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Tim Schuller
Born
Fredric Thomas Schuller

(1949-09-04)September 4, 1949
Ohio, U.S.
DiedFebruary 29, 2012(2012-02-29) (aged 62)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materKent State University at Salem
Occupation(s)Columnist, historian, music critic

Tim "Mit" Schuller (né Fredric Thomas Schuller; 4 September 1949 Salem, Ohio – 29 February 2012 Dallas, Texas) was an influential Dallas-Fort Worth-based music critic, who, for 37 years – from 1975 until his death – chronicled living blues and jazz musicians, mostly from Texas (particularly from the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the Southwest). He introduced emerging performers and gave readers fresh perspectives on those who were either overlooked or aged or forgotten or reclusive or retired. His contributions to books, periodicals, tabloids, newspapers, and boutique label liner notes became part of a Dallas-Fort Worth area revivalist movement in live and recorded music that reemerged in the 1970s and endures today, even internationally through recordings.

Some of his writings – notably those about Freddie King, Buster Smith, and Lightnin' Hopkins – stand as seminal sources that are cited in academic and encyclopedic publications. Schuller's work, collectively, represent a partial-anthology of live music, particularly blues, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area during the last quarter of the 20th-century and the first decade of the 21st-century. According to a Buddy magazine staff editor, Schuller provided blues pianist Boston Smith (né Boston Beverly Smith; 1907–1989) (Buster Smith's brother) with an epitaph worthy of his achievements.[1]

He also was an update editor of the 2002 revised edition of MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide (Schirmer Trade Books / Omnibus Press). At the time of his death, he had been writing a book, Scorning All Borders, about 30 years of writing about Texas jazz & blues artists.

Career[edit]

Schuller was born September 4, 1949, in in Salem, Ohio, to Frederick Kane Schuller (1908–1956) and Mary Louise Layden (maiden; 1912–2005). Many consider Salem a suburb of Youngstown. Tim's father, who had been a newspaper journalist, died when he was six. As a teenager, Tim attended Salem High School, graduating in 1967. During his senior year, he was the feature editor of the Salem Quaker, his high school newspaper.[2] Tim went on to study at Kent State University at Salem, but did not graduate. In Ohio, Schuller had worked as a musician (playing guitar), a factory worker, and a stringer reporter.

Schuller then moved to Chicago with his childhood friend from Salem, Tom "Mot" Dutko (né Thomas Lawrence Dutko; 1949–2017), a blues drummer.[3] who went on to record with Little Al Thomas and the Crazy Horse Band, Billy Branch, and Eddie Shaw. In Chicago, Schuller played with Robert Lockwood Jr. and John Brim.[4] Dutko also played drums for Big Walter Horton, Sunnyland Slim, Homesick James, Jimmy Walker, Erwin Helfer, and Eddie Taylor. Dutko graduated is the same class as Schuller (1967) at Salem High School. Tim Schuller's father, Fred, and his mother, Mary Lou Leyden (maiden; 1912–2005) were both graduates of Salem High School – classes of 1927 and 1930, respectively.

Schuller moved to Dallas around 1977 and briefly embarked in the record business. In 1977, he was working at Peaches Records & Tapes at Cole and Fitzhugh Avenues, Dallas.[a] Ken E. Shimamoto (born 1957), a music journalist in Dallas worked there with him.[5] In 1980, Schuller was assistant manager at at Sound Town at the Valley View Mall in Dallas.[6][b]

Over the next 35 years, Schuller contributed to the following newspapers, periodicals, and records:

Periodicals and newspapers

  1. Guitar Player, Living Blues, Blues Access
  2. The Met (Dallas' arts & entertainment weekly)
  3. Southwest Blues
  4. DownBeat
  5. Buddy magazine
  6. Texas Jazz
  7. Juke Blues
  8. Coda
  9. Crazy Music (the journal of the Australian Blues Society)
  10. D Magazine
  11. Dallas Morning News,
  12. Dallas Observer
  13. Texas Observer
  14. Contemporary Keyboard
  15. Texas Highways
  16. Akron Beacon Journal

Discography

  1. Lucky Seven Records
  2. Black Top
  3. Trix
  4. Wolf Records (Vienna, Austria)
  5. Bullseye Blues
  6. Fedora Records
  7. Blind Pig
  8. TKO Magnum Music
  9. Blue Moon
  10. Continental Blue Heaven (distributed by Harmonia Mundi)
  11. Cannonball Records (nl) 29110
  12. AudioQuest Music
  13. TopCat Records
  14. Mayhem Records
  15. JSP

