What's happening SHF... Today its some Class A rockabilly from Canadian-American Jack Scott.. Scott was heavily influenced by ELVIS but instead of just trying to imitate the King JS knows his limits & pulls off some of the best rockabilly to come out of the 50s man... JS was born in Windsor Canada right across the bridge from Detroit & is noted for being the 1st white rocknroller from Motor City & A few years ago was awarded the title of Canadas Best Vocalist... This cat is one talented musician for more on history head to your nearest library but good luck on unearthing a lot... I'm listening to his 1958 debut on the orig. Carlton Label its NM and fn rocks ! Before this I was jammin to a 28 track comp of his 60-64 work titled The Very Best of Jack Scott and its all killer no filler as well... The debut is mono but the comp is stereo but its true Stereo-Phonic like ELVIS IS BACK & that album is the major influence on JS post 50s work... Jack Scott not unlike another fav of mine Ricky Nelson played rockabilly but its rockabilly with finesse... Scott knew how to arrange a song to fit his style & personality to a T... And he played a mean guitar & had a great band that could blow live... The early 60s saw JS use all kinds of influences beside ELVIS... On these sides there is elements of Del Shannon , Brill Building , R&B & C&W... All of his hits except Burning Bridges were all originals... Also he beat all 60s rockers to the punch about the Hank Williams praise by releasing Jack Scott Sings Hank Williams 3 yrs before Dylan mentioned Williams as a major influence & predating Gram Parsons & Byrds some 7 yrs for Country -Rock....pretty impressive wouldn't you say ? I'll take Jack Scott & Ricky Nelson over Eddie Cochran or Johnny Burnette Trio any day... Anybody who has never heard Jack Scott is missing out on a helluva rocknroller...
Swamp Dogg- Rat On! : Elektra, 1971 the fireman- electric arguments : ATO, 2008 (cd) Dinah Washington- What a diff'rence a day makes! : Mercury, 1959 Johnny Marr- Playland : Sire, 2014 Robert Hunter- Flight Of The Marie Helena (a musical narrative) : Relix, 1985 Mink DeVille- Where Angels Fear to Tread : Atlantic, 1983
First listen. Halicarnassus is 19 min of pure bliss! I heard a few Beatles quotes from Casal, one of them being Something I think
Dave Holland with Evan Parker, Craig Taborn & Ches Smith: Uncharted Territories Recorded in studio May 2nd & 3rd, 2017 Second listen to this expansive 2 disc set is starting to expose those territories. Evan sticks to the tenor saxophone but we don’t get that much of his burning fiery playing but the strength of music is coming through as I focus more clearly on this music by changing and altering my expectations.
Continuing on with Phish in Austin 2018. Listening on my phone, but realizing just now that I finished this show on Sat. "'I'm building you a pyramid with limestone blocks so large. I drag them from the mountaintop, you need a two-car garage."
Over the weekend listened to the first half or so of the Doc & Merle Watson Owsley box that came out a little while ago, great stuff. Currently listening to Black Sabbath Vol. 4. Other recent listens: Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles, Live!, Brewer & Shipley Tarkio Road, Cat Power The Greatest, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, This Year's Model, Dire Straits Brothers in Arms, Yo La Tengo Painful, and Ry Cooder Into the Purple Valley.
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd: Monk’s Dream 1999 studio recording of the above with Lacy’s trio which had the awesome Jean-Jacques Avenal on double bass & John Betsch on drums. On Verve
With Sabbath, I've got to go with the debut in terms of overall high quality, but Master and 4 have some excellent tracks (except for Embryo; if I could scratch that off my CD without treading into other tracks, I would). That said, I got the Super Deluxe (LOL; 4 CDs!!! that's massive!) Paranoid box and was swiftly disappointed with the two live shows (which was largely why I got the box) due to the very strong I could have stayed home and listened to the album factor. As good as they were at coming up with material in the studio, that was a major lost opportunity for creating some live improv.
