Charles Lloyd and The Marvels with Bill Frisell at Berklee.  Fantastic show, catch these guys if you can!

I've been recording some original tracks with these two fellas and another of their buddies who is a *killer* drummer. Although the first couple hours in the studio was strictly a seat-of-th'-pants affair that really didn't produce more than just a couple use-able rhythm tracks, the whole thing quickly began to gel into the beginnings of a band. Here's Jake Crawford & Ethan Power doing a cover:
 

 
Obviously if it takes off, for appearances sake, if not logistics, they'll need to find a bass player closer to their age, but I'm absolutely having a blast playing with these young-uns for now. The back-story here is actually, I used to run the roads playing music with Ethan's Dad (Ernie Power) back about 25 years ago, before he was even born, and we've been buds ever since. So that's how they found this old guy to sit in on bass. =)

Dug out Yellow Brick Road for the first time in a long while; with the month we just had, Funeral For A Friend just seemed like the right thing.
 
Peter

Jake and Ethan are great!
What fun! : )

Fleetwood Mac releases Rumours 39 years ago today. This tune is probably the least known on the album, but?it was one of my favorites to hear at the skating rink. I don't roller-skate anymore (or play with bumble-bees) but I do especially like the back-beat bass line McVie played on this one.
 

 
Interesting trivia, I Don't Want to Know replaced Silver Spring on the original release of the album. The reason being, long-play records could only fit so many minutes of music, there simply wasn't room. Silver Spring went on to become a B-side hit.?

This:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3p_xAToFzck
 
Just love that crispy crunchy bass on the second half.
Dee Murray is the guy and I found out that he had played with Bob Weir for awhile.

Levon Helm and his band doing .

Nice one Dave! I'm fascinated by anyone who can sing lead and play drums, but I guess if one were coordinated enough to play drums, just adding a vocal line on top of using both hands and feet to keep time, probably not a big deal.

I've been looking around for stuff to play to help me sharpen up for this alternative country gig... (I really don't like genre' labels)  
 
The guys are covering the Lowell George tune Willin, so one search led to another until I landed on Linda Ronstadt doing it in the mid-70's. It was always one of my very favorites, so I've borrowed a couple textures from Kenny Edwards' lines here.  
 

 
This was a really good band for her. Or really anybody.
 
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John Hammond's So Many Roads.  A little known blues album from 1965.  The backing band was a group of mostly up and coming, but then unknown, players.
 
Charlie Musselwhite - harmonica
Robbie Robertson - guitar
Levon Helm - drums
Michael Bloomfield - piano (yes, piano!)
Jimmy Lewis - bass
Garth Hudson - Hammond organ (would you expect Hammond to allow a Farfisa in his band? lol).
 
Bill, tgo

Surprised Garth wasn't playing his usual Lowrey
 
EofH, for a different take on Willin', check out Seatrain! Great players and singers in that band.

I'm fascinated by anyone who can sing lead and play drums....
 
The only time a drummer should ever sing is when he's Levon Helm. - Pete Townshend
 
Peter (who would also make allowance for Ringo)

Kenny the Drummer in my Band  Easy Wind  can play and sing at the same time as well !  
 
We have a Gig this Saturday !  
@     https://www.facebook.com/events/1653311268252253/
     
                 
 
Wolf

Loved the Seatrain take on Willin'... I had almost forgotten about them. Here's former Seatrain drummer Larry Atamanuik with AKUS a few years ago. Lotta' folks (particularly 'round here) don't care for drums with bluegrass instrumentation, but this is a fine example of how it can work brilliantly when done tastefully and not over-played.  
 

 
Tricky, but super-fun little tune to jam on, IIRC, it was actually written to be used as bumper music for the IBMA Awards Show one year... like maybe '90 or '91. Here's an earlier version of it with a couple of Alison's mentors and eventual band members. Also unusual to see Mark O'Connor on guitar.  
 

That Hide & Seek tune is pretty cool!