Category: Music

The woman on the Hot Rats cover

The Stop Making Sense Blu-ray is terrific

A24 has released their re-release of Stop Making Sense (1984) on Blu-ray and 4K. I have the Blu-ray and it’s outstanding. It comes in a case with a long booklet. The film, which I had never seen, is an excellent document on the 1983 Talking Heads concert tour. (I saw them in 1982.) The entire film focuses on the show. The music and performances are great. The photography enables the viewer to see what a good time the musicians had.

Stop Making Sense merchandise from A24

I have the t-shirt of art from Ghana based on Stop Making Sense

The Grateful Dead at Cornell – 5/8/77

Good background on one of their most famous shows.

Link to YouTube files of the whole show – see the column on the right of the video

Daniel Kramer photographs are on two great Bob Dylan album covers

PopSpots by Bob Egan – the Bringing It All Back Home Cover

Junior Wells by Frederick Brown

This painting of musician Junior Wells by Frederick Brown. It’s at the Smithsonian American Art Museum but is currently not on display. They own five of his works. I’ve seen Stagger Lee and it’s great.

Here’s Brown’s website. He made many paintings of musicians.

The Junior Wells painting was used for an exhibit poster (see my copy below). That’s where I saw the painting.

Direct capture

Frederick Brown, Junior Wells, 1989, oil on linen, 36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by William Cost Johnson, George W. Story, Robert J. Oliver and Mrs. Barwig-Wagner, 1990.31

I downloaded the picture from the Smithsonian.

Capturing the essence of the musicians and the music