3 of the 4 photos were taken at Washington, IA
except for
lower left, that was at the Opryland Hotel, Nashville 1980
Trilly's
CD Midnight in Nashville is available on eBay RIGHT NOW!
OUR LAST SHOW IN MOUNT PLEASANT IOWA WAS A FANTASTIC TIME!
HERE'S ONE OF THE PICTURES......PLEASE SEND YOURS!
FINALLY.....VIDEOS!!! CLICK
HERE!!!
Oh, dear! Don't go north on Hwy. 61 to get to Muscatine from
Davenport.
Here's what happened:
On the way to a routing gig for this last time around in August,
Steve gave Trilly directions from Indiana, he told her to go north on
US Hwy. 61 to Muscatine from the Quad Cities (this is from I-80 to 61).
Those of you who know this geography know that is the WRONG WAY!!!!
So now the new band joke is you can get anywhere going north on Hwy.
61!!!
Picture below from Old Thresher's Reunion, Mt. Pleasant, IA, August 26,
2008

For those of you
who haven't seen Trilly perform, you're in for a treat....this is a
Branson style show.
She sings
material going all the way back to the roaring 20's to current country,
and plays 5 instruments onstage, not to mention the infamous doubleneck
and a bedpan guitar made by
Gibson
Guitar company
for her. She has entertained
from one end of the country to the other, making her mark in Nashville
for 15 years at Printers Alley's Captain's Table, setting a record for
longest club act in Nashville.
Also, while in Nashville, Trilly
appeared on the TV show
Hee
Haw (clicking this link will take you to tvguide.com showing who
was on this episode), Nashville Now with Ralph Emery and Wrap
Around Nashville. She has also performed with Mickey
Finn's Revue in Las Vegas and throughout Nevada for another 10 years.
Trilly has "been around" and she has
opened and worked with the best, for instance.......
Frank Sinatra Jr., Kenny Rogers, Tammy
Wynette, Del Reeves, Freddie Hart, Burl Ives, Bobby Bare, C.W. McCall
(Convoy), Cal Smith, The Forrester Sisters, Margo Smith, Boots
Randolph, Dave & Sugar, Kitty Wells and whole lot of road
miles from Nashville to Las Vegas and back again.
Photo above from Riverside
Casino, Riverside, IA, August 2008
You won't believe what two
people can do onstage...........
Steve Nelson, her "new" partner, has played guitar and drums for
Trilly in her show for a lot of these venues back in the '70s.
Steve's began playing music at the age of 3. He plays guitar,
bass, drums, pedal steel, mandolin, banjo, keyboards....and plays a lot
of these instruments in the show. His expertise in using a MIDI
guitar synth to create onstage the sounds of saxes, pianos, and much
more, adds the feeling of a full band. He also uses onstage an
Digitech Vocalist VHM5 to recreate the sound of 3 part harmonies in the
show, and is admittedly a "music geek", always looking for new hi tech
tools to make a fuller sound for a smaller number of people on stage.
This photo below is from Trilly's Lake
Tahoe appearance
at Harrah's Stateline Casino appearance in 1976.
She did shows in the Cabaret Room opposite Frank Sinatra, Jr., Kenny
Rogers,
The Mob, The Kenny Davis Road Show and B.B. King during her stay there
A COUPLE OF TRILLY'S ALBUMS FROM THE 70'S, STILL AVAILABLE ON EBAY
HOWEVER, NOT THRU US. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF RE-RECORDING
THESE ONTO CD.
WE'LL LET YOU KNOW.......BE PATIENT...........


Trilly with Steve Nelson on right, Printer's Alley Nashville, July 2007

A NOTE FROM TRILLY:
I'm still
looking for the following musicians:
David
Craft, Bill Tinsley, Steve Paris and Warren Watson.
If there are any more of you out there please email or call!
AND AGAIN: VIDEOS ARE
HERE AT THIS LINK!!!
New
feature from Trilly: NOTES
FROM THE ROAD
Major thank you to Dr.
Armen S. Kelikian M.D.
Here's why! Click here!
Latest CD is out, Midnight
in Nashville
with
15 songs......
classic Trilly and previously unreleased material
using her own band in the studio from 1977.
$15.00 and $5.00 for S&H
For all information
and bookings
TC Productions
PO Bx. 129
Kouts, IN 46347
(219) 766-3161
Steve (608) 343-4848
Here's the email address:
trillycole@hotmail.com
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Steve Nelson
309 Caren Avenue
Tomah, WI. 54660
Latest changes on this page on Sept. 1, 2008