three takes
I’ve got a band you should listen to . . .
—my (23-year-old) son Alex
Smith Westerns, “Tonight”
Live, Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania), 2010
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
Live, Chicago, 2010
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
Recording (Smith Westerns), 2009
Vodpod videos no longer available.Here. And here. And here. And here.
And here.
fringe dress festival (cont’d)
Wanda Jackson, live (TV broadcast [Town Hall Party]), 1958
Vodpod videos no longer available.How many musicians are so at home, and give so much pleasure,
in so many styles?
Marc Ribot, guitar
Border Music, with David Hidalgo (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
Live (with Anthony Coleman, organ; Brad Jones, bass; Cougar Estrada, drums; Fabian Hevia, percussion), Australia (Sydney), 6/2/10
“Choserita Plena” (Marc Ribot)
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
“Chinese Surprize” (David Hidalgo)
Vodpod videos no longer available.*****
Live (with Rob Burger, keyboards; Greg Cohen, bass; Cougar Estrada, drums; with guests Juan Medrano Cotito, cajon, and Hugo Bravo, congas),
Germany, 11/10/09
Roy Eldridge, January 30, 1911-February 26, 1989
No you, no me.
“I Can’t Get Started,” live (TV broadcast), 1958
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
“After You’ve Gone,” 1937
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
“Wabash Stomp,” 1937
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
“Let Me Off Uptown” (Gene Krupa Orchestra with Anita O’Day), 1942
Vodpod videos no longer available.**********
lagniappe
radio Roy Eldridge
WKCR-FM’s centennial birthday celebration, mentioned yesterday, continues until midnight.
Today MCOTD celebrates its 500th post. When this started, I thought I might eventually run out of material. But what I’ve found is the opposite: the more you hear, the more there is to hear.
Percy Sledge, “When A Man Loves A Woman,” live (TV broadcast), c. 1966
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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lagniappe
reading table
Haiku
That was fast.
I mean life.—Ron Padgett
two takes
Charlie Louvin, July 7, 1927-January 26, 2011
“If I Could Only Win Your Love” (Ira & Charlie Louvin)
Emmylou Harris & Charlie Louvin, live (TV broadcast), mid-80s
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
Louvin Brothers, 1958
Vodpod videos no longer available.**********
lagniappe
He really changed the world of music, Charlie did. I know that, for me, hearing the Louvin Brothers brought me that fierce love of harmony.
—Emmylou Harris
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Louvin Brothers, “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby,” live (TV broadcast),
c. 1955
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I can remember my brother and I singing together when I was 5 and he was 8 years old. He already knew how, and he was teaching me.
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I’m the biggest harmony lover in the world. If a song’s worth singing you ought to put harmony on it.
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Show business is all I really know how to do. I would like for that to be the last thing I do.
—Charlie Louvin
three takes
Is this—the new cover—great?
Maybe, maybe not.
No matter—I, uh (to dip into the aging hipster’s lexicon), dig it.
“Is This Love” (Bob Marley)
Corinne Bailey Rae
Take 1: recording, 2010
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
Take 2: live, Los Angeles, 2010
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
Bob Marley
Take 3: live, Santa Barbara, 1979
Vodpod videos no longer available.More Bob Marley? Here.
I’ll be all right when I find somewhere to lay my head . . .
The Sensational Nightingales, “Somewhere To Lay My Head,” live (TV broadcast), early ’60s
Vodpod videos no longer available.two takes
. . . the most beautiful song in the English language.
“Waterloo Sunset” (Ray Davies)
The Kinks, live, 1973 (TV broadcast), England
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
Ray Davies, live, 2010, England (Glastonbury)
Vodpod videos no longer available.Some voices seem to come from another world.
Skip James, “Devil Got My Woman,” 1931
Vodpod videos no longer available.More? Here.
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lagniappe
reading table: variations on a theme
I sometimes think that an idea is the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
—David Vann, New York Times, 1/14/11
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[A]ll ideas . . . fail to work at some point . . .
—David Kirby, “L’Explication de Tasty-Fuck”
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Ideas are always wrong.
—William Bronk, “Blue Spruces in Pairs, A Bird Bath Between”
