Gavin B.

Wow Flower Child... our musical tastes are so similar it's spooky. Of all the hundreds of Muddy Waters albums out there, King Bee is my very favorite and I Feel Like Going Home is my very favorite song on that album (with Champagne and Reefer running a close second). You've got yerself a good pair of ears, girl! I'm going to see if I can upload my copy of I Feel Like Going Home on Youtube so you can provide a link to it on your journal thread because everyone needs to hear that song at least once in their life. I'll let you know if I'm successful.

Urban Hat€monger ?

Muddy Waters is easily my favourite blues artist.
I love his Electric Mud album.

Blues purists hate it, but I love it.
It's just so ...... sleazy

It's all about this song

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I know! Everything from Buena Vista Social Club to Jimi Hendrix and now this. I think we are long lost music twins, my friend. Only to further the fact, your journal has introduced me to many of my favorite pieces in my library. In particular, the Eddy Davis's New Orleans Jazz band song St. James Infirmary you reviewed a while back. I loved that video so much, I decided that I would go ahead and sacrifice the 12 hours it would take downloading it off of my dial-up internet. I make a point in watching it at least 2 or three times a week.

Thanks again for getting that video lined up.

To hell with blues purists, you gotta be crazy to not like Electric Mud. Tom Cat is such a funky one. What I would do to be able to go back in time at be at one of Muddy Water's gigs....

Gavin B.

Gotcha!

TheBig3

I think that guitar lick has herpes. I think sleazy is right.

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Flower Child

SONG: Worrisome Heart
ARTIST: Melody Gardot
ALBUM: Worrisome Heart



One of Jackhammer's threads brought my attention to this woman so I have him to thank for this beautiful piece of music. I downloaded it just last night and I've already listened to it numorous times.

Just like my other favorite genres, classic country, blues, soul, reggae- jazz (especially this song) awakens something deep inside me that I didn't even know was there. When I listen to this song, I have a sudden urge to throw on my beret and trench coat and lounge all day in the corner of a dark jazz club puffing on fine cigars and sipping red wine.

This song couldn't be any more smooth, sensual, and cool than it already is. Its all in that woman's voice. She is a vixen. I don't understand how her voice can be so soft, yet be so intense and powerful in those whispery moments. And the soft piano and horn accompaniment in the background in beyond sublime. Not to mention that bass, mmm! Not a single note in the entire piece gets very loud at all, yet after the song is finished, I feel blown away. I also love the dark and rainy urban atmosphere of it. When I listen to this song, I'm not in Kansas anymore. And I think thats what I love most about it.

Gavin B.

Melody is fantastic. She reminds me a lot of my all time favorite singer and world weary dominatrix of the lounge sound, Julie London. Down tiger!

jackhammer

I love this analogy. I have posted this song many times but it deserves to be heard as many times as possible, it's absolutely gorgeous.

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Southern rock + soul + blues + Western + jazz topped off with various flute solos = The Marshall Tucker Band

That unique combination of influences mix together all too well and it takes a brave and talented group of musicians like the Marshall Tucker Band to be able to pull it off. They never got the recognition that some of the other southern rock giants of the '70s received but, in my opinion, they can't be touched as far as creative, soulful, and original music goes. And they were as much performers as they were musicians. They have quite a reputation to this day for their lengthy improvised solos that set the stage on fire during their concerts. The band was centered around the South Carolina man, Toy Caldwell. He was the voice, lead guitarist, and writer behind the band's music.

SONG: Can't You See
ARTIST: The Marshall Tucker Band
ALBUM: The Marshall Tucker Band

Youtube Can't You See

I'm sure you are all sick of me yammering on and on about this song but I won't be content until I have it reviewed and in my journal once and for all. This song really hits me deep. Easily one of the most played in my entire library. And for the thousand times I have played it- I never get sick of it.

Everything about this song says morning time. That opening flute bit reminds me of the sun just starting to peek above the horizon. So when I'm on the empty highway, riding the bus to school in the morning, seeing the sun just starting to come up- this song playing through my ipod and that scene I see out the window, together, gives me goosebumps. A wonderful start to my day, this song. And those guitar licks . They do everything but actually say words. The way they mingle around with the flute is pure beauty. And then added with Toy Caldwells voice- *faints* Yes, yes, yes. His voice reminds me not of a musician- but of a hard working, road weary, lonesome man just trying to make it in the world. The words that come out of this man's mouth are so believable. Well, it probably helps that it was he who wrote the song. The song does nothing but get better then comes to a sudden end that leaves the song as softly as it started.

Flower Child

SONG: Blue Drag
ARTIST: New Orleans Jazz Vipers
ALBUM: New Orleans Jazz Vipers

Listen to Blue Drag Last.fm

One of my new loves. And strictly for one reason and one reason only- that opening jazz bit. I could care less about the singer because his voice is pretty mediocre to be honest, and the lyrics- who gives a damn, thats not what its about. But those saxophone bits at the beginning and scattered about the song are nothing short of genius, swanky, works of art. It really is just smoldering with attitude and class. I like New Orleans jazz but I get so sick of those happy peppy marching type songs that fail to really get down and get dirty like this one so wonderfully does. If anyone could suggest me anymore like this I would be forever in debt.

SONG: Ramblin' Man
ARTIST: Hank Williams Jr.
ALBUM: Rowdy



Hank Jr. did his own version of his fathers song and I have to say, I really like it. It has this wonderful tumbleweed-blowing-across-a-street-in-ghost-town beginning that really sets a great atmosphere for the song. One of the reasons I don't really listen to Hank Jr. as much as say Willie Nelson or Waylon Jennings is because I usually think the lyrics and thought behind his songs are stupid, but since he didn't write this song, that solves that problem. He does have a great strong voice and he is a little adventurous in this one and does the old fashion fluctuating like his dad did and I think it floats around works so well with this song. Nice little jazz bit in there too that is pretty out of Hank's character that I really like. And it has some great empty old sounding acoustic guitars twanging around here and there. After I play this song, I swear I feel I could duel Jesse James and beat him.