Okie
*Marty Robbins- Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs- El Paso
*Johnny Horton- Johnny Horton Makes History- Louisiana Hayride- Take Me Like I Am
*Jade Warrior- Last Autumn's Dream- Way of the Sun- Floating World- At Peace
*Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced- Axis Bold as Love- Electric Ladyland- Band of Gypsies- The Cry of Love- Loose Ends
*AC/DC- Back in Black- For Those About to Rock- Highway to Hell- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap- Who Made Who- tnt- Fly on the Wall
*Doc Watson- Southbound- Memories- Home Again- Treasures Untold
*Cat Stevens- Mona Bone Jakon- Tea for the Tillerman- Teaser and the Firecat- Buddha and the Chocolate Box- Numbers
*The Who- Live at Leeds- Whos Next- The Who Sell Out- Tommy- Quadrophenia
*The Rolling Stones- Let it Bleed- 12x5- Aftermath- Beggars Banquet- Exile on Main Street- Sticky Fingers- Get Your Ya Yas Out- Through the Past Darkly- Flowers- Some Girls
*Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs- For Earth Below- Twice Removed From Yesterday- In City Dreams- Victims of the Fury- Caravan to Midnight
*Bob Dylan- Nashville Skyline- Highway 61 Revisited- Blonde on Blonde- Good as I Been to You- Blood on the Tracks- Self Portrait
*Neil Young- Harvest- Harvest Moon- Everybody Knows this is Nowhere- Decade- Unpugged- Living With War
*Led Zeppelin- I- II- III- Runes- Houses of the Holy- Physical Graffiti- Coda
*Janis Joplin- Cheap Thrills- Pearl
*Johnny Winter- Guitar Slinger- Saints and Sinners
*Pink Floyd- Meddle- Saucerful of Secrets- Ummagumma- Echos- Animals- The Wall
*Blind Willie McTell- King of the Atlanta Twelve String
*CSN&Y- Deja Vu- Carry On- Looking Forward- 4 Way Street
*James Gang- Rides Again
*Ten Years After- Cricklewood Green- SHHH- A Space in Time
*The Grateful Dead- American Beauty- Workingmans Dead- Skeletons From the Closet- Reckoning
*Black Oak Arkansas- Keep the Faith- Hot and Nasty
*Elmore James- Whose Muddy Shoes- Blues After Hours- Dust My Broom- The Sky is Crying- Shake Your Money Maker- Rollin' and Tumblin'
*Jethro Tull- Aqualung
*Jefferson Airplane- Bless Their Pointed Little Heads- Volunteers
*Michael Hedges- Oracle- Taproot- Aerial Boundaries- Breakfast in the Field- Strings of Steel- Torched- Live on a Double Planet
*Moody Blues- On the Threshold of a Dream- Days of Future Passed- Every Good Boy Deserves Favor- In Search of the Lost Chord- Seventh Sojourn
*Fleetwood Mac- Kiln House- Bare Trees- Rumours- Tusk
*Prince- Purple Rain
*Deep Purple- In Rock- Machinehead
*The Allman Brothers- Eat a Peach- At Fillmore East
*The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
*Santana- Abraxas
*Steppenwolf- Monster- Magic Carpet Ride- Born to be Wild
*Blind Faith
*Black Sabbath- Master of Reality- Paranoid
*Johnny Cash- at Folsom Prison- at San Quentin- Now Here's Johnny Cash- Man in Black- Hurt
*Simon and Garfunkel- Wednesday Morning at 3am- Old Friends- Sounds of Silence- Bookends- Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme- Bridge Over Troubled Water
*John Lennon- Plastic Ono Band- Mind Games- Imagine- Rock and Roll
*George Harrison- Wonderwall- All Things Must Pass- Cloud Nine- Dark Horse- Let it Roll- Living in the Material World- The Concert for Bangla Desh- 33 1/3
*Paul McCartney- McCartney- Ram- Wings Wild Life- Flaming Pie- Memory Almost Full
*John Mayall- A Hard Road- Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton- Back to the Roots
*The Doors- Morrison Hotel- LA Woman
*T-Rex- Electric Warrior- The Slider- Tanx- Bang a Gong- 20th Century Boy
*ZZ Top- Tres Hombres- Tejas- One Foot in the Blues- Eliminator- Fandango
ART SHOWS/GALLERIES (Past & Present)
