Roots, “I Don’t Care” (2004)
This came up on shuffle this week and sounded pretty good. Here’s a link in case the video embed doesn’t work again. Still working on that one. Also, somebody requested Junior Kimbrough last week, so here’s his “Keep Your Hands Off Her.” What sounded good to you this week? Or treat as an open thread.
ETA: Video embed success! Huzzah!
Omnes Omnibus
Hey, JPK, they gave you the keys, huh? Cool.
JPK
Yep though I haven’t quite got the hang of it yet, but I’ll get there!
Omnes Omnibus
@JPK: I was listening to Anna Calvi earlier and “Exile on Main Street” was playing until this post came up.
Linda Featheringill
Thanks ever so much for the Junior Kimbrough!
If anyone would like a second helping of Junior, may I suggest this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIoZwcTn6hU&feature=related
gnomedad
@JPK:
And a single, completely appropriate tag is the best you could come up with?
Omnes Omnibus
@gnomedad: And no pet pics…
Bruce S
I’ve been digging this Dave Alvin song – he sang it on Justified last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSU9vIzFCzk
JPK
@Linda Featheringill: That’s nice!
Steeplejack
I’ve gone completely retro this week. Drove home from Atlanta on Tuesday and found myself stuck on the ’60s channel on Sirius. One of those experiences of listening to stuff that you haven’t listened to in a long time because you got sick of listening to it but now it all sounds sort of new because you haven’t listened to it in so long.
The one that stuck in my mind was Chris Montez’s “Call Me,” which I couldn’t remember hearing in forever. Kind of weird to look it up on YouTube, because I would have sworn it was some Brazilian chick singing–Astrud Gilberto’s younger sister, maybe. Hmm. Makes you think.
Little Boots
well that’s not horrible.
JPK
@gnomedad: Ha, yeah, give me time.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bruce S: Oh, I like this. I like this a lot. I missed it on the show.
JPK
@Steeplejack: Oh yeah, love that!
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
It is sort of a relief, here, sometimes.
Martin
Playing right now:
“That’s the biggest black ass I’ve ever seen, and I like it a lot.”
Catchy song, and cracks me up every time I hear it.
piratedan
feeling a bit like this since I made it home…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zab7V3_xDfw
Martin
Oh, and the Karen O “Immigrant Song” cover is impressively worthy.
Little Boots
@Martin:
heh, heh, you said “cracks”
Martin
@Little Boots: LOL
Linda Featheringill
@Bruce S:
Dave Allen:
I enjoyed that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Martin: I liked the opening credits of the movie. I did not know it was Karen O. Now that I know, it is obvious. Funny how that works.
Little Boots
@Martin:
thanks, couldn’t help it.
I’m so mature.
Little Boots
this thread needs more Doug.
this whole site needs more Doug.
dammit.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Don’t start. You scared Cole away from his own blog last time.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
and I like cole, that’s the thing.
why must they avoid me? (don’t answer that!)
Omnes Omnibus
As long as we are being bluesy, I offer up some Robert Johnson.
Steeplejack
@piratedan:
The Lovin’ Spoonful–one of my favorite underrated ’60s groups.
“Coconut Grove” is my favorite of their non-hit songs. (I like the video the poster matched to the song.) Good Zal Yanovsky guitar from the bottom of an echo chamber.
Which leads to his excellent crossover guitar work on “Nashville Cats.”
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
LOL. Word.
Evolving Deep Southerner
Are you fucking kidding? Junior Kimbrough?
I Cried Last Night.
All ye need to know. Thank you, and good night.
Martin
@Omnes Omnibus: The trailer for the movie was really impressively done. I forget what movie I was at when we saw the trailer, but I leaned over to my friend after it and said “We’ll remember this trailer more than the movie” and he agreed. Turned out to be true.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
awesome.
and my one and only white boy blues factoids: wasn’t he the one who sold his soul to the devil so he could sing?
Omnes Omnibus
And for some reason Robert Johnson this song to my mind.
Jager
KD Lang and Grover Washington Tribute to Peggy Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4xrj_fksA&feature=player_detailpage
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Allegedly, yes. At a crossroads on Highway 61 near Clarksdale, MS. If you look up Clarksdale, just check out the number of bluesmen and soul singers who came from there.
Linda Featheringill
And for some happy blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIoZwcTn6hU&feature=related
Tramp [I’m a lover].
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: That sentence would be improved by the addition of the word “brings” being inserted in the grammatically correct place.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
I wasn’t going to say anything … just remember.
Linda Featheringill
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
I Cried Last Night:
Nice.
Jager
BeatleJuice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2OiC7LaU8Cg
Brad Delp from Boston put this band together because he loved the Beatles. They would play clubs around Boston, sold out everytime they did. They started doing fundraisers for high school music programs..RIP brad
Linda Featheringill
I didn’t know that Robert Johnson did “Sweet Home Chicago”!
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Linda Featheringill: Thank you, Miss Linda.
