Song of the week
By JPK February 24th, 2012
Roots, “I Don’t Care” (2004)
This came up on shuffle this week and sounded pretty good. Here’s a link in case the video embed doesn’t work again. Still working on that one. Also, somebody requested Junior Kimbrough last week, so here’s his “Keep Your Hands Off Her.” What sounded good to you this week? Or treat as an open thread.
ETA: Video embed success! Huzzah!
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Hey, JPK, they gave you the keys, huh? Cool.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Yep though I haven’t quite got the hang of it yet, but I’ll get there!
February 24th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
@JPK: I was listening to Anna Calvi earlier and “Exile on Main Street” was playing until this post came up.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Thanks ever so much for the Junior Kimbrough!
If anyone would like a second helping of Junior, may I suggest this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
February 24th, 2012 at 10:21 pm
@JPK:
And a single, completely appropriate tag is the best you could come up with?
February 24th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
@gnomedad: And no pet pics…
February 24th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
I’ve been digging this Dave Alvin song – he sang it on Justified last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSU9vIzFCzk
February 24th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
@Linda Featheringill: That’s nice!
February 24th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
I’ve gone completely retro this week. Drove home from Atlanta on Tuesday and found myself stuck on the ’60s channel on Sirius. One of those experiences of listening to stuff that you haven’t listened to in a long time because you got sick of listening to it but now it all sounds sort of new because you haven’t listened to it in so long.
The one that stuck in my mind was Chris Montez’s “Call Me,” which I couldn’t remember hearing in forever. Kind of weird to look it up on YouTube, because I would have sworn it was some Brazilian chick singing—Astrud Gilberto’s younger sister, maybe. Hmm. Makes you think.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
well that’s not horrible.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
@gnomedad: Ha, yeah, give me time.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
@Bruce S: Oh, I like this. I like this a lot. I missed it on the show.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
@Steeplejack: Oh yeah, love that!
February 24th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
It is sort of a relief, here, sometimes.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
Playing right now:
“That’s the biggest black ass I’ve ever seen, and I like it a lot.”
Catchy song, and cracks me up every time I hear it.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
feeling a bit like this since I made it home…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zab7V3_xDfw
February 24th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
Oh, and the Karen O “Immigrant Song” cover is impressively worthy.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
@Martin:
heh, heh, you said “cracks”
February 24th, 2012 at 10:37 pm
@Little Boots: LOL
February 24th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
@Bruce S:
Dave Allen:
I enjoyed that.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:44 pm
@Martin: I liked the opening credits of the movie. I did not know it was Karen O. Now that I know, it is obvious. Funny how that works.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
@Martin:
thanks, couldn’t help it.
I’m so mature.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
this thread needs more Doug.
this whole site needs more Doug.
dammit.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
@Little Boots: Don’t start. You scared Cole away from his own blog last time.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
and I like cole, that’s the thing.
why must they avoid me? (don’t answer that!)
February 24th, 2012 at 11:06 pm
As long as we are being bluesy, I offer up some Robert Johnson.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:11 pm
@piratedan:
The Lovin’ Spoonful—one of my favorite underrated ’60s groups.
“Coconut Grove” is my favorite of their non-hit songs. (I like the video the poster matched to the song.) Good Zal Yanovsky guitar from the bottom of an echo chamber.
Which leads to his excellent crossover guitar work on “Nashville Cats.”
February 24th, 2012 at 11:11 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
LOL. Word.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Are you fucking kidding? Junior Kimbrough?
I Cried Last Night.
All ye need to know. Thank you, and good night.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
@Omnes Omnibus: The trailer for the movie was really impressively done. I forget what movie I was at when we saw the trailer, but I leaned over to my friend after it and said “We’ll remember this trailer more than the movie” and he agreed. Turned out to be true.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
awesome.
and my one and only white boy blues factoids: wasn’t he the one who sold his soul to the devil so he could sing?
February 24th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
And for some reason Robert Johnson this song to my mind.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
KD Lang and Grover Washington Tribute to Peggy Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....detailpage
February 24th, 2012 at 11:16 pm
@Little Boots: Allegedly, yes. At a crossroads on Highway 61 near Clarksdale, MS. If you look up Clarksdale, just check out the number of bluesmen and soul singers who came from there.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:20 pm
And for some happy blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Tramp [I’m a lover].