SFCC Student Show- Eastern Washington State University- 1978- Cheney, WA
One Person Show- The Galleria/Riverfront Park 1978- Spokane, WA
Designer Show- SFCC Fine Arts Gallery 1978- Spokane, WA
Carnegie Art Center Show 1978- Walla Walla, WA
J. Harken/Meyers Gallery- Spokane, WA
The Snowgoose Gallery- Spokane, WA
Two Person Show- Daults Paint Palette- 1978- Spokane, WA
Ruth Mayer Gallery- Laguna Beach, CA
Second Street Gallery- Santa Monica, CA
One Person Show- 1, 2, 3, Arts- 1985- Spokane, WA
Best Black & White Of Show- Westercon '90- Seattle, WA
Quicksilver Fantasies- 1990-1992- Post Falls, ID
Cheney Cowles Museum Sampler- 1993- Spokane, WA
Cheney Cowles Museum- Works From the Heart- 1993- Spokane, WA
Colburns Gallery- Spokane, WA
Cheney Cowles Museum Sampler- 1994- Spokane, WA
Cheney Cowles Museum- Works From the Heart- 1994- Spokane, WA
Cheney Cowles Museum- Works From the Heart- 1996- Spokane, WA
Ra-Tels- 1997- Spokane, WA
Pend Oreille Artists Regional Show- 1999- Metaline Falls, WA
CREATE Art Auction 2000- Newport, WA
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2001- Spokane, WA
Panida Theater, three artist collaboration: May 2001- Sandpoint, ID
Allen James Teague, solo piano concert
Photography by Dave Joern
And my Pen and ink drawings and paintings
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2002- Spokane, WA
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2004- Spokane, WA
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2005- Spokane, WA
Museum of Arts and Culture- Works From the Heart- 2006- Spokane, WA
ALBUM COVER
My drawing, The Sidewalk Cafe was used by Richard Elliot for his debut album titled Trolltown. Including such gems as Until You Come Back To Me, Ducks From Mars, Stankfoot, and Trolltown. Album design by Brian Ayuso. Intima Records CDE-73233.
MAGAZINE
Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph pen advertisement that ran in various major art publications.
TELEVISION
2005- PBS episode of Northwest Profiles featuring my drawings, and soundtrack excerpts of a solo piano composition by Allen James Teague of "The Light and the Dark" and "Blues for Afghanistan" by Mad Mama Moon
Original Works included in Private Collections:
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Laguna Beach, Atwater, Mill Valley, Midpines, Venice, Yosemite, Santa Monica, CA
Seattle, Spokane, Newport, WA
Portland, OR
Portland, MA
Atlanta, GA
Jackson, MS
Galveston, Houston, TX
St. Vincent, Redwood Falls, Babbitt, MN
Kansas City, MO
New Orleans, LA
New York, NY...
Bali
Zandvoort, Netherlands
Sounds Like
Something for the Singalongers...
“DEADEND ROAD”
Don’t wanna go down, this deadend road,
Because this road goes on and on
And if you go down, this deadend road,
You will not want to, go there no more.
This deadend road, it never ends,
It never has, since time began,
you cannot look back, where you just been,
This road moves on, it does not bend.
Now time will tell, of you who go there,
Your names are wrote where, only mothers care,
With all your trials, and scars to bear,
Is there a way out, anywhere?
This deadend road goes, forever on,
And those who go are, forever gone,
The days are cold, the nights are long,
And all you hear are, mournful songs.
Down deadend road, you know the score,
And those who go don’t, know just what for,
The young and old, come back no more,
Down deadend road is, the road to war!
Down deadend road is, the road to war!
Paper Size: 14.5"x22"
Image Size: 13"x20.5"
Paper: Fabriano CMF Etching
Act LII: Scene C... On the Solar Wind
Along about this time Brether Grissom C. Luthier came looking for some answers to a lot of trivial injustice being at this time directed at all who would have their say...
