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Friday Influences Thread - 11-22-13


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why not? come on, do it, join in. BE A MAN! A WOMAN! A HUMAN!!! For god sakes stand TALL and let us know how you feel about... whatever it is you feel about.

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Joshua James. I'm loving his stuff. Maybe the best protest song ever in the 3rd entry, at least the one that means the most to me. Crash This Train. This guy's good. And it looks like he'll open for Neil Finn for the Australia tour. I'd love to see that... Phil, can I come stay at your place? Pitch a tent in the yard?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brett Dennen! Yeah, I like him and I like that ^_^. The CD with the song below lived in my car CD player a couple summers ago.  As a side note, he went to UC Santa Cruz, where my daughter most likely will go. A campus of hippies, also they got hippies and... more hippies. I love it.  Tyler Rae, nice choice cause I can't afford Berkeley!  OK... here's some poppier Dennen.

 

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Lee Knight wrote:

 

Joshua James. I'm loving his stuff. Maybe the best protest song ever in the 3rd entry, at least the one that means the most to me. Crash This Train. This guy's good. And it looks like he'll open for Neil Finn for the Australia tour. I'd love to see that... Phil, can I come stay at your place? Pitch a tent in the yard?

 

Youl'd be welcome ( I might even offer you a bed in the house) I've even got a lefty nut for my Japanese ES335 that you could use.

I looked up the ticket prices - they don't ever get any cheaper do they? $110 .......

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I'm a big fan if This Mortal Coil. Even more so of Dead Can Dance.  I've posted both of these in here before...

My favorite This Mortal Coil interpretation:

 

 

And Brendan Perry from Dead Can Dance doing Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren:

 

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In 1958 The Everly Brothers recorded their second album. No pop or country tunes. All traditional folk songs with very simple harmonies and arrangements.

 

Cut to 2013. Norah Jones & Billie Joe Armstrong re-record all 12 tracks, again with simple harmonies and arrangements.

 

My favorite Everly Brothers tune, from 1960. Their biggest and final #1 hit. Written by Don & Phil Everly.

 

John Lennon fooling around with the tune, forgetting the lyrics here and there...

 

 

 

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I think I may have posted about this guy earlier. I had been only faintly, faintly aware of him before stumbling on some of his work in a FB thread by a blues/roots pianist and musical historian friend of mine.

He had a lot of issues as a human, a very bad drinker, violent at times, apparently not a good boyfriend or husband,  and so prolific but so lackadasical about his career that he regularly wrote hit-level songs and sold them for a few bucks (not unlike some of the blues veterans in the same 50s-early 60s era), letting a succession of other artists take co- and even full credit.

 

Here's an ad-packed Jimmy Donely robo-playlist from Youtube... even though this stuff is mostly too good to not listen all the way through, you might want to do some skipping, anyhow, just to get a grasp of jus how prolific this guy was...

Yet he's all but forgotten. I was waching some of the vid of his memorial service. there were about three bands, white and black, country and gospel, and a scattering of mourners... the musicians pretty much outnumbered the crowd. But, then, I guess he brought his best side to music...

 

 

Here's a write up from the YT page for "Stop the Clock"...

 

 

Jimmy Donley was a writing machine. He would write a song and turn around and sell it for only $50.00. He said it was no big deal. He could always write another song tomorrow; today he and his family had to eat. Songs such as What A Price, Domino Twist, Stop The Clock and Rocking Bicycle (only Stop the Clock has Jimmy's name on it along with Fats, Pee Wee Maddux and Jack Jessup as writers) are just a handful of songs he wrote and gave to Fats Domino at one time or another. All were penned by Jimmy Donley and without any help no matter what the credits may say. In fact, when his wife Liillie Mae briefly walked out on him, he responded by sitting down and writing "What A Price". 


 

 

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I love the Everlys. My favorite is Crying in the Rain

 

You're in good company: J.T. and Artie G.

 

If I recall recollectly you're also a fan of John Sebastian. Here's a song he wrote for the Everlys. (Sorry for the low volume...)

 

Their version. This track his much higher volume.

 

 

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blue2blue wrote: Here's an ad-packed Jimmy Donely robo-playlist from Youtube... even though this stuff is mostly too good to not listen all the way through, you might want to do some skipping, anyhow, just to get a grasp of jus how prolific this guy was...

 

 

 

 

Yet he's all but forgotten. I was waching some of the vid of his memorial service. there were about three bands, white and black, country and gospel, and a scattering of mourners... the musicians pretty much outnumbered the crowd. But, then, I guess he brought his best side to music...

 

Very cool. I'd never heard of him before...

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