ZIPPO ‘SIGHTING’: Era reader Terry Palmer submitted the following tidbit from Sirius XM 60’s radio heard recently.
“Steve Cropper, session guitarist for Stax Records and member of Booker T & the Memphis Group, was guest DJ. He was talking about some of the records that he had been involved in. Steve said that he is often asked what was the most difficult recording that he had ever done.
He answers “Soul Man” (Sam & Dave 1967), a seemingly straight forward song. He explains that during a recording session he likes to stand up and move with the music. For “Soul Man,” he was using a Zippo lighter for the slide guitar parts and set it on his knee when he wasn’t playing slide, forcing him to sit for the entire session.
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SUNFLOWERS: VisitPA.com has an article on “13 Picture-Perfect Sunflower fields and pick your own posies in full bloom” and Kane made the list.
At No. 2, the Wild Sonshine Factory in Kane is mentioned, along with the following, “Happy Travelers will go wild for sunflowers at the Wild Sonshine Factory. Located on the grounds of a local farm, this stunning sunflower field will soon be home to a unique distillery that produces high quality distilled spirits are produced solely from the seeds of sunflower. Plan your visit for mid-August to catch the sunflowers in full bloom, making the perfect photo opp.”
Other notable mentions on the list include Maple Lawn Farms in New Park, where they hold a Sunflower Festival (Aug 13-15 and 20-22) and have 187,000 sunflowers in 28 varieties, and Brown Hill Farms in Tunkhannock, where visitors can walk through 15 acres of sunflowers along the Sunflower Trail.
