James Talley

James Talley (born November 9, 1944) is an American country blues and electric blues singer-songwriter.

Biography

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (WKDA Nashville Interview, Late 1970s) Talley is an artist whose vision of the American experience, as author David McGee has said is "startlingly original." As a youth, Talley's family moved from their home in Mehan, Oklahoma, near Stillwater, to Washington state, where his father worked as a chemical operator in the Hanford plutonium factory. After five years in Richland, Washington, and realizing the hazards his father’s employment presented, the family relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Talley graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in fine arts.

After college, encouraged by Pete Seeger while on a trip to New Mexico, Talley began to write songs that drew upon the culture of the Southwest. These early songs eventually became The Road to Torreón, a saga of life and death in the Chicano villages of northern New Mexico. Released in a boxed edition by Bear Family Records in 1992, it was a collaboration of photography and music, with a photographic essay contributed by Talley's lifelong friend, photographer Cavalliere Ketchum.

Talley

Talley (Welsh: Talyllychau) is a community and small village in Carmarthenshire, Wales.The population taken at the 2011 census was 494.

The community is bordered by the communities of: Llansawel; Cynwyl Gaeo; Llansadwrn; Manordeilo and Salem; and Llanfynydd, all being in Carmarthenshire.

It is the site of the ruined Talley Abbey, a former Premonstratensian foundation destroyed in about 1536 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

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Coordinates: 51°58′34″N 3°59′28″W / 51.976°N 3.991°W / 51.976; -3.991

Talley (name)

Talley is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Talley (disambiguation)

Talley or Talleys may refer to: