A stellar line-up of musicians lead by renowned guitar player Jimmy Colvard and produced by the legendary Porter Wagoner! Engineered by multi-Grammy winner Tom Pick!
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IN MEMORY OF MY NEPHEW MICHAEL LIPS: REST IN PEACE BEAUTIFUL MIND!
The Interview with God
ROBBIE ROBERTSON'S MUSIC FOR NATIVE AMERICANS...GHOST DANCE
MY MISSISSIPPI MY HOME!
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Here are the three Gold and three Platinum Certified RIAA Plaques awarded by Dolly Parton's Velvet Apple Publishing Company for sales in excess of 18,000,000 copies of the Buck Ram produced CD titled "Headin' Home" by the pop group The Platters!
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HOWARD LIPS' MISSISSIPPI SWAMPLAND!
Influences
The Mississippi musician says that music has always been a very dominate part of his life, even from his mother's womb. Lips was born just before WWII ended and the big band jazz hits played on the radio as his future father Howard, Sr. and mother "courted." His dad was a WWII soldier and a jazz and pop singer who would sing to Catherine (his mother) during their six-week whirl-wind love affair before they were married. After they were married, Howard was conceived on their honeymoon according to their reckoning. He was born nine months later, but his twin sister was still-born. Lips says his dad was a crooner, so Howard's dad continued to sing jazz songs to his mama and him during the nine months before he was born. His destiny was set. The first seven years of this future musician's life was spent on his grandpa’s farm located in Forrest County, just outside the Hattiesburg, Ms. city limits. His maternal grandpa loved country and popular music, and he heard Slim Harpo sing “Raining In My Heart” for the first time while he was riding in his grandpa’s pickup truck. That primitive basic root music became the foundation of his music. The veteran artist says it was his grandmother’s love of gospel music, his grandfather’s love for country and blues music, and his daddy’s love of jazz and pop that set his musical interests at an early age. While Lips grew up in the rich musical environment of the Methodist Church and his daddy's Evangelical approach to Gospel Music, Howard was immersed in classical training first on the violin and then on the piano for a period of six years before rock and roll spoiled his classical career. Suddenly, a young man named Elvis Presley from Tupelo, Ms. burst on the scene and produced a change in Howard Lips and the world. The singer-song writer says he was hooked, and he became passionately obsessed with learning the top-40 tunes of the day on the piano instead of practicng his classical disciplines. Lips says that he poored himself into learning popular songs by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, The Everley Brothers, Little Richard, The Coasters, Sam Cook, and many more. As popular music changed, Lips learned the latest hits and played the coffee house circuit. Eventually, he found his way to California where he met Richey Fury, Jim Messina, Gordon Lightfoot, and Roger Miller at Doug Weston's Troubadour in Hollywood. It was this ironic twist of fate that set his feet toward Nashville. The Mississippi country-rocker was dumbfounded when he learned, while working as custodian of the Troubadour, that the former members of Buffalo Springfield were huge George Jones fans! The seed was planted, and Lips eventually found his way to Music City where he crashed headlong into the music scene. It was through the Joe Taylar Artists Agency that Lips was introduced to Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton at the height of their recording career. He served a five year apprenticship with Owepar Publishing learning the publishing and music production business with Porter Wagoner and multi-Grammy winning engineer and producer Tom Pick.
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MULTI-GRAMMY WINNER, ENGINEER AND PRODUCER, TOM PICK
WILLIE NELSON AND BOB DYLAN
Sounds Like
You take the root, which is folk, mix heavily with jazz, gospel, blues, and blue grass, and you get Howard Lips' Real American Country!
WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT HOWARD LIPS DOES READ HIS MESSAGES AND COMMENTS, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT HIS BUSY SCHEDULE DOES NOT PERMIT HIM TO ANSWER EVERY MESSAGE AND COMMENT PERSONALLY. BE ASSURED THAT WE WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO GET YOUR MESSAGE TO HIM! THE WEBMASTER
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"At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity."
From: Of Time and the River written by Thomas Wolfe
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THANKS TO MY FANS, WE HAVE TWO NUMBER ONES ON REVERBNATION!
