ROLL CALL 1991-1997
Bass:
Bill White
Craig Pettigrew
Chris Johnson
Wash Hamilton
and the inevitable Roland Denney
Drums:
Tom Lewis
Lisa Pankratz
Stan Moore
Dave Sanger
Steve Wheless
Merel Bregante
Rob Hooper
Jeff Williams
Terry Kirkendall
Lee Potter
Paul Pearcy
Herb Belofsky
Richie Vasquez
Steve Wood
Greg Rudolf
oh, and Kelvin Owens on steel in the early early days.
drop me a line if you ever got a 1099-MISC from me in those years and i haven't listed you here!
Etkilendikleri
Chaparral (the Eddie Dale-Casper-Lunchmeat years) Chris Wall The Millionaire Playboys Alvin Crow Junior Brown 2 Hoots & a Holler
Here are some images from the Havoline Supremes Reunion Show at Threadgill's in Austin, TX, in 2006. That's Terry Kirkendall on drums and Roland Denney on bass. This show kick-started the whole "back to the 90s" Havoline Supremes shows that we do today!
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Johnny Bush, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Rodriguez
Hi there. Mary Cutrufello here. I'd like to tell you a little about the Havoline Supremes, which is my rocket to the past. It's a time machine permanently set on about 1995. With the original "who to love + when to leave" band in tow, I get to play all the cool country stuff I was making my living with in those days. As they say, you can take the kid out of the honky tonks...
Here's the story:
In 1991, I moved from my native Connecticut to Austin, Texas to learn and play honky-tonk country music. When I got there, I found a fertile scene full of everything from staunch traditionalists like Alvin Crow to rabble rousers like Two Hoots and a Holler to my favorites, Chaparral and Chris Wall. I soaked it all up and soon began to play out with my own aggregation, which I called The Havoline Supremes. I dropped the name soon after when people began to know who I was, and as Mary Cutrufello, we barnstormed Texas, playing every dive I could book...and integrating more than a few of the out-of-the-way ones!
The honky-tonk music we played was mostly of the 60s and 70s variety; covers of Buck Owens, Ray Price, Johnny Bush, Waylon Jennings, and Gary Stewart spiced our sets and gave context to the originals I was writing with an almost feverish intensity.
However, as the decade wore on and I began to feel more confident in my skills as a honky-tonk craftsman, some of the rock sounds of my youth began to creep back in. By the time Mercury Records came calling in 1997, I was ready to make a rock record, and in the record industry climate of the day, it was necessary to suppress my twangier leanings. This is how Rock Mary and Country Mary became two completely different things. Not that I ever stopped loving the twang, but there was a task at hand, and that was how it was done in those days. By that time, both honky-tonk country and heartland rock were equally huge parts of who I was, and focusing on either one was at once completely honest and a betrayal of sorts. But you gotta do what you gotta do.
Fast forward to 2005. I'm now 35 years old, coming off of 2 years of musical inactivity due to some vocal nodes that took a while to heal, and wanting to get back into the business. And as with most people I guess, the older you get, the less it makes sense to draw lines, and play games with who you really are. So I began bringing the old country tunes back. To no one's surprise except perhaps mine, they worked great next to the rock songs I was writing and performing. In particular, European audiences thought the whole thing was great, and were much less doctrinaire than I was about silly things like genre.
By 2006, I wanted more...and the Havoline Supremes were (re)born. I called Terry Kirkendall, who'd played with Cornell Hurd and The Derailers (and me), but was at the time semi-retired; and Roland Denney, who'd played with everyone from Nanci Griffith to Jerry Jeff Walker (and me), and was at the time leveling houses and jamming occasionally. Terry and Roland were the band on "who to love + when to leave," my very first CD, in 1996. In something right out of a movie, I suggested we put the old band back together, and the "Back to the Honky-Tonks" weekend was born.
