Fantastic news: Jerry Lee's Southern Roots album is coming out on Bear Family as a 2cd complete sessions in August 2013.
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I happen to like the slow, bluesy version from Light The Fuse. It has its merits.
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They are reissuing Muswell Hillbillies as a 2cd set in August 2013.
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He definitely did dye his hair for Performance.
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Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Man wasn't too bad, but 99.5% of the music is disposable. There's always something of interest on even the worst Stones album, but Quo are awful. The Latin term "status quo" is a lot more interesting with reference to politics.
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Quoteelunsi Quotetomcasagranda Here's what I said on CIF Guardian blog re: Mick. I quite like Mick, but he does have alarming Vicar of Bray tendencies, i.e. going with whosoever is in favour: "There's a fascinating book, based on Lytton Strachey, entitled Eminent Elizabethans, by Piers Brendon. Brendon effectively interlinks Prince Charles, Rupert Murdoch, Lady Thatcher, and Mick Jagger.
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Here's what I said on CIF Guardian blog re: Mick. I quite like Mick, but he does have alarming Vicar of Bray tendencies, i.e. going with whosoever is in favour: "There's a fascinating book, based on Lytton Strachey, entitled Eminent Elizabethans, by Piers Brendon. Brendon effectively interlinks Prince Charles, Rupert Murdoch, Lady Thatcher, and Mick Jagger. These four challenged the estab
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This looks far better than the Good vibrations box set.
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PS, it's a pity that Keith, or Jane Rose, doesn't sanction a 2cd deluxe of Talk Is Cheap. There must be some outtakes kicking around.
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It isn't just Bootsy Collins, or Mick Taylor: Maceo Parker, Willie Mitchell, Michael Doucet, Patti Scialfa, and the Memphis Horns all appear on the album. Keith was also listening to current music, i.e. Graceland by Paul Simon, and using it for Locked Away.
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Also Aretha Franklin did a great version for Atlantic: it also crops up on the Girl Interrupted soundtrack. Fogerty's version is with Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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Billy Joe Shaver - Black Rose from Old Five & Dimers.
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I'm a huge fan. I am also a practicing Catholic, but really feel he had something utterly valid to say about Mother Teresa, whom, in my opinion, was a vile hypocrite.
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A veritable Beggars Banquet.
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Quotestonesrule Do keep in mind that in those years The Beatles and the Stones were far more famous than any American band. America had become anglopiles because of their songs. The Doors and Jefferson Airplane were on their way but they were not in the same league. The Beach Boys escalated due to a masterful publicity campaign when they first went to England. And not too long after Creedence
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Quotekeefriffhard4life i am trying to pick what i should blow some money on? the picture book box set or a few early albums in the 2 cd deluxe editions Village Green as a three cd set would be worth investing in, ditto Arthur as a two cd set.
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I heard an mazing Miss You from Wembley Stadium in 1990, as I was at that gig.
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Why Dad's Army was so wonderful was that the sum was greater than the parts; a bit like the Stones really. There were so many wonderful performances in that comedy, ranging from the pompous Manwaring, the subversive Wilson, the miserly undertaker Fraser, and the effeminate vicar. It lost it's initial edge after the death of James Beck, the chap that played Walker, the spiv, but it was still great
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You ooligan, Napoleon !
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Stones-wise, Goats Head Soup and Let It Bleed. Other artist-wise: what I was listening to at 07:00 Hrs this morning, i.e. Bobby Charles' 1972 album, which was produced by Rick Danko.
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PS: the video based on Rear Window is excellent.
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Great song: the live versions from Live Licks, Hampton, and Roundhay are also pretty good too.
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A wee bit disappointed, as no mention of Stevie Ray Vaughan's contribution to Let's Dance.
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Dave Grohl's Sound City album, Stevie Nicks and McCartney are on it.
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Wonder what he'll be like doing Fortunate Son with Fogerty ? I'm looking forward to that album.
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There could be some more Stones recordings: we shouldn't get our hopes up, but here goes: "(Was, who produced two new songs on the GRRR! Rolling Stones hits package released last year, says the band is playing "the best I've ever heard them. They're more present, more focused." He hasn't recorded any more new songs with the band "though I know they've got more."
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Anaheim ? That's where most of Overtures & Beginners, the worst-ever live album, by The Faces was recorded. I also think most of Dylan & The Dead comes from an Anaheim gig.
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I clean and floss four times a day. I listerine once a day, first thing in the morning, and my teeth are still discoloured from the amount of espresso I put away.
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QuoteGravityBoy Quotetomcasagranda Costello played El Mocambo in 1978: the gig was released on his first tranche of reissues, under a limited edition 2 and a Half Years' set. It was a very early Attractions gig. Eh? So this picture is fake? In a word, yes !
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