#Delbert McClinton

[danu2203]

ROOTS...AMERICANA WEEK.

LEON RUSSELL, STEVE FORBERT, DELBERT MCCLINTON, Keb Mo, Otis Taylor, JOE ELY...

[greatestplaylist]

WEATHERMAN - Delbert McClinton (1993)

[radiomaxmusic]

Feature LP / Delbert McClinton - Room to Breathe (2002) / 11am ET / 11-5-24

Room to Breathe is a solo studio album by American blues rock singer-songwriter Delbert McClinton. It was released on August 24, 2002, via New West Records. It was recorded at Sound Emporium at Nashville, Tennessee with additional recording at Bismeaux Studio in Austin, Texas. Production was handled by Gary Nicholson and McClinton himself. The album peaked at number 84 on the Billboard 200,…

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: New Riders of the Purple Sage - Hempsteader: Live At The Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, New York, June 25, 1976

Forty-eight years after the fact, listeners can still hear the excitement that swirled around New York’s Calderone Concert Hall in 1976 when New Riders of the Purple Sage opened the show with “Panama Red.”

The gig is out on the sonically pure Hempsteader: Live At The Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, New York, June 25, 1976, and captures an era as well as a night of music.

Most of it is grand, though the blatant sexism of the day is evident in songs like “Annie May” and “I Heard You’ve Been Layin’ My Old Lady” and that is disturbing enough that even Hazel Dickens’ “You Put Her There” cannot cleanse the aftertaste of such material. On a happier note, the big-bang of rock-country also played songs by Delbert McClinton (“Honky Tonkin’ (I Guess I Done Me Some)”), Chuck Berry (“You Never Can Tell”) and the Rolling Stones (“Dead Flowers”) among others and transplanted them to rural settings.

Nonconformists from the get-go, the original Grateful Dead spin-off group got the hit out of the way and then got down to exploring its back catalog and promoting its 1976 MCA Records debut, New Riders. There was also the matter of breaking in bassist Stephen Love, who joined electric guitarists John Dawson and David Nelson; pedal steeler and MVP Buddy Cage; and drummer Spencer Dryden after they’d recorded the aforementioned LP with former Byrd Skip Battin. The new lineup hiccups now and then, but previews its strengths on such highlights as “Fifteen Days under the Hood” and “Glendale Train.”

Grade card: New Riders of the Purple Sage - Hempsteader: Live At The Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, New York, June 25, 1976 - B-

5/21/24

[wings-ndthings]

I've Got Dreams*ೃ༄🌼

[americanahighways]

Music & Film Reviews: Eric Clapton’s "The Definitive 24 Nights," plus Hot Tuna, Marshall Crenshaw, and Delbert McClinton

Music & Film Reviews: Eric Clapton’s ‘The Definitive 24 Nights,’ plus Hot Tuna, Marshall Crenshaw, and Delbert McClinton #hottuna #marshallcrenshaw #delbertmcclinton #ericclapton #ByJeffBurger

Music & Film Reviews: Eric Clapton’s The Definitive 24 Nights, plus Hot Tuna, Marshall Crenshaw, and Delbert McClinton Eric Clapton’s 24 Nights, which appeared in 1991, culled 15 superlative performances from a series of concerts that year and in 1990 at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall, where he has appeared more than 200 times. The set clocked in at well over an hour and a half and filled two…

[rolloroberson]

Delbert McClinton

[23breach]

I love this song. Just a man gassing up his girl as he stumbles his way across the horniest women in the States and boasts about it.

“I dunno if I’ll make it Sunday, babe, but i gotta gush about this random woman like I’m Kevin Smith talking about his wife.”

[danu2203]

GIVE ME DEM OLE COUNTRY WESTERN BLUES!

THIS WEEK'S LISTENING...

[les-portes-du-sud]

🎼🎧🎶...... 🍂🍁🎶

La musica di tutti i tempi diventa uno strumento in grado di mostrare ciò che c’è nell’anima di una persona. In qualsiasi stato d'animo, una persona è in grado di ascoltare la musica.

[opspro2005]

Delbert McClinton -Lone Star Blues-

RIP Kris....but we still have Delbert

[krispyweiss]

Sound Bites’ Favorite Studio Albums of 2022

Many years, Sound Bites finds it difficult to whittle this list down to 10 albums. In 2022, the whittling was much easier.

While the records listed below are all worthy of this top-10 list - and still are much-played - this year’s studio output overall seems to have lagged behind recent years. But there was some wheat in all that chaff.

Here, then, are Sound Bites’ favorite studio albums of 2022.

Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Across 10 songs and 45 minutes, the artist born Natalie Mering works out her - and humanity’s - existential crises, as she toggles between optimism and realism. This beguiling release is at once singular and similar to what would have happened if Karen Carpenter joined the Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys. Review.

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Get on Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Like Mahal and Cooder themselves, this is old-school. Old songs by old musicians, 79 and 75, respectively, played in a lo-fi setting with Mahal on harmonica, guitar and piano and Cooder on guitar, mandolin and banjo. It’s loose, but never sloppy - just two old friends making music for themselves and anyone who cares to listen. Review.

