Shady Groove Podcast #30: Slightly Funky
Well, Well. 30 podcasts down. Many more to come…
My objective when I started this blog and podcast was to educate, and entertain. I want to bring you some great music that maybe you don’t hear everyday. Introduce you to some rare gems that may or may not be in your iPods or cd players or on your turntables. I’m interested in the b-sides. The rarities. The songs on the album that are not the radio hits. That is where the real magic occurs. When a band makes an album they put a great deal of effort into deciding where a given song may go on the album, so that the album “flows”, or tells a story. I hope that you all make an effort to listen to the “whole” album. It really makes a difference in the overall feel. So listen to the SG podcasts, be entertained, and buy the album if you like the song.
Anyway, enough rambling by me. Check out podcast #30. Just another bomb set of music from your favorite blogger.
SG Podcast #30 includes these musical musings:
10cc – Dreadlock Holiday ++ Junior Murvin – Police and Thieves ++ Talking Heads – (Nothing But) Flowers ++ Booker T. & The MG’s – Hang Em High ++ Booker T. Jones (feat. Matt Berninger & Sharon Jones) – Representing Memphis ++ Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings – I’m Not Gonna Cry ++ Uncle Tupelo – New Madrid ++ Bow Thayer – Wingless Angels ++ Eddie Spaghetti – Some People Say ++ Cake – You Part The Waters ++ Paul McCartney and Wings – Let Me Roll It ++ The Strokes – Undercover of Darkness ++ Taj Mahal – Fishin’ Blues ++ The Gourds – High Highs and Low Lows
SG’s Very Own: This Day in Music
On this day in 1966 (actually yesterday Aug 8):
In response to John Lennon’s remark about The Beatles being bigger than Jesus, The South African Broadcasting Corporation banned all Beatles records.
The Beatles also released their album, Revolver, in the US on this day. It spent 77 weeks on the Billboard chart, peaking at #1.
Also on this day (Aug 8) in 1969:
The photo session for the cover of The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’ album took place on the crossing outside Abbey Road studios. Photographer Iain McMillan, balanced on a step-ladder in the middle of the road took six shots of John, Ringo, Paul, and George walking across the zebra crossing while a policeman held up the traffic. The band then returned to the studio and recorded overdubs on ‘The End’, ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ and ‘Oh! Darling’.
On another note:
Check out Atmosphere’s song Guns and Cigarettes. Laden with references to the occasion, they say there gonna be “bigger than jesus and bigger than wrestling, bigger than The Beatles and bigger than breast implants”.
Drop The Needle On Shady Groove Podcast #29
As you may have noticed, SG has been out of the podcast game for the last month. I know, I know, you all would like to know where I have been. Has there been a problem? Is Shady Groove going to continue?
Well, to answer your questions, SG is doing just fine. Let’s just say there were some technical difficulties with my hosting site and the problem has been remedied. We have taken that time off to update our website and our podcast playback abilities.
So Welcome to the NEW Shady Groove!!!
It felt great dropping this weeks podcast. Tracks included these gems:
Podcast #29:
The Wood Brothers – One More Day ++ Joe Pug – Messenger ++ Kings Of Leon – Back Down South ++ Taj Mahal – Queen Bee ++ Toots and the Maytals – Pomps and Pride ++ Ramsay Midwood – Spinnin On This Rock ++ Band Of Horses – Laredo ++ Wilco – Jesus, Etc. ++ Gomez – Options ++ Hayes Carll – Heaven Above ++ Bob Marley and the Wailers – Time Will Tell ++ Jessica Lea Mayfield – Our Hearts Are Wrong ++ Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – This Land Is Your Land ++ The Gourds – Pill Bug Blues
relax. enjoy.
Download Shady Groove Podcast #29
This Day In Music History
July 23, 1969:
The Rolling Stones were at No. 1 on the UK singles chart with “Honky Tonk Women’, the group’s 8th and last UK No. 1. The song also topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks from 23 August 1969.
It is ranked #116 on the list of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Two versions of the song were recorded. Both are excellent in their own way. ‘Country Honk’ is the country version of the song released on Let It Bleed five months after the single release.
In an interview in the magazine Crawdaddy, Richards credits Taylor for influencing the track: “… the song was originally written as a real Hank Williams/Jimmie Rodgers/1930s country song. And it got turned around to this other thing by Mick Taylor, who got into a completely different feel, throwing it off the wall another way.”
I’m a big believer that you can usually tell how great a song is by how many great musicians have covered it. Here are some known cover-ers of Honky Tonk Woman:
Waylon Jennings
Joe Cocker
Taj Mahal
Humble Pie
Ike and Tina Turner
Elton John
Gram Parsons
The Meters
Some good company right there.
Freedom of ’76
Dear Shady Groove readers and listeners,
I hope you all had a great Independence day. You may have caught some fireworks, maybe even blew some stuff up yourselves. Anyway, we all get back to the grind this week and as I drove back into this wonderful city of brotherly love, I was reminded of how great it has been to live here. I tip my hat to Philadelphia. Great history, great music, great food, great city. So, thanks for celebrating with me. And thanks for listening to Shady Groove.
Ryan-
This song has been in my head all weekend. Hillarious old video. Local boys, Gene and Dean Ween doing Freedom of 76. Going all the way back to 1994. Pure Guava was still a new album and they had just written this song which will appear on Chocolate and Cheese. An ode to Philly. Enjoy: