From: Steve
Date: September 30, 2003
Yeah Duke, the old Cowhouse is no more. met leon long time ago at Cowboy Poet's Symposium in Ruidoso. The Nashville sound was evident for sure on the Kapps and Bob never liked what they did to his "style". I have the Turkey Day video where Tagg is MC-band leader along with Doc Townsend, it's a good one. Another great example of Tagg's singing is 1968 Cassette where Bob, Tagg, and Johnny Gimble are doing a dance in Llano, Texas. This is where excerpts have been used on Hugh Cherry's documentary on Bob where Bob says that (Tagg) here's the youngest son I have but his last name happens to be Lambert and he's a pretty good boy and guitar player" A story on Tagg and the Kapp recordings comes from the late Frank Booher, a good friend of Tagg's and Bob Wills fan. According to Frank as told to him by Tagg; Bob had promised Tagg he could sing "Faded Love" as Tagg had always wanted to sing it. Well, I guess Kapp officials had the final say on songs and cuts at that stage of his career and Tagg was told he would not be singing "Faded Love" The reason Harold Bradley is on guitar for part of the Kapp sessions is because Tagg got mad and disappeared for about two days in the joints of Nashville until Webb Pierce found him and told him "he needed to finish his commitments," what he was supposed to have started. Tagg went back and recorded some of those great songs you had mentioned earlier- never got to sing "Faded Love"