After the Kentucky Gane tonight at the local FOE, I played the song. No one knew who it was, but they put it in their phones. True story. Maybe you guys should hang out at the bar.
The Music Thread
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Back when Papa Goat was still alive, we used to send each other CDs in the mail, trying to outdo one another with music that was 1) kickass and 2) something the other wouldn't have heard before. Needless to say, that was tough. One time, he sent me a Shawn Mullins CD, and I laughed at him because three of the songs were currently on the Billboard list (he wouldn't have known what that was). Anyway, one time, he sent me Loudon Wainwright, whom I'd never heard before, and is still one of the best albums I've heard.
Edit: Another one of his mailings was Paul Butterfield, which is what made me think to add that to the thread.
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Speaking of albums Papa Goat sent me, here's Greg Brown doing what he (tongue-in-cheek) called a cover of the old Petula Clark song.
Anybody else remember this classic album? Maybe the first "American" Super collaboration... Covering Donovan on this cut...
So here is an interesting Al Kooper story from Judy Collins. Don't remember if she was involved with Stills at the time this album was recorded. But she was interviewed by someone from the Christine Amanpour show last week and told this story...
So she said that one night in 1965/66 she got a call from her friend Al Kooper. It was late/night early morning and she was asleep, but she woke up and took the call. Al was slightly drunk and told her he had gone to a party and gone home with a girl he met who fancied herself a songwriter.
He told Judy that he had been listening to this girl's songs thruout the night and felt that not only was she talented, but she had a song or two that he felt Judy should record... Judy was skeptical but decided to play along and told him to put her on and sing something to her over the phone. A few seconds later the young girl got on the phone, introduced herself as Joni, and sang Both Sides Now...
The rest is history...
IIRC that song broke on an episode of Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. I seem to remember Loudon being a member of the show's cast in one capacity or another...
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My son, a young drummer, has fallen in love with the movie Whiplash and now listens to this song all the time:
Here's the scene from the movie:
Here's the scene from the movie:
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Take him to a football game and watch the post-game show when the band plays Sing Sing Sing. I'm not a drummer, but the percussion in that song gets me going. It's the Marching Hundred's signature song, imo.
I keep being reminded of classic songs/performances that I had almost forgot even existed. In many cases these young reactors on you tube will discover a song and it will end up being something I haven't heard in nearly 40 yrs...Often times it will be a deep cut off of an album that I used to own and played frequently during high school or while at IU...
Here's an example that a lot of people may not know from the time when Kenny Loggins actually had talent and wasn't just recording the Top 40 schlock and movie soundtracks that made him extremely wealthy. This is a tasty trilogy from the initial Sittin In collaboration with Jimmy Messina...
Who choose the play list for the "Last Waltz"
RIP to David Crosby, CSN & sometimes Y was one of my favorite groups.
It's amazing how you (as in I) can learn new things every day. And then you feel like you want to share it with others, who also might gain some benefit from your newfound knowledge...
So I've seen tons of memorial videos to Crosby today, and gleaned info that I didn't really know, or at least didn't know the complete story. So I just watched Otis Gibbs (who actually lives in Indy) and he was giving some insight and things he learned...
I know Triad was sort of a collaboration between Crosby and Kantner, though I don't know if Grace was involved/ subject of the triangle. But another Crosby/Kantner collaboration that also included Stills and exploded as a result of Woodstock was of course Wooden Ships...
So at this point in time Jackson Browne was living on Crosby's sailboat. And Crosby, Kantner, and Stills basically composed Wooden Ships out of frustration and fear over the state of the world and the fear of some sort of nuclear Armageddon. The sentiment was sort of let's just sail away and start over with what's left after humanity destroys itself...
But Jackson took a contrarian view, and advocated for staying and fighting (in a figurative sense) and not giving up. And just like Circle Game was Joni's response to Neil's lament over the loss of youth in Sugar Mountain, Jackson wrote For Everyman in response to David and Steven's loss of hope in the lyrics of Wooden Ships. And when the song was recorded and became the title cut of Jackson's 2nd album, David sang very pronounced backing vocals on that song...
I first heard For Everyman when it was released my Senior year of high school, and it was only today that I discovered that these lyrics, which I've had memorized for 50 yrs were JB's response to the lyrics David, Paul and Steven wrote in Wooden Ships...
"Everybody I talk to is ready to leave
With the light of the morning
They've seen the end coming down long enough to believe
That they've heard their last warning
Standing alone
Each has his own ticket in his hand
And as the evening descends
I sit thinking 'bout Everyman"
Still blows me away that Joni was behind the curtain during Helpless. IIRC she didn't want to let the audience know she was there and spoil the surprise of her appearance. She was scheduled to follow Neil. so she just sang from backstage and the audience didn't realize she was on the bill...
The tape I posted is the rare 4-hour show. Some songs didn't make the cut.
That dude is from Indy
Don’t know that he writes much, but he is a talented player, singer and arranger.
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You're not crazy. I like Stapleton. You can find some good country/country-like stuff on the soundtracks to Yellowstone, if you want to sample.
Did anybody catch the 1000 greatest hits of the 60’s on the 60’s Gold SeriousXM channel? Interesting. One artist had 2 in top 10, at #10 and #1. I never would have guessed it. The countdown took several days. We heard the final 25 last Sunday. My guess at #1 was in the 50’s.
The vote was taken in the last few months, so the list is actually what people today think the top 60’s hits are.
You can find the list on line. I don’t think anybody will guess #1 or the only artist with 2 in the top 10.
The vote was taken in the last few months, so the list is actually what people today think the top 60’s hits are.
You can find the list on line. I don’t think anybody will guess #1 or the only artist with 2 in the top 10.
Yes, that was surprising. Pleasantly, though, as that artist was one of the most influential of all time. Immensely talented.
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Their #2 is probably my favorite song from the 60s. But there are so, so many.
Have you seen. Million Dollar Quartet performed? After Elvis, Cash, and Perkins left for greener pastures, I love the way they brought him into the script.
No I haven’t, but I will. I just looked it up because of your post. Who says you don’t get valuable information on the Cooler? Thanks!
Christ I forgot how good Appetite for Destruction is. Any Paradise City is the best song on the album. I wish I could have seen it live.
The debt we owe to GNR for bridging the hair band transition is incalculable.
The debt we owe to GNR for bridging the hair band transition is incalculable.
Phish surprised themselves with this. They'd been playing around with the song Tube (the first couple minutes of this) for all of 1997 as they transitioned to more of "groove" style jamming. Really, there is no guitar presence other than as rhythm. Their listening exercises are legenday. But about 6 mins in Tube ends, but I don't think they wanted to end it really. So they just restarted the jam section.
As usual, the lyrics are pretty nonsensical but nobody listens to Phish for their sage wisdom. Their musicianship really is otherworldly.
As usual, the lyrics are pretty nonsensical but nobody listens to Phish for their sage wisdom. Their musicianship really is otherworldly.
