Subject: Interesting New Music
Date: Fri Jan 1 17:46:55 2021
User: ix
Message:the keyboard made me think of Africa by Toto
Date: Fri Jan 1 18:15:04 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Interesting take. I don't know where that was filmed - Anatolia or Netherlands (doesn't really look like that) - or where. But I was imagining it to be somewhere in Anatolia, and wondering what went down there on that terrain a thousand years ago - or two thousand years ago; or 5 thousand years ago. Etc.
Obviously I don't know the words, but I figured out *MY* interpretation of the video idea: "Let's go for a ride in the country and take some pics of us standing around in the woods! I know where a cool bare tree is......and we can take a few of our instruments!" I'm purposely making that sound cynical - as a goof on my own ignorance. Hope that's clear.
Date: Mon Jan 25 17:19:09 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:I have been enamored with Phoebe Bridgers's voice for a couple of years. This is a very new song of hers.
Whoever it is whose mom she hates ... oh, my.
Link: Phoebe Bridgers, "ICU"
Date: Sun Feb 7 10:13:37 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:... and Phoebe was on SNL last night.
(In her second song, she decided to break her guitar on her monitor. Um... okay)
Link: Phoebe Bridgers on SNL, "Kyoto"
Date: Sun Feb 7 10:39:05 2021
User: jamesblackburn-lynch
Message:Buzz,
I was watching that live. It was actually shocking. The audience seemed shocked too from the quiet at the end. She smiled charmingly through both songs. She has a particularly nice and gentle smile. I’ve been listening to her for the last few months and I find her a bit dull. Very quiet music, generally.
But that second song started to get wild at the end...trumpets blasting...guitars going...she even did what I think of as the mock fellatio trick with her guitar player.
But none of it prepared for that attack at the end. Was it a weird joke? Was the song supposed to be full of anger?
Sure got my attention. And yours, clearly.
James
Date: Sun Feb 7 12:07:29 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:That wasn't her schtick up to now. No idea why she decided it was necessary. By her own description, she was a singer of ballads.
I guess she is hoping for some attention from a different crowd.
Date: Mon Feb 8 12:27:19 2021
User: lauradoom
Message:Should have finished with another - a cover of Both Sides Now?
Perhaps 'I Know The End' was a touch of irony dedicated to you Buzz?
Date: Mon Feb 8 16:09:16 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:Ah, Joni Mitchell. I saw her in concert in 1979 at Red Rocks for her "Mingus" tour. She had, after a couple of years, finally figured out her "jazz phase." Perhaps the real highlight was seeing Jaco Pastorius on bass and Pat Metheny on guitar. Although I later bought the "Mingus" album, it's now in my son's vinyl collection. I haven't listened to Joni or any covers of her songs for decades.
Which gets to an interesting point: I have been to the concerts of over a dozen artists who were breaking out of whatever mold they had created and were finding a new path. There are always growing pains, but it's nice to be there as they explore a different direction. Phoebe Bridgers is only 26 years old and has been releasing music for a grand total of 2.5 years, but maybe she's prime for a harder edge. She is nominated for four Grammy awards for 2021 (including 2 for Kyoto) ... but that might be the catalyst for moving on.
That's the awesome thing about music and musicians: always changing.
Date: Mon Feb 8 16:13:09 2021
User: jamesblackburn-lynch
Message:Buzz,
How about a partial list of concerts you've been to? That's an interesting start to a list.
My first concert was at the Meriwether Post Pavilion in 1982. I had won free tickets to the Outlaws and Charlie Daniels. My sister could drive and took me. We left as Charlie Daniels started.
James
Date: Mon Feb 8 16:18:48 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:Not a Charlie Daniels fan? Or did you have a curfew? (I will work up a representative list of concerts this evening)
Date: Mon Feb 8 18:32:42 2021
User: jamesblackburn-lynch
Message:I think my sister didn’t want to stay. This was when Devil Went down to Georgia was a recent hit. I woulda stayed, but cared a lot more about the Outlaws.
James
Date: Mon Feb 8 22:45:37 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:Not much time today to ponder, so here's a sampling. I really didn't start going to concerts until grad school:
Late 70s/early 80s: Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens, James Taylor, Willie Nelson, Doobie Brothers (first Michael McDonald tour), Marshall Tucker Band, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt (in her short-lived "rock" phase), Bruce Springsteen, Taj Mahal, Leon Russell; Peter, Paul and Mary; Earth, Wind and Fire (twice: 1978 and 2018), Merillee Rush (in a bar). Had tickets to Bob Marley, but he canceled the tour and died shortly after :(
early-to late 80s: Nothing. Young kids, early career.
90's/early 2000s: Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Third Eye Blind (took the kids as young teens), Marcus Roberts, Ellis Marsallis, Joshua Redmond, Dave Holland. (I cannot remember most of them from that period -- does Maya Angelou count?)
late 2000s and beyond: Dave Brubeck (twice), BB King, Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, The Suffers, Wilco, Vampire Weekend, Deer Hunter, St. Vincent (three times), Sufjan Stevens (twice), David Byrne (twice), Big Thief (twice), The National, Andy Shauf, Bill Callahan, Gillian Welch, Real Estate, New Pornographers, Stereolab, Jenny Lewis, Belle and Sebastian. Kamasi Washington was my last concert before Covid shut down the venues. I had 12 concerts canceled.
This is just a fraction. TN could probably fill a dozen pages with his concerts.
Date: Mon Feb 8 23:06:12 2021
User: jamesblackburn-lynch
Message:Our only intersection on this list is Leon Russell (saw him twice) and Dylan. Oh, and the National.
Are the more recent years just more familiar to you or have you increased concert going?
James
Date: Mon Feb 8 23:21:01 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:My son’s founding of a record label opened the door for me to indie music. It started with me seeing Cloud Nothings “beta test” a new album in his basement. He helped me find venues and bands, and my concert going has gone through the roof since then. Lots and lots of small venues with the occasional larger one.
Date: Tue Feb 9 12:17:14 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:One last comment about Phoebe's SNL appearance: I was listening to Sirus XMU this morning, and Jenny Eliscu (dj and contributing editor for Rolling Stone) commented on Phoebe Bridger's SNL gig. Of course, she mentioned the final minute of the performance with the guitar breaking etc. Eliscu's reaction was similar to mine: it was unexpected, but you need to take advantage of the SNL exposure when you can. No one can say that Bridger's performance was unremarkable.
Date: Tue Feb 9 12:22:59 2021
User: cellmate
Message:
i watched that SNL last night. Usually i only watch a bit of the first and a bit of the end of the musical guest. This time paid closer attention to the end of the second song. I liked the way it built up at the end but the smashing was obviously staged The sparks were clearly fake.
Date: Sat Jun 12 18:16:55 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:@ BuzzClik..........
This may or may not be interesting to you. I know you enjoyed going to one in Indianapolis some years ago, so I suspect you're kind of fond of these places.
Link: "Record Store Day"
Date: Mon Jul 19 18:14:48 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:The new crop of young, female performers can be fascinating. I have posted a few songs from some of them on this thread, and, lately, only when one really grabs my attention. Girl in Red (aka Marie Ulven Ringheim from Norway) is all of 22 years old but has been putting out noticeable music since 2018. (Her "We Fell in Love in October" was the first for me.) Her early stuff was very good but not extraordinary.
Her latest release album, "If I Could Make It Go Quiet" is special. It's raw and tears away the previous veneer of "squishy love songs are us."
Serotonin, linked below as a video made for Jimmy Fallon's show, made me sit up. Earlier, I had heard a live performance that was totally stripped down that sounded like her previous stuff. This version makes me wonder out loud, "Are you okay?"
Link: Girl in Red, "Serotonin"
Date: Sun Oct 10 11:23:18 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:Brief follow up on Phoebe Bridgers: She is mid-tour -- immediately selling out her venues. She was in town recently, and tickets disappeared in less than 30 minutes after they went on sale. I was seeing an interesting group across the street at an outdoor venue. I was settled in the front row of the balcony and had a clear view of Bridgers's downtown venue. The line to get in was wrapped around the block twice. Staffers were constantly patrolling the lines to minimize the chaos. The doors opened at 9 pm, and the last people finally entered the place at 10 pm. (In the meantime, the dissonant surfer band completed their warmup for my show).
