What music are you listening to?

[Northeast Stinger]

Heard Lucinda Williams and Buick 6 several years ago in Portsmouth NH. Lucinda was late coming on stage and Buick 6 just kept cooking incredible blues rock. When she finally came on stage it was like the entrance of Lou Reed on Rock and Roll Animal. Great concert.

 

[orientalnc]

One of my good friends is DJ at a community radio station in Maine. He lived in Atlanta for a long. Today's show was all Atlanta based music. The playlist:

Faking It - Vidalias
Two Different Things - Blacktop Rockets
She’s Breaking My Heart (While I’m Drinking Her Beer) - Diggers
Junior and Lloyd - Slim Chance & the Convicts
Arms Around Me - Cigar Store Indians
Out of the City - Wendy Bucklew
Learn to Regret It - Georgia Fireflies
Bad Driver - Big Fish Ensemble
Sway - Lost Continentals
Slick Night Out - Donkey
Truth Behind the Fears - Kilgore Trout
Here We Go - Count M’Butu Orchestra
Loweena the Urban Redneck Queen - Deacon Lunchbox
Love, Love Alone - Jody Grind
Iva - Gopher Broke
One More Ride - Cowboy Envy
10 Miles Ahead - Wild West Picture Show
Downtown - Villain Family
Redneck Loves Redette - Redneck Greece & the Stump Broke Steers
Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues - Francine Reed
Static on the Radio - Kodak Harrison
Carry Me - Vidalias

 

[Northeast Stinger]

One of my good friends is DJ at a community radio station in Maine. He lived in Atlanta for a long. Today's show was all Atlanta based music. The playlist:

Faking It - Vidalias
Two Different Things - Blacktop Rockets
She’s Breaking My Heart (While I’m Drinking Her Beer) - Diggers
Junior and Lloyd - Slim Chance & the Convicts
Arms Around Me - Cigar Store Indians
Out of the City - Wendy Bucklew
Learn to Regret It - Georgia Fireflies
Bad Driver - Big Fish Ensemble
Sway - Lost Continentals
Slick Night Out - Donkey
Truth Behind the Fears - Kilgore Trout
Here We Go - Count M’Butu Orchestra
Loweena the Urban Redneck Queen - Deacon Lunchbox
Love, Love Alone - Jody Grind
Iva - Gopher Broke
One More Ride - Cowboy Envy
10 Miles Ahead - Wild West Picture Show
Downtown - Villain Family
Redneck Loves Redette - Redneck Greece & the Stump Broke Steers
Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues - Francine Reed
Static on the Radio - Kodak Harrison
Carry Me - Vidalias

Confess that about 90% of these I’ve never heard

 

[orientalnc]

Confess that about 90% of these I’ve never heard

He calls is program the Eclectic Hour on WRGY.

He claims that all these songs were performed in Atlanta at places like Eddies Attic, the Star Bar, etc. So he isn't claiming these are main stream bands. But, if you never saw Cowboy Envy you missed an iconic Atlanta band. Based in my old L5P and Inman Park neighborhood.

 

[TampaBuzz]

I went and searched up Wild Women by Francine Reed. She has one heck of a voice! Impressive take on an old Lyle Lovett song.

 

[orientalnc]

We're going to see A Complete Unknown on Christmas Day. The reviews for this movie are wonderful. Of course, the music is all Dylan.

 

[4shotB]

We're going to see A Complete Unknown on Christmas Day. The reviews for this movie are wonderful. Of course, the music is all Dylan.

Thinking about seeing that but have to admit that I'm still undecided on Dylan. can't make up my mind if I love him or hate him. WTBS, here are two of his best (decades apart)



and:

 

[orientalnc]

Thinking about seeing that but have to admit that I'm still undecided on Dylan. can't make up my mind if I love him or hate him. WTBS, here are two of his best (decades apart)



and:

The Desire CD is one of my favorites.

 

[orientalnc]

The power of poetry set to music. Thank you Leonard Cohen.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

Cohen and Dylan were admirers of each other’s writing. Dylan tended to write more quickly than Cohen, with Cohen laboring over his poetry for long periods. But I did read somewhere that Dylan worked on Mr Tambourine Man for 6 years.

I’ve had the good fortune to see Dylan 6 or 7 times over the years. I regret not seeing Cohen. His last tour my hand hovered over the on-line buy link forever. Cheapest ticket was $400 and I needed two.

Funny thing is how many people over the years have said (of both of them) he can’t sing. Let’s just say that some people have a very narrow definition of what singing is.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

 

[Northeast Stinger]

I developed a theory about Dylan several years ago and it’s stuck with me. He’s a minimalist at heart. He will only show just enough of his musical talent at any one time just to deliver the song. Over the many decades he has surprised fans and critics by introducing some “new” element in a song. So over the years you get comments like, I didn’t know he could hold a harmonica note that long, I didn’t know he could play the piano, I didn’t know he could rap, I didn’t know he could trade guitar licks with Clapton, I didn’t know he could croon, etc. But he only reveals just enough to deliver the song and kind of leaves you wanting more. On his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour I swear at the beginning he seemed to channel Billy Joel at the piano, but only for a minute.

Obviously, I’m a Dylan fan. But I still marvel that every time I’ve written him off as having entered a musical phase that didn’t work, or feeling like he had no good music left in him, he has surprised me. Again and again.

 

[4shotB]

I developed a theory about Dylan several years ago and it’s stuck with me. He’s a minimalist at heart. He will only show just enough of his musical talent at any one time just to deliver the song. Over the many decades he has surprised fans and critics by introducing some “new” element in a song. So over the years you get comments like, I didn’t know he could hold a harmonica note that long, I didn’t know he could play the piano, I didn’t know he could rap, I didn’t know he could trade guitar licks with Clapton, I didn’t know he could croon, etc. But he only reveals just enough to deliver the song and kind of leaves you wanting more. On his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour I swear at the beginning he seemed to channel Billy Joel at the piano, but only for a minute.

Obviously, I’m a Dylan fan. But I still marvel that every time I’ve written him off as having entered a musical phase that didn’t work, or feeling like he had no good music left in him, he has surprised me. Again and again.

My feelings about Dylan are very comparable to how I feel about the Stones. With such a massive oeuvre, there's so much to love and just as much to hate. Treasures and pure garbage. But above all, what is most compellling is the absolute drive to create and continue over decades. This is absolutely astonishing. For pure longevity and musical genius only Wille Nelson stands above these two acts (only bc - imo - Willie didn't have the misses in his catalogue that Dylan and the Stones did. Consistent greatness). The only artist in our lifetime that shares equal billing with WN for pure musical genius is Ray Charles, Ray and Willie did it all - folk, rock, country, gospel and blues - and did it well.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

My feelings about Dylan are very comparable to how I feel about the Stones. With such a massive oeuvre, there's so much to love and just as much to hate. Treasures and pure garbage. But above all, what is most compellling is the absolute drive to create and continue over decades. This is absolutely astonishing. For pure longevity and musical genius only Wille Nelson stands above these two acts (only bc - imo - Willie didn't have the misses in his catalogue that Dylan and the Stones did. Consistent greatness). The only artist in our lifetime that shares equal billing with WN for pure musical genius is Ray Charles, Ray and Willie did it all - folk, rock, country, gospel and blues - and did it well.

Started typing a long response and realized it didn’t matter. Not everybody gets the kind of risky high wire act Dylan attempts on every performance. And that’s ok.