I've wanted to post this under M (for obvious reasons) for a while now, but I keep missing the slot. Echo Beach -- Martha and the Muffins
I'm going to break protocol here, but rewatching M + M just reminds how poorly so many videos from the 80s have aged. I don't know what the visual technique of highlighting the outlines of the subject is called, but this is always the video that I think of first: And as a plus, it's another E: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Enola Gay And since I'm on a roll, OMD with Electricity. I'll stop now...
I meant to get back to this earlier and just forgot... After a little research, I realize my memory was poor: apparently many more of the songs from the 60s did indeed allude to the drug culture than I thought or remembered. Even songs I had no idea... I was naively unaware. My favorite of that........genre is Velvet Underground's Heroin.
Bill Frisell, Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland and Lee Konitz Angel Song (Title track from Wheeler's 1996 album)
And now for something completely different: A great lost album, chock full of songs that would reappear elsewhere in the classic rock songbook courtesy of Loggins and Messina, Jackson Browne, Gregg Allman, Rita Coolidge, and others. First appearance of "Danny's Song" and "These Days," "Long Tail Cat," "Mud Island," "Home." "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie On the King of Rock'n'Roll" was already out there in the Long John Baldry original, but unknown to American audiences, and, oh yeah, Brian Setzer would get a payday out of this much later. I think it stared life as an instrumental version of the 1920s "Party" (meaning filthy) record whose clean variant was the Delmore Brothers' "Hillbilly Boogie." I think. Album was released in 1971 to a warm round of indifference and has never made it on to cd; but I remember it fondly. It was packaged as though from a Yazoo band, and I thought it was, but it turns out that other than Loggins, and Dee Barton they were mostly all kind of on the fringes of the Wrecking Crew, and had never been near the delta-- was a studio project in LA.
Since nobody else will do it, I guess I will, hahahahahaha.........sorry. (Truth is, I'm trying to get to J.) Yusuf Islam - Maybe There's a World (2006)
Rob Jungklas - Carry Me Home (2017) http://robjungklas.com/track/carry-me-home A twist on the classic Gospel song. I think I posted the album on the "What are you listening too right now?" thread, but I've had this tune running through my head, lately.
Doubling up on M 'cause here's one that really is an M (According to legend the guitar on both is Glen.)
In honor of Elvis Week I was looking for a tune or two starting with N; other than Now or Never, I didn't find much so.....please accept this: "Million Dollar Quartet" - Sun Studios, December 4,1957, Brown-Eyed Handsome Man. Million Dollar Quartet: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash
Bonus-- brief shots of the greatest American guitar player, James T Burton. If you are old enough you might remember his cameos on "Ozzie and Harriet."
Had the pleasure of seeing him with the earliest incarnation of the Hot Band, when he was there to play all night not provide window dressing for a man in a cape. Oh my,
The Joshua Redman Trio-- Blackwell's Message 20 odd years ago the radio station I worked for started Sunday mornings with a four hour jazz show, after which I took over for 8 hours of our regular format. The jazz guy had great taste, and driving in listening to him was a high point of the week for me. One especially good week of it I arrived at the control room and asked him "Who was the sax player that sounds like he grew up listening to Dewey Redman?" and he started, and then held up s disc-- "Wish"-- by this guy... who, y'know, did.
Shotgun - Buddy & Stacy from the Night Train Television Show (1965) Absolutely just stumbled across this while looking for something completely different. I think someone in the band has a future.
Travis - Side (Official Video) I woke up with this tune in my head. What a coincidence, it's something I can add to this alphabetical gem.