[AGL] Re: The Threadgill,s gatherings/Eddie Wilson

[Connie Clark]

That's correct. The KT and JJ duo was just as Harry describes and was out at Oak Hill, I believe, Summer (maybe August) of 70.  She died October 70.  I was there, tripping.
  Connie
   
  


Harry Edwards <laughingwolf at ev1.net> wrote:
  Frances, the event to which you refer was Threadgill's birthday. Janis 
flew in from Hawaii and sang "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Sunday Morning 
Coming Down," strumming a guitar and nursing a tumbler of tequila. I 
didn't know it but we were saying goodbye, for she died not too long 
afterwards. (JJ's birthday is in January.) 
twisty

On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:36 AM, Frances Morey wrote:

> Connie,
> As I understood it there were several occasions on which Janis and 
> Kenneth Threadgill appeared at the same time on the same venue, even 
> sang together. The most publicized was when it was Janis' birthday not 
> too long before she died. EW might have been  a witness on that 
> occasion rather than earlier at the service station before Janis made 
> it big, and when Mr. Threadgill still owned it. I remember that one. I 
> missed her much touted birthday appearance. Eddie Wilson as an Austin 
> boy surely could have been part of the crowd at either one.
> Frances
>
> Connie Clark wrote:
>>
>> Mike E.
>> I remember that you were often at Threadgill's for the Wednesday 
>> night jams, even with your violin sometimes, right?
>>  
>> Question has been put as to whether anyone remembers Eddie Wilson 
>> there.  I saw him on a biographical tv show about Janis, and he spoke 
>> of her as if a witness to her singing with KT. 
>>  
>> Do you remember seeing him at KTs?  I never knew him so I guess I 
>> wouldn't have noticed anyway.
>>  
>> Connie
>>
>> Fontaine Maverick wrote:
>>> Ahem. I was there a number of times in '62, '63 at the age of 15 & 
>>> 16, still
>>> at Austin High. Including the night that I tried peyote for the 
>>> first time
>>> with my older college boy date (you know who you are). Janis told us 
>>> we had
>>> to settle down, or leave.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Harry Edwards"
>>> To:
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:38 PM
>>> Subject: Re: The Threadgill,s gatherings/Eddie Wilson
>>>
>>>
>>> >I dunno. Just googled a 1997 Texas Monthly story about our Eddie, 
>>> and
>>> > he was 53 then. He'd be 61 or 62 now, mebbe not quite old enough 
>>> to've
>>> > been at Threadgill's when JJ was there. twisty
>>> >
>>> > On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:14 AM, R. StJohn wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Compadres,
>>> >> Take a look at Jaxon's Threadgill's history that
>>> >> is in the back of the Threadgill's Cookbook. I don't
>>> >> remember Eddie being there either but I would be the
>>> >> last to question the historical accuracy of Jaxon's
>>> >> research.
>>> >>
>>> >> R. P.
>>> >>
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