Selected published work[edit]

Reference books[edit]

  1. "Freddie King"
    The Voice of The Blues
    Part I interview by Tim "Mit" Schuller
    Part II interview by Bruce Iglauer, Hans Schweitz, Janne Rosenqvist
    Jim O'Neal & Amy van Singel (eds.)
    Routledge (2002)
    Note: This is a re-print from the Living Blues, Vol. 31, March–April 1977
    OCLC 491490329, 462816602
  2. MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide (2002)
    Leland Rucker (editor)
    Al Kooper (forward)
    Tim Schuller (update editor)
    Schirmer Trade Books
    (Revised & updated ed.)
    ISBN 0825672678; ISBN 9780825672675

Newspaper magazines[edit]

  1. "Blind Joe's Blues"[7]
    (Blind Joe Hill)
    By Mit Schuller
    Photos by Paul Tople
    Beacon
        (Sunday magazine of the Akron Beacon Journal)
    May 30 1976, pps. 10–11, 14, 16, 20
    (accessible at Newspapers.com)
  2. "Robert Junior Lockwood and His Blues Guitar"
    By Thomas (Mit) Schuller
    Photos by Robert E. Dorksen
    Sunday Plain Dealer Magazine
    September 19, 1976, pps. 32–34, 36, 45
    (accessible at GenealogyBank.com)

Guitar Player[edit]

  1. "Robert Jr. Lockwood: Master of the Blues"
    By Tim "Mit" Schuller
    Guitar Player
    No. 9, No. 11
    November 1975, p. 12+
  2. "Tutu Jones: South Dallas Soul"
    (Tutu Jones)
    By Tim "Mit" Schuller
    Guitar Player
    Vol. 30, No. 9
    September 1996, p. 20

Downbeat[edit]

  1. "Profile: Alex Moore"
    (Whistlin' Alex Moore)
    By Tim Schuller
    DownBeat
    Vol. 46, No. 13
    July 12, 1979, pps. 40–42

Living Blues[edit]

  1. "Blind Joe Hill – Akron's One-Man Band"
    By Thomas (Mit) Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 30
    November–December 1976, pp. 12–13
  2. "Freddie King, 1934–1976"
    (Freddie King)
    By Mit Schuller &
        Bruce Iglauer
    Living Blues
    No. 31
    March–April 1977, pps. 7–11
    (note: interviewed by Tim "Mit" Schuller at Robert Jr. Lockwood's house in Cleveland, October 25, 1974)
  3. "Lightnin' Hopkins at the Granada Theater, Dallas, Texas"
    (Lightnin' Hopkins; Granada Theater)
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 35
    November–December 1977
  4. "Alex Moore: Whistlin' the Blues"
    (Whistlin' Alex Moore)
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 35
    November–December 1977, pps. 8–10
  5. "The Johnnie 'Two-Voice' Story"
    Johnnie Morisette (aka Johnny Two-Voice; 1935–2000)
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 49
    Winter 1980–1981
  6. "The Night of the Patriarch: An Account of the Recording of Alex Moore
    (Whistlin' Alex Moore)
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 83
    November–December 1988, pps. 28–29
  7. "The Return of Zuzu Bollin: Lone Star Bluemaster"
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 89
    November–December 1989
  8. "Zuzu Bollin" (obituary)
    (Zuzu Bollin)
    By Tim Schuller
    Living' Blues
    No. 95
    January–February 1991
  9. "Tutu Jones"
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 120
    March–April 1995, pps. 39–41
  10. "Dallas Blues: Andrew 'Junior Boy' Jones"
    (Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones)
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues No. 129
    September–October 1996, p. 48
  11. "Dallas Blues: R.L. Griffin"[8][c]
    (blues singer and club owner Robert Lewis Griffin; born 1939)
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues No. 129
    September–October 1996, pps. 42–46
  12. "The Second Coming of Bobby Patterson"
    (Bobby Patterson)
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 139
    May–June 1998, pps. 36–39
  13. "Record Reviews: Johnny "Guitar" Watson: "The Essential Johnny 'Guitar' Watson"
    (Johnny "Guitar" Watson)
    Living Blues
    By Tim Schuller
    Vol. 33 No. 6
    2002, pg. 78
    (search.proquest.com/docview/1098195)
  14. "Take It From Uncle Sneed: Andrew 'Junior Boy' Jones"
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 168
    June–July–August 2003, pps. 42–47
  15. "Big Al Dupree" (obituary)
    (Al Dupree – né Alfred William Dupree; 1923–2003)
    (tenor saxophonist and pianist)
    By Tim Schuller
    Living Blues
    No. 171
    January–February 2004, pps. 63–64

