I remember EQT when I was going to college at Mercer University in Macon, GA in '71 & '72. They opened for The Allman Brothers at a local bar in town, and one of my favorite songs by them was "Things I Think I'll Find." I have it on my channel ! Also, "Brown Sugar." Decades later I tried to find out some information about them in Discography, and as it would happen Dave Cantonwine lived only about 20 miles from me in SC !! I think they also had a member they called "Bear," who passed away. Thanks guys! I had the LP "Drinking Man's Friend," but people in dorms steal stuff...lol !! The Allman Brothers used to come on campus and do free concerts when they weren't on the road.✌👍🎶🎧🎸
I've got the Whiskey Woman Blues, yes I sure do. Miss hearing Donnie McCormick sing and perform. God he was a unique artist. Quoting Paul Hornsby, Donnie McCormick was a star probably closer to a superstar waiting just to happen. Donnie and EQT were the most versatile Southern act of the own styling just waiting for a break, that's all it's going to take, we just got to keep on singing no Blues. They had it all, everything but the hits. I don't know much of their time period in Memphis with Tony Joe White, Jerry Wexler, and Phil Walden partnership named Oak Grove Music Group Inc. I think since Tony Joe White was managed by Phil Walden, was signed to Monument Records, knew major booking agents, and had a songwriter contract with Atlantic Records that with the additional funds being pumped into Macon by both Jerry Wexler and Atlantic Records to build a better recording studio than the original Red-Wal Studio and a brand new record company promoting a diverse line of styles starting with the purchase of Duane Allman's contracts with Rick Hall of FAME Studios in Florence Alabama by Jerry Wexler and many initial signings in the James Taylor style resulting in the first Top 10 pop tunes by Jonathan Edwards who initially was signed by Atlantic Records but sent over to assist in the building of Capricorn Records
The night that I 1st heard and saw EQT it was June of 1974 in Athens Georgia at the now defunct Wall Street West. Time stood entirely still for the set from 11:15 pm to midnight. Then the bare closed since it was suddenly Sunday 😔 morning for this booksmart Yankee accountant and a CPA. It to me was a terrible waste of music that to me was so very foreign yet the blues was present with drummer singer extraordinary, Donnie McCormick from South Gulf Coast of Texas, Kingsville. First recording 3 singles with Abe Epstein and Vox recording studio for The Kings. Unfortunately achieving a #1 record in both the State of Texas and the Province of Ontario, Canada across the river in Detroit Michigan to the Thames River in the Eastern part of the Province the momentum was ruined by the drafting for US service in 1964. But this was ruined by Stage 2 joining the US Navy on the buddy plan and 4 South Texans including The Kings guitar picker Tommy Carlyle. However for 3 years The Kings changed to The Original Eric Quincy Tate Group and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. The act playedvthe Mediterranean Sea and the Gibraltar to Norway with the USS Essex a jet aircraft carrier with EQT providing services from Greece, Crete, Malta, the French Rivers, Gibraltar, along France, the Dutch, Belgium, Norway and Germany from 1963 to 1966. Introduction by Tony Joe White to both Phil Walden, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, the Albert Brothers, the Dixie Flyers and the Memphis Horns and absolutely zero promotion of the Eric Quincy Tate 1st album released in 1970 on Atlantic Records in a partnership of White, Wexler, and Walden. Dowd was just paid for his time. So with heavy competition with many new and established acts. Eric Quincy Tate was released by Atlantic Records 1st edition 25,000 copies. Later in 2004 (?) Rhino Reissued the original 11 songs, an outtake never finished, and 7 of the original demos recorded at Capricorn by Tony Joe White were released. It was produced by Mason Williams with historical input by Tommy Carlyle to my knowledge and possibly Atlantic Records employees. It was published by Oak Grove Music Inc which is a corporation by Tony Joe White, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Phil Walden and Associates Inc and possible some others the Dixie Flyers, the Memphis Horns, the engineers from Memphis (Sounds of Memphis Studio) and Miami (Criteria). This is interesting that Paul Hornsby finally was interviewed. It is too sad his memory is slowed down and that he only gets less than 4 minutes and he in earlier interviews States that Capricorn Records manufacturers a half of a million albums using roughly half as promotional copies and that he thought that EQT sold 250,000 units unfortunately very slowly from 1971 to 1974 after the major fight over money and a weekly draw of a salary just like Phil Walden and Associates Inc did for the ABB (which makes no sense as they constantly booked); the same ordeal with the Marshall Tucker Band, Wet Willy, White Witch, Percy Sledge, Johnny Jenkins, and Cowboy as well as the studio staff of producers and engineers. If Paragon Booking Agency Inc had done a much better job of paying and keeping EQT working they could have afforded each other but Phil mishandled incoming money. If he wanted a Rolls Royce, well God damned it he earned it. Screw paying royalties to his bands. It doesn't look well upon a situation when you fail to pay Dicky Betts royalties for his Top 100s and Top 10 songs like Ramblin Man, the white drummer may have not desired Dicky's songs but after the split forcing him to clean up the act The outdoor venues had about 35% lower attendance since ABB didn't even play any songs composed by Betts yet when Duane was alive Dicky kept up.
