Posted on 02/05/2010 7:55:13 AM PST by Jakarta ex-pat
Some years ago, when I spent time in Louisville and played a lot of blues clubs myself (I'm a guitar player), I used to know a pretty good bass player who could hit the kickoff lick to "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" and make it sound like a good soul bottom, so the two of us and this one drummer used to jam a little on that, in A rather than E flat, before he used the lick to glide into "Killing Floor." We got that idea because none of us could remember the lyrics to "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" at the time but I knew "Killing Floor" and could sing it passably enough, so we did it that way. I wish I'd had a tape recorder rolling on it the night a friend of mine who played good harmonica joined in the fun and blew his harmonica like a horn section on it.
Read the first 50 posts.
How could everyone miss Bob Dylan? Marvin Gaye? Elvis Costello?
To add to your fine list;
Gene Vincent
Eddie Cochran
Ritchie Valens
Jack Scott
National still makes excellent steel-bodied resonator guitars, by the way.
“I’ll have to give Paul Rishell and Annie Raines a tug.”
You won’t regret it...
Sparks of Ancient Light --- released in 2008.
Not his best album, but very enjoyable.
I'd probably have to say that my favorite was "Past, Present, and Future" because of "Roads to Moscow".
Well, you sure convinced me!
1. Bing Crosby
2. Frank Sinatra
3. Nat King Cole
4. Ray Charles
5. Hank Williams
6. Elvis Presley
7. Johnny Cash
8. James Brown
9. Marvin Gaye
10. Bob Dylan
Vince Gill. Great as a singer, plus he is a guitar playing phenom.
Kris Kristofferson
Both prolific songwriters BTW...
Roy Orbison
Bobby Darin
FMCDH(BITS)
After reading your post, I am green with envy with your memory.......:O(
Amama na say....WHAAAAATTTT...
Gime mo
Wooooooooowwwwwww!
Charlie Zahm
Elvis Presley.
My grandma passed away last year, she was in her late 90s. At her funeral, small-town funeral, pre-planned by her, they played soundtracks for the three songs she wanted ... of all things, she had chosen for them to play a soundtrack of ELVIS singing one of her [hymn] selections, The Garden.
Sitting there during the funeral service, I realized it was done nicely by him, it actually seemed to be appropriate, all things considered. The vocals are so beautiful, I have included a link for it [NOTE, the rendition they played at Grandma’s funeral was not as slooooooooooww as this one, but it’s the only one I could find on youtube],
In the Garden, sung by Elvis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skLe6pnVOyk&feature=related
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Who I love, whether or not they are great:
Dan Fogelberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Go6I2_PpBU
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Jeremy Camp
[If you have never noticed him, CHECK HIM OUT, SERIOUSLY, Jeremy Camp]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9mFYO02f4
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The rest of my list will have to wait, I am going outside to help someone work on the carport ...
During the 1950’s, while eating breakfast around a gray formica table in the kitchen (these are now collector’s items), we would listen to “Hit the Road,” a program on KFI that featured pop artists such as Perry Como.
I don’t listen to KFI while eating breakfast anymore, since I can’t stand Bill Handel, the angry liberal talk show host who is on from five to nine in the morning.
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