Homer & Jethro

[dfrank1587]

I followed the links to download Homer & Jethro's "Playing It Straight"......and it says there are no albums available for download! Does anybody have a link to the store that it downloading it? I have been waiting a long time to get this album!


Thanx,

Doug

[Scott Tichenor]

Grrr. My error. I hate when sites do this. What this is, is cheap bait for the search engines.

[swampstomper]

Yes it's nasty bait-and-switch. They just get track listings from CDDB (what your iTunes connects to to find track names). The H&J is only available on a Japanese import, they licensed it from RCA. Also "It Ain't Necessarily Square" the same way. I found somewhere that imports and sells it to Europe, Google around and you should find something similar.

Well worth the trouble!!

[glauber]

I don't know if this is the case with this one, but there are several old jazz and classical albums that can't be sold in the US because of copyright legislation, but end up sold in Europe and Asia, where the copyright eventually expires. In the US, if a recording label goes out of business, it's practically impossible to reissue their albums, because nobody owns the copyright - you'd have to track down every musician and author, or their heirs, and make separate contracts with each one of them.

[Pedal Steel Mike]

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[Chippsta]

Yes, please !
I spent one wonderful evening sitting around a campfire at a 'hippy' festival where most didn't know Jethro ... listening to he and Johnny Gimble play and sing and tell stories. I still dream about that night. Email me - chipsmith@comcast.net

[bgmando]

Chippsta -- feel my envy.

[Scott Tichenor]

This is the second issue of copyright infringement I've dealt with today and I need to remind everyone that CDs that are owned by companies and for sale are subject to legal protection. It's not appropriate to offer to make copies for others. If you wish to engage in this elsewhere that's your right, but it's not appropriate here.

On the classifieds this guideline is spelled out as a posting guideline and is soon to become one here as well.

Don't get me wrong, this is one of my favorite recordings and I wish everyone had a copy, but giving them away in public or trading/selling them here isn't something we can allow.

[Pedal Steel Mike]

Scott, I understand that it may be illegal for me to sell them, even for just the cost of the blank CD-R and the postage, but is it also illegal to make them and give them away for free?

[Keith Miller]

Yes it would be illegal, copy right protects against all copying and also against unlicensed public performance.
K

[Keith Miller]

for free Jethro stuff here is a link (again):D lessons with jethro (http://robcoleman.com/jethro/index.html)

[Pedal Steel Mike]

Rant: This is not right. The record companies refuse to amle this wonderful material available, and they won't let people make copies of their private recordings and give them away. This is not the same thing as the unauthorized duplication of a CD that is in print, where the artist and the record company are being ripped off.

End of rant.

Perhaps if RCA received several hundred requests to release the CD, they would do so.

[mandroid]

After all record companys screwing the artist is a blues tradition,
rock n roll too, just ask John Fogarty..

[swampstomper]

As I said before,I was able to find legal copies of these for sale by an outfit that imported them from RCA Japan. Liner notes are in English and Japanese. This is legal and you ought to be able to google it up. Sorry I can't find the receipt to give you the name. But it was a US record store.