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Category: Music
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Jeff’s Playlist: further east / further west
A continuation from the same two shows as last week’s Playlist. The credits are a bit different because I couldn’t find them on Wikipedia, but they are essentially the same. I particularly like the two songs “Egg Radio” and “Lost Highway.”
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Jeff’s Playlist: East/West
Adra and I saw Bill Frisell perform in Louisville around the same time this was recorded. The show was good, and this live performance album released in 2005 is good too. Two weeks ago, Jeff’s Playlist featured Frisell in The Ginger Baker Trio. Frisell has played and recorded with a vast array of ensembles and…
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Jeff’s Playlist: The Royal Albert Hall Concert
This is the recording where Dylan “went electric” and disturbed his masses. In my opinion, Dylan needed to separate from his folkie past and move forward. This is a very good concert recording and a great documentation of the time. The Hawks, which later became known as The Band, played backup on this tour. Thanks…
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Jeff’s Playlist: Going Back Home
Bobby Gray, a drummer friend of mine in high school, didn’t just bang on the drums, he played them as they were meant to be played. I asked him one time who his favorite rock drummer was, and he told me Ginger Baker. At that point I knew I was on to something by listening…
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Jeff’s Playlist: Rolling Thunder
As promised. I think Mickey Hart was one of the three most influential musicians in the Grateful Dead. His rhythms and musical style were especially dominant in concerts and added much to each show. This is his first “solo” effort. Though he relies heavily on other Grateful Dead members and west-coast musicians, he is the…
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Jeff’s Playlist: Ace
As promised last week, this is Grateful Dead guitarist/songwriter Bob Weir’s first solo album. The album is essentially a Grateful Dead recording. Most members of the 1972 Dead play on this record, and most songs became Grateful Dead concert classics. The album initiated Weir's writing partnership with his schoolmate from Wyoming, lyricist John Barlow. I…
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Jeff’s Playlist: Garcia
Released in 1972, Garcia is Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's first solo album. Warner Brothers Records offered the Grateful Dead members the opportunity to cut their own solo records, and Garcia was released around the same time as Bob Weir's Ace and Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder. Unlike Ace, which was practically a Grateful Dead album,…
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Jeff’s Playlist: American Beauty
This album is what makes “Dead Heads.” Sitting in bed the other morning, I decided to take a closer listen to this album and had a bit of an epiphany: I could not think of any other music, Dead or otherwise, that had such a wonderful combination of sounds or words. Listening to the instruments,…
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Jeff’s Playlist: Mad Dogs & Englishmen
I saw this movie in Hoptown way back when it played at the Skyline Drive In. It was a trip. I also saw Joe Cocker a few years after that at the Fort Campbell Army Base. That was a trip, too. Cocker was a wild man. He seemed to be totally messed up but managed…
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Jeff’s Playlist: The Concert for Bangladesh
A very good record for a very good cause. The concert was arranged the year after Harrison released All Things Must Pass and includes an all-star cast of characters including Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Ringo Starr, and Bob Dylan. There’s a lot of good music on this one, including Ravi Shankar with his Indian sitar…