February 24th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
@Omnes Omnibus: That sentence would be improved by the addition of the word “brings” being inserted in the grammatically correct place.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
I wasn’t going to say anything … just remember.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
I Cried Last Night:
Nice.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:26 pm
BeatleJuice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....OiC7LaU8Cg
Brad Delp from Boston put this band together because he loved the Beatles. They would play clubs around Boston, sold out everytime they did. They started doing fundraisers for high school music programs..RIP brad
February 24th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
I didn’t know that Robert Johnson did “Sweet Home Chicago”!
February 24th, 2012 at 11:34 pm
@Linda Featheringill: Thank you, Miss Linda.
I heard that song on a “Southern Music Sampler” CD from Oxford American Magazine back in 2009 or maybe 2010. The magazine was wildly uneven, but their music samplers … Oh My Goodness, wonderful things, year in and year out.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:34 pm
Long as Dave Alvin is on the menu…..
Dave Alvin and Cindy Cashdollar
Long White Cadillac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJzpumx7jyY
February 24th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Going all 60s today—The Easybeats “Friday on My Mind” and Love’s “Da Capo” album.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
@Linda Featheringill: Amazing, isn’t he? A couple of years ago, I drove from NOLA to Memphis on Hwy 61 and I made a point of stopping (illegally) to get a photo of the memorial at the generally accepted Crossroads (Hwys 61 & 49). The Mississippi Delta is a desolate and poverty-stricken place. You can see why the blues originated there. And you can see why anyone with talent went to Memphis and then Chicago as soon as they could.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:44 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
that is awesome. really.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
@Jager: Damn, Jager. That just blew my mind.
One Youtube commenter (don’t ask me why I looked) said Delp did a better McCartney than McCartney. It’s true.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:49 pm
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ve been working on Johnson’s Ramblin’ On My Mind. I can sing it. I can play it. Putting em both together is not so easy.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
@Little Boots: I also drove so damn carefully through MS. I was in a silver Saab with WI plates. I’ve been told I can sound like Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons when I speak and and I had a European born, hot blonde with me. Not a set of characteristics that would work well with local law enforcement. At least, not according to rumor.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:53 pm
OK fellow BJers, need help solving a mystery. Coworkers and I discussing this one but couldnt come up with artist nor song. The details:
-uptempo 70s anthemic rock song
-singer sounds like brad delp (checked a bunch of Boston stuff on Youtube and Amazon and not it)
-organ riff strongly reminiscent of Roundabout (this is what started the conversation actually)
So…any ideas? :)
February 24th, 2012 at 11:53 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
that is far and away my favorite musical story. it would be really fun to drive to that crossroads (barring law enforcement of course)
February 24th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
@Jewish Steel: I can’t sing anymore and any instrument I’ve ever played gets tucked under my chin, so I have never had that problem. That is one of Johnson’s things though. You know he didn’t lay down the tracks separately; he played as he sang and did both so damn well. I can give you directions to the Crossroads if it would help.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
@handy: REO?
February 24th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
@Omnes Omnibus: Nah, just give me your rock.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:00 am
Omnes, walker? a goner? or what?
I’m a little worried.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:06 am
@Jewish Steel: I don’t really own Rock. Rock is with me for now. I can’t give Rock away. Rock will go when and if Rock wants to go.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:10 am
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sounds like Harvey.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:12 am
@handy:
Any snippet of the lyrics that could help us along?
February 25th, 2012 at 12:12 am
@handy: Argent? Sort of a spin off of the Zombies as they went into the 70s? Named after Rod Argent (of the Zombies), best known for “Hold Your Head Up”.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:13 am
@handy:
Asia
or
Kansas?
February 25th, 2012 at 12:13 am
@Little Boots: I said “Don’t start.” It really really does matter to my continued employment in a job that actually affects and benefits many people across the state that I do not answer questions like that. I know you find it amusing, but it is a serious matter for me. I am asking that you please refrain from this line of questions from now on. Okay?
