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Post by impulse on Mar 22, 2021 9:53:16 GMT -5
On that note, anyone who is interested in that type of music and time period should watch the Muscle Shoals documentary from 2013. It is on Amazon Prime in the US I believe. FASCINATING story.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 22, 2021 10:21:21 GMT -5
On that note, anyone who is interested in that type of music and time period should watch the Muscle Shoals documentary from 2013. It is on Amazon Prime in the US I believe. FASCINATING story. Yeah. That's a great documentary.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 22, 2021 23:52:03 GMT -5
On that note, anyone who is interested in that type of music and time period should watch the Muscle Shoals documentary from 2013. It is on Amazon Prime in the US I believe. FASCINATING story. Yeah. That's a great documentary. It certainly is a great documentary. Just showing off really, but here I am in Muscle Shoals studio back in 2019...
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Post by berkley on Mar 23, 2021 1:28:04 GMT -5
I always associate Muscle Shoals wit Rod Stewart and Bob Seger, because that's the first time I remember hearing of them - my older brother had Stewart's Atlantic Crossing and A Night on the Town albums and Seger's Night Moves.
But, I have to admit that I found the backing musicians almost a little too tight and professional - usually very positive adjectives, for me as for anyone else - almost as if it was just a job to them. I missed the looseness of the earlier Stewart albums, both solo and with the Faces. I hadn't heard any Bob Seger previously but I felt a little of that on Night Moves too.
I do like all those records, though - and almost find the Rod Stewart ones a bit under-rated now, whether that's nostalgia casting its glow, or what.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 23, 2021 9:42:31 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2020
#20 - Flyin' Shoes - Townes Van Zandt
I mentioned earlier that I was kind of obsessed with this song this year. This is the second of three spots on the list. This is obviously the original and the title track from Townes' 1978 album. The album was the first original content that Townes had put out in five years and he was in one of his worst periods deep in depression and openly using drugs in front of his son.
Flyin' Shoes was written at the site of the Civil War Battle of Franklin and is about a dying soldier who is waiting for his flying shoes to take him to heaven. It's a beautiful song on a very strong album that is helped immensely by the production of Chips Moman who refrained from the over-production that Jack Clement had saddled Townes with over the years.
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Post by MDG on Mar 23, 2021 10:13:37 GMT -5
I always associate Muscle Shoals wit Rod Stewart and Bob Seger, because that's the first time I remember hearing of them - my older brother had Stewart's Atlantic Crossing and A Night on the Town albums and Seger's Night Moves. I always associate Muscle Shoals with Leon Russell and the Shelter People, which was partly recorded there.
The documentary is very good.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 23, 2021 10:24:03 GMT -5
I tend to associate Muscle Shoals more with the earlier iteration that was still with Rick Hall and FAME. The work there with Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin was seminal. Not to mention Etta James' "Tell Mama."
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Post by Confessor on Mar 23, 2021 10:37:54 GMT -5
I too tend to associate Muscle Shoals and the Swampers and the earlier period at FAME studios too (which I also visited, although I couldn't get in 😄). As for the Muscle Shoals studio itself, for me, it's the studio where Paul Simon made There Goes Rhymin' Simon, and where the Staples Singers did "I'll Take You There" and the Stones cut "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses".
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 23, 2021 10:40:51 GMT -5
I too tend to associate Muscle Shoals with the Swampers and the earlier period at FAME studios too (which I also visited, although I couldn't get in 😄). As for the Muscle Shoals studio itself, for me, it's the studio where Paul Simon made There Goes Rhymin' Simon, and where the Stones cut "Brown Sugar" and " Wild Horses". After The Flying Burrito Brothers. Just to segue back to the other conversation.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 23, 2021 10:42:53 GMT -5
So I'm listening to Woody Guthrie's 1940 album, Dust Bowl Blues. It is almost unquestionably the first concept album. And it's fabulous. But to keep this from running over to the other thread...what are people's feelings about and favorite concept albums.
