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Casanova Jack and the Stardusters

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River rafting private press country lounge band from Stanley, Idaho. Cover is one of my faves. Band picture is a stunner too.

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15 comments for Casanova Jack and the Stardusters

  2. Troy says:

    Bob-

    I may be able to help you with a copy of the album “Casanova Jack & The Stardusters”. I was raised in Stanley, Idaho and my step dad played in Jack’s band. I was literally raised by my folks in the Jacks’s Rod & Gun Club bar.

  3. Dan says:

    I think I have a tape somewhere. I was a river guide for the Boy Scouts in the early 1980s and bought the tape at the Rod and Gun Club Bar. Jack signed the cassette liner picture, “To Cousin Dan, my friend”, but one of my friends threw it out the window of a speeding car.

    Tracks include Triangle C, Whitewater, Captain Eldon Handy, River of No Return.

  6. I am sitting in the Rod-N-Gun as I write this. A beautiful June evening. June 16th 2009 to be exact. The rights to sell My Brothers Album, (Casanova Jack) lies exclusively through me. I will have CD’s available very soon. All of the LP albums have been sold or given away to friends. We have music “at least every weekend throughout the summer and fall”, and this year My band, JR & Cheap-N-Easy will be appearing a few weekends once again this year, after a few years hiatus.

  7. the fernwood flasher says:

    I literally drove by the Rod-n-Gun today. Stanley is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

  9. Mark Laub says:

    Spent 4 summers in Stanley when I was a young boy 1958-62. My father worked uranium claims up basin creek,he had the road built there.Halverson brothers did dozer work.Glen and Nell Brewer owned rod-n-gun club then. We lived in a trailer in Joe and Nell Williams trailer park,closest one to river,directly acoss from Bill Wolleys ranch.Dan, his wife and their sons Dan and Bill lived there also. Great times growing up.I also met Casanova Jack a couple of times in the 70′s and early 80′s My uncle Abe Clark leased it in about 67 for the summer from Glen Brewer.

  10. Gordon Johnson says:

    I worked for Jack in the 70′s and early 80′s at the Rod and Gun Club till his death. Mostly bouncing on the weekends. When I wasn’t working I was drinking there. The band is “Little Mary” on drums Jack’s wife at the time and bar manager, the good looking kid is Billy Williams on lead guitar and I can’t remember the name of the bass player. Those were some great times. Tennessee Ernie Ford came in one night with some fellas and sat and for about an hour until somebody recognized him and then he got up and sang a couple of songs with Jack, “Sixteen Tons” and “River of no Return.” He had a place down in Grandjean. The place was always packed on weekends and there was music seven nights a week.

  11. Cory LeVeille says:

    Hey Gordon Johnson, I think I was there the night Tennessee came into the bar and I sang old McDonald with him, so I was told. My mother Shelda used to date Casanova Jack for a couple of years, I have an old picture of the three of us when I was only 4 or 5 years old. The year must have been 1986 or 1987. Hit me up .

  12. Kelly Clark says:

    Jack sang at our party on Redfish lake for our honeymoon and sadly sang Welcome to my World at my father in laws funeral. We miss you cuz.

  13. Johnny Day says:

    I have many great memories of that summer. I played fiddle for Jack for a couple summers and off and on after that. I was ‘almost’ on that album, but went to college that fall instead…
    That’s ‘Shawnalotta Shawn’, on Bass. Jack was a good friend and I do miss him too. Thanks for the post on this album, it’s a good one. :}

  14. Bill Brewer says:

    I am the grandson of Glen and Neil Brewer. My father Jerry, his brother Warren pasted away many years ago. My family lives in Las Vegas, and I moved to Texas. Pat Brewer, my cousins son, died suddenly in Las Vegas, 3 months later Pat went on to meet the Lord.

    I remember spending my summers in either Stanley or Challis. My older sister Barbara, spent even more time in Stanley. There were several times grampa would lease the gun club, onlyto have to take it back a few years latter.

    In the 70′s I worked with the forest service, with jack ivey, doug leaton, bill millick bud hamiltom, i also remember the strands and the pevies.

    It has been over 35 years since I was last in that beautiful part of the country.

    Bill Brewer

  15. Julie Dedman says:

    I spent 7 summers of my life in Stanley at Redfish Lodge. I get the local Stanley updates and the Rod and Gun club was mentioned. I was remembering Cassanova Jack and his blue party pontoon boat. What an interesting fellow.