A new drummer and a new guitarist, Dylan on guitar, Lenny Bruce, and
mannequins in formal wear! Bob Dylan kicked off the autumn leg of his
tour this past Friday, and there have been quite a few surprises! (Defenitly Dylan)https://www.definitelydylan.com/
"Not Dark Yet" is a song by Bob Dylan, recorded in January 1997 and released in September that year on his album Time Out of Mind. It was the first single from the album
Shadows are falling and I’ve been here all day
It’s too hot to sleep, time is running away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I’ve still got the scars that the sun didn’t heal
There’s not even room enough to be anywhere
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there
Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there’s been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writing what was in her mind
I just don’t see why I should even care
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there
Well, I’ve been to London and I’ve been to gay Paree
I’ve followed the river and I got to the sea
I’ve been down on the bottom of a world full of lies
I ain’t looking for nothing in anyone’s eyes
Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there
I was born here and I’ll die here against my will
I know it looks like I’m moving, but I’m standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don’t even hear a murmur of a prayer
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there
"Mother" is actually a cry to both his parents, who abandoned him in his childhood. His father, Alf, left the family when John was an infant. His mother, Julia,
didn't live with her son, although they had a good relationship; she
was hit and killed in a car accident on 15 July 1958 by a drunk off-duty
policeman named Eric Clague, when Lennon was 17.
Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) R.I.P.
Prachtige ,ingetogen cover van Van Morrison,s I,m Tired Joey Boy
opgedragen aan Billy Graham die kort tevoren was overleden.
I,m Tired Joey Boy - Reno, NV November 23, 1991
I,m Tired Joey Boy (Van Morrison)
I'm tired Joey Boy
While you're out with the sheep
My life is so troubled
Now I can't go to sleep
I would walk myself out
But the streets are so dark
I shall wait till the morning
And walk in the park
This life is so simple when
One is at home
And I'm never complaining
When there's work to be done
Oh I'm tired Joey Boy of the makings of men
I would like to be cheerful again
Ambition will take you
And ride you too far and
Conservatism bring you to boredom once more
Sit down by the river
And watch the stream flow
Recall all the dreams
That you once used to know
The things you've forgotten
That took you away
To pastures not greener but meaner
Love of the simple is all that I need
I've no time for schism or lovers of greed
Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen
When silence will touch you And heartbreak will mendi
After leaving the Yardbirds in late 1966, Jeff Beck had released three commercial singles, two in 1967 featuring himself on lead vocals, and one without vocals in 1968. All had been hits on the British singles chart,[2] and all were characterized by songs aimed at the pop chart on the A-side at the behest of producer Mickie Most.[3] Harder rock and blues-based numbers were featured on the B-sides, and for music on the album, Beck opted to pursue the latter course.
Reviewing for Rolling Stone in 1968, Al Kooper called Truth a "classic" and a contemporary version of the 1966 Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton LP, saying the Beck group "swing like mad on this record."[9] Truth has since been regarded as a seminal work of heavy metal because of its use of blues toward a hard rock approach.[10] According to Pete Prown and HP Newquist,
"although some have claimed that this disc was the first metal album,
the sound actually leaned more towards a heavy brand of blues rock."[11]Classic Rock magazine ranked Truth
eighth on its list of the 30 greatest British blues rock albums; an
accompanying blurb read, "it was an album that not only helped establish
the British blues rock sound, but featured many of its best exponents."[12]Tom Scholz of Boston has listed it as his favorite album on Gibson's online magazine, stating, "I knew Jeff Beck's Truth album inside out..."[13] The album's title inspired the name of Iowa band Truth and Janey.
Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa recorded a studio version of "Blues Deluxe" on his 2003 album Blues Deluxe and recorded live versions on Live at Rockpalast (2005), and Live from the Royal Albert Hall
(2009). Bonamassa also played "Beck's Bolero", "Let Me Love You Baby"
(and "Spanish Boots" and "Plynth (Water Down the Drain)" from the Beck-Ola album) in his Salute to the British Blues Explosion tour featuring the music of Beck, Clapton and Page in July 2016.
On 10 October 2006, Legacy Recordings remastered and reissued the album for compact disc with eight bonus tracks. Included were two earlier takes of "You Shook Me" and "Blues Deluxe", the latter without the overdubbed applause, and the six tracks making up the three singles by Beck. The B-side to the 1968 single "Love Is Blue", "I've Been Drinking", was another "Jeffrey Rod" special, this time reconfiguring the Johnny Mercer song "Drinking Again".
