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Feldon said:
I've always loved this song. And I like the way these guys do it. A song that can be carried on the bass line alone, if the vocals are good enough. These are.

Roger Miller's King of the Road.

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Released just a few days ago is this 2004 interview with Bob Moore, the bassist who created the bass line for the original recording of King of the Road. He plays it on his old acoustic bass at the start of the interview.

 
The Linda Ronstadt Experience is a newish tribute act for the said great female vocalist.



Tristan McIntosh, a former finalist in the TV show ‘American Idol’, not only looks and dresses like Linda, but most importantly sounds like her too. Which is really something, because Linda was a real belter. Alas Linda’s health doesn’t allow her to sing anymore, so a quality tribute act is the best you can get live.

Here’s a time-stamped list of some of Linda’s famous tracks sung by Tristan to see how she compares. Blue Bayou is a real test of vocal strength that she passes well IMO. And Different Drum is a great song that wanders all up and down the scale and is also a good test passed well.

3:00 Silver Threads and Golden Needles
12:05 It’s so Easy
56:20 I Will Always Love You
59:51 Just One Look
1:03:05 Blue Bayou
1:08:07 That’ll Be the Day
1:15:25 You’re No Good
1:22:02 When Will I Be Loved
1:25:36 Heat Wave
1:29:19 Different Drum

(The audio is not the best in this live recording, and the backing band might not be all together all the time - but that’s kind of authentic because that’s what it was sometimes like for Linda and her band, the Stone[d] Ponies)
 
Kris Kristofferson has left the stage.

And as the man once said, I'll trade all my tomorrows, for a single yesterday...

Was very quietly announced a month ago. He is 84 years old and has contracted Lyme disease (a bacterial infection acquired by tick bite).

Otis Gibbs made this short video describing the announcement and the man's life and achievements.



And here's one of my favorite live versions of one of my favorite KK songs (and there's so many).
Best Of All Possible Worlds - wonderful rolling lyrics that envelope despair with optimism, and a great band of greats (love the harmonica in this).

 
Newly released Beatles cover by the MonaLisa Twins.
Love the vocal harmony and the sound of that Rickenbacker.

 
Died long time ago too young, and before he gave us his best. But what he did give while he was still with us was bloody wonderful. In an industry of working class pretenders, Jim Croce was, and is, the real thing.
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Favorite song of a great mate of 45 years who has passed away. A 'Huckleberry friend', as the song goes. Met in Africa in 1976. Cross in style, Cyril, and catch you one day at 'rainbow's end, waiting round the bend', on the other side. Have the beers ready.

 
I was way outside this song's target age group when it was released back in 2004, and my demographic profile hasn't improved any since then.

But ****, what a great song, and this girl could really sing.

 
I always thought AC/DC had the wildest concert audiences.

But check out these crazy Scots when the Proclaimers hit the chorus of I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles.

Just nuts.

 
Change of pace in the brew shed! Ode to the eighties, Sweet Jane cover by the Cowboy Junkies. Lou Reed on hearing this cover commented that it was originally written to be played slow.
 
Mrs Brown, You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter, by Herman’s Hermits, the song that knocked Elvis out of No. 1 spot in the US charts in 1965.

This is in tribute to the man who wrote the song, Trevor Peacock, who died last month in England at age 89.

Peacock is perhaps best known as the actor who played Jim Trott in the comedy series The Vicar of Dilby (“...no, no, no, no, no, no, yes”). An obituary can be found here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...y-jim-trott-the-vicar-of-dibley-b1819640.html

Rest in peace, Mr Peacock.

 
I heard on the radio this morning that it’s only 100 days until the start of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. And all morning I’ve had Sting singing the song Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic bouncing around inside my head. But why? And then I remembered.

Back in the 1980s Melbourne TV station Channel 7 compiled video clips of female gymnasts performing and synced them to the above song (and some of the edits are just spot on - and it wasn’t easy back then with the video editing gear of the time). The video was often played at the start of broadcasts and as a filler in-between events, and in particular it showed clips of the ‘perfect 10’ gymnast the young Nadia Comăneci of Romania.

So I went looking for the old gymnast clip on YouTube, and found it - at least a later version of it with updated clips. It was put together when Australian TV networks led the world in innovative videography and editing (remember Channel 9’s early Stump Cam and Helmet Cam used in cricket broadcasts, and the in-car RaceCam in motor racing).

It was a great song too!

 
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Sublime song and performance. Even if it does remind me of my old dial-up modem.

 
My favorite, multi-talented Austrian twins with a just released cover of Both Sides Now.
Beautifully played and sung and faithful to Joni Mitchell's original creation.

 
Bob Geldof, at a huge Live Aid gig he organised at Wembley Stadium in 1985, singing I Don’t Like Mondays. To me this live performance sounds heaps better than the recorded version.



(The song title echoes the words the murderer said when she was asked by police why she opened fire at a school in California on a Monday morning.)
 
Live at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, the MonaLisa Twins with their cover of The Kinks' You Really Got Me.

Those Gretsch and Rickenbacker guitars were the sound of the 60s.

 
Twelve years before he died Joe Cocker closed out a gig in Germany in 2002 with this seething, swinging and saxy version of Unchain My Heart. A great gritty singer still at his best with an ace band and backing singers.

 
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Twelve years before he died Joe Cocker closed out a gig in Germany in 2002 with this seething, swinging and saxy version of Unchain My Heart. A great gritty singer still at his best with an ace band and backing singers.

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One of the greatest performers ever and this song is one of his best RIP Joe. Loved the 60s and 70s I hope the young people of today don't miss out on these brilliant years.
 

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