In de jaren 60 maakte ik in mijn geboorteplaats Middelburg voor het eerst kennis met een z.g "One Man Band" De man noemde zich Koperen Ko(vanwege zijn koperen hoofddeksel),speelde accordeon en bediende met een vernuftig systeem een grote trommel op zijn rug.Als kind vond ik het prachtig om dat te zien.Later kwam ik nog meer vormen van One Man Bands tegen,de een beter dan de andere, en vorig jaar zag ik nog en prachtige One Woman Band ,Therese Anderson,ook erg goed.Deze Juzzy Smith is een prachtig voorbeeld van een One Man Band,ik kwam hem op het spoor via zwager Willem,zelf een prima bluesharpist.
Juzzie Smith on the lapslide guitar, harmonica, shaker and Wazinator
KSB319 acoustic stomp box live at Wazinator Studios. Composition -The
Keys - from the album Taking Time Out
Juzzie Started playing the harmonica at 13. By 23 he had won the coveted
Golden Harmonica at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, and the Byron
Bay Blues Blowout twice. He has in the course of his musical journey
embraced and mastered a range of instruments, and absorbed influence
from some diverse musical styles. Juzzie has played in a lot of bands,
some fantastic and some forgettable, and performed with some of
Australia’s best musicians, including John Butler, Damon Davies, Jodi
Martin and Jeff Lang.
Train Ride
Juzzie performs original songs with a
completely original sound. Juzzie really began to take shape as a solo
performer in early 2003, after the birth of his oldest child Olive.
Bluessong
Tired of late nights gigging in smoky pubs, Juzzie quit the band he was
playing with at the time, and began to busk at the local markets around
his home on the North Coast of NSW. It was around this time that he
finished recording his second solo album, Goodvibes, decided to buy an
old school bus, packed up his little family and took off on a busking
tour of Australia.
They soon dropping the ‘s’ and ‘h’ from the school bus and made it the
‘cool bus’ and began a great journey into music. Juzzie travelled North
through Darwin and then down through WA.
Met John Butler
He started off playing to crowds of fifty or so and collecting enough
coin to pay for fuel, whilst continually refining his songs, his
instruments and his performance. By the time they arrived on the streets
of Perth Juzzie was pulling crowds of hundreds of people at a time,
busking was starting to look like a viable career option.
Deze week kreeg onze Bob de Medal of Freedom omgehangen door President Obama.Hij noemde hem een van zijn grote helden.Ik ben het daar natuurlijk volkomen mee eens .Een van de vele hoogtepunten uit zijn lange carriere is wat mij betreft toch wel deze Rolling Thunder Revue geweest ,die behalve mooie beelden ook een prachtig dubbelalbum opleverde geweest.Hieronder een een korte samenvatting van deze toer.
The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed U.S. concert tour consisting of a traveling caravan of musicians, headed by Bob Dylan, that took place in late 1975 and early 1976; the prevailing theory was that the tour was named after the Native AmericanshamanRolling Thunder. Others maintained that tour was named after Operation Rolling Thunder, the U.S. aerial bombardment campaign conducted during the Vietnam War.
But according to Dylan, there was a simpler explanation "I was just
sitting outside my house one day thinking about a name for this tour,
when all of a sudden, I looked into the sky and I heard a boom! Then,
boom, boom, boom, boom, rolling from west to east. So I figured that
should be the name". The January 1976 release of Dylan's album Desire fell between the two legs of the tour.
Tangled Up In Blue Dylan wrote this in the summer of 1974 at a farm he had just bought in
Minnesota. He had been touring with The Band earlier that year.
"Isis" was one of seven songs on Desire co-written between Dylan and songwriter and theatre director, Jacques Levy.
A live version of "Isis" features on the compilation album, Biograph. Dylan introduces it as "a song about marriage."
In October 1975, soon after completing Desire, Dylan held rehearsals for an upcoming tour at New York's midtown Studio Instrument Rentals space. The bassist Rob Stoner, the drummer Howie Wyeth, and the violinist Scarlet Rivera, all of whom were heavily featured on Desire, were retained for the rehearsals. Joining them were T-Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and David Mansfield. The three had been dismissed during the Desire sessions in attempt to focus the overall production, but Dylan decided to recruit the trio for the upcoming tour.
Romance In Durango "Romance in Durango" concerns an outlaw and his lover, on the run in Mexico. Heylin described the song as "the climax to an unmade Sam Peckinpah movie in song."
When rehearsals began, many of the musicians were apparently uninformed
about plans for an upcoming tour. At the same time, Dylan was casually
inviting others to join in with the band. According to Stoner, the group
rehearsed "for like a day or two - it [was] not really so much a
rehearsal as like a jam, tryin' to sort it out. Meanwhile all these
people who eventually became the Rolling Thunder Revue started dropping
in. Joan Baez was showing up. Roger McGuinn was there. They were all
there. We had no idea what the purpose for these jams was, except we
were being invited to jam
Never Let Me Go
On October 30, Dylan held the first Rolling Thunder Revue show at War Memorial Auditorium in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The first leg of the tour was relatively small, spanning thirty shows
and reaching only towns along the northeastern seaboard, including some
in Canada.
However, the secrecy surrounding the tour's intended destinations, the
new material Dylan was premiering, and the inclusion of Joan Baez on the same bill as Dylan for the first time in a decade ensured the tour a good share of media coverage.[citation needed]
Aint Me Babe "It Ain't Me Babe" appears as the last track on side two of Dylan's fourth studio album, Another Side of Bob Dylan.
This was the legendary album which Dylan recorded in a single all-night
studio session, aided by "a couple of bottles of Beaujolais."
"The Rolling Thunder Revue shows remain some of the finest music Dylan
ever made with a live band," wrote Clinton Heylin. "Gone was the
traditionalism of The Band.
Instead he found a whole set of textures rarely found in rock. The idea
of blending the pedal-steel syncopation of Mansfield, Ronson's
glam-rock lead breaks, and Rivera's electric violin made for something
as musically layered as Dylan's lyrics...[Dylan] also displayed a vocal
precision rare even for him, snapping and stretching words to cajole
nuances of meaning from each and every line."
Deportee
A second Hurricane Carter benefit was held at the Astrodome Houston, Texas
on January 25. Before the Concert, Dylan chose to meet with the man
that discovered him, Roy Silver, and Silver's partner, manager Richard
Flanzer for some advice. Silver and Flanzer quickly provided artists
including Stevie Wonder, Ringo Starr and Dr. John, to make this concert
the most successful event of the tour, with Dylan at his best.
Dylan then tried to recreate the Rolling Thunder Revue's success in the spring of 1976. Rehearsals were held in Clearwater, Florida during April, and the first show was on April 18 at the Civic Center in Lakeland, Florida. The tour continued throughout April and May in the American South and Southwest.
The penultimate show of the tour took place on May 23 at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Comments about it typified the feeling about the spring tour: "Although
the band has been playing together longer, the charm has gone out of
their exchanges," wrote NPR's Tim Riley.[9]
"The Rolling Thunder Revue, so joyful and electrifying in its first
performances, had just plain run out of steam," wrote music critic Janet Maslin for Rolling Stone.[10]
The final Rolling Thunder show took place on May 25. Held at a half-empty, 17,000 seat Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah, it would be Dylan's last performance for twenty-one months (except for The Last Waltz in November 1976 for The Band), and it would be another two years before Dylan recorded another album of new material.
Juzzy Smith
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