38 years ago I did not realize it, but wisdom comes with age.
Still one of the best albums in my collection ..
Aja is the sixth album by the jazz rock band Steely Dan. Originally released in 1977 on ABC Records,
it became the group's best-selling album. Peaking at No. 3 on the U.S.
charts and No. 5 in the United Kingdom
Track 1 Black Cow
"Black Cow" was written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the co-front,
core members of the band Steely Dan. Theories as to what this song means: Take your pick of a troubled
relationship, an ode to self-doubt, a commentary on nightlife, a
reference to Hindu culture (cows are sacred), or it could be about
Thelonious Monk, the American jazz composer who is often regarded as the
father of bebop.(Songfacts)
Track 2 Aja
The song is pronounced "Asia," and was inspired by the continent. Steely
Dan have several songs with a far-East influence, since Donald Fagen
believes it is a symbol of sensuality. He told Rolling Stone
magazine that the title came from a high school friend whose brother was
in the army and came back with a Korean wife named Aja, although he
wasn't sure how she spelled it.(Songfacts)
Track 3 Deacon Blues This song refers to The Wake Forest "Demon Deacons," whose football team
struggled for much of the '70s, winning just 7 games from 1972-1975. At
the same time, the University Of Alabama was a football powerhouse,
winning the National Championship in 1973 and losing just one game in
each of their next two seasons under the direction of their famous coach
Paul "Bear" Bryant. Alabama is known as "The Crimson Tide": "They got a name for the winners in the world And I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues" (thanks, Ben - Savannah, GA) When asked about the line, "They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, they call me Deacon Blues," Donald Fagen told Rolling Stone
magazine: "Walter and I had been working on that song at a house in
Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, 'You mean it's like, 'They
call these cracker a--holes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide,
and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon
Blues?' and I said 'Yeah!' He said, 'Cool, let's finish it.'"(Songfacts)
Track 4 Peg
This song is about an aspiring actress, with the director/photographer
promising her a big break. Whether he's leading her on or not is
unknown, and given where the band got its name, you can't help but wonder what kind of actress Peg is.(Songfacts)
Track 5 Home at last
This song is based on the epic novel The Odyssey by Homer. The
hero, Ulysses, is trying to get home across the ocean after the Trojan
War, but the gods keep making it difficult: "Though the danger on the rocks is surely past, still I remain tied to the mast" These
lyrics refer to an incident where Ulysses had all his crew block their
ears so they wouldn't hear the Sirens' song and crash the boat on the
rocks, but Ulysses kept his ears open and had his crew tie him to the
mast so he wouldn't dive off the boat. "Could it be that I have found my home at last? Home at last?" Ulysses is ever hopeful he'll get back to his wife and son.(songfacts)
Track 6 I got the news
Shifty, start-stop rhythms, suddenly erupting musical asides and two
guitar soloists (Becker and Larry Carlton), “I Got The News” has an
irresistable, non-stop energy. The magical part comes on the first bridge, with chorus vocals led by Michael McDonald
Track 7 Josie
This song tells the story of a very popular girl who's the desire of all
the young men in a blue-collar neighborhood. She creates quite a stir
any time she returns.
Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band whose music also blends elements of funk, R&B, and pop. Founded by core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1972, the band enjoyed great critical and commercial success in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s before breaking up in 1981. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies".[3] Steely Dan reunited in 1993 and has toured steadily ever since.
Recorded with a revolving cast of session musicians,
Steely Dan's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced
structures and harmonies. Becker and Fagen are whimsical, often
sarcastic lyricists, having written "cerebral, wry and eccentric"songs about drugs, love affairs, and crime. The pair is also known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio:[8][9] Over the year they took to record Gaucho (1980), an album of just seven songs, Becker and Fagen hired at least 42 studio musicians and 11 engineers.
Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974 before retiring to the studio.
After the group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen were less active
throughout most of the next decade, though a cult followingremained devoted to the group. Since reuniting in 1993 Steely Dan has released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.
Motown is an American record company. The record company was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959,[1][2] and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan.[3] The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, has also become a nickname for Detroit. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned record label that achieved significant crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels (including Tamla Motown, the brand used outside the US) were the most successful proponents of what came to be known as the Motown Sound, a style of soul music
with a distinct pop influence. During the 1960s, Motown achieved
spectacular success for a small record company: 79 records in the Top
Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 record chart between 1960 and 1969. Motown was very popular in the 1960s.