And thus withdrawing from all who would stand in his way. Developing a sense of oneness with universal contentment. Bisected and disected, parallel to finite wisdom. Setting out to be unbothered by such events Brether Grissom quested for perfect ways of existence, knowing that man is not made for perfection. This was his job. To seek and understand this then one could put quite a different label on the pathetic workings of the feudal classes. Being the smartest animal in the jungle is not all it’s cracked up to be. So why not take a little time off? To seek out other places within ones self until a point of unity is achieved?
“Then there are those who believe that there is life on other worlds!!! I cannot think such thoughts! Why, there’s jails for such thinking! Stars are in the night sky to marvel at. Then they go away in the day so we can go on unencumbered by such craziness as we do our work. To think they are suns like ours! They are indeed just holes poked in a big black tapestry with the light of day behind it, so we can sleep soundly and rejuvinate! And be back to work in the morning. Day after day! To believe that ellians take voyages across the void in machines! Why, there can’t be life beyond the cradle of this World! Can there? Would they be monsters with four legs and two heads, or barbarians with three legs and five heads?” “I seen them in the outlawed books, down by the river on the other side of the tracks, once when I got lost, and got a big reward for turning the scumwriters in!” these things Brether Grissom pondered at the risk of being caught and arrested.
But nobody noticed and the world continued its solitary path across the universe, carrying with it what remains of its dwindling supplies of natural resources. Nobody cared, nobody stood up and voiced an approval, an applause for all of the wonders stetched out before it...into infinity, into the womb of creation... Until the day his worst nightmares came true, in cigar shaped saucers with windows and confetti!
“Oh shite,” he said grasping hisself all about.
ThE eNd
My FiRsT rEcOrD aLbUm
Ma bought me my first record album while we lived (for three and a half years) in Frankfurt, Germany, From the age of five to eight and a half. Pa was in the US Army intelligence. The album was “Johnny Horton Makes History”. We marched around the couch re-enacting the Battle of New Orleans with our wooden guns and swords singing with great enthusiasm for weeks! I still have that album.
There was a dinner club on base called The Topper Club where we were taken to hear cowboy bands touring from the states. I was too young to recall anyone specific other than Tommy Cash and his band. I would present my slip of paper and they played my requests. What else? Johnny Horton of course!
We also listened to a radio station out of Belgium that played the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Little Richard and the rest from the beginning of the era. It was on late so brother Dave and I would listen under the covers. We got whooped with the belt pretty good a few times…
View from our window at 2250 B-8 Von Steuben Street, Frankfurt, Germany
ThE fIrSt BrUsH wItH tHe LaW
Dave, I and our friends would wander from our housing complex in Frankfurt, to a place that had a stream of some kind and railroad tracks. On one occasion we were putting flowers, coins and plastic army men on the tracks to see how flat they would get. Once, we were nabbed by some local passers by who took us to the nearby police station and told them that we had put rocks on the tracks trying to derail the train. We sat for hours while Dave, being learned in rudimentary German, tried to explain the truth. The MPs (military police) came and took us home in the back of the Jeep where we saw Ma handing the officer some money and the folks never brought the subject up again. We never saw those friends again. But, we had become quite famous throughout the complex. Marked for life we were!
ThE sLiDe ShOw The slide show below contains a whole bunch of my pen and ink drawings for your amusement, each of which can take near three hundred hours to complete... obviously they are also in the pics section for slower viewing, and little short stories are being added slowly but surely up yonder in the blog section that go with them...
SoMe AnCeStOrS/rElAtIvEs Richard Warren came to North America from England on the Mayflower in 1620... his wife and five daughters came in 1623. Richard and Elizabeth subsequently had sons Nathaniel and Joseph at Plymouth. About his death Nathaniel Morton's 1669 book New England's Memorial, stated: "This year died Mr. Richard Warren, who was an useful instrument and during his life bare a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth."
Great Great Grandfather Hole-in-the-Day. Chippewa. White Earth, Minnesota... "He was a man of distinguished appearance and native courtliness of manner. His voice was musical and magnetic, and with these qualities he had a subtle brain, a logical mind, and quite a remarkable gift of oratory." Reverend Claude H. Beaulieu
William Whipple Warren (1825-1853) author of "History of the Ojibway People". First published in 1885... Born in LaPointe, Minnesota. In 1842 he married Matilda Aiken and moved to Crow Wing, Minnesota. His career includes a seat on Minnesota State Legislature, and writer for The Minnesota Democrat.
