Tuesday, 4/20/10
Bob Dylan/1965, part 2
“Maggie’s Farm,” live (with Mike Bloomfield, guitar; Jerome Arnold, bass; Barry Goldberg, piano; Al Kooper, organ; Sam Lay, drums), Newport Folk Festival, July, 1965
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Interview with Time magazine, 1965
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: guitar
2010
Monday, 4/19/10
Bob Dylan/1965, part 1
“If You Gotta Go, Go Now”
Live, England (Leicester), May, 1965
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Manfred Mann, September, 1965 (#2, UK charts)
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Friday, 4/16/10
The Rock ’ n’ Roll Guide To Getting Girls (excerpt)
“Treat Her Right”
Roy Head, live (TV broadcast), 1965
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Bob Dylan, live (TV studio, rehearsal [David Letterman Show]), 1984
2010
Saturday, 4/10/10
no wonder they’re called “hooks”
The moment it ends—a great pop song, that is—you want to hear it again.
Prefab Sprout
“Doo Wop In Harlem,” live (TV broadcast), c. 1990
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“Sweet Gospel Music”
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Sunday, 4/4/10
When it comes to working an audience, no one outshines gospel singers.
Paul Porter, “Two Wings,” live, Cleveland, 2009
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lagniappe
Want more gospel?
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art beat
Henri Matisse, Flowers and Ceramic Plate (1913)
This is just one of dozens of reasons to see “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917,” which will be at the Art Institute through June 20th, then at the Museum of Modern Art beginning July 18th. At the risk of sounding like a PR flack, this exhibit (which I saw opening weekend and will return to soon) has critics scrambling for superlatives: “revelatory” (Artforum), “thrilling” (San Francisco Chronicle), “breathtaking” (Los Angeles Times)—well, you get the idea.
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Saturday, 4/3/10
replay: a clip too good for just one day
Here’s another musician who, like Dinu Lipatti (Tuesday’s post), died way too young: the great Chicago blues artist Magic Sam (AKA Samuel Maghett). He suffered a fatal heart attack just months after this performance. He was 32.
Magic Sam, live (TV broadcast), Germany, 1969
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Facebook seems to have expanded into new markets. “Sign up,” they say, “to connect with [t]he late, great Magic Sam.”
(Originally posted 11/21/09.)
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Want more Chicago blues?
2010
Friday, 4/2/10
[T]he greatest rock is birthed from equal parts intelligence and stupidity.—Chris Bohn (The Wire, 2/10)
Jandek
“Real Wild,” live, Glasgow, 2004
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Live, Houston, 2009
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Much speculation has been made over the true identity of the mysterious singer/songwriter Jandek, and his equally obscure record label, Corwood Industries. For over 25 years, the artist released album after album of twisted, ghostly, and utterly unique songs that crooned a tale of despair.
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Jandek played his first ever concert on October 17th, 2004 in Glasgow, Scotland as part of the Instal Festival, accompanied by Richard Youngs on bass, and Alexander Neilson on drums. The name Jandek did not appear on any of the promotional material for the festival. Some members of the audience, in disbelief, recognized the man from his album covers and could not mistake the sound for any other. Word quickly spread that Jandek had indeed performed . . . —Raphi Gottesman
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art beat
Joseph Cornell, Hotel Eden (c. 1945)
2010
Monday, 3/29/10
This guy, like Captain Beefheart, studied at the Howlin’ Wolf School of Vocal Alchemy.
Tom Waits, “Make It Rain,” live (TV broadcast), 2004
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More on William Eggleston and Alex Chilton
Yesterday, while at the Art Institute, I stopped again at the William Eggleston exhibit (previously mentioned here and here), which runs through May 23rd. It includes not only the album cover I posted earlier (Big Star’s Radio City), but also this one. Eggleston, an accomplished piano player, once accompanied Chilton on a track—the Nat King Cole classic “Nature Boy,” which appears on Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers (expanded reissue), produced by Jim Dickinson, as well as Keep an Eye on the Sky (2009 boxed set).
2010
Thursday, 3/25/10
street music
Dublin
On Grafton Street
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