Music Thread (post a song)

Jack White covered Isbell’s “Death Wish” on his social media account and it is incredible.

Jack White on Instagram: "“Death Wish” by Jason Isbell recorded by Jack White III, April 21st, 2023. #jasonisbell"

I’m completely in the bag for The National so I don’t even pretend to give a critical review of any album. I like every song they’ve ever recorded. I’m a full-fledged fanboi.

 

Bring these 'buyers' to me.

https://consequence.net/2023/04/half-vinyl-buyers-record-player-study/

 

What are your thoughts on the band Journey?

 

Pretty much. I saw him at a street festival here. It was him and a Turkish drummer who played the type of drums that you can squeeze between your knees or your elbow and ribcage and alter the tone. Lindley was playing a saz, a three stringed Middle Eastern instrument. It had a pickup on it and he was playing slide blues on it. Also on an oud, something like a Turkish/Mideast version of a lute. Odd but good show.

I had already seen him several times with Jackson Browne, but that show was basically all him. This was at City Stages in Birmingham in '93, I think. I was in guitar player heaven that weekend. I saw David Lindley, Doc Watson, Leo Kottke, Richard Thompson, and Johnny Winter all over a three day weekend. Lord, I miss that festival, we saw sooo many good acts that virtually never played here otherwise.

Shot of Lindley's instruments from his website here. Saz and Ouds on the top row of photos.

https://www.davidlindley.com/instruments.html

 

They blow donkey balls?

 

I’m really happy for you, and I’ma let you finish … but Master of Puppets is the greatest heavy metal album of all time.

 

Gravy from the Bobby Whitlock archived thread on the Steve Hoffman music forums.

This is Eric Clapton, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock, and Dave Mason playing "Poor Elijah" as a tribute to Robert Johnson, British TV, 1969.

Clapton, Whitlock, Jim Gordon, and Carl Radle (along with *many* others) worked on George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass". Clapton met them during his stint in "Delaney and Bonnie and Friends". This was the band that backed Clapton on his first solo album. With the addition of Duane Allman this is also Derek and the Dominos, although several of the songs on "Layla and other assorted love songs" were cut before Duane joined.

That Whitlock thread is just tremendous. He and his wife responded to a mention on the board, and his various reminiscences and answers to posted questions turned into a 77 page thread that's archived there. Whitlock learned to play the organ at Stax studios in Memphis by watching over Booker T. Jones' shoulder. He was friends with Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn, and played with many of the Stax soul artists, then left there and joined D&B, then Clapton, Derek and the Dominos. He played on both "All Things Must Pass" and "Exile on Main Street", his recorded memories are very interesting. (In fairness, he played keys on one track on Exile, but so far as that goes I'm interested to hear from anyone who was in the room.) He was Keith Moon's drinking buddy, lived just down the road.

Whitlock also played with Steve Stills and Manassas, but I'm not that deep in the thread yet.

Here's the thread if you're interested. Good stuff. I owe many sincere thanks to UNCGrad for talking about the board when he posted the "Musicians wearing suspenders" thread in Anything Goes. It's an amazing place.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-bobby-whitlock-derek-and-the-dominos-thread.160164/

 

So the Bobby Whitlock thread got me looking at Delaney and Bonnie and Friends. For about a year they had an utterly insane line-up, one of the the best blues rock bands that ever walked on a state. Delaney and Bonnie were southern blues-rock shouters. They had Leon Russell and Rita Coolidge. Bobbie Keys and Jim Price, sax and horn guys who wound up playing with the Rolling Stones, Bobbie Whitlock, Jim Gordon, and Carl Radle as mentioned above, played on All Things Must Pass, Clapton's first solo album, and were Derek and the Dominos. Once those three went to England Kenney Gradney and Sam Clayton, both of Little Feat were in the band. Lots of people cycled through the band.

The year that the Whitlock/Gordon/Radle version was touring in 1969-70, Eric Clapton joined for about half of the tour, and George Harrison played on three or four dates.

Add that this band, less Whitlock, was also the band for Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour. Leon Russell was the band leader on that tour.

Anyhow, I've been down something of a Whitlock rathole and I ran up on this. It's Delaney and Bonnie doing a radio concert in NYC in 1971. D & B plus Duane and Gregg Allman, Gradney and Clayton, plus King Curtis. First half is acoustic, D & B with Duane. Second half is electric with band. It's pretty good, and it's Allman Brothers I had never heard.

 

Without getting into niche subgenres, for the late 80s early 90s time period, the judges would have also accepted:

- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
- ...And Justice for All
- Operation: Mindcrime
- Rust in Peace
- Cowboys From Hell

 

Operation: Mindcrime? That stupid name should be enough to disqualify it.