What's on the Jukebox?

[WildcatOne]

Wow, cool, Danny! Hope that's not 4 stars out of 10!!!! 4 guys in the band, so it can't be bad! Thanks! I am a huge fan of your work, by the way. WC1

[Danny White]

I meant 4 out of 4! Never have heard of 10 star rating but in Texas we can have one.

Anyway anybody listen to Ray Wylie Hubbard?

[WildcatOne]

Didn't he write "Homesick London Blues"? "I wanna go home with the Armadillo..." Or was that somebody else?

[Danny White]

Gary P Nunn wrote London Homesick Blues, but RWH wrote Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother.

[jim sanders]

was he 32 and living in a honky-tonk ?

[jim sanders]

Wally posted about Bill Doggett in the this day in history thread earlier.
I looked around and found this.. not very good but got me hopped up thinking about doing some clips like this with John the Pumber as he can play the song perfectly.. as i'm sure WC1 could nail it too !! I sure think it would be fun.... hope the link works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hnabw3JRs4

[racersforcoffee]

.....listening to Joan Osborne's "One of Us". My personal jury's still out on the body of her work..and her Austin City Limits show didn't help*
....but dang, I love this song...and am searching Grateful Dead sources for possibilites she sang this with the post-Jerry band that Lesh and the boys put together.
*-back on topic alert! London Homesick Blues STILL gives me a nice shiver of Americana every time I hear the Lost Gonzo theme cue up on that show. Sense of home and hearth

[jim sanders]

our local PBS station had some good stuff last night.. a DOOWOPP show and a British invasion type show including some footage of a Beatles tribute band called RAIN ? They are coming to the Fox Theater here soon.. i wouldn't mind checking them out... has anyone seen their show ?

[WildcatOne]

Wish I could have seen the Doo-Wop show, Doc. Sounds great...one of my favorite eras...I've heard about Rain, they're a great Beatles tribute band. They play the songs right, the way the original band played them. In my book, there's nothing worse than an inaccurate Beatles cover. It's just one of my pet peeves. It's also one of the reasons I pulled out of hosting every third Thursday's open-mic jam at the Cock-Eyed Seagull. Too many Beatles songs, and none of them were done right. We had a couple of shows on PBS here over the weekend that blew me away. Friday night, they had a concert by Bruce Hornsby. I didn't know much about Bruce except he could have played in the NBA, he stepped in on keyboards with the Grateful Dead after their 3rd keyboard player died, and I had heard "The Way It Is". Well, he and his band totally knocked me out. He's a joking, smiling, easy-going virtuoso pianist and his band kicks righteous ass and they're having a blast, playing the most awesome syncopated boogie I've heard since Little Feat were at their peak. Every song had moments of pure inspiration and an almost revolutionary, spiritual theme. AAA-mazing band. Then Saturday night, they had a show about songs from movies, and following Steppenwolf doing "Born To Be Wild" (it was OK, I'm more of a John Kay fan than a Steppenwolf devotee) was none other than LULU herself, looking better now than she did back in '67, and she did the most awesome "To Sir With Love" that I could ever have dreamed of hearing and seeing. I always thought of Lulu as the original Spice Girl, the cutest little thing you ever saw, but I thought the song was a producer's song and it just sounded kind of processed, even though it was a beautiful song, sung beautifully by a beautiful girl. She had a brief marriage to Maurice Gibb and went on to host a TV show, and I read where she jumped in John Lennon's grille one night when he was acting like a jackass at a party, being abusive to his soon-to-be ex-wife. I always liked Lulu. But dude, you shoulda seen this. She was drop-dead gorgeous, and she sang that song with 10 times the passion and range she showed on the original single...in the movie, she was lip-synched, of course, but this was taped live with a band and a backing vocal group and she absolutely soared beyond belief. I was mesmerized. Thanks, PBS, and thanks, Lulu. You are better than ever. Cheers, WC1

[Gator]

LuLu sure does look great,(in my opinion too 'Cat)

Of all the old groups ( early to medium R&R era )..Little Anthony & the Imperials are awesome!
Saw them a couple of years ago up close at Mohegan Sun..COOL is the word..Sound & Moves..really impressed me. (They are Veteran obviously)
"I think i'm goin' out of my head"..."hurts soo bad"..Great Stuff..timeless
the PBS special showcased them wonderfully.....

Jay Black's still great too