Music: Your flavor of the month?

The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
https://www.bing.com/search?q=the ventures walk don't run&FORM=QSRE1

 

I played bass for a Salsa band that opened for Airto Moreia and Flora Purim in the late 70s and they stayed in my house several times...after the shows they'd sing Jobim tunes until the sun came up.

 

Alright. Let's kick this up a notch.

 

Sonny Sharrock is a bad MF.

 

Man. She's got some pipes. I've got a new favorite jazz singer.

 

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Doctor John doing the vocal - It's All Over Now (the best dixieland I've ever heard)
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...AD6208C7682E4123881FAD6208C7682E412&FORM=VIRE

 

Dr. John actually started out as a producer and guitar player in New Orleans named Mac Rebennack. Unfortunately, that part of his life ended when his finger was blown off protecting his friend singer Ronnie Barron. Barron was being pistol whipped by some gangster for fucking the guy's wife. Mac remembered being told by Ronnie's mother she'd cut his balls off if anything happened to Ronnie. So Mac tried to grab the gun the best he good, and it went off. He looked across the floor and there was his left ring finger..... After they reattached it, since Mac couldn't squeeze the fret any more with that finger he switched to piano because he could still move it enough to tickle the ivories....

And after spending some time in jail for drugs, Rebennack decided to move to Los Angeles and became a session musicians. With his good friend, Harold Batiste, he created the Dr. John character for the friend he'd saved from being beaten, Ronnie Barron. But Barron had signed as a singer with famous arranger/producer Don Costa. So Batiste convinced Rebennack that he should do the album as the Dr. John character and nobody would care. Batiste was right and the album was a huge hit. The song "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" has been a popular standard covered by dozens of artists. And people even thought Dr. John was an actual voodoo doctor from New Orleans for years. Ronnie Barron went on to become an actor in Stephen Seagal and Chuck Norris movies. And even though he almost cost he best friend his music career, he gave him his biggest break by turning down the role of Dr. John.

 

Listening to the new Chris Cornell box set is just really hard for me. It's kind of like watching Robin Williams films. The work just reminds you that person is no longer in this world and they will never be replaced. Chris Cornell was a special. One of the greatest songwriters who ever lived. And the greatest male voice in rock history.... and that goes for everybody. You just wish he hadn't become part of the cult of early death in rock n' roll. Lao Tzu once said, "The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." Maybe that's what the late Soundgarden front man was, a candle that burned twice as bright. RIP Chris.

 

She sings with 2 microphones...one runs through a delay and the other just some reverb...she put on a great show back in the day..

 

I'm a huge Dr John fan....another bit of trivia...he was the diapered baby for either a baby powder commercial or a soap brand that everyone saw on tv for years...I forget...Johnsons Baby Powder, Dove Soap...one of the old brands

 

Picked this up at Goodwill today:

JOE COCKER - MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN:


For a large backing ensemble that was thrown together at the last minute, this is a pretty good live album. I always liked Joe's live version of The Letter better than the original by The Box Tops. Joe just brings so much more passion and urgency to the song. Cry Me a River is another classic live cut off this album, as is Joe's rendition of Feelin' Alright. The track that surprised me was Rita Coolidge's version of Superstar. That song is always associated with the Carpenters, makes you forget it was actually written by Leon Russell (who was the brains behind the Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour) and Bonnie Bramlett.

 

Great live album. I always loved the cover of John Sebastian's song Darling Be Home Soon from Mad Dogs & Englishmen.