Here are interviews, a tribute concert, and live videos.
12 essential landmark songs by cosmic cowboy Gram Parsons
Category: Music
John Prine and Steve Goodman sing Hank Williams
If this was at the Academy of Music, then I saw it. (See the comments on YouTube.) If it wasn’t, I saw them do something very similar. Prine and Goodman each performed solo acoustic sets and then did the Williams songs as an encore. I distinctly remember them doing “Setting the Woods on Fire” because it’s not as well known as the other songs. I saw Prine and Goodman several times and they were great.
Two amusing tweets on shirts about Mick Jagger
Documentary about Syl Johnson on Tubi
Syl Johnson was an excellent blues and soul singer. I contributed to the Kickstarter for the documentary about him but haven’t watched it yet. It is now on tubi:
Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows
Joe Bussard 1936-2022
Joe Bussard had a record collection of about 15,000 old recordings and shared his knowledge and the music in his collection.
The Band (brown album) was released on 9/24/69
My second favorite rock album ever (after Exile on Main Street).
Jim Croce died on September 20, 1973
Jim Croce died in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. I saw him at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh on March 3, 1973. He was opening for Loggins and Messina
(The rest of the text below is also in another post I wrote.)
The inventor of the saxophone had an eventful life
Free Bird cartoons
From Songfacts:
Shouting out “Free Bird!” as a request at concerts became a rock and roll joke, and every now and then a musician will actually play it. The 2007 Mitch Myers book The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling explores this subject in a work of fiction about the first person ever to shout “Free Bird” at a concert.
Here are two cartoons on it.
This is wild – someone recorded “Free Bird” with a bagpipe!
Beyond Rolling Thunder
A documentary on Jacques Levy (not a relative) who co-wrote songs with Dylan that are on Desire (1976).
Sad! 