Music
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Haggis Horns, Vulfpeck, Orgone, Lettuce, Galactic, Dumpstaphunk, Scary Pockets also all worth a listen on the funk front
…this is a fun rabbit hole.
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Willie Nelson’s son Lukas has got the goods. Such a great performer! Handled the guitar duties so well too.
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Murder ballad time. Stagger Lee / Stack O Lee time
And I’ll end with the “happy ending” one, where Stagger’s victim’s wife does what the police are too scared to do and takes the villain out of the gene pool in a painful manner, singing “look out, Stagger Lee!”
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Not sure what triggered it, but I started reminiscing about the summer we lived in NYC when I was 13 or 14 and went to a small theater to see Indigo Girls support their eponymous major label debut in 1989 (setlist).Big statement:1989 was a great year for music releases, and for money there wasn't a better one than this incredible album. Emily Sailers and Amy Ray split songwriting duties, and each have very different styles, but they complement one another so perfectly on each other's work. Wire-to-wire, songwriting and performance excellence. Beautiful, emotional, inspiring, dark, hopeful. Love it and am so glad to have rediscovered it.
Milli Vanilli won the Grammy for Best New Artist over them that year, triggering a skepticism and disrespect ever since for the Grammys specifically, and industry awards in general, that gets validated year in and year out.
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@mclaincausey Absolutely smashing playlist yesterday…Thank you!
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My pleasure!
This:
Plus this:
Equals this:
Jeff Porcaro stole and fused Bernard Purdie’s and John Bonham’s beats. Three legends, two of them gone far too soon.
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He certainly seems that way in his tutorial videos. Just a happy, joyful person effortlessly grooving.
I'm just going off Jeff's description of how he came up with (stole) that beat but yeah, they all seem like half time shuffles.
Here's another good one, the discerning listener will catch "Birdland" teases in there (could do without James Taylor's involvement but oh well). Ray Brinker on the skins here:
Apple Music suggested "Luck So Strange" by King Johnson, and that's a rollicking funky good time–recommended to the funk fans.
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Oh here the Porcaro thing is:
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One a couple more drum clinic videos, cowbell themed now. Love this guy, Rodney Holmes
One of my all-time favorites, Stanton Moore
This dude was better than my (and his) drum teacher when he was like 12. Like Stanton, he has an unmistakable sound:
