Charlie's good tonight inne? . . . . . . . . .

 

Bandleader Charlie Watts and his singer . . . . . 

P writes:

"I invited some family to see the Stones on their Bigger Bang Tour. Charlie Watts used to eat in Crew Catering and would just chum around with whomever, so I warned my family not to freak out if he walked in (and also instructed them not to eat any of the food, as it's the crew's only chance to eat).

"They were sitting quietly when Charlie Watts walked in. He clocked they were someone's family and asked would they mind if he sat down with them. He chatted with them and asked if they wanted any food. They explained they understood it was for working crew only etc. 'Oh,' he said, 'but there's plenty. There's always leftovers – and the desserts are exceptional.'

"He got up, filled a few plates and served it to them. He then excused himself and said 'I've got to get to work,' then smiled, '...you know' – pointing to the direction of the stage.

This account I found on Facebook and it struck me as true . . . . . an account as to how kind and everyday or matter of fact Charlie actually was . . . . . .  it rang true and if you wrote it and want credit please drop me a note but I post it as found

Derinkuyu :: The Underground City

Legendary-scholar:

In 1963, while doing renovations on his home, a man broke through an exterior bedroom wall in his home and discovered a tunnel entrance. What he found behind that wall stunned historians, archeologists and the world. The lost ancient underground city of Derinkuyu had been discovered.
A multilevel series of rooms, carved from the soft volcanic rock in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, Derinkuyu extends to a depth of over 200ft. Believed to have been constructed by the Phrygians, an
Indo-European people originally from the Balkan region, it dates back to the 8th Century BCE. Capable of holding up to 20,000 people, Derinkuyu had rooms for food stores, livestock, schools, kitchens, living and sleeping quarters and sanitary facilities. Small tunnels carved up to the surface allowed ventilation throughout the city. Entrance tunnels were carefully hidden in the hills surrounding Derinkuyu and connected to the city. One of these tunnels were discovered in 1963 when workers removed the bedroom wall.
It is believed the city was originally carved as an escape from marauding Arab armies in 9th Century BCE and continued over the next several hundred years. The city was used often as a refuge during the Byzantine Era of the 5th through the 10 Century CE.

 

REVOLVER REVIEW 1966

 RAY DAVIES says 

BEATLES' 'REVOLVER' is 'RUBBISH'!

Clapton says he should have retired at 30 says . . . . . . .well Eric!

"George probably not a very good guitarist as he's just doing what Paul asks" says Clapton

Song of The Day:: Paul McCartney 'Calico Skies'

 thebeatlemaniac

I will hold you for as long as you like
I’ll hold you for the rest of my life 

I mean he just doesn't ever stop! 

After the several hours of watching in wide eyed wonder at a creative genius at work ('Get Back') there's this from O My Soul!

Calico Skies" is the sixth song on Paul McCartney's 1997 album, Flaming Pie.

McCartney had been staying on Long Island when the category-three storm Hurricane Bob that made landfall had hit in August 1991. This made McCartney sit with an acoustic guitar and write what he describes as "a gentle love song that becomes a 1960s protest song". The song was co-produced by George Martin and McCartney, being started, finished, and mixed within a single session on 3 September 1992 in Sussex, England. It is the earliest recording on Flaming Pie.

The French Family on Facebook! Can ya dig it? I think you cotton pickin' will!

 more discoveries!

THE FRENCH FAMILY

From NZ but here in Nashville!

Song of The Day :: Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot

A Dylan favourite from back in the day, I often found his work a tad sentimental but this came up last night as it was used in soundtrack for the new series set in Australia with Jamie (50 Shades!) Dornan. who previously I had rather thought couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag cast rather for his searing good looks but is rather good in this . . . . . . . . . . BBC The Tourist

Oooops got my Lightfoot song wrong . . . .still it goes someway to have to play another and this was the one used at the closing credits of Episode 3

David Byrne Newsletter . . . .

More from the wonderful David Byrne Newsletter . . . . .though quite why has too illustrate it with a picture of yours truly dancing is beyond me!!!! 😂

