But we don’t know what it is, yet, do we, Mr Jones.
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Yeah.
I once spent a month in Poughkeepsie one week years ago. Its a nice place now a bit rundown with empty shops so I’m told. In my day Roxanne and My Sharona were on the jukebox.
The last album Love and Theft was released Sept 11 2001, I hope I get to enjoy the arrival of this new one more.
Dig the Masked and Anonymous sticker on the instrument case in that article. Will have to try and find one.
I liked Love and Theft immediately, although I was a touch disappointed by comparison with the impact of Time Out Of. Now I reckon L&T finds itself on my turntable (can you say turntable for CDs?) far more frequently. Who knows what the man will come up with next. It’s been a long friggin’ wait.
I love that whole case Ms A, and if I knew how to put pictures in comments, it would be right here.
Could it be at last the “Dylan Does Donovan” album?
That’s a lot of dope between albums, but with Bob it’s always worth the wait.Thanks for the heads up, CS.
$130 to see Buddy Guy. Discuss.
Not recommended Ms Floppy, speaking as someone who loves Buddy dearly and has caught him at least a half-dozen or more times.
Mr Guy has long given the impression that he has gone into semi-retirement, his gigs now being filled out with endless horsing around (playing his guitar with his teeth, drumsticks, the floor and whatever else is around at the time, along with stupid audience call and responses, etc). You might get one or two real numbers, if you’re lucky.
If you could get a guarantee that Buddy will commit to a serious concert, as he once used to do, yes, it would be, in all likelihood, sensational, and cheap at $130. Alas, I’ve long doubted that we’ll ever see the real Buddy again. Best thing to do is to save your money and go buy Stone Crazy (Alligator, 1981) to listen to how hot this gun once was.
I’m unequivocally 100%, all the way with cs on this one. I saw Buddy back in 1996 and in between horsing around and the theatrics the odd song could be heard. It was disappointing.
‘DJ, Play My Blues’ is another good one.
Hmmm, that’s why I asked. There was a long thread recently on a mailing list I’m on saying exact same thing.
And you almost had me convinced.
But then coicidentally what arrived in the mail today but a DVD of “The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 Vol. 3″ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002KP54E/002-5158779-9744041?v=glance&n=130 which includes BG doing Out of Sight on German TV in 1965, he also backs up Big Mama Thornton on Hound Dog from the same show.
And now I have to go. Even if I know it’ll be shit.
I have Stone Crazy.
I first caught him back in the early ’70s, shortly after that DVD. No question, he was the real mind-blowing deal, and I kept going back for more and more, only to get less and less, till there was so little of him left by the last time I caught him in the late ’90s that I swore I’d never bother again. Still, he’s an authentic legend, and just maybe …
Robert Cray is opening which might explain the price. I’m not overly familiar.
I’ve seen him several times, and believe that there are two Robert Crays. One is a transcendant, spine-tingling, jaw-dropping genius, capable of delivering one of the best concerts you will ever see; and the other is a boring bloke who plays music to snooze by. Depends which Robert turns up on the night. Anyone else on the bill, btw? You now have my attention.
floppy - what the others said about Buddy Guy - not from personal experience but from other music / blues geeks who I respect. Cray can be ok.
oh I forgot to say I’m just sitting here getting a
slightly tumescentpleasantly anticipatory feeling about my Los Lobos ticket for April 11 at the Forum.“Just” Buddy and Robert.
Los Lobos: yes.
I’d be wanting to see Los Lobos and the Blind Boys but it is unlikely. However am off to see Thommo in a few weeks.
A word for Robert Cray. To be brutal, Buddy Guy is close to a blues museum-piece for white folks, not as cynical as Chuck Berry, but getting there. Cray, on the other hand, is carrying the real torch. Treat Buddy as after dinner entertainment Amanda, and don’t miss Cray. A comrade of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s, he’s a committed artist. Fabulous voice, original and interesting and biting non-cliched blues songs, his own subtle picky chopping guitar style, and a kinda Memphis-Elvis horns and organ alround smoothness that … yes, the guy can be seriously sweet. When he’s *there*, he can take you anywhere and back, several times a gig. When he’s not, all that gorgeous seamless smoothness can just collapse down into something coming out of the background in the elevator. Keep your ears out. On his night, he can be so special, I might see you there.
More about Bob: http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/02/07/news-stdylan-02-07.html
OK, so Chris Silva has his story to tell for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, the references to slide and pedal steel are rather tantalising.
Ticket got. No more naysaying! Not til the 20th April anyhow.
More Bob, he won a Grammy: Best Long Form Music Video: “No Direction Home”
Happy for my boy, but a doco is a “long form music video”? No understand.
Brucie won Rock Vocal Performance for Devils and Dust. Go Brucie.