Tuesday, 11/2/10
Here’s more of Leon Russell and J.J. Cale—together.
Leon Russell, J.J. Cale, live, Los Angeles, 1979
“Going Down”
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“I Got The Same Old Blues”
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“Boiling Pot”
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“Corrine, Corrina”
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: rock/pop
2010
Monday, 11/1/10
What was it like to grow 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,” live, Texas (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).
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lagniappe
radio
Last week’s Sinner’s Crossroads (10/28/10) features a lot of wonderful music by the late Albertina Walker.
2010
Sunday, 10/31/10
At the recording session for the new Elton John/Leon Russell album, how did producer T Bone Burnett break the ice in the studio?
He played this clip (“Didn’t It Rain,” 2:20).
Mahalia Jackson, “Everybody Talkin’ ‘Bout Heaven,” “Didn’t It Rain,” “The Lord’s Prayer,” live, Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, Rhode Island), 1958
Want more? Here.
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lagniappe
I think that this is what everybody needs a whole lot of—not only in their playing, but in their way of living.
As far as rating this—maybe you should use a different kind of star for rating this from the stars you use rating jazz records. A moving star. Make it five moving stars.
—Charles Mingus, listening to a record by Mahalia Jackson during a Downbeat “Blindfold Test” (1960)
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art beat
Lee Friedlander, “Mahalia Jackson” (1956)
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[I]t almost looks like if you could see the next second after this picture was taken that she would start to ascend.
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live on the ’net: tonight, 8 p.m. (EDT)
Todd Rundgren, “the Class of 1963 Wells Scholars Professor at Indiana University Bloomington for this fall,” will talk about—and perform—his music in an “autobiographical concert” that’ll be video-streamed live.
2010
Friday, 10/29/10
two takes
Hockey, “Song Away”
[T]he video . . . is one of the funniest, warmest, and most socially accurate (the way the geeky kid looks at a row of the coolest girls in school as if they’re from another planet) high-school movies ever made.
—Greil Marcus, The Believer, 9/10
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Live, England (Reading), 2009
2010
Tuesday, 10/26/10
two takes
“Exit Music (For A Film)”
Radiohead, live
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Brad Mehldau Trio, live, San Francisco
2010
Monday, 10/25/10
The story behind their new album is a sweet one.
Elton John & Leon Russell
Making The Union (2010)
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Live (TV broadcast [Good Morning America], with Marc Ribot, guitar), New York (Beacon Theatre), 10/20/10
Part 1 (music begins at 4:10), “If It Wasn’t For Bad”
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Part 2, “Hearts Have Turned To Stone,” “Tiny Dancer”
2010
Saturday, 10/16/10
replay: a clip too good for just one day
Here—with a shout-out to my brother Don, with whom (at the age of 15) I saw the MC5 in Chicago’s Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic Convention (when nobody outside the Detroit/Ann Arbor area [including us] knew who they were)—is an awfully good cover, from what might seem an unlikely source, of one of their “greatest hits.”
Jeff Buckley, “Kick Out The Jams,” live, Chicago, 1995
And here, courtesy, apparently, of the Department of Defense, is (silent) footage of the scene in Lincoln Park on August 25, 1968—the day the MC5 (who appear here fleetingly) played.
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lagniappe
Von Freeman, the now-86-year-old tenor saxophonist—he still sounds terrific—toward the end of his Chicago Jazz Festival set yesterday afternoon in Grant Park, after introducing two young musicians: “I was that age once—I just don’t remember when.”
(Originally posted on 9/7/09.)
2010
Wednesday, 10/13/10
Today, celebrating our 400th post, we revisit a few favorites.
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street music
Whatever it is, this guy’s got it.
(Originally posted on 8/25/10.)
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take two (or is it one?)
Following up on Vijay Iyer’s take (6/30/10), here’s the original.
M.I.A., “Galang” (2005)
One of the things I love about M.I.A. is that she doesn’t let any of the usual stuff get in her way. Take her dancing, for instance: she’s, uh, not real good at it—at least not by the usual standards. Does that stop her? Nah.
(Originally posted on 7/2/10.)
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Guitar, drums—that’s all it takes.
Bambino (AKA Bombino), live, Niger (Agadez), 2010
Part 1
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Part 2
(Originally posted on 8/9/10.)
2010
Friday, 10/8/10
Things going wrong?
You’ve come to the right place.
This’ll make you feel all right.
Them (with Van Morrison), “Mystic Eyes,” “Gloria,” live (TV broadcast), France, 1965
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