February 25th, 2012 at 12:16 am
@Linda Featheringill: Rock is an actually existing piece of jasper.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:17 am
@Omnes Omnibus:
damn. forgot that. will not ask again.
sorry.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:20 am
The Jewess Steel, who sits with me now quietly reading Great Expectations, is probably wondering why I am playing this so slowly and hesitantly. It’s because it is in a weird tuning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvflhehS9s
February 25th, 2012 at 12:21 am
seriously, I am not trying to fuck with you.
just forgot.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:22 am
@Omnes Omnibus:
Illegally? There’s a giant guitar zooming into the sky there. I have a picture of me there too, along with a t-shirt with a quote from Boogie Chillen by JLH (“The boy’s got it in him, and it;s got to come out.”)
And it felt so gooood.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:22 am
@handy: start with the obvious perhaps… Kansas… Dust in the Wind? Although I do believe that the Argent tune is the most likely suspect, terribly anthemic.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:35 am
@Little Boots: Apolo accepted. I can talk national or international politics, but I really cannot discuss state or local.
@MikeJ: It was already dark, there was traffic, and I then saw the guitars…. I just pulled off the road and up over the curb. About an hour later, we ended up eating at the Catfish Cabin near the airport in Memphis that was obviously the place where well-off AA families brought Grandma for a good down-home meal. Fucking amazing.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:35 am
damn.
I feel awful.
I feel like Omnes is pissed cause he thinks I’m just playing around with him. I’m not. I really wanted his opinion.
sucks.
hope he’s okay.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:37 am
@handy: Head East – Never Been Any Reason
February 25th, 2012 at 12:38 am
sorry again, Omnes.
I’m not like that. i’m not interested in putting you in a difficult position.
so santorum, whadda ya think?
February 25th, 2012 at 12:39 am
@Omnes Omnibus: Leonard’s BBQ (more upscale) or the 4-Way grill (more downhome) are where I would have gone, but I grew up there. But I have been to Catfish Cabin a few times too.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:39 am
@MikeJ: I got a hotel through Priceline that was near the airport. We were just in Memphis for the night. On a previous trip, we had stayed downtown and “done” Memphis. Loved, loved, loved the Stax museum. Also too, Rendezvous.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:43 am
@Little Boots:
Just let it go. He doesn’t sound pissed. You’re just making it worse by wallowing in it.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:44 am
@Martin: LOVE that cover.
I’ve been listening to Mahler recently, but I have Bob Mould’s “See A Little Light” in my head. One of my favorite songs ever.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:44 am
@Steeplejack:
thanks, I think we’re fine now.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:45 am
@Jewish Steel:
Mrs J and I saw BeatleJuice one snowy night at Johnny D’s in “Slummerville”. Delp and the band would start with the early Beatles and work through the years song by song, set by set. They played the music so well if you closed your eyes you thought you were listening to the originals. No talking between songs, no bullshit and no Boston.
They raised lots of money for school music programs all over new England.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:46 am
@suzanne: Do Mahler and Mould connect? Or is it just a thing?
February 25th, 2012 at 12:46 am
@Omnes Omnibus:The dB’s Rendezvous. Mmmm. Almost as nice as BBQ.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:49 am
just cause.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo
February 25th, 2012 at 12:52 am
@Steeplejack:
I think the chorus/hook they’re saying “How long” (and no it’s not Ace folks). Thanks for suggestions above.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:53 am
Night folks. I had a good time. We’ll have to do it again.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:53 am
@Little Boots: If that is the fucking “Numa Numa” song, we are going to have problems.
@MikeJ: Cool. Me like.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:55 am
@Omnes Omnibus:
No numa,
not tonight.
well, not yet.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:57 am
@handy: Kansas then!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60A1yKc2hi4
February 25th, 2012 at 12:57 am
@MikeJ: Love these guys!
February 25th, 2012 at 12:59 am
@Little Boots: Dude, I posted this song already. You commented on it. Diff version – yours, from The Last Waltz, is awesome. The Staples Singers were part of it, never a bad thing.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:01 am
@Jewish Steel:
VICTORY!