Thanks buddy. I was a big fan of EQT back in Atlanta from 1974-1980. I didn’t know their history. That’s pretty cool Tony Joe White trying to help them out. Donnie was one of my favorite singers. Someone should have found something for these folks to do. They had so much potential.
Robert Ha.... Half or more of the bands had quit due to Paragon Booking Agency not keeping bands booked. I have trouble understanding because before Otis Redding died Phil and then Alan Walden controlled much of the bookings in the chitlin circuit and their reach included acts that recorded at STAX (Booker T and the MGs or Memphis Group, Sam and Dave, and many others thanks to Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records. Then three studios in the Muscle Shoals Alabama area FAME, the 1st, and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section or the Swampers financed by Jerry Wexler and Atlantic Records. The Dixie Flyers who backed up Tony Joe White until he just used a drummer with brushes and a Tom Tom less people less equipment less hassle.Then with Eric Quincy Tate Jerry Wexler attempts to steal the Flyers to be house session group in Miami at Criteria Studio unofficially known at Atlantic Records as Atlantic South Studio due to Wexler moving to Miami. The Flyers lasted 2 years and became homesick for Southern Memphis and barbecue while Miami has the glitz of Miami Vice and you really have to know your bar clientele, I want a girl, not a prostitute or gays. But Wexler did work their buts off paid them well and allot of the time they stayed at 461 Ocean Blvd which Clapton used in 1974 by then the Dixie Flyers were the backup band for Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge. Back Phil Walden and EQT. EQT says that Bunky Odem kept rejecting there recordings. The band was in Atlanta earning money supporting up to 7 musicians 2-4 road crew including a Union soundboard man who doubled as road manager except for some of the tours Paragon Booking Agency and Capricorn controlled. Capricorn provided a used equipment truck, a sound system, and New band equipment and sent them with Walden's hand picked road manager Russell Ballard who kept money to pay to Paragon 10% for jobs that EQT found on their own - the contract said that got 10%. Phil Walden and Associates Inc got 20% for management whether he found the funds, 5% to prmotion and publicist departments. The band paid travel expenses, they paid Union fees to handle equipment on stage that EQT EQT'S road crew didn't need help with. Capricorn was getting jobs in areas that they were known such as Memphis for concerts, Baton Rouge and New Orleans where they played with Dr John who had recorded an LP in Macon for Atlantic and it was played around signing with Capricorn but somebody in New Orleans offered better but EQT was somewhat known. They followed the Gulf Coast South playing Donnie McCormick and Tommy Carlyle's The Kings and also for a year they had used the EQT name based in Corpus Christi so they headlined and I think that Tony Joe White was with them. Then they headed West by Austin, San Antonio, Lubbock (Tommy's home). Donnie's brother lived in Corpus Christi, was a CPA, and kept some old family trusts and he sent Donnie quarterly checks, Donnie's remaining family lived in Kingsville where they played and in Brownsville on the border. Then from Lubbock they went to LA and San Francisco drove to Denver thru snow covered passes in the mountains, did Chicago then drove to New York and Massachusetts where they, Cowboy, Wet Willy, Alex and Livingston Taylor, Jonathan Edwards did some shares with the ABB getting paid while only one of the others opened unless in Boston the folk singers were popular. It was described by the VP of Promotions that