The Music Thread

donbosco said:
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
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Is nobody even going to mention that it was written by James Taylor???
 
I'm going to make a White Russian and listen to Captain Beefheart while doing some Tai chi. If it's good enough for the Dude...

 
hedge said:
Me and my brother went to the Sara Romweber benefit at the Cradle last year, great lineup. Teasing the Korean (remember them?), Bad Checks (my fav when I was an undergrad) and, of course, Snatches of Pink. Dexter did an acoustic finale that carried out into the parking lot. Glad I got to give him a hug and tell him I loved him before we left. Sadly I attended his wake in Saxapahaw a few months later, although there really wasn't anything sad about it except that the man himself wasn't there. Talented family for sure. His brother Joe's band, UV Prom, although underheard and underappreciated, might've been the best of the bunch...
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Jennifer Curtis & Dexter Romweber @ Person Hall (entire set)​

From 2011.
 
Garth Hudson passed. The last surviving and best pure musician in The Band. Everybody knows his keyboard work with The Band but his accordion on this song with Karla Bonoff is a favorite of mine.

 
BubbaOtis said:
Garth Hudson passed. The last surviving and best pure musician in The Band. Everybody knows his keyboard work with The Band but his accordion on this song with Karla Bonoff is a favorite of mine.

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Thx for sharing. Gonna post a news rticle here. And my favorite horn bit by him,

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as “Up on Cripple Creek,” “The Weight” and “Rag Mama Rag,” has died at age 87.

Hudson was the eldest and last surviving member of the influential group that once backed Bob Dylan. His death was confirmed Tuesday by The Canadian Press, which cited Hudson’s friend, Jan Haust. Additional details were not immediately available. Hudson had been living in a nursing home in upstate New York.

A rustic figure with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically trained performer and self-educated Greek chorus who spoke through piano, synthesizers, horns and his favored Lowrey organ. No matter the song, Hudson summoned just the right feeling or shading, whether the tipsy clavinet and wah-wah pedal on “Up on Cripple Creek,” the galloping piano on “Rag Mama Rag” or the melancholy saxophone on “It Makes No Difference.”

The only non-singer among five musicians celebrated for their camaraderie, texture and versatility, Hudson mostly loomed in the background, but he did have one showcase: “Chest Fever,” a Robbie Robertson composition for which he devised an introductory organ solo (“The Genetic Method”), an eclectic sampling of moods and melodies that segued into the song’s hard rock riff.

 
Warren Zevon was born January 24, 1947
"The past seems realer than the present to me now
I've got memories to last me
When the sky is gray
The way it is today
I remember the times that I was happy"

 
Man, I been digging deep back into Dylan.
I mean, I was born in the late 1950’s and grew up on Dylan, Baez, PeterPaulMary, MamaandPapas, SimonGarfunkel, etc etc
But that movie A Complete Unknown brought me all the way back to my roots, when I was just learning how to play guitar.
“Blowing in the Wind” was the first song I ever learned how to play, and sing. I’ve pulled out the old dreadnought and started refreshing my memory on how to play about a dozen of those old Dylan classics.
The Byrds cover of Mr. Tambourine Man remains one of my all time favorite tracks.
 
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