We could have a Last Man Standing on children of rock & rollers who have entered the business. but it seems like there are so many of them it would go on for weeks. (Maybe we could have an anti-LMS and have children of rock & rollers who have not entered the business.)
I saw a listing on a download site this morning that is a variation though. It was a concert recording of Roseanne Cash from 1981. I thought “Wow, 32 years in the business, I would have never guessed that.” And looking on Wiki, her first album was released in 1979, so she’s been in the biz for 44 34 years.
So, not a LMS but maybe a Reigning Champ. Who can come up with a second-generation rock & roller (loosely defined to include all the genres we generally talk about here) with more time in the business than Roseanne Cash?
Some rules. Backing vocals on Mom or Dad’s recording when you were 6 years old don’t count. And let’s arbitrarily keep it to musicians who were active post-1955. (Well, it’s not really arbitrary: Hank Williams died on January 1, 1953—and why didn’t I see any 60th anniversary mention of that anywhere a few weeks ago—and this way I can keep Bocephus out of the discussion.)
Billy Burnette, son of Dorsey Burnette.
First album 1972, most recent 2011.
Thank GOD Wilson Phillips is no longer together
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Arlo Guthrie?
R. Stevie Moore, the son of a Nashville session man/touring sideman to the likes of Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, has maintained a booming cult career since 1976. I believe RSM occasionally paces these Hallowed Halls!
“Roseanne Cash …looking on Wiki, her first album was released in 1979, so she’s been in the biz for 44 years.” OK, first it’s Rosanne, without the “e” after “s.” Second 1979 was 34 years ago, not 44.
Actually Rosanne’s first U.S. album was released in 1979, but she had a European album that came out in 1978, And, her recording debut came on a 1974 Johnny Cash album (“The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me”), on which she soloed on Kristofferson’s “Broken Song of Freedom.” (Carlene Carter also debuted on that record.) So, Cash has been in the business 39, 35 or 34 years, depending on what start date you choose..
Hank Williams, Jr. Sings the Songs of Hank Williams was released in 1964, and put out an album last year, so that’s 48 years.
Please sit down before clicking:
http://www.wilsonphillipsmusic.com/
(I only know this per they happened to be playing at the MN State Fair when I was there)
That was my mistake. I stink at math, although Al’s original draft read 24 years. Go figure.
Welcome aboard. It’s always a kick to see someone enter the Halls of Rock wearing the pince nez.
Hmmmm…I wonder if any of the Zappalings would qualify. Moon Unit certainly made a href=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM’>noisesome debut, but I dunno if she’s actually ‘in the biznis’. The Achmet and the Dweezil would certainly qualify as following in the yellow footsteps, but I can’t recall if they ever made a jazz noise anywhere early on in the old man’s opus…
D’OOOOHHH!!!!
But my rules say the parent had to have been active post-1955, specifically to keep HW2 out.
I don’t think Woody did much post-1955 so Arlo doesn’t qualify. And, no offense to R. Stevie (who is in my collection), but even if I weren’t going to quibble with the word “booming”, I didn’t really have session man / side man in mind when I was thinking about this.
Not quite rock n roll but Frank Sinatra Jr has been a professional musician since ’63. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra,_Jr.#Career
John Lennon…Julian and Sean Lennon
Oops – sorry…missed the time limit condition…Sean Lennon only professionally active 22 years (although he was on stage at age 5) and Julian has been active only 29 years…but pretty close to the low-end estimate of Rosanne’s career start date.
Wait, I have to read the whole original post? Damn.
My vote goes to Jackie Rogers, Jr., then.
Ok I think I’ve got something to make up for my embarrassing Hank Williams Jr. post.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19750724&id=1PFdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T18NAAAAIBAJ&pg=612,4663372
Charlie Rich’s son recorded his first album in 1975. He was then known by his birth name, Allan Rich. Today he goes by Charlie Rich, Jr.
http://www.charlierichjr.com/bio/
Rosanne is probably the only one I can think of who has had long-term artistic success following a parent. In case you haven’t seen this, it’s pretty cool:
http://the78project.com/episode-6-of-the-78-project-rosanne-cash-with-john-leventhal-the-wayfaring-stranger/
It’s part of a project where they bring musicians in and they cut a song directly onto a blank lacquer disc using one mic and an authentic 1930′s direct-to-disc recorder.
Hey BS that 78 project link is killer! My dad played in local jazz bands during the 40’s & 50’s and he had one of those disc cutters as well as a German wire recorder.
At the 1:30 mark of the Roseanne session you can see the ‘engineer’ clearing the cuttings from the groove with a brush. As kids, we cut a few discs and wound up with a wad of acetate as big as a softball…
That’s why the EMI engineers wore white lab coats up until the Beatles. Rock and roll used to been a dirty bizniz…
OMG. I just back snorted coffee thru my nose!
telewacker, I’ve been meaning to say: It’s good to have you back! Keep the good stuff coming.
Before the UK had a national music radio station the BBC had severe restrictions upon the amount of recorded music they could play. This “needle time” meant that dance bands/orchestras would perform neutered versions of the hits of the day…it sucked.
The Joe Loss Orchestra had a featured vocalist, Ross MacManus, he made a record in 1964 & in 1970 covered “The Long & Winding Road” as Day Costello. His boy Declan, Elvis Costello,released his first work in 1976 & is, I believe, still able to get a gig.
Mai Win is Joe Loss!
That Beeb arrangement sounds like the ‘Live Band Kareoke’ that is all the rage with the yoots…
Will do, padnah!
Natalie Cole’s first single, “Good Will”, was released in 1955 (she did a few backing vocals for Daddy even earlier, but the rules exclude those). So it could be argued that she’s the queen of this thread so far… but she didn’t do anything else musical to speak of between 1955 and 1975, so that may disqualify her. I think we need a ref call!
Yeah, I think we gotta keep Natalie out. Besides that 20 year gap, both she and Costello should be eliminated. The thread indicated “second-generation rock & roller (loosely defined to include all the genres we generally talk about here)”. My meaning in that is that both the first and second generation were rock & rollers. So, I’d include the genres that merged in rock & roll like C&W, gospel, R&B but I wouldn’t include vocalists like Nat King Cole or Sinatra or even Ross McManus.
And as much as I love Sinatra, I dislike Jr. that much. He’s the most anti-rock & roll person there is. There isn’t a single interview I’ve ever read or seen of him where he doesn’t bash rock & roll. He sounds like he’s in a time warp, still referring to it as cretin music and such. Even his father got over that. If I had though he might qualify for this thread I would have contorted the rules to prevent that (like for Hank Jr.)