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WikiProject LDS
editHello! I noticed you were on the list of members in the LDS WikiProject, and I was wondering if you were still interested in helping out there. You see, over the past few months, it appears that it has slowly drifted into inactivity. But you CAN help. Please consider doing both of the following:
- Take ONE thing form the To-Do list and do it. Once you're done with it, remove it from the list, and from the<>{{Template:LDSprojectbox}}<>, so we know its done. Keep the page on your watchlist. We have a backlog going for more than half a year. Please help to work on it, and remove it.
- Vote on the LDSCOTF, and work on it!
- Tell your friends (esp. LDS friends, & esp. Wikipedian friends) about this WikiProject, and enocourage them to join (and be active).
Remember: your involvement in this WikiProject is just that - involvement! Please help us out.
(Note: I'm sending this out to everyone who's name was on the membership list, so I will NOT be watching this page for a response. If you want to contact me, do it on MY talk page, please.)
Thanks for all that you do -Trevdna 15:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Ping
editInfo for the forthcoming Jim Ringer article
edit<a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kpfixqu5ldje~T1">All Music Guide page</a>
All Music bio (by Sandra Brennan): At one time, it appeared as though singer/songwriter Jim Ringer would be a major star; instead, he wound up as a cult figure with a small but devoted following. He was born in Yell County in the Arkansas Ozarks; during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s, his family migrated to California's Central Valley. It was a rough life, and by 18, Ringer was serving a three-year prison sentence. For a few years afterward, he was a transient hopping freight trains from job to job until 1969, when he became a professional musician. Two years later, he was a hippie in Berkeley, where he and 12 other friends bought a 1948 Chevy school bus and formed the Portable Folk Festival; the group spent 1971 touring the country and performing. Near the end of the year, Ringer began performing with Kenny Hall & the Sweet's Mill String Band; he cut an album with them in 1972. That year, he also cut his first solo album, Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go, for Folk-Legacy Records. After meeting singer Mary McCaslin in 1972, Ringer teamed up professionally and personally with her, but continued to play individually too. In 1973, Ringer signed to Philo and released Good to Get Home. Two more albums followed in the subsequent three years. After he and McCaslin were married, they recorded a duet for Philo called "The Bramble and the Rose." Ringer signed to Flying Fish in 1981 and recorded Endangered Species, which produced the highly touted "Whiskey and Cocaine" and featured performances by the Dillards, the Burrito Brothers, and the Hot Band. He and McCaslin split up in 1989, and three years later, Ringer died on St. Patrick's Day.
Discography:
1972 Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go (Folk-Legacy) 1973 Good to Get Home (Philo) 1975 Any Old Wind That Blows (Philo) 1977 Tramps & Hawkers (Philo) 1981 Endangered Species (Flying Fish) 1996 The Best Of Jim Ringer: The Band Of Jesse James (Philo)
Review of Bramble & The Rose: http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p01383.htm Mary McCaslin Site: http://www.marymccaslin.com/ Interview with Kenny Hall mentioning Jim Ringer: http://www.lineonline.org/kenny.html Interview with Dave Alvin mentioning Jim Ringer: http://www.omahacityweekly.com/article.php?id=1200 More stories about Jim: http://julianwinston.com/music/steel_wool.php