Shady Groove

31/10/2022

https://youtu.be/1PiCsrvpFPs

Happy Halloween people!

13/09/2022

This day in 1970

An album made during stress and chaos, filled with raging rockers, covers, and intense jams, Cosmo’s Factory was finally released in the US in July 1970.

07/09/2022

Cool project

A massive new collection of more than 240 songs and spoken word recordings — all about birds — features work from Andrew Bird, Kamasi Washington, Laurie Anderson, Alice Coltrane, Cassandra Jenkins, Yo-Yo Ma, Beck and more.

21/07/2022

AMEN

21/07/2022

Wow. What an amazing group of musicians.

Ringo’s Greatest All-Star band Ever!
Back L-R: Levon Helm, Jim Keltner
Middle L-R: Dr. John, Rick Danko, Joe Walsh
Front L-R: Nils Lofgren, Sir Richard Starkey, Billy Preston, Clarence Clemons
R.I.P. to those no longer with us!

👍🏼 Professor 🎩 Poster 👌🏽

15/07/2022

Happy bday Woody.

Folklorist Nick Spitzer tells the story of Woody Guthrie's leftist national anthem.

02/07/2022

24/05/2022

Tom Waits on Keith Richards: Everybody loves music. What you really want is for music to love you. And that's the way I saw it was with Keith. It takes a certain amount of respect for the process. You're not writing it, it's writing you. You're its flute or its trumpet; you're its strings. That's real obvious around Keith. He's like a frying pan made from one piece of metal. He can heat it up really high and it won't crack, it just changes color.
You have your own preconceived ideas about people that you already know from their records, but the real experience, ideally, hopefully, is better. That certainly was the case with Keith. We kind of circled each other like a couple of hyenas, looked at the ground, laughed and then we just put something on, put some water in the swimming pool. He has impeccable instincts, like a predator. He played on three songs on that record: "Union Square," we sang on "Blind Love" together, and on "Big Black Mariah" he played a great rhythm part. It really lifted the record up for me. I didn't care how it sold at all. As far as I was concerned it had already sold.
One of my favorite things that he did is Wingless Angels. That completely slayed me. Because the first thing you hear is the crickets, and you realize you're outside. And his contribution to capturing the sounds on that record just feels a lot like Keith. Maybe more like Keith than I had contact with when we got together. He's like a common laborer in a lot of ways. He's like a swabby. Like a sailor. I found some things they say about music that seemed to apply to Keith. You know, in the old days they said that the sound of the guitar could cure gout and epilepsy, sciatica and migraines. I think that nowadays there seems to be a deficit of wonder. And Keith seems to still wonder about this stuff. He will stop and hold his guitar up and just stare at it for a while. Just be rather mystified by it. Like all the great things in the world, women and religion and the sky... you wonder about it, and you don't stop wondering about it.

Photo by Max Vadukul

14/05/2022

Tom, Bonnie and John walk into a bar…..

Complete that sentence. go

Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt and John Prine, circa 1970s.

13/05/2022

Some good company. 50 years and 30 years. They both age like fine wine.