Brother Jesse's Morning Music

[Dave]

Of course, by the Seventies, they'd graduated from skin to silly clothes. Here's BTO with You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. The story goes that the lead singer was kidding around mimicking his brother's stutter when a studio person suggested they incorporate it into the song.

[Dave]

Thank goodness the Internet allows us a multiplicity of talent today.

Here are two guys who make blues guitar look easy, so well do they play.

[keith]

OK I'm caught up. I've never followed Lyle Lovett previously. I think I'll have to do that now. Thanks for the postings.

[Dave]

The guy turns out quite a variety of music. His base is a kind of Texas rock (not like ZZ Top), but his score for "Dr. T. and the Woman ... I bought the music CD but skipped the movie ... was eclectic and quite wonderful. But I can't find any of the cuts on youtube. I suppose I could rip them from the CD and upload them, but that's too much work.

[Dave]

Speaking of the old geezers .....





Here's they're showing their age .....





Interesting video, Billy and his early bands and guitars.....

[Dave]

OK, we can't leave Billy and Dusty without...

Sharp Dressed Man

[keith]

These aren't posted for listening pleasure but for an opinion. My 7 year old granddaughter talked to me about these this morning & we watched them together. (This is the same girl who last week asked about 2 boys getting married).

The first is by Justin Bieber, the latest pre-teen heart throb & the love of her life.



Not exactly Donnie Osmond is it?

The next one she suggested that Carrie shouldn't watch. Since Carrie is only 7 months old and more interested in playing with her toes that watching a video, we watched it.



Since she is already familiar with the music & the videos, sheltering her from them or similar things is a ship which has already sailed. It's a little frightening what the next 10 years could bring.

[Dave]

And my mother-in-law no doubt would have been scandalized by ZZ Top!

Well, when the way to make money in that market it to be a little farther over the top than most, the top soon gets very high. This stuff plays on the normal adolescent fears and is the stuff of fairy tales and morality plays of a bygone era. Modern day music videos are simply over-hyped to compete for the teen-age emotional mind.

Is it harmful? Does that matter? They're going to be exposed to it anyway. The only defense is the same one your parents provided. Bring you up the best they can so that you can make the right decisions. Despite the way the news media wanted to portray it, I find it hard to believe the two boys responsible for the Columbine murders came from well adjusted families where the parents were present and responsible. It's possible, of course, but just the opposite is more likely.

So yes, the ship has sailed, but probably with enough provisions and a map to allow a safe trip.

[keith]

I think the thing that bothered me was her different reactions to the two. She seemed to recognize the first one as TV fantasy, not real life. By labeling the 2nd as too scary for the baby, I felt she was saying that one scared her, presenting something that she recognized as reality.

As you said all we can do is the best we can.

[Dave]

Alison Kraus and John Waite


I think these two sing well together and I like these two songs. "Lay Down Beside Me" is one of Don Williams' better songs, but his voice is so deadpan ... it deserved Waite's more expressive treatment.

Alison reminds me of a young married woman in my neighborhood when I was a teenager who would put up with my presence after school when I'd stop, although the singer is prettier than my neighbor. Otherwise I would have never gone home for supper! Mrs. Gambino (not her real name) appears in "Martian," at:

www.windsweptpress.com/martian.pdf

[Dave]

Stormy Monday


Today being Thursday, I wondered how many have recorded and/or performed T-Bone Walker's Stormy Monday. Wiki says, "The song became a standard for blues and blues rock artists, and over the years was recorded by Albert King, Eva Cassidy, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Jethro Tull, Eric Clapton, Shake Your Hips!, Lee Michaels ... The Allman Brothers and Bobby Bland."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_It_Stormy_Monday_%28But_Tuesday_Is_Just_as_Bad%29

T-Bone first recorded Stormy Monday in 1947


Junior Wells with Buddy Guy - 1966



Buddy Buy with Carlos Santana
(Nice close-ups of Santana's finger work. If this video doesn't make you a blues guitar fan, nothing will.)



Terrific version by The Allman Brothers. You can hear the applause of appreciative surprise by some in the audience when they hear the opening blues riffs.



John Mayall with Albert King - 1982
(King has that strong, heavy blues voice.)



Can't end this without Lucille. Here's BB King in '94.



Author, Author! T-Bone Walker

[Dave]

Billy Joel

Joel has sold 150 million records and had 33 Top 40 recordings through the three decades of the 70's, 80's and the 90's. I first noticed him in the late seventies. I haven't liked all of his music, but he's written so many songs that quite a number have caught my ear.
Here are a few. (Sorry for the ads.)

[keith]

[Dave]

I never heard this before. I spent all of the '80's under a rock, it now appears. I liked this on Wiki: "Jones' mother Marjorie provided backing vocals but, as a pastor's wife, wasn't credited for fear of upsetting church elders."

[keith]

Actually, I went looking for her version of "Ring of Fire" last night but didn't find it. I heard it years ago as background on some TV program. Yesterday I caught someone else's version & it sent me into a search mode.

The 80's were a time for raising kids, coaching soccer, leading cub scouts while trying to do the corporate ladder thing. A lot of books & music passed with little notice. I have catching up to do.