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LAKOTA PRAYER
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Wakan Tonka, Great Mystery, teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessings of my spirit. Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my Sacred Space and love beyond my fear, and thus Walk in balance with the passing of every glorious Sun!
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According to the Native People, the Sacred Space is the space between exhalation and inhalation. To Walk in Balance is to have Heaven (spirituality)
and Earth (physicality) in Harmony!
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It was late 1972 when Howard Lips blew into Music City from Lexington, Ky., where he had been playing at O'Keef's Jazz Bar. A Lexingtion fan had told Lips about his friend Joe Taylor who was a big-time publisher, manager, and booking agent for some of Nashville's biggest stars. The connection was immediate with Taylor, and it was while he was serving as a staff writer for Joe Taylor Publishing that Lips met and jammed with various other songwriters who stopped by. One day country comedian and singer Jackie Ward gave him some lyrics. He said, "Man if you can do anything with these lines, go ahead and use them."
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The song became "Don't Forget To Add My Name," a song that Elvis Presley's producer, Felton Jarvis placed on hold for Elvis's next session. The King died before that fateful day, but the song is part of the "Real American Country" Masters Sessions to be released May 2009.
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Howard Lips says that he has been fortunate to have worked with or appeared with some of Pop and Country Music's top recording artists and Hollywood actors over a long period of dues-paying. From Roger Miller, Gordon Lightfoot, and Richy Fury, Jim Missina, and Poco at the Troubadour in Hollywood, California to appearing with the Exiles and the Calvade of Stars at Lips' after-hours club called Operation Deepfreeze in Lexington, Ky., Lips worked a solo act until he met John "Blass" Lindsey. Lindsey had played with Jimmy Reed in his early years, and he was a member of the original Robert Phillips' Houserockers from Franklin, Ky.
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It was through his collaboration with "Blass" that Lips met and played with Billy Davis and Maralyn McCoo at the 1980 Kentucky Derby. Lips also worked the horse farm circuit playing private parties with The Blass Blues Band.
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In Nashville, Lips connected with James "Bo" Bohon ('Ol Red) at Joe Taylor Artist Agency, where he and "Bo" forged a working friendship and collaboration which has produced two Gold and multi-platinum songs that were recorded by the Platters. It was through "Bo" that Lips met and jammed with John Anderson, Wild Bill Emmerson, The Platters and Buck Ram, Jerry Taylor, Jim Vest and the Nashville Cats, Johnny Rodrigez, Bobby Borchers, Mack Vickory, and David Allen Coe.
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Joe Taylor introduced Lips to his first producer, Don Chapman("THE CHAPMAN REPORT," SYNDICATED RADIO PERSONALITY FROM CHICAGO), who introduced him to Christy Lane, Lee Stoller, Fred Newell, and Jimmy Colvard. Colvard became a major force in the singer-songwriter's personal life and music career as the band leader and moving force in Lips' early career. The first meeting with Colvard was "electric," according to Lips, "I just started playing one of my origianl tunes, and Colvard joined right in as if he knew the song!" According to Lips, the bond was immediate and everlasting, and it produced the first sessions that led to everything else from that day forward.
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Colvard's production company was composed of some of the "original outlaws," and it was called Mollyfu Productions. These "Muthers..." were six of the greatest session hit-makers of the day! Session leader, Jimmy Colvard (renowed guitarist on over 600 number one records, including Dave Dudley's "Six Days On The Road" and all of Porter and Dolly's number ones), Joe Allen (who wrote "Is Anyone Going To San Antone?") on bass, Bobby Thompson (Jim and Jesse and Hew Haw band member) on banjo and rhythm guitar, Tony Migliero on piano, Mark Morris drums and percussion, and Hal Rugg on pedal steel (Dave Dudley and Loretta Lynn).
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Colvard personally took the sessions to Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, and they immediately took a special interest in the Mississippi musician.
After Lips signed with Porter and Dolly's Owepar Publishing Company, the singer-songwriter says he was put on the fast-track to country music stardom; or so it seemed at the time. Suddenly, Lips had his first major cut when Porter and Dolly recorded "Twin Mounds Of Clay," he contributed background rhythms to their final album, met Tom Pick, Roy Shockley, and Chet Atkins all in the same day at RCA Studio "B!"
