Music
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I'll stick around this Allmans family tree for a minute.
Tedeschi Trucks Band is good, but I really miss Derek Trucks Band. Yonrico Scott, their amazing drummer, and Kofi Burbridge, their amazing flutist/keyboardist/brother of bass great Otiel Burbridge, have prematurely and tragically died since the band broke up and was partially merged with Tedeschi's band to form Tedeschi Trucks Band, but they were so adventurous and free, playing all sorts of genres, from classical Indian to blues to jazz to funk. Tedeschi Trucks Band by comparison stays in their blues rock/R&B lane, and while entertaining, is just not as interesting IMO.
Here is DTB covering "Freddie's Dead" by Curtis Mayfield from the legendary soundtrack to "Superfly." Mike Mattison, their vocalist, does an amazing job paying tribute to Curtis' falsetto. He's been relegated to backing vocals in Tedeschi Trucks, with an occasional lead thrown his way. Seems like a waste of a helluva vocalist.
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@mclaincausey As much as I like Derek Trucks,and as much as I enjoyed it whenever Susan Tedechi would jam with the Brothers,I flat out,for the life of me,can’t get into the DTB. Probably because I’ve never been fan of horn sections in rock bands.
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I saw these two multi-intrumentalists playing live in the impressive Gigspanner Big Band at the English Folk Dance & Song Society last week.
Hannah Martin surprised me by singing one song (Estren) in Kernewek, the Brittonic language of Cornwall in south west England.
Phillip Henry is a very talented player of many types of slide guitar, as well as beatbox harmonica and various other instruments.
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The touring band didn’t have horns unless you’re counting Kofi playing flute occasionally @Jett129 ? It was just drums, keys, bass, guitar, volcals, percussion.
You could be thinking of a specific show with sit-ins or Tedeschi Trucks Band, which pales by comparison to DTB.
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Speaking of slides, one of my favorite string players of all time id David Lindley. He plays just about anything with strings, from Hawaiian lap steel to bouzouki to violin. A very fun live show if you get the chance.
Unfortunately, he is very guarded about recordings of his live performances and distribution of his published material. It's a huge shame, because, for example, the albums he put out with Wally Ingram, the great drummer featured below, are not available on streaming services, but so so good--hard to find, but worth the effort. Most of what you can hear of his on the streaming services is via his long-standing partnership with Jackson Browne. The live duo album they released recently has some good stuff, even his own songs and vocals.
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Speaking of pickin holy shit
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@mclaincausey Fantastic. I love Molly and Tommy is…well, Tommy…no one like him. Thanks for posting this
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@mclaincausey you’ve probably seen this but worth re-sharing if I haven’t already
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100 on all that. His backing vocals were great too on there. I suppose this is coming to an album soon, so very excited about that!
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For anyone who is a fan of music that utilizes samples this spotify playlist is a fun treasure hunt
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/73MMjIftu08QNQMuFIjAio?si=JHBWVyJ3TaWM8ZQDmH1Ntw
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The album from those sessions is called “Somethin’ Else” and was released under Cannonball Adderly’s name if anyone wants to hear more of what @goosehd posted. Also Miles’ famous “Kind of Blue” was from this period.
Can’t recommend Miles’ autobiography “Miles” enough either. I can’t help but hear his raspy voice narrating when I read it.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTIb4fKCEAevQGcDKFIXdimOXsMK4uVNv -
Who wants to play a music league? It’s very fun. The way it works is we come up with themes, and league members submit songs in line with the themes, then vote on the anonymous submissions. After all the rounds are completed, the person with the most points wins. It’s a great way to discover music.
More info here: https://musicleague.com/
If folks want to do this I will start a thread for it and we can propose and vote on the themes for each round of the tournament.
I’m currently doing this with friends and it is a ton of fun.
