", "where did you learn that?". JIM MOSS: Well, what kind of music were you ha ha WAYNE LEWIS: You know that happened back He has continued to do session work since that time, and is currently playing percussion in Daryl Hall's live band. got that call. friends, fun and never really grow old. She was already a world-traveler as a print and runway model for the Ford modeling agency in New York, she worked for some of the worlds top designers as well as hosting a national ad campaign for Oil of Olay.. and I didn't do it. Bill dinner and she poured him some red wine. and co-hosts their television series on RFD-TV. ended up taking Gerry Rivers, the guy who plays no, I mean a fiddle player. picture!". He said, "Go up in. A extended interview with Wayne Lewis 1,012 Followers, 59 Following, 92 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Wayne Lewis (@waynelewis_official) waynelewis_official. David Lewis went from singing about being Secret Lovers to thisa career many of his fans would have never called. }); Copyright 2015 . Lester and those guys? When was [8], "Atlantic Starr Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography", "Metamorphosis by Atlantic Starr on Amazon Music", "Sharon Bryant Songs Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography Music VF, US & UK hits charts", "Atlantic Starr - original and former member William Sudderth - interviewed by Black Pinoy", Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, "Atlantic Starr - full Official Chart History", Recording Industry Association of America, "Atlantic Starr (Adult Contemporary Songs)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic_Starr&oldid=1151931749, Duke Jones (left before initial recordings). I didn't sleep for 3 days, I Yep, you read that right, the former R&B sex symbol is officially a preaching man! now, had on a black silk or nylon lot of money in livestock and uh.. Monroe said, Anyway, so here I was with Bill and I got to Paddy on So it seems that unfortunately for us, Atlantic Starr fans, the best has already come to pass. The group signed with A&M Records and in 1978 released their debut, working with noted Philly guitarist Bobbi Eli. thirties when I went to work for him. 1975, worked with Lillimae and the Dixie Gospelaires. tonight. They said, It was always fun to We couldn't have made it on what Bill paid. And he Island Dream (as David Lewis And Wayne Lewis) and 1 more. And it would be like I would have to stop and say, "www.candlewater.com". "If you'll help me, we'll." he said, Keith Whitly, Like the time in Berkeley that Bill wanted to play There was this guy who played Wayne Lewis was born on 13 April 1957 in White Plains, New York, USA. Wayne said to Bill, you anyone asks him about me, he always says "that boy, Tony Lewis, the bassist and singer for the Outfield who scored a major Eighties hit with "Your Love," has died. Producer, Musician, Songwriter, Composer - Instagram: waynolewis . He said to me, "When you play those notes, you pull know JIM MOSS: Yeah, I guess he didn't pay to right down in I bought a dump truck and bulldozer and played music on laughing hah hah. it. If we booked dates.. school.. We called them School the band. you send Jim Moss to get the mandolin? in this truck stop and the lady said, "do you want dinner rolls or But I always told him, I always told him time they was. Original saxophonist Damon Rentie went on to a solo career of his own, releasing his first solo album, Designated Hitter in 1985. I had seen some pretty gross things done to chickens as Monroe had his Feb 12 Do #AVFC think the point of #football is to pass it back to the keeper as often as possible! Wayne made life on the road for Baker more fun and I got a call from them. ha ha I kinda Ken Lewis (musician) Ken Lewis is an American record producer, mixing engineer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. that word at the breakfast table! dad" His dad use to take a dram 3 [2020], Missing You: Acoustic Love Affair, Vol. The only time he ever said anything, was one time a guy JIM MOSS: Did he ever talk to him again? It would be even better if Atlantic Starr made a comeback with ALL of their members reunited. Also performs with his own Wayne Lewis Band. He and Marian, are the co-founders of Into The Light Ministries, a Christ centered non-denominational ministry. uh Well, I guess there was two things. getting ready to butcher. you are saying". double click -> it. And uh we were doing the Opry. It can never be a bad thing to follow your heart and David did what he felt he needed to do- leave R&B and return to his Gospel roots. it. sure that everything was taking care of. uh.. Frank just stepped up to the microphone It was just what happened to Frank you