Steve Earle "Desperados Waiting for a Train"
Tune of the Day
"Blue Rondo a la Turk" on the Two Generations of Brubeck album. Wow.
There are many fine versions of this tune, but this one gets me dancing, clapping, fist-pounding, whatever, every time....and it's not easy to dance in, what, 9/8? I love tunes that grow, build, develop, and move through changes. This one just picks me up and takes me right along with it. Great melding of jazz and rock idioms, too. It's fun to imagine Dave Brubeck setting the groove and then sitting back to hear where his kids and their friends take it.
You can continue exploring Dave and the kids on Two Generations of Brubeck, "The Great Spirit Made Us All". And Chris Brubeck's rock/jazz band Sky King on "Secret Sauce".
For extra credit, give a "spin" to Chase, "Bochawa" from their last album, Pure Music.
Anyway, that's my two cents today.
There are many fine versions of this tune, but this one gets me dancing, clapping, fist-pounding, whatever, every time....and it's not easy to dance in, what, 9/8? I love tunes that grow, build, develop, and move through changes. This one just picks me up and takes me right along with it. Great melding of jazz and rock idioms, too. It's fun to imagine Dave Brubeck setting the groove and then sitting back to hear where his kids and their friends take it.
You can continue exploring Dave and the kids on Two Generations of Brubeck, "The Great Spirit Made Us All". And Chris Brubeck's rock/jazz band Sky King on "Secret Sauce".
For extra credit, give a "spin" to Chase, "Bochawa" from their last album, Pure Music.
Anyway, that's my two cents today.
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"Desperados" is a great song, @slaw, written by Guy Clark. One band I was in performed it regularly. My song of the day is "Go West", a really "fun" song on Geraint Watkins 2004 album on Yep Rock, Dial W For Watkins. Bob Dylan: "Geraint Watkins is my favorite English pianist". Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe apparently agree, as they have both had him in their bands. He was also in Pearl Harbor's road band in the 1980's (she was on Columbia in the U.S., Stiff Records in the UK, and toured with Nick Lowe, Costello, and The Clash over there. She was for awhile married to Clash bassist Paul Simonon). When I told Pearl (I was a member of her band in 2002-03. She's a real sweetheart.) I thought it very hip of her to have Geraint in her band, she was surprised I knew of him. Hey babe, you're not dealing with a "normal" musician here. ;-) Before I looked at the song's credits, I thought "Go West" might be a song from one of those Bob Hope/Bing Crosby buddy movies. It's a real hoot, a song I guarantee you've never heard anything like. I love it! The album is still available from Yep Rock on CD for about ten bucks. Money well spent. |
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Greetings, Slaw! Yes, I read this thread a lot more than I post to it. So many great suggestions by others. You and BDP, for example, share a wealth of knowledge about music, musicians and recording in your posts. Given my less frequent posts, I’ll give you two cuts from two great albums I listened to today: Joe Jackson, “Kings of the City”, from Fast Forward. Rodney Crowell, “Flatland Hillbillies”, from Texas. And, +1 for “Desperados Waiting for a Train”. As a matter of fact, last night I saw Darrell Scott and his Bluegrass Band. Darrell played on 4-5 Guy Clark albums and last night did a great version of “Desperados...”. |
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