Posted on 08/19/2018 8:36:22 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
Good!! That was why I posted this!
Unfortunately I did not know that going in. I had not paid too much attention to him, other than listening to his several albums that I have.
He did that song and two others from the Bop till you drop album. His show also featured a sax player (David Gelden (sp)) who was sensational!
Agree. Small Change is great. Did not know that was ‘Elvira’!
Did you catch my comment re: Rickie Lee Jones on the back cover of “Blue Valentine”?
I did. I’m going to have to check that out. Thanks
I remember The Captain too. I saw him one Sunday evening in the 60s at The Childe Herald, a bar in D.C. which has passed on long since. His brilliance was sometimes hard to see, but one song, Dachau Blues, was a diamond. It started out with a typical Delta Blues blues chant rhythm and blues chords, “Dachau blues, Dachau blues, ‘dem poor Jews, ‘dem poor Jews ..... His point was, I think, that the Blues only works for personal and trivial sorrows. If you try to sing the Blues about some real calamity, like the Holocaust, it’s just ridiculous.
Woody Guthrie was a Communist.
I was wearing a surplus Navy pea coat with a single pocket inside where I absent mindfully put the knife.
The union featured “festival seating” meaning we sat on the floor. I took off the pea coat and flipped it open for the two of us. This snapping move flipped out the steak knife.
All the other kids sitting nearby moved away...
Still have one, with the yellow/cream handle, boy did they make them to last.
I made that mistake with John Prine once. My wife and I left halfway through the show. $120 per ticket. :-(
I have tried and tried to like Tom Waits. I have a couple of albums, including Small Change, which I just gave another listen. Can't get into it. Maybe if he finally passed that stone he's been trying to pass for the last fifty years, I would feel differently. :-)
LOL!
TW’s voice is certainly not Pavarotti-esque...but it’s rough edge certainly communicates his lyrics of the after 2am street life.
“Step Right Up” (from “Small Change”) was the first TW track I ever heard - lyrics from every commercial ad...and I was immediately hooked.
Others have covered his songs - from Rod Stewart to Crystal Gayle, the latter’s solo on “Take Me Home” from the “One From The Heart” soundtrack is hauntingly beautiful with superbly crafted simple lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWotH4el_i4
And, of course, there's this one:
Yep, another good one.
Strangely, when I hear that song I recall living in Hollywood many, many moons ago and driving freeways everywhere my wife and I went...except when we often would “drive west on Sunset to the sea” (Santa Monica) and bypass the SM Freeway.
We were “kids” from Ohio and moving to Hollywood/SoCal was quite the cultural shock...but eventually we came to our senses and returned to flyover country.
I imagine California and Hollywood were pretty cool once upon a time. I have no desire to go there now, though.
Flaco Jimenez is amazing. I first heard him with Freddy Fender. Flaco plays with so many good musicians, like Dwight Yoakum, She Wore Red dresses. Check out what he does with Un Mojado Sin Licensia or Las Golondrinas. A golondrina is a goldfinch, or slang for a migrant worker who moves from place to place. It's an old Pedro Infante ballad, often played by mariachis with a confusing Danzon rhythm. El Flaco plays it so much better.
“But when something does not click it misses by a mile.” correct, and true for any artist.
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