Shady Groove Podcast #13
Merry Turk-a-lurk-a-durk to ya all!
Here we go….
Shady Groove Podcast 12:
Marvin Gaye – Got to Give it Up ++ The Isley Brothers – Twist and Shout ++ Eric Clapton – Willie and the Hand Jive ++ William DeVaughn – Be Thankful For What You Got ++ The Black Crowes – Locust Street ++ Booker T. and the MG’s – Green Onions ++ Chuck Berry – Havana Moon ++ Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady ++ The Kinks – Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues ++ King Curtis – Soul Serenade ++ The Dramatics – Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get ++ Wilco – You Never Know ++ Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come ++ The Avett Brothers – Please Pardon Yourself ++ Sam Cooke – A Change is Gonna Come ++ The Gourds – Meat Off The Bone
Happy Birthday Mr. Young!
Shady Groove would like to give a big Happy 65th Birthday to one of the most influential musicians of his generation, Neil Percival Young.
Neil has been one of the most prolific and singer/songwriter ever and he has a body of work that is surpassed only by Bob Dylan. Since he released his first album with Buffalo Springfield in 1968 up through this year, he has been writing and performing. His work has as a musician has spanned 40 years and 34 studio albums, which is only a portion of his full catalog.
The constant experimentalist, Neil has tried out many different musical styles. He has also been known as Bernard Shakey, Phil Perspective, Shakey Deal, Clyde Coil, Shakey, Joe Yankee, Joe Canuck, and his influence on alternative rock and grunge even led some to dub him “the Godfather of Grunge”.
Lets give a tribute to this wonderful songwriter and musician. Tonight’s the night to pop on your favorite Neil album and let it spin. I’ll start with one of his finest. Check this out from Harvest.
Shady Groove Podcast #12
Still in a Soulfull mood this week…..
Podcast 12 included: Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine ++ Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Woman (The Way I Love You) ++ Billy Preston – Will it Go Round In Circles ++ Willie Nelson – Night Life (Live) ++ Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse ++ Bob Marley – Dewdrops ++ Eric Clapton – Ain’t That Lovin’ You ++ The Allman Brothers Band – Blue Sky (live) ++ Leon Russell – Dixie Lullaby ++ Stevie Ray Vaughn – Life By the Drop ++ James Brown – Papa Don’t Take No Mess ++ The Slickers – Johnny Too Bad ++ The Gourds – Ceilings Leaking
The King’s Debut
This day in music History:
On November 10, 1955, Elvis Presley attended the fourth Country Music Disc Jockey Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Back at his hotel, Mae Boren Axton played him a demo of a new song she had written with Tommy Durden called “Heartbreak Hotel”.
The song was inspired by the suicide of a man, who left the note, “I walk a lonely street”. Axton, a high school teacher of Jacksonville, Florida, who read the news in The Miami Herald, wrote the song in thirty minutes in 1955.
Presley would go on to record the song the following year and would be his first single for RCA records. This single, released on January 27, 1956 would become the first #1 pop single for Elvis and was the best selling single of 1956. It would skyrocket his career and was his introduction into American music popularity.
It has been ranked number forty-five on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”, and in 2005, Uncut Magazine ranked the first performance of “Heartbreak Hotel” in 1956 by Presley as the second greatest and most important cultural event of the rock and roll era.
Countless people have covered the song in concert. Willie Nelson and Leon Russell had a number one cover version in 1979 on the country charts. The song was Russell’s only number one hit on the charts. Former president Bill Clinton even performed the song with his saxophone during his appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show on June 3, 1992.
A groundbreaking song to say the least. Check it out. Rock it out.
Rocktoberfest 2010
Shady Groove Podcast 11: Rocktoberfest
This week we pay homage to the wonders of alcohol..
Our weekly podcast included the following baccanalian tunes:
Podcast 11: Hank Williams Jr. & Hank Williams Sr. – There’s a Tear In My Beer ++ Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon – Beer Drinking Woman ++ Tom Waits – The Piano Has Been Drinking ++ The Polka Kings – In Heaven There is No Beer ++ John Lee Hooker – 1 Bourbon, 1 Scotch, 1 Beer ++ Shinyribs – Country Cool ++ The Doors – Roadhouse Blues ++ The Gourds – Waxy’s Dargle ++ Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die ++ The Kinks – Alcohol ++ The Gourds – Whiskey and Blood ++ The Doors – Alabama Song ++ The Gourds – Bugs In The Whiskey ++ Van Morrison – Moonshine Whiskey ++ The Gourds – I Like Drinkin’