D Magazine[edit]

  1. "Music: Bella, Bellissima"
    (Karen Bella; née Karen Jean Bella; born 1951; vocalist)
    By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine
    October 1977
  2. Music: Marchel Artistry – The natural sound at the Recovery Room,"
    (Marchel Ivery; 1938–2007; tenor saxophonist)
    By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine
    March 1978
  3. (Bill Tillman; né William Wayne Tillman; 1947–2012; Blood, Sweat & Tears saxophonist)

    By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine

    June 1978

  4. By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine

    February 1979
  5. "Music: Rebirth of a Bluesman"
    (Zuzu Bollin)
    By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine
    July 1989
  6. "Music: No Limits"
    "For musician Dennis Gonzalez, creativity prevents 'a living death'"
    (Dennis Gonzalez)
    By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine
    December 1989
  7. "The Way of the Taper"
    By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine
    May 1990
  8. "What's Bugging Bugs?"
    (Bugs Henderson)
    By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine
    January 1991
  9. "Creative Spirit: Roy Hargrove"
    (Roy Hargrove)
    By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine
    May 1992
  10. "Sara Speaks Out"
    (Sara Hickman)
    By Tim Schuller
    D Magazine
    June 1992

Dallas Observer[edit]

Schuller was music editor of the Dallas Observer in the 1980s.[9]

  1. "I made this!"
    By Tim Schuller
    Dallas Observer
    October 23, 1997
  2. "Blues Bothers"
    By Tim Schuller
    Dallas Observer
    February 26, 1998
  3. "Behind the Lines"
    By Tim Schuller
    Dallas Observer
    January 22, 1998
  4. "Blues in '97"
    By Tim Schuller
    Dallas Observer
    January 8, 1998
  5. "Roadshows"
    By Tim Schuller
    Dallas Observer
    March 5, 1998

Juke Blues[edit]

  1. "The Metroplex Blues"
    By Tim Schuller
    Juke Blues
    No. 9
    Summer 1987, p. 22
  2. "The Boston Smith Story"
    By Tim Schuller
    Juke Blues
    No. 12
    Spring 1988, pps. 20–22
  3. "Alex Moore"
    (Whistlin' Alex Moore)
    By Tim Schuller
    Juke Blues
    No. 16
    Summer 1989, p. 35
  4. "Zu Zu Bollin"
    By Tim Schuller
    Juke Blues
    No. 22
    Winter–Spring 1991
  5. "R.L. Griffin: The Renaissance Man of South Dallas"
    (blues singer Raymond Lewis Griffin)[8][c]
    By Tim Schuller
    Juke Blues
    No. 28
    Spring 1993, pps. 14–16
  6. "Magnum Force Blues: The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band Featuring Bnois King"
    By Tim Schuller
    Juke Blues
    No. 28
    Spring 1993, p. 16

Blues Access[edit]

  1. "Jimmy Rogers: Not Giving Up on the Blues"
    (Jimmy Rogers)
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    Spring 1991
  2. "Cleveland's Finest Goes on Record"
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 6
    Summer 1991, pps. 22–26
  3. "Dallas Blues Survival"
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 10
    Summer 1992, pps. 6–10
  4. "R.L. Griffin"
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 10
    Summer 1992, pps. 8
  5. "North Texas Blues"
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 20
    Winter 1994–1995, pps. 22–29
  6. "Niche busters – Six Who Are Kicking Down New Doors"
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 24
    Winter 1996
  7. "'Till I Find My Way Home:' The Lost Brownie McGhee Interview"
    (Brownie McGhee)
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 26
    Summer 1996
  8. "Lacy Gibson – Switchy Titchy"
    (Lacy Gibson)
    Black Magic 9002
    CD Review
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 27
    Fall 1996
  9. "'Little Boy' Comes Into His Own"
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 36
    Winter 1999, pps. 22–23, 25
  10. "Tag Team From Texas: Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King Make Candid Revelations About Their Prior Lives"