A friend saw Phoebe Bridgers in Cleveland during this same tour. He said that the crowd (mostly young women) was nearly identical to old films of Beatles first tours: non-stop screaming and unbridled hysteria. Bridgers played two sets, and the screaming didn't stop until the break between sets.
This is the first round of live tours since the yearlong shutdown of live music venues. I guess audiences have 12 months of energy just ready to uncork.
Date: Mon Oct 11 07:31:31 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Just catching up on this thread a little bit.......... As I've noted in the past, I can't keep up with all the new stuff Buzz throws out. One of these days.....
That said........altho I had actually commented (months) afterwards in this thread, I somehow missed, but just now saw, the comment that "TN could probably fill a dozen pages......", from back in Feb. Well, yes, and then some. I've toyed with the idea of taking pics of my concert list and posting some of those pages in the pics section here. But sooo many of the bands most of you wouldn't recognize - from the bluegrass, old-time, and Americana genres. But on the other hand...........there's oodles and oodles everyone *would* recognize. And..........I quit writing down every concert act I saw in 1986 (I think), which in retrospect was a minor mistake, maybe. It just got to be a tedious bit of record-keeping - like it was somehow a 'responsibility' to keep such an archival record going. But then..........later.............I went back and added a lot of shows after 1986, but only ones I had ticket stubs for, or some other definite way of verified attendance. And there's a WHOLE LOT since 1986, but it's very, very incomplete. And live music is not remotely near the lifestyle for me now as it was then. And I just won't pay what a lot of the major acts cost. But thankfully.............."it didn't used to be like that". (Yet I do remember having to make decisions like "Is this concert/band worth $7 instead of $5; or is $12 too much to pay for this show?" Etc.)
Alternatively...........I guess I could just cull a hundred or so recognizable names and post them, but that loses context and gravity. Will mull this over..........
[One of my old gfs, from way back when, when I asked her if there might be anything of mine she'd want possession of when I 'moved on' (I was beginning to write my will, sort of)........jolted me by saying "your concert list". That took me completely by surprise, but also made me more realize just how many shows we had experienced together, and maybe moreso just the total weight of those experiences in general. So I made her a copy and mailed it to her. :) I think I had mentioned a long time ago that I had been approached by a regional publication a couple of times long ago to write a series of columns that would ostensibly be entitled something like "Best 10 Concerts I Ever Saw", with a write-up of one per column. I came very, very close to taking them up on that, but the details would have been niggling, as I'd have had to research (harder at the time) the song lists, etc. Well, wouldn't have *had* to, but it would have been a glaring omission in some cases. But really, a concert attendance is more an experiential thing instead of a list of what songs you heard such-and-such artist play at a particular show. Also.................I realized there was NO WAY I could narrow down any such list to 10. Utterly impossible.]
And sorry to ramble on, and I know this would more properly fit in the "old music" thread, but since I just now noticed the above reference to my concert experiences............
And BTW....................just watched about 3-4 videos of Phoebe Bridgers, and kind of like her, in some ways, but like james said the SNL guitar bashing and sparks were just sooo contrived - not to mention - "she bangs guitars like a girl". LOL. Further, most of the time, I can't understand what she's singing - a negative - and which was the worst thing about grunge for me - and a total deal-breaker.
Date: Mon Nov 8 10:49:35 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ok...............I maybe should post these in the "Old Music" thread, and got to the very edge of doing just that, but decided on continuity, so here they are. These are two pics (in consecutive posts) of some ticket stubs from the '81-'82 time frame, that I had already taken some time back for another purpose. These are truly just the very tip of the iceberg. Still don't know how far to take this.....
Link: Bruce 3 times in 6 days
Date: Wed Nov 10 07:51:09 2021
User: outskirts
Message:Remember how back in the day, we wouldn't know the opening act until IT HAPPENED? Did you ever go to see the Moody Blues, then got treated to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble?