In one incredible weekend in April of 2006, we played at Threadgill's in Austin, Rudyard's in Houston, and Dan's Silver Leaf in Denton, my old home Naomi's in Dallas being long gone. At the end of it, I suggested that we make this a regular occasional thing. To my delight, both Terry and Roland also thought it was a good idea...and so here we are.
We play a few times a year, if the gig is right. For me, however, the experience has led to a real rekindling of the honky-tonk flame. It's kind of a welcome home, but it's also fun to see how the miles and the years flavor the things I used to do back then. I've loved this music from the day my 10-year-old self heard Waylon doing the bumper music on the Dukes of Hazzard. (And Buck and Roy on Hee Haw--that was about all you got in the Northeast in the late 70s...not that I knew who any of those people really were.) I moved to Texas and jumped in with both feet, trying not to be a carpetbagger, full of respect and straight-up awed by some of the things I found here. Now, finally, I feel like I can bring some real meat to the barbecue myself, with thanks, of course--and maybe even add a little to the rich tradition of Texas honky-tonk music.
These are some of the posters I did for our shows at Patsy's Cowgirl Cafe.
Hey all, For anyone[everyone?] who's 'Jones'ing for some new/different Mary Cutrufello vocals. Come by and listen to her sing on "Headed Home to Austin" now up at: www.myspace.com/veatchrock sign on as a myspace friend, if you'd like. Rawhk Awhn[and Country Awhn, too] Ghost
I have been listening to Mary Cutrufello's music for over 12 years, or more. There are relatively few artists that i can truthfully say that i've collected every lp/cassette/CD[yes, even 8-track waaaay back when]/bootleg/radio broadcasts/etc that i could get my li'l music-hungry grubby-paws on, but Mary is IN that category. John Prine, WAYLON, Warren Zevon, Tommy Bolin, John Hiatt, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, and MARY CUTRUFELLO! I've been lucky enough to catch several live shows over that span of years: from solo, to rock-band, to you guys!! Great stuff! Keep it up! Rock on/Country on.... Ghost
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2007 CD RELEASE: SYMPLE SYMON [and the RHYMIN’ PIE-MEN] ‘’ONE-EYED WILLIE FOR PRESIDENT’’ (and other political incorrectness) TIRED OF THE SAME OL’ BS POLITICIANS, AND POLITICAL BLAH-BLAH?? BOY, HAVE WE GOT A CANDIDATE FOR YOU! ONE-EYED WILLIE FOR PRESIDENT ‘08!!!! LISTEN to the words!!
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There is a great track for American Idol fans: ‘’SANJAYA SUCKS/THANK YOU/SANJAYA SUCKED!!!’’
THERE IS EVEN MENTION OF MS. HALEY SCARNATO, AND MS. JORDIN SPARKS, ON THE SANJAYA SONG. With a chorus of idol fans singing/yelling “He sucks-Sanjaya sucks! who can resist chiming in! lol…
The CD SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AT ‘CD BABY’, AT ‘DIGSTATION’, AND ‘SONICBIDS’. THE CD SHOULD BE OUT VERY,VERY SOON. During the summer-delay, the project has grown from a 7-track ECD, to a full 13 track CD with 2 added bonus tracks. CHECK BACK REGULARLY FOR RELEASE INFO. TRACKS INCLUDE: ‘ONE-EYED WILLIE [FOR PRESIDENT]’ AND 2 VERSIONS OF ‘PLEDGE’ [‘’TRIPPIN’ VERSION’’, AND ‘‘ROCK VERSION’’]
‘’WILLIE 4 PREZ’’ IZ ABOUT HOW BUSINESS AND STOCKS WERE MUCH BETTER DURING ‘SPERM-GATE’, THAN THEY WERE WHEN ‘BUSH SAID BOMB’ AND BUSINESS DROWNED. Both ‘’PLEDGE’’ versions are about how you really need to take everything you see/hear/are told by the gov’t with a grain-of-salt, and open eye, heart,
