WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[bigredbass]

Geez am I going to miss President Obama, if for no other reason than the fabulous 'In Performance at The White House' series with PBS.  I'm not political nor trying to start something, I just really admired these series of shows.

Here is the mighty Yolanda Adams steamrolling Aretha's 'Spirit in the Dark'.  Fools go where angels fear to tread, and few can do Aretha covers, but she really, really nails this and gives me shivers every time it comes up in my rotation.  Looks like they were having church up in there !

[cozmik_cowboy]

And really, didn't we all want to be Pips?

Peter

[David Houck]

Thanks for the Yolanda Adams, Joey!

[pauldo]

Praise be!
If Yolanda doesn't make you shake it - you be paralyzed! 

[peoplechipper]

Yolanda Adams is awesome! that music done well is killer, but it's so easy to overdo it, as so many do...my latest listen was Ass Ponys " the known universe" a classic example of a major label picking up a band on a guy's intuition then getting dumped after company can't figure out what to do with them after said guy is fired...I wish I got to see them live but sadly they played here once before I ever heard their stuff...

[hammer]

Just discovered this semi-local group (they are actually all from our southern neighbor Iowa) The Pines.  Although described by Red House records as "post-folk," I'll just say they do some nice, thoughtful music and let others decide if they feel the need to label their genre.  not what I typically listen to, but a nice change of pace for me.   

 https://www.redhouserecords.com/artists/pines

[rv_bass]

Linda Oh (great bass player)...Yoda

[rv_bass]

2/13/70, of course! 

https://archive.org/details/gd1970-02-13.sbd.miller.97613.sbeok.flac16/gd70-02-13d1t01.flac

[edwardofhuncote]

This buddy and me swap videos of guitars back and forth, particularly vintage Martins. This morning he sent me this one of Tommy Emmanuel covering "Purple Haze" with a pre-WWII Martin D-18.

It doesn't say, but the white plastic tuner buttons tell me that's a wartime model made somewhere between 1942-1945. Most of Martin's wartime Dreadnoughts also have ebony neck reinforcement, which (I think) gives them a slightly different sound... something in the attack/sustain... hard to define. They are noticeably lighter-weight, so maybe that's a clue.

~Gregory (who is an even bigger nerd for pre-war Martins than he is for pre-gulf-war Alembics) 

[David Houck]

I was too focused on his playing to notice the actual guitar much.  I especially liked that climb in the bass, E-G-A-C, with the use of his thumb, while his first finger is doing G-E pull-offs on the first string; left and right hands both doing cool stuff there to make that happen.

[David Houck]

And from there, this was fun; Andy McKee and Tommy Emmanuel playing Toto's Africa.

[David Houck]

And with Gabriella Quevedo.

[rv_bass]

Awesome!  Thanks, Greg!

[cozmik_cowboy]

That was fun, Gregory - but the little I could see of the sides is dark enough I wouldn't rule out D-21.

Peter (who of course is not at all a nerd for old Martins.....)

[edwardofhuncote]

I'm forced to admit you may be right Coz... it could be a D-21.

It surely has that Brazilian rosewood *zing*, but if so, it's also newer than we (me and aforementioned buddy) thought. Style 21 wasn't available in a Dreadnought until 1956. And those white button tuners just scream wartime. Of course they could've been switched too, but then the question becomes why put such obviously incorrect tuners on a fairly rare guitar.    The video quality isn't sharp enough to tell if it has metal bushings for the posts... that would at least be conclusive, as the wartime guitars are the only ones without.

Doesn't look like the right color tortoise 'guard for a '42 either. Looks more like that god-awful reddish '47-'49 stock. (My 1950 is almost totally black, with little purple-ish swirls) Again, could've easily been switched.

Sure looks like an ebony fingerboard and bridge too, which would eliminate 21... Style 18 had ebony trim until about 1948, when it was switched to rosewood trim, Style 21 followed suit.

Shoot... part of me wants it to be a hosed-up D-21 now!    Whichever it is, good golly, that guy is haulin' the tone out of it by brute force.

~Gregory (who is thankful it's not just him that dwells on this stuff...)