"A Little List"
Recorded @ Beaird Music, Nashville
John Allen Latta (C) 2011

   I started playing drums when I was five-years-old. It was 1956 when my parents finally agreed to let me take drum lessons... if I promised "to stick with it". 
   I made them pay for that little pun for decades; and they never, ever complained. 
    So, on a hot summer's night (in a back alley, upstairs room of a now defunct music store) a jazz trumpet player took me under his wing and my musical journey began. 
   It took me over a year to "earn" a snare drum and more than two to assemble a cocktail set of blue sparkle Slingerlands -- one drum, cymbal and pedal at a time! 
    It was all worth it, ultimately, as I ended up playing in working bands from the time I was seven and, sometimes, professionally for over thirty-five years.
    During those many years, and lately as well, I've had the pleasure of working in the studio, performing live, sitting-in and co-writing with some of the best musicians, songwriters, producers and vocal talent in the world. A partial list is below.
   About three years ago I began working in the studio again and writing some songs.
    Drummers are nothing if not tenacious...
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George Clinton:
Renowned Nashville producer of:
    Booker T & The MGs, Isaac Hayes, Alabama, Charley Pride, Reba McEntire, Shania Twain, KISS, Martina McBride, KT Oslin, Hank Williams Jr., John Anderson, The Time Jumpers (and many more!)
Produced the songs:
" Some Country"
" I'm Done! "
" When The Father's Gone " 
" Where'd Ya Get Them Jeans? "  
(re-written version 6/08)_____________________

Dan Drilling:
Grand 'Ol Opry musician, producer, engineer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist ~ produced, engineered and mastered:
"Perkins Road" [Male and Female]
"People Like Us"
"I Wanna Take You for a Drive"
And also played on, produced and engineered the recut demo of:
" Where'd Ya Get Them Jeans? "
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Ray Hamilton/Aristar Studios:
My friend David Teegarden (Bob Seeger Band, J.J. Cale), sent me to Ray, Pat Savage and the T-Towners; the rest is history. Ray produced:
" Where'd Ya Get Them Jeans? "
 & " Honky-Tonk n'Holler " 
Every ARISTAR song has been signed!__________________________

Some of the folks that have, over the years, put up with me... sometimes more than once!

Joe Haskew (& The De-Icers -1958),
Bob Lauer, Tommy Lokey,
John Rigney, Jimmy Strader,
Tommy Richard, Pat Murray,
Ronnie Dunn (Sorry about the safari-jackets, and all the Dewar's -- call me!)
Gus Hardin, Eldon Shamblin,
Bobby Scott, Hanson (Tulsa Educ. Srvc. Cntr. 1990), Valentino Pena,
 Steve Munson, Leon Rollerson,
Mike Moore, Troy Hanson,
Danny Dark (Voice Talent, Superman),
David Grothe (ORU Orchestra),
Joe Spivey (Fiddle, The Time Jumpers),
George Clinton (Bayou Studios),
Dan Drilling (Panda Productions),
Mike Johnson (Steel Guitar),
Sonny Gray, Gordon Shryock,
David Teegarden,
Betsy Smittle,  Larry Bell,
Pat Savage, Tawny Blissit,
Flash Terry, Ray Hamilton,
Donna Williams, Steve Pryor,
Jim Sweeney, Randy Crouch,
 Bill Brown, Mike Bruce, Earl Clark,
Jim Byfield, Bill Crosby,
Jim Bates, Pat (Taco) Ryan,
David Brown, Jeff Shadley,
Jimmie "Junior" Markham,
Mark Carpenter, Steve Panzerri, 
Mary Harrison, Rob Geoffs,
Pat McJimsey, Steve Bailey,
Phil Norvell, Melvin Grace,
G.Ary S.Mith, Bob Rozensky,
David Wolfe, Dan Humphrey,
Eric Kehr,  Sen. Jim Williamson,
Rick Alan West, Chet Latta,
John Purkey, Craig Bickhardt
 and many, many more !

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You can contact Johnny at
john@johnlatta.net
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