“Just tell your hoodlum friends outside you ain’t got time to take a ride.”
The great L&S and their incredible shaggy hound dog story.
Song Of the week
294: e.s.t., ‘Dolores in a Shoestand’
Jazz for the 21st Century–the Esbjorn Svensson Trio. So worth the journey.
Continue reading...077: J.S. Bach, ‘The Art of The Fugue’ (The Emerson Quartet, ‘Contrapunctus 9’)
Listening to Bach isn’t so different from prayer. They are both human attempts to impose an artificial order upon an inherently chaotic world.
Continue reading...124: Bill Evans, ‘Nardis’
Dying from his life-long drug habit, in a harrowing burst of creative energy, Bill Evans raged against ‘the dying of the light’ night after night in these relentless, probing, profound performances.
Continue reading...056: James Taylor, ‘Secret O’ Life’
Thinking that James Taylor is ‘Fire and Rain’ is like thinking that The Beatles are ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ or Dylan is ‘Blowing in the Wind’.
There’s so, so much more.
072: Stephen Stills, ‘Suite:Judy Blue Eyes’ (“Just Roll Tape”)
Late one night after a recording session in which he accompanied his girlfriend Judy Collins, post-Buffalo Springfield/pre-CSN Stephen Stills gave the engineer a couple of hundred dollars, and said, “Just roll tape”. The resulting recordings, acoustic demos of 13 new Stills songs, lay forgotten for 40 years.
Continue reading...060: The Bill Evans Trio, ‘Gloria’s Step’ from “Live at The Village Vanguard”
If I could take just one single piece of music to my desert island, it would be this.
Continue reading...064: Janis Joplin & Tom Jones, ‘Raise Your Hand’
My memories of Janis–the interview, the kiss, and the TV performance where she brought plastic Tom to meltdown.
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