There are no wrong answers, but you will be judged.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 23, 2021 10:57:50 GMT -5
So I'm listening to Woody Guthrie's 1940 album, Dust Bowl Blues. It is almost unquestionably the first concept album. And it's fabulous. But to keep this from running over to the other thread...what are people's feelings about and favorite concept albums. There are no wrong answers, but you will be judged. My default setting is to say, "nah, I'm not really into concept albums" because I tend to associate them in my mind with overblown prog rock bands from the 70s. But the truth is that, actually, some of my favourite albums are concept albums. I mean, probably the earliest example of a concept album in the way we think off them today is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and that's a fantastic album. Likewise, the Beach Boys unreleased-at-the-time SMiLE album is simply a phenomenal piece of work. There are several other late 60s concept albums that were leaping on the Sgt. Pepper bandwagon, such as the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed and the Pretty Things' S. F. Sorrow, that I really like too. Then of course their are earlier examples from before the term "concept album" was coined, like the Beach Boys' car-themed Shut Down, Volume 2, Johnny Cash's Ride This Train, and even the Everly Brothers' Songs Our Daddy Taught Us which I love. So yeah, in principle I tend to turn my nose up at concept albums, but the truth is that I'm awfully fond of quite a few of them. EDIT: Hell, I even like Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds! EDIT 2: I've never listened to Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads in its entirety, but I have several of its songs on compilations.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 23, 2021 11:12:22 GMT -5
So I'm listening to Woody Guthrie's 1940 album, Dust Bowl Blues. It is almost unquestionably the first concept album. And it's fabulous. But to keep this from running over to the other thread...what are people's feelings about and favorite concept albums. There are no wrong answers, but you will be judged. My default setting is to say, "nah, I'm not really into concept albums" because I tend to associate them in my mind with overblown prog rock bands from the 70s. But the truth is that, actually, some of my favourite albums are concept albums. I mean, probably the earliest example of a concept album in the way we think off them today is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and that's a fantastic album. Likewise, the Beach Boys unreleased-at-the-time SMiLE album is simply a phenomenal piece of work. There are several other late 60s concept albums that were leaping on the Sgt. Pepper bandwagon, such as the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed and the Pretty Things' S. F. Sorrow, that I really like too. Then of course their are earlier examples from before the term "concept album" was coined, like the Beach Boys' car-themed Shut Down, Volume 2, Johnny Cash's Ride This Train, and even the Everly Brothers' Songs Our Daddy Taught Us which I love. So yeah, in principle I tend to turn my nose up at concept albums, but the truth is that I'm awfully fond of quite a few of them. EDIT: Hell, I even like Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds! Cash did a number of concept albums. Ride This Train and Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian were almost unquestionably the best. The Everly Brothers' Songs Our Daddy Taught Us is a criminally underrated album. Sgt. Pepper, while clearly a concept album, is, I think, a fairly loose concept.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 23, 2021 11:16:21 GMT -5
So I'm listening to Woody Guthrie's 1940 album, Dust Bowl Blues. It is almost unquestionably the first concept album. And it's fabulous. But to keep this from running over to the other thread...what are people's feelings about and favorite concept albums. There are no wrong answers, but you will be judged. EDIT 2: I've never listened to Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads in its entirety, but I have several of its songs on compilations. It's soooo good. I'm a nut for this era folk music and it's just loaded with great tracks. Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues, Blowin' Down This Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way), Do Re Mi, Dust Bowl Refugees, Dust Pneumonia Blues. You need a neckerchief and a big glass of water to wipe the dust away after listening to it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2021 11:35:26 GMT -5
So I'm listening to Woody Guthrie's 1940 album, Dust Bowl Blues. It is almost unquestionably the first concept album. And it's fabulous. But to keep this from running over to the other thread...what are people's feelings about and favorite concept albums. There are no wrong answers, but you will be judged. I was big into Floyd when I was in high school and at university, and they were the masters of the concept album, and I still have a fondness for many of those. However, I would have to point to some of the concept albums by Parliament and Sun Ra as current favorites, though the Parliament stuff like Mothership Connection and Chocolate City are loose concepts. -M
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Post by MDG on Mar 23, 2021 15:22:29 GMT -5
So I'm listening to Woody Guthrie's 1940 album, Dust Bowl Blues. It is almost unquestionably the first concept album. And it's fabulous. But to keep this from running over to the other thread...what are people's feelings about and favorite concept albums. There are no wrong answers, but you will be judged. I'm not big on the concept of concept albums, though a loooong time ago I used to listen to Freedom Suite and Once Upon a Dream by the Rascals quite a bit. Later on Symphonion Dream by the Dirt Band. Unless you count Is it.... Man or Astroman? as a concept album. ...However, I would have to point to some of the concept albums by Parliament and Sun Ra as current favorites, ... This is my favorite Sun Ra concept album:
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