Tag: tunes
Peace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: RIP "Duck" Dunn
Bass player Donald “Duck” Dunn passed away last Sunday at the age of 70. The list of Top 40 hits he played on is a long one but it all started with the house band at Stax Records: Booker T. & the M.G.’s with Booker T. Jones on Hammond organ,
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Are you ready to party on a Friday night? ‘Cos I’m going to begin the set with a song about dying. That said, it’s a rather more upbeat version than most — this is Goin’ Down Slow by Kenny Neal and Billy Branch (with a tip of the hat to
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night Crossroads blogging
Eric Clapton started the Crossroads Guitar Festival series both to showcase guitar players and to benefit a drug treatment center called the Crossroads Centre. All three of tonight’s clips are from the most recent festival in 2010. The first tune may stir some memories for you if you’re around my
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Good evening. Have some blues. As Chris Smither mentions in his intro, Statesboro Blues was originally written and recorded by Blind Willie McTell. The opening bars of this tune put me in mind of Canned Heat. Since it’s a road song, maybe that was the idea. This is Moreland and
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: RIP Levon Helm
Levon Helm, best known as the drummer for The Band, passed away yesterday from “complications of cancer.” He had already come back from throat cancer once to resume recording and performing until very recently. I would imagine you’ll find lots of retrospective looks at his career (like this one at
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Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign Sitting there by the left turn line Flag on the wheelchair flapping in the breeze One leg missing, both hands free No one’s paying much mind to him The V.A. budget’s stretched so thin And there’s more comin’ home from the Mideast war We
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This evening I think we’ll do them in chronological order. This is The Fabulous Thunderbirds performing on Austin City Limits in 1986. Look At That, Look At That. Rebecca was originally written and performed by Big Joe Turner. This is a cover by Joe Louis Walker at the Bern Jazz
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This evening I think we’ll do them in chronological order. This is The Fabulous Thunderbirds performing on Austin City Limits in 1986. Look At That, Look At That. Rebecca was originally written and performed by Big Joe Turner. This is a cover by Joe Louis Walker at the Bern Jazz
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Good evening. Try to think of this as music to forget budgets by. Maybe it’ll work. This is John Campbell’s version of When the Levee Breaks. This is a long, slow instrumental by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble called Riviera Paradise. This is from an Austin City Limits broadcast
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Delbert McClinton’s going to start things off with some help from Bekka Bramlett on She’s Livin’ It Up (And I’m Tryin’ To Live It Down). If you’re wondering… yes, Bekka is the daughter of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. This is Marcia Ball with a nice cover of Etta James’ I’d
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Tonight’s offering is a traditional blues blogging set. We begin by watching Roy Rogers get his audience dancing with an instrumental called Avalanche. This is Lurrie Bell (son of Carey Bell) sitting in with Mississippi Heat on a slow blues written by Muddy Waters. It’s called She’s Nineteen Years Old.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night Music Fog sampler
I was in the mood to sample some tunes I hadn’t heard before so I went wandering through the Music Fog collection on YouTube and picked out a few to share. James McMurtry is an interesting writer and this one also features some interesting guitar technique — note the two
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With a shout out to Moose at Classic Blues Videos, we begin with a little instrumental goodness from Gatemouth Brown. And go go dancers! (It was 1966. Everything called for go go dancers.) This is Okie Dokie Stomp. I may have posted a version of this song before but it
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Old fashioned Friday night blues blogging
Want Ad Blues, which is the real title, was written and recorded by John Lee Hooker. This is Rory Gallagher flying solo on what appears to be an original National Steel guitar. This piece is from an instructional video. I certainly found it instructive. This is Roy Rogers with The
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Sunday afternoon
Because I forgot to do it on Sunday morning.
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Is this a somewhat unlikely combination? The opening piece is a return visit by Lincoln Durham, who popped up on my own radar a couple of weeks ago. He’s an accomplished fiddle player but it’s his slide guitar that’s on display on How Does A Crow Fly. Johnny Hiland is
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Good evening. I think it’s time for some tunes. Let’s start with Ray Wylie Hubbard on Wanna Rock and Roll. I believe the lead guitarist is his son and I’m still pretty sure that the Les Paul he’s playing is older than he is. This is a German guitarist named
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Blame Twitter. Someone was tweeting about a musician named Lincoln Durham the other day and when he included the magic words — slide guitar — I went off to see what I could find. The result is the set you see before you beginning with Living This Hard. Once I’d
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