The Music Thread

[grimes70]

Okay fellow boomers. It's his birthday (see date in history thread). I know you love some of his stuff. Post your fave(s). Gotta start with this one.

 

[finesse]

My favorite song about Elvis

 

[grimes70]

If we are going Ge9rge Jones. Here's one for @donbosco

 

[finesse]

Can't do George and not do this.

 

[donbosco]

Jesucristo I miss it so much. I used to play Bartender Blues around and even after closing time. Had it cued up on a tape and then switched over to CD later. It is a sad as hell song and I saw a lot of sad as hell things but it is probably the job that I have loved the most (and I've been lucky not to have jobs that I have hated).

Thanks @grimes70

 

[finesse]

 

[finesse]

 

[lawtig02]

Can't do George and not do this.

One of the top 10 songs ever recorded IMO. And I don't even like classic country that much. That particular song is just perfect.

 

[grimes70]

 

[finesse]

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?

 

[grimes70]

Haven't kept up since Sea of Tears. Pretty much like you. Enjoy her stuff but fairly repetitive.

 

[grimes70]

1968 American singer and songwriter Johnny Cash recorded the album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison in front of an audience of some 2,000 inmates at California's Folsom Prison.

 

[finesse]

I remember thinking about that and a few others of that type during the furor about the drugs, violence and misogyny in rap.

 

[finesse]

 

[UNCMSinLS]

This has got to be one of the funniest videos I've ever seen. With music, it's insufferable and stupid. Without, it's sublime.

 

[grimes70]

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.

 

[finesse]

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 .

 

[grimes70]

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 .

Yep. Stax Records studio guy - the Memphis sound.

 

[UNCMSinLS]

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.

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!

 

[nashcounty]

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.