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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 16, 2017 16:55:03 GMT -5
Sad to see the news about James Cotton. I've seen him a few times in concert-not as a headliner but in support with another artist. Have a few of his CDs as well. At least he had a full life and left us lots to remember him
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 16, 2017 18:14:09 GMT -5
Jerry Jeff Walker turns 75 today.
WWJJWD?
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Post by berkley on Mar 16, 2017 19:24:46 GMT -5
Mr. Bojangles is a great song but this was always my favourite Jerry Jeff Walker tune:
edit: not actually written by Walker, I learn now for the first time, but by Guy Clark.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 16, 2017 22:04:53 GMT -5
Mr. Bojangles is a great song but this was always my favourite Jerry Jeff Walker tune: edit: not actually written by Walker, I learn now for the first time, but by Guy Clark. I am a HUGE fan of Guy Clark. I was absolutely devastated when he passed away. I consider him to be one of the great songwriters of the 20th Century. That said...I wanted to go with a song that Walker himself wrote. I was torn between Bojangles and Pissin' in the Wind. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 16, 2017 23:01:09 GMT -5
Mr. Bojangles is a great song but this was always my favourite Jerry Jeff Walker tune: edit: not actually written by Walker, I learn now for the first time, but by Guy Clark. I am a HUGE fan of Guy Clark. I was absolutely devastated when he passed away. I consider him to be one of the great songwriters of the 20th Century. That said...I wanted to go with a song that Walker himself wrote. I was torn between Bojangles and Pissin' in the Wind. Yeah, that's what I meant to do, and what I thought I was doing, as I've been assuming all these years that Walker wrote LA Freeway himself. But I decided to leave it as it was, even after finding out it was a Guy Clark composition, since it is my favourite Jerry Jeff Walker performance. I only know Guy Clark as a name, really, but he's a guy I intend to listen to in depth one of these days. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 16, 2017 23:13:46 GMT -5
Jerry Jeff Walker started in a jazz/rock group during the late 60's called Circus Maximus. This song got lots of FM airplay and is still a beautiful tune
It's from the 1st of 2 albums from the group and was released in..........1967
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 17, 2017 0:28:08 GMT -5
I am a HUGE fan of Guy Clark. I was absolutely devastated when he passed away. I consider him to be one of the great songwriters of the 20th Century. That said...I wanted to go with a song that Walker himself wrote. I was torn between Bojangles and Pissin' in the Wind. Yeah, that's what I meant to do, and what I thought I was doing, as I've been assuming all these years that Walker wrote LA Freeway himself. But I decided to leave it as it was, even after finding out it was a Guy Clark composition, since it is my favourite Jerry Jeff Walker performance. I only know Guy Clark as a name, really, but he's a guy I intend to listen to in depth one of these days. My favorite Guy Clark composition. And one I love. And one for the writers. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 17, 2017 18:42:09 GMT -5
Did You Know?
Marvel Comics had a group of their super heroes recording songs in the mid-60's. The band started in 1965 and 1967 saw their biggest hit single reaching #6 on the R&B charts. They had another top 20 hit in 1968. They disbanded in 1970 as super heroics began losing popularity and the horror and barbarian trends dominated. But they did reunite in time for the disco craze with moderate success.
I'll post some of their songs this weekend
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 18, 2017 17:50:42 GMT -5
Chuck Berry, possibly the most important figure in rock n' roll, died at age 90
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 18, 2017 17:59:20 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 18, 2017 18:28:48 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 18, 2017 18:39:43 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 18, 2017 18:47:27 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 19:49:52 GMT -5
I remembered watching a documentary of his life and one of the songs that he sang in London back in 1972 called Reelin and Rockin and this is one of my favorite songs that he performed. Man, I also remembered watching his appearance on the Tonight Show as well. Man, we lost a tremendous pioneer of Rock and Roll and he is the Legend of Legends. I wished that I had a chance to see him performed.
Reelin and Rockin You Tube Clip.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 19, 2017 13:23:28 GMT -5
What my middle son had to say about Chuck Berry.
"Through my life, Chuck Berry has been a comforting relic of times I have experienced and have never experienced. It was a constant truth that if I wanted to experience the America my grandparents knew, all I needed to do was make a quick pilgrimage to St. Louis. But more important than the sock hops and malt shops, I would regain a notion of when dad meticulously and vehemently orated the history of rock and roll from that Best hits of the 1950s tape he always kept in the Green convertible, and remember the trips to the Filer fair, waiting for Mom to finish cleaning the WIC building, and traveling to wherever else that thing would travel. So with the death of Chuck Berry (and Merle Haggard early last year) I lose a piece of my past, and we all lose a piece of America."
Which elicited this from me.
"Reading what Nathan Schneider had to say about Chuck Berry got me to thinking about his journey through my life. Riding around with my Dad usually meant listening to classic country music on the radio. But there was still a bit of that greaser 50s kid with the white t-shirt with the cigarettes rolled up in his sleeve and the duck-tail hair. His go-to 50s music were Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly. Those two would bring out the kid in him.
So when I was listening to music with my kids I wanted to both pass on that particular legacy and to make sure that they knew where the music came from. The Chuck Berry compiliation, The Great Twenty-Eight, spent a lot of time being played. It was a particularly great album to have playing when the top was down on the green convertible. There's nothing quite as FUN as having the wind blow through your hair and a little guy in the back singing along "Too Much Monkey Business" in the back!
Thank you, Chuck Berry, for giving so much pleasure to three generations of Schneider's. R. I. P."
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