Moon Mullican

[Tim in St. Louis]

There was no thread on the Moon Man, so I thought I'd start one...

I've heard alternately that Jerry Lee was (and wasn't) influenced by him, but the fact remains that his style was certainly a precusor to rock n' roll. Here's a couple of YouTube videos to kick things off.

"Cherokee Boogie" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gGfVMjgx88

"Seven Nights To Rock" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbJy9V4M ... re=related

"Honolulu Rock-A-Roll" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZPKjepo ... re=related

[Tim in St. Louis]

"Pipeliner Blues" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQRojQD ... re=related

"Moons Rock" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQRojQD ... re=related

"You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8clIrf9 ... re=related

"Blue Tears" (sounds a little like that JLL bootleg) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xg3qHN8F74&NR=1

[thrund]

Moon's best, for me, is I'll Sail My Ship Alone,
but I can't find his version on youtube, because this the HW tune here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3i3aFQbgjg

[Tim in St. Louis]

Moon's best, for me, is I'll Sail My Ship Alone,
but I can't find his version on youtube, because this the HW tune here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3i3aFQbgjg

Thanks! Hank truly is on the Mount Rushmore of country. Here's Moon's version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEmrAV56 ... re=related

[wolfgangguhl]

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3912997802

[Tim in St. Louis]

Here's a brief overview of Moon's career (one that mentions JLL liberally)...

http://www.webspawner.com/users/MoonsRock/

[peterchecksfield]

Here's a brief overview of Moon's career (one that mentions JLL liberally)...

http://www.webspawner.com/users/MoonsRock/

Written by Patrick Wall. A great guy, but he's a Moon-obsessive & very much exaggerates his influence over JLL.

[jllWAfan1982]

I remember looking at an early JLL forum (not Yahoo) several years ago online and saw Patrick Wall there. It did not seem very active. I remember reading some of his things on Moon, who I had never heard of before, and thought he must be a major influence on JLL from all the things that were said about him.

[jayhawks]

Moon Mullican-Rock And Roll Mr Bullfrog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JsCNwfw ... re=related

[chris morris]

For any Moon Mullican fans that are interested, there's a great 3 page article on him in the new issue of Now Dig This (No 406, January). It's by far the most detailed account of Mullican's career that I've read. Although I don't think the influence he had on Jerry is anything like that claimed by some writers (although his drinking and attitude to the law was similar!) he was a great artist in his own right. Fans of a certain age(like me) first came across his name in the mid 1960s in Breathless Dan's sale/auction lists. As was usually the case, anyone rated highly by Dan was worth listening to. Most of his best stuff is collected on 2 Ace cds ( "Seven Nights to Rock" and "Moonshine Jamboree") and the Bear family "Moon's Rock" cd. After reading the article, I pulled them off the shelves and played them. They are every bit as good as I remembered.

Chris