before the ABB live broke they called for promotion or gigs and were hung up on and it was Capricorn what the f is this? So many people who could have done the job weren't able to. Al Kooper wanted to jump in and work with EQT on MCA and Sounds of the South and split with Phil after the 1st lp on Oak Grove Music the partnership with Tony Joe White, Phil Walden, and Jerry Wexler and by then TJW had fired Walden in 1971 and nobody stood up for EQT. They played sings from the Atlantic Records LP, Try a Little Harder, Hooker House, The Bream Are Still Biting In Ferriday. Capricorn LP, Brown Sugar, Texas Sand (should have been A Side of single), Somewhere In My Mind There Are Things I Think I'll Find, Can't Get Home For Your Party (deserved to be a single),Whiskey Woman Blues. EQT GRC 1975. There rejected Capricorn songs including No Rolling Boogie which was #44 with a red bullet the week that GRC closed stranding EQT in Fort Worth Texas after blowing ZZ Top off the stage with I think 11 encore. Chattahoochee Coochee Man rejected by Capricorn Honky Tonk Man rejected by Capricorn The long Jimmy Reed Medley was played on Album Oriented Rock FM stations everywhere. But Phil Walden threw a massive tantrum when they finally drove the 100 miles and asked for a regular weekly check which ABB, Cowboy, Marshall Tucker, Wet Willy were getting. They had live in girls or wives and kids. They had done their song Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. Well I've been playing around in nightclubs for ten or fifteen years now I want tell you all about one of our favorite beers. It's the Drinking Man's Friend all around this big old country and gets got cool blue flavor etc. The even did a video before MTV and a Commercial. It was too be the lead single with Honky Tonk Man/No Rolling Boogie Chattahoochee Coochee Man The Letter El Vagabondo Little Sparrow Baby Please Don't Go Don't Let Me Loose This Dream 96 Tears The Thrill Is Gone You Are My Sunshine The Happy Song 2 lps and if they had purchased the 6 The Kings songs Plus 2 songs that EQT put out themselves. With ABB Wexler and Walden bought the Allman Joys, 2 Hourglass lps, and some material at FAME. All of this was released by Capricorn on Duane Allman Anthology LPS. The hard to believe story. But every major city has the. They give up trying to make it and play bars.
@@rexfelton2312 thanks Rex. I didn’t know all this about EQT. I first learned of them when I was going to college in Milledgeville Georgia back in1975. A friend turned me on to the EQT album. I was blown away. These guys were tearing it up. Donnie’s voice and Bear on that 335 did wonders for my soul. I moved to Atlanta in 77 and if they were playing anywhere around Atlanta, I was going. But I didn’t know they did all that for Capricorn. I’m a huge Duane Allman fan. And I know a lot about ABB history but I didn’t know of the affiliation with Tony Joe White and so on. I sure miss those days. When I was living in Atlanta I was constantly going to shows. One band I saw opened up for Charlie Daniels. The were called Mamas Pride. Damn they sounded good. Their singer, Pat Liston, reminded a lot of Donnie McCormick. I also got to see them, Mamas Pride, open and remain on stage for Gregg Allmans band. Anyway thanks for your comments.
I loved Music in both DC and Atlanta. In Ohio it's 2+ hours to the best concerts although Marshall Tucker plays barbecue shows many of the band played with Donnie's solo projects Charlie Daniels played here at a refurbished theater 3 times and I spent some time with. Willy Nelson played and I was planning a Civil War tour but it was canceled so the executive director got me a backstage pass and I gave some of Donnie's material to him and even smoked Willy Weed that night 🌙.
