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Post by reuben on Aug 4, 2020 14:27:39 GMT -8
The Wind Blows Wild by Kate Wolf It took a while, but that one really grew on me as it progressed. Thanks, buddy.
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Post by desert dweller on Aug 4, 2020 14:53:26 GMT -8
It took a while, but that one really grew on me as it progressed. I don't know if you read the comment from the guy who posted it on YouTube. He tells of being at a low point in his life and when one day he was getting coffee at Peets and a guy who was standing next to him uttered one sentence that pretty much changed his path. He turned and the guy was gone. Of course I've heard of the late Kate Wolf, but I had never heard this song from her. The words are a common thread for us all.
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Post by gabby on Aug 12, 2020 9:03:29 GMT -8
Couple of old session guys in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Post by reuben on Aug 12, 2020 13:30:42 GMT -8
Not sure if these tracks have Billy Preston on keyboard or not. Charlie Watts kills it, in any case. My favorite Stones album.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Aug 13, 2020 6:48:10 GMT -8
Thought you might like this one reuben . I've always liked this one.
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Post by reuben on Aug 13, 2020 13:39:21 GMT -8
Lamebeaver, that's a good version of Little Red Rooster. A little more mellow than traditionally played, or how they played it later, but pretty darn sweet. Variety is the spice. They did a very similar, slow version in '76 while waiting for Keith to get out of a Canadian jail, due to being busted for drugs. Heroin, I think it was. The tour was put on hold, so they played a few local nightclubs.
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Post by reuben on Aug 13, 2020 14:02:22 GMT -8
Then, of course, there's the version with Howlin' Wolf, Eric Clapton, and a few other names which might be recognizable.
What's really fascinating is that prior to the take they were trying to talk Wolf into playing with them, so that they could follow him. Instead, he gave them a lesson, which is rather stunningly confusing in its simplicity.
From the great album, The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions.
"Alright, let's get on it."
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Post by gabby on Aug 13, 2020 18:12:55 GMT -8
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions Uh huh. Uh huh. I will be playin' it. Lamebeaver, that's a good version of Little Red Rooster. A little more mellow than traditionally played, or how they played it later, but pretty darn sweet. It was the sound of Chuck Berry and the grittiness of it all that sold me on the Stones. The Beatles were "too pop" and "too tinny" for me. I must have played "Little Red Rooster" so much the track was worn lower than any of the others. While I was home, I would stay up late and play records on my little portable record player, which was on a small table next to my bed. I had to leave nearly all my records and my record player home, though. Not enough room in my 2 bags (duffel and B4), though I do remember sneaking Bob Dylan's "Another Side" in the pocket of my B4 at the last second. It didn't survive the trip. I knew it was toast when they loaded the plane in San Francisco. Everyone was seated backwards in the cargo plane for the trip. Then they used a loader that went up the ramp at the back of the plane and piled all our luggage in the very back, probably 15 feet high at the peak - maybe more. If we'd had any trouble at all on the trip, a crash wouldn't have been necessary. Just a little rapid deceleration and the luggage would have killed us. It was only secured with straps. All of us dressed in our light dress blues, which was just a bit much for the tropical weather in the P.I., as we were to find out some 15 hours or so later.
I remember how I got the vinyl album: I was home on leave. I think that I must have been in post-language training at Goodfellow in San Angelo, in "casual barracks", which meant two 6 hour shifts of KP every day, from 4 AM to 10 AM and noon to dinner time, because the government ran out of money for travel. Uh huh, it was all because of the escalating situation in Vietnam and LBJ's order to send a lot more troops. The escalations caused shortages of everything, like stripes. I rose to 4 stripe sergeant in the P.I. with 3 stripes because they didn't have enough extra to issue new ones: they just changed the designations. Anyway, My dad was going to a meeting in San Antonio and I went with him because I was off and bored, figuring I would be able to find the record somewhere around where the meeting took place.
Of course, Dad didn't understand it at all. When I showed him the record cover on the way back, he kept asking about the record: "Why would you spend money on this?" "What does it sound like?" Dad didn't have a clue about Chuck Berry or anything I was listening to on the radio. Well, enough. "Nobody cares about your life history," says the wife.** **I don't vouch at all for the accuracy of dates or sequences in this little story. It's been a long time, and I never wrote any of it down.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Aug 13, 2020 19:08:48 GMT -8
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Post by reuben on Aug 14, 2020 11:26:21 GMT -8
Lamebeaver, IIRC Willie wrote that song - correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm too lazy to look it up right now. Well, he wrote a LOT of songs, many of which were made famous by others.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Aug 14, 2020 12:45:14 GMT -8
Lamebeaver, IIRC Willie wrote that song - correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm too lazy to look it up right now. Well, he wrote a LOT of songs, many of which were made famous by others. It is credited to him, but some of those old blues songs.....you never know.
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Post by reuben on Aug 17, 2020 10:37:37 GMT -8
Keith Don't Go. A plea from the great Nils Lofgren for Keith Richards to not kill himself with drugs.
Nils has worked with Lou Reed, Maya Angelou, Branford Marsalis, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Neil Young ("He bought me a cheesebuger and a Coke"), and Rod Stewart.
Nils put a polka beat into Neil Young's Southern Man when he was a teenager.
I finally saw him a couple of years ago, when he played guitar (of course), harp, accordion (he was one of the tops in the nation as a kid), and tap danced as well.
It was an awesome show.
This is the story about how he put the polka beat into Neil Young's Southern Man.
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Post by desert dweller on Aug 18, 2020 8:53:47 GMT -8
John Prine didn't write this song, but he made it his.
Padlock the door and board the windows Put the people in the street "It's just my job," he says "I'm sorry." And draws a check, goes home to eat But at night he tells his woman "I know I hide behind the laws." She says, "You're only taking orders." That's how every empire falls.
That's How Every Empire Falls
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Post by tomas on Aug 18, 2020 13:29:42 GMT -8
Not my usual offering. Shades of Velvet Underground and some Group Love. This would be fun to perform.
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Post by desert dweller on Aug 18, 2020 14:40:00 GMT -8
I just listened to this today. I think you're sneaking in on my youtube playlists!
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