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The (Kind Of) Complete Woodstock: Ravi Shankar
It’s 10:00 Friday night and raining when sitar master Ravi Shankar takes the stage along with his tabla accompanist, Alla Rakha. At forty-nine years old Shankar is a generation removed from his audience, but they embrace him. “Friends,” he says. “We begin this evening’s recital with an evening raga…”
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From the Stacks: Various – Propaganda
Propaganda is a 1979 A&M records sampler notable for live tracks from Joe Jackson and The Police. This was mandatory listening when I was a kid, and it still holds up. You can pick up a copy for under ten bucks and add live versions of “Landlord” and “Next To You” to your playlist. What…
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I Fall To Pieces, You Win A Book
Who doesn’t enjoy puzzles? Probably a lot of people, but I’m a nerd so I assume everyone else is, too. I have one puzzle piece here that fell off of an album cover somewhere on this site. The first person to correctly identify the album wins a free copy of Keep On Stomping: A Why…
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Deep Cuts: Cadillac Songs
I don’t know whether Daddy’s Caddy ever opened as Asheville’s finest reseller of items purchased at retail prices, nor do I know whether The Driver ever purchased that coveted tape deck. But let’s pretend that he’s still out there somewhere and he still wants that Caddy playlist. Here you go, pal:
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96. How Long Can I Carry This Monkey Around?
We must have been doing eighty miles per hour, the big ’62 Cadillac floating along on heavy springs and belching fumes from its rusty tailpipe. Chris Mellow sat beside me on the back seat, the boom box on his lap blasting Double Nickels On the Dime.
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From the Stacks: Celebrate the Spirit
Wow. Just wow. I think the guy with the Jewfro is about to go up in flames. Is that a cinder on his forearm? A very worthwhile entry into the Bad Album Cover Hall Of Fame.
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The (Kind Of) Complete Woodstock: Tim Hardin
By the end of 1969 musician Tim Hardin had seven albums to his credit. He also had a wicked case of stage fright and a heroin addiction. All things considered the surprise isn’t that Woodstock’s fourth performance was a short twenty-five minutes, but rather that it happened it all.
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From the Stacks: John Sex – Hustle With My Muscle (12″ single)
John McLaughlin was an interesting guy. He attended the School Of Visual Arts in New York City with Jean-Michel Basquait and Keith Haring, rubbed shoulders with Andy Warhol, and due to his promiscuity was renamed “John Sex” by Klaus Nomi. The John Sex character was a sort of horny new wave lounge lizard who made…
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Deep Cuts: JFK Songs
The assassination of John F. Kennedy scarred American culture in a way that I’m not sure we ever really got over. Within six years we were on the Moon and integrating schools, but at the same time we were in the middle of a culture war. Confusing correlation with causation is always a risk,…
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On My Turntable: ZZ Top – La Futura
ZZ Top’s new album, La Futura, drops on September 11, 2012. I know what you’re thinking — you haven’t cared about ZZ Top since Eliminator, if at all. Some of you (like me) go back even farther than that to the era when they were the greasiest, nastiest, blues rockers this side of the Rio…
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