Ozark Mountain Daredevils Trivia

1. Way back in 1971, where did the Ozark Mountain Daredevils first come together as a band?

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Answer: Springfield, Missouri

The original band was called Family Tree and consisted of Larry Lee, Steve Cash, Michael Supe Granda, John Dillon, Buddy Brayfield, and Randle Chowning. After a few changes of name, they settled on Cosmic Corncob & His Amazing Ozark Mountain Daredevils, which they thankfully shortened.

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Answer: Springfield

All of the band members currently live in the Springfield area. It is also considered to be the birthplace of the band. They began playing at the New Bijou Theater in Springfield. The band suffered a major setback when the theater burned to the ground, and they lost some of their equipment.

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Answer: If You Wanna Get To Heaven

I still think that this debut album, affectionately known as "Quilt" due to its cover photo, is one of the best albums I have ever owned. Other tracks found here include "Chicken Train", "Standin' On The Rock" and "Black Sky". "If You Wanna Get To Heaven" got just outside the top 20 in both USA and Canada but their best seller by some distance was "Jackie Blue", a top ten hit in both countries as well as in New Zealand and South Africa. Of the other possible answers, all were top five hits in USA Billboard Hot 100 in 1974, "Come And Get Your Love" for Redbone, "Oh My My" was Ringo Starr's follow up to "You're Sixteen" and "The Show Must Go On" was a Three Dog Night cover of the Leo Sayer track.

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Answer: Granny's Bathwater

One of John Dillon's first bands was called Granny's Bathwater. The final name of the band was inspired by Commander Cody, one of the band's heroes. Their entire name was Cosmic Corncob and His Amazing Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

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Answer: Steve Cash

The Meq are an ancient race of people from the Basque Pyrenees, who even when they are hundreds of years old, retain the outward appearance of a 12 year old. The first in the trilogy was "The Meq" (2002) and was followed by "Time Dancers" (2006) and "The Remembering" (2011). Cash can be heard singing playing harmonica on the majority of the Ozark's albums.

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Answer: Quilt

Mules were featured on the cover of the "Men From Earth" album, the "Car Over the Lake" album showed a car, and "It'll Shine When It Shines" displayed a china plate.

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Answer: Rune Walle

Walle was a Norwegian guitarist that the boys had met on the tour, who had been hailed at one point as "the Norwegian Bob Dylan". Taking a huge gamble, he left Norway and joined the band, with whom his first live gig was as support to the Beach Boys. Walle was with the band until 1980. Of the other answers, Bjorn Ulvaeus was a member of Swedish pop band ABBA, George Kooymans founded Dutch rockers Golden Earring, and Uli Jon Roth was guitarist with German giants, the Scorpions.

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Answer: Ozark Mountain Daredevils

"Ozark Mountain Daredevils" was the group's debut album. It was released in 1973, after being recorded in England. The group stayed at an estate called Headley Grange, where Led Zeppelin had recorded their fourth album. On this album are also two of my favorites, "Country Girl" and "Chicken Train".

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Answer: Michael "Supe" Granda

"Supe" is the only member of the band to have been a constant member, although he has also recorded with other artists, most notably The Flying Burrito Brothers offshoot, Burrito Deluxe, with whom he recorded two albums, and his own side project, Supe and The Sandwiches.

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Answer: Larry Lee

When the band received notice that their record deal with Columbia was going to be dropped, Larry decided it was time to take a break from the band. He moved to the Nashville area and became a producer for groups like Alabama and Restless Heart.

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Answer: The Car Over The Lake

This 1975 album had a cover featuring a car over a lake which was based on one of the band's old college gig posters. Unlike the previous two albums, which had given the band Billboard Hot 100 success with "If You Want To Get To Heaven" (1973) and "Jackie Blue" (1975), this album failed to generate any hit singles, but had some good tracks, in particular "Keep On Churnin'" and "Time Warp".

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Answer: Clarence and Roscoe

Clarence and Roscoe lived near Supe Granda during the time the "Men From Earth" album was being recorded. Occasionally Roscoe, who played the harmonica, would play along as the band practiced. Clarence and Roscoe posed for the picture in exchange for $400. They needed the money to replace a stolen chainsaw and shotgun.

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Answer: Saw

The singing saw is a regular hand saw, played as a musical instrument and can be played with a violin bow, although often a simple wooden dowel is used as a bow. Ozark Mountain Daredevils are no strangers to unusual instruments as also on their debut album, John Dillon played an Ozark mountain mouth bow on the track "Chicken Train".

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Answer: Jackie Blue

"Jackie Blue" was written by Larry Lee and was included on "It'll Shine When It Shines". The song made it to No. 3 in Billboard and hit the top of several other charts. In the early 80s it was inducted into the Million Air Club.

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Answer: Medicine

Brayfield's decision seems to have paid off as he received his medical degree from A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona and has been a respected general practitioner and palliative care doctor in Missouri for many years, although as a doctor, he does go by his birth name of Samuel not Buddy. He still finds time to perform at occasional concerts with the band, although these appearances are now very few and far between.

From Quiz Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Part 1

Answer: keep it in your pocket.

John says that he "didn't understand that for a while, then I realized the way you learn how to play harmonica is by keeping it in your pocket." The idea was that if John carried the harmonica all the time he would always have it handy for practice. John passed his mother's advice on to Steve Cash, who said that he eventually made a sound or two that he thought was OK!

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Answer: Reading

The fact that a band, still largely unknown in UK, was so high on the bill says a lot about the high regard the Ozarks were held in. The other headliners from this year were Hawkwind and Wishbone Ash, with artists such as Joan Armatrading, UFO, Thin Lizzy and Judas Priest playing as support acts. Dulwich festival is a poetry festival, Hay is a literary festival and Crickhowell is a walking and hiking festival.

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Answer: 35 years

Their first album was released in 1973. Steve Cash says that when John Dillon asked him to be in the band, he replied "I've never been in a band." John replied, "It doesn't matter, probably won't last anyway."

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Answer: Smashing Pumpkins

Although "Jackie Blue" wasn't included on the Smashing Pumpkins' original release of their 1994 "Pisces Iscariot" album, it was on the 2012 reissue. The album also featured covers of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" and "Venus In Furs" originally done by the Velvet Underground.

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Answer: Larry Lee and Steve Cash

Larry Lee and Steve Cash attended Parkview High School in Springfield. Randle Chowning is from Mountain View, Arkansas. John Dillon was born and raised in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and Supe Granda is from St. Louis.

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