Me and a million other dudes said ‘later’ to picking cotton.—Wilson Pickett (in Gerri Hershey, Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music [1994]) Wilson Pickett, live, Germany, 1968 “Stagger Lee” ***** “Funky Broadway” Want more? Here. ********** lagniappe listening room The UPS guy left a tiny box yesterday—the new albums by Roky Erickson and [...]
Archive for April 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
04/30/2010Thursday, April 29, 2010
04/29/2010Happy (111th) Birthday, Duke! At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington. —Miles Davis Duke Ellington and His Orchestra “C Jam Blues,” 1942 ***** “Mood Indigo,” “Sophisticated Lady,” “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing),” “Don’t Get [...]
Wednesday, 4/28/10
04/28/2010As I mentioned a while back, I’m leaning toward a career, in the next life, as a tap-dancer. Marilyn Miller, “All I Want To Do, Do, Do Is Dance” (Sally, 1929) Want more? Here.
Tuesday, 4/27/10
04/27/2010Indian Music Festival, part 4 This instrument, in this man’s hands, makes some of the most haunting sounds I’ve ever heard. Hariprasad Chaurasia, bansuri (bamboo flute), with Zakir Hussain, tabla, Raga Chandrakauns, live, India (Pune), 1992 ***** lagniappe Want more Indian music? part 1: Ali Akbar Khan, sarod part 2: Nikhil Banerjee, sitar, with Zakir [...]
Monday, 4/26/10
04/25/2010Like Tom Harrell, this guy’s made music (at least from time to time) through the fog of schizophrenia. Roky Erickson with Okkervil River Live, Austin, 2010 “You’re Gonna Miss Me” Take 1 *** Take 2 *** “Two Headed Dog” *** “Goodbye Sweet Dreams” ***** “True Love Cast Out All Evil” (2010) (title track of RE’s [...]
Sunday, April 25, 2010
04/24/2010Someone could offer me a million dollars to forget this voice and I still couldn’t do it. The Soul Stirrers featuring R.H. Harris “Walk Around” (1939) ***** “Lord I’ve Tried” (1946) ***** “I Want To Rest” (1946) ***** “I’m Willing To Run” (1947) ********** lagniappe “He [R.H. Harris] was The Man – the guy everyone [...]
Friday, 4/23/10
04/23/2010Imagine that you were talking with someone who’d been blind all his life. How would you describe this guy’s act? Wayne Cochran & the C.C. Riders, live (TV broadcast [The Jackie Gleason Show]), 1968
Thursday, 4/22/10
04/22/2010Happy Birthday, Mingus! No jazz composer since Thelonious Monk has a stronger voice. Lyrical beauty, inexhaustible drive, deep feeling: what more could you ask for? Enormously influential, his music served as a bridge between the compositional elegance of Duke Ellington and the freewheeling rambunctiousness of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Henry Threadgill, David Murray, et [...]
Wednesday, 4/21/10
04/21/2010Bob Dylan/1965, part 3 “Like A Rolling Stone,” live (with Mike Bloomfield, guitar; Jerome Arnold, bass; Barry Goldberg, piano; Al Kooper, organ; Sam Lay, drums), Newport Folk Festival, July, 1965 ***** Press Conference, San Francisco, December, 1965 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
