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Post by Bingo on Jul 15, 2018 19:14:41 GMT -8
Miranda kicked off the latest of her relentless tours this week - this tour shares billing with Little Big Town. She's reiterated in recent interviews that she'll always try to keep alive what the Dixie Chicks were to her generation. Little Big Town were also regarded as DC influenced in their early days - so this cover of Goodbye Earl, on the first night, was a natural for both of them (That rump slap at the Tennessee ham line is classic Miranda! She's virtually disappeared from Mainstream radio since releasing the Weight of These Wings - but critical approval, streaming and sales have all held up, and she lives for live performance)
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Post by Ross on Nov 20, 2018 8:44:38 GMT -8
Loving Margaret Glaspy at the moment.
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Post by Ross on Nov 22, 2018 2:15:42 GMT -8
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Post by Ross on Nov 22, 2018 2:20:58 GMT -8
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Post by erik on Nov 24, 2018 16:19:39 GMT -8
The video for the title track of Canadian firebrand Lindi Ortega's Mexican-flavored Western concept album Liberty:
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Post by erik on Feb 3, 2019 20:33:46 GMT -8
Linda Ronstadt was interviewed this morning on CBS Sunday Morning about her career, the problems she now faces dealing with Parkinson's, and also the new album release Live In Hollywood, consisting of twelve tracks from her 1980 concert performance broadcast on HBO:
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Post by Ross on Jul 16, 2019 5:10:14 GMT -8
I thought this was an intresting vid includse both a Dixie Chicks at a TK track.
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Post by Ross on Jul 21, 2019 5:14:02 GMT -8
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Post by Ross on Jul 21, 2019 5:31:16 GMT -8
Thought this was an interesting interview with Jack White
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Post by erik on Jul 28, 2019 15:45:30 GMT -8
The official trailer for LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, set to be released in selected cities (and hopefully even wider) on September 6th:
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Post by DCXMMXVI on Aug 14, 2019 9:53:30 GMT -8
Pretty decent version. But it made me want to listen to the original so I could hear the fiddle.
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Post by cescpa on Oct 2, 2019 19:54:46 GMT -8
Recently I have been trying to go back and get familiar with some of the old BYRDS musicthat was recorded when Clarence White was in the band. Clarence White was an influential guitarist who has a great reputation in the Bluegrass world - this is a copy of the introduction to his Wikipedia biography ...
"Clarence White (born Clarence Joseph LeBlanc; June 7, 1944 – July 15, 1973[1]), was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer.[2][3] He is best known as a member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels and the rock band the Byrds, as well as for being a pioneer of the musical genre of country rock during the late 1960s.[3]
White also worked extensively as a session musician, appearing on recordings by the Everly Brothers, Joe Cocker,[4] Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, the Monkees, Randy Newman,[5] Gene Clark,[3] Linda Ronstadt,[6] Arlo Guthrie,[7] and Jackson Browne amongst others.[8] Together with frequent collaborator Gene Parsons, he invented the B-Bender, a guitar accessory that enables a player to mechanically bend the B-string up a whole tone and emulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar. White was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame in 2016."
