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"Up and Coming like an elevator...later": Rock & Roll's Future is now
Sample in Jar: Drop in, Drop off and Drop out (TMI Alert)
p.s. how about that sign on the front door of the clinic?! Can you imagine the poor bastard who was a walk up and had not received the email? Yep...he's on his lunch break, he's not too hungry and he figures, "hey, I might as well go earn a few bucks, check out some free porn (that IT blocks at work) and score a cheap thrill. And what about that "extensive" inventory audit. Did they mix up some samples? Have to color code them? Is the freezer on the fritz? Whew...that must be a real humdinger of an after hours party.
p.p.s. That last photo is not my assistant at the clinic...that is our friend from India. I hope you are right, buddy, or I'm returning that stuff my wife bought.
10th row center at The Royal Albert Hall for Jackson Browne & David Lindley. Lindley was amazing.
I knew Jackson Browne. I had heard of David Lindley, but I had never heard David Lindley. Wow, that guys is talented. Yeah, there are a bunch of you saying, "no shit, thanks for showing up". See, this is what I love about music discovery. Now I have someone else to learn about...backstory. songs, connections to lore and legend, etc. There are many handfuls of Lindley's out there. I'm going to put a list together.
Am I man enough to take on Bettye LaVette Twice In One Night? Yes I am.
- The Hold Steady
- The Black Keys
- Stevie Wonder / Alejandro Escovedo / Carinne Bailey Rae / Florence Rawlings (festival)
- Jackson Browne
- Jeff Tweedy (solo gig)
- Buddy Guy
- Leon Russell
- Kris Kristofferson
- Wilco
Talking Old Trees, Squeezed Juice & Willie Nelson: Thoughts on Willie's London Gig from June 11th, 2010
If you chop down an old tree at it's base and have a good look at the stump, you should see many rings on it. The more rings a tree has, the older, the stronger and sturdy the tree is/was. Some trees live for hundreds of years; the strongest living for centuries. These trees weather storms. These trees comfort those who sit in it's shade. These trees are landmarks or touchstones that communities rally 'round. These tree's roots run deep...very deep.
Willie Nelson...is one of these trees.
- Whiskey River
- Still Is Still Moving To Me
- Beer For My Horses
- Shoeshine Man
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Crazy
- Nightlife
- Me And Paul
- If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time
- Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
- Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
- Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground (this one had the water-works starting, too)
- On The Road Again
- Always On My Mind
- Man With The Blues
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
- Milk Cow Blues
- Good Hearted Woman
- Georgia On My Mind
- Jambalaya on the Bayou (this Hank WIlliams three song medley was treat)
- Hey, Good Lookin'
- Move It On Over
- Instrumental
- Sad Songs And Waltzes (is anyone writing songs like this one anymore?!)
- Healing Hands Of Time
- Pretend I Never Happened
- Pick Up The Tempo
- City Of New Orleans
- To All The Girls I've Loved Before
- I'll Fly Away
- The Party's Over (Fitting, right? Good thing Willie's party ain't over yet)
- Posted from Hammersmith, United Kingdom
Poorman's Podcast: "Its the stories not the song, that makes the music move along..." (Jeff Beck & Johnny Marr spin tunes & yarns)
NOW: Chaos, Karma & Choice all rolled up into one big Neil Young mule kick... (Part 1)
On an asphalt highway bending
Thru libraries and museums, galaxies and stars
Down the windy halls of friendship
To the rose clipped by the bullwhip
The motel of lost companions
Waits with heated pool and bar.
Lunch Break Lacquer: The Fatman and The Ragmag (I found my thrill with some Fats Domino vinyl and vintage Rolling Stone mags)
Scroll through the gallery to see pics of the mag with Gregg & the Boys
Another beautiful day in London meant getting out of the office on my lunch break to claw through record bins in the eternal search for bow-down vinyl. I stopped into "On The Beat" records to see if anything jumped out at me. Something did...but it wasn't a piece of vinyl. Actually, it was a pile of old papers that got my big toe to shoot up in my boot.
- Check out that full page spread of Gregg and the band in the middle of the article (reminded me of the scene in Almost Famous where Stillwater got their first t-shirt: Jeff Bebe, "How can you tell? I'm just one of the out-of-focus guys.").
- Gotta love that pic of Dickey getting a tattoo
- On the inside cover of the mag, there was a blurb on how the illustration of Gregg that graces the front came to be
- And then there is last pic in the set from the mag. This appears at the end of the article. Wow. 16!
"If you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends..." 17th April - Support Record Store Day
In honor of Record Store Day, which occurs this Saturday the 17th April, I am reposting a blog entry that I wrote almost one year ago.








