What Music Are You Listening to? - March, 2023

[keith929]

A oldie but goodie.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Windsong… Olivia Newton John is his backup singer, and theres some pretty neat banjo and mandolin on this one, but very mellow.

 

[renfield]

This is the last Steely Dan concert to include Walter Becker, who died September 3, 2017:

Walter was exceptionally talkative that night. Great moment, fortunately caught on tape.

Soundboard recording from 1996
Mark Knopfler - The Golden Heart Live Antique
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I love bootleg recordings. All of the mistakes, incredible moments and unique performances give a real portrait of a band at that one point in time.

 

[UB 40]

We've been playing this one in my weekly jam session with my buddies. My buddy who sings it was born over 10 years after this song came out. He's a big smoker of the Devil's Lettuce, but I'm not sure if he even knows that's what the song is about!

Haven’t heard that one for 40 years. The New Riders of the Purple Sage had their time.

 

[UB 40]

I was 13 in September 1971 when my father died, and his milk checks stopped in October when Mama sold his dairy herd. That winter propane was 32 cents a gallon, and we burned only wood that winter of 71.

We weren’t ever poor, but the issue was in doubt, you know?

But we discovered all that alfalfa hay the dairy cows didn’t eat sold in January for more money than Mama made the entire year teaching school, and in 1972 Mama got a third of the crops with no expenses, and after selling another big bunch of alfalfa in the winter of 72 come 1973 my mother needed a tax deduction.

She had the extra money to build about a mile and a half of very much needed fences.

There was a local alcoholic that lived in Spout Spring Hollow named Red Mauzey, and my mother contracted with Red for him to build the fence for two dollars and hour, plus meals. To my surprise, Red asked if he could hire me to help, and he paid me a dollar an hour, half and half, of what he earned.

At noon each day, we’d drive Red’s hundred dollar pickup to the house to eat Mama’s fried chicken and home baked pies and food I’ve never again found tasted so good, after a morning swinging an 18 pound hammer.

There’s a Trutone radio in my Daddy’s milk barn, and it played nothing but solid gold country, fifty years ago this summer, when I got my first job with Red, building fence.

Good story on your memories of the 1970s. I enjoyed reading it a lot. Atmospheric description, especially the tasty chicken your mum made for you hard working people.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Rockwell/Michael Jackson - Somebody's Watching Me

 

[UB 40]

One of my favourite trumpet masters and his Brass Fantasy

 

[bullet08]

Not much of music today. Some classic rock off my son's car radio. If I'm not smoking a pipe, no music for me.

 

[TN Jed]

Air drumming my ass off.

 

[TN Jed]

Another great power trio. Air guitar is now rocking.

 

[BCF]

Hillbilly singers are often required to perform Rank Strangers, one of the most requested Old Time (folk) music songs.

This is the gold standard of Rank Strangers, the Stanley Brothers live with Chet Atkins on guitar solo.

Here’s a great modern redition by the Brandenburger Family.

And Cotton Pickin Kids tell us that in another fifty years folks will still enjoy it.

That's George Shuffler there on the guitar.

 

[TN Jed]

While we're on power trios.

 

[Bengel]

 

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[philobeddoe]

Currently listening to Grand Funk Railroad ~ E Pluribus Funk.

 

[BarrelProof]

 

[Bengel]

 

[dino]

Eva Cassidy is one of my favorites, and the Imagine album is one of the true greats. Thanks for posting, Bengel.
Here she is in a live performance of "Time After Time" recorded a few months before her untimely passing from cancer.

 

[Bengel]