Thanks guys for the kind words
I remember EQT when I was going to college at Mercer University in Macon, GA in '71 & '72. They opened for The Allman Brothers at a local bar in town, and one of my favorite songs by them was "Things I Think I'll Find." I have it on my channel ! Also, "Brown Sugar." Decades later I tried to find out some information about them in Discography, and as it would happen Dave Cantonwine lived only about 20 miles from me in SC !! I think they also had a member they called "Bear," who passed away. Thanks guys! I had the LP "Drinking Man's Friend," but people in dorms steal stuff...lol !! The Allman Brothers used to come on campus and do free concerts when they weren't on the road.✌👍🎶🎧🎸
Very cool!
Love Donnie
I got to find me a whiskey woman!!!
EQT. Was Great
I've got the Whiskey Woman Blues, yes I sure do. Miss hearing Donnie McCormick sing and perform. God he was a unique artist. Quoting Paul Hornsby, Donnie McCormick was a star probably closer to a superstar waiting just to happen. Donnie and EQT were the most versatile Southern act of the own styling just waiting for a break, that's all it's going to take, we just got to keep on singing no Blues. They had it all, everything but the hits. I don't know much of their time period in Memphis with Tony Joe White, Jerry Wexler, and Phil Walden partnership named Oak Grove Music Group Inc. I think since Tony Joe White was managed by Phil Walden, was signed to Monument Records, knew major booking agents, and had a songwriter contract with Atlantic Records that with the additional funds being pumped into Macon by both Jerry Wexler and Atlantic Records to build a better recording studio than the original Red-Wal Studio and a brand new record company promoting a diverse line of styles starting with the purchase of Duane Allman's contracts with Rick Hall of FAME Studios in Florence Alabama by Jerry Wexler and many initial signings in the James Taylor style resulting in the first Top 10 pop tunes by Jonathan Edwards who initially was signed by Atlantic Records but sent over to assist in the building of Capricorn Records
Donnie was Great And Bear
I was extremely impressed with Joe on his keys, his up rite tack honky tonk piano and then the stuff he did on a Hammond B-3 Organ was remarkable.
The night that I 1st heard and saw EQT it was June of 1974 in Athens Georgia at the now defunct Wall Street West. Time stood entirely still for the set from 11:15 pm to midnight. Then the bare closed since it was suddenly Sunday 😔 morning for this booksmart Yankee accountant and a CPA. It to me was a terrible waste of music that to me was so very foreign yet the blues was present with drummer singer extraordinary, Donnie McCormick from South Gulf Coast of Texas, Kingsville. First recording 3 singles with Abe Epstein and Vox recording studio for The Kings. Unfortunately achieving a #1 record in both the State of Texas and the Province of Ontario, Canada across the river in Detroit Michigan to the Thames River in the Eastern part of the Province the momentum was ruined by the drafting for US service in 1964.
But this was ruined by Stage 2 joining the US Navy on the buddy plan and 4 South Texans including The Kings guitar picker Tommy Carlyle. However for 3 years The Kings changed to The Original Eric Quincy Tate Group and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.
The act playedvthe Mediterranean Sea and the Gibraltar to Norway with the USS Essex a jet aircraft carrier with EQT providing services from Greece, Crete, Malta, the French Rivers, Gibraltar, along France, the Dutch, Belgium, Norway and Germany from 1963 to 1966.
Introduction by Tony Joe White to both Phil Walden, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, the Albert Brothers, the Dixie Flyers and the Memphis Horns and absolutely zero promotion of the Eric Quincy Tate 1st album released in 1970 on Atlantic Records in a partnership of White, Wexler, and Walden. Dowd was just paid for his time. So with heavy competition with many new and established acts. Eric Quincy Tate was released by Atlantic Records 1st edition 25,000 copies. Later in 2004 (?) Rhino Reissued the original 11 songs, an outtake never finished, and 7 of the original demos recorded at Capricorn by Tony Joe White were released. It was produced by Mason Williams with historical input by Tommy Carlyle to my knowledge and possibly Atlantic Records employees. It was published by Oak Grove Music Inc which is a corporation by Tony Joe White, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Phil Walden and Associates Inc and possible some others the Dixie Flyers, the Memphis Horns, the engineers from Memphis (Sounds of Memphis Studio) and Miami (Criteria).
