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Howlin' Dog Records :: Richmond Brothers CDs :: Roots and Branches

Roots and Branches

This record celebrates the common roots and the wide-spreading branches of the musical lives of three brothers – Jim, Ed, and Don Richmond. It represents both a rejoining of individual pathways taken down three lifetimes of music and at the same time an honoring of a common musical heritage. It also seeks to help nurture a legacy in the form of a musical scholarship which will hopefully be the root of more musical growth and exploration in future years.

The songs -

1 Summer Wages 3:49
2 July, You're a Woman 4:16
3 Old Man River 4:40
4 One Less Set of Footsteps 3:07
5 What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana 3:57
6 Pickin' Up the Pieces 3:14
7 The Dutchman 4:43
8 Everything's Broken Down 3:47
9 Paid in Advance 3:05
10 Forget Me Not 3:29
11 Darkness, Darkness 4:35
12 Love Lost and Found 4:03
13 Go and Say Goodbye 2:27
14 Helplessly Hoping 3:23
15 Lullabye 4:21

The Story -

Ed Richmond and Anne McIsaac were both professional singers in the late 1930s and early 1940s in the Chicago area music scene, singing on radio stations WLS and WGN and (in Anne's case )with the Lyric Opera Company before they married and began having their five children. Mary Ann was first with Kathy, Jim and Ed following in quick succession and Don arriving about five years later. Although Anne retired from professional music to raise her family, father Ed continued in music studies, receiving his degree from the prestigious University of Chicago. He also taught music at Michigan State University and the University of Iowa before settling way out west in Alamosa, Colorado, where he became a professor of voice at Adams State College.

The children grew up surrounded by music and were expected to participate in school music programs, singing in the choir and taking up instruments. Besides the french horn he played in the school band, Jim also managed to find a $3.00 guitar his dad bought at an auction and before long was playing in local high school and college groups, later taking his music to the Denver-Boulder area with the band Father John while attending the University of Colorado. He later went on to join national touring acts such as the Tennessee Hat Band, who toured extensively with David Allan Coe. Jim settled down in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area and has played ever since with many Texas troubadours such as Ray Wylie Hubbard, Jack Ingram, Rusty Weir and Tommy Alverson and is currently a part of the popular group Three Fools on Three Stools.

Little brother Don managed to find Jim's old Harmony guitar when he was about 10 and started trying to make some chords. He followed a similar early path to brother Jim's, playing in garage bands with friends, then starting to work in local nightclubs at the age of 15 with such bands as Pope, Harmony Road, the unnamed “Band at the Goalpost” and then Tumbleweed, which formed in the fall of 1973 and played, through several incarnations and many member changes, until 1990. Tumbleweed toured extensively around the Colorado and New Mexico region and had a devoted following throughout the mountain towns they frequented. In 1990 Don began playing more in the northern New Mexico music scene of Taos and Santa Fe with bands such as No Strings Attached, Hired Hands, and his current band the Rifters. Don also started his recording studio (Howlin' Dog Recording) about 1990, which has grown into one of the busiest and most productive studios in the region.

Although having at least as strong a gift vocally as his brothers and an equal love for music, brother Ed followed his own path, through college at Colorado State University and onward to a career in high-tech manufacturing and computer network administration. Still he joined with brother Don and lots of other friends in many a late-night sing-along after hours and continued singing on his own.

Father Ed continued teaching at ASC from 1962 until 1979, developing one of the most successful and recognized small college vocal programs in the region. When he passed away in 1982 a scholarship in his name was created to assist vocal students at ASC. Profits from the sale of this CD will go toward the continued funding of that scholarship. The new recording studio currently being built in the newly-remodeled music building at ASC will also be named the Richmond Recording Studio in his honor.

We hope you enjoy this musical celebration of our roots and our branches, and we thank you for your participation in the continued growth and spread of the joy of music, in whatever form it may take!

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SKU	HDR-018
Release date	06/01/2011
Price:	$15.00

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