See The
World – Gomez
Heard
1/27/2015 around 5:45, at Jerry’s Subs (Fallsgrove)
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Sunday, January 25, 2015
LP #24 Cold Blood (1969)
What’s
wrong with this recipe?
Start
with a great bluesy singer, Lydia Pense. (Think Janis Joplin without the death
rattle.) Stir in some Latin percussion and a great horn section, add great
material to work with, and hook the whole thing up with legendary rock promoter
Bill Graham.
You’d
think you would wind up with an act that was every bit as successful as, say,
Santana, or Blood, Sweat & Tears. Instead, other than at a concert by the
band I went to last year, nobody I mention them to has ever heard of them. This
album did manage to reach a respectable #23 on Billboard’s sales chart when it
came out, and they put out some good stuff afterwards as well.
Fortunately,
the best of their music is easily available in digital form, although finding
CDs can be hit or miss.
Favorite
tracks:
I’m A Good
Woman / Let Me Down Easy (really need to be heard back-to-back)
If You Will
Shuffle #46 (January 25, 2015)
There’s No
Other Like My Baby – The Crystals
Zydeco Dog –
Zachary Smith & The Dixie Power Trio
Watershed –
Indigo Girls
Teach Your
Children – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Dead And
Gone – Gypsy
If I Wanted
Someone – Dawes
Stay –
Jackson Browne