Info on Bryan Bowers

Subject: Info on Brian Bowers
From:
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 09:32 PM

For a private CD I'm issuing based on recorded radio programs, I'm looking for info on Brian Bowers.
1. His he a HAMMERED dulcimer player or just a dulcimer player?
2. Did he write and record a song "Old Lovers"?
3. If yes, what album is it on, and what year was it released?

-- Thanks, Harold from Hawthorne, NJ

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 09:39 PM

1. He plays the autoharp, though to some it could sound as if his dulcimer is hammered.

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: Deckman
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 10:37 PM

Can you please explain to me what is a "private CD issues on recorded radio programs?" Are you in contact with Brian? Do you want his phone number? Bob

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 03:43 AM

http://bryanbowers.com/ is supposed to be his Web page, but it isn't working this evening. You can find more about him with this Google search (click). He has stopped here occasionally.
Bryan's Friend for Life CD came out on the Flying Fish label in 2000. It's a nice recording - it has a picture on the cover of him holding an autoharp, which is his weapon of choice.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: open mike
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 04:22 AM

Bryan will be performing in Chico, CA on April 20,
Easter Sunday night.
OLD LOvers is on the "album" "For You" which
had the Original Release Date of September 29, 1992 .
What is the purpose of this c.d.?
Are you going to sell it?
Do you have his permission to use his material
on it? Since you don't even know how to spell
his name or what instrument he plays, I am not
sure you are well-enough informed to be doing
this. It seems you should get his ok to include
anything by him in a recording, esp. if you are
going to profit in any way . I am just concerned
that Bryan be given proper credit, and not have
his name, instrument, or music mis-used in any way.

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: Willie-O
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 09:54 AM

He actually plays the auto parts.

By the way, thanks for casually slapping mountain dulcimer players upside the haid--"just a dulcimer player". Sheesh.

I echo open mike's sentiments.

W-O

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: Deckman
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 10:09 AM

To "open Mike". Thanks for raising the same concerns as I. CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: IvanB
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 02:19 PM

Dunno if he wrote it or not, but "Old Lovers" is on his CD "For You," issued in 1992.

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 02:34 PM

I have similar concerns and have voiced them to BB's agent. He can sort it out if it needs sorting. I am posting here so that I alone can take the flak which may result.
Mary

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: open mike
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 02:47 PM

The credit for the song Old Lovers goes to
Laszlo Slomovitz. Bryan mentions the band
Seldom Scene as helping with the song, too.
Actually the Flying Fish Record, For You
seems to have been released in 1990. The
web page shows about 4 of Bryans "albums" as
coming out Sept. '92--methinks this is a typo.

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: Deckman
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 02:53 PM

Hi Mary ... Can I assume you're wearing your flak jacket! Bob

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 02:57 PM

No - just a padded bra.

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: Deckman
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 03:01 PM

Oh Dear ... I had to ask, didn't I? Bob

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 03:05 PM

hee hee Did I make the Deckman blush?

Subject: RE: Info on Brian Bowers
From: Deckman
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 03:11 PM

"What red face?", said Bob, looking down, kinda kickin' at the gravel.
(sure is hot in here) By by. Bob

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: GUEST,Mary
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 08:45 PM

I think Sinsull and Bob...should make a date and go out for dinner together...


I love to hear about music.

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: BanjoRay
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 06:50 AM

Bryan Bowers is teaching autoharp for a week at Sore Fingers 13-17 April at Kingham School, Stowe-in-the-Wold, Oxfordshire, UK.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: harpgirl
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 09:58 AM

Bryan was in this neck of the woods a little while back and he has a new song that I think he wrote while he was sitting on a park bench on the Suwannee River in White Springs while he was here.

I think it's called "Magnolia". I've only heard it once but I think we'll be hearing it again...

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 08:01 PM

Thanks Mary but Mrs. Deckman might object.
Mary too

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 09:46 PM

But it is a pleasure to see Bob blush such a rosy hue on those Finnish cheeks of his!

SRS

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: Deckman
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 09:53 PM

Hey, you two! KITTOS! Bob

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: Deckman
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 09:54 PM

... or, maybe I should say: "Mina rakastaan sinua!" Bob

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 10:09 PM

Your nose is running????

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: Deckman
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 10:19 PM

TOO FUNNY! Read your e-mail. Bob, still laughing and hoping that cousin Aira in Rovanieme, Suomi, doesn't see this!

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 05:49 PM

Here is a link to a thread on the "Waltz of the Old Lovers" at Mudcat.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 07:58 PM

When I was in college I used to go down to Mr. Flood's Party, a bar downtown in Ann Arbor, to listen to the Gemini brothers. I saw my first bodhran played by Laslo (or was it his brother). Leo Kretzner was often playing as well. Lots of folkies played Mr. Flood's. Gemini was a great duo!

Subject: RE: Info on Bryan Bowers
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 08:35 PM

Hmmm. Same guest who started this thread is now asking questions about someone else he knows little about. Hasn't said it's for his CD, but it is the same guy, same kind of questions. It's here.