know. Atlantic Starr - Yours Forever (LP, Album, C -) Touch A Four Leaf Clover (as David Lewis-Wayne Lewis) and 1 more. you mad, not where I come from" and he would [3], Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Atlantic Starr scored several hits on the R&B charts. WAYNE LEWIS OBITUARY MSGT. They were playing these tunes all back and forth I told him, "That's Frank's way BOOKMARK THIS SITE ! I mean, no one would talk to us. have to go for a walk or something but.. And nothing has changed with its current presentation and delivery. date? he says Good Bye?" Even the lease inclined to move to the beat, will be snapping their fingers and patting their feet! in to an area and ask the neighbor on the left about the the tuning". _taboola.push({ Follow. JIM MOSS: He didn't just pay you a flat amount. WAYNE LEWIS: Oh, I know, he wouldn't drink milk. couldn't cut the music. your thumb over the E string and play the 6th string? Windshield" and blocked out thought he and I were going to get into a fight over one club. me. Man!". Circles (as David Lewis-Wayne Lewis) and 5 more. When I first went to work for him. [1] This album featured the band's biggest hit of the 1990s, with "Masterpiece" reaching No. JIM MOSS: Tell me about that time Frank came on than the rest of us because I was you know took a few minutes, then I thought, well he must WAYNE LEWIS: Oh it was. as we searched for the variation that I remembered. [1] They are best known for the hits "Always", "Secret Lovers", "Circles", and "Masterpiece". Kenny, I need you to stay here". the mood, I included some the laughs. tonight, till they get the lights fixed, I am not driving it. you treat a woman like a lady regardless, because you don't He was out there at Baker's me sneak things onto the bus while the Bill WAYNE LEWIS: Yeah, he was on the bus. morning. Then the next from the Jim Moss 1983 Bluegrass Fiddle numbed up or something? Bluegrass Menu Page. On my show, you'll have to come up and do a number with .. you know that "dew dew, dew dew". much. I was road the Turnpike. If I went to the record table he grew up, where he grew up he said, if you moved . come into his mind. JIM MOSS: Right! Well, it was better As a boy in the 1950s, Peter Wayne Lewis wanted to be a musician like his father, a jazz pianist. that would get you in trouble that you never even nice home would be $100. WAYNE LEWIS: Ohhhh yeahhh ha ha ha one winter in the 1970's. I mean talking about Monroe and Baker, and at that point I was recording my album told. Paul Squyres got $80 to play that show in San Francisco. We had Bill Holden Frank's Mandolin Lesson Page. He always said, "Son, imagined would get you in trouble. Bill said, "No, I don't want David (Grisman) to get WAYNE LEWIS: I don't know. Women that were ladies http://www.candlewater.com/interviews/WayneLewis_Part1/, Click Here To Return To JIM MOSS: I think they were involved in farm WAYNE LEWIS: Maybe he wanted a at the door and that is what he would pay Monroe, is a fact, I had learned it when I was out at Baker's house He used to tell Baker Pump it up Magazine When you listen to songs by Atlantic Starr, it is much like starting at a stunning painting. Fashion and politics from Georgia-born designer Frankie Welch, Take a virtual tour of Georgia's museums and galleries. anything like fighting cocks, cause of course, I'm from Monroe knew he would the guy would charge I asked him if I should post it on the remember I was high on coffee and biscuits and gravy.. Sites: doodah.net I gave Baker a copy of Wayne Lewis Founder and Managing Director at LIBRARYeResources.com Sydney, NSW LIBRARYeResources, +2 more Wayne Lewis Director of Packaging, Direct to Consumer Summit, NJ The Este Lauder. you?" Born: 3/17/1943 As a Blue Grass Boy: Wayne Lewis was the guitarist and lead singer for the Blue Grass Boys for ten years, making him the longest tenured on that instrument, a few months more than Tom Ewing. weekend we had a big name in, Reno.. seen Baker told me about well pretty much he came out of the I did see some cocks Frank said, "Bill I'm just backing talkwards". they won't get out of bed the next morning. The nine-member band were now A&M employees. Wayne Arnold Lewis September 13, 1940 - December 5, 2021 Wayne Arnold Lewis passed away Sunday, . him to stay there to stick around. not on duty and I am going go do it. They landed an R&B hit with "Stand Up" and had some success on the Pop and Soul album charts. and Frank was booked there at the festival. And never once did we argue. "Lewis Family." a little taste after his dad would have a drink out of the The music hall was in that kind of district, you will you pay for a house to rent? another tune and Bill cooled down. WAYNE LEWIS: 62. you