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Aug 23

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“I Feel Like Listening”: @RonnieWoodShow is Now Taking Requests. Here are mine…

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Last week I stumbled across the Ronnie Wood Radio Show. Hot DAMN! This is a great radio show put on by the man himself. In a previous post I called Ronnie and the show: the ultimate “surprise guest” at gigs, the perennial last-one-to-leave-the-party and now he has his own radio show where he gets to spin some of the coolest fucking R&R yarns ever heard. Damn straight…

In one week I plowed through all 19 episode (1 hour each). I blabbed endlessly on Twitter about it. I even asked via Twitter if we, the fans, could submit requests. Those who man the @RonnieWoodShow twitter profile gave the go ahead to send them in. Why thank you…don’t mind if I do. You should submit yours, too. Feel free to add your picks at the bottom of this post and I’ll shout them out. Or, just go straight to the source.

I picked 12 songs. Depending on the storytelling or in-studio guest, each episode runs 10-12 songs. I picked songs that aren’t obvious picks or obvious artists. I picked songs that I think Ronnie could “get behind” (a frequently used Ronnie-ism) and that his fans could, too. I also threw in two bonus Ronnie tunes that I love.

Hey, if the whole list made it on an episode…cool. If one makes it on an Episode…cool. If none make it and Ronnie still does his thing…cool. If he feels like playing, we feel like listening. Cool…

These 12 bow-down tracks are in my collection. These tracks only sit on the front burner and never come of the boil. (I added links to tracks for streaming if I could find them online)
My bow-down playlist picks:

  • Dan Penn: Zero Willpower (Dan Penn is one of the unsung heroes of soul music. He wrote towering songs that will live longer than any of us)
  • Black Merda: Cynthy-Ruth – (WHY? Why don’t more people talk about these soul/funk brothers? This shit’ll stick to your ribs)
  • Delaney & Bonnie: Poor Elijah – Tribute To Johnson (What a tour this must have been…southern, soul and rocking and roll)
  • Was (Not Was): Crazy Water (This tune is a 4:49 party!)
  • The Fabulous Wailers: Wailers House Party (when people think a group called the Wailers…most often it isn’ this Wailers…but it SHOULD be)
  • Buddy Miles: Train (The opening to this song feels like sinewy, bicep muscle flexing in slow motion…Buddy was a MONSTER!)
  • Fat Domino: Honest Papa’s Love Their Mama’s Better (This, this, song ranks up there with the best R&R songs ever…listen to that rollicking beat and rolling piano. Fats rules)
  • Lonnie Mack: Wham! (Lonnie mack brought it all into focus… under appreciated slinger, fo sure)
  • Eddie Bo: The Hook & Sling – (Another New Orleans funk master…”hook it…now, sling it girl…SLING it”!) 
  • Candi Staton: I‘d rather be an old man’s sweetheart (than a young man’s fool) – (Candi pleads here case and I’m buying it. She’s in my top 3 Soul Sister Singers)
  • Junior Wells: Snatch it Back and Hold it (Killer opener from one of the all-time best blues albums…on Delmark, no less. He had such attitude)
  • Traffic: Medicated Goo (A good old fashioned medicated groove…this is another bonafide party starter)
My two Ronnie picks:

  • Infekshun (Gimme Some Neck is bow-down Saturday night party album and this tune sets the tone). Just got this one on vinyl)
  • When the whip comes down (off of Sucking in the70′s, this live version has a classic Ronnie solo)
Check out these links for more Ronnie:

The Ronnie Wood radio Show (Episode 20, the latest, is now live)

Ronnie’s new website

Ronnie’s new album (out September 27th…the line forms behind me), “I Feel Like Playing” (happy you do, Ronnie)

Sep 25

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“Some are building monuments and others are jotting down notes…”

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“Some are building monuments and others are jotting down notes…((Tags: mind map, blog posts, Bob Dylan, London, Cafe, mobile, Twitter, Simply Tweet))

via SimplyTweet

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Update: This is a note for all you twitter/posterous users. 

I started using a new Twitter client on my iPhone: Simply Tweet.  Simply Tweet works well with Posterous (The 6149′s blogging platform). It allows you to post long tweets to Twitter that are simultaneously posted on your Posterous blog. The Tweet ends up being the title of the post as well as appears in the body text. 

In my first post, I used email subject syntax to add tags to the post on posterous. The tags showed up as I wanted them too, but they also showed up in the body text (see above).  I didn’t want that. 

SImply Tweet responded to a tweet I made about this and gave me a solution…within 5 minutes of my posting this. Here is what they said:

@Judd6149 ah. So you want to set Posterous tags? Use hashtags. #SimplyTweet converts hashtags to Posterous tags automatically so you don’t need to use the email subject syntax. The advantage is if they appear early enough, they are included as hashtags in the tweet text.

That solves that. Great customer service from @simplytweet.  Give them a try if you need a (new) mobile twitter client.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program…

The picture in this post was taken at a cafe around the corner from where I am staying in South Kensington, London.  I was on the way home from the gym and decided to stop off for a double-espresso and some early morning sunshine inspiration.

I mapped out a flew blog posts ideas for The 6149 (do you think my blog knows I am talking about it in the third person?).  When I was doing this, I started singing the lyric that is the title to this post.  It is from Bob Dylan’s “The Mighty Quinn”. It is off his second volume of “Greatest Hits”.  

Here is some commentary from The Bob from his “Chronicles” book:

Dylan in his autobiography Chronicles Volume One (published 2004), makes further reference to the song: “On the way back to the house I passed the local movie theater on Prytania Street, where The Mighty Quinn (film) was showing. Years earlier I had written a song called “The Mighty Quinn” which was a hit in England, and I wondered what the movie was about. Eventually I’d sneak off and go there to see it. It was a mystery, suspense, Jamaican thriller with Denzel Washington as the Mighty Xavier Quinn a detective who solves crimes. Funny, that’s just the way I imagined him when I wrote the song The Mighty Quinn, Denzel Washington”

Indeed, Bob. Indeed.

Tune Tags

As mentioned in a 6149 post yesterday, I am introducing Tune Tags.  I have dropped in a Tune Tag playlist here for you to put your ears on. This one is chock full of different versions of “The Mighty Quinn”. 
  • The Bob version is really from sessions in the basement of Big Pink with the band. I love the lazy, slurry, jangle-y feel to this one.
  • The Dead’s version is a reminder of how much fun it was to go to their shows and anticipate what cover they were going to play. Great times at those shows (from what I can recall…I think everyone did dose when Quinn showed up.
  • The Hollies?  Yes, the Hollies did a folksy version of this, too.  Can you hear Gram Nash in there…?
  • Speaking of cover tunes…the curators of the cover tune, Phish do their best Dead doing Bob.
  • I had to include Manfred Mann, right?  There version is the widely know version.  Smart move covering Bob & Bruce.

Note: Apologies to @wolfgangsvault. Mate, I’ll get the Tune Tags up higher in the post next time (heh heh)

The Goods

Here is another new feature I am going to use on The 6149.  The Goods is the section where I will add links that reference the post contents. It will be links, images, footers, etc.  I’ll give this a go and see how it works in conjunction with Tune Tags. Let me know if it is “Too Much Monkey Business“. 
p.s. another technical note: I did not add the Tune Tag playlist via Simply Tweet. I did it in the editing of the post.
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