Was watching that SRV doc, they did open for Moody Blues a few times...
Those stories of who opened are the best. My best is Santana open for Clapton.
Date: Wed Nov 10 08:36:39 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:85-90% of the time.........I would know the opening act(s). But those few times I didn't, yes, there were some pleasant surprises. One particular example I recall was when a bunch of us went to see Buddy Guy. "Back-up" band (completely unadvertised) was an entity I'd never heard of: Gibb Droll Band. Have mercy!! I would have hated to have followed them, but, well...........Buddy was up to that task. And yet we all left no less impressed and stunned by the "opening act". Gibb Droll Band never made it big, and I'm not sure why. I suspect he (Gibb Droll) never got a solid, long-lasting band behind him. And well, maybe that name. I don't know. But they shook the place. Hard. And Droll was/is a first-rate axman. I mean top-shelf (but I doubt there's any decent gootube-age). That was early '90s. And I do know Gibb is still playing with various folks, like Bruce Hornsby, Keller Williams (*that's* an interesting combination), and likely some festival combos that I'm not aware of.
But no..........never saw the Moodies and SRV together. And only saw the Moodies once.
Date: Wed Nov 10 10:03:38 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:I have Buddy Guy tickets for early next year. I hear he can still bring it. It’s a bucket list concert for me.
Date: Sat Dec 18 19:28:22 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:I don't know whether this is old or new music. Taj first recorded it in 1996(?) (borderline old, at best - and really 'new' in my book), but this is clearly a new interpretation. I'm virtually certain that I, or someone, posted a video from another Playing for Change earlier, but a moderately extensive search can't find it. Oh well. This is pretty sweet and righteous.
I'm on my fourth listen.........
Link: Taj (with "help") be singin' bout bees, etc.
Date: Sat Dec 18 21:54:42 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:Fantastic, TN. Such fond memories.
Date: Sat Dec 18 23:11:59 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Watching that several times, it occurred to me to wonder what Taj's rolodex (or electronic equivalent) looks like. Literally a "who's who". Imagine being able to collaborate with essentially almost any other musician on this planet. Yes, there are others in that position, like maybe Yo-Yo Ma, Bela Fleck, Sting, etc. - but not all that many because of the extremely expansive breadth of his interests and repertoire.
And that reminds me...........you asked me to name some of my favorite performances from P.B. Scott's. Gosh - so many. Let me think on that......
Date: Sat Dec 18 23:25:51 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:I think that must be it, cellmate, altho I would have thought it would only have been about half as long ago. That's quite surprising how long it's been. So it's possible it was another one. Yet I remember this one well, so, unless other evidence surfaces.........we'll say that's it. Thanks - and obviously that one still stands up, pun intended.
Date: Sun Dec 19 03:11:06 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:P.B. Scott's........................a magical place in a magical time...........
I could wax poetic for an extended bit on how wonderful that place was. It really was one of those too-good-to-be-true places/stories/eras. Maybe I should try and find some online pics and stories about it. But.......to the question at hand.......
2 of my top 3 favorites there - and this is a very nebulous 'ranking' - are performers some here may not be overly familiar with. In not necessarily, but maybe, in order: Papa John Creach; George Thoroughgood & the Delaware Destroyers; B.B. King. One would have to appreciate the venue. A 3-level, yet intimate wooden, geodesic dome, with no bad seats. In fact, no seats less than great, and none more than 50 ft.(?) from the stage. The sound quality was perfect, the vibe was ecstatic, and it was just all one would dream of for a small venue. A lot of the shows would be weekdays, when they could catch national acts on off days not in metropolitan areas. There's a great story about the first time B.B. (I think) played there. He flew into Charlotte, they picked him up, and then had to drive him a ways into the mountains. For a while he was wondering if he was being hoodwinked, or kidnapped, or something. I'll try to stop the rambling........
