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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I promise I won't get sentimental and make the whole
show about my dad. But this was Dad's favorite thing
to listen to.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's very sweet. Why can't you remember Dad at this
time of the year.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh, it's impossible not to, I know. And my mother's thought.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
That story about the one thing and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's such good advice, isn't it. You got what's the
secret to life? Well, it's different for everyone exactly.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Yeah. I feel bad though.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We did not get to discuss what we told people
we would discuss when we got back from break, and
now we're back from the second break and we haven't
brought it up yet. But we did promise to address
some of the emails we've gotten. It's not all, you know,
just about one thing. See what I did there?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah? The one?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, the emails, that's the theme right, different depending on
who's writing emails. People are talking about the Venezuelan boat,
the one from back in September that we had. We
hit it twice because the first one wasn't completely effective.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
And everybody's like, oh, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Any excuse to say Trump's evil and he has to go.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, let's open the email then we've got email. Today's
email been proudly brought to you by well.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Our sponsorship the merch that is available for you at
Walton Johnson's store.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Thank you for reminding me, mister Kenneth.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
If you go to I LOVEWJ dot com, it takes
you directly to our online store, which can also be
found at Walton and Johnson dot com or in the
Walton Johnson smartphone app.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And there is all kinds of great new stuff going on.
And there's a deal.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Look, we know your brother in law wants, you know,
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but you still need little knickknacks and things to put
underneath the tree for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Wouldn't whatever that selection is, wouldn't that be up to
the individual to find They're one thing in our store.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I love that, And you can, by the way, take
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Stuff for the Coastguards, stuff for the Marines, stuff for
the army. If you have a military veteran in your country,
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(02:11):
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get fifteen is what it's on the website.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Just look, you'll see it. Yeah, okay, So what were.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
We talking about?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
The boat Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, the boat. Okay, So they got that one. They
double tapped it, and.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Obviously most of our listeners don't seem to have a
problem with that. It's these these lunatic lifties that just
want to find some way to get Trump out of office,
and so they're screaming and hollering about this one. Now,
if you've seen the video, and a lot of people haven't,
you'll notice that after the explosion, the survivors swim back
(02:52):
towards the boat and they're climbing back into what's left
of the boat. These people are not prisoners of war,
they're not unengaged, let's say, in the battle. They're drug
runners and they're going back to their drug running boat
to try to save some of their drugs. And their
own lives. That's why the admiral and I guess he's
(03:15):
going to be all over the news today, right, He's
got to make some statement. And I think Trump's got
his back on this. The Admiral said, hit it again,
because these people, it's like if you're in the army
and you throw a grenade at a big bunch of
people and two or three of them don't die. What
do you just let them off? No, they're still trying
(03:35):
to kill you. They're still trying to do whatever it
is they're doing. These guys were getting back in the
boat and that's when they had to get hit again.
And it was I think the right thing to do.
We got a great email from Gigi who says it
is just remarkable to watch Trump in action.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
She just loves it. She says the Democrats have.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Repeatedly tried to topple him with their ACME corporation schemes.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Trump is.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Trump is the road runner, and the Democrats of the
wiley coyote. Trump is swifter, smarter, at about ten steps
ahead of them all the time to thwart their predictable mayhem.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, I me, I completely agree.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I love a.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Good Looney Tunes analogy, well played there, achemey.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, you know, for.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Whatever it's worth, the fentanyl kills one hundred thousand Americans
a year, killed one hundred thousand last year, and your
Biden's watch, every boat we just sank was carrying enough
fentanyl to kill tens of thousands of people. Humble brag.
I was on Newsmas TV yesterday for about thirty minutes
talking about that network sometimes too. I was on a
panel with this democrape. You were on Newsmats. No, it
(04:47):
was on that You meant you were just you know,
watching it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I was on a panel with some Democrat named Madeline
or some I forget what her name was.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
She hot, She was okay, you know so, I mean
hot for a Democrat, you know, a hot Democrats about
a four. And I enjoyed debating her because I feel
that I I feel that I got I won up
to her quite it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
She seemed like a nice person. I'm not trying to
denigrate her. A crap on her, but yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
She was set up on a woman kin. He don't
be too bragdoxious about that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It was an intellectual fisticuff. So it wasn't was if
I was actually punching this woman. We're I'm we're not
even in the same room. She's at the other end
of the country. We're on cable TV together. Anyway, she's
making the point and you know, we need to do process.