    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 42

    Summer 2000, pps. 30–33
  11. "Willie Willis (1923–2000)"
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 42
    Summer 2000, pps. 56, 58
  12. "South Side Slim: The Left Coast's Strong New Voice"
    By Tim Schuller
    Blues Access
    No. 46
    Summer 2001, pps. 16–18

Buddy[edit]

  1. "Anson Examined"
    By Tim Schuller
    Buddy (magazine)
    September 1992
  2. "Bugs Henderson Bares His Guitarist's Soul"
    (Bugs Henderson)
    By Tim Schuller
    Buddy (magazine)
    August 1993
  3. "W.C. Clark Opens the Books"
    (W.C. Clark)
    By Tim Schuller
    Buddy (magazine)
    October 1994
  4. "Where's the Smoke ... Smokin' Joe Kubek Reveals Rule-Breaking Tactics Behind Fourth Bullseye CD"

    (Smokin' Joe Kubek)
    By Tim Schuller
    Buddy (magazine)

    April 1995
  5. "The James Clay Story"
    (James Clay)
    By Tim Schuller
    Buddy (magazine)
    May 1995
  6. "Has Brave Combo Gone Too Far?"
    (Brave Combo)
    By Tim Schuller
    Buddy (magazine)
    June 1995
  7. "The Johnson Testimony: Truth From The Tall Man of Texas R&B"
    By Tim Schuller
    Buddy (magazine)
    December 1995
  8. "Can The Killdares' Celtic Rock Stop the Murder Virus?"
    (The Killdares)
        – "Musical expansionism might save our lives"
    By Tim Schuller
    Buddy (magazine)
    December 2008

  9. (Doyle Bramhall)
    By Tim Schuller
    Buddy (magazine)
    No. 13

    December 2011

Texas Jazz[edit]

  1. "Music Out of Clay"
    By Tim Schuller
    Texas Jazz
    Vol. 3, No. 1
    November 1979

The Met[edit]

  1. "Soul Trained"
    By Tim Schuller
    The Met
    July 27, 1995
  2. "Back to the Future: Sumpter Bruton's Brand of Retro Blues Makes Nostalgia Sound Subversive"
    (Stephen Bruton's brother)
    By Tim Schuller
    The Met
    November 24, 1995

Coda[edit]

  1. "The Buster Smith Story"
    (Buster Smith)
    By Tim Schuller
    Coda
    December–January 1987–1988
    ISSN 0010-017X

Other publications[edit]

  1. By Tim Schuller

    The Salem Quaker, Bi-weekly newspaper of Salem High School (Ohio)

    Vol. 52, No. 2

    September 23, 1966, p. 2
  2. "Anthem of the Damned"
    By Thomas (Mit) Schuller
    Starwind
    Autumn 1977
  3. "Robert Junior Lockwood Story"
    By Tim Schuller
    Crazy Music
    No. 11
    December 1977, pps. 4–9, 61
  4. "Alex Moore: Granddaddy of Texas Blues Piano"
    (Whistlin' Alex Moore)
    By Tim Schuller
    Contemporary Keyboard
    Vol. 6, No. 1
    January 1980
  5. "A Bright New Jazz Voice"
    (Review: Paquito D'Rivera)
    By Tim Schuller
    Dallas Morning News
    February 25, 1984, Sec F, pps. 1, 4
    (www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01110112104856097231539819962)
  6. "The Barrelhouse Men of Austin"
    Texas Observer
    n.d.
    Durst Family Papers (Lavada Durst)
  7. "Postcards: All the Right Notes"
        "The Texas Musician's Museum Rewards a Hillsboro Visit"
    by Tim Schuller
    Texas Highways
    June 2010
  8. Gunsmoke Blues (video)
    Filmed in October 1971 at the University of Oregon, Eugene

    Review by Tim Schuller

    ThatsLiveTV.com

Liner notes[edit]