Saw B.B. there 3 times, when he was still strong and vibrant. Papa John either 2 or 3 times. I think 3. My goodness what shows. He was such a delight. Same with Thoroughgood - twice. Liked those so well we also later drove to Hotlanta to see him again at the Agorra Ballroom. And then again later in Knoxville. It's a well-established fact how much the English groups like the Stones and Beatles awakened America to its own musical blues heritage. But Thoroughgood did his part, too, a bit later, in an even more raucous and incessant, piledriving display of perfectly melding R&R with blues. James Brown was called "the hardest working man in show business", but if that's true then Thoroughgood has to have some sort of equivalent title. He somehow climbed up onto a railing of one of the overhanging balconies, non-stop ripping all along. The Young brothers of AC/DC were notorious/famous for Angus being carried on the other's shoulders as they strutted around in big arenas. This was similar to that effect, but more intense. Really astonishing the power and speed he could put out. (He was briefly a professional baseball player, if'n I remember correctly.)
Other than those......... Leon Russell was fantastic. John Hartford his usual great self. Tim Weisberg his usual mellow self. Delbert was good, but not overpowering.
That's a sampling. Couldn't go to all of them. It only held under 1,000 people, so it would sell out quickly. Had to call well ahead of time, and pay with a cc and then pick up at will call. I was always the organizer and instigator, so I would sometimes buy 10-12 tickets at a time like that for my 'group'. Probably the performer I missed that I'd most like to have seen was Lightnin' Hopkins. A large number of the old (well, not the *real* old) bluesmen I was fortunate to experience, at exceptional venues, but not him. Many other great shows that played there I saw elsewhere, but missed him. The performer's entrance was in close proximity to the main entrance, so it wasn't unusual to cross paths and/or rub elbows with them sometimes, especially if we arrived early, as per usual. I know Emmylou practiced out front by a small stream before her show, but I wasn't there that time, and didn't know her yet. But I heard about it. She was 'known', but not big yet.
Ok, I'm really stopping now. Apologies to the goldfish......
Date: Sun Dec 19 05:21:57 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:One note about Taj.................
One wouldn't know it from that video, but in his prime he was one "put together" man. I saw him 3 times in the mid-'80s, and 2 of the 3 were in a small club where he freely mingled and engaged with attendees. I spoke with him briefly, but he was quite an impressive physical specimen. I don't know what his workout regime was, but I've seen Herschel Walker up close when he was in his prime, with his 3%, or 8%, or whatever it was, body fat - and Taj was "all that", too. Looked like he could step into an NFL linebacker's position immediately as needed. About 6'4" or so, and instead of a six-pack, he was sporting maybe a 10-pack, yet moved with complete grace and agility. Needless to say, the wimmens were sort of gaga. On at least one of those evenings, he was wearing a sleeveless mesh 'shirt' (more mesh than shirt) allowing for easy perusal of his physique. If he had wanted, I'm sure he could have had an extremely successful modeling career. The guy just oozes intelligence, congeniality, and worldliness, without a hint of ostentatiousness.
p.s. - Yes, I know I misspelled "Thorogood" in the post above. I always forget which way it is.
Date: Mon Dec 20 10:55:03 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:This thread is drifting a bit from the title, but we can correct the course in a bit....
P.B. Scott's is configured a lot like the Mohawk in Austin: three tiers all close to the stage. The Mohawk generally doesn't attract huge stars, although they have caught many rising stars and will sometimes host those on a fading trajectory. I can't imagine seeing so many stars of that magnitude in such a small space. (My only BB King show was in a concert auditorium.)
The only time I've seen Taj was in my favorite bar. They reconfigured the performance space such that there was no stage, just about 100 people in chairs. This was roughly the same time frame that you saw him. He didn't take the opportunity to show off his physique, so I was unaware of his "10-pack."
You mentioned somewhere that you had been approached about sharing your favorite concerts. I can understand your hesitation about such a project, but it would be so well received. Considering your story telling abilities, you could turn it into a podcast....
Anyway, you and I have overlapped on our musical journey (from 1000 miles apart), but I really envy some of your truly unique experiences.