I heard that song on a “Southern Music Sampler” CD from Oxford American Magazine back in 2009 or maybe 2010. The magazine was wildly uneven, but their music samplers … Oh My Goodness, wonderful things, year in and year out.
DanielX
Long as Dave Alvin is on the menu…..
Dave Alvin and Cindy Cashdollar
Long White Cadillac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJzpumx7jyY
Quaker in a Basement
Going all 60s today–The Easybeats “Friday on My Mind” and Love’s “Da Capo” album.
Omnes Omnibus
@Linda Featheringill: Amazing, isn’t he? A couple of years ago, I drove from NOLA to Memphis on Hwy 61 and I made a point of stopping (illegally) to get a photo of the memorial at the generally accepted Crossroads (Hwys 61 & 49). The Mississippi Delta is a desolate and poverty-stricken place. You can see why the blues originated there. And you can see why anyone with talent went to Memphis and then Chicago as soon as they could.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
that is awesome. really.
Jewish Steel
@Jager: Damn, Jager. That just blew my mind.
One Youtube commenter (don’t ask me why I looked) said Delp did a better McCartney than McCartney. It’s true.
Jewish Steel
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ve been working on Johnson’s Ramblin’ On My Mind. I can sing it. I can play it. Putting em both together is not so easy.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I also drove so damn carefully through MS. I was in a silver Saab with WI plates. I’ve been told I can sound like Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons when I speak and and I had a European born, hot blonde with me. Not a set of characteristics that would work well with local law enforcement. At least, not according to rumor.
handy
OK fellow BJers, need help solving a mystery. Coworkers and I discussing this one but couldnt come up with artist nor song. The details:
-uptempo 70s anthemic rock song
-singer sounds like brad delp (checked a bunch of Boston stuff on Youtube and Amazon and not it)
-organ riff strongly reminiscent of Roundabout (this is what started the conversation actually)
So…any ideas? :)
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
that is far and away my favorite musical story. it would be really fun to drive to that crossroads (barring law enforcement of course)
Omnes Omnibus
@Jewish Steel: I can’t sing anymore and any instrument I’ve ever played gets tucked under my chin, so I have never had that problem. That is one of Johnson’s things though. You know he didn’t lay down the tracks separately; he played as he sang and did both so damn well. I can give you directions to the Crossroads if it would help.
Jewish Steel
@handy: REO?
Jewish Steel
@Omnes Omnibus: Nah, just give me your rock.
Little Boots
Omnes, walker? a goner? or what?
I’m a little worried.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jewish Steel: I don’t really own Rock. Rock is with me for now. I can’t give Rock away. Rock will go when and if Rock wants to go.
Linda Featheringill
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sounds like Harvey.
Steeplejack
@handy:
Any snippet of the lyrics that could help us along?
MikeJ
@handy: Argent? Sort of a spin off of the Zombies as they went into the 70s? Named after Rod Argent (of the Zombies), best known for “Hold Your Head Up”.
Suffern ACE
@handy:
Asia
or
Kansas?
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I said “Don’t start.” It really really does matter to my continued employment in a job that actually affects and benefits many people across the state that I do not answer questions like that. I know you find it amusing, but it is a serious matter for me. I am asking that you please refrain from this line of questions from now on. Okay?
Omnes Omnibus
@Linda Featheringill: Rock is an actually existing piece of jasper.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
damn. forgot that. will not ask again.
sorry.
Jewish Steel
The Jewess Steel, who sits with me now quietly reading Great Expectations, is probably wondering why I am playing this so slowly and hesitantly. It’s because it is in a weird tuning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvflhehS9s
Little Boots
seriously, I am not trying to fuck with you.
just forgot.
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Illegally? There’s a giant guitar zooming into the sky there. I have a picture of me there too, along with a t-shirt with a quote from Boogie Chillen by JLH (“The boy’s got it in him, and it;s got to come out.”)
And it felt so gooood.
piratedan
@handy: start with the obvious perhaps… Kansas… Dust in the Wind? Although I do believe that the Argent tune is the most likely suspect, terribly anthemic.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Apolo accepted. I can talk national or international politics, but I really cannot discuss state or local.
@MikeJ: It was already dark, there was traffic, and I then saw the guitars…. I just pulled off the road and up over the curb. About an hour later, we ended up eating at the Catfish Cabin near the airport in Memphis that was obviously the place where well-off AA families brought Grandma for a good down-home meal. Fucking amazing.
Little Boots
damn.
I feel awful.
I feel like Omnes is pissed cause he thinks I’m just playing around with him. I’m not. I really wanted his opinion.
sucks.
hope he’s okay.
C Nelson Reilly
@handy: Head East – Never Been Any Reason
Little Boots
sorry again, Omnes.
I’m not like that. i’m not interested in putting you in a difficult position.
so santorum, whadda ya think?
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus: Leonard’s BBQ (more upscale) or the 4-Way grill (more downhome) are where I would have gone, but I grew up there. But I have been to Catfish Cabin a few times too.