And it's like, no, these are terrorists, guys. She called
them gang members. No, it's a terror group. It's a gang. Sure,
in the same way Isis is a gang, but it's
(05:37):
a terror cell, guys. And trendy Aragua. The group we're
talking about kills people, They torture people, they kidnap people.
We don't negotiate with terrorists' right. Yesterday Senator ram Paul
I like Senator Rampaul, I like him a lot, but
you know he's one of those guys. He's a naysayer,
he's a contrarian.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I get it. I kind of am too. Listen to
the point he's making right here.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
If they are armed, shows armed, if they're not armed,
explain to us why we kill people who are not armed?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
All right, ram paul says, we need proof that these
people were armed before we can launch rockets at them.
M hang on rand and again, probably my favorite guy
in the Senate. In what world is a boat that's
filled with millions of dollars worth of hard drugs also
not filled with weaponry.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
These are drug runners. Do you think they're not armed?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
If they're not armed, it is so this can happen.
I mean, if they intentionally went out there unarmed, it
is a trap. It is to lure somebody into doing something.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Right, Why would international drug traffickers sending millions of dollars
worth of illegal contraband not also send some weaponry on
board the boat to defend themselves if they come in
contact with another group of criminals or It's not as
if they can call the police for protection. Right, They're
out there shipping millions of dollars worth of fentyl. They
if they come in contact with law enforcement, they're gonna
(06:58):
have to fight with them. Of course they have weapons.
That's the point. That's the reason why they're international drug runners. Again,
I like rand Paul, but I mean, yeah, you want
to be meticulous on this one, Sure, go ahead. Let's
waste millions of dollars on a hearing so we can
all conclude what we ultimately already knew that narco terrorists
have weaponry.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I do love to put this in a more personal
note when people are talking about some big you know,
international crime or war or something, and it's like, well,
let's let's bring that same kind of thing to your family,
to your home. If these guys, you know, four or
five guys right break into your house in the middle
of the night, they have good fries there, who does
(07:37):
five guys?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Oh? Four five guys? Yeah? I got you? Go on?
What was I saying?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I was just thinking about French fries. I'm hungry, billy
ed Now I totally lost track.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Maybe Christmas Mothers.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
This is the Walton and Johnson Show. Well, I got
good news, I got bad news.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You want the good news first, Well, sword, I like
good news for the rest of the morning. We have
a theme for the kind of music we're going to
be playing. Is it Christmas? Sure, we'll sprinkle some of that.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Huh okay, but that's not the theme.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, it's gonna be the theme is It'll be songs
featuring legendary blues guitarist Steve Cropper.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
That's the theme. Now the bad news is why well
he died.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Steve Cropper died yesterday at the age of eighty four
years old. Now he ain't never heard of his brother.
Let me tell you about him all right, book A
T and E. MG's founding member, known for his funky
guitar licks. Grayson the rhythm and blues and soul hits
from Iconic Stacks Records, and all of the great musicians
(08:34):
that have played there through the years, including you just
heard a little something from the Blues Brothers.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I believe that's some rubble biscuit.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That's how a lot of people learned who he was.
But he's in so many other bands. But the Blues
Brothers was a TV band, so you saw him right
there in your stupid face every day on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
He backed up a great guitar player.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
One of the greatest back to up otis Redding, Sam
and Dave, Johnny Taylor. Some of the biggest songs, some
of the soundtrack of a lot of our lives had
Steve Cropper in there, and and now he's gone.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
We have hung out with him. Humble Bragg, really cool guy.