Professor Robert Farris Thompson passed away in November, and this playlist is dedicated to him. Technically, he was a professor of what he referred to as “Afro Atlantic art and culture” at Yale University. But his interests and influence reach wider than art history - they encompass dance, philosophy, music, dress, poetry and spirituality. I first came across his writing when Brian Eno and I were recording a record called "My Life In The Bush of Ghosts". We both were reading his book “African Art In Motion”, which emphasized the contexts of where the masks and costumes came from - he pointed out that isolating an object from it’s ritual and performance context is to remove much of it’s meaning. To a performing musician like myself - this made perfect sense. It would be like trying to understand the power and meaning of rock and roll, or hip hop, from looking at the stage costumes without hearing the music or seeing the show… Dr Bob’s writing is enthusiastic, energetic and poetic - as if Kerouac were channeling Coltrane - riffing on Afro Atlantic dance, music, culture - jumping to wide ranging inferences - seeing the rhythm in fabrics, the philosophy and moral authority in gesture and dance. From the Yale Alumni Magazine: (Young Thompson is in Mexico with his parents) That evening, in the hotel dining room, “I heard this bee-DEEM-brakata, extraordinary offbeat music. I asked the waitress, What’s that? She said mambo.” On that day, says Thompson, “My life changed. Mambo irradiated me with classical Afro-Atlantic music, and there was no turning back.” (This is why this playlist is mambo centric- the mambo he heard was The Newpaper Mambo-La Camisa De Papel. I couldn’t find it on streaming. It is a surreal image of a guy wearing the headlines on his shirt - tropical surrealism you can dance to - no wonder Bob was smitten) For Thompson, to study Afro-Atlantic music—and body language, visual arts, and dance—is also to study Afro-Atlantic philosophy. Petra Richterova ’10PhD, one of his graduate students, explains: “In the West, Africa is seen as not having a philosophy, because what we see as philosophy is primarily text-based. In the Afro-Atlantic world, however, existential quandaries tend to be embodied in the language of gesture, dance, music, and fashion.” To understand Afro-Atlantic values and beliefs, “we have to become literate in this nonverbal language. If you want to know Afro-Atlantic philosophy, go to a Miles Davis concert.” One of Dr Bob’s notebooks- From the same piece: Two New York City cultural centers have put together a tribute to Thompson called “Que Rico Mambo! Que Rico Robert Farris Thompson!” From the amplifiers sound the opening drumbeats of “Mambo en Sax,” by the Cuban-born mambo popularizer Pérez Prado. Thompson takes the microphone to give a tour of the piece. “The trumpet is building some sort of staircase, some sort of ecstatic staircase, and it will be picked up and change mambo forever.” Now Thompson tells the audience to listen for “a little bit of Schoenberg,” a subtle dissonance “like heat lightning in Jersey being observed from Manhattan. Pérez Prado did the impossible. He made dissonance popular. He put it into a groove.” https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/2919-professor-of-mambo I got to know Dr Bob in the early 80s. When Talking Heads released Remain In Light - I added a bibliography to the press release - what I had been reading at the time. Among the books was African Art In Motion. A bit pretentious of me, maybe, but as a result Thompson reached out to me and we eventually became friends (and maybe a few more folks read his books?). We’d go to voudoun and santeria ceremonies here in NYC, and when I began my planning to make a documentary on the afro brazilian spiritual practice Candomble - Bob connected me with people in Bahia who were invaluable. My world view was changed- and I think I was changed as a person as well. Thompson has written many books- if you’re curious, “Flash Of The Spirit” is a good concise introduction to his work. It encompasses music, art, dance, philosophy, dress, cuisine and of course ritual and spirituality. -DB Listen To January's Playlist! Apple Music: Click Here Spotify Music: Click Here DavidByrne.com: Click Here I got given several DB pieces for Christmas (Thank you Santa!) and Stop Making Sense, The new American Utopia and a dancing Big Suit puppet!!!

 

Woody Guthrie was the most important American folk music artist of the first half of the 20th century, in part because he turned out to be such a major influence on the popular music of the second half of the 20th century, a period when he himself was largely inactive. His greatest significance lies in his songwriting, beginning with the standard "This Land Is Your Land" and including such much-covered works as "Deportee," "Do Re Mi," "Grand Coulee Dam," "Hard, Ain't It Hard," "Hard Travelin'," "I Ain't Got No Home," "1913 Massacre," "Oklahoma Hills," "Pastures of Plenty," "Philadelphia Lawyer," "Pretty Boy Floyd," "Ramblin' Round," "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh," "Talking Dust Bowl," and "Vigilante Man." These and other songs have been performed and recorded by a wide range of artists.

With his guitar and harmonica, Guthrie sang in the hobo and migrant camps, developing into a musical spokesman for labor and other left-wing causes. These hardscrabble experiences would provide the bedrock for Guthrie's songs and stories, as well as fodder for his future autobiography, "Bound for Glory." It was also during these years that Guthrie developed a taste for the road that would never quite leave him.

In 1937, Guthrie arrived in California, where he landed a job with partner Maxine "Lefty Lou" Crissman as a radio performer of traditional folk music on KFVD in Los Angeles. The duo soon garnered a loyal following from the disenfranchised "Okies" living in migrant camps across California and it wasn't long before Guthrie's populist sentiments found their way into his songs.

