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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 1, 2024 13:28:01 GMT -5
It's time once again for the Waterfront Blues Festival! As always, you can listen anywhere in the world at www.kboo.fm/listen-now from noon until 11pm Pacific time, July 4-7 2024. There's music all 11 hours, but that's too much typing. Here are the last three acts each evening: July 4: Diggin Dirt - seven-piece band from Humboldt County CA MarchFourth - fifteen-piece band from Portland St. Paul and the Broken Bones - eight-piece band from Birmingham ALJuly 5: Margo Price - Americana singer/songwriter from Nashville Say She She - modern disco trio from New York Lucinda Williams - 'nuff said July 6: Bobby Rush & North Mississippi Allstars - tribute to Muddy Waters & Howlin' WolfCandice Ivory & Nic Clark with Charlie Hunter - two singer/songwriters and a guitar virtuoso Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - 'nuff said July 7: Curtis Salgado - singer, songwriter & harmonica virtuoso from Portland Dustbowl Revival - roots music from LA Greensky Bluegrass - contemporary bluegrass from Kalamazoo MI All the details at waterfrontbluesfest.com/
The two highlighted bands are fantastic. I can't recommend St. Paul & the Broken Bones enough... a flat-out killer old-school-style soul & R&B outfit with really, really great original material.
And yeah, Lucinda Williams needs no introduction.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 6, 2024 19:08:05 GMT -5
I’ve been missing my music projects. I’m sure I’m the only one.
Considered doing favorite songs. But as I looked at 1974, it’s a strong possibility there could be six songs by Waylon Jennings.
I’ll keep thinking about it.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 6, 2024 20:17:20 GMT -5
I’ve been missing my music projects. I’m sure I’m the only one. Considered doing favorite songs. But as I looked at 1974, it’s a strong possibility there could be six songs by Waylon Jennings. I’ll keep thinking about it. I was thinking we could maybe do Top 10 favourite retrospective CD or Vinyl box sets. Or maybe we could do Top 10 favourite albums of 1964? Or perhaps more genre specific Top 10 lists? Like, Top 10 pop songs or Top 10 country songs or Top 10 soul songs etc. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 6, 2024 20:42:25 GMT -5
I’ve been missing my music projects. I’m sure I’m the only one. Considered doing favorite songs. But as I looked at 1974, it’s a strong possibility there could be six songs by Waylon Jennings. I’ll keep thinking about it. I was thinking we could maybe do Top 10 favourite retrospective CD or Vinyl box sets. Or maybe we could do Top 10 favourite albums of 1964? Or perhaps more genre specific Top 10 lists? Like, Top 10 pop songs or Top 10 country songs or Top 10 soul songs etc. I’m up for 1964 albums. Might take me a few days to put it together. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 7, 2024 5:20:04 GMT -5
I was thinking we could maybe do Top 10 favourite retrospective CD or Vinyl box sets. Or maybe we could do Top 10 favourite albums of 1964? Or perhaps more genre specific Top 10 lists? Like, Top 10 pop songs or Top 10 country songs or Top 10 soul songs etc. I’m up for 1964 albums. Might take me a few days to put it together. Yeah? Cool. It'll take me a little while to get my list together too. Give me a shout when you're ready. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 7, 2024 10:55:44 GMT -5
I’m up for 1964 albums. Might take me a few days to put it together. Yeah? Cool. It'll take me a little while to get my list together too. Give me a shout when you're ready. Sounds good. I played around with it last night. I’m down to eleven albums. So I probably need to order them and cut one. I suspect we shall have no overlap. I’m not including pure jazz albums, as usual, because there were close to a dozen that could realistically have been on there. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 7, 2024 12:31:35 GMT -5
Here's something music-related that may interest some of the regulars here. A recent episode of the (generally excellent) podcast Throughline about " Pop Music's First Black Stars."
