Music Thread (post a song)

A very underrated musician. The worst thing that might have happened to her career-wise was to have a Top-40 hit. I imagine she made a bundle on it, but when she didn't follow up it made her look like a one-hit wonder.
She used to appear fairly frequently on Prairie Home Companion, where she was more at home.

 

"Waitress in the Donut Shop", the follow up to the album with "Midnight at the Oasis", was a very underrated album. She's got an absolute gift for singing old school whorehouse blues, and has done a number of albums that are purely that, covers of Bessie Smith, Sippie Wallace, Memphis Minnie and the like. She's put out about forty albums as a solo, plus twelve or fifteen with the Jim Kweskin Jug band, the Jerry Garcia Band and others.

I saw her on the tour behind "Midnight at the Oasis". I was in the car and the concert announcement came on, with by then played to death "Midnight" behind it, and as I was reaching for the button to change stations I heard "with special guest artists, the Grateful Dead". I immediately hit the exit and into the parking lot of my neighborhood Ticketron outlet and got 3rd row seats. This was June of '74, so Wake of the Flood/Mars Hotel era Dead, plus most of American Beauty and Workingmans's Dead. I got to see them when they were still touring with the legendary Wall of Sound. One helluva show.

When Maria and the band took the stage I had to laugh. Entering from stage left, Maria and the band, in full California mode, jeans, turquoise and silver jewelry, puka shell necklaces, etc. A couple of beats later, the piano player takes the stage from stage right. He looked like Jake and Elwood's brother, dark suit, white shirt, narrow black tie, pork pie hat... and this was years before the Blues Brothers first showed up on SNL. They played their set and left the stage the same way. Band went one way, pianist the other. It was like "I'm not with those people."

I saw her twentysome years later. There was a guy who kept hollering for a song he obviously really wanted to hear. After five or six songs of him requesting his song at the top of his lungs, she finally looked at him and said "We don't have that one worked up in the set list for this tour. I'm sure you'll like this next one, though, it has a lot of the same notes." The crowd laughed their asses off.

The Amos Garrett guitar solo on "Midnight" is absolute gold.

 

I like it. Here she is, covering the greatest blueswoman of them all.

 

When Bonnie Raitt was starting out she spend a lot of time hanging with old time blues artists and learning her chops, people like Sippy Wallace and Mississippi Fred McDowell. She cut this one on her first album back in 1071, which is where I first heard it..

Here's the original.

 

New album from Waxahatchee. The title track jumped out at me.

 

Ummmm.

Taylor Swift Details Latest Re-Recording, ‘Workingman’s Dead (Taylor’s Version)’

https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/t...ateful-dead-workingmans-dead-taylors-version/

 

Note the date.

 

LOL. Hook, sinker, and about thirty yards of line. Thanks.

 

I take it you young whipper-snappers don't recall the days of Don McLean and American Pie ... or eighth-grade English classes trying to find the hidden meaning behind Stairway to Heaven.