WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[cozmik_cowboy]

Mark O'Connor, Sam Bush, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, and Mark Shatz at Merlefest.

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Well this may be a first for me here on the Listening Thread... I'm fairly sure I was at that show, Coz. I'll ask the fellas later today, but according to several of the comments this was from the 1992 Merle Watson Memorial Festival. (later named MerleFest) I did see this super-group there in either '92 or '93. It wasn't long after Bela Fleck's "Drive" album came out, which all these guys had played on.

They were right at the limit on that one - how any of them had strings left is beyond me. ThrashGrass. 

[David Houck]

Thanks for the Whitewater, Peter.

[David Houck]

Josh Smith


This is some nice playing.

[cozmik_cowboy]

I had not heard of Josh Smith before; that, my friends, is how you spell "tasty"!

Peter

[elwoodblue]

Josh is one B*d*ss Mofo !
Thanks Dave.

[pauldo]

Josh is a cornucopia of phrasing variations... very enjoyable.
Whilst perusing his many videos I came across this one with Greg Koch, a local from the Milwaukee area whom is no slouch himself.

Enjoy!

[David Houck]

Thanks for the Dry Land; hadn't watched that one yet.

[pauldo]

Listening to a bunch of the Clarke Duke Project stuff - those two compliment each other nicely.

Then this shows up in the YouTube side bar:

memories...

[David Houck]

I'm thinking that was a good bit after my time.
   

[edwardofhuncote]

Forwarded the Josh Smith to my usual suspects... good stuff fo-sho, but what I really dug was the nice simple pattern the drummer was playing. It was irresistible - I had to play bass to it, despite having sworn off bass for this week to devote practice time to guitar. (which is beginning to pay off...)

I'm spending almost as much time thinking up silly gags for the show. My 'character' in this upcoming gig doesn't have a speaking part... "Buford" is supposed to be an extreme introvert, only responding to the band-leader with gestures or facial expressions, often hiding behind the bass player's upright. He's kind of an amalgam of 'Slade' from Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers and a big yellow tomcat named 'Slick' who lived here for a while.

Slade's bass solo is at 2:10.

[David Houck]

That's some nice Texas swing.


Edit: now that I think about it (warming up the neural net connections), I think the proper term is Western Swing.

[rv_bass]

Lake Street Dive - I Want You Back

[cozmik_cowboy]

Really dug both the red Knuckles and the LSD - but the acronym for the latter made me think of Aliota Haynes and Jeramiah's album Lake Shore Drive.


You may recall that about 13 months ago I eulogized my friend Mick Scott. The last song on AH&J's LSD was an incredibly cheesy version of his great song "Last One Of The Night People" (which Mick hated - but happily paid the rent for about a year off the royalties.....).  I went looking for it on Youtube, and also found a somewhat less cheesy take by Chris Farrell  posted a week after Mick passed (Chris was one of the players at Mick's memorial concert).


Peter

[David Houck]

Cool video, Rob; and a nice take on that tune.  Oh; and interesting instrumentation.