What are you listening to?

[Fairwayguy2]

I have pretty eclectic music taste.  Like most with the exception of modern country and rap.   Go to is Blues, Muddy waters, Albert king, the Vaughan brothers

[Mr_BogeyPro]

I just saw Luke Combs in concert, and the opening acts where Lainey Wilson and Riley Green. I have been listening to their music. In addition, I was just turned on to Royale Lynn. She is a mix of metal and country. 

[Dweed]

Just silence at the moment.

[Kenny B]

2 hours ago, Dweed said:

Just silence at the moment.

I love Simon and Garfunkel...  

 

[GolfSpy_BEN]

 

[David George]

https://gurfmorlix.bandcamp.com/track/make-it-home-2

I was given a compilation of slide and dobro recordings and these are artists that really impressed me. Sadly, no video for Gurf Morlix,

[GolfSpy_BEN]

Said goodbye to old friend this week and tonight I’m feeling a little wistful for days gone by…

[chisag]

12 minutes ago, Ben Joest said:

Said goodbye to old friend this week and tonight I’m feeling a little wistful for days gone by…

 

... I am sure you have heard this but what a tribute to such a great artist. I am not normally a fan of country music but I think this is transcendent. 

 

 

[GolfSpy_BEN]

9 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

... I am sure you have heard this but what a tribute to such a great artist. I am not normally a fan of country music but I think this is transcendent. 

 

 

Thanks for sharing Sam. I hadn’t yet heard this rendition. The fiddle in the opening is quite haunting and Into the mystic further proves that a great song transcends styles and genres. 

[GolfSpy_BEN]

This man’s music is a salve for the soul. So I’ll give you 2 tonight. 

 

[silver & black]

 

[GolfSpy_BEN]

Barring Hendrix, this is my favorite Dylan cover of all time.

[silver & black]

 

Edited July 21, 2023 by silver & black

[Headhammer]

On the eve of the final stage of the Tour de France spinning Kraftwerk.

[GolfSpy_BEN]

 

[RichL85]

I cannot even explain this one, but the sound makes me happy.

 

[silver & black]

 

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[Headhammer]

I'm ashamed to admit that I've never before owned anything from Zeppelin. Picked up this box set that was produced by Jimmy Page and it's phenomenal!!

[silver & black]

 

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[Rickp]

On 7/30/2023 at 9:48 AM, Headhammer said:

I'm ashamed to admit that I've never before owned anything from Zeppelin. Picked up this box set that was produced by Jimmy Page and it's phenomenal!!

Love Zeppelin, that’s my era.  Of course Pink Floyd, ZZTop, Bob Dylan etc.

[silver & black]

51 minutes ago, Rickp said:

Love Zeppelin, that’s my era.  Of course Pink Floyd, ZZTop, Bob Dylan etc.

Zeppelin is my # 1. They were just amazing.

[Rickp]

2 minutes ago, silver & black said:

Zeppelin is my # 1. They were just amazing.

There was so much great music in the 60’s & 70’s can’t begin to name them all.  
Cream comes to mind as another favorite.  

[chisag]

14 minutes ago, Rickp said:

There was so much great music in the 60’s & 70’s can’t begin to name them all.  
Cream comes to mind as another favorite.  

 

... As the golden age of music with so much new and so much experimenting with sounds and instruments, there was an amazing amount of one hit wonders unlike any other era. I introduced them so many times on the radio so I still remember many of them and naming a few off the top of my head:

Brandy (Looking Glass)
Hold Your Head Up  (Argent)
Signs (5 Man Electrical band)
One Toke Over The Line (Shipley and Brewer) 
Smoke From A Distant Fire (Sanford & Townsend)
Black Betty (Ram Jam)
Chevy Van (Sammy Johns)
Midnight At the Oasis (Maria Muldaur)
Stuck in the Middle With You (Stealers Wheel)
Drift Away (Dobie Gray)
Sweet City Woman (The Stampeders)
Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
Vehicle  (The Ides of March)
 

[Rickp]

11 hours ago, chisag said:

 

... As the golden age of music with so much new and so much experimenting with sounds and instruments, there was an amazing amount of one hit wonders unlike any other era. I introduced them so many times on the radio so I still remember many of them and naming a few off the top of my head:

Brandy (Looking Glass)
Hold Your Head Up  (Argent)
Signs (5 Man Electrical band)
One Toke Over The Line (Shipley and Brewer) 
Smoke From A Distant Fire (Sanford & Townsend)
Black Betty (Ram Jam)
Chevy Van (Sammy Johns)
Midnight At the Oasis (Maria Muldaur)
Stuck in the Middle With You (Stealers Wheel)
Drift Away (Dobie Gray)
Sweet City Woman (The Stampeders)
Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
Vehicle  (The Ides of March)
 

Quite the list, remember everyone of them.

[GolfSpy_BEN]

11 hours ago, chisag said:

 

... As the golden age of music with so much new and so much experimenting with sounds and instruments, there was an amazing amount of one hit wonders unlike any other era. I introduced them so many times on the radio so I still remember many of them and naming a few off the top of my head:

Brandy (Looking Glass)
Hold Your Head Up  (Argent)
Signs (5 Man Electrical band)
One Toke Over The Line (Shipley and Brewer) 
Smoke From A Distant Fire (Sanford & Townsend)
Black Betty (Ram Jam)
Chevy Van (Sammy Johns)
Midnight At the Oasis (Maria Muldaur)
Stuck in the Middle With You (Stealers Wheel)
Drift Away (Dobie Gray)
Sweet City Woman (The Stampeders)
Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
Vehicle  (The Ides of March)
 

I read somewhere that after the success of Spirit in the Sky, Norman Greenbaum left the music industry to become a goat farmer. I always liked that. It may be apocryphal, but I choose to believe it because it appeals to my sense of the absurd.

[chisag]

2 hours ago, Ben Joest said:

I read somewhere that after the success of Spirit in the Sky, Norman Greenbaum left the music industry to become a goat farmer. I always liked that. It may be apocryphal, but I choose to believe it because it appeals to my sense of the absurd.

 

... Any career in the Arts is a fools errand. But a few select fools  make it and are rewarded beyond their dreams for their passion and efforts. But soooooooo many more really talented folks just never get the break they deserve. My first acting class the teacher, that had a decent career repeated some sage advice that I had never heard. "If there is anything else you can do and be reasonably content I strongly suggest you do that. Less than 5% make a living as actors and the other 95% will struggle until they change professions. If you are smart, you will make that change now while you can and not later when you have to." I would estimate by the time I was 50 about 90% of those I started out auditioning against were out of the business. At age 70 only a handful are left. 

... I have to think a career in music is very similar. So many excellent artists that never get a chance, or in the case of one hit wonders come so close but don't quite get there. Parlaying a singular success into something you enjoy and can make a comfortable living sounds like someone knew what they were doing. I am sure the goats agree. 

[chisag]

2 hours ago, Rickp said:

Quite the list, remember everyone of them.

 

... One of my snowbird pards from Canada knows the group of about 95% of any song I can come up with. I have never met someone not in the radio/music business that would know which artists produced one hits wonders, or even several that had just a few hits and disappeared. Many that grew up in the 60's/70's instantly remember "Signs" but would be hard pressed to remember it was from the 5 Man Electrical Band. Or Incense and Peppermint but have no idea it was from the Strawberry Alarm Clock. But he is very difficult to stump and it really blows my mind.