WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[edwardofhuncote]

Here ya' go Coz...

 

I knew the song from the lyric, and I remember that time well. Not sure what tv show the footage was from, but for sure it's from the "So Long, So Wrong" supporting tour. Wow. This was about the time Al and the boys had just begun crossing over into superstar status, and sadly, became less accessible/approachable to we rank-n-file bluegrass contemporaries. Up until then, they were playing the same festival circuit as the rest of us, sleeping in their gig clothes and riding in 17 passenger vans, hanging out to jam after the main stage duties were done. Good times... 

[rv_bass]

I remember seeing her and her band at Telluride in 1989

[edwardofhuncote]

I remember seeing her and her band at Telluride in 1989...

Wow Rob... how can that possibly have been 1989?! 28 years gone. 

That was a great band too, in its own right - way before the current super-group. We lost Butch a few years ago to brain cancer. Alison Brown is still recording jazz on banjo. Jeff White went on to bigger and better things in Nashville too. Not sure what John Pennell is up to these days, but Union Station was his band. (Bluegrass Nerd Trivia; the original fiddler in Union Station was Andrea Zonn, who now tours with Jimmy J's boss...)

Such a funny girl, and a good sport. Alison once sang Happy Birthday to our guitar player's Mom, over the pay phone, in the hallway next to the green room, at the Down Home Restaurant in Jonesboro, TN. She was there because one of the guys in her band was getting married, and they had a bachelor party/jam there that night. Just wanted to be one of the guys that night. 

[cozmik_cowboy]

I knew you'd come through for me!  Tha's the song, alright - and this is the vid I saw of it way back.

Peter

[ryan_p]

I listened to two or three things from Steve Topping's Late Flower yesterday after seeing it discussed in Jimmy's thread.  Some nice ideas compositionally, and some very nice fretless work by Jimmy.

Here is Strolling Boy; beautiful lead lines from Jimmy.  Gary Husband on drums.

I love that album.

Currently - Danny Gatton : 88 Elmira Street.

[pauldo]

Danny Gatton - talk about a guitar slinger!

[ryan_p]

Danny Gatton - talk about a guitar slinger!

If you like him (and haven't) heard it already, check out his album wig Joey DeFrancesco titled 'Relentless'.

Ryan

[cozmik_cowboy]

I always loved Danny And The Fat Boys' version of "Harlem Nocturne".  Yes the "Danny" was Gatton.


Peter

[rv_bass]

Terrapin Family Band ... The Wheel

This sounds really good! 

[David Houck]

Thanks, Rob; nice recording of The Wheel.

[pauldo]

Got to get an early start to my day... needed something more than coffee... browsing through the cd's -
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters.

No I am not having a seizure, that is how I do my groovy, movin' round the kitchen gettin' things done dance.

[rv_bass]

Awesome, Head Hunters will certainly get you movin', love those guys! 

[edwardofhuncote]

Happy belated Birthday to Christine McVie, who turned 74 the other day. (7/12)

Not a lot of ambiguity in the lyrics of this anthem:

[David Houck]

I just recently finished reading Hancock's autobiography.  He talks with reverence about the Headhunters band.

Headhunters live in 1974.

[David Houck]

Finally watched this interview with Branford Marsalis from 1996 about the Grateful Dead.  I've seen another, but this one is a bit more in depth; it's quite nice, and worth a listen.