Omnes Omnibus
@MikeJ: I got a hotel through Priceline that was near the airport. We were just in Memphis for the night. On a previous trip, we had stayed downtown and “done” Memphis. Loved, loved, loved the Stax museum. Also too, Rendezvous.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
Just let it go. He doesn’t sound pissed. You’re just making it worse by wallowing in it.
suzanne
@Martin: LOVE that cover.
I’ve been listening to Mahler recently, but I have Bob Mould’s “See A Little Light” in my head. One of my favorite songs ever.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
thanks, I think we’re fine now.
Jager
@Jewish Steel:
Mrs J and I saw BeatleJuice one snowy night at Johnny D’s in “Slummerville”. Delp and the band would start with the early Beatles and work through the years song by song, set by set. They played the music so well if you closed your eyes you thought you were listening to the originals. No talking between songs, no bullshit and no Boston.
They raised lots of money for school music programs all over new England.
Omnes Omnibus
@suzanne: Do Mahler and Mould connect? Or is it just a thing?
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus:The dB’s Rendezvous. Mmmm. Almost as nice as BBQ.
Little Boots
just cause.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo
handy
@Steeplejack:
I think the chorus/hook they’re saying “How long” (and no it’s not Ace folks). Thanks for suggestions above.
Linda Featheringill
Night folks. I had a good time. We’ll have to do it again.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: If that is the fucking “Numa Numa” song, we are going to have problems.
@MikeJ: Cool. Me like.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
No numa,
not tonight.
well, not yet.
Jewish Steel
@handy: Kansas then!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60A1yKc2hi4
JPK
@MikeJ: Love these guys!
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Dude, I posted this song already. You commented on it. Diff version – yours, from The Last Waltz, is awesome. The Staples Singers were part of it, never a bad thing.
handy
@Jewish Steel:
*VICTORY!*
Thank you, that was bugging me all day.
Little Boots
I know you did.
and I thought it needed a second posting.
love that song, forever.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: Besides the whole maudlin depressed genius thing? Not really.
Omnes Omnibus
@handy: God, I hated that song when it was popular and I hate it today. No offense intended to any dain bramaged Kansas fans in the house.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: More of The Band.
piratedan
@handy: well done JS! had the band but alas, the wrong song…..
and since I’m being nostalgic…. here’s an oldie for those of you that still like love songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMxqskojgo
MikeJ
@JPK:First time I ever saw REM the dBs opened, both bands played together on the encore. If I’m right about the show, it’s the one where Holsapple taught Buck how to play Television’s See No Evil on stage while they were playing it. (Graham Chapel at WashU in St. Louis.) Saw them again at the Blue Note in Columbia, Mo, the Channel in Boston, some club I don’t remember in Memphis (somewhere downtown, IIRC).
Still one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
JPK
@MikeJ: That sounds awesome. I never saw the dBs.
Yutsano
They just want to say it so badly don’t they?
(warning: Hufflepuff link)
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus: ‘
wait, what happened to dixie?
handy
@MikeJ:
Were you the one who linked “Amplifier” a few months ago during one of these late Friday night music threads? I swear I must have played that over and over that weekend LOL!
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I have ancestors who were with Sherman from beginning to end. I don’t post that song.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
yeah, that’s a tough one. I love it. but it is a tough one.
as is Sherman.
Omnes Omnibus
Palate cleanser.
piratedan
for those of you that hate having to craft playlists when you wanna just have some background tunes, check out http://www.uwall.tv, plug in an artist and whammo instant playlist
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
that was disturbing.
MikeJ
@handy: I don’t recall, but it wouldn;’t surprise me. So just in case, let’s link it again!
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Gee, I thought I had seen all the episodes. Guess I missed a few.
Little Boots
And yet they forbid numa.
what a world.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots:
@Steeplejack: It was necessary. This might make things better
Little Boots
well, maybe… sorry Omnes,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVmKfCwb4M
MikeJ
Everything is better with puppies.
Little Boots
I can’t help it.
It’s a sickness, really.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: You are dead to me.
suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: Just a thing. I just love that song so stinkin’ much.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
but it’s a sickness.
Little Boots
would tina help?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoPP1wkWr1s
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Two full albums in my head all week long: James Brown’s Live at the Apollo (the entire album’s in the link- and it’s the best live album ever made, imo), and Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE .
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@MikeJ:
Man, I love that song!
I use the bridge (“An amplifier is wood and wire…”) to gauge my lung capacity, and have been doing so for decades now.
Little Boots
would johnny?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWWMmxyKOR0&ob=av2e
Little Boots
I miss Omnes.
Anne Laurie
@Yutsano: Thanks — I just front-paged this, getting ahead of tomorrow’s viral emails from all the dittoheads…
Paul in KY
@Steeplejack: I don’t know how ‘underrated’ they are. They went to the Hall based off of 2 songs basically (‘Do You Believe in Magic’ & ‘Summer in the City’).
Plus (I guess) the song you linked to. There’s several bands that had way more success/great songs that are probably never gonna get in.
Paul in KY
Gonna see The Roots at Bonnaroo this year. Got a tic & I’m lucky I did. Hard one to get this year.