This is interesting that Paul Hornsby finally was interviewed. It is too sad his memory is slowed down and that he only gets less than 4 minutes and he in earlier interviews States that Capricorn Records manufacturers a half of a million albums using roughly half as promotional copies and that he thought that EQT sold 250,000 units unfortunately very slowly from 1971 to 1974 after the major fight over money and a weekly draw of a salary just like Phil Walden and Associates Inc did for the ABB (which makes no sense as they constantly booked); the same ordeal with the Marshall Tucker Band, Wet Willy, White Witch, Percy Sledge, Johnny Jenkins, and Cowboy as well as the studio staff of producers and engineers. If Paragon Booking Agency Inc had done a much better job of paying and keeping EQT working they could have afforded each other but Phil mishandled incoming money. If he wanted a Rolls Royce, well God damned it he earned it. Screw paying royalties to his bands. It doesn't look well upon a situation when you fail to pay Dicky Betts royalties for his Top 100s and Top 10 songs like Ramblin Man, the white drummer may have not desired Dicky's songs but after the split forcing him to clean up the act The outdoor venues had about 35% lower attendance since ABB didn't even play any songs composed by Betts yet when Duane was alive Dicky kept up.
Thanks buddy. I was a big fan of EQT back in Atlanta from 1974-1980. I didn’t know their history. That’s pretty cool Tony Joe White trying to help them out. Donnie was one of my favorite singers. Someone should have found something for these folks to do. They had so much potential.
Robert Ha.... Half or more of the bands had quit due to Paragon Booking Agency not keeping bands booked. I have trouble understanding because before Otis Redding died Phil and then Alan Walden controlled much of the bookings in the chitlin circuit and their reach included acts that recorded at STAX (Booker T and the MGs or Memphis Group, Sam and Dave, and many others thanks to Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records. Then three studios in the Muscle Shoals Alabama area FAME, the 1st, and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section or the Swampers financed by Jerry Wexler and Atlantic Records.
The Dixie Flyers who backed up Tony Joe White until he just used a drummer with brushes and a Tom Tom less people less equipment less hassle.Then with Eric Quincy Tate Jerry Wexler attempts to steal the Flyers to be house session group in Miami at Criteria Studio unofficially known at Atlantic Records as Atlantic South Studio due to Wexler moving to Miami. The Flyers lasted 2 years and became homesick for Southern Memphis and barbecue while Miami has the glitz of Miami Vice and you really have to know your bar clientele, I want a girl, not a prostitute or gays. But Wexler did work their buts off paid them well and allot of the time they stayed at 461 Ocean Blvd which Clapton used in 1974 by then the Dixie Flyers were the backup band for Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge.
Back Phil Walden and EQT. EQT says that Bunky Odem kept rejecting there recordings. The band was in Atlanta earning money supporting up to 7 musicians 2-4 road crew including a Union soundboard man who doubled as road manager except for some of the tours Paragon Booking Agency and Capricorn controlled. Capricorn provided a used equipment truck, a sound system, and New band equipment and sent them with Walden's hand picked road manager Russell Ballard who kept money to pay to Paragon 10% for jobs that EQT found on their own - the contract said that got 10%. Phil Walden and Associates Inc got 20% for management whether he found the funds, 5% to prmotion and publicist departments. The band paid travel expenses, they paid Union fees to handle equipment on stage that EQT EQT'S road crew didn't need help with. Capricorn was getting jobs in areas that they were known such as Memphis for concerts, Baton Rouge and New Orleans where they played with Dr John who had recorded an LP in Macon for Atlantic and it was played around signing with Capricorn but somebody in New Orleans offered better but EQT was somewhat known. They followed the Gulf Coast South playing Donnie McCormick and Tommy Carlyle's The Kings and also for a year they had used the EQT name based in Corpus Christi so they headlined and I think that Tony Joe White was with them. Then they headed West by Austin, San Antonio, Lubbock (Tommy's home). Donnie's brother lived in Corpus Christi, was a CPA, and kept some old family trusts and he sent Donnie quarterly checks, Donnie's remaining family lived in Kingsville where they played and in Brownsville on the border. Then from Lubbock they went to LA and San Francisco drove to Denver thru snow covered passes in the mountains, did Chicago then drove to New York and Massachusetts where they, Cowboy, Wet Willy, Alex and Livingston Taylor, Jonathan Edwards did some shares with the ABB getting paid while only one of the others opened unless in Boston the folk singers were popular. It was described by the VP of Promotions that before the ABB live broke they called for promotion or gigs and were hung up on and it was Capricorn what the f is this?