In 1940, Guthrie's wanderlust led him to New York City, where he was warmly embraced by leftist artists, union organizers and folk musicians. Through fruitful collaboration with the likes of Alan Lomax, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger and Will Geer, Guthrie's career blossomed. He took up social causes and helped establish folk music not only as a force for change, but also as a viable new commercial genre within the music business. Guthrie's success as a songwriter with the Almanac Singers helped launch him into the popular consciousness, garnering him even greater critical acclaim. The ensuing fame and hardships of the road led to the end of Guthrie's marriage in 1943. A year later, he would go on to record his most famous song, "This Land is Your Land," an iconic populist anthem which remains popular today and is regarded by many as a kind of alternative national anthem.

By the late 1940s, Guthrie began to show symptoms of the rare neurological disease Huntington's Chorea, which had killed his mother. The extremely unpredictable physical and emotional symptoms Guthrie experienced shook him deeply, so he decided to leave his family to hit the road with his protégé, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Guthrie arrived in California, and began living in a compound owned by activist and actor Will Geer, populated largely by performers who had been blacklisted during the Red Scare of the early Cold War years. Soon, Guthrie met and married his third wife, Anneke Van Kirk, with whom he would have his eighth child, Lorina Lynn.

Guthrie's health continued to deteriorate in the late 1950s, and he was hospitalized until his death in 1967. His marriage to Van Kirk collapsed under the weight of his disease, and the couple eventually divorced. During the last years of his life, Guthrie's second wife, Marjorie, and their children would visit him in the hospital regularly, as would Guthrie's most famous heir in the world of folk music, Bob Dylan. Dylan moved to New York City to seek out his idol and eventually Guthrie warmed to the young singer, who would later say of Guthrie's music, "The songs themselves were really beyond category. They had the infinite sweep of humanity in them.

While Guthrie passed away of complications from his Huntington's Chorea on October 3, 1967, his musical legacy remains firmly cemented in American history. A generation of folk singers inspired by Guthrie in the 1950s and 1960s went on to fuel some of the most dramatic social change of the century. Despite his folk hero status, Guthrie was modest, and was known for playing down his own creative genius. "I like to write about wherever I happen to be," he once said. "I just happened to be in the Dust Bowl, and because I was there and the dust was there, I thought, well, I'll write a song about it."

CD1 showcases Woody Guthrie as a solo artist, CD 2 features him in collaboration with his contemporaries such as the blues hrp player Sonny Terry and fellow folk rebel Pete Seeger, as well as tracks recorded with the Almanac Singers and others. 

Tracklist:

1-1 Dust Can't Kill Me
1-2 Vigilante Man
1-3 Tom Joad Part 1
1-4 Tom Joad Part 2
1-5 The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)
1-6 Jesse James
1-7 Oregon Trail
1-8 Columbus Stockade
1-9 This Is Your Land
1-10 Biggest Thing A Man Has Ever Done
1-11 Buffalo Skinners
1-12 Dust Bowl Blues
1-13 House Of The Rising Sun
1-14 I Ain't Got No Home
1-15 Two Good Men
1-16 Dust Pneumonia Blues
1-17 Grand Coulee Dam
1-18 Boll Weevil Song
1-19 New York Town
1-20 Gypsy Davy
1-21 So Long It's Been Good To Know You (Dust Old Dust)
1-22 The Car Song
1-23 John Henry
1-24 Pastures Of Plenty
1-23 Jack Hammer Blues
2-1 Chain Gang Special
2-2 Lonesome Train
2-3 Muleskinner Blues
2-4 Hard Travellin'
2-5 Pick A Bale Of Cotton
2-6 I Ride An Old Paint
2-7 Stack-O-Lee
2-8 Little Darling
2-9 Sourwood Mountain
2-10 Red River Blues
2-11 Worried Man Blues
2-12 Hard Ain't It Hard
2-13 Gambling Man
2-14 Cumberland Gap
2-15 Buffalo Gals
2-16 Philadelphia Lawyer
2-17 Ship In The Sky
2-18 Stewball
2-19 Fox Chase
2-20 Billy Boy
2-21 Keep My Skillet Good & Greasy
2-22 Do-Re-Mi
2-23 Pretty Boy Floyd
2-24 Wreck Of The Old '97
2-25 Liza Jane

Woody Guthrie - Dust Can't Kill Me - Zero Sounds

Sound of the Day! Andrew Bird Sings John Prine!

 ANDREW BIRD - SOUVENIRS (John Prine)