American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard said that masks erased the differences between people.     One day in 1958 or ’59, professional optician and “dedicated amateur” photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925 – May 7, 1972) bought a few dozen masks in a branch of Woolworths in Lexington, Kentucky. “He immediately liked their properties,” said his son Christopher, who was with him at the time. “They were latex and had a very unique odor. In the summer they could be hot and humid.” A 13-year project began in which Meatyard invited friends and family and friends to wear a mask for a photo. “He picked the environment first,” Christopher told the Smithsonian. “Then he’d look at the particular light in that moment in that place, and start composing scenes using the camera.”     “[in a mask] the idea of a person, a photograph, say, of a young girl with a title ‘Rose Taylor’ or the title ‘Rose’ or no title at all becomes an entirely different thing,. ‘Rose Taylor’ is a specific person, whether you know her nor not. ‘Rose’ is more generalized and could be one of many Roses – many people. No title, it could be anybody.” – Ralph Eugene Meatyard     “He said he felt like everyone was connected, and when you use the mask, you take away the differences.” – Mary Browning Johnson, who sat for Meatyard     “I realized that even though you have the mask, your body language completely gives you away. It’s as if you’re completely naked, completely revealed.” – Emmet Gowin, who sat for Meatyard     Meatyard talked about his use of masks and dolls in an interview with the University of Louisville in 1970: “There’s a number of books by a number of writers on how things are masked and how masks are done. I’ve read some but I haven’t read all of them by any means. All about faces but that sort of thing has never really been an influence on me other than that – the main reason is I’ve used them to make a particular person less particular and more universal. You see, sometimes wherever I want the feeling of a human being– this has a great deal to do with a picture whether you’re making – I’ll take a picture of this wall; it’s one thing and you add a feeling of humanness in it and that makes a lot of difference. You couldn’t put a fish up there and get the same feeling as if you had a doll up there. The feeling of having something that represents life rather than non-life is important in a lot of my pictures. “I don’t know if you’ve seen any where I’ve used dolls, but I’ve used dolls a number of times in conjunction with masks and instead of, as I said, instead of people and along with people. 01:06:00They do sort of the same sorts of things. I used them in sculptures for the very same reason that they are people and belong.”     “Creative pictures must be felt in a similar way as one listens to music, emotionally, without expecting a story, information or facts.” – Ralph Eugene Meatyard       Ralph Eugene Meatyard lived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he made his living as an optician while creating an impressive and enigmatic body of photographs. Meatyard’s creative circle included mystics and poets, such as Thomas Merton and Guy Davenport, as well as the photographers Cranston Ritchie and Van Deren Coke, who were mentors and fellow members of the Lexington Camera Club. Meatyard’s work spanned many genres and experimented with new means of expression, from dreamlike portraits – often set in abandoned places—to multiple exposures, motion-blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. He also collaborated with his friend Wendell Berry on the 1971 book The Unforeseen Wilderness, for which Meatyard contributed photographs of Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. Meatyard’s final series, The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, are cryptic double portraits of friends and family members wearing masks and enacting symbolic dramas.  – Ogden Museum     Via: Smithsonian, Ogden Museum of Southern Art   The post Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls appeared first on Flashbak.

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“This is about… lovin’ older ladies…” Tyler Childers made a number of headlines this morning, first by performing “Long Violent History” for the first time ever at the Hollywood Bowl last night, but then in the wee hours of the morning, dropped a cryptic new teaser what is safe to assume will be his next album, or at least, a new single. Featuring our old friend Casey, who has starred in a number of Tyler Childers music videos, there seems to be a handful of potential Easter Eggs in the video, including “Nose On The Grindstone” playing in the background and some kind of weird looking chicken at the end (that’s not a Jersey Giant for everybody freaking out about it). To be honest, it doesn’t look like any kind of real bird so maybe it’s a reference to “Snipe Hunt”? Snipes are real birds though so not entirely sure I understand the origins of that joke… But the big one is that the girl waiting to get her hair done is named “Oneida,” and that has fans convinced Tyler might finally be recording it. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tyler Childers (@timmytychilders) So… let’s dive into this unreleased fan favorite: “Oneida” Quite a few years back, fall of 2016 to be exact, Tyler Childers made a return visit to Red Barn Radio where he brought out a song that had been “collecting dust” in his catalog, as he put it, since back in 2013 when he wrote it. Called “Oneida,” it’s a top-notch story of a younger man entranced by an older woman. And in pure Tyler Childers fashion, the writing is superb. Just take a look at the first two verses: “Back before birthdays were something she dreads Back before children had settled her friends Back when the radio spoke to her heart Oh, girls they wanna have fun I lay here awake and I laugh at her jokes She is referencing movies I’m too young to know And I’m letting her lead as we dance in the dark Oh girl, I’m falling in love” At that 2016 Red Barn Radio session, Tyler confessed that he had only played it a handful of times, and even to this day, it’s at the bottom of the list. According to Setlist.com, he’s only performed it about a dozen times over the course of his career, and many of them have been in the past few years. His first full band performance of the song came just a few years ago in 2022. Tyler Childers is unquestionably the type of artist who has an innumerable amount of awesome, uncut songs in his back pocket, many of which, will never ever see the light of day. But given the fact that he’s working on a new album with Rick Rubin, a man who is famous for pushing artists out of their comfort zone, wouldn’t he be the perfect producer to capture the magic of some of these old songs? Might be… RCA Chairman and CEO Peter Edge, said it should be coming out in the next few months, and it defies expectations: “I’m really excited about Tyler Childers’ new album, which is produced by Rick Rubin. He defies expectations, and this new album goes even further. The great thing about Tyler is that he does it the way he wants to do it. He’s playing giant venues, and he’s making the music he wants to make.” To be fair, I don’t think Tyler will be recording a full album of these long lost gems, and I’m not even 100% convinced that he recorded “Oneida.” It just seems so unlike him, but then again, working with Rick Rubin also seems so unlike him, so it’s anybody’s guess. Generally, when it comes to musical releases like this, it’s not the most obvious answer that is correct, and in this case, a studio recording of “Oneida” seems like the obvious answer to this teaser. I suppose we’ll just have to wait until tomorrow morning to see… For my money though, out of all of these unreleased songs that we’ve come to know and love over the years, “Oneida” is one of his best. The post “This Is About Lovin’ Older Ladies” – A Look Back At “Oneida,” The Unreleased Song Tyler Childers Fans Are Raving About first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Dolly Parton is as real and good as they come. On March 16th, 1991 seven of Reba’s band members, as well as her tour manager, were tragically killed in a plane crash flying from a show near San Diego, California. They had performed for a group of IBM executives, and had planned to go straight from there to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her tour manager Jim Hammon, keyboardist and bandleader Kirk Cappello, fellow keyboardist Joey Cigainero, drummer Tony Saputo, guitarists Michael Thomas and Chris Austin, bassist Terry Jackson and backup singer Paula Kaye Evans, as well as the two pilots, Donald Holmes and Christopher Hollinger, were all killed that day. Reba almost ended up on the plane, as well, but had decided last minute to stay the night in San Diego because she was still dealing with a bout of bronchitis. Her then-husband, Narvel Blackstock, and stylist, Sandy Spika, stayed the night with her. The rest of her crew left in two separate planes from a private airport, but the first of the two that took off crashed just 10 minutes from the airport. The tragic incident led her to write an album, For My Broken Heart, dedicated to her beloved band and crew members, which she added in the liner notes was: “A form of healing for all our broken hearts.” In her 1994 autobiography Reba: My Story, she says that she was jolted awake at 2AM by her hotel phone ringing. At first, she thought an excited fan had gotten the number to her room, or that someone possibly had the wrong number. But it was Roger Woolsey on the other line, Reba’s pilot, who wanted Narvel to come up to his room immediately. Roger quickly got dressed to go up there, and he couldn’t even answer any of Reba’s questions about what was going on as he hurried up to get more details. She recounted some of the details from that night in her book: “I sat upright in bed. I wouldn’t lie down again until the next night at my home in Tennessee. Later, Narvel would describe Roger as being white as a sheet when he walked into his room. ‘I watched everybody get on both planes,’ Roger said to Narvel. ‘Both planes taxied to the end of the runway and I got in my car to come back to the hotel.’” Ultimately, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported that Holmes, the main pilot, had called an FAA service specialist to find out how long he needed to wait to take off. He was told he could take off immediately if he used if he used “visual flight rules,” which means he was required to know the area and terrain. He called back two more times before they took off, but mainly because he wanted to confirm he wouldn’t cross into the complex map of controlled air space in the region. According to Biography.com, he was told it was fine to direct the plane northeast and remain below 3,000 feet. A few minutes after takeoff, around 1:45AM, they were flying at 3,300 feet when the left wing clipped an outcropping of 3,500-foot Otay Mountain, sending it into the rocky peak with a massive explosion. It was an awful tragedy that still deeply affects Reba to this day, and shortly after the crash, Reba would go on to win ACM Female Vocalist of the Year in 1991, and she dedicated that win to her band: It was an extremely traumatic situation, obviously, and though Reba went onto have a legendary career, it was her friend Mrs. Dolly Parton who showed up big-time during Reba’s time of need and sadness. In a recent interview with Variety, Reba recalled some of the times she has gotten to work with Dolly in the past, notably on the duet the reimagining of the duet “Does He Love You” in 2022, and Dolly even appeared on Reba’s hit self-titled sitcom many years ago, though it was how Dolly stepped up in the early 90’s that still makes Reba emotional. She explained that Dolly called her right after the crash to offer comfort, and also offered to let Reba use her band and do anything else she needed to try to keep her career obligations going as best as she could during that awful time. Reba was visibly emotional talk abut how Dolly ultimately sent her band leader, Gary Smith, to help put a new band together. Along with Vince Gill, who also offered to play with her as well as letting her use his band, Reba says they were “right there for me the whole time”: “I also got to record ‘Does He Love You’ with Dolly Parton. She is a dream come true, getting to work with her. I mean, she beat you there. That was so aggravating to me. I was going to be there ready to go, shoot the first thing that we were gonna do, and then Dolly would come in. Well, for some reason, the trailer I was gonna use on set, the air conditioning broke down or something was wrong. And so I had to go by my office, get ready there, and then come to the set. Dolly was already there. I wanted to beat her there so bad to show her the hospitality, welcoming and everything, but she’s a sweetheart. She did the ‘Reba’ TV show with me, came on an episode. When I lost my band in ’91 to a plane crash, Dolly called me, she said, ‘What do you need? Do you want my band?’ She sent Gary Smith, her band leader, to put a band together for me. She and Vince Gill were right there for me the whole time.” Just impeccable person, and another example of Dolly’s pure heart and genuine kindness that makes her so special. You can tell how much that gesture still means to Reba to this day, and it’s inspiring to hear about how Dolly has always gone out of her way to help others: @varietymagazine Reba McEntire talks about collaborating with Dolly Parton. #PowerOfWomen ♬ original sound – Variety “Does He Love You” The post Reba Gets Emotional Talking About How Dolly Parton Offered Her Whole Band To Keep The Tour Going Following Tragic Plane Crash In 1991 first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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