  1. Liquid Magic (1987)
    Ahmed Abdullah Quartet
    Ahmed Abdullah (trumpet, flugelhorn, piano), Charles Brackeen (tenor sax), Malachi Favors (bass), Alvin Fielder (drums)
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Silkheart SHCD 104
    OCLC 847968062
  2. Hot Rhythm & Cool Blues:
        Texas Style (1992)
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    TopCat Records 119201
    OCLC 795516195
  3. Chain Smokin' Texas Style (1992)
    Smokin' Joe Kubek
    Featuring B'nois King
    Recorded and mixed at Ardent Studios, Memphis
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Bullseye Blues BB 9524
    OCLC 873674084
  4. Radio Mojo (1993)
    Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Lucky Seven Records ‎LS 9203
    OCLC 812791834
  5. Let The Dogs Run (1994)
    Mike Morgan & Jim Suhler
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Black Top ‎CD BT-1106
    OCLC 225959508, 69200796
  6. Texas Blues Party, Vol. 1 (1995)
    U.P. Wilson: The Texas Tornado Live at Schooner's Dallas
    With Tutu Jones
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Wolf Records (Vienna, Austria) (2) ‎120.630 CD
  7. Texas Blueswomen (compilation) (1996)
    Chonita Turner, Jav-Lyn, Lady Lotion
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Topcat Records ‎TC01962
    OCLC 42472774
  8. Blue Texas Soul (1996)
    Tutu Jones
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Bullseye Blues
    OCLC 37558245
  9. Robert Jr. Lockwood ... Does 12 (1996)
    Robert Lockwood, Jr.
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller and
        Peter B. Lowry
    Artwork by Raoul F. Vezina (1948–1983)
    Trix 3317
    OCLC 35579519
  10. Whirlwind (1996)
    U.P. Wilson (guitar, vocals); Shawn Kellerman (guitar); Big Joe Turner (bass guitar, Hammond organ); Anthony Gonzales (bass); Jordan Petterson (harmonica); El Torro Gamble, Steve Meek (drums)
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    JSP Records
    OCLC 50984909
  11. Blues Across America
        The Dallas Scene (1997)
    Henry Qualls, Big Al Dupree, Charles Young, Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Cannonball Records (nl) 29110
    OCLC 40100479
  12. I Need Time (1997)
    Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Bullseye Blues ‎CD BB 9588
    OCLC 225998149
  13. Texas Blues Party, Vol. 2 (1998)
    Pete Mayes, Joe "Guitar" Hughes, Robert Ealey, Curly "Barefoot' Miller, and Robin Sylar
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Wolf Records (Vienna, Austria)
    14. OCLC 228413968
  14. Best of the Texas Blues Guitar Tornado (1998)
    U.P. Wilson
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    JSP Records JSPCD 808
    (on container: CD 808)
    OCLC 41953060
  15. Staying Power (1998)
    Tutu Jones
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Bullseye Blues CD BB 9611
    OCLC 39866911, 873058485
  16. Texas Blues Guitar Summit (1998)
    17. Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones, Henry Qualls, U.P. Wilson, Bobby Gilmore, J.B. Wynne, with Brian "Hash Brown" Calway & C.B. Scott
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    JSP Records
    OCLC 156097586, 669768695
  17. Grease, Grit, Dirt & Spit (1998)
    Randy McAllister
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    JSP Records
    OCLC 183209121, 937655890
  18. Can't Help But Have the Blues (1998)
    Willie Willis & the Wildcatters
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Fedora Records FCD 5009
    OCLC 51651352, 884722200
  19. Burnin' Up (1998)
    Shawn Pittman
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Cannonball Records (nl) 29110
    OCLC 42786547
  20. U.P. Wilson: The Good, The Bad, The Blues (1998)
     Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    JSP Records ‎JSPCD 2103
    OCLC 41665784, 812755722
  21. Positive Thinking (1999)
    (Al Dupree – né Alfred William Dupree; 1923–2003)
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Fedora Records
    OCLC 44013106
  22. I'm Here & I'm Gone (1999)
    Kirk Fletcher
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    JSP Records
    OCLC 608095024
  23. The Lost Tapes (1999)
    Muddy Waters
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Blind Pig Records
    OCLC 42457894
  24. Journeyman Blues (1999)
    25. Muddy Waters
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    TKO Magnum Music
    OCLC 48200928
  25. Live at Blue Cat Blues (2000)
    Jim Suhler & Alan Haynes
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    TopCat Records
    OCLC 873792126
  26. Leavin' Chicago (compilation) (2001)
    Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, George "Harmonica" Smith, J.B. Hutto, Edward "Bee" Houston, Blues Revue All Stars
    Recorded at the University of Oregon, Washington State University, and Monroe State Prison, Washington in 1971
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    TKO Magnum Music CDBM 141
    Blue Moon ‎CDBM 141
    OCLC 50327269
  27. Put Your Trust in Me (2001)
    Johnny Rawls
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    JSP Records
    OCLC 47662215
  28. Big Gilson With Bruce Ewan & The Solid Senders (2002)
    Big Gilson
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    TopCat Records
    OCLC 270976647
  29. Big time in big D (2003)
    Memo Gonzalez and the Bluescasters
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Continental Blue Heaven ‎– CBHCD 2008
    Distributed by Harmonia Mundi
    OCLC 658981992
  30. South Side Story (2004)
    Little Al Thomas (born 1930)[d] & the Crazy Horse Band
    Little Al Thomas (vocals); John Edelmann (guitar); Dave Clark, Van Kelly, Paul Mundy (saxophone); Sidney James Wingfield (piano); Bob Jacobs (organ); Ed Galchick (bass); Tom "Mot" Dutko (drums)
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Cannonball Records (nl) 29110
    AudioQuest Music
    OCLC 49676607
  31. Tricked Out (2004)
    Robin Sylar
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    TopCat Records
    OCLC 681556778
  32. Hoochie Coochie Mannish Boy: On the Road 1971–73 (2006)
    Muddy Waters
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    Mayhem Records
    OCLC 75296091
  33. It's About Time (2017)
    Carol Fran, Clarence Hollimon
    Liner notes by Tim Schuller
    JSP Records
    OCLC 1013833671