It's quite informative, and personally I found it additionally interesting because I used to know one of the scholars featured, Daphne Brooks - back in my college days, we lived in the same dorm building for a year. |
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Post by berkley on Jul 8, 2024 0:02:14 GMT -5
Not sure if I can find ten 1964 albums that I know really well or well enough to call them favourites but I'll have a look at the wiki list.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 8, 2024 8:20:41 GMT -5
Yeah? Cool. It'll take me a little while to get my list together too. Give me a shout when you're ready. Sounds good. I played around with it last night. I’m down to eleven albums. So I probably need to order them and cut one. I suspect we shall have no overlap. I’m not including pure jazz albums, as usual, because there were close to a dozen that could realistically have been on there. I drew up my short list of 18 albums today...just need to narrow it down to 10 and order them. There will absolutely be at least one jazz album in my Top 10, along with a bit of pop, a bit of blues, a bit of bluegrass, and a lot of American folk. No prizes for guessing which fab beat combo are gonna be in my number one spot!  |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 8, 2024 10:11:44 GMT -5
OK, I got a dilemma with my 1964 list that didn't crop up on later lists because of the vagaries of '60s record contracts. Two acts in my Top 10 have two albums each in the run down because it was common back then for record companies to demand a couple of album releases per year from artists/ But obviously that means that my list will only feature eight different acts instead of ten.
I'm sort of wondering whether to limit my list to only 1 album per artist/act? But while that might make for a more interesting list, is it really accurate as my Top 10?
Anyone have any thoughts?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 8, 2024 10:20:24 GMT -5
OK, I got a dilemma with my 1964 list that didn't crop up on later lists because of the vagaries of '60s record contracts. Two acts in my Top 10 have two albums each in the run down because it was common back then for record companies to demand a couple of album releases per year from artists/ But obviously that means that my list will only feature eight different acts instead of ten. I'm sort of wondering whether to limit my list to only 1 album per artist/act? But while that might make for a more interesting list, is it really accurate as my Top 10? Anyone have any thoughts? I was almost positive I was going to have two by Roger Miller on the list, but it ended up that one of the two came out in super early '65. I also flirted with having two by Buck Owens on the list. I've had multiples, in other years by Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Rodriguez and, I think, Bob Marley & the Wailers. I have no issues with it. |
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Post by berkley on Jul 8, 2024 11:15:31 GMT -5
OK, I got a dilemma with my 1964 list that didn't crop up on later lists because of the vagaries of '60s record contracts. Two acts in my Top 10 have two albums each in the run down because it was common back then for record companies to demand a couple of album releases per year from artists/ But obviously that means that my list will only feature eight different acts instead of ten. I'm sort of wondering whether to limit my list to only 1 album per artist/act? But while that might make for a more interesting list, is it really accurate as my Top 10? Anyone have any thoughts?
I think if you have something different to say about the individual characters of two different albums by the same artist, it's worth including them both. OTOH, if having two by the same artist means excluding something else you'd really like to talk about, you might consider limiting yourself. IOW, I don't think it should be a rule, but it might be a factor in the person's choice.
But I'm probably not going to do a list myself since I was just barely able to come up with ten that I knew and of those ten there were two each by three different artists (you can probably guess who they were: the Beatles, the Stones, and Dylan). I'm pretty sure most of those six will appear on other lists and I think my other four will very likely show up too, so I wouldn't have been contributing anything to the game. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 8, 2024 13:29:07 GMT -5
...I was just barely able to come up with ten that I knew and of those ten there were two each by three different artists (you can probably guess who they were: the Beatles, the Stones, and Dylan). Oh no, I can't imagine anybody else will have picked those three bands... |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 8, 2024 13:37:21 GMT -5
...I was just barely able to come up with ten that I knew and of those ten there were two each by three different artists (you can probably guess who they were: the Beatles, the Stones, and Dylan). Oh no, I can't imagine anybody else will have picked those three bands... I didn't.  |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 8, 2024 14:32:23 GMT -5
Oh no, I can't imagine anybody else will have picked those three bands... I didn't. Contrarian!  |
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