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(D) Phil Weiser
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(D) Jena Griswold
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(D) J. Danielson
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(D) Eileen Laubacher
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Shannon Bird
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December 11, 2009 07:38 PM UTC
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will be exactly 20,000 days since I took that first breath on a cool March morning. Maybe a little Christmas cheer? Can’t ask for a much better present than 20K days, I guess. Unless maybe it is Santa bringing my “baby doll that can cry, sleep, drink and wet” over the mountains for Christmas …. so that I don’t have to make that gawd-awful winter drive yet again.
Last week, like a know-it-all blowhard, I talked too much. Since I have never aspired to be a cross between Cliff Clavin and Steve Harvey, I’ll keep the bloviating to a minimum.
First up is Albert Collins. My daughter was in two car accidents this week (she’s fine). But it brought to mind this song.
Next, my favorite bluesman in the world, when he was in his prime.
B.B. King on guitar, bandleader Sonny Freeman on drums, James Toney on the Hammond, Mose Thomas on trumpet, and Lee Gatling on sax.
I’ve got another one for later, when it gets closer to happy hour.
Nice picks. that BB King pick is priceless.
And I have to say, you may call it bloviating but I called it interesting and so did a lot of other folks. That shit is fascinating to me. I just love all that behind the scenes stuff.
I’m awfully glad to hear your daughter is okay.
Here’s my Cliff Clavin moment for today.
Did you know that Chuck Berry stole the first four bars of his signature “Johnny B. Goode” intro?
I don’t know if it’s really stealing. There’s probably nothing a guy can play on guitar that someone else didn’t play first (Frank Zappa excepted). You hear something, you like it, it might roll around in your head for ten or twelve years, then suddenly it comes out through your fingers someday.
Here’s Louis Jordan singing “Ain’t That Just Like A Woman.” Sorry for the poor recording, but the intro is all you need.
The guitar player was a guy named Carl Hogan. The tune was recorded in 1946. Chuck Berry recorded Johnny B. Goode in 1958.
Jordan is sometimes referred to as the “Father of Rhythm and Blues.” Although he recorded as early as the thirties, I regard him as transitional between big-band swing and modern R&B.
The first thing that still comes to my mind about Cliff Clavin is this sequence:
n/t
I just listened to the Jordan audio. First off, it’s brilliant. And second, yeah, Berry definitely “liberated” it.
who first put a certain set of notes together. All we have is recorded music for reference. And sometimes the tunes can be changed so much that they are not easily recognized as the same music. Interpretation is the soul of music. And there is really no right or wrong when it comes to interpreting music. It is why I laugh when I hear someone say, “they destroyed that song” after hearing a version they do not like.
See See (C. C.) Rider versions
Leadbelly
The Animals
Elvis
Jerry Garcia and Great Speckled Bird
Bruce Springsteen
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ray Charles
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels!
The incredible Jim McCarty on guitar. He played in “Cactus,” after which I lost track of him.
Here is some more…
Great choices, Divad and Danny.
…my personal favorite Denver band (sadly now disbanded)…
Marie–miss you and the boys!
His dad married my wife and I (sort of-he was debilitated after he fell off the roof so we had a pinch hitting minister)
Chris Pearson of the Czars, others and I went with slim to Paris to see them play what amounted to a Bennigans (good times)
I love these guys and probably would have never gotten married to my wife without them.
and I have heard about them for years but never saw them.
You should’ve filmed them in Paris. That would’ve been some really interesting footage !
I really wanted to post “This is How we do Things in the Country” but couldn’t find a version with decent audio quality.
Amazing how music can shape and influence our lives. I know I wouldn’t have survived my medical travails without it.
comes from Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: “Two Triple Cheese, Side Order Fries.”
I took a Rock and Roll history course in college that had Geoffrey Stokes “Star-Making Machinery” as one of the texts. Very interesting look at the workings of the music industry at the time.
Great songs: “Hot Rod Lincoln” and “Down to Seeds and Stems Again,” too.
The first day of Hanukkah is tonight. God bless Adam Sandler !
Don’t know which. Kept it to one cup of coffee this AM; see what good that does.
Already have the gin-and-tonukkah ready.
Bill Handel opened his morning drive-time radio show on KFI-AM (Los Angeles) with that this morning! I happened to be awake early and heard it fading in over the airwaves.
So do BlueCat, Steve Harvey and Andrew Romanoff.
It sure as hell is now!
Time to blow off work, hand the car keys to someone else, and have a few.
Of course, I felt that way at 9:00 a.m., too.
He’s writing the best humorous political music out there today!
Try this one, about the vast humanoid journey we are all a part of. “We’re all one dysfunctional family, no matter where we nomads roam….”
Roy wants more YouTube subscribers in his stocking for Christmas. Help him out, will ya?