Thank you, that was bugging me all day.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:02 am
I know you did.
and I thought it needed a second posting.
love that song, forever.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:03 am
@Omnes Omnibus: Besides the whole maudlin depressed genius thing? Not really.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:04 am
@handy: God, I hated that song when it was popular and I hate it today. No offense intended to any dain bramaged Kansas fans in the house.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:05 am
@Little Boots: More of The Band.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:06 am
@handy: well done JS! had the band but alas, the wrong song…..
and since I’m being nostalgic…. here’s an oldie for those of you that still like love songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMxqskojgo
February 25th, 2012 at 1:08 am
@JPK:First time I ever saw REM the dBs opened, both bands played together on the encore. If I’m right about the show, it’s the one where Holsapple taught Buck how to play Television’s See No Evil on stage while they were playing it. (Graham Chapel at WashU in St. Louis.) Saw them again at the Blue Note in Columbia, Mo, the Channel in Boston, some club I don’t remember in Memphis (somewhere downtown, IIRC).
Still one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@MikeJ: That sounds awesome. I never saw the dBs.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:11 am
They just want to say it so badly don’t they?
(warning: Hufflepuff link)
February 25th, 2012 at 1:11 am
@Omnes Omnibus: ’
wait, what happened to dixie?
February 25th, 2012 at 1:12 am
@MikeJ:
Were you the one who linked “Amplifier” a few months ago during one of these late Friday night music threads? I swear I must have played that over and over that weekend LOL!
February 25th, 2012 at 1:15 am
@Little Boots: I have ancestors who were with Sherman from beginning to end. I don’t post that song.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:16 am
@Omnes Omnibus:
yeah, that’s a tough one. I love it. but it is a tough one.
as is Sherman.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:17 am
Palate cleanser.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:18 am
for those of you that hate having to craft playlists when you wanna just have some background tunes, check out http://www.uwall.tv, plug in an artist and whammo instant playlist
February 25th, 2012 at 1:19 am
@Omnes Omnibus:
that was disturbing.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:22 am
@handy: I don’t recall, but it wouldn;’t surprise me. So just in case, let’s link it again!
February 25th, 2012 at 1:22 am
@Omnes Omnibus:
Gee, I thought I had seen all the episodes. Guess I missed a few.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:23 am
And yet they forbid numa.
what a world.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:25 am
@Little Boots:
@Steeplejack: It was necessary. This might make things better
February 25th, 2012 at 1:29 am
well, maybe… sorry Omnes,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVmKfCwb4M
February 25th, 2012 at 1:29 am
Everything is better with puppies.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:32 am
I can’t help it.
It’s a sickness, really.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:32 am
@Little Boots: You are dead to me.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:37 am
@Omnes Omnibus: Just a thing. I just love that song so stinkin’ much.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:38 am
@Omnes Omnibus:
but it’s a sickness.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:39 am
would tina help?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoPP1wkWr1s
February 25th, 2012 at 1:42 am
Two full albums in my head all week long: James Brown’s Live at the Apollo (the entire album’s in the link- and it’s the best live album ever made, imo), and Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE .
February 25th, 2012 at 1:44 am
@MikeJ:
Man, I love that song!
I use the bridge (“An amplifier is wood and wire…”) to gauge my lung capacity, and have been doing so for decades now.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:49 am
would johnny?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....38;ob=av2e
February 25th, 2012 at 1:55 am
I miss Omnes.
February 25th, 2012 at 1:58 am
@Yutsano: Thanks—I just front-paged this, getting ahead of tomorrow’s viral emails from all the dittoheads…
February 25th, 2012 at 2:22 am
@Steeplejack: I don’t know how ‘underrated’ they are. They went to the Hall based off of 2 songs basically (‘Do You Believe in Magic’ & ‘Summer in the City’).
Plus (I guess) the song you linked to. There’s several bands that had way more success/great songs that are probably never gonna get in.
February 27th, 2012 at 8:42 am
Gonna see The Roots at Bonnaroo this year. Got a tic & I’m lucky I did. Hard one to get this year.
February 27th, 2012 at 8:48 am