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When that old folk song, “Hallelujah I’m A Bum” meets Bo Diddley(R.I.P) (and that ain’t no Johnny Otis whistlin’ “Willie and The Hand Jive”
I heard a Bo Diddley tribute on local college station KALX (and they played songs influenced by him, and hardley ANY Bo-Diddley. Ugh. That’s not what we need. We need more BO DIDDLEY (at least they played The Animals “The Story Of Bo Diddley” alongside “I Want Candy” and The Smiths policies (threatening to become law as so many elected officials remain ignorant of the political, democratic, stakes involved in this issue) is to contact www. savenetradio.org
Roommates put on The Doors’ Morrison Hotel and I had to walk into the other room and start playing piano, and something like this song (made famous by The Temptations) started being played (by me, I suppose)—& I remember the old AM/FM split which seriously SCREWED up so many baby-boom, generation Xers and still leaves its bad trace. What am I talking about? The SNOBBERY—FM is better than AM; the kind of white power segregation that resulted from that (even if it wasn’t the INTENTION). Point is “Roadhouse Blues” in NO WAY a better song, let alone performance, than “I Can’t Get Next To You.” I’ve seen the light! And Whitfield and Strong DO NOT get enough credit up there with Holland Dozier Holland or Lennon-McCartney, Jagger-Richards, etc. The amount of classic they wrote is stunning (maybe they’re quite happy as behind the scenes guys).
Bruce Conner passed away today (July 8, 2008); among his many achievemtns is what I’d call the first ‘rock video’ (although it was a short film and was probably unauthorized, taking Ray Charles’ “Cosmic Ray” and juxtaposing it with rockets and strippers—but people were less uptight about intellectual property laws back then).
From circa 2005, a contemporary country hit by the younger brothers of the late Ronnie Van Zant; one of which was more known for his work in 38 Special (while Donnie Van Zant imitated his dead brother alongside Ed King in Strawberry Alarm Clock tribute band); and, yes, if any part of “Hold On Loosely” was at the very least a not-so-guilty pleasure for you, this newer song has some of the same spirit; and it was a pleasure to hear it again, on a country show hosted by Nick Swisher and sponsored by Band of America and the voice of The Oakland Athletics
He also died this week. Notorious among poets for saying the poetry scenes are mostly like “the special olympics” which does tend to ignore how much work goes into winning the special olympics, or muderball… Willie Nelson’s “Undo The Right” meeting 80s classy earthy snarl as if The The teamed up with John Doe and Jeffrey Lee Pierce
More on this book later…
Danica Patrick, who didn’t cover Tom Waits yet
Yeah, I dig her style at the indie 500 going after the guy who cut her off as she came out of the pit stop, and yes I do have much sympathy for Scarlett Johannson
I think Mr. Cave may very well be defying many prejudices about music and getting better and better
GOOGLE IT—there’s a youtube version of him performing it, probably circa 1965 when he had a minor hit with it. He reminds me of Roy Orbison as a vocalist, or Nat “King” Cole if he had grown up listening (or watching) James Brown but still wanted to be Nat “King” Cole as much as possible…McKibben’s organization, “Step It Up, ‘07,” may prove to be an ally. I like that he appeals to the feeling (how the expense of basic trust and grassroots communit
Because sometimes you just have to…(well, maybe YOU don’t…) but this one goes out to an old NYC friend Mike Lyons
