Posted on 03/26/2024 6:09:54 PM PDT by RandFan
My dad loved the song “Georgy Girl.” I think of him whenever I hear that song.
I saw The Cyrkle perform as an opening act for The Beatles at Dodger Stadium in 1966.
Well the 80’s had real music trying to break through the cocaine fueled bullcrap disco scene. Examples: Cyndi Lauper,
Laura Branigan, Men at Work, Peter Gabriel, Kenny Loggins (thanks to a movie theme), and Mark Knopfler (breaking through the noise in 1985- Money For Nothin, and Brothers in Arms. And all through the 80’s American acoustic music soared to those who paid attention (Tony Rice with the Bluegrass Album in 1980 progressing through his most productive guitar work that is legendary, as were his song interpretations especially of Gordon Lightfoot’s material, for 20 plus years through the 90’s until is untimely death Christmas Day 2020. Much more than a “bluegrass” guitarist, and an inspiration for up and coming new acoustic players).
Country and Western Music?
I skimmed through that album. Great music. But why is Rhythm and Blues called Country and Western?
Those were some of the most popular C and W tunes of that era. Listen to the originals, as country as it gets. When Ray Charles fused the songs with his R and B style, man that was the magic. “Modern Sounds”, nothing like it had ever been heard before in C and W music.
This ain’t R and B, this is country.
https://youtu.be/YDqwmaI_IdU?si=SpYZ686GZd9F_FWB
I love those two Texas boys. Are you familiar with Willie Nelson when he first got to Nashville?
https://youtu.be/0Ujzz58Tz-Y?si=FWjTXCE_h1_kXEsF
Eric Clapton - Steve Winwood (Can’t find my way home)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L82II1lNjo
this was recorded more recently but Clapton and Winwood are both ‘60s musicians and the song was on Blind Faith’s 1969 album.
Music doesn’t get much better than this.
“...nothing like it had ever been heard before in C and W music.”
Gee, ya don’t say.
I will grant this great R&B musician singing great R&B music while calling it Country and Western is far more C&W than 90% of the Nashville Country that Pop Singers are currently producing.
R and R A is a product of those two axemen
They make those songs and brought great live and live sounding rock to Lou’s more subtle banana era work same songs
I count that album a top ten for me
All those were 7-9 year old VU numbers and yes I value the VU
today many dismiss them as elementary
I’m very familiar with Wagner and Hunter
Lou also was smart enough to use mick Ronson on Transformer
You can hear him on it
Mott and Bowie sounding
I think Bowie played acoustic on it some
Alice knew good guitarists when he saw them
Buxton
Johnstone
That girl he uses now ain’t chopped liver
Btw VU had a lot more than just Lou in my opinion anyhow
Nico lol looked better than she sang
I grew up 60s
Came of age 70s
Love both
70s we’re a blast for me
Too old for Vietnam admittedly by a few years
Unlike neighborhood guys I grew up with who were still going when I was 13-14
I grew up working class till college anyhow
But let’s be fair rock started in the 50s
Major major stuff
I give Ike Turner credit with R88
But folks can argue it forever
Steve Winwood is a Brit treasure and a true gentleman per my wife anyhow
And one of my closest friends was a next door neighbor of his on laurel ridge and says same
His wife Eugenia is a classic southern girl and truth be known she snagged him cold call when she saw him at the lone star cafe Manhattan mid 80s
Four kids later married for life it seems
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