Presentations[edit]

  1. Music Library Association, Texas Chapter, November 3, 1989, at the Dallas Public Library in the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library: Tim Schuller, opened Friday's session with a presentation entitled, "Writing in the Grip of the Blues." He focused on the heritage of the blues, especially in the Dallas area.

Affiliations[edit]

  • In 1987, Schuller – with Chuck Nevitt (né Charles Franklin Nevitt; 1956–2015) (record collector), Brian "Hash Brown" Calway (né Brian Everett Calway; born 1955) (blues musician) – founded the Dallas Blues Society.[10]

Other blues musicologists from Texas[edit]

Tributes[edit]

To do[edit]

Father, family, and death[edit]

Schuller's father, Fred Kane Schuller had been a journalist in Pennsylvania and Ohio with over 13 newpapers, [11] He had been in the editorial staff with the Youngstown Telegram (around 1935), staff editor for several years at the Cleveland News, night sports editor at the Pittsburgh Press (around 1940), editorial staff of the The Daily News (McKeesport, Pennsylvania), managing editor of the Lorain Journal, and, near his death, worked for a stint at the Saint Petersburg Times. He was also an AP writer and contributor to Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. He was a personal friend of John Barrymore, and after his death, corresponded with the family, including Lionel Barrymore.

Schuller's mother, Mary Louise Layden (maiden), died in 2005 in New York City. His older sister, Molly Davis (née Molly Lou Schuller), a 1953 graduate of Willoughby High School (Ohio), has lived in New York City since the 1950s.

Tim Schuller died February 29, 2012, in Dallas. He is buried in Salem at Grandview Cemetery.

Notes about cited periodicals and labels[edit]

Books[edit]

  1. MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide (1998)
    Edited by Leland Rucker
    Foreword by Al Kooper
        1st Paper, 1st Printing edition (1997)
        Visible Ink Press
        OCLC 44504664, 244114213
        ISBN 1-5785-9030-2
        ISBN 978-1-5785-9030-8
        ––––––––––––––––––––
        Revised & updated (January 1, 2002)
        Leland Rucker (ed.)
        Al Kooper (forward)
        Tim Schuller (update editor)
        Schirmer Trade Books
        Omnibus Press
        OCLC 49244319
        ISBN 0-8256-7267-8
        ISBN 978-0825-6726-75

Periodicals[edit]

