what are you listening to?
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Johnny Lewis Quartet - Shuckin' 'n Jivin'
(1972, Jaro)
self published, recorded live, nice sound quality and nice grooves from the organ guitar drums tenor sax. standard fare nightclub stuff as the 2 star AllMusic review points out but I'm digging what they are laying down, they have my attention in a club. and yeah, nice collars dudes.
(1972, Jaro)
self published, recorded live, nice sound quality and nice grooves from the organ guitar drums tenor sax. standard fare nightclub stuff as the 2 star AllMusic review points out but I'm digging what they are laying down, they have my attention in a club. and yeah, nice collars dudes.
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Jeff Beck - Truth
(1968, Epic) -1A/-1G
crushing. great sound quality, with well defined low frequencies and a nice stage. If you have a time machine back to 1968 you can buy this and other new release records at your local JC Penney dept store for $2.97.
(1968, Epic) -1A/-1G
crushing. great sound quality, with well defined low frequencies and a nice stage. If you have a time machine back to 1968 you can buy this and other new release records at your local JC Penney dept store for $2.97.
Thanks! Nice way to start the yard sale/rummage sale season here. There was nothing else but dreck at this church sale. 2nd day of the sale. The box was in a stack with the usual crap box sets of Mantovani and Welk, and the box was taped shut with packing tape. records were 25cents - the nice church lady asked for 75cents for the box set - for that price I paid quickly and left. Opened the box in the car - and found 7 LPs in NM- shape but missing the bonus LP/EPs.
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Kind of like a much darker version of Joni Mitchell, perhaps? Vicki Lawrence should have gone farther as well, she was smoking like the gun in her song.
I was flipping through records at thrift stores and found this….
I’m not a country music fan but thought it would be cool hear the title track again. I wound up playing the whole thing through 3 times and it is not country music. She does have a southern drawl and some song’s subject matter could be considered country but it’s not performed that way, at least I don’t think so. If I had to label it, I’d call it blues/jazz/folk/rock fusion.
Since I paid no attention to her during her heyday, except for hearing Ode to Billy Joe on the radio a zillion times, I did some reading online and it seems that song had had some cultural influence. There really was a Tallahatchie Bridge and it collapsed in 1972 but before that, the county it was in started fining people $100 for jumping off it – it was only a 20 foot drop. Supposedly she was asked what was thrown off the bridge in the song but has never said what it was. I always thought it was a dead baby but I have my morbid moments. Apparently a movie was made about it – I wonder if it will make it onto Netflix sometime?
I found the album surprisingly good especially since it came out in 1967. Also surprising was learning that it knocked The Beatles out of #1 place.
I’m not a country music fan but thought it would be cool hear the title track again. I wound up playing the whole thing through 3 times and it is not country music. She does have a southern drawl and some song’s subject matter could be considered country but it’s not performed that way, at least I don’t think so. If I had to label it, I’d call it blues/jazz/folk/rock fusion.
Since I paid no attention to her during her heyday, except for hearing Ode to Billy Joe on the radio a zillion times, I did some reading online and it seems that song had had some cultural influence. There really was a Tallahatchie Bridge and it collapsed in 1972 but before that, the county it was in started fining people $100 for jumping off it – it was only a 20 foot drop. Supposedly she was asked what was thrown off the bridge in the song but has never said what it was. I always thought it was a dead baby but I have my morbid moments. Apparently a movie was made about it – I wonder if it will make it onto Netflix sometime?
I found the album surprisingly good especially since it came out in 1967. Also surprising was learning that it knocked The Beatles out of #1 place.
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Been finding more bits and pieces about her online and I'm now curious enough to start looking for some of her other albums - except the duets with Glenn Campbell. She had a TV show for while on CBS but it seems the BBC was interested too.
I thought this was an interesting article and it has a link to 1968 live performance video:
http://djournal.com/news/bobbie-gen...gers-song-remains-a-mystery-46-years-later-3/
http://djournal.com/view/full_story/22780121/article-Bobbie-Gentry--Chickasaw-County-singer%E2%80%99s-song-remains-a-mystery-46-years-later?instance=popular
I thought this was an interesting article and it has a link to 1968 live performance video:
http://djournal.com/news/bobbie-gen...gers-song-remains-a-mystery-46-years-later-3/
http://djournal.com/view/full_story/22780121/article-Bobbie-Gentry--Chickasaw-County-singer%E2%80%99s-song-remains-a-mystery-46-years-later?instance=popular