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It was shortly after the RCA session that Lips was introduced by Ralph Emory as Porter Wagoner's "Discovery of the Week" on Pop Goes The Country, the long-running syndicated show featuring pop-country acts, where he met country-pop star Sonny James, who was the special guest for that show.
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It was also during this time that Lips became part of the RCA roster briefly before Chet Atkins was replaced by Joe Galante. After Porter and Dolly lost their deal and broke up, Lips signed with Reggie Churchwell's Nashville International Phoenix Label for a short time, appeared as an extra in the Burt Reynolds movie "W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings," completed the soundtrack for an unreleased movie starring Tammy Wynette and George Jones titled "The Witch of Hominy Hill," made guest appearances at the Grand Ole Opry with Porter Wagoner, Minnie Pearl, James Brown, and Roy Acuff, opened for an Andre' Crouch Tour, wrote music and produced Independent Projects througout his long collaboration with Tom Pick.
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Lips says it is important to note that his musical journey has played an equal part in a long Spiritual Quest that began in his father's Methodist Holiness tradition when he was a boy learning classical piano. While seeking his Liberal Arts Degree at the University of Southern Mississippi, Lips discovered the Mystical Religions of the world. That experience led to a major emphasis in Philosophy and Religion as the young student pursued ordination in the Methodist Church.
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After years of struggling with his musical interests and the "call" of the Church on his mind, Lips took an African American Spirituality course in his last year in Memphis Theological Seminary. That course changed the singer-songwriter's Spiritual Paradigm when he discovered the African paradigm to be compatible with his own Native American Spirituality. Although Lips had experimented with various psycho-tropic substances over the years, he had never connected it to a tradition until the seminary experience.
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Lips says that playing and listening to all kinds of music is part of his daily meditation practice, and it is out of these times of prayer, incense, and the sacrament that the music comes as a gift of the Spirit!
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In 2000, Lips was awarded Certified Gold and Multi-platinum RIAA awards to commemorate his contribution to sales in excess of 18 million copies of the Airways CD and cassett “Headin’ Home” by the pop group The Platters and produced by the legendary Buck Ram who wrote "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," "The Great Pretender," "My Prayer," and many more million-selling songs for The Platters and others.
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The Resnik Music Group (www.resnikmusicgroup.com)has placed the Porter Wagoner produced project titled “Real American Country,” that showcases the Mississippi native's broad musical interests, with the Collectibles Label at
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Lips has collaborated with Multi-Grammy winner Tom Pick on a song for Irish Country Super Star Susan McCann called "Love's Brand New Today." The multi-instrumentalist has also produced his son Chris Lips, Tom Rouse of the DTs, Tim Kinsey who won male vocalist of the year for the 2008 National Music Awards, and has been Producer and Executive producer for Cowboy Tim projects over several decades of collaboration.
THANKS TO OUR FANS! WE HAVE TWO NUMBER ONES ON REVERBNATION!
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There are nine tracks and three of them are Howard Lips songs. James Bohon is co-writer on "Ridin' On The Mainline" and "God Saw The Blood." Lips is the only writer on "Cheer Up My Brother," which has a chorus borrowed from the old gospel song "Farther Along.!
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We have also been invited to join the planning committee for a 3-day concert called "IMAGINE," in some respects similar to Woodstock '69. Imagine will take place in 2010 at the same time as the G8 world leaders meeting in Montreal, Canada. www.imagineconcert.com
the Dassanech, Mursi, Karo, Bume & Beshadar are tribes still living in the early times by the Great Rift Valley , this area provides great variety of coloured pigments, with these, the tribes of the Omo river practice their art. According to Western standards these are true geniuses,its traits remind Picasso, Miró, Paul Klee & Tapies. Art in its highest degree of purity. No explanation, no theory...motivated solely by desire. The desire of being beautiful, to seduce, to exteriorize pleasure ... Progress needs electric power & theres a project to build an hidroelectric plant in the Omo river ... The river will be reduced to a fifth of its original size ending with the flooded planes essential to these tribes An intact & pure culture probably with its days numbered ... " Ethiopia..s new generation will have plenty electric power to appreciate all this in a computer " Photos & Quote by Hans Sylvester the photographer of simplicity
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