Shadow of Your Smile when you're gone.
I remember going to see this movie in 1965 because Charles Bronson was in it. But it turned out to be a mushy love story. That though is when I heard the music for the film and hummed it for days. Then the next year 1966 Sinatra released it with the the lyrics.
This Sunday's selection is a Chess Blues box set. I'm starting out with 1947. It runs through 1967. Also a focus on Sonny Boy Williamson. I love his harmonica. A tragic murder took him way too soon. It's interesting to me how so many of the songs top out at maybe three minutes in length on these old blues tunes.
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@lee Hey now. Sonny Boy!!
technically that is Sonny Boy Williamson II, who died of TB in the mid-60s 😉
This is Sonny Boy Williamson I who was murdered in 1948
@porkchopbob Thanks. Yes I noticed on my latest copy of Eat A Peach on CD the writing credit for One Way Out is "Elmore James-Marshall Sehorn ( who didn't write anything but had the connections)-Sonny Boy Williamson 2". That was when I noticed there must be two of them.
My original 1972 Vinyl copy only lists Elmore and Marshall. Some years later I read about Marshall Sehorn and guys like him with recording studios or connections to get a song on record demanding a piece of the royalty for their help. B. B. King shares all of his compositions with another in one of these arrangements. Jules Taub shares several writing credits with B. B. and other artists only because they recorded on his label and Jules demanded half of any original song on his label or no deal!!
Notice "Blind Love" on Enlightened Rouges by the Allmans and the credit on the label is B B. King-Jules Taub. I think it's not a good practice to horn in on someone's song like that.
I remember reading an interview with Robbie Robertson I think it was and he found Sonny Boy 2 in his hometown, I think they were passing through, and Sonny Boy was in some run down flop house hotel with awful teeth and coughing up blood.
And he died not long afterward.
@porkchopbob And what is going on? Did Sonny Boy 2 hijack that name for himself after Sonny Boy 1 was murdered in 1948? Sonny Boy 2 played using that name for years after 1948.
You know Albert King decided to use the KING name because of B B's popularity and B. B. said he didn't like it much but after he got to know Albert and became friends that didn't bother him anymore.
How about some slide guitar --- I mean slide trombone for some easy pretty music.
This was on TV in 1950. Watch for that shaking vibrato!
As smooth as a pull off a king size BENSON AND HEDGES!
This morning's selection is CSNY. An assortment. I only saw CSN once. They were kind of okay. I don't think they had the chops they had a long time ago. And while I've seen Neil in a bunch of different ways he can perform (even the Greendale thing), I never saw all four of them together. But it's a nice calm listen on a Sunday morning.
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This band a new discovery for me. They have several versions of this song as well as other videos but I saw none others that have that soulful heaviness and wonderful deliberation of this one. Fantastic.
Started off with some slow Steve Earle. Nothing live: I don't need to listen to him talk on a Sunday morning. 
Then I switched to Seven Turns. I don't know why but I got "It Ain't Over Yet" stuck in my head yesterday so I decided to play the whole thing. They sure had a great run of releases for four or five years then.
I actually saw Steve open for the ABB a long time ago. There might have been 200 people in the pavilion for Steve at a shed. I doubt any ABB fans knew who the hell he was. I felt bad for him.
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King Curtis this morning. I had never heard of him until I listened to a live ABB show and Duane (I think it was him) mentioned him so I started looking him up. Nice cool, jazzy feel for a cold Chicago morning.
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@lee Yes I am so old (77) I was at ABB shows where Duane mentioned King Curtis. I read in one of the music rags back then Duane Allman was a King Curtis fan and liked King as a human being.
Here is a song released in August 1959 by Atco Records that became number one for three weeks on the Hot 100 singles chart. It's Bobby Darin and Mack The Knife.
The original German version is in one key. But Producer Tom Dowd ( Allman Brothers main producer) came up with a chart ( score ) than changes keys FIVE TIMES making the tension build. Tom had a big say in the arrangements of the songs on At Fillmore East.
