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2010

Friday, 8/20/10

Here’s more from the guy who, the other day, we heard live in Slovenia.

Bob Dylan, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin'” (2009)

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Howlin’ Wolf (with Hubert Sumlin, guitar; Hosea Lee Kennard, piano; Alfred Elkins, bass; Earl Phillips, drums), “Who’s Been Talking” (Chess Records, Chicago, 1957)

More Howlin’ Wolf? Here.

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art beat

The New Yorker (8/16/10) writes of Matisse’s Bathers by a River, which is currently on view, in the exhibit “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917,”  at the Museum of Modern Art: “it consumes at least as much aesthetic energy as it imparts.” Except when it’s on loan elsewhere, this painting hangs at Chicago’s Art Institute. Over the years I’ve seen it dozens (maybe hundreds) of times. Never once, as I looked at it, did it occur to me how much “aesthetic energy” it was “consum[ing].”

Henri Matisse, Bathers by a River (1909-16)

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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

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

Saturday, 7/24/10

replay: a clip too good for just one day

Great drummers are like great basketball players—they lift everybody’s game.

Trixie Whitley with Brian Blade (drums) and Daniel Lanois, “I’d Rather Go Blind,” recording session, 2008

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Johnny [Vidacovich, featured on 9/30/09], man . . . what an inspiration. His playing is so liquid but at the same time just the street of it is so intoxicating. Studying with him, the drumming aspect was never about fundamental things. It was never about the drums as much as it was about the music and playing with this melodic sensibility. That sticks with me even more than the thickness or the groove, which he never spoke about, really. That was like a given. If you have it inside of you, that groove, you need to lay it down. But also need to be able to sing through the drums.—Brian Blade

(Originally posted on 2/13/10.)

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2010

Friday, 7/23/10

two takes

“I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” (Burt Bacharach & Hal David)

Dusty Springfield, TV broadcast, 1964

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The White Stripes, live, Australia, 2006

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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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2010

Tuesday, 7/6/10

What the world needs now?

Nah, not love.

What the world needs now—what it cries out for, daily—is inspired silliness.

Brave Combo, live

“The Denton Polka,” Texas (Denton), 2007

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“Louie, Louie,” Illinois (Berwyn [FitzGerald’s]), 2008

Brave Combo played a wild set Sunday night (the 4th) at FitzGerald’s American Music Festival—everything from “Beer Barrel Polka” to a hard-rockin’ “Hokey Pokey” to a polka-inflected “Ode to Joy” (“Any Beethoven fans in the house?”) to a Tejano-style “America the Beautiful.” By the end of the 90-minute set, everybody’s IQ, it seemed, had gone up 15 points. Or was it down?

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2010

Monday, 7/5/10

How many songs are so 4th-of-July perfect?

The Blasters, “American Music”

Take 1

Live, Illinois (Champaign), 1985

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Take 2

Live, Los Angeles, 2010

On Saturday night these guys played this, in overdrive, at FitzGerald’s American Music Festival, a wonderful 4-day event that just celebrated its 30th anniversary.

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