While I have my Bluegrass pickin’ head on! Here’s some Tommy Emmanuel with They Hensley(on Arthur Smith's birthday!)
Someone posted this little clip so we better revisit the full song I reckon!
Del & Billy throwback clip 🕛
Had the amazing opportunity to interview the legendary @delmccouryband yesterday for a @localspins spins article promoting his show in Grand Rapids tomorrow night.In addition to several really cool stories, Del shared a bit about this performance of Bill Monroe’s “Midnight On The Stormy Deep” that he recorded with Billy a few years back and it inspired me want to share it again.It features Del’s one of a kind voice and a rare appearance of Billy on the Mandolin. Which Del told me was actually @ronniemccoury ‘s backup!Full video available on Billy’s YouTube page.More from the interview soon, but if you are in the area there are still a few tickets left to show tomorrow night at @st.ceciliamusiccenter at 7:30 PM.Don’t miss the chance to hear a living bluegrass legend and the 2024 IBMA Entertainer of the Yea
and then the world began!
Well it IS Friday!
"Voodoo Chile" evolved from "Catfish Blues", a song that Jimi Hendrix performed regularly during 1967 and early 1968. "Catfish Blues" was a homage to Muddy Waters, made up of a medley of verses based on Waters' songs, including "Rollin' Stone", "Still a Fool", and "Rollin' and Tumblin'".
“Voodoo Chile” was first released as the fourth track on Hendrix’s 1968 album, Electric Ladyland. If you thought “Free Bird” and “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” were extensively long, “Voodoo Chile” runs just one second short of 15 minutes. The lyrical sections are broken up by long instrumentals, putting Hendrix’s electric guitar skills on full display. It is the longest song Hendrix ever recorded.Since “Voodoo Chile” ran so long, the last song on Electric Ladyland is a shortened version, titled “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” They cut the song down by ten minutes, leaving it at just over five minutes long.Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady played bass on the original 15-minute studio jam of "Voodoo Chile". He recalled to Uncut magazine: "It wasn't as simple as a jam, there was a full structure to the song, so it was an extended song that you able to improvise in. We took directions through the language of playing. Jimi was able to experiment with his ability and with effects in order to create an atmosphere. 'Voodoo Chile' has a really eerie sound that kind of places you in a different world."
Etta Baker
Railroad Bill
Happy birthday to Richard Thompson, born in Notting Hill, London on this day in 1949.
He sees angels on Ariels in leather and chrome, swoopin' down from heaven to carry him home.
“Richard Thompson - RT is an extraordinary guitar player, probably the best this country has produced, an utterly sui generis talent whose style is rooted not in standard blues clichés but in the wealth of influences coursing through the British Isles.” (★★★★ The Independent) http://bit.ly/2uMSoUR
She Forgot Everything. Except Him.
"In 1975, inside Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's infamous boutique SEX on King's Road in London, a young John Lydon walked up to a strikingly beautiful German woman fourteen years his senior and, by his own account, immediately disliked her.
Nora Forster, publishing heiress, former model, music promoter, and the woman who had already worked with Jimi Hendrix and Yes in Germany before relocating to London, felt exactly the same way about him. 'I didn't even think to be nice to him,' she later said. 'I was at another gig and John passed by my table and said, Drop dead.' They were married by 1979.
The whole of Britain probably laughed. Here was Public Enemy Number One, the man who had mocked the queen on a record that the BBC banned and the government called a threat to public decency, quietly settling into a committed marriage with an older woman and becoming stepfather to her teenage daughter Ari Up, who would go on to front the Slits, one of the most radical female punk bands who ever existed.
What nobody outside their circle understood was that John Lydon, underneath the snarl and the chaos and the carefully constructed fury, was a loyalist to his bones. He told The Guardian years later that he had never been unfaithful, not once, despite having every opportunity during the Sex Pistols years.
When Nora was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in the mid-stages around 2018, he quit everything and became her full-time carer. He refused to put her in a home. He changed her diet against medical advice because he knew her better than any expert. He told a doctor that the real person was still there every minute of every day and that was his life.
When her condition worsened and she could only communicate in childlike German, he appeared on The Masked Singer as the Jester specifically to make her laugh. He entered Public Image Ltd into Eurovision 2023 with a song called 'Hawaii,' written entirely for her, because he wanted her to hear something beautiful that was only hers.
She died in April 2023 at eighty years old. He had told The Guardian, years before the end: 'The idea of losing Nora is unbearable. If one of us goes before the other it will be murder for the survivor.' He was right. And he meant every word
. #JohnLydon #NoraForster #PunkHistory #SexPistols #fblifestyle"
As I say I like this story . . . . . . .
