Comments on: YOU BESS YOUR WOODY HE WAS A “LADIES’” MAN http://www.power-pickers.com/rip-bess-hawes Musicians of the Flower Generation Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:42:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Steve Noceti http://www.power-pickers.com/rip-bess-hawes/comment-page-1#comment-9596 Steve Noceti Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:49:05 +0000 http://power-pickers.com/?p=1163#comment-9596 "Bless Bess" is sure right- she blessed all of us. I was instantly smitten when I took her American Folk Music classes at San Fernando Valley State College (now CSUN) in 1966-67. She was smart, thoughtful, straightforward, and tough, and what I would call a real lady. Two interesting things that Bess said about Woody: Someone in class asked her which song Woody thought was his best- she answered "East Texas Red"....it had everything he wanted to say about people being honorable and standing together during hard times (and the price for not being that way). I asked her about why Woody played Gibson guitars and she said, "Because you couldn't break them. He used to walk along holding his guitar by the neck, and he liked to drop it to the ground and bounce it back up into his hand". All of us Martin guitar guys really loved that one. Thanks so much for your words about this wonderful lady. “Bless Bess” is sure right- she blessed all of us. I was instantly smitten when I took her American Folk Music classes at San Fernando Valley State College (now CSUN) in 1966-67. She was smart, thoughtful, straightforward, and tough, and what I would call a real lady. Two interesting things that Bess said about Woody: Someone in class asked her which song Woody thought was his best- she answered “East Texas Red”….it had everything he wanted to say about people being honorable and standing together during hard times (and the price for not being that way). I asked her about why Woody played Gibson guitars and she said, “Because you couldn’t break them. He used to walk along holding his guitar by the neck, and he liked to drop it to the ground and bounce it back up into his hand”. All of us Martin guitar guys really loved that one. Thanks so much for your words about this wonderful lady.

]]> By: marion http://www.power-pickers.com/rip-bess-hawes/comment-page-1#comment-9580 marion Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:48:05 +0000 http://power-pickers.com/?p=1163#comment-9580 Thanks for the blog on Bess.Loved the group picture, too. Thanks for the blog on Bess.Loved the group picture, too.

]]> By: Jason Odd http://www.power-pickers.com/rip-bess-hawes/comment-page-1#comment-9578 Jason Odd Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:36:02 +0000 http://power-pickers.com/?p=1163#comment-9578 Creating folklore.. what's not to love about that? Bless Bess. Creating folklore.. what’s not to love about that?

Bless Bess.

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