The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as The Primettes in Detroit,
Michigan, in 1959, the Supremes were the most commercially successful
of Motown's acts and are, to date, America's most successful vocal group[2] with 12 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] Most of these hits were written and produced by Motown's main songwriting and production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland. At their peak in the mid-1960s, the Supremes rivaled the Beatles in worldwide popularity,[3] and it is said that their success made it possible for future African American R&B and soul musicians to find mainstream success.[3] Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown, the original group, are all from the Brewster-Douglass public housing project in Detroit.[4] They formed the Primettes as the sister act to the Primes (with Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks, who went on to form the Temptations).[4]Barbara Martin
replaced McGlown in 1960, and the group signed with Motown the
following year as the Supremes. Martin left the act in early 1962, and
Ross, Ballard, and Wilson carried on as a trio.
During the mid-1960s, the Supremes achieved mainstream success with Ross as lead singer and Holland-Dozier-Holland as its songwriting and production team. In 1967, Motown president Berry Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, and replaced Ballard with Cindy Birdsong. Ross left to pursue a solo career in 1970 and was replaced by Jean Terrell, so the group's name reverted to The Supremes. During the mid-1970s, the lineup changed with Lynda Laurence, Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene joining the group until, after 18 years, The Supremes disbanded in 1977 (Wikipedia)
Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were an American all-female vocal group formed in 1957. The group achieved fame in the 1960s with Motown. Selected members of the group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Formed in 1957 by friends Annette Beard, Rosalind Ashford and Gloria Williams, the group eventually included Martha Reeves,
who moved up in ranks as lead vocalist of the group after Williams'
departure in 1962. The group signed with and eventually recorded all of
their singles for Motown's Gordy imprint.
The group's string of hits included "Come and Get These Memories", "Heat Wave", "Quicksand", "Nowhere to Run", "Jimmy Mack", "Bless You" and "Dancing in the Street", the latter song becoming their signature single.
During their nine-year run on the charts from 1963 to 1972, Martha and
the Vandellas charted over twenty-six hits and recorded in the styles of
doo-wop, R&B, pop, blues, rock and roll and soul. Ten Vandellas songs reached the top ten of the BillboardR&B singles chart, including two R&B number ones, and six Top Ten Pop Hits on the Billboard Hot 100.(Wikipedia)
The Temptations are an American vocal group who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s. The group's work with producer Norman Whitfield, beginning with the Top 10 hit single "Cloud Nine" in October 1968, pioneered psychedelic soul, and was significant in the evolution of R&B and soul music.
The band members are known for their choreography, distinct harmonies,
and dress style. Having sold tens of millions of albums, the Temptations
are among the most successful groups in popular music.
Featuring five male vocalists and dancers (save for brief periods with fewer or more members), the group formed in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan under the name The Elgins. The founding members came from two rival Detroit vocal groups: Otis Williams, Elbridge "Al" Bryant, and Melvin Franklin of Otis Williams & the Distants, and Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams of the Primes. In 1964, Bryant was replaced by David Ruffin, who was the lead vocalist on a number of the group's biggest hits, including "My Girl" (1964), "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (1966), and "I Wish It Would Rain" (1967). Ruffin was replaced in 1968 by Dennis Edwards, with whom the group continued to record hit records such as "Cloud Nine" (1969) and "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)"
(1970). The group's lineup has changed frequently since the departures
of Kendricks and Paul Williams from the act in 1971. Later members of
the group have included singers such as Richard Street, Damon Harris, Ron Tyson, and Ali-Ollie Woodson, with whom the group scored a late-period hit in 1984 with "Treat Her Like a Lady".(Wikipedia)
Otis Spann (Geb. 21Maart 1930 – Overleden 24April 1970) was een Amerikaanse blues muzikant.Velen beschouwen hem als een van de grootste na-oorlogse bluespianisten.
Live Newport Jazz 1960
Hij begon als solo artiest, maar vanaf 1952 tot 1968 maakte hij deel uit van de Muddy Waters Band.In die periode deed hij ook veel sessie werk met o.a Howlin Wolf en Bo Diddly Buddy Guy, Big Mama Thornton, Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac.(zie album van de week)
The Blues is Where It's At, Spann's 1966 album voor ABC-Bluesway,klinkt als een live opname maar is opgenomen in de studio.De opvolger was The Bottom of the Blues met Otis vrouw Lucille op vocals.
