I can envision good-ol'-boys racing down dirt country roads in souped-up
stock cars, running from the fuzz, banjos playing in the background.
Maybe George Jones could re-write "White Lightnin'" to include
"RIAA-men" with the G-men, T-men and revenuers.
David Lennick wrote:
> Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "phillip holmes"
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> I didn't say I don't have several ZZ Top albums myself and the
>>> George Jones Box Set. Just talking about truck stops. You ain't
>>> lived till you had a truck stop chicken fried steak at 3 AM and
>>> bought a greatest hits collection at the counter.
>>>
>> I have the ZZ Top discs (or did...LONG story...!); however, I can speak
>> with some authority on "truck stops!" I went to high school in McLean,
>> Ill's., site of the (evidently) no-longer-extant Dixie Truckers' Home
>> from the twenties onward! "The Dixie" was our regular hangout as teens
>> (and onward...). The original "Dixie" burnt down...IIRC in the
>> sixties...
>> and was replaced by a larger, newer "Dixie" withing a couple of months.
>> In fact, my first wife was a waitress as the joint...and I regularly
>> picked her up at the end of her shift and gave her a ride to her house
>> (out on a farm...) so I spent many, many hours in that truck stop!
>>
>> I also used to stop at truck stops when travelling...the food was always
>> more than ample, affordable and usually quite edible!
>>
>> And, yes, most of them sold cassettes (and 8-tracks back in that
>> era...),
>> the legality of whose origins were probably dubious at best. Wonder
>> how/why
>> RIAA missed that...?!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
> I'm relating something I heard third-hand but I recall being told that
> those illegal 8-tracks and cassettes were made in a state with looser
> copyright laws than some (Tennessee?) and that the company in question
> held payment in escrow for the artists. If they'd ever collected said
> royalties, that would have legitamized their issue. As I say, I have
> no idea if any of this makes sense or if it's true.
>
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