Pop folk with some roots blues & rock mixed in.

11 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Folk Pop, BLUES: Guitar Blues



Details:
Jay Turnbow started in the recording and song-writing business at the late Norman Pettyâs studio in Clovis, New Mexico, during the time when Buddy Holly, Buddy Knox, the Fireballs, the Stringalongs, and Jimmy Gilmer were cutting hits there. While a student at Eastern New Mexico University in nearby Portales, Jay played lead guitar and wrote songs for the Ivy Jives, a well-known regional group. The Ivy Jives had releases on Jaro Records, a subsidiary of Top Rank Records out of New York. Working at Pettyâs studio, Jay became acquainted with King Curtis, Tommy Alsup, Waylon Jennings, Bob Montgomery, the Champs (Seals, Croft, and Burgess), and Larry Parks (drummer for Roy Orbison). In the early 1960âs, Jay played lead guitar in a Booker T and the MGâs road band and worked shows with the Markees, the Kingsmen, and the Surfaris. He and Larry Parks wrote songs together, and one of their first was âBread and Butterâ which led to their becoming staff writers for prestigious Acuff-Rose Music Publishing Company in Nashville. Among popular releases written by Turnbow and Parks at that time are âBirds are for the Bees,â âOh Girls,â and âHey-O-Daddy-O,â all recorded by the Newbeats. (Bob Finnicum was a co-writer on these three cuts.) Along with the late Mr. Wesley Rose, Jay and Larry produced the Sparkles for Hickory Records. âNo Friend of Mineâ and âOh Girlsâ were two of Jay and Larryâs more popular songs cut by the Sparkles.

In the 1970âs and early 1980âs, Jay performed in the Houston area and taught guitar for a large music store chain. Working in the Houston Gulf Coast, Jay performed shows with many popular entertainers including Willie Nelson, Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, Brian Collins, Justin Tubbs, Leona Williams, Jimmy C. Newman, and Floyd Tillman.

He then moved to the 4 corners area of NW New Mexico where he and wife,Linda Jey performed as a duo in Colorado & New Mexico.He also taught guitar at two local music stores & was an adjunct professor of music at San Juan College teaching advanced guitar,theory, & improvisation for several years. He now spends most of his time working on original music at his studio near Nogal,NM. His current CD is âbird-dawgflyby.pak"

Sailin' through a sea of mass confusion,need an emotional transfusion livin' out a foregone conclusion,brain-fried friend died,couldn't get straight,we tried,woman left head's a mess same song gone wrong,undertaker on the telephone,some fool ain't cool drownin' in the same pool,storyline third time,tom cat chasin' nine................................
Heat's bad,jail's worse,lawyers chasin' a rainbow hearse on a court appointed creeper,you got your shot,safe house on a vacant lot,case set no sweat soul fell all's well up three floors to get to hell,steal a tent,no rent,IRS take a hint,mission abort,strike the fort,bank bought the high court..................JT

Bio info at CD Baby sites "out of the woods" &"BATTZZZZ" by
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