Tanya, Bill, and the Hot Stove All Stars
From Hot Stove Cool Music 2012
Hot Stove Vid
Well, there was so much good about about this weekend’s Hot Stove Cool Music. But then again, there always is. But perhaps the greatest part was the pre-show party the night before at the House of Blues Foundation Room, when a bunch of us played three sets of all-Stones tunes all night, joined in the …
Home Made Buff Tom Vids
About a year ago, before the BT record Skins was released, I was fooling around with iMovie and a couple of the songs from the record. I had forgotten about these. But the long-delayed wintry mix here in Boston reminded me. Please understand that these are not “official” music videos. I might even get a …
Aretha
They will be discussing Aretha Franklin’s seminal Amazing Grace LP today on NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook. (Lots of info and clips there, check it out.) It reminded me of my old 2009 post about the same record, specifically her performance of the song, “Precious Memories,” here.
Listening to Gimme Shelter
I am going to tell you what makes this song so great. I am not going to go into Greil Marcus territory and lay out some whole context — real or imagined. We all know everything about the sixties by now. Its arc is perhaps the most-documented six-year era ever. It goes something like this: …
More on Johnnie Ray in Wildwood
A few people asked me which club the 1987 Johnnie Ray show mentioned in the last post took place. My wife reminded me, Cozy Morley’s Club Avalon, long defunct. Read about it and Cozy, one of those Broadway Danny Rose-like old time comedians, here in an old Times article. Club Avalon was a barn. He …
Cry
In the summer of 1987, when I was 21, I got to see Johnnie Ray at a tiny little dump called Cozy Morley’s Club Avalon in Wildwood New Jersey. He was close enough to us that his sweat rained down on us. And sweat he did. The cat really brought it, much to the delight …
Goiter Eddie
Excellent piece on nostalgia for an old bar, here in today’s Times.
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From one of my favorite records of the year, truly a stunning work. By the way, if you are interested in other such pronouncements and links, you can subscribe to my Facebook posts. This blog here is a far more edited (believe it or not) version of that pathetic and ongoing display of my id. …
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