The Drive-By Truckers are a great band. If you don’t know them, start with 2003’s Decoration Day. Here’s information on their upcoming album. It has a link to the YouTube video of the title track.
Month: April 2022
Covers: Imagine
“Imagine” was the title song of John Lennon’s 1971 album. His son Julian has just performed it for Global Citizen’s Stand Up For Ukraine w/Nuno Bettencourt
Bob Dylan on the Tribute to John Hammond recorded 9/10/75
Here are three videos of songs that later appeared on Dylan’s 1976 album Desire. Read the excellent notes by Swingin’ Pig.
“Simple Twist of Fate” is here on Facebook.
Drums are a key part of James Brown’s records
I was not a fan of James Brown growing up. In the early days of CDs, there was a CD called The CD of JB. I got it and have been buying all of the great reissues ever since. I think Brown has had even more influence on modern music than the Beatles.
Drums are a key part of his sound and he had many great drummers.
Covers: The Green Door
“The Green Door” was a 1956 hit for Jim Lowe. There are numerous covers – try the mostly instrumental one by Esquerita.
Tweets on the second Covid booster shot
I haven’t gotten my second booster yet.
The Trump team planned a coup before Biden was even declared the winner
I’m no legal expert but how is this not a crime? Somebody has to hold these people accountable. I’m looking at you DOJ.
Four Warner Archive Blu-rays
I recently watched four Warner Archive Blu-rays from the 1940s. They are much better than Warner Archive DVDs which are DVD-Rs and don’t have subtitles or extras unless they are a re-release of a prior Warner DVD. They could all be described as film noirs. None are classics but they are worth a look.
I have previously posted about The Window (1949).
Then there are are two films where the lead actor played a role which was not like their usual one. Lawrence Tierney usually was a bad guy and Robert Young was generally a good guy.
In They Won’t Believe Me (1947) Young plays a slimeball who cheats on his wife and mistreats his girlfriends. Ultimately, he is tried for a murder he didn’t commit but set himself up to be charged for. Young is best known for TV shows Marcus Welby, MD and Father Knows Best. The female leads, Jane Greer, Susan Hayward, and Rita Johnson are outstanding (and much more believable than Young). Warner Archive has restored the film from 80 minutes to its full 95 minutes and the disc looks great.
Step By Step (1946) stars Lawrence Tierney and Anne Jeffreys. Tierney is best known for Dillinger and Born To Kill where he played bad guys but here is on the right side trying to solve an espionage crime. As usual, Warner Archive has done a great job.
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948) is about a man falsely accused of murder (like characters in the other two films above). This film has also been given a fine transfer to disc.
Sad! 