Posted on 06/06/2010 10:17:32 AM PDT by BigChiefLtd
It's the week-end... and frankly, I need an escape from all the bad news about Oil Spills, a rude, impudent former Beatle (time to call it quits, sir Paul), a President who's legacy will be measured in how much damage he caused, bad umpiring, a middle east in... well, you get the idea.
So there I was trolling on youtube when I came upon some old friends of mine. And I thought to myself, "Here... HERE'S one thing that's still right in America: Real Music. I'm talking songs with lyrics and melodies that will still be around in 50 years or more. Peformers who have set the mark so high for others, they improved the art form for all.
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Willie has been hard to take since he revealed himself to be a 9/11 “Truther.”
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Willie’s had way too many bong hits. I now refuse to listen too him even though I have always loved his voice.
That's the view from one side. But on the other side, Willie is a harmless partier honkie-tonk musician who made it big. Didn't you ever hang around with the band from the local bar after it closed? Musicians like that are a breed, the same as soldiers and nurses are a breed. He'd still look the same, sound the same, be the same, if he hadn't made it big. He likes his life, likes to sing, and is good enough that people will pay him of their own free will to do it. There's room for all types in this world, honest. The long hair and scuzzy look is the look of a lot of down-home boys in the West. Could be a cousin of mine.
On the other hand, my grandfather was a Marine ... and a bit of a brat, too! ;^)
I like some of the songs, but I haven’t heard a sound like his voice since the nursing home burned down.
He cut off his pigtails too.
^^^
He still looks like an ugly old woman.
You might enjoy this as well ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16qsYreBJZE
Junior Brown and the Beach Boys ~ 409
OUCH!!
I liked Miles Davis because he wasn't playing the same stuff at the age of 60 (though I confess I don't remember how old he was when he died ... I think it was around 60) that he was at the age of 30.
The Beach Boys created music that personified an age group and culture within America's baby boom generation. The music really does convey the emotional and sensory essence of beeing a teen ager or young adult hanging around a Southern California beach with nothing to do but surf and soak sun with your pals. It was a fleeting era, brilliantly captured in music. Quite a phenomenon, when you think about it!
Is there anyone Willie Nelson HASN’T performed with? Seriously.
or this ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=497ZmAsGAT4&NR=1
Junior Brown - Surf Medley
I don't even know the words to it. I don't even know what emotions or images it tugs in me. I only know that they run deep and the song puts me in reverie for awhile, reverie about the beauty of life.
Was married to a pro musician for a few years in my mindless youth who told me that no matter how nuts the crowd, how drunk, how rowdy, how tired, if the band played "I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry," it was like a lullaby. It is a brilliant song.
Music is very powerful indeed.
Look what political talk did to the Dixie Chicks. They are to appear with the Eagles at St. Louis soon and they can’t give the tickets away. As of yesterday, ticket prices were cut in half for the coming concert. Commentator said “I just don’t care for the back up band”...my sentiments exactly...
I agree and I don't know.
I know that song as Pipeline by the Chantay's from 1963.
Junior Brown is awesome.
That is great news.
I know they had to cancel several concerts for the same reason. I’m sure we will hear how ‘intolerant’ people are for not wanting to spend money to listen to them but who cares?!
Keith Urban nor the Eagles need the Dixie Chicks to open for them. I don’t know whose idea it was to stick the Dixie Chicks in with them! Stupid move!
You betcha!
Eagles, Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban Cancel Two Stadium Shows
May 21, 2010
Two stadium concerts featuring the Eagles, Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban have been canceled, according to the Eagles’ website. No reason was given for the cancellations and refunds will be available at the place of purchase.
The musicians were scheduled to perform at Citizens Bank Ball Park in Philadelphia on June 14 and at Hershey Stadium in Hershey, Pa., on June 15.
barbdud (05.25.10 at 03:20pm) I would love to see the Eagles and Keith Urban but would NEVER pay to see the Dixie chicks.
itchycorn (05.30.10 at 03:51pm) The people are lucky that the concert was cancelled. No one should have to put themselves through the pain of listening to the Dixie Chicks for a hour. Shame on the Eagles for sharing a bill with these losers.
Yes, I note the variety of the Top 40 during those times. The genres you mentioned plus the novelty songs, all the great instrumentals (the program I listed to always closes with “Summer Place”), the Hit Paraders (Sinatra, Martin, Day, Bennett, Martino, et al), TSOP, teen idols, and so many One Hit Wonders.
Even some good country crossover hits
>>Willie is a harmless partier honkie-tonk musician who made it big.
Put the word “mostly” in front of “harmless” and I’ll go for it. He’s a musical genius, and can take a simple melody like “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” and make it jaw dropping. But I certainly wouldn’t want him mentoring anyone in my family.
“Sea of Love” is one of those songs I yearned to ever heard again before the Oldies got their start around “American Grafitti” time
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