Internet Money - Lemonade. (chill, melodic, pop/hiphop) Sam James - (da baby - rockstar acoustic cover) Lianne La Havas - Bittersweet (live performance). R&B/Soul Some international stuff: Turkish: Velet - Sarıl Bana (ft. Dilan Açelya) (hiphop, melodic) German: Gzuz - Vor der Tür (hiphop, hype)
I went for a boat ride at The Woodlands Waterway, and these three were singing... OK, not really, but peaceful music and setting, with a curious blend of voices.
Written sometime last night in a state of melancholia. I know I’ve posted about this Showtime documentary before. I’m pretty sure I have, but sitting here watching and, more to the point, listening to Jeff Beck: Still on the Run just now I felt an overpowering desire to mention that Showtime has it on demand and in their “rotation.” I became a fan of his when I was lucky enough to see The Jeff Beck Group at the Catacombs in Houston in the middle of July, 1968, a month before Truth was released. He’s my favorite living guitar player. That sounds a bit strange even to me, but with mortality being an issue these days and well loved creative people seemingly dropping like flies, I hope Jeff and his friends are well. I always say that Jimi is/was the best I’ve seen with a guitar, and there has been so much amazing competition, but decades after Jimi’s death, Jeff is not only still at the top of his game, but continuing to push the boundaries. A host of great musicians talk about him, how they met, how he influenced them. His music, often made with those same people recently and many years back, flows throughout. If any of you haven’t seen this and have a great sound system (or headphones), do your eyes and ears a favor and check it out. Made in 2018, Jeff Beck: Still on the Run is one of the very best documentaries of it’s kind I’ve seen. Calling it wonderful seems entirely inadequate, and it’s a great antidote for the Rockets Playoff Failure Blues.
Left too soon. R.I.P. Roy "Strange lonely little town they called The World" in 2020 that no one will ever want to go thru again.
Your Jeff Beck talk reminded me of these oddities that I haven't thought about in a while, with the Jeff Beck Group backing up Donovan: "She's only 14 but she knows how to draw..." Not too many songs about children who are talented at smoking pot.
That is a great LP. If you look at the list of musicians (like Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood, Nicky Hopkins, and Aynsley Dunbar of Beck's group, and John Paul Jones of Led Zep) and people like Rod Stewart, Madeline Bell, and Lesley Duncan doing backing vocals, it's no wonder! Listening to Donovan on an LP, it would be easy to think that the ethereal warbling sound he made while singing was due to electronic mumbo-jumbo, but he did all that himself. Crazy!
Don't know if you're a boogie jam band guy, but Widespread Panic rocks that song live like you've never seen.