Date: Mon Dec 20 14:14:54 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:I'm well aware that all this stuff should be in the "old music" thread...........but since I made that (wrong?) decision to put the Taj and friends video on this one, I'm just riding out the tide. Before we go back to our regularly-scheduled topic.............here's some comments about P.B. Scott's. I'll try to find one with pics, too.
[It's a long and somewhat sad story about the clash of that culture with the "old money" culture of Blowing Rock. For those who wouldn't know, Asheville has a good bit of "old money". I mean it has the Biltmore and all that. But Blowing Rock was the haven for those, a century and more ago, who could afford to make a life there, and the extra elevation made it cool even during what would otherwise be hot summers. It had/has LOTS of old money. It's really almost a culture onto itself. So.......all those old-timers couldn't stand the crowds, etc., enjoying this little place that punched WAY over its weight. They re-wrote their laws so that such establishments had to show that at least 51% of their sales were food and beverage vs. entertainment. They tried and tried, and fought it unsuccessfully in court, eventually leading to its sad demise. For maybe 5+ years afterwards, the marque out front said: "Welcome to Blowing Rock - Set Your Clocks back 100 years."]
Link: P.B. Scott's in Blowing Rock
Date: Mon Dec 20 14:30:53 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ok........here's a couple more links. The hyper-linked one has some pics and a (partial) list of performers at the bottom of the page.
This one here is a story about how it all came about, with some quirky anecdotes about some of the acts:
https://www.hcpress.com/news/how-p-b-scotts-came-to-be-an-extensive-profile-of-the-venue-written-by-one-of-the-founders.html
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And just found this anecdote on a blog:
"If I had a dollar for every PB Scott's story I've heard I'd be able to rebuild the damn place."
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"Wish I could have seen it in its glory."
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"I'll give you one right now. A friend of mine went to P.B.'s one night. An old bluesman named Lightning Hopkins was playing. My friend had never heard of him but he encountered this old black guy in the Men's Room. He muttered out loud, "I wonder if this guy Lightning Hopkins is any good."
The old guy replied, "Son, I guess we'll both have to stick around and see."
It turned out that the old guy my friend encountered in the Men's Room was Lightning Hopkins himself. Put on a great show and sought out my friend during a break to ask him how he liked it. My friend replied that he was glad he stuck around."
Link: P.B. Scott's performers and pics
Date: Tue Dec 21 16:01:01 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Neil (and Nils and the rest of Crazy Horse) with new stuff. Crazy Horse, at their best, was one of the best bands of all time.
p.s. to the above earlier discussion - Doc and Merle Watson lived only about 12-15 miles from P.B. Scott's.
Link: Neil and Crazy Horse
Date: Thu Jan 6 01:02:38 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Pat Metheny has dropped yet another new album (second of 2021) and is currently on tour. The album is a product of his Side Eye project, recorded live in New York. Some of it is ambient "jazz club" stuff, and other tunes reflect his past jazz fusion years when he was collecting Grammy Awards on an annual basis.
I find it to be quite the enjoyable listen, but I'm a big fan. You can check it out at the link below.
I first saw Metheny in concert as part of Joni Mitchell's band for the Mingus tour (featuring Jaco Pastorius on bass). I'll be seeing them in February in a tiny venue, about 1/50 the size the venues Joni was packing on her Mingus tour.
Link: A Collection of Videos from Side Eye
Date: Thu Jan 6 11:05:37 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Side note:
After following a couple of links in another music thread, I stumbled across an interview in which Pat Metheny described his collaborations with Jaco Pastorius. He mentioned teaching at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, a good gig for a guy who spent only a week in college. Berklee has a pretty impressive list of graduates, including the entirety of Big Thief, one of my very favorite current groups.
Date: Thu Feb 3 14:09:54 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:This is a new artist to me, from the UK, altho apparently he's been around a little. Nice steel/slide work, and very reminiscent of Louisiana axman Kevin Gordon if any of you all know his work. And yes, even a strong touch of R. L. Burnside. He's been doing some shows with (what's left of) Little Feat, and folks like that. Heard this on public radio yesterday, and so looked it up on gootube. So I was watching this and thinking "that sure looks like it could be filmed in Tennessee". Sure enough, it was, "outside" Nashville. Looking at the terrain, the curves, and the abandoned rock quarry(??), it could well be somewhere on the Cumberland Plateau, where there's lots of quarry stuff. And btw........Kevin Gordon now lives in Nashville, I think. Wonder if they know each other?
