I've seen him a couple of times the last three years. If he comes your way, I think you'd enjoy his show.
T is for Twitty, Conway - "It's Only Make Believe" Was at a benefit last night and heard Ronnie Mcdowell sing this song. The whole time I was thinking of this guy.
W - because Mongolian Metal is something you did not know you needed - is a cool song from The Hu called "Wolf Totem." Mongolian instruments, some throat singing, epic threats, and dudes on motorcycles in the Gobi Desert or the steppes somewhere = all kinds of epic.
Y is for "You Need Love" - JD Simo These guys opened for Allman Betts Band, recently. I'm usually indifferent to opening bands, but this guy ....
Zzzzzzz is for "Sleep the Clock Around" (Get it? Zs = Sleep.......well forget you) - Belle & Sebastian
E is for Elvis Presley in his first "scandalous" television appearance, not on Ed Sullivan as is widely believed but on the Milton Berle show several months earlier. Berle reportedly suggested performing sans guitar so fans could watch his lower body movements, best on display from about 1:30 of this clip on.
F is for: A friend of ours turns 98 tomorrow. Recently, she was telling us about a band she saw at some event held on the banks of the Mississippi River in east Arkansas. She said it must have been early in their career because not a lot of people knew much about them. She didn't like them, but admitted they eventually did alright for themselves. All she remembered at the time was they had a funny name. It was these guys:
G is for something you forgot you needed in your life: exuberance, here in the form of Gene Gene the Dancing Machine from "The Gong Show."
I is for "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw Her First)" from John Cougar Mellencamp. All JCM songs are nostalgic for me, generally speaking. Also specifically, they often make me think of a collegiate teammate of mine, Curtis Watton, who really didn't like JCM at all. One year I attended a concert and bought a t-shirt which I wore several times, and as my locker adjoined Curtis's, he would politely opine that "John Cougar Melon-head" was terrible, in a good-natures sort of way. Curtis moonlighted as a low-level PI, and one night while staking out a place or person (I can't recall for sure) he saw someone get jumped who was getting pummeled, so he rushed out of his car to help - and was shot in the head upon doing so. That sort of impulse to help is a better example of who he was than him teasing me for liking Mellencamp's music, and I am glad that one thought leads to the other and about his legacy, 30 years later.
Simple Minds -- Alive and Kickin' I saw Simple Minds back in the day, and I have to say, it was perhaps the most disappointing concert I've ever seen. It was lame. 15 people on stage and it had all the passion of Acoustic Open Mike Night. I was convinced there had to be a reason for the high lameness quotient: maybe somebody had gotten news of their Bentley being repossessed or that Jim Kerr had pneumonia... And then they played this. They blew the doors right off the Cap Centre (and I think this was the last time I was in that venue. Stunningly great. And in stark contrast the general ennui of the first hour. Weird... Edit: wow. White girls cannot do backup vocals.