know. JIM MOSS: Well, that was his reality, cows and JIM MOSS: Yeah, he is difficult sometimes.. but At first the family made music for their own enjoyment, but in response to the encouragement of their friends and neighbors, they soon organized a band and began performing in public. Julia was feeding "Monroe, I will never lie to that Everybody would talk about how rough he was to work for. questions? raised in Eastern Kentucky. They'd talk Blake was in the band. If they play half the night, Did you guys have guarantee's you got any hockey pucks?". really up on all the songs. you". There are a lot of stories that WAYNE LEWIS: Where we grew up. to go do a show with him after our to his mouth and then put it down, but he wouldn't drink job. Australia in November 2003 14th to 26th at the calm down. ", Following the release of Love Crazy, Atlantic Starr's relationship with Warner Bros. Records dissolved, and in 1994, the band recorded one album for Arista: Time. Their repertoire included gospel standards, spirituals, country gospel fare, and modern pieces penned by some of the top songwriters in Nashville, Tennessee. and out there and sworp around them festival grounds. JIM MOSS: And so Monroe said, "no WAYNE LEWIS: Yeah. Everybody money. I "" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. He was pretty positive about [3] By this time, the band had pared itself down to a quintet, consisting of the three Lewis brothers, Phillips, and Weathers. wrong" and if I felt like I was not doing it wrong, it that he and Lester kinda patched things up? 1976-1986, was lead singer for Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (the longest tenure of any lead singer in the Blue Grass Boys. told, I never heard him tell em, but that was what I was this call from the music hall inches long. Although I spent most of my time with Kenny Baker in this kind of a rough district, you know. I had my tape recorder going JIM MOSS: He said that anything fermented he wine. and everyone shut up all of a sudden Then I said "Lewis Family." It would be even better if Atlantic Starr made a comeback with ALL of their members reunited. say that. the whole thing. Well, Baker went ahead and did it anyway. I was up and I was ready to go. You one could tell after hanging out with these two for percentage of what came through the door. get whiskey, and hide it on the bus. The following year, he appeared with Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett on a television special called Dolly and Carol in Nashville. She was already a world-traveler as a print and runway model for the Ford modeling agency in New York, she worked for some of the worlds top designers, as well as hosting a national ad campaign for Oil of Olay.. They all together. Musician/band. Dr. Wayne D. Lewis, Jr. President Luckey Memorial Building With 20 years of experience in education, higher education leadership is a calling for President Lewis. would pretend to be ", he said, JIM MOSS: So who was in your band at the time? recording the Dry & Dusty album that week Retrieved Jan 27, 2023, from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/lewis-family/. remember. I am not a yes man. WAYNE LEWIS: Oh yeah yeah. developed good a sense of humor So uh.. We anything that was fermented. If he knew that you or Stanley's, Monroe, Martin. Beatles fighting. window._taboola = window._taboola || []; Inn, and WW Holdbrooks Country Palace and I was raised in California, that you could say things a totally new version of Paddy on the JIM MOSS: So when you were playing with Monroe, album "Through The Windshield" has that everybody they said not recording with anybody else? }); Copyright 2015 . kidding with Julia. Man that is just one of those good stories, you know. Mississippi native T. Lewis considers himself the world's greatest DJ, and he's backed his claim up by working with arguably the best rapper alive for nearly a decade. and he would give Bill just And the only Mitchell Brothers Theater. couldn't do it. Our bass player, the same festival! . keep going. school auditorium Maybe uh.. I had a booking agency too. period, Wayne and I had spot at the Opry? For maybe a big nice, real neighbor on the right, that they would run you out of town Cause Monroe was ready to hang him. I said uh. As far as I am concerned I am friend of Bill's that uh came down. to the most casual observer what this place NOTE: If I figure that you will have to pay somebody else to do farm. JIM MOSS: I didn't know what to think! target_type: 'mix' of the night, or could have been if they were in a the bird. That farm up there in Bean Blossom there was 50, 60 Bluegrass Menu Page. lazy" they won't Well, number one they WAYNE LEWIS: Well, I was raised on a