Great Grandfather Hans G. Peterson came to North America from Oslo, Norway sometime in the latter 19th century.
Grandfather Arthur August Joern played a horn in the Ogema Concert Band in Minnesota. (bottom right of photo)
Grandpa "Pete" George I. Peterson was gassed and had several fingers shot off during WWI in France. He survived. (photo-Grandpa as Santa with Dave)... Grandpa Pete would stick a shot off finger stub up to his eye socket and say, "could you help me pull this out!" (cause it looked like half his finger was inside his head), and we would all scream and run away. It always made him chuckle and laugh.
My uncle Claire Peterson of the 101st Airborne was killed in WWII during the Battle of the Bulge on 12.19.1944.(second photo in Belgium)
Ulysses S. Grant, Commander of the Union forces during the latter part of the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States... FDR asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Grandma Moses, American primitive artist... Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses was known for her prolific output and kindly, country persona.
Alan B. Shepard, first American in space and fifth man on the moon
“Upside Down” Clyde Edward Pangborn (WWI pilot, barnstormer) along with Hugh Herndon, Jr. were the first to fly non-stop across the Pacific, from Japan to Washington State in 1931. He was also a pilot for the Ferry Command, flying new war planes from Canada to England over the North Atlantic during WWII...
LeTtEr Of ThE WeEk: Zz
Tongue Twisting Tales:
An aloof allied ace aviator's aeroplane ascends aloft as an ant alights atop an A, all above an articulate African aardvark asking an Australian apple about Amsterdam's audacious artists.
Bravehearted bowlegged Bavarian biker Bernard Bostwick's buzzing bumble bee breezed by Bradley Brown's bent blueberry bushes before Bertha Bartolli's bathtub basketed balloon burst.
Cathy Carter cannot catch Charlie Connover's crazy cantankerous cat called Castro. Chromed Chevrolet cars cruise crumbling Celtic castles. Creeping chartreuse caterpillars create colorful cocoons.
Death defying Darwinian Dutch dwarves dangling deadly daggers deceptively dodge descending darts. Delirious dollar deflating dinosaurs dine deliciously, developing disgusting dino droppings.
Rabble rousing ragtime records respectfully regard rambunctious rampaging rabbits. Rare red ruby rings ring Ronald River's receptionists round right ringfinger. Riveted rockets reconnoiter remote Russian realms.
Saturn's shining sun shades several slippery southern slopes. Swedish stars silently send six sided snowflakes skyward. Spider swatting Sultans salivatingly sip saloon served screwdrivers.
Two tall tamarack trees tasked Toby Tyler to test the television truck's thirteen trillionth telescope transmission to Tasmania. The twisted tusked terrestrial tasted the trampled top tundra today.
Warmhearted westerly wandering Welsh wizards wish wistful wishes with wands within watery wishing wells. Wristwatch winding Walt Whitman writes wonderfully wise words while winter wines warm. We writhe when weatherworn windows witness wilted weeping willows waggle.
fine and safe holiday to you and yours dennis. i'm looking at a sweet potato pie that's screamin my name! these things taste great with a pumpkin spice latte. peace my friend. glenn
Dear Dennis Joern, It's after Halloween and the busy holidays are approaching. Take a break and drop by to listen to my featured songs. You may find my music to be just the calm you need during this hectic time of the year. I appreciate your friendship and I hope you enjoy the music. I wish you much joy and peace.
Dennis, Well buddy, it's that time. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with all the fixin's. Eat a lot and laugh a lot. Just hope you can get that acoustic up to your belly afterwards! Luv ya bud~ Les
Welcome, congratulations for your Songs and Drawnings! Please, check out my profile, listen to my music (and lyrics...) and make comments. Peace and love from Brazil.
hi, very nice music on your page.... you gotta listen to my myspace song with the great gypsy guitarist lollo meier its marvellous!!!!!!!!!!!! :)) ulrike
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