R.I.P. Gordon LIghtfoot - he died May 1st, at age 84; he was often referred to as "Canada's greatest songwriter". Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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Gordon Lightfoot died May 1st, at age 84. He has been referred to many times as Canada's greatest songwriter. Robbie Robertson (of the Band) described him as "a national treasure". Bob Dylan called him one of his favorite songwriters and said, "I can't think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don't like. Every time I hear a song of his, it's like I wish it would last forever.... ". Lightfoot was a featured musical performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Dylan has stated in interviews that this album was something of a joke, far below the standards he set in the 1960s, and was made to end the "Spokesman Of a Generation" label that critics had put on him. // LATER, he expanded upon that in a 1985 interview with Cameron Crowe, for the liner notes to the 'Biograph' boxed set: "Self Portrait" was a bunch of tracks that we'd done all the time I'd gone to Nashville. We did that stuff to get a [studio] sound. To open up we'd do two or three songs, just to get things right and then we'd go on and do what we were going to do. And then there was a lot of other stuff that was just on the shelf. But I was being bootlegged at the time and a lot of stuff that was worse was appearing on bootleg records. So I just figured I'd put all this stuff together and put it out, my own bootleg record, so to speak. You know, if it actually had been a bootleg record, people probably would have sneaked around to buy it and played it for each other secretly. Also, I wasn't going to be anybody's puppet and I figured this record would put an end to that...I was just so fed up with all that 'who people thought I was' nonsense."
This was their first album to include new member Paul Cotton as lead guitarist, who replaced Jim Messina. Messina would go on to form
Loggins And Messina.
#505 on Colin Larkin's "All time Top 1000 Albums", 2000. The band had basically broken up by March 1968, and Jim Mussina (Producer, mixing engineer) and Richie Furay compiled the album from earlier recordings, to fulfill contractual obligations.
Recorded in 3 days (June 25 - 27, 1970) in Nashville /// SOME of the PERSONNEL: Charlie Daniels, Jerry Reed, Jerry Kennedy - guitars / D.J. Fontana, Buddy Harman - drums
Featuring Tommy Stinson, bass player for The Replacements, then after their breakup in 1991, Stinson formed Bash & Pop, and in 1998 he joined Guns N' Roses. / Click the Link above, left to reads an article about this release
Covered by The Beatles on their debut album "Please Please Me", March 22, 1963 {English release date} / Click on Link above, left, to view the original single.
Austin, TX guitarist, producer and songwriter; he has been inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame, the Austin Music Hall of Fame and was named "Instrumentalist of the Year" by the Americana Association. He has been called 'the Edgar Allen Poe of Americana music'.
The Ducks (formerly known as the Jeff Blackburn Band) were a short-lived American hard rock supergroup formed in the summer of 1977 by singer-songwriter Jeff Blackburn (who died this Jan 6th, at age 77). / The band included Bob Mosley (an original member of Moby Grape - bass player; also one of their songwriters and singers), Neil Young, and Johnny Craviotto (drummer - later, a drum maker). The band played a series of impromptu bar gigs around the Santa Cruz area in 1977. The set lists were very democratic, with each member of the band taking the lead in turn. / This will be their first official release - click on the Link above, left to read about this release.
OTHER GUESTS include: Billy Strings, Sam Bush, The Del McCoury Band, Jorma Kaukonen and Jerry Douglas / * - Townes Van Zandt's version was released May 1977, on the album 'Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas'
Austin, TX guitarist, producer and songwriter; he has been inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame, the Austin Music Hall of Fame and was named "Instrumentalist of the Year" by the Americana Association. He has been called 'the Edgar Allen Poe of Americana music'. / * - no April Fools :))
* - But FIRST released by Ian & Sylvia (May 1965 - Canadian hit), and Peter, Paul & Mary (Sept 1965 - minor US hit). Lightfoot's version was 1st released on his debut album, Jan 1966. // ** - "Autumn" was a San Fransisco record label {1st hit was by Bobby Freeman (C'Mon And Swim'), but mainly The Beau Brummels} // Click on Link above/ left, to view all the tracks on this 12-CD set
Flemons is a singer, songwriter with a bent toward Americana - native of Phoenix, AZ. / Click on Link above, left, to read an article about this release.
His backing band was: Ry Cooder - guitar / Nick Lowe - bass / Jim Keltner - drums; those three later recorded as "Little Village", their name taken from a, um "colorful" remark made on an archival Sonny Boy Williamson release which includes pre-song studio chatter - Click on the Link above
* - Although it was first released as a single by Campbell in June 1967, and was a minor Pop hit. It was reissued in August 1968 after Campbell's success of 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix', and became a Top-40 hit. By May 1968, an estimated 50 artists had recorded covers of this song.
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6:53
Artist:
Billy Strings [William Apostol] [Featuring Willie Nelson]
Song:
California Sober [Recorded for Willie Nelson's 90th birthday - April 29]
