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It's all such a fuckbucket right now.

Someone's gonna break your heart.

His songs might be "criticized" for being formulaic but if the formula is creative melodies + massive choruses why mess with it. His songs could be downright thrilling.

"Laser Show," a song about kids from the suburbs going to Hayden Planetarium, is true to my own experience as a suburban kid going to Hayden Planeterium.

This album is the absolute shit

Thanks to Quentin Tarantino for giving this smoldering number a second life via Jackie Brown.

It's like Normandy out there for killer veteran musicians.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:34 am

This album is the absolute shit

Agreed, brilliant stuff. Really one of my faves.

There's nothing about the USE ME song that's not great. Funk, Blues, Soul, Folk ... all at the same time and all with a great arrangement and delivery.



So how much do you suppose Clarence Greenwood, aka:Citizen Cope, forked over to Withers over the years for lifting his style, vocals, beat whole act?

From 2015

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:54 pm From 2015

I watched that one again yesterday also.

Christ, this is great. This is a 30 minute concert of Bill, just him, plus guitar, bass, piano and drums. Completely mesmerizing.

This one wore out the buttons on the jukeboxes when I was a kid.

Sometimes billed early on as the 'Singing Postman' for the job he briefly held while starting to write songs on the side, John Prine was a running mate with the late Steve Goodman in the Chicago folk/blues
scene when he was 'discovered' by Kris Kristoferson. His debut album most notably included 'Sam Stone' (below) and 'Angel From Montgomery' which was enough to get the notice of many within the music
business not to mention getting him out of his mailman's uniform. In recent years he's had a bit of a comeback writing more lighthearted songs and often teaming up with female vocalists.
Was on the ballot for the R&R HoF last year but didn't get in. Not sure how R&R he really is but that ship sailed a while ago anyway and there are a lot worse people in there than him.
He long outlived Goodman and more than one bout with cancer ... but not Covid-19. He was 73

Recent:

One of his frequent duets with female singers (circa 2001):

And going way back to the beginning (1971):

I knew Prine existed (vague memories of an SNL appearnce in the 70s?) but didn't really know who he was till the 90s and LOST DOGS AND MISSED BLESSINGS then went back.

This was the one that got me initially:

Perfectly crafted popular hit songs never use the wrong rhyme
You'd think that waitress could get my order right the first time

Fifty million John Prine fans can't be all wrong.

Couldn't let this go without a rendering of his most famous composition.
It's been covered like a zillion times, not surprisingly often by female singers sometimes in a duet with Prine or sometimes without, with probably Bonnie Raitt getting the most mileage out of it.
But part of the appeal of it to me was the contrast of Prine's somewhat gruff voice (even more so as he aged) singing a song written from an aging woman's viewpoint, and then couple that with
the idea that such a song came out of the head of a not-yet established male songwriter in the first place and one still just in his early twenties.
So with a whole buncha options to choose from, I think I'll just let the man handle this one himself.



If dreams were thunder, and lightning was desire
this house would have burnt down a long time ago

Susan Tedeschi, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, John Denver ...

My introduction to "Angel ..." was from Dancing Hoods, and it struck me like lightning.

The baroque synthetic harpsichord intro here makes you think you're listening to a typical slice of disposable Yamaha DX7 eighties music, and then by the first line you realize that, holy shit, you've stumbled into a terrific song. This is a composition.

Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers, dead at 71 of COVID19 complications.

Or perhaps you prefer your Stranglers more strangly:

From when a whole new generation was introduced to Little Richard. (Mark Goodman approved.)

If you're wondering what to get me for my birthday, those shoes are where it's at.

Maybe it's my own personal preference, but I feel like Little Richard's original hits from the 1950's hold up today as more listenable than some of his contemporaries. RIP

I love this one.

Every bit the soul singer as he was the rock and roller. Don't question it. Up there with Sam Cooke and Otis.

Those are great.