In the process of getting familiar with Clarence White's career, I have also come to find an appreciation for Marty Stuart (as an artist and as a fellow human being) ... Marty's early career is linked with the White family as Stuart and Clarence's brother ROLAND WHITE played and toured in Lester Flatt's band for a while ... and rather than mangle "the story" that I ran accross aabout Clarence White's famous Telecaster B string bender guitar, here is the story as told by Marty Stuart:
And this is Marty Stuart performing his tribute to Clarence White, as he tells in the story about Clarence White's guitar - and which Marty is playing that guitar in this video:
AND THIS IS A SAMPLE of Clarence White's playing live with the BYRDS - they are covering a version of a famous BUCK OWENS & The Buckaroos instrumental track aptly titled: BUCKAROO
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Post by erik on Oct 3, 2019 17:44:09 GMT -8
Speaking of Clarence White, his stringbending electric guitar work is featured here on Linda Ronstadt's cover of the much-covered John Loudermilk C&W/rock classic "Break My Mind", on her 1969 album Hand Sown, Home Grown, one of the earliest examples of female alt-country:
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Post by erik on Oct 12, 2019 18:48:46 GMT -8
Three works of the classical world:
Joaquin Rodrigo: A LA BUSCA DEL MAS ALLA (IN SEARCH OF WHAT LIES BEYOND), a work commissioned by the Houston Symphony back in 1976 to commemorate America's bicentennial in general, and its space program in particular. This performance is by the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Enrique Batiz:
Beethoven: CHORAL FANTASY, a work from 1808 which begins as an elaborate piano sonata, escalates into a mini piano concerto, and then ends in a glorious interstellar cantata for piano, vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, presaging the composer's immortal Ninth Symphony. This live performance from December 31, 1991 features pianist Evgeny Kissin; vocal soloists Cheryl Studer, John Aler, Friedric Molseberger, Camille Capasso, Hiroshi Oshima, amd Kristina Clemenz; the Radio In American Sector (RIAS) Chamber Choir; and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, all conducted by Claudio Abbado:
Mahler: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (RESURRECTION)/V: AUFERSTEH'N, the massive choral finale to this work from 1893, with vocal soloists Isabel Bayrakdarian and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; the San Francisco Symphony Chorus; and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, under Michael Tilson Thomas:
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Post by erik on Dec 6, 2019 10:39:01 GMT -8
Earlier this week in the Bay Area, former San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin gave a discussion at the Commonwealth Club in the Bay Area about his book Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels, And The Inside Story Of Rock's Darkest Day, about the Stones' attempt to one-up Woodstock that instead turned into a crime scene out at the Altamont Speedway in Tracy, California, and ended the dreams of the 1960s counterculture. That debacle happened fifty years ago today, on December 6, 1969:
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Post by erik on Mar 10, 2020 10:02:42 GMT -8
The musical number that literally stopped traffic--"Another Day Of Sun" from the six-time Oscar-winning 2016 film LA LA LAND:
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Post by Ross on May 23, 2020 23:26:52 GMT -8
My brother is involved in this podcast
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Post by erik on Jun 8, 2020 5:34:19 GMT -8
LA 92, a made-for-TV (by the National Geographic Channel) documentary about the 1992 Los Angeles riots that first aired on April 21, 2017, just eight days short of the 25th anniversary of the event, touched off by the acquittal of four L.A. cops in the near-fatal 1991 beating of Rodney King:
It just seems so right to revisit it in light of what happened only two weeks ago in Minneapolis.
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Post by oregonchickfan on Jul 3, 2020 22:23:24 GMT -8
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Post by erik on Jul 4, 2020 15:37:53 GMT -8
Hopefully these videos will stay on YouTube for a while, because they are a continuing reminder of how influential Linda Ronstadt was and still remains, even after Progressive Supranuclear Palsy ended her career.
Linda doing "Long Long Time" on The Merv Griffin Show on September 11, 1970 (that same weekend, the song would become Linda's second Top 40 hit):
Linda performing "Heat Wave" at San Diego's Balboa Stadium on September 27, 1975 (one week later, her scorching reworking of this 1963 Motown classic would become another Top 40 hit for her):
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Post by erik on Jul 15, 2020 5:57:32 GMT -8
Linda Ronstadt backstage at the Kennedy Center Honors (December 8, 2019);
This most influential American songstress celebrates her 74th birthday today (born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona).
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Post by Ross on Aug 4, 2020 13:26:25 GMT -8
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Post by erik on Jun 23, 2021 15:40:51 GMT -8
Last night (June 22, 2021), in the southeast L.A. County suburb of Pico Rivera, an unlocked gate at a meat-processing plant led to something straight out of the Wild West. Here are some highlights:
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