So many people who could have done the job weren't able to.
Al Kooper wanted to jump in and work with EQT on MCA and Sounds of the South and split with Phil after the 1st lp on Oak Grove Music the partnership with Tony Joe White, Phil Walden, and Jerry Wexler and by then TJW had fired Walden in 1971 and nobody stood up for EQT.
They played sings from the Atlantic Records LP, Try a Little Harder, Hooker House, The Bream Are Still Biting In Ferriday.
Capricorn LP, Brown Sugar, Texas Sand (should have been A Side of single), Somewhere In My Mind There Are Things I Think I'll Find, Can't Get Home For Your Party (deserved to be a single),Whiskey Woman Blues.
EQT GRC 1975.
There rejected Capricorn songs including No Rolling Boogie which was #44 with a red bullet the week that GRC closed stranding EQT in Fort Worth Texas after blowing ZZ Top off the stage with I think 11 encore. Chattahoochee Coochee Man rejected by Capricorn Honky Tonk Man rejected by Capricorn
The long Jimmy Reed Medley was played on Album Oriented Rock FM stations everywhere. But Phil Walden threw a massive tantrum when they finally drove the 100 miles and asked for a regular weekly check which ABB, Cowboy, Marshall Tucker, Wet Willy were getting. They had live in girls or wives and kids. They had done their song Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. Well I've been playing around in nightclubs for ten or fifteen years now I want tell you all about one of our favorite beers. It's the Drinking Man's Friend all around this big old country and gets got cool blue flavor etc. The even did a video before MTV and a Commercial. It was too be the lead single with Honky Tonk Man/No Rolling Boogie
Chattahoochee Coochee Man
The Letter
El Vagabondo
Little Sparrow
Baby Please Don't Go
Don't Let Me Loose This Dream
96 Tears
The Thrill Is Gone
You Are My Sunshine
The Happy Song
2 lps and if they had purchased the 6 The Kings songs
Plus 2 songs that EQT put out themselves.
With ABB Wexler and Walden bought the Allman Joys, 2 Hourglass lps, and some material at FAME. All of this was released by Capricorn on Duane Allman Anthology LPS.
The hard to believe story. But every major city has the. They give up trying to make it and play bars.
@@rexfelton2312 thanks Rex. I didn’t know all this about EQT. I first learned of them when I was going to college in Milledgeville Georgia back in1975. A friend turned me on to the EQT album. I was blown away. These guys were tearing it up. Donnie’s voice and Bear on that 335 did wonders for my soul. I moved to Atlanta in 77 and if they were playing anywhere around Atlanta, I was going. But I didn’t know they did all that for Capricorn. I’m a huge Duane Allman fan. And I know a lot about ABB history but I didn’t know of the affiliation with Tony Joe White and so on. I sure miss those days. When I was living in Atlanta I was constantly going to shows. One band I saw opened up for Charlie Daniels. The were called Mamas Pride. Damn they sounded good. Their singer, Pat Liston, reminded a lot of Donnie McCormick. I also got to see them, Mamas Pride, open and remain on stage for Gregg Allmans band. Anyway thanks for your comments.
I loved Music in both DC and Atlanta. In Ohio it's 2+ hours to the best concerts although Marshall Tucker plays barbecue shows many of the band played with Donnie's solo projects Charlie Daniels played here at a refurbished theater 3 times and I spent some time with. Willy Nelson played and I was planning a Civil War tour but it was canceled so the executive director got me a backstage pass and I gave some of Donnie's material to him and even smoked Willy Weed that night 🌙.