More a finger popping version than relaxing, but Bobby Darin's hit gives me a taste to hear "Ella and her fellas making a wreck of Mack the Knife." Anything but, swinging, jazzy and funny. A classic.
@tenorsfan I think Ella's version came out before Bobby's. The original German version came out in 1928!!
Here is November 1973 a live more laid back version of Liz Reed!!!
Stevie Ray Vaughn - 4/29/90 New Orleans Jazz Festival. Somehow the topic of SRV came up the other day with a guy I work with and he mentioned him and how much he admires him and the blues. This guy wasn't even born when SRV died so I was impressed. I'm going to burn a few things for him.
This isn't exactly a slow, relaxing thing but what the heck?
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This past week-end it was "Evocation I- The Arcane Dominion" by Eluveitie
It is a nearly 100% acoustic performance of tunes played on traditional Celtic folk instruments. Included, but not limited to, tin and low whistles, mandola, mandolin, uilleann pipes, bodhrán, hurdy-gurdy, flute, acoustic guitars, Scottish highland pipe, redpipe, fiddle, acoustic and fretless bass, drums, percussion, hammered dulcimer, 5-stringed viola, longnecked lute, and zugerörgeli. The lyrics are based on Gaulish Mythos and sung in an interpretation of that language based on inscriptions found in the region of where those people lived.
This morning's selection is by a guy from California named Tony Carey. I don't imagine too many people here know who he is. He plays keys, guitar, and bass. When he was young he played on a few Rainbow albums of all things because his stuff is so slow and relaxing. Very piano-oriented. The first time I had ever heard of him was when I saw a cassette of his in one of those bargain bins at a discount store. I have loved his music ever since. He did have a couple of radio hits I recall in the late 80s, early 90s. He also fronted the Planet P Project which I don't care for as much.
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@lee Lee here are some backwoods hicks but it's a pretty song and the man singing lead is playing some wonderful acoustic rhythm guitar. Just perfect.
OT and not exactly relaxing music
@lee don't know his solo work but Cary was indeed in the original version of Blackmore's Rainbow from 1975 to part of 1977.
Some fun facts, from what I have read Blackmore did not like him and was always trying to get rid of him. He left the band briefly but was asked to rejoin when they couldn't find a satisfactory replacement.
He recorded one album with the band, Rainbow Rising, and is on several live releases.
That Dio era version was a great band that never got as popular as I think it should have IMHO.
Great keyboard intro by Carey to the epic Stargazer from Rainbow - Stargazer (Live in Nürnberg 1976)
Interview with Carey. Interesting he says he is really not a keyboard player.
https://indianmusicmug.com/features/interview-with-former-rainbow-keyboardist-tony-carey/
Back on topic, I just got an amazing Jackson Brown bootleg from Japan of him live ln Long Beach, CA in 1978 with David Lindley. It is an audience recording by the legendary Mike ( the Mic) Millard and is amazing SQ.
Listening to if this morning while making the family breakfast.
Not from that show but my favorite Brown song
Yep, a tad off-topic but that's fine. Besides, it isn't Sunday now. Tony Carey's solo stuff is quite calm and slow. Hence my surprise that he played with Rainbow and Dio. Also, the fact that, as I said it is mostly keyboards so him saying he isn't a keyboard player was surprising to me. I have a Rainbow release called "On Stage [Live]". It is from 1976 so Dio is on it. I can tell his voice anywhere. The keyboard intro is interesting.
And Tony Carey kind of came off as something of a jerk in that interview.
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Today I had to go with Dickey given the circumstances. Been listening to some ABB and Dickey mellow stuff. So last night I put together a nice little playlist. I ran across a live show I attended of his at B.B. King's in NYC. in 2002. I can't believe it was that long ago.
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Anything by Jackson Browne. I been listening to a bunch of live stuff on YouTube, absolutely delightful.
@lee I saw that B B King show too. 22 years ago!! No wonder I'm 77 now.
@lee I saw that B B King show too. 22 years ago!! No wonder I'm 77 now.
There were actually four shows when I went. An early and a late two consecutive nights. This was the Friday late one. Maybe you were there.
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