Music Thread (post a song)

Huggy, that stuff brings me back to roller skating parties. Blowing the dust off the needle!

 

Well give me a shot of that octane juice
There ain't no cure for the honky-tonk blues
If they come up with something, I'll develop an immunity
And I wish hard livin' didn't come so easy to me

 

Someone mention roller rink rock?

 

With Seger’s good friend Glenn Frey on backing vocals.

 

God, Joe Ely is so great.

 

You know the Flatlanders? Joe Ely, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock, here covering Hancock's "Dallas".

 

1981. I was through eating lunch and killing time till I went back to work and walked into the record store across the street. The guy that worked there knew me a little. I go in, he looks at me, grins, and says "You'll buy this record." Drops the needle on Joe's "Musta Notta Gotta Lotta". First track was the title track, and the second was "Dallas". I walked out of the store carrying it. I've seen him maybe a dozen times going back to the early 80's. Always a great show. There's a ton of good live Joe on Youtube if you feel like taking a dive.

I love my Texas singer-songwriters.

 

Live Shots is such a shitkicking live album. I would love to have the chance to see him live but I can't remember the last time he came through the Toronto area.

 

I saw him here in Birmingham, must have been, sheeze, 2000 or so. We had a truly excellent three day music festival here called City Stages. It ran for 11 years. Six or seven major stages plus a dance tent and a storyteller's corner. He was on the Americana stage, but he also played an acoustic set at noon in a courtyard of a downtown office building to open the festival. We're sitting on the steps 30-40 feet in front of him.

Joe comes out, and he's got this guy with him I hadn't seen before. He had the full Stevie Ray Vaughn black and silver flamenco look going. I look at the wife, kinda nod at him. "Can't say I really care for the SRV ripoff." So when Joe introduces the band. "This is the new guy. His name is Taya. He's a flamenco guitarist from Seville, Spain." Yeah, she about busted a gut laughing at me.

Great set, though.

I lived in Houston from '80 to '91, and I saw him in the small clubs and dance halls around town.

 

Of the trio I'm partial to Jimmie Dale Gilmore. He and Dave Alvin were touring together a couple years ago. Jon Langford (see post #17) opened. Hell of a show.

 

THIS SONG - SO F-ING AHEAD OF ITS TIME.......