The Music Thread
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Had heard about this guy from DFW...got to see him open for Old 97's Tuesday at Hi Fi. Legit.
Love all of the standard Grace vocals, but this soaring rendition of Hyperdrive from Starship's '74 Dragon Fly album may be my favorite...There used to be a you tube video of this featuring her isolated vocal and it was amazing...
Back to Gram for a moment... A lot of the younger generation you tube reactor video creators are discovering Gram via Emmylou. I was watching one the other day about Grievous Angel. and then I stumbled on to someone reacting to Crazy Eyes, which is Poco's Richie Furay penned tribute to Gram. It's the title cut of their 1973 album, which believe it or not was my senior year of high school...
It's very complex, both musically ad lyrically , as was Gram. The mix of orchestration with country steel and banjo may not be everyone's cup of tea. I'm not sure how well Richie knew Gram, but there was always an ongoing connection between the Byrds, Burritos and Springfield and other members of Poco likely knew Gram as well. If nothing else it's a heartfelt tribute...
This line "You sing songs about brass buttons and shiny silver shoes" is a direct reference to one of Grams most beloved songs (Brass Buttons) which Richie covers beautifully on the same album.
It's a beautiful song, and on first listen it sounds like a sonnet to a lost love. But the lyrics always struck me a little odd, for someone not yet to write...
"Brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes
Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottled blues
And tiny golden pins that she wore up in her hair
Brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes"
The only teenage girl that those lyrics conjur is someone off of Little House on The Prarie, and it just didn't make sense for 19 yr old Gram to write about a former love that way. In addition he writes that "her comb still lies beside my bed". He's referring to a haircomb that goes in your hair, not something you use to comb hair with. It almost seems like something out of another century, or at least an item popular before WW2 and that always confused me.
The consensous online seems to be that he wrote it in 1965, and refers to his mother Avis who died that year of cirrhosis on the same day Gram graduated from high school. I actually thought I read an interview where he said it was about his grandmother and to me that might make more sense. But either way it makes the lyrics more realistic from a 19 yr old's perspective...
Anyway a beautiful cover of a wonderful song...
And while Emmylou has covered numerous songs from Gram's catalogue, it's this performance from Joan Baez and Jeffrey Shurtleff at Woodstock that is lesser known and still holds a place in my heart... Dedicated (tongue in cheek) to then "Gov Ronald Raygun"...
Heat index of 110+ doesn’t spawn much musical feels.
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Gram was the Honly Tonk Ambassador .. he influenced a lot of people in the short time he was here. Not only the Cali guys but even the Stones .. He may be one of the most influential musicians of the 70s ...
It was a little alarming when Buffett cancelled recent shows (on Drs orders) and didn't look well when I saw him on tv. But I guess I convinced myself, (based on his reassurances) that he would be ok. So it was a shock to wake up this morning to the news that he was gone.
Strange that he and Crosby should both pass in the same year, since I was already a huge CSNY fan in '76 when I got introduced to Buffett thru the Changes in Latitude album. There were several songs better than Margaritaville,and from that point on I was a Buffet fan...
I used to play the shit out of that first live album, which provides a great compilation of songs from his early career..
This version of Captain and the Kid seems especially poignant at this point in time...
"Died about a month ago
While winter filled the air
Though I cried I was so proud
To love a man so rare"
Strange that he and Crosby should both pass in the same year, since I was already a huge CSNY fan in '76 when I got introduced to Buffett thru the Changes in Latitude album. There were several songs better than Margaritaville,and from that point on I was a Buffet fan...
I used to play the shit out of that first live album, which provides a great compilation of songs from his early career..
This version of Captain and the Kid seems especially poignant at this point in time...
"Died about a month ago
While winter filled the air
Though I cried I was so proud
To love a man so rare"
Buffet was always a welcome change from whatever music rut I was in.
He always reminded me of Terry Hoeppner - they were the one guy in the room that everybody just wanted to have a beer with. Just another dude.
Actually, September 3rd was my dad’s birthday
Not to belabor the Buffett sentimentality, but it's pretty clear that of all the losses this past year, his was the one who affected the most people...
I knew that Morning Joe was a huge fan. but I didn't know they were friends. Even though I never agreed with Scarborough politically, dating back to his embodiment of Newt''s Contract with America GOP generation, he's always had the best music as a key part of his show...So I knew they'd have the best and most heartfelt tribute.
It was a day late since Joe and Mia took Labor Day off, but well worth the wait.
And here is the song Dylan specifically listed as one of his favorites, when he named JB as a favorite songwriter. He Went to Paris was inspired by Jimmy meeting Eddie Balchowsky , a one-armed Spanish Civil War/Lincoln Brigade survivor who played piano and cleaned up in a famous Chicago club, the Quiet Knight. Eddie regaled Jimmy with his tales and Jimmy wrote Paris (in Chicago) loosely based on Eddie's exploits...
The latest entry in the Playing For Change catalogue, just dropped yesterday. Doctor My Eyes with Russ Kunkel and the incredible Lee Sklar joining Jackson and a host of other musicians from across the globe.. Some amazing vocal chops and really unusual instruments including a giant Sitar and a zephyr, along with Lee playing the bass he played on the original...
I imagine that David Lindley is looking on with approval...
I imagine that David Lindley is looking on with approval...
It’s weird how memories get stuck and then triggered. Every time I hear Doctor My Eyes, I get a flashback to driving across the old bridge between Hatfield and Yankeetown while in high school.
Sucks.
Used to go see Charlie down in Gun Barrel City at this lake bar. He was a legend on the Texas circuit.
