Tonight’s show is dedicated to my friend and fellow blogger Big Dan.
Direct links to the individual videos:
Souvenirs
Angel From Montgomery
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness – with Nanci Griffith
In Spite of Ourselves – with Nanci Griffith
Milwaukee Here I Come – with Iris Dement
When Two Worlds Collide – with Iris Dement
As a teenager Lou Reed was subjected to electro-shock therapy to thwart his homosexual behavior:
They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland County to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page seventeen and have to go right back to page one again
After moving to
Reed and Cale went on to form The Velvet Underground, which although never commercially viable, was eventually recognized as perhaps the most influential band in the underground music movement.
Gritty and topical, Reeds lyrics run the gamut from drug addiction to transvestitism – stories of life on the streets of the city.
Here then is a collection of his works with some collaborations with other artists. Heck there’s even a video of Lou as chicken soup plus an interview with Lou from
Dirty Blvd. – With David Bowie
Hail Hail Rock and Roll – With Garland Jeffreys
Crazy Mary – With Victoria Williams
Pale Blue Eyes – With Pete Townsend
White Light White Heat – With Pete Townsend
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Beginning of a Great Adventure
Martial Law => Legendary Hearts => There She Goes Again – With Robert Quinn
The Porcupine Interview:
Tonight’s offering is one of my favorite duos from the ‘60s and ‘70s. There style of folk and folk rock music first caught my eye in the late ‘50s when they were still calling themselves Tom & Jerry. Sounding much like the Everly Brothers they later transformed to the folk genre and took on the Simon and Garfunkel name.
Their angst filled songs such as “A Most Peculiar Man” and “Richard Corey” appealed to me at the time. A college friend and I would play their songs at the campus coffee house and wherever anyone would listen. Being very tall and with my hair fairly short and frizzy I had the appearance of Art and my shorter friend looked much like Paul.
It worked so well that one night while visiting my friends parents in far northern Wisconsin we had a bunch of teenage girls at the local hangout convinced we were Simon and Garfunkel. We overheard them talking – thinking we were them - so we just played along. We played them a bunch of songs then went home and had a good laugh.
A Poem On The Underground Wall
Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
Tonight I bring you a modern rebel, one of the outlaw country western idols.
Willie Nelson has long been know for bucking the system. His life has seen him in trouble for tax evasion and marijuana possession yet he perseveres in his messages of peace and kindness.
Links to the videos:
Whiskey River, Always On My Mind, Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain, Funny How Time Slips Away, I Never Cared For You, She’s Gone, Bloody Mary Morning, You Don’t Know Me, Angel Flying Too Close To the Ground, On the Road Again, If I Can Find a Clean Shirt, Pancho and Lefty, She Loves My Automobile, A Song For You, Crazy, Seven Spanish Angels, To All the Girls, Forever and For Always, Nightlife, Ring of Fire, Highway Man, Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer), You Win Again, The Harder They Come, Georgia On My Mind, Sweet Memories, Heartbreak Hotel, Gravedigger, Jimmy’s Road, Blue Skies, Amazing Grace
Willie the Activist:
Willie Nelson Peace Project - Video
Willie Nelson Peace Project - Website
There is a peaceful solution. It’s called a peace revolution.
Now let’s take back America.
There’s a war and we’re in it, but I know we can win it.
So let’s take back America.
It’s a dream, so believe it.
Now get ready to receive it.
And let’s take back America.
And when the war is over and we’ve won it
let’s remember how we done it so we don’t have to do it again.
There is a peaceful solution. It’s called a peace revolution.
Now let’s take back America.
There’s a war and we’re in it, but I know we can win it.
Now let’s take back America.
There was a peace resolution
and a peaceful revolution
and the peaceful solution saved America
The Allman Brothers Band evolved out of jams in Jacksonville, Florida, involving Duane [Allman] and members of the Second Coming (guitarist Dickey Betts, bassist Berry Oakley) and the 31st of February (drummer Butch Trucks). Another drummer, Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. “Jaimoe”), was a veteran of the soul-music circuit, having played with Otis Redding and others. A magical five-hour jam among the musicians at Trucks’ house cemented the union and prompted this remark from Duane Allman: “Anybody who doesn’t want to be in my band is going to have to fight his way out the door.” Gregg was summoned back from California, where he was unhappily fulfilling a contractual obligation as a solo artist. The Allman Brothers Band were officially formed in March 1969 and signed to Phil Walden’s fledgling Capricorn label, which became the main driving force of the Southern-rock insurgence of the Seventies.So kick up your heels, eat a peach and enjoy.The group’s first two studio albums - The Allman Brothers Band (1970) and Idlewild South (1971) - contained classic songs like “Dreams,” “Whipping Post,” “Midnight Rider” and “Revival.” Both were hard-hitting announcements of the Southern-rock sound. However, it was in concert that the band burned brightest. Led by Duane Allman’s searing guitar, the Allman Brothers Band’s live shows left devoted fans in their wake. The March 1971 concerts recorded for At Fillmore East in New York caught them at their peak. Sadly, the Allman Brothers Band was dealt a catastrophic blow when Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle crash in Macon, Georgia, on October 29, 1971. A year later, on November 11, 1972, bassist Berry Oakley died under eerily similar circumstances only a few blocks from where Duane’s accident had occurred.
However, the group regrouped and persevered. Duane was not immediately replaced; instead, a second keyboardist, Chuck Leavell, added a jazzy new dimension. Oakley was replaced by bassist Lamar Williams. As a testimony to the Allman Brothers Band’s resilience, the group’s most commercially successful albums came in the wake of their tragic losses.
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