I’m not
normally that big on car songs, but this one is a classic, and is for me the best
thing that Neil Young has ever written (and there’s certainly some stiff
competition).
Saturday, May 7, 2016
#117 Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae (2006)
Although
this one still shows up on WXPN (and on whatever SiriusXM channel my dentist
had on yesterday afternoon), I was a little shocked to find out that it
actually made the Billboard Hot 100 ten years ago, peaking at a modest #64 but
hanging around for 19 weeks. The perfect slow groove for a sunny spring or
summer day, this song is to the year 2006 what War’s “All Day Music” was to 1971.
#116 I Do – The Marvelows (1965)
Irresistibly
infectious, this is undoubtedly the greatest Chicago soul record of the 1960s
that wasn’t written by Curtis Mayfield. (The J. Geils remake released in 1982
isn’t bad either.)
Monday, May 2, 2016
Marti Jones & Don Dixon – Kentlands Arts Barn (Gaithersburg), 4/30/2016
Row 5, Seat
6 (center, about midway back)
Sublime
100-minute performance by the 1980s WHFS mainstays in an intimate environment:
10 or 11 rows in the theater with 9-10 seats per row – sort of like a house
concert if the house had a theater in the top level. Highlights included “The Night
That Otis Died” as the second song (followed by Otis’s own “These Arms Of Mine”),
three tracks from Jones’s recent You’re
Not The Bossa Me (including the hilarious “Keep It To Yourself”), and some
of Marti’s classic radio “hits”, such as “Tourist Town” and “Any Kind Of Lie”.
They closed the main set with “Follow You All Over The World” and encored with
Dixon’s “I Can Hear The River” (since they referred to the theater as “the
best place for music on this side of the river”). Having been married for 28 years,
the couple’s between-songs banter also added a lot to the experience; I now
know, for instance, that her daughter and her boyfriend live with the two of
them and raise snakes.
Local singer
David Kitchen opened with a 35-minute set, which I might have enjoyed more had
his vigorous guitar strumming not overwhelmed both his vocals and the excellent
lead guitar work of accompanist Anthony Pirog.
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