  1. The Met, Dallas-Fort Worth area arts and entertainment weekly, founded in 1994 by Randy Stagen (born 1970), an SMU alumnus. Eric James Celeste (born 1967) was founding editor; ISSN 1075-2501
  2. Texas Jazz, Dale McFarland, publisher (founded as the Dallas Jazz News letter (1 page typed), then the Dallas Jazz News (folded tabloid), then Texas Jazz; weekly that ran from about 1977 to about 1983); OCLC 21012332, 5352346, 32376967
  3. Living Blues, a partner publication of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi; digital version at digital.livingblues.com; ISSN 0024-5232
  4. Blues Access (suspended publication 2002); Leland Rucker (né Leland Garold Rucker; born 1947) was editor for 5 years; digital access at www.bluesaccess.com/ba_home.html; ISSN 1066-4068
  5. Buddy "The original Texas music magazine;" "Music magazine of Dallas." Named after Buddy Holley, Buddy was founded in 1976 in Houston by Stoney Burns (pseudonym of Brent Lasalle Stein; 1942–2011). ISSN 0192-9097; OCLC 52985380
  6. Southwest Blues, Bluestronomical Publishing Inc. (Dallas), founded in 1997; OCLC 45631095
  7. Starwind (1974–1978), Columbus, Ohio: Starwind Press; OCLC 60692283
    Editors: Warren DiLeo (né Warren Anthony DiLeo; 1941–1992) – Autumn 1974–Spring 1976
    Elbert Lindsey, Jr. – Fall 1976–  
  8. Crazy Music: "the journal of the Australian Blues Society;" ISSN 0313-7015

Record labels[edit]

  1. Lucky Seven Records is a U.S. label founded in 1992 by Terry Manning and was initially distributed by Rounder Records, then of Cambridge, Massachusetts; in 2013 the label partnered with Blake Morgan and ECR Music Group
  2. Wolf Records International is a blues label based in Vienna, Austria. The label was an outgrowth of the Hot Club de Vienne (a blues fan club), founded in 1974 by 20 Austrians. Four of its members (two of which remain, Dr. Herbert Pessiak and Hannes Folterbauer) started the label in 1982. The label was formed with two objectives (1) re-release original country and blues recordings of the 1930s and 1940s, as compiled by Johnny Parth (de), focusing on Chicago blues styles and (2) produce new recordings[12]
  3. Fedora Records was founded in the late 1990s in New York City by Joe Fields; it is a blues label that operates with its sister jazz labels, HighNote and Savant
  4. TKO Magnum Music Limited was a British label, based in High Wycombe; It was founded as Synergie Logistics Limited and TKO Magnum Music Limited in 1980 by Charles Nigel Molden, PhD (born 1948); Molden formerly had been a label manager and general manager for Warner-Elektra-Atlantic and its successor, Warner Bros. Records; his wife, Hilary Julia Molden (née Hilary Julia Lichfield; born 1950), was the corporate, secretary; they've been married since 1971
  5. Blue Moon, along with Magnum Force, Thunderbolt, Sundown and Meteor, were labels of TKO Magnum Music
  6. Continental Blue Heaven (distributed by Harmonia Mundi)
  7. TopCat Records, LLC, was founded around 1993 in Dallas by Richard Franklin Chalk (born 1961)
  8. Mayhem Records is a defunct label that was founded around 2006 in Dallas by Izanama Shunto Sullivan, Sr. (born 1976)

Notes and references[edit]

