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2010

Tuesday, 8/17/10

Last week I wrote: “Guitar, drums—that’s all it takes.”

Actually, all it takes is a single string.

Lonnie Pitchford (diddley bow), live, Mississippi, 1978 (The Land Where The Blues Began [1979])

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? and the Mysterians—still more (take #4 [NYC, Great Jones Cafe; 7/31/10])

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mail (makes me want to be [yikes!] a grandfather)

The other day Oran Etkin, whose music was featured here a while back, wrote:

I’ve been checking in every once in a while to your blog— you’ve got some really amazing and diverse music up there!

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I wanted to let you know about a new project I have and a great video I just posted yesterday. I have a project for kids called Timbalooloo (www.timbalooloo.com), which has music classes for 0-10 year olds using a new approach I developed to reach that age group, CDs, Videos, Books, etc. I am putting out a kids CD next month called Wake Up, Clarinet! based on this whole approach. It’s with my band featuring Jason Marsalis, Curtis Fowlkes, Fabian Almazan, Garth Stevenson and Charenee Wade. Anyways, I put up this video from a live concert, and I thought you might enjoy it and see if it would be cool for your blog.

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I’m loving the videos up on the site!

—Oran

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Oran Etkin, “Wake Up, Clarinet!”; live

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2010

Monday, 8/16/10

Suppose Blind Willie McTell, who died in 1959, came back to life for a day.

How would you explain this to him—a video clip of a pop icon singing a song about him, during a recent concert in Slovenia, captured by a cell-phone camera then uploaded onto the ’net for anyone, anywhere in the world, to see?

Bob Dylan, “Blind Willie McTell,” live, Slovenia (Ljubljana), 6/13/2010

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Blind Willie McTell

hotel room, Atlanta, 1940

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“Statesboro Blues,” 1928 (Atlanta)

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2010

Friday, 8/13/10

three takes

I don’t often feel like listening to someone named after a punctuation mark, but when I do I know just where to turn.

? and the Mysterians, “96 Tears”

With Ronnie Spector, live, New York, 2010

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Live, New York (1998)

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TV broadcast, 1966

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inscrutable instructions

Amazon: Express Checkout with Payphrase

To use Express Checkout on Amazon.com and across the web,
create a PayPhrase like “Richard’s Overarching Dentist”

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2010

Thursday, 8/12/10

my new mantra

Say ‘bye bye, bogeyman.’

—Whispering Jack Smith

Whispering Jack Smith, “Happy Days” (Happy Days [shot in 1929, released in 1930])

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more music to chase away the bogeyman

Sidney Bechet (clarinet, with Henry “Red” Allen, trumpet; J.C. Higginbotham, trombone; James Tolliver, piano; Wellman Braud, bass; J.C. Heard, drums), “Egyptian Fantasy” (1941)

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2010

Wednesday, 8/11/10

Anyone can play fast.

Ben Webster (tenor saxophone, with Kenny Drew, piano; Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bass; Alex Riel, drums), “How Long Has This Been Going On?”; live

Want more? Here. Here.

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2010

Sunday, 8/8/10

The gospel according to Al Green: Blessed are the lost for they will be found.

Al Green, “Amazing Grace”/“Nearer My God To Thee,” live, 1983 (Gospel According to Al Green, 1984)

More Al Green? Here.

Sam Cooke’s take on “Nearer My God To Thee”? Here.

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2010

Saturday, 8/7/10

Let’s lift the bandstand.

—Thelonious Monk

Woody Shaw/Johnny Griffin Quintet (Woody Shaw, trumpet; Johnny Griffin, tenor saxophone; John Hicks, piano; Reggie Johnson, bass; Alvin Queens, drums), “Night in Tunisia,” live, Germany (Koln), 1986

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Now there’s a great trumpet player. He [Woody Shaw] can play different from all of them.

—Miles Davis

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Anthony Braxton on playing with Woody Shaw.

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reading table

Look after the sound and the sense will take care of itself.

—Adam Phillips, London Review of Books, 7/22/10 (reviewing Christopher Ricks’ True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell Under The Sign Of Eliot And Pound)

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2010

Friday, 8/6/10

How quaint they seem today—the predictions made, years ago, that drum machines would make flesh-and-blood drummers obsolete.

The Black Keys, “Too Afraid To Love You”

Recording Studio (Muscle Shoals, Alabama), Brothers (2010)

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Live, New York, 2010

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record shopping with a Black Key

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2010

Tuesday, 7/20/10

recipe

1 cup funkiness

1 cup elegance

Mix until thoroughly blended.

Professor Longhair (AKA Henry Roeland [“Roy”] Byrd), December 19, 1918-January 30, 1980

“Tipitina,” live

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“Hey Little Girl,” live

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mail

Mike Kinnamon, Bonnie Bramlett’s Nashville-based manager, in response to an email letting him (and Bonnie) know that her music was featured here (Delaney, alas, is no longer alive), left a voice-mail message yesterday:

. . . I just love it when somebody like you cares enough to send stuff like that around. It’s really cool, and it lifts her [Bonnie] up, too. Thank you so much, buddy . . .

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2010

Wednesday, 7/14/10

They weren’t glamorous. And they couldn’t have been paying a whole lot. But everybody, it seemed, wanted to play with them.

Delaney & Bonnie

With Eric Clapton (guitar), Dave Mason (guitar), Bobby Whitlock (vocal); “Poor Elijah-Tribute to Robert Johnson”; live (TV broadcast), England, 1969

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With Eric Clapton (guitar), George Harrison (guitar), Bobby Whitlock (keyboards), Carl Radle (bass), Jim Gordon (drums); “Comin’ Home”; live, England, 1969

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With Duane Allman (guitar), Gregg Allman (organ), King Curtis (tenor saxophone); “Only You Know And I Know”; live, 1971

(The bass player, whoever he is, is the MVP here—he lights up everything [check out, for instance, 1:06-1:56].)

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