I would like to thank Puffy Dan Walters, Flip Dickerson, Brandon Wayne Akins, and Marvin Hopkins for believing the songs enough to record them for this tribute album. These musicians are good people but they've still got a long way to go in my book.
There's a few old songs on this and some newer ones. They didn't sing em as good as I would have but they sure tried. I can't really undestand their vocals all the time and the drums are mixed to quite but it's all right I guess. You get what you pay for. Thanks anyway though.
I wish I wadent barred from re-recording them myself due to contractual obligations and laringitis. I wish the original master recordings I did for Columbus records back in the heyday of the 60s, 70s, and 80s wouldn't have gone out of print and burnt up in a mobile home park fire.
I know there's better songwriters out there than me but I just always wrote as real as I can.
Gary
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Charlie Daniels, Bellamy Brothers, Hank Jr., John Conlee, Gary Floater
If you ask Gary Floater what keeps him going after surviving the inevitable ups and downs of four decades of the entertainment business and after influencing three generations of country artists with his honest and bleary-eyed songwriting, he'll tell you: it started out all for the money.
And just when he seemed to be in reach of the financial decadence he'd always dreamed about - at the age of 25 - his financial prospects deteriorated after a string of ill-advised televised comments and international marriages that kept Gary from returning to the country of his birth.
Maybe it was due to lingering embarrassment over his late night televised falling-out with Telly Savalas. Maybe the distance from the red dirt of his Missouri home snuffed Gary's creative spark. Whatever the reason, from 1983 to 1993, during ten years, Gary wrote only two songs, "Grandpa's Promise" and "A Whole Lot Further To Fall."
When he was penniless and stranded in the Netherlands, selling fruit to Dutch businessmen in the subway stations of Amsterdam, that's when the songwriting began again. And that's when it became all about the music.
If you told the scruffy haired young man who grew up near in Miami, Missouri that he would write hit songs one day that inspired hundreds to sing along, to tunes like "That's When the Eagle Screams" and "It's High Time This Old Cowboy Quit Getting So Goldanged High," he wouldn't have believed you.
But he did. He's been to hell and back.
For the money. For the music. And for you - the fans.
Ten years since his last major label release, a group of artists who have been moved by Gary's works have joined together in a big public thank you to a man who made country music and did it his way.
Come on up to Canadiana and I'll rain on your parade Gary with a can of wup ass floater you little skinny shit if that is what your real name is...and your not holed up in some arshole's garage in San Marcos laughing at yourself..... 30 pounds of angry eagle...shit I eat that with nails for breakfast...try humping a 3000 pound moose every day, now that is some tough shit on the run....hee yaa, I will kick your grandpa's rootin tootin" lasso looping pop gun shooting dead ass too if I ever hear the sound of the frikking dulicmer again...who tells their momma to get in the truck anyways...come on man...y'all get some heart...
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I just heard a rumour that the Floater reserved himself a room in Amsterdam for a few days. I'm wondering if customs will allow him to enter the country after the whole pot and puke dissaster that took place in 1967 in an Amsterdam brothel. Those working girls had to scrub themselves for 3 weeks and they still smelled like shit!
I'll keep my eyes open riding my bike through the canals for the next few days and look out for drunks in cowboyhats!
Troy Campbell and Collection Agency Films screens new Gary Floater video @ Salvage Vanguard Theater, Manor Road, Austin on Sunday July 26th at 6pm More info @ www.salvagevanguard.org/
thanks for the great tunes Gary, your spirit lives on at every house party I have, my mother says your the sexiest man she never slept with.. I hope to open for you one day in her honor, your my inspiration..
Tuesday April 28, 2009 7:00 - 8:00PM - - Gary Floater, Adam Carroll, Owen Temple Live Radio Show @ Radio Free Texas San Antonio, Texas US www.radiofreetexas.org www.garyfloater.com
Adam Carroll, Jason Eady, Owen Temple Special Guest Gary Floater @ Clubhouse Concerts Acoustic Series Upstairs at The White Elephant Ft. Worth Stockyards, 108 E. Exchange Ft. Worth, Texas
How did you like seeing me again after 25 years at the cd release party? It brought me back to memorylane when we used to fool around in the back of your old pickup truck behind the church bushes. I introduced you to my son Flo and was wondering whether you noticed he has your nose. Any chance you can give me some money for having to deal with raising him all by myself? His years as a kid where not that bad actually but having to pay for all his rehab clinics killed me financially. So when are you gonna do what a hero like you is supposed to do? XXXOOO's, Poodle-Lynn
Hey Gary...just because we're now myspace "friends" don't mean I forgot about the $100 you owe me from that show in Gun Barrel City. And just because I find your music "inspirational" don't mean I forgot about the time in Houston when you punched my momma. I do still love you, though.
I would like to thank you for all your great music. It was very comforting to my nana Emma jo in the difficult time she went through after she lost her third chiuahua muffy. Muffy was really special to her. He was a hero in his own way that unfortunatly didn't learn. His ole hart just gave up on him after taking a piss against that electrical fence for the third time. That dog sure hated that nuclear power plant. We played A hero never learns at his funeral and everyone hummed along. Thank you Gary. Float on...
You know Gary, I love the fact that everyone around you is helpin' you out, and I'm ecstatic that the tribute record has finally saw the light of day, BUT, I'm gettin' real pissed about that gig in Big Bone Lick, KY where you kept the money and drove outta there without us. You OWE ME $35.00 and I damn well better see it soon dude, or, I'm gonna punch your cherished 1978 Hondo 6 string right straight in the mouth..........
I had it cranked up while haulin' a truckload of string beans to Utah and wasn't payin' much attention. Then I heard something hit the grill of my rig. Apparently Eagles scream at the point of impact too...
