{"id":1203,"date":"2015-09-26T00:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2018-07-12T00:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T00:53:47","slug":"new-classics-uk-dave-ellis-any-luck-but-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/new-classics-uk-dave-ellis-any-luck-but-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW CLASSICS UK: Dave Ellis &#8216;Any Luck But Bad&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright wp-image-110 size-400\" src=\"http:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dave-ellis-albb-cvr-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dave-ellis-albb-cvr-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dave-ellis-albb-cvr-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dave-ellis-albb-cvr-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dave-ellis-albb-cvr-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dave-ellis-albb-cvr-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dave-ellis-albb-cvr.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>As a boy raised outside Taft, California, Dave Ellis at 10 years old was already working with horses. His father worked in the oil fields in nearby Bakersfield and later Dave would follow along in his footsteps, working in the oilfields just like his dad. In the 1950\u2019s he was witness to the birthing of The Bakersfield Sound and saw people like Rose Maddox, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard perform in rowdy joints so rough and tumble they had steel doors. His horsemanship is unsurpassed, evolved out of the Mexican Vaquero tradition, and his songs on this album, with affecting additional vocals by Jody Grimm, paint a vivid picture of a form of cowboy life that still exists in the American West. Dave Ellis is the real thing \u2013 not a drugstore or movie star cowboy but a real working hand and a good guy. The beguiling manner in which he depicts this life in story and song is compelling. Highlights include the gorgeous You\u2019re The Reason God Made Oklahoma and the epic campfire tale about Will James, Curly Fletcher and the Strawberry Roan. This is one of four new releases from the Little Village Foundation, a non-profit label that supports artists from non-traditional backgrounds. All have deep roots in American popular and roots music, many with ties to California (with the exception of Twin City soulman Wee Willie Walker). Chicago-raised keyboardist Jim Pugh, founder and guiding force behind Little Village, records artists and helps connect them to the broader musical community, as well as their own. \u2018It\u2019s like pebbles on the beach,\u2019 he reflects. \u2018You pick up one and it\u2019s beautiful, but when you hold four together the commonality emerges. It\u2019s breathtaking, and the bigger picture \u2013 what America really sounds like \u2013 leaps out at you.\u2019 A lifelong champion of blues music, Pugh once booked Koko Taylor for a school dance, back when he was 14. As a young man and aspiring professional musician, he sat in with amazing artists in Chicago and played birthday parties for farmworkers in rural California. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has recorded and performed with a star-studded array of musicians including BB King, Etta James, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray and Van Morrison. After he retired from his touring career, he began looking around for music that held its own outside the mainstream, by musicians who were unsung. IF NOTHING EVER CHANGES (LVF104) features Wee Willie Walker, who cut a few singles for Chess and Goldwax and is a slow-burning soul sensation with a voice rich in experience. SON OF BOOGIE (LVF102) includes twelve tracks by Ron Thompson, whose nimble guitar growls with rocky, raucous blues. He also sings and plays harmonica, with fine backing from Jim Pugh on Hammond organ and D\u2019mar and Scott Griffin on drums. SNUVIKO (LVF103) features Los Tres Amigos \u2013 The Three Friends from Where The Clouds Descend, with rare instrumental tales from indigenous Mixtec tradition by musicians living in California. These indigenous Mexicans spoke little Spanish or English and worked as agricultural labourers. Los Tres Amigos all hailed from the Oaxacan village of Snuviko, or \u2018where the clouds descend\u2019 in Mixtec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a boy raised outside Taft, California, Dave Ellis at 10 years old was already working with horses. His father worked in the oil fields in nearby Bakersfield and later Dave would follow along in his footsteps, working in the oilfields just like his dad. 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