Tedeschi Trucks Band.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bIivRlhwvS4
 
They are solid and groovy.  Particularly like Midnight in Harlem. And watching Derek play that SG so effortlessly is a joy.

Wolf, that's a great compilation of my back pages covers. Always been a favourite of mine as well. The Osborne/Browne is outstanding. Thanks for that!
 
Rick

Rick, I am glad that you like it as well ! .
 
 Wolf

Nice, Paul; thanks!  Just watched the first tune; loved how it was arranged.

Just finished watching the whole thing; great show!

Glad you enjoyed it Dave.
They put a lot of thought into making that band and giving each member the room to shine.
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C0-YS0FqmqA

So I'm channeling 70's English, used to play these in the joints back in the day:
 

 
Believe me, anything called 'The Cowboy Song' went over big in Texas, and Lizzy was riding high at the time.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIwyV19C4Tg&list=PLqwvZEGGuQwHuYmK3uvrSZ8MFOX1TNi-C&index=1
 
Don't ever tell me that The Black Crowes didn't wear out a LOT of Humble Pie records when they were kids.  Marriott squalling as usual, and amazingly, Stephen Stills on Hammond and keys.
 

 
Was always nuts for The Faces and 'Gasoline Alley'-era Rod.  Ronnie was on the verge of guitar-hero-dom, then hooked up with Keith and Mick . . . . oh well.  God Rest Ronnie and Ian McLagan.
 

 
I was always nuts for Savoy's 'Street Corner Talkin' album.  It always sounded like the best bar band, and it's very honest in the instrumentation and production of what little blues-ish bands sounded like back then.  This was there take on H-D-H's 'Can't Get Next to You', a successful remake of the Temps' hit reduced to a chugging little shuffle, with a nice change of pace in the middle instrumentals.
 
My Back Pages, ah but I was so much older then . . . I'm older than that now !
 
Joey

With the talk of pit orchestras in another thread I felt compelled to relive a part of my only pit experience (thus far).  Unfortunately there is no decent recording from the 4 performances that were put on by the Soulstice Theater Group; below are the 'real' versions.
 
From Chess the Musical.
The American and Florence/ Nobody's Side
 
Odd time signatures, killer bass line mirroring the vocalist in the beginning, such a blast.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=W0yQQMwnkhY
 
Then this song, Pity The Child, which every night the vocalist would miss a line . . . but not always the same one.  The 'orchestra' (2 keys, 1 sax, flute, clarinetist a drummer and yours truly on the trusty Distillate) had no choice but to jump ahead and land together in the same spot as the vocalist talk about an exhilarating rush! We nailed it every time.  Since we didn't have a guitarist we extended the end and were allowed to improvise with the sax player shredding and me pumping him along.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EEhojI1ghmQ
 
And of course the most famous song from this musical; One Night in Bangkok, which allowed for some funky bass playing. Spankin' the plank on this one :-D
https://youtube.com/watch?v=guWuGh0ADcE

I just discovered this great from watching a documentary about a little known band called Big Star.
 
Chris Bell was the founder of this band and his little known solo recordings are terrific.
 
 
 
This song in particular I can't stop playing.

Thanks for the reminder of the Chess soundtrack Paul... I actually have that whole thing on *cassette tapes* that are nearly worn out from non-stop play during my high school years. (dang, how I miss the 80's)
 
The fledgling alt. country band I've been recording with recently, is putting together a set of mostly originals with some covers mixed in. One of the tunes they cover well is Otis Redding's Hard To Handle, as played by The Black Crowes. I'm trying to borrow a few textures from Phil's lines here -

Bonzo Dog Band - Hunting Tigers Out in India

 
I love the reminders to listen or re-listen to things overlooked or long-forgotten!

quote:Otis Redding's Hard To Handle, as played by The Black Crowes.
 
With all due respect (+) when I read that I sprayed coffee on my monitor and made a sound like a water buffalo coughing up a hairball.
 
That's like doing Michael Bolton's version of When a Man Does A Woma ... well, Michael Bolton doing anything, and I think you know what I'm sayin' here.
 
It's an Otis Redding song, pops. Time for a refresher:
 

 
Hear how Otis relaxes into the groove, especially when he sings that line at the top of the chorus; Pretty little thing, let me light your candle 'cause mama I'm sure hard to handle, now, gets around, with a gentle lag - he takes the time - not rushed or stuttered.  
 
That's mastery. The whole pocket is back on the beat, rockin' (Like James Brown's Night Train, the Live At The Apollo version where if the bass and drums lagged any more, the whole thing would derail in flames. That's what gives it that chugging uphill feel.)
 
Otis had a message, oh yeah. It's no secret what the song is about, and it wasn't to watch drunk teenagers spasming frantically on a dance floor. I like to think that Otis sang it to one particular person. That's the secret of that song. Listen to again. Think it worked?
 
Also, in 1967 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass were all the rage (did you know that was the Wrecking Crew with Carol Kaye on bass?), Johnny Cash had a mariachi horn section on Ring of Fire and Chet was in Nashville as head of RCA, slathering strings and horns on everything from Elvis to Jim Reeves and Johnny Horton.  
 
So Otis can be forgiven the horns, I think, but I prefer the Black Crowes' intro and vamp back to the head (know what I mean?) their version of that line is pretty iconic, so now's your chance. Best of both worlds.
 
Nothing against the Black Crowes, really. It's me, I admit it. But their version is a stalwart of the wedding set list from Hell, along with Wonderful Tonight, Old Time Rock 'n Roll, anything by anyone even named Michael, Bolton Petty or Thorogood and of course; You Are So Beautiful (w/real tears + rose=$50) etc. ad nauseum matrimonii ... I've just been witness to its torture too many times, and in this case there's one of the greatest, coolest appeals to pure rut ever performed to resurrect.
 
Teach them the truth, brother. Show them the way. Do it for Otis.
 

Like the man said, 'boy, if you don't quit pickin' that thing . . . '.  Here's a 90-mph version of an old chestnut, with Buddy Charlton on all-maple ShoBud, and Leon Rhodes wailing the other harmony voice in his arrangement of 'Steel Guitar Rag', from the early 60's when they played for ET.
 

 
Fastball !
 
Joey

Ed_Zeppelin -    
 
Yep.

Here's a cool version of Hard to Handle with an unusual cast:  Etta James, Grateful Dead, and Tower of Power Horn Section from the Dead's 12/31/82 New Year's show.  (I was there - the entire set with Etta & TOP was outstanding).
 
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=RD1DChW7LtosY¶ms=OAFIAVgB&v=1DChW7LtosY&mode=NORMAL
 
 
Bill, tgo