What Are You Listening To? - May, 2025

[Speak Easy]

Luther performed at our Western MD Blues Fest a few months before he died.
We were warned by his agent, that he like to play a lot longer than contracted. The show was supposed to end at 11. At midnight, he was still going strong. At 12:30, the theater flashed the lights, he kept playing. At 1 PM, they cut his power. He unplugged, grabbed an acoustic guitar and came down into the seats. Finally at 1:30, they had the police escort him out. He died a few months later, I don't think anyone but him knew he was dying. He literally played the concert of his life. I saved his obituary notice and put it in one of his CD's. An amazing performer. His son is playing now, also excellent.

That’s a great story! Thanks for sharing.

 

[philobeddoe]

Currently listening to Steely Dan ~ The Royal Scam.

 

[mkelaw]

Music on hold. Aargh1

 

[keith929]

 

[keith929]

 

[Living Luggage]

Savoy Brown Street Corner Talking

 

[Living Luggage]

Savoy Brown Hellbound Train

 

[keith929]

 

[keith929]

 

[philobeddoe]

Currently listening to Aerosmith ~ Get Your Wings.

 

[Lemuel Pitkin]

Listening to the King....THE BEST OF MUDDY WATERS. MCA Records CHD31268

 

[TheHellYeah]

Couldn’t listening just one song from this guys, so I went on YouTube searching for a live show.

 

[Bengel]

 

[Bengel]

 

[Singularis]

I’m really into a youngish indie band from Montreal, Québec called Men I Trust. My zoomer son introduced me to them. He has good taste (because he takes after his old man ). Here’s one of their latest tracks:

 

[Bengel]

 

[Dshift]

 

[Briar Lee]

Not a month seems to pass without another traitor being exposed who sells our national secrets to godless communists or depraved authoritarian strongmen in evil dictatorships.


I’ve long thought that to gain a security clearance with access to secrets worth selling the candidate should have to sing every word of Lefty’s monster hits.

We’d have a safer and better world, if we did.

It Meant Goodbye to Me

(When She Said Hello to Him)

 

[Merton]

May 1st. is Sweet Judy Blue Eyes' birthday.
This is one of my favorite songs:

Dino, certainly one of the most beautiful songs ever written and only to be understood by men and women who have both lived and loved. The most extraordinary thing is that Sondheim, needing to write a song for a pivotal moment in " A Little Night Music" and for an actress who did not not have a traditional Broadway voice (Glynnis Johns), wrote the song on deadline in one night. It is an incredible piece of work. The song refers to the old circus cry of " Send in the clowns" when a trapeze artist or high wire performer has fallen. The way that the lyric "you in mid-air" seems to itself exist in mid-air is a tribute of Sondheim's genius (not used lightly).
Judy collins has a beautiful voice. Dame Judi Dench, although herself not a true singer, gives the song a tremendous interpretation at the Proms 2010.
The verse: "Don't you love the farce, my fault I fear,
I thought that you'd want what I want
Sorry...my dear"
has to be one of the most poignant verses ever written

 

[Speak Easy]