A friend of ours that does a radio show down
the Hall. Brought him to town a few times. If
you all know Michael Berry. This was a while back,
and it was right when I moved to Texas, I
was hanging out with Steve Cropper backstage at the House
of Blues, and he was just as cool as you
thought he would be.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
By boy, what a list here, guys.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Besides all the names you just said, Rod Stewart, Ringo star, he's.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Played with white people too. Well.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, I mean, of course your daddy.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
He was a guy.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, he was white.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh no, Steve Cropper, the blues guitarist, the soul man,
the R and B master, the white boy. The picture
of him, right, mister, Oh this is kind of awkward. Please, yes, yes,
Steve Cropper was always a white guy. Remember in that
one song where they're a soul man thing and.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
They're like at Steve, Yeah, that was him.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
They're talking about Steve Cropper exactly right.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
At nineteen ninety six, this long time ago, Britain's Mojo
magazine called him the greatest living guitar player.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
That was when he was like fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, thirty five years later, thirty four whatever, So much
to be said.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I mean co writings sitting on the dock of the bay.
He did it in about twenty minutes with Otis Redding.
I'm gonna climb out on a limb here and guess
probably some marijuana was involved. He is in not one,
but two Rock and Roll Hall of Fames in the Grammys,
Yeah Big, inducted as a member of Booker T and
the MG's and as a sideman, one of the only
handful of people with the double honor. Rolling Stones ranked
(10:42):
him number two and they're one hundred Greatest Guitarists of
All Time.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
In twenty eleven, he teamed up with Like Wilson Piggot.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Eddie Floyd co wrote of the songs like in the
Midnight Hour and Knock Knock On Wood.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
In twenty eleven, Rolling Stone published the one hundred Greatest
Guitarists of All Time, and it went in this order
number one, Jimmy Hendricks, number two, Steve Cropper, number three,
Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And if I remember the movie The Bluesweathers, didn't they
intentionally drive to his house. They went looking for him
when they were putting the band together and his wife
didn't want him to go or something like that, and
they knocked on his door and he's like, let's go,
jumps in the car, takes off.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
And then if I'm not mistaken, who is the other guy?
Aretha Franklin. She didn't want her husband to go.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He played on that song.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He pun R E s p I C T say
again R E S P I C two's that's the
way you go.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's how Al Sharpton spells it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
His nickname at Stax was the Colonel because he was
calm organized at the recording studio.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
They called him the Colonel.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
You like this guy?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
He played along on albums with Paul Simon, among others.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Paul's him.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Some people call him Ringo Star, Buddy Guy, Johnny Lang,
Elton John and Steppenwolf.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Got this guy amazing. Might be playing guitar on every
song you've ever enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
When they recorded Soulman, there's some video, you know, film
or whatever photos he's holding a cigarette.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
As he's playing that famous guitar.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Cropper has said in interviews that he was smoking during
the take and never put it down. You can even
hear him exhale at the very end of the track.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
No, the cats, I don't know what tysco guitar. I
don't know what that is. That was his main guitar.
It was a Japanese guitar. He didn't play a Fender,
he didn't play a Gibs, and he played a Japanese guitar.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
He turned down joining the Beatles. The Beatles he was.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Like, nah, I got bigger things to do. He's left handed,
but played the guitar right handed. He produced and played
on the number one country hit Some Guys Have All
the Luck, which was a Rob Stewart song.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yes Bunched Him Home.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Roger Stewart did country rock and disco. Named someone else
who did that? I don't know, Casey Musgrave, who else did?
He still uses the same nineteen fifty nine Fender esquire
on stage.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well he did.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
This is a I'm reading a list of things about
him before he died. It's a sunburst guitar. You could
see it in almost every photo of him from the
last sixty years.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Cool dude, man.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
He said his proudest moment was when Sam Moore of
Sam and Dave told him, man, you play black better
than a lot of black people. Mister, Oh, will the
rest in peace to the I mean, he's the greatest
guitarist I've ever met, not even I mean I've met
some great musicians in my life, but I've never met
Jimmy Hendrix, I never met Eric Clampton, I never met
(13:44):
but I did meet Steve Cropper, and my god, was
he He was just as cool as you'd hoped he
would be.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
If he didn't know and he was going to get
this kind of Walton Johnson Show special treatment, he might
have kicked years ago thanks to treat for him.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
So, in the.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Words of my late friend Rita Franklin, show some R E.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
S P I c T.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Walton and Johnson Radio Network,
I promise I won't get sentimental and make the whole
show about my dad. But this was Dad's favorite thing
to listen to.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's very sweet. Why can't you remember Dad at this
time of the year.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh, it's impossible not to, I know. And my mother's thought.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
That story about the one thing and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's such good advice, isn't it. You got what's the
secret to life? Well, it's different for everyone exactly.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Yeah. I feel bad though.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We did not get to discuss what we told people
we would discuss when we got back from break, and
now we're back from the second break and we haven't
brought it up yet. But we did promise to address
some of the emails we've gotten. It's not all, you know,
just about one thing. See what I did there?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah? The one?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, the emails, that's the theme right, different depending on
who's writing emails. People are talking about the Venezuelan boat,
the one from back in September that we had. We
hit it twice because the first one wasn't completely effective.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
And everybody's like, oh, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Any excuse to say Trump's evil and he has to go.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, let's open the email then we've got email. Today's
email been proudly brought to you by well.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Our sponsorship the merch that is available for you at
Walton Johnson's store.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Thank you for reminding me, mister Kenneth.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
If you go to I LOVEWJ dot com, it takes
you directly to our online store, which can also be
found at Walton and Johnson dot com or in the
Walton Johnson smartphone app.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And there is all kinds of great new stuff going on.
