Dale Stokes Solo

The Andy Griffith Show is more than 60 years old
and it's still on TV every day.... somewhere...

I wrote these songs one weekend when I was planning on painting my house.
It rained the whole weekend, so I needed something to do...

When I play by myself I usually play mostly, if not all, covers of real songs because that's what most people want to hear. It's usually a pretty wide mix of upbeat blues, country, and older rockish things; nothing that hurts. If there's a need for something different, I also have several hours' worth of original music that can either fill up a show, or I can sprinkle in one now and then.

So I found these a while back, stuffed in a box from a few decades ago; It's a long story, and part of it is somewhere else on this site, but it boils down to this: For a few months way back, I recorded a jingle every few days for Jack Smith, who owned a music store. I set out to make the most obnoxious and awfullest commercials for his place for a local radio station in Conway, Arkansas. I was shooting for "really sucks" and boy did I nail it. I "performed" most of the jingles as Slim Whitman's third cousin, Lardbucket. I was told people came into the store wanting to see that Lardbucket guy, so I guess they did their job... And it was fun....

I apologize for any trauma that may result from people listening to these selections from the pile; I figured that I better not put more than this many here for the sake of everyone's mental health....

I can throw in a story or two between songs or just shut up and play; I usually leave that to whoever's listening or what the venue asks for. I always bring a setlist, but things happen and I never get halfway through it. Every time I show up is different, but I'm always shooting for a grin once in awhile...