What Are You Listening To?

[CMRivdogs]

Me and Bobby McGee, For The Good Times, Help Me Make It Thru The Night, Sunday Morning Coming Down. Just a few of the great songs he penned. Singer, actor, pilot. 

RIP
Kris Kristofferson

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

God dammit, this one sucks. Kristofferson was one of the very best songwriters of all time. The stories and poems he told through song sang to the joy, hardship, love, pain, and struggles of real life. Perhaps the greatest storyteller in modern American music in line with the late Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Jason Isbell, EmmyLou Harris, and an elite few others. RIP!

[Tigeraholic1]

One of the best for sure, RIP. Who from the Outlaw country scene are left? Will Nelson and David Allan Coe come to mind.

[oblong]

On the Ken Burns Country Music doc they spend a lot of time on Kris and Bobby McGee in particular. He was hanging around the studio doing janitorial work and the bosses didn't want him hanging around the studio. Johnny liked him for some reason and told him to stay.   After he started writing songs Fred Foster, the owner of Monument Records suggested a song with a title based on a secretary there, Bobby McKee.  Kris mishead it and wrote it as McGee.  He gave Foster a writing credit for coming up with the name.  Roger Miller recorded it and it didn't do much.  When Joplin recorded it, and died before it's release, Kristofferson said "After that I never had to work again".   Kris was a Rhoades Scholar and english lit guy.  The song is based on a Fellini movie for God's sake.

 

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

One of the best for sure, RIP. Who from the Outlaw country scene are left? Will Nelson and David Allan Coe come to mind.

Waylon's ex-wife Jessi Colter is still around too. But there aren't many left. We're gonna lose Willie in the coming years too and that's really gonna suck.

[oblong]

I never saw his verison of Star is Born but I did see the Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga incarnation.  I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.  Lukas Nelson helped with the music and he and his band are Cooper's band in the movie.  

 

[Tigeraholic1]

Pretty cool story about Tony Keith and Kris interaction.

 

[oblong]

I don't know if it's true, Kris said he didn't remember it but he forgets things (He was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's and Dementia and it was Lyme Disease) but his wife remembrs things and she relayed it.

I'd like to think it's true.  He also "rescued" Sinead O'Conner when she was getting booed at a Dylan tribute not long after her infamous SNL appearance.

[smr-nj]

On my mind’s memory, I’ll always think of Rita Coolidge when I think of him, though I don’t know how long they were actually married to each other.

I loved Kris. Stellar artist and human being.

[Motor City Sonics]

We do have some cool stuff on the walls in here

 

[romad1]

Very polarizing but definitely fits my mood with two weeks of rain preventing me from getting outside

 

[Motor City Sonics]

Wow, this is painful.    (There's plenty of swearing, NSFW).     Just pathetic.   Just retire, Perry.  Just hang 'em up, man. 

 

 

[Motor City Sonics]

Sometimes, around 4-5 am - when I have been laying in one position for awhile, I will go to straighten my leg and I feel that charley horse muscle in my calf tighten up and then BAM - the pain hits..........very intense (though short-lived) pain and I make this guttural pain cry/moan/scream.    That's what Perry sounded like in that clip.    Except my scream is probably closer to being in the right key. 

[CMRivdogs]

Probably late to the party with this but dang she does it with such grace, and it's very slick

Loving her collaborations with Billy Strings as well 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

A wonderful little tune by an artists I hadn't heard called Calamity Jane. They are a female duo and came up on one of those Spotify artists spotlights under the country music genre on my profile. 

Edited October 17, 2024 by Mr.TaterSalad

[CMRivdogs]

I had not realized Rihanna Gibbons had taken over Artistic Directorship of Silk Road Ensemble.

 

 

Edited October 17, 2024 by CMRivdogs

[CMRivdogs]

I was today years old when I learned John Prine did not write this...

 

[Motor City Sonics]

Under The Radar on Sunday October 20th - will feature Cunningham Bird as Pick Of The Week.    Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird have teamed up to cover the Buckingham Nicks album from 1973, which was not a successful album radio or sales-wise, but Mick Fleetwood liked it, played it for John and Christine McVie and ask if they should invite them into Fleetwood Mac.    Sometimes all you need is one person to like it and it can change everything.     Also going to play All Duos too.   Still haven't music mined for tomorrow's show yet.    Gonna cheat a little and feature bands that are basically spearheaded by a duo (Squeeze - with Difford aand Tilbrook)     7 til 9 - every Sunday   annarbors107one.com  or thisisqmusic.com    or listen (Washtenaw, Western Wayne, Southern Oakland county on 107.1  -  West Michigan at 94.5)

 

We're one of only two stations playing this in rotation.   Can't figure out why - it's great. 

 

 

[Motor City Sonics]

Ann Arbor Folk Festival - January 25.   

Friday headliners are Waxahatchee & Josh Ritter

Saturday it's Toad The Wet Sprocket & Bruce Cockburn

[romad1]

Today's mood

Lyrics

 

Drought makes the workers dream
Muscles and fields of green
Shovel the last few crumbs
Of generosity
Open heart, open mind, open mouth, open vein
Drain
Someday the rains will come
My blistered hands tell me
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow

Bite
Bite
Bite
Cry

Smaller and smaller and smaller
I'll keep coming back
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Squash me
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Under the charity
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Under the topsoil
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Under the fingernail
Smaller and smaller and smaller

Small becomes all
Becomes all

Bite
Bite
Bite
Cry

Drain

Drain

Bite
Bite
Bite
Cry

Shovel the last few crumbs
Of generosity

Smaller and smaller and smaller
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Smaller and smaller and smaller
Smaller and smaller and smaller

Source: Musixmatch

Edited November 6, 2024 by romad1

[romad1]

and this follows

 

[chasfh]

On 10/5/2024 at 2:45 PM, Motor City Sonics said:

Wow, this is painful.    (There's plenty of swearing, NSFW).     Just pathetic.   Just retire, Perry.  Just hang 'em up, man. 

 

 

Kids: Just say no.

[oblong]

I'll throw this here since it's about music...

The Yacht Rock documentary on Max is fantastic.  I highly recommend it.  It validated for me a love of songs I wasn't supposed to like at my age but I did.  It's great to see the reach of these artists and how this genre (named long after the music was created) evolved and was revived later on through hip hop.  I learned so much.

And yes, What a Fool Believes is the the gold standard.

 

[ewsieg]

On 10/19/2024 at 9:30 AM, Motor City Sonics said:

Ann Arbor Folk Festival - January 25.   

Friday headliners are Waxahatchee & Josh Ritter

Saturday it's Toad The Wet Sprocket & Bruce Cockburn

The Milk Carton Kids on Saturday as well.