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Merry Airbrakes: Merry Airbrakes - VINYL LPTitle: Merry Airbrakes Artist: Merry Airbrakes Label: Scissor Tail Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 719104892625 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2019 04 12 Number of Discs: 1 Well known bluesman and one time Oklahoman Bill Homans, known in the blues world as "Watermelon Slim" and known by '70s rare psychedelic vinyl collectors as "Merry Airbrakes" found work as forklift driver, funeral officiator, small time criminal, newspaper reporter, saw miller, and truck
Title: Merry AirbrakesArtist: Merry Airbrakes
Label: Scissor Tail
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 719104892625
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2019-04-12
Number of Discs: 1
Well-known bluesman and one-time Oklahoman Bill Homans, known in the blues world as "Watermelon Slim" and known by '70s rare psychedelic vinyl collectors as "Merry Airbrakes" found work as forklift driver, funeral officiator, small-time criminal, newspaper reporter, saw miller, and truck driver for industrial waste among others. In 1979, Slim and a friend came to Oklahoma and wound up in Pushmataha County, where he bought a piece of land and took up watermelon farming. That vocation didn't last, but the nickname he got doing it did. It was in Vietnam, while laid up by an extended illness at a Cam Ranh Bay hospital, that Homans negotiated in French the five dollar purchase of his first guitar from a "papasan" in a tiny commissary on the hospital grounds. "It was the nastiest old guitar you ever saw, but it did have all six strings on it," he said. There, with a Zippo lighter and a broken shard of a coffee can top, he began to teach himself to play his unique, backwards style of bottleneck slide. After returning stateside he would join the ranks of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), and in 1973 recorded with his brother and friends an LP titled Merry Airbrakes, a protest album he categorized as "psychedelic folk." A cut from that record eventually appeared on a Country Joe McDonald compilation of music by Vietnam veterans. However, his music career would soon tank. A brief career in petty crime ensued, which he would forsake by 1978.What is an underground album? Some people would say that it is one which has been produced outside, or in spite, of the music industry, whether or not it has prospered. This album, Merry Airbrakes, has incontrovertible underground credentials.This may be one of the only albums one can hear by a Vietnam veteran, and aside from certain American bluesmen, John Prine, and a literal handful of others, American music has never addressed the Vietnam War and it's effects. Certainly it is the only place one can ever hear a song from the Vietnamese point of view.
Tracks:
1.1 Vigilante Man
1.2 Frog Song
1.3 The Bearded Man
1.4 Quang Tri City
1.5 Even Those Among Us
1.6 Draft Board Blues
1.7 Three Hearts
1.8 A Happy Song for Hanoi
1.9 Preacher Song
1.10 Tribute to Frankie
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A Simple, Effective, and Inexpensive Device
Color: Silver, Style: 1-Pack
I have tried many variations of the standard computer mouse over the years. You probably have too. From weird angles, extra buttons in the scroll, funny side buttons that only make you go backwards on your web browser...Sometimes, you just want a point, click, scroll...and that's it.
Pros:
- This mouse delivers on simplicity. It doesn't have fancy advanced features. This basically functions as a point and click. It has a left and right hand button to do those old fashioned right and left button tasks. It has a basic scroll button. It's low tech features, but quality built for those features that it has.
- It seems to work on most surfaces without a mouse pad.
- Cost is ridiculously low. It's almost so low that you question its quality. In this case - it's Amazon. Amazon has really delivered on their Amazon Basics division. This falls neatly into that category of awesome but inexpensive Amazon Basics stuff.
- Connected within a second to my computer (Mac). I don't see any connectivity issues. I didn't have to download drivers at all.
Cons
- I haven't used it long term yet so if there is a break down, or the battery life turns out to be poor, I will update. For now, it's behaving beautifully.
Overall, if you miss a nice, simple, uncomplicated mouse - start here. Worst case scenario, you can return it. After all, Amazon has been standing behind their stuff for a while now so I'm not afraid to start with theirs and see how well they did. This is another one that didn't disappoint and it cost 50% less than its nearest competitor (at the time I bought it at least).
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Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2019
★★★★★ 5
This works well for me for work and gaming
Color: Blue, Style: 1-Pack
A very good travel mouse. It's not too big and the battery lasts a long time. It is comfortable and works well
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Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Mostly a Really Good Mouse
Color: Silver, Style: 1-Pack
This mouse connected perfectly, feels good, and even works seamlessly with my cordless keyboard, which of course uses a different dongle. I have only one small issue, but it's one I thought worth mentioning. While the buttons work normally when moving the cursor around the screen, when it comes to actually making a selection with the primary button (right- or left-handed, doesn't matter), one must press the button VERY deliberately and somewhat slower for the "click" to be recognized. A typical "quick click" at the speed one would normally use, say, when typing or normal "mousing" often will not register with the computer. The result is that I have to slow down and click again. In several decades of using a computer mouse I've never experienced this phenomenon. I've grown used to it, however, and adjusted to the necessity to give the selection button a slower and harder "press" when making selections, and that's all it takes. And oddly, it only requires this extra deliberate action when pressing a selection button. Not the biggest issue one could have, but I thought it worth mentioning. Other than that, no problems, and really, the price is very good, so as they say, you pays your money and you makes your choice. ;-)
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★★★★★ 5
Great Value
Color: Silver, Style: 1-Pack
Works perfectly!
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★★★★★ 5
A good mouse
Color: Blue, Style: 1-Pack
This is a very comfortable note to use for long period of time. My hand does not get tired with it.
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