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| From | Scotthomewood@cs.com |
| Subject | Re: Another Memphis icon gone: RIP Tommy Hoehn |
| Date | Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:18:52 EDT |
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Wow, this is sad. I too loved those albums he did with Van Duren and
pursued an interview with Tommy Hoehn back when Blue Orange was released in the
early part of this past decade. It was hard to get ahold of him, and I first
had to go through the owner of the label who released the albums (one of
Hoehn's exes) who put me on to Van Duren, who was very cool, and then to Hoehn
himself, who was kind of guarded but ended up talking quite freely about his
problems and how his career got off track for a while. I will say one thing,
every album released on Munster (the label also released some solo stuff by
Hoehn besides the two discs with Van Duren) was excellent. I liked those
duo discs the best but Hoehn's later solo work was very good and filled with
pop equal to his early solo albums. Very sad to hear he has actually passed
as I had hoped more discs with Van Duren would eventually be issued.
PS, thanks for the link on your blog, Mr. Holmes.
Scott Homewood
In a message dated 6/26/2010 10:51:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
bholmes_fm@msn.com writes:
> I wouldn't have known about this if not for your post and even earlier
> today
> was struggling to find confirmation. First Pete Quaife and now this (and
> Memphis still reeling from Chilton). I remember first finding Hoehn's
> record
> while trying to gobble up anything Memphisian I could get my hands on
> after
> discovering what was going on at Ardent. Was thrilled when he and Van
> Duren
> (whose Are You Serious was and still is a HUGE favorite of mine) got
> together for those albums in the 90s.
>
> http://drbristol.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/r-i-p-tommy-hoehn/
>
> b
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Leve" <snapcracklepopster@gmail.com>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 11:20 AM
> Subject: Another Memphis icon gone: RIP Tommy Hoehn
>
>
> >Doing the radio show right now and a longtime friend just called to
> >say Tommy Hoehn had died. I can't find confirmation from official
> >sources, but indeed there are a few Tweets already to this effect.
> >Another early loss from the great Ardent studios scene.
> >
> >-craig
> >
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