Apparently this is the title track from an album coming out this Spring.
Makes me want to post some links to R.L.'s stuff, but that would be "old music". Maybe I'll stick some things there..........or maybe they're already in that thread.....
Link: Jack Broadbent slings some muddy licks
Date: Thu Feb 17 16:34:51 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Illuminati Hotties.
This group is an interesting one. I had the extreme pleasure of watching them in concert quite recently. I attended the concert partly because I like their studio music and partly because the venue was an old jazz club that keeps afloat by packing in the college kids for not-so-much-jazz concerts.
The music of the Illuminati Hotties was noisy but organized, chaotic but not unhinged. And the performers were having a great time. The audience loved them and sang half their songs in full voice, despite their most recent album dropping just weeks ago.
The creative genius behind the group and their lead singer is Sarah Tudzin. She seems to be in her late twenties and spent the first segment of her career as engineer for other performers (e.g., Porches and Weyes Blood).
Their music was so much fun. It reminded me of the old days in Sam's Old Time Ballroom watching local new wave bands like the Kamikaze Klones. Sweetest love, let me take you to Cambodia.
Link: Illuminati Hotties, "MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA"
Date: Fri Feb 18 18:51:00 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Hot off the presses..........
Brand new "Playing for Change " presentation, "When the Levee Breaks", with John Paul Jones, Derek the Younger with wife Susan Tedeschi, Robbie Robertson's son Sebastian, and a host of others. I particularly like the voice of this Buffalo Nichols guy from Austin.
This offering maybe not as powerful as some others have been, but worthwhile, methinks.
Link: "When the Levee Breaks"
Date: Sat Feb 19 11:39:34 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Very interesting, TN.
Buffalo Nichols (great name) is from 'round these parts and actively touring. I'll see if I can sneak off for a peek at him at the end of next month.
Date: Thu Mar 3 23:37:19 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:I'm rewinding a couple of topics on this page that managed to meet in Indie musicland...
SiriusXMU has started a monthly program with Phoebe Bridgers called, "Saddest Factory Records," the same name as Bridgers's fledgling record label. Bridgers happened to play a song called "Berlin" by Fenne Lily, a British group that was the second warmup group for the Illuminati Hotties. Fenne Lily was a lot of fun to see live, and a great way to set the stage for the Hotties. Hearing Bridgers play "Berlin" was a real treat. https://youtu.be/x_OFxXz1OsM (This link takes you to a live performance in somebody's living room. The band performers are still the same... but Fenne's hair is no longer orange.)
About 30 minutes later, Bridgers ended her show by playing a song by an artist she labeled as a "genius" and inspiration for a lot of her work. I was really curious to hear who this was because she also has given credit to Alex G. Bridgers told us that she was talking about Katy Kirby, and I was amazed and delighted. Katy Kirby is a "local kid" who was the first opener for the Illuminati Hotties. She sang a short set of beautiful songs. (It ends up that her mom was sitting next to me while we were waiting for the set to begin.) You can listen to the song below.
Link: Katy Kirby, "Portals"
Date: Thu Mar 3 23:40:43 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Hm.... the clickable link takes you to the wrong song. No idea how that happened. This is the one:
Link: Katy Kirby, "Portals"
Date: Thu Mar 31 14:16:53 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:These guys are barely accessible in their music, but put on a great live performance. Lots of guitars, electronica.
Link: Spirit of the Beehive, "Death"
Date: Thu Mar 31 14:25:40 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Daniel Rossen is one of the creative forces behind the very popular indie group, Grizzly Bear. The character of his voice helps create the distinct quality of the vocals for Grizzly Bear, and he has been putting out music on his own recently. '
I like his music, but I wish he had a bit more range of style.
Link: Daniel Rossen on KEXT
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