update 6/21/20
Why doesn’t he just respect the wishes of artists?
I thought about this today because of the latest objector, Rihanna.
Trump is still using “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones in spite of their objections. It’s in the background in this clip from today:
Music from Big Pink was a landmark when it was released in 1968. There was nothing like its blend of folk, rock and country music. During a period when young people were rebelling, the Band included a photo of their families. The Band (four Canadians and a guy from Arkansas) made a record steeped in American musical history.
Here are some of the songs including “Long Distance Operator” a song by Bob Dylan not included on the album. Most of the outtakes have been released before on the prior reissue.
“The Weight” is the most famous song from Big Pink
“I Shall Be Released” is one of Bob Dylan’s greatest songs. The Band’s version was released before the Dylan/The Band Basement tapes version recorded in 1967 and another Dylan version from 1971.
The great blues artist Otis Rush died on September 29, 2018.
Here are his original recording of “Homework” (1962) and a version from 1994.
I have also added a few covers that are not close to Rush’s originals.
The Cadillac Ranch is an art project in Amarillo, Texas consisting of 10 half-buried Cadillacs. Visitors paint the card which are periodically repainted with solid colors.
It inspired Bruce Springsteen’s 1980 song “Cadillac Ranch”.
videos about the Cadillac Ranch:
The Old 97’s put on a great show and I am looking forward to seeing them again in December.
Here are some examples of their work:
Here’s a new interview with John Prine
Prine is one of America’s greatest singer-songwriters. If don’t know his music, start with his first album, John Prine.
Try “Angel From Montgomery” or “Hello in There”.
I think his second album, Diamonds in the Rough is much better musically – less country backup, more folk music with great performers like Steve Goodman and David Bromberg. However, the songs are not as good except for “Everybody”, a humorous song about meeting Jesus.
He has made many other albums and they are worth searching out.
I have seen him perform about three or four times. My favorite was a show with Steve Goodman in the late 1970s where they each performed solo with an acoustic guitar. For an encore, they did about five Hank Williams songs together. I still recall that they did “Setting’ the Woods on Fire” which was not one of his best-known songs then.
See them if they come to your town!
Santana’s performance of “Soul Sacrifice” in Woodstock is one of the highlights of the film (along with Sly and the Family Stone and Ten Years After).
If you weren’t around in 1967 when Aretha Franklin became nationally famous, you have no idea what it was like to hear her for the first time. There was nothing like her and her incredible voice in popular music. Plus, she wrote and arranged many of her songs and played piano.
My sympathy to her family. Her death is a great loss for all of us.
I saw her at Artscape in Baltimore in 1994.
Sad! 