And there's a deal.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Look, we know your brother in law wants, you know,
some big item, your wife wants a purse or whatever,
but you still need little knickknacks and things to put
underneath the tree for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Wouldn't whatever that selection is, wouldn't that be up to
the individual to find They're one thing in our store.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I love that, And you can, by the way, take
a look at some of the newest items. We have.
Stuff for the Coastguards, stuff for the Marines, stuff for
the army. If you have a military veteran in your country,
you're gonna love looking at some of the new military
themed Walton and Johnson gear available now at I LOVEWJ
dot com. There's a promo code on the website. You
get fifteen percent off when you buy two things. I
(02:11):
tell you the promo code, but just look, it's on
the website. We wrote it down for you, so you
got to do. We might as well just go ahead
and put it in the little square thing by two
get fifteen is what it's on the website.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Just look, you'll see it. Yeah, okay, So what were.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
We talking about?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
The boat Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, the boat. Okay, So they got that one. They
double tapped it, and.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Obviously most of our listeners don't seem to have a
problem with that. It's these these lunatic lifties that just
want to find some way to get Trump out of office,
and so they're screaming and hollering about this one. Now,
if you've seen the video, and a lot of people haven't,
you'll notice that after the explosion, the survivors swim back
(02:52):
towards the boat and they're climbing back into what's left
of the boat. These people are not prisoners of war,
they're not unengaged, let's say, in the battle. They're drug
runners and they're going back to their drug running boat
to try to save some of their drugs. And their
own lives. That's why the admiral and I guess he's
(03:15):
going to be all over the news today, right, He's
got to make some statement. And I think Trump's got
his back on this. The Admiral said, hit it again,
because these people, it's like if you're in the army
and you throw a grenade at a big bunch of
people and two or three of them don't die. What
do you just let them off? No, they're still trying
(03:35):
to kill you. They're still trying to do whatever it
is they're doing. These guys were getting back in the
boat and that's when they had to get hit again.
And it was I think the right thing to do.
We got a great email from Gigi who says it
is just remarkable to watch Trump in action.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
She just loves it. She says the Democrats have.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Repeatedly tried to topple him with their ACME corporation schemes.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Trump is.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Trump is the road runner, and the Democrats of the
wiley coyote. Trump is swifter, smarter, at about ten steps
ahead of them all the time to thwart their predictable mayhem.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, I me, I completely agree.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I love a.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Good Looney Tunes analogy, well played there, achemey.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, you know, for.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Whatever it's worth, the fentanyl kills one hundred thousand Americans
a year, killed one hundred thousand last year, and your
Biden's watch, every boat we just sank was carrying enough
fentanyl to kill tens of thousands of people. Humble brag.
