ChiChi Rodriguez and Devo?
The Three Stooges and the Stooges?
I didn’t know!
Category: Music
Woodstock was 55 years ago
I was amazed by the tweet showing how little the performers were paid.
Tweet thread on recording studios
I saw Ray Charles perform at the first Artscape in Baltimore (1982)
Baltimore’s first Artscape festival was held in June 1982. Usually, concerts have been held outside but the Ray Charles concert was inside the Fifth Regiment Armory. It’s been a long time since then but I think it was indoors because it was raining.
Charles was great but his show seemed like it was out of a time capsule. He had a big band and the Rayletts. Charles, whose style was innovative in the 1950s and 1960s now seemed like he was performing in an old format.
Articles on the sad fights over the estates of Frank Zappa and Robbie Robertson
They were both great musicians. These are extremely sad stories.
More posts with pictures from the 1974 Bob Dylan and the Band tour
Covers: Opening Theme
“Opening Theme” is the first track on Camper Van Beethoven’s Key Lime Pie (1989). They’re a great band,
Tweet on Solomon Burke
The Dylan/Band box set will have 27 discs
This is great news. The show I saw (1/6/74 afternoon) is included – nobody knew there was a soundboard recording.
It’s unfortunate that the Band’s sets were not included. They were a big part of the show. I saw the Band four times and this was the second-best performance (after 1970). They were really great. Before the Flood didn’t include the lesser-known songs they did such as “Long Black Veil”
Gus Cannon print by Robert Crumb
I just got a signed Robert Crumb print of Gus Cannon.
Cannon led Cannon’s Jug Stompers who recorded the original version of songs in the 1920s that were popular decades later such as “Walk Right In”, “Big Railroad Blues”, and “Viola Lee Blues”
Cannon also made an album in the 1960s.
Sad! 