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!
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
Band 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!
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Date This Record was
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Jul 30 2009
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BUY NOW! www.oldies.com/artist-view/Howard-Lips
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!