I was on Newsmas TV yesterday for about thirty minutes
talking about that network sometimes too. I was on a
panel with this democrape. You were on Newsmats. No, it
(04:47):
was on that You meant you were just you know,
watching it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I was on a panel with some Democrat named Madeline
or some I forget what her name was.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
She hot, She was okay, you know so, I mean
hot for a Democrat, you know, a hot Democrats about
a four. And I enjoyed debating her because I feel
that I I feel that I got I won up
to her quite it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
She seemed like a nice person. I'm not trying to
denigrate her. A crap on her, but yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
She was set up on a woman kin. He don't
be too bragdoxious about that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It was an intellectual fisticuff. So it wasn't was if
I was actually punching this woman. We're I'm we're not
even in the same room. She's at the other end
of the country. We're on cable TV together. Anyway, she's
making the point and you know, we need to do process.
And it's like, no, these are terrorists, guys. She called
them gang members. No, it's a terror group. It's a gang. Sure,
in the same way Isis is a gang, but it's
(05:37):
a terror cell, guys. And trendy Aragua. The group we're
talking about kills people, They torture people, they kidnap people.
We don't negotiate with terrorists' right. Yesterday Senator ram Paul
I like Senator Rampaul, I like him a lot, but
you know he's one of those guys. He's a naysayer,
he's a contrarian.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I get it. I kind of am too. Listen to
the point he's making right here.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
If they are armed, shows armed, if they're not armed,
explain to us why we kill people who are not armed?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
All right, ram paul says, we need proof that these
people were armed before we can launch rockets at them.
M hang on rand and again, probably my favorite guy
in the Senate. In what world is a boat that's
filled with millions of dollars worth of hard drugs also
not filled with weaponry.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
These are drug runners. Do you think they're not armed?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
If they're not armed, it is so this can happen.
I mean, if they intentionally went out there unarmed, it
is a trap. It is to lure somebody into doing something.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Right, Why would international drug traffickers sending millions of dollars
worth of illegal contraband not also send some weaponry on
board the boat to defend themselves if they come in
contact with another group of criminals or It's not as
if they can call the police for protection. Right, They're
out there shipping millions of dollars worth of fentyl. They
if they come in contact with law enforcement, they're gonna
(06:58):
have to fight with them. Of course they have weapons.
That's the point. That's the reason why they're international drug runners. Again,
I like rand Paul, but I mean, yeah, you want
to be meticulous on this one, Sure, go ahead. Let's
waste millions of dollars on a hearing so we can
all conclude what we ultimately already knew that narco terrorists
have weaponry.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I do love to put this in a more personal
note when people are talking about some big you know,
international crime or war or something, and it's like, well,
let's let's bring that same kind of thing to your family,
to your home. If these guys, you know, four or
five guys right break into your house in the middle
of the night, they have good fries there, who does
(07:37):
five guys?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Oh? Four five guys? Yeah? I got you? Go on?
What was I saying?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I was just thinking about French fries. I'm hungry, billy
ed Now I totally lost track.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Maybe Christmas Mothers.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
This is the Walton and Johnson Show. Well, I got
good news, I got bad news.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You want the good news first, Well, sword, I like
good news for the rest of the morning. We have
a theme for the kind of music we're going to
be playing. Is it Christmas? Sure, we'll sprinkle some of that.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Huh okay, but that's not the theme.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, it's gonna be the theme is It'll be songs
featuring legendary blues guitarist Steve Cropper.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
That's the theme. Now the bad news is why well
he died.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Steve Cropper died yesterday at the age of eighty four
years old. Now he ain't never heard of his brother.
Let me tell you about him all right, book A
T and E. MG's founding member, known for his funky
guitar licks. Grayson the rhythm and blues and soul hits
from Iconic Stacks Records, and all of the great musicians
(08:34):
that have played there through the years, including you just
heard a little something from the Blues Brothers.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I believe that's some rubble biscuit.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That's how a lot of people learned who he was.
But he's in so many other bands. But the Blues
Brothers was a TV band, so you saw him right
there in your stupid face every day on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
He backed up a great guitar player.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
One of the greatest back to up otis Redding, Sam
and Dave, Johnny Taylor. Some of the biggest songs, some
of the soundtrack of a lot of our lives had
Steve Cropper in there, and and now he's gone.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
We have hung out with him. Humble Bragg, really cool guy.
