78 Special
July 31, 2009
Before I go I have to post this video from Youtube channel 78s4FR. Not only is it a classic old song by Jimmie Rodgers, but it is on a 78. Beauty.
JIMMIE RODGERS – ‘Kisses Sweeter Than Wine’ – 1957 78rpm
p.s. This Jimmie Rodgers was born the same year (1933) that the “other” Jimmie Rodgers known as the father of country music, passed away.
image credit/link
Rock and The Big Apple
July 30, 2009
Who in their right mind would go to “the rock” AND New York, New York on the same vacation. Ahem….
Talk about extremes…..BTW I’ll be off the grid for a few weeks.
Newfoundland (and Labrador – don’t you be forgettin’ Labrador now b’ye) Tourism Video
YT post by kdgdan
The island of Newfoundland is a very unique place. One of its endearing qualities is its penchant of the ‘kitchen party’. Everyone gets into the music. Good times had by all.
Newfundland Music
YT post by pendevil
On the other end of the spectrum comes the music (industry) of NYC. Check out First We Take Manhattan by Leonard Cohen.
2 Mints in One
July 29, 2009
David Munyon covers John Prine’s song:
Paradise – 2009 – YT post by Rollercoaster1972
Paradise lyrics and chords link.
CCR Medley
July 25, 2009
Yeah, Creedence Clearwater Revival had a lot of hits back in the late 60s early 70s.
CCR hits Mix – 1969ish – YT post by kheisler08
Damn Them Anyway
July 20, 2009
So there I was. Eighteen and confused every day. School was out for summer. And my friends and I were 1500 miles from home at a cabin on a huge lake with gorgeous sand dunes…..wouldn’t you know it but 3 girl friends from our home town drop in for a few days on their way to the west coast. It was party time.
I had always had a thing for one of the girls but the first night one of the others came on real strong and voila. We had a thing going. But all was not well because they had to get to the west coast and I had to make a decision whether I wanted to stay at the beach and party with my (boy) friends or go back home and wait for her to come back east. Naturally, being an 18 year old with my hormones raging, I chose the latter and hopped a train vers l’est. .
Here’s the problem: A band from Stockport England, called 10CC had just released probably their biggest selling single “I’m not in love” and my “girl” was humming it all the time. All the time while she was out west and all the time when she got back. I guess she finally figured she wasn’t in love and dropped me like an iron butterfly (or maybe even a led zeppelin). To make matters worse, she was best friends with the girl I had liked all along and so the second girl was out of the question too. (and if that wasn’t bad enough, the song had the lines “Big boys don’t cry”, over and over and over). Freakin’ loser!
Damn that 10CC. If they had just waited a couple of months. Yeah, it was all their fault all right. But it’s 30+ years later and I’m over it?
10 cc ” I’m not in love ” 1975 YT post by 2channeltv
Next song: The interesting thing about those bastards known as 10CC is that in 1970 they released a song under the name Hotlegs called Neanderthal Man - this one I liked a lot!
Neanderthal Man – Hotlegs – 1970
YT post by rsensorat3
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Radio Radials
July 18, 2009
Funk You
July 15, 2009
My favourite story that I love to retell over and over is going to see the Stones on their first tour in three years back in ‘72. It was amazing. The day of the concert was electrified. Crowds of people milling around smoking pot, playing bongos, fence posts, garbage cans – anything that could make a beat. We were waiting for the “second coming”.
I was only 16 and although it wasn’t my first major concert my eyes were opened. A guy was standing at the top of the escalator yelling out “Mescaline. Mescaline.” It was so different from “Coke here” that I was used to at sporting events. (Although there was “coke there” too).
Anyway, the opening act for the Stones was someone who I wasn’t too interested in – Stevie Wonder. And he was no longer “Little Stevie Wonder”. And when the show finally began, Stevie blew me a way over yonder! He was so…..so …..funkin funkified! Man, I was hooked. (The Stones weren’t that bad either).
Oh yeah. My ticket was $6.50. Honest.
Stevie Wonder ~ Superstition – 1973 YT post by sante3d
Blind Willie Story
July 12, 2009
One of my very favourite Bobby D songs is Blind Willie McTell…..and it wasn’t even put on an album after it was recorded in 1983. It surfaced in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991.
The line “power and greed and corruptible seed” has become a classic. (We sure have seen more than our share of P&G&CS lately!
Bob Dylan – Blind Willie McTell - 1983
YT post by joelabero999
I’ll Give Ya Appice Ma Mind
July 10, 2009
Carmine Appice a Brooklyn boy drummer who, starting in the sixties, had all kinds of success in various flavours. One such success was the band Cactus.
Cactus – Big Mama Boogie (Parts I & II)
from the album Barely Contained: The Studio Sessions 1970?
Big Mama Boogie lyrics link
Cactus promo image from here
Jimi
July 5, 2009
Jimi H – very under rated. (insert smiley here).
Yet another performer introduced to me by my older brother. It took me a few years to figure out Electric Ladyland.
Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun – Dick Cavett Show July 7, 1969
YT post by maccvoodoochild