Aoife O’Donovan - Age of Apathy - Though it isn’t a concept album, O’Donovan’s Age of Apathy is best taken in full servings. Each of the 11 tracks stand on their own, but are meant to be experienced together, in sequence. There’s just something about the musical and lyrical flow of O’Donovan’s third - and strongest - solo album that demands it. Review.

Hawktail - Place of Growth - Rather than slumping, Hawktail soar on their sophomore release. The appropriately titled Place of Growth finds the nominally bluegrass quartet making instrumental music that’s as at home in the concert hall, the jazz club and the coffee house as it is on the back porch. Review.

Loudon Wainwright III - Lifetime Achievement - Existential crises notwithstanding, Lifetime Achievement is simultaneously life-affirming and downright hilarious as it beckons its listeners to boogie, square dance, praise the unspecified higher power and do the hula. Review.

The Del McCoury Band - … almost proud - The titular McCoury, 83, remains in superb voice, singing familial harmonies with his boys, blending high tenors with Vince Gill on “Honky Tonk Nights” and holding notes that seem to last as long as his career has thus far. Review.

Dan Reeder - Little Bitty Songs - Little Bitty Songs is just as advertised, six cuts that range from 30 to 138 seconds; some a capella with stacked-and-processed vocals; others with instrumentation - guitars, keys, harmonica, bass, but no drums, such as on “Skiing Song” on which Reeder feels like a python who just swallowed a deer. Review.

Vin Downes - Three Evenings - This is the LP - instrumental as always - where Downes smashes through the background and creates music for the foreground. Review.

Delbert McClinton - Outdated Emotion - Owing to the soulful rasp of McClinton’s vocals, the (mostly) covers album sounds like his. But with throwback arrangements and fiddle, steel, horns, piano and rhythm section underpinning Texas swing; early rock ‘n’ roll; torchy, piano-bar jazz; and country blues, Outdated Emotion simultaneously sounds decades old. Review.

Madison Cunningham - Revealer - On her second full-length LP, Cunningham reveals herself as a connoisseur of what came before. Revealer has elements of Lula Wiles, Rhythm of the Saints-era Paul Simon and, especially, the Eastern-leaning, vague psychedelia of George Harrison. Add in the heavy imagery of her lyrics and her expressive vocals and Cunningham turns those influences into music that’s entirely her own. Review.

12/27/22

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.4

Beer Birthdays

Gottfried Krueger (1837)

Carl Sedlmayr (1847)

Pat Boyd, Miss Rheingold 1945 (1922)

Alfred Heineken (1923)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Art Carney; actor (1918)

Walter Cronkite; television journalist (1916)

Chris Difford; rock musician, singer, songwriter (1954)

James Honeyman-Scott; rock guitarist (1956)

Will Rogers; humorist (1879)

Famous Birthdays

Alton Adams; composer (1889)

Martin Balsam; actor (1919)

James E. Brewton; painter (1930)

Larry Bunker; jazz drummer, percussionist (1928)

Sean "Diddy" Combs; rapper, producer (1969)

Charles Despiau,;French sculptor (1874)

Harry Ferguson; Irish engineer, inventor (1884)

Bethenny Frankel; television chef (1970)

Charles Frazier; writer (1950)

Kathy Griffin; comedian (1960)

Dick Groat; Pittsburgh Pirates SS (1930)

Gail E. Haley; author, illustrator (1939)

Audrey Hollander; adult actress (1979)

Kyōka Izumi, Japanese author, poet (1873)

Marlène Jobert; French actress (1940)

Charles K. Kao; Chinese physicis (1933)

Klabund; German author and poet (1890)

Peter Lord; English animator (1953)

Ralph Macchio; actor (1961)

Robert Mapplethorpe; photographer (1946)

Delbert McClinton; singer, songwriter (1940)

Matthew McConaughey; actor (1969)

Cameron Mitchell; actress (1918)

James Montgomery; Scottish writer (1771)

Eden Phillpotts; English writer (1862)

Markie Post; actor (1950)

Doris Roberts; actor (1930)

Loretta Swit; actor (1937)

Taylor Tomlinson; comedian (1993)

Carlos "Patato" Valdes; Cuban-American conga player (1926)

C.K. Williams; poet (1936)

Gig Young; actress (1913)

[porterdavis]

OK, Sheryl Crow has terrible taste in men. Lance Armstrong? Kid Rock?? She could have had ME with a mere crook of her finger, but no...

Nonetheless, her music has been constant. Feel good, toe-tappin', perpetual summer with the top down and the radio up. Her new release - Evolution - takes us back to the beginning, sounding like an younger brother to Tuesday Night Music Club.

Sheryl has a solid position in the pantheon of music I really mean to listen to again/more often. Taj Mahal, Chicago, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Steppenwolf, Delbert McClinton, ZZ Top. So much good music, so little time.

In a world full of Biebers, Nicklebacks, Diddys and the like, stick to the good stuff.