Monday, May 1, 2017

I've Just Seen a Face

Matt Murdoch: Guitar & vocal
Tana Ladner: Electric bass & harmony vocal
Zoomer Roberts: Lead guitar
Recorded c. 1984

Here were three past or present members of Applejack rehearsing for a one-off gig: we were to open for Byron Berline & the L.A. Fiddle Band. To that end, we got together one afternoon and worked up some tunes, and I taped the proceedings on my Montgomery Ward boombox. It probably didn't go any farther than this (I'm certain we didn't play the job) but some things happened that day that hadn't happened before and wouldn't happen again. A third of a century after the fact, it's sweet to hear once again the long-ago sounds of those long-ago friends...

Friend of the Devil

Matthew Murdoch: Guitar & vocal
Tana Ladner: Harmony vocal
Zoomer Roberts: Acoustic bass

Don't That Road Look Rough and Rocky

Tana Ladner: Rhythm guitar & vocal
Matt Murdoch: Electric bass & harmony vocal
Zoomer Roberts: Dobro
Recorded c. 1984

(I Have No One to Love Me But) The Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea

Zoomer Roberts: Lead vocal & Dobro
Tana Ladner & Matt Murdoch: rhythm guitar, electric bass, harmony vocal 
Recorded c. 1984