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2013

Monday, 7/29/13

passings

J.J. Cale, singer, songwriter, guitarist, December 5, 1938-July 26, 2013

Today, remembering him, we revisit an earlier post.

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What was it like growing up in the 1950s in the lonesome state of Oklahoma?

Leon Russell knows.

So does this guy.

J.J. Cale (with Eric Clapton), “After Midnight” (J. Cale), live, Dallas, 2004


Who supplies the juice here?

It ain’t the guitar god from England.

It’s the grizzled guitar player from the state with the funny shape (:38-1:12, 1:41-44, 2:14-48, 3:36-50, 4:20-44).

(Originally posted 11/1/10.)

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2013

Monday, July 15th

only rock ’n’ roll

Phil Lee & The Sly Dogs, “A Night in the Box”


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lagniappe

random thoughts

Yesterday, a perfect summer day, walking in the woods with my son’s dog Roscoe, I was reminded, repeatedly, that the thing about nature—the thing that makes an experience like this fundamentally different from, say, sitting in my living room reading a book—is this: it’s buggy.

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2013

Friday, July 12th

D’Angelo (with Questlove, drums; Pino Palladino, bass; Kuumba Frank Lacy, trombone, trumpet; Chalmers “Spanky” Alford, guitar; Anthony Hamilton, vocals, et al.), live, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 2000


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musical thoughts

No stage anywhere in the world can compare with the one that exists in the imagination. Where else can you find Jimi Hendrix jamming with Miles Davis? Sam Cooke singing with Smokey Robinson? Sly Stone taking everybody higher with Sun Ra?

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Happy Birthday, Suzanne!

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2013

Wednesday, July 10th

3n 

Matthew Shipp Trio (MS, piano; Michael Bisio, bass; Whit Dickey, drums), live, Cold Spring, N.Y., 2011

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reading table

Don’t be too eager to ask
What the gods have in mind for us . . .

—Horace (65 BC-25 BC), Ode I.11 (excerpt; translated from Latin by David Ferry)

 

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2013

Monday, July 8th

rock ’n’ roll, n. where electric guitars and drums collide.

True Believers,* live, Austin (SXSW, Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop), 3/13

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reading table

I said, Annie, I’m only forty-eight. There’s lots of time for me to be totally wrecked—if I live, I mean.

—Grace Paley, “Friends”

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*Alejandro Escovedo (vocals, guitar), Jon Dee Graham (vocals, guitar), Javier Escovedo (vocals, guitar), Denny DeGorio (bass), Rey Washam (drums).

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2013

Friday, July 5th

tonight

These guys will be at FitzGerald’s (see yesterday’s post)—me, too.

St. Paul and the Broken Bones, “Broken Bones and Pocket Change,” live, Nashville, 2012


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Went to Mercury Lounge tonite. I have seen the future of music & the name of the band is St. Paul & the Broken Bones.

—Rosanne Cash, Twitter, 6/5/13

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2013

Tuesday, July 2nd

This is, to these ears, just perfect.

Sonny Rollins Trio (SR, tenor saxophone; Henry Grimes, bass; Pete La Roca, drums), “Weaver of Dreams,” live, Netherlands (Laren), 1959


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random thoughts

What will the world be like without you?

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2013

Saturday, June 29th

White folks are cool, too.

Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale, live, Washington, D.C., 2013

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2013

Saturday, June 22nd

If I had a dollar for every guitar player I’ve ever heard who had an original sound and approach, I probably couldn’t afford dinner.

David Fiuczynski Group,* live, New York, 2010

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*DF, guitar; Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone; John Medeski, keyboards; David Ginyard, bass; Skoota Warner, drums.

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2013

Thursday, June 20th

In a world this fast what you need, sometimes, is something this slow.

Shirley Horn (1934-2005), “Summer (Estate)” (B. Martino & B. Brighetti), live, Switzerland (Bern), 1990


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lagniappe

musical thoughts

Space is a valuable commodity in music. Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It’s important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can’t rush it. I really can’t rush it.

—Shirley Horn

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art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago 

Statuette of a Female Figure
Cycladic, probably from the island of Keros
Early Bronze Age, 2600/2400 B.C.

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