A friend of ours that does a radio show down
the Hall. Brought him to town a few times. If
you all know Michael Berry. This was a while back,
and it was right when I moved to Texas, I
was hanging out with Steve Cropper backstage at the House
of Blues, and he was just as cool as you
thought he would be.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
By boy, what a list here, guys.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Besides all the names you just said, Rod Stewart, Ringo star, he's.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Played with white people too. Well.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, I mean, of course your daddy.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
He was a guy.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, he was white.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh no, Steve Cropper, the blues guitarist, the soul man,
the R and B master, the white boy. The picture
of him, right, mister, Oh this is kind of awkward. Please, yes, yes,
Steve Cropper was always a white guy. Remember in that
one song where they're a soul man thing and.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
They're like at Steve, Yeah, that was him.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
They're talking about Steve Cropper exactly right.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
At nineteen ninety six, this long time ago, Britain's Mojo
magazine called him the greatest living guitar player.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
That was when he was like fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, thirty five years later, thirty four whatever, So much
to be said.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I mean co writings sitting on the dock of the bay.
He did it in about twenty minutes with Otis Redding.
I'm gonna climb out on a limb here and guess
probably some marijuana was involved. He is in not one,
but two Rock and Roll Hall of Fames in the Grammys,
Yeah Big, inducted as a member of Booker T and
the MG's and as a sideman, one of the only
handful of people with the double honor. Rolling Stones ranked
(10:42):
him number two and they're one hundred Greatest Guitarists of
All Time.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
In twenty eleven, he teamed up with Like Wilson Piggot.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Eddie Floyd co wrote of the songs like in the
Midnight Hour and Knock Knock On Wood.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
In twenty eleven, Rolling Stone published the one hundred Greatest
Guitarists of All Time, and it went in this order
number one, Jimmy Hendricks, number two, Steve Cropper, number three,
Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And if I remember the movie The Bluesweathers, didn't they
intentionally drive to his house. They went looking for him
when they were putting the band together and his wife
didn't want him to go or something like that, and
they knocked on his door and he's like, let's go,
jumps in the car, takes off.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
And then if I'm not mistaken, who is the other guy?
Aretha Franklin. She didn't want her husband to go.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He played on that song.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He pun R E s p I C T say
again R E S P I C two's that's the
way you go.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's how Al Sharpton spells it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
His nickname at Stax was the Colonel because he was
calm organized at the recording studio.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
They called him the Colonel.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
You like this guy?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
He played along on albums with Paul Simon, among others.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Paul's him.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Some people call him Ringo Star, Buddy Guy, Johnny Lang,
Elton John and Steppenwolf.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Got this guy amazing. Might be playing guitar on every
song you've ever enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
When they recorded Soulman, there's some video, you know, film
or whatever photos he's holding a cigarette.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
As he's playing that famous guitar.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Cropper has said in interviews that he was smoking during
the take and never put it down. You can even
hear him exhale at the very end of the track.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
No, the cats, I don't know what tysco guitar. I
don't know what that is. That was his main guitar.
It was a Japanese guitar. He didn't play a Fender,
he didn't play a Gibs, and he played a Japanese guitar.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
He turned down joining the Beatles. The Beatles he was.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Like, nah, I got bigger things to do. He's left handed,
but played the guitar right handed. He produced and played
on the number one country hit Some Guys Have All
the Luck, which was a Rob Stewart song.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yes Bunched Him Home.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Roger Stewart did country rock and disco. Named someone else
who did that? I don't know, Casey Musgrave, who else did?
He still uses the same nineteen fifty nine Fender esquire
on stage.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well he did.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
This is a I'm reading a list of things about
him before he died. It's a sunburst guitar. You could
see it in almost every photo of him from the
last sixty years.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Cool dude, man.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
He said his proudest moment was when Sam Moore of
Sam and Dave told him, man, you play black better
than a lot of black people. Mister, Oh, will the
rest in peace to the I mean, he's the greatest
guitarist I've ever met, not even I mean I've met
some great musicians in my life, but I've never met
Jimmy Hendrix, I never met Eric Clampton, I never met
(13:44):
but I did meet Steve Cropper, and my god, was
he He was just as cool as you'd hoped he
would be.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
If he didn't know and he was going to get
this kind of Walton Johnson Show special treatment, he might
have kicked years ago thanks to treat for him.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
So, in the.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Words of my late friend Rita Franklin, show some R E.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
S P I c T.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
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