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  1. ^ Peaches Records & Tapes, Inc., was a Los Angeles-based retail chain of record superstores, some as large as 15,000 square feet. Peaches was a subsidiary of Nehi Record Distributing Corporation. Tom Heiman founded Peaches in 1963 and went on to become president of Nehi. At its peak, Peaches had 50 stores in 22 cities with over 2,000 employees. In 1981, Peaches filed a petition for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 citing $20 million in debts for its 35 stores coast to coast. ("Record Industry's Upheaval," by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, June 10, 1981)
  2. ^ The Texas Record Town chain called itself Sound Town in Dallas. Record Town was founded in San Antonio, around 1968, had, in 1980, three Dallas locations: Red Bird Mall in Dallas, Town East Mall in Mesquite, and Valley View Mall in Dallas. On December 18, 1980, Amarillo-based Western Distributors, parent of Hastings Books and Hastings Records, acquired the 26 Record Town, Sound Town, and Sundown stores in Texas. The deal also included the acquisition of the parent, Galaxy Distributing (formerly called Galaxy Sales when it was in San Antonio), a Dallas-based jobber rack jobber that distributed to the Record Town chain. Valley View was torn down in 2016 to make way for a new mall, Dallas Midtown. ("Western Merchandisers Acquires Western Chain," Cash Box, January 12, 1980, pps. 9, 24)
    Record Town, Inc. (Sims, Peeples, and Dubbs owned 35% when WM acquired it)
    Record Town of Houston, Inc. (Sims, Peeples, and Dubbs owned 46% when WM acquired it)
    RTH Inc.
    Record Town of U.S.A.
    Galaxy Sales Corp.
    Sound Town / Record Town executives:
    Bill McGehee (né William Harris McGehee; 1931–2005) was general manager of Galaxy Sales until March 1978
    John Gonzalez (of San Antonio), who in 1966, was a sales representative with Allied Recorded Sound, Inc. (rack jobber), in Houston at 2702 Polk Avenue
    Carl Young
    Doug Phillip, general manager
    Gary Drexler, became general manager of Galaxy Distributing in 1979
    Donald K. Dubbs (né Donald Keith Dubbs; 1929–2010)
    Ronald W. Peebles (né Ronald Wayne Peebles; born 1936)
    Thomas P. Sims (né Thomas Patric Sims, Jr.; born 1939), a former branch manager for WEA Distributing in Texas, became, in March 1978, general manager of Galaxy Sales. The shareholders terminated Sims in June 1979 and Cliff Keeton was hired to replace him
    Cliff Keaton (né Floyd Clifford Keeton; 1929–2010) became CEO in 1979
    Doris Burton
    Jackie Pate
  3. ^ a b R.L. Griffin (né Raymond Lewis Griffin) is a Dallas-based blues singer. He owns and manages Blues Palace II in Dallas at 3100 Grand Avenue, near Fair Park ("R.L. Griffin," Where I Come From, by Bryan Woolley, Number 2: A.C. Greene Series, University of North Texas Press (2003), pps. 135–139; ISBN 1574411640; OCLC 606990994, 51817605)
  4. ^ Little Al Thomas (né Albert Thomas; born 22 November 1930 Chicago) grew up in Chicago in the Maxwell Street neighborhood. He is a blues vocalist.


References[edit]

  • "Thomas Schuller". Quaker (the yearbook of Salem Senior High School). Vol. 44. 1967. pp. 32 (senior photo), 97, 121. OCLC 1333026669 (accessible via Ancestry.com).


  1. ^ "Not Fade Away: Buddy writers and photographers recorded the 1973 Kerrville Folk Festival, Willie’s first Fourth of July Picnic, the Texas Jam, the rebirth of Deep Ellum and the rise of social media," by Bellicose Bullfeather (pseudonym of Stoney Burnes; né Brent LaSalle Stein; born 1942), Buddy, July 2018, p. 12
  2. ^ "How Safe is Safe? Bus's Flat· Tire A 'Wakens Concern," by Tim Schuller Salem Quaker Vol. 52, No. 13June 2, 1967, p. 2
    (note: Schuller's title as "feature editor" is displayed in the masthead, below the article on page 2)
  3. ^ "Obituaries: Thomas Dutko," Tribune Chronicle, July 2, 2017
  4. ^ "Tom 'Mot' Dutko" (obituary), by Justin O'Brien, Living Blues, October 2017, p. 77
  5. ^ Blog of Ken Shimamoto, The Stash Dauber, March 10, 2012
  6. ^ "Texas Heat, Winds Give Disk & Tape Sales a Push," by Kip Kirby (in Nashville), Billboard, July 12, 1980, p. 12
  7. ^ A Blues Bibliography (2nd ed.), by Robert Ford (born 1964), Routledge (2007) (Schuller cited on pps. 437, 551, 561, 598, 659, 912, 1073, 1283); OCLC 71842605
  8. ^ a b "R.L. Griffin (bio)," by Eugene Chadbourne, AllMusic (retrieved October 29, 2018)
  9. ^ Dallas Observer; Wilonsky, Robert (February 29, 2012). "Dallas Blues and Jazz Historian Tim Schuller, Once an Observer Contributor, Has Died" (blog of the Dallas Observer). Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  10. ^ "Blues to the Rescue," by Clay McNear (né Clay Medford McNear; born 1961), Startime, a magazine of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 3, 1987, p. 25 (www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01110112104856097231540247930)
  11. ^ "Obituaries: Fred Kane Schuller, 45, Veteran Newsman, Writer," St. Petersburg Times, May 5, 1956 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/315768027)
  12. ^ "Wolf/Best of Blues" (entry title), The Blues Encyclopedia (Vol. 2 of 2), Edward Komara & Peter Lee (eds.), Routledge (2006), p. 1095; OCLC 836558377



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