The Music Thread

grimes70 said:
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I played the hell out of Boundary Country and I like her voice and songwriting for the most part but she seems to have a pretty narrow comfort range in her music. I lost a bit of interest in her because of that. Has that changed?
 
Haven't kept up since Sea of Tears. Pretty much like you. Enjoy her stuff but fairly repetitive.

 
I remember thinking about that and a few others of that type during the furor about the drugs, violence and misogyny in rap.
 
Like the shout out to Steve Cropper on Soul Man, one of my favorite guitarists. Best known to the public probably as the tall bearded guitarist in the Blues Brothers. Played with Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave, and Otis Redding .
 
finesse said:
Like the shout out to Steve Cropper on Soul Man, one of my favorite guitarists. Best known to the public probably as the tall bearded guitarist in the Blues Brothers. Played with Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave, and Otis Redding .
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Yep. Stax Records studio guy - the Memphis sound.
 
grimes70 said:
should have posted earlier
  • Sam Moore, the tenor half of the scorching soul duo Sam & Dave — known for indelible hits like “Soul Man” — died at 89.
  • The folk singer Peter Yarrow died this week at 86. With his trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, he eased folk music into the Top 10.


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I did not remember that Peter Yarrow wrote that song. Mary MacGregor had a #1 hit with it for two weeks back in February of 1977. AND in a case of karmatic convergence, "Torn Between Two Lovers" was recorded at ... wait for it ... Muscle Shoals Sound Studio!
 
Harry Nilsson died January 15, 1994. George Harrison led the congregation in singing this song at Harry's funeral. Harrison on slide guitar; Peter Frampton on electric guitar; Bobby Keys, Jim Price, and Klaus Voormann on horns; Nicky Hopkins on piano; Barry Morgan on drums; and Voormann also played bass guitar.

 
grimes70 said:
Brad Rice worked at a sign shop in Raleigh during his Backsliders and all days. He would often come to work just plain worn out on Mondays and Fridays after playing gigs somewhere. During breaks he would go to a back room and sleep for however long. The manager was quite kind. Then he hooked up with Keith Uban, played in his band and it was sayonara Raleigh, I'm moving to Austin.
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I knew that name sounded familiar. This might be the same Brad Rice that played in a local Raleigh band called Finger(and The Accelerators according to Wikipedia). I saw them open for Dinosaur jr in spring of 1991 at the Cat's Cradle and loved them. Picked up their cassette tape from somewhere after the show and played it all the time the next few years. Saw them play a small club in downtown Greenville about a year later.

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Finger | Trouser Press

Had Raleigh, North Carolina's Finger managed to break free of the anonymity it endured throughout a three-year career, the quartet would undoubtedly have stood tall in the sea of dreck. Finger (the American album reprises five cuts from the British seven-songer) is worth searching for, worth owning
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OahuHiHeel said:
I knew that name sounded familiar. This might be the same Brad Rice that played in a local Raleigh band called Finger(and The Accelerators according to Wikipedia). I saw them open for Dinosaur jr in spring of 1991 at the Cat's Cradle and loved them. Picked up their cassette tape from somewhere after the show and played it all the time the next few years. Saw them play a small club in downtown Greenville about a year later.

trouserpress.com

Finger | Trouser Press

Had Raleigh, North Carolina's Finger managed to break free of the anonymity it endured throughout a three-year career, the quartet would undoubtedly have stood tall in the sea of dreck. Finger (the American album reprises five cuts from the British seven-songer) is worth searching for, worth owning
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Yep. Same guy.
 
2021 American record producer Phil Spector, who scored a number of hits with his unique take on pop music but who was later convicted of second-degree murder, died at age 80.

The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as "the Wrecking Crew". The intention was to exploit the possibilities of studio recording to create an unusually dense orchestral aesthetic that came across well through radios and jukeboxes of the era. Spector explained in 1964: "I was looking for a sound, a sound so strong that if the material was not the greatest, the sound would carry the record. It was a case of augmenting, augmenting. It all fit together like a jigsaw."[3]



So many were influenced by him.

 
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