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Billy played the Cradle off and on for years. Always a fun time.
Billy Price first attracted national attention during his three-year association with guitarist Roy Buchanan. Price is the vocalist on two of Buchanan's LPs ...
Here's Roy's take of one of Billy's regular show stoppers
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Love me some Lonnie Mack... I have his "Roadhouses & Dance Halls " CD. Every song is a winner
"Too Rock For Country Too Country For Rock and Roll" describes him perfectly...
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Finesse, have you been spying on my CD collection ? Shuggie Otis ? and my girl Tracy Nelson who I had the pleasure to see at the Pier in Rawlee back in the day.
The song you picked from this Tracy CD is the bomb, but my favorite from that CD is this one...
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I like that as well.
This is just stuff I was listening to in college.
There was a time that this was a very meaningful song (and album) to me.
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just stuff you were listening to in college ? I'm UNC class of '74 and with a few exceptions Don McClean was right...the music died with disco around 1978
80 % of what I listen to these days is post 90s and a lot of it came out in the last ten or fifteen years. What you really have to remember is Sturgeon's Law,"90% of everything is crap."just stuff you were listening to in college ? I'm UNC class of '74 and with a few exceptions Don McClean was right...the music died with disco around 1978
Most of the old stuff I do listen to are the more obscure stuff that hasn't gotten overplayed on classic rock and oldies channels over the last 50 years.
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This song seems appropriate to me at the moment. I feel like I'm just waiting around to die.
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Speaking of the Be Good Tanyas
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You nailed it.
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Hope @nashcounty is all right. Waited to see if he'd post this.
Truly an iconoc song writer. So much more can be written about him. I have my own circumstantial relationship to his CH years and those places he mentions.. And for the song, well, for this board there can only be one.
James Taylor (born March 12, 1948, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who defined the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s. Bob Dylan brought confessional poetry to folk rock, but Taylor became the epitome of the troubadour whose life was the subject of his songs.
Among the experiences that shaped Taylor, who grew up in an upper-middle-class North Carolina family, were voluntary stays in mental institutions—once as a teenager and later to overcome heroin addiction. Having played in bands with his brother Alex and friend Danny Kortchmar, Taylor traveled to England, where he released his largely unnoticed debut album in 1968 on the Beatles’ Apple label.
Taylor’s next album, Sweet Baby James (1970), and its melancholy hit “Fire and Rain” began Taylor’s reign as a chronicler of the life passages of middle-class baby boomers (for instance, later, his failed marriage to singer-songwriter Carly Simon). Conveyed by his gentle tenor, his contemplative songs—rooted in complex chord changes and influenced by Appalachian folk music, Hank Williams, and early soul vocalists—were set against his deft accompaniment on acoustic guitar and the rock-oriented backing of a regular group of studio musicians that included Kortchmar. Ironically, among his biggest hits were cover versions of rhythm-and-blues songs such as Otis Blackwell’s “Handy Man.” In 1976 Taylor released Greatest Hits, which went on to sell more than 10 million copies. With more than 16 studio albums of varying commercial success behind him, Taylor remained a prolific writer and performer at the beginning of the 21st century. His enduring appeal was evident in 2015, when Before This World became his first album to top the Billboard 200 chart.
Taylor was the recipient of numerous honours, including several Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, and in 2015 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was named a Kennedy Center honoree in 2016.
Truly an iconoc song writer. So much more can be written about him. I have my own circumstantial relationship to his CH years and those places he mentions.. And for the song, well, for this board there can only be one.
James Taylor (born March 12, 1948, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who defined the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s. Bob Dylan brought confessional poetry to folk rock, but Taylor became the epitome of the troubadour whose life was the subject of his songs.
Among the experiences that shaped Taylor, who grew up in an upper-middle-class North Carolina family, were voluntary stays in mental institutions—once as a teenager and later to overcome heroin addiction. Having played in bands with his brother Alex and friend Danny Kortchmar, Taylor traveled to England, where he released his largely unnoticed debut album in 1968 on the Beatles’ Apple label.
Taylor’s next album, Sweet Baby James (1970), and its melancholy hit “Fire and Rain” began Taylor’s reign as a chronicler of the life passages of middle-class baby boomers (for instance, later, his failed marriage to singer-songwriter Carly Simon). Conveyed by his gentle tenor, his contemplative songs—rooted in complex chord changes and influenced by Appalachian folk music, Hank Williams, and early soul vocalists—were set against his deft accompaniment on acoustic guitar and the rock-oriented backing of a regular group of studio musicians that included Kortchmar. Ironically, among his biggest hits were cover versions of rhythm-and-blues songs such as Otis Blackwell’s “Handy Man.” In 1976 Taylor released Greatest Hits, which went on to sell more than 10 million copies. With more than 16 studio albums of varying commercial success behind him, Taylor remained a prolific writer and performer at the beginning of the 21st century. His enduring appeal was evident in 2015, when Before This World became his first album to top the Billboard 200 chart.
Taylor was the recipient of numerous honours, including several Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, and in 2015 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was named a Kennedy Center honoree in 2016.
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This was the most played song of the 20th century.