WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[edwardofhuncote]

Just because they came up in band practice the other day... Crooked Still played a few larger venues together last year.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Lukas Nelson  & The Travelling McCourys:

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

What happens when the Humor Thread spills over to the Listening Thread...

[David Houck]

I really enjoyed this.  Haven't listened to the songs in a long time, and they sound great!  (ie: Robbie's guitar part on The End)

In The Room With The Doors: Robby Krieger and John Densmore

[David Houck]

I remember sitting on the floor in front of the stereo listening to, experiencing, The End.

[jazzyvee]

What I think is the finest "Fire On The Mountain" I've ever heard - with the freakiest visuals yet from YT's Jam Band Videos channel (though perhaps a bit much right now for those in SoCal.....) 

Peter

Agreed, feels more groovy than the "one" I have heard before. :-)

[jazzyvee]

Just because they came up in band practice the other day... Crooked Still played a few larger venues together last year.

Hi Greg, forgive my ignorance but would this be classed as Bluegrass?
We went to see Louden Wainright III last week and quite a lot of the music the band were playing sounded like it was this style. So made me wonder if he was a bluegrass or folk or a fusion of both. What do you think?
The standard of musicianship was incredible!!!

[edwardofhuncote]

Just because they came up in band practice the other day... Crooked Still played a few larger venues together last year.

Hi Greg, forgive my ignorance but would this be classed as Bluegrass?
We went to see Louden Wainright III last week and quite a lot of the music the band were playing sounded like it was this style. So made me wonder if he was a bluegrass or folk or a fusion of both. What do you think?
The standard of musicianship was incredible!!!

Crooked Still was one of a few bands on the front edge of a trend towards traditional folk music, reimagined Jazzy. In the struggle to label what bands like them were, the monikers chamber-grass and nufolk got tossed around. They were often booked at some major bluegrass festivals here in the U.S. but as a crossover act, they wouldn't be considered a bluegrass group, even by themselves. I thought what they were doing was fantastic. One of the ensembles I still play with from time to time is still heavily influenced by what they did... very structured/arranged (as opposed to improvised) traditional and some original folk music. We booked ourselves quite successfully for formal/semi-fomal events as an Appalachian String Quartet.

I had no idea Louden Wainright III was still performing! I would place him into a folk music scene. I'll have to plug him into my YouTube channel more often!

[Quasar1]

I remember sitting on the floor in front of the stereo listening to, experiencing, The End.

Hi Dave,

I enjoyed the interview immensely

BTW, "Spotify' now has a 2022 remastered version of "An American Prayer"

The remaining members putting Jims's poetry to music 

The original leatherbound first addition of the book now goes for around 20 grand 

 

[David Houck]

Hi Dave,

I enjoyed the interview immensely

BTW, "Spotify' now has a 2022 remastered version of "An American Prayer"

The remaining members putting Jims's poetry to music 

The original leatherbound first addition of the book now goes for around 20 grand 

 

After watching the interview, last night I started rereading Densmore's "The Seekers".

[cozmik_cowboy]

While my opinion of Morrison's lyrics has been revised a fair piece downward since my teens (when I was a huge Doors fan), I still hold Ray, John, and Robbie to be one of the finest rock bands ever.

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Handy reference, Jazzy:  If it's bluegrass you will find at least 4 of these 5 - doghouse bass, guitar, fiddle, banjo, and mandolin; resophonic guitar is acceptable, but not by hardcore traditionalists.
And bluegrass has a very militantly traditionalist faction. 


How many 'grassers does it take to change a lightbulb?


Five.  One to change the bulb & four to complain that's not how Earl* would have done it.


*That would be banjo player extraordinaire Earl Scruggs.

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Daedgrass.  Haven't decided yet if i like them; whadda ya think?

Jazzy:  While Dead music is popular in bluegrass circles, and despite the implications of the name, this is not bluegrass (as marked by the electric guitar.  I forgot that part before; none that there new-fangled electricalicity allowed!)

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Lenny Kravitz, Buckwheat Zydeco, and Ry Cooder:

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

What is, or is not bluegrass music seems to be the question to which there is no answer... it just depends on who you ask. I've been in it, and surrounded by it my entire life. I know it when I hear it, I know what I like, never felt like it was my place to criticize what I didn't. I played in bands with people who did this all the time, and it bugged the daylights out of me. Like we weren't scratching and clawing for gigs too. Just my observation here. Every music genre has its militant traditionalists. On some level, I think maintaining traditional music is good. When it crosses the line into being exclusive, they don't need to show me the door - I'm out.

Here's a bluegrass group I like a lot, at a festival in France last August. This is a working band that's 'on the bubble'... the musicianship is super-tight, the show not quite yet polished, but you can tell they're going somewhere, and they want it.

I've been following ENG basically from their beginning but especially since lockdown, when they played to an empty bar in Madison Tennessee and broadcast on YouTube for Venmo tips. These days, they are about 7 years into a pretty good run. I've seen members come and go, and watched the core of the band mature into what it is. Whether they break out and hit mainstream remains to be seen... they're so close.