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| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @ jssmith It's easy to cherry pick a few lyrics from any era that are unsophisticated and even silly. But I don't think this discussion is about the worst of any era, it's about the best. And, in my opinion at least, the best of the 60s, 70s, ... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato Re: "Good Morning, Little School Girl" While the Grateful Dead was one of many groups and artists who performed and/or recorded it, the song and lyrics are generally credited to Sonny Boy Williamson. Like most blues songs, however, Sonny probably... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @bdp24 - I think we’re talking about two very different things. I’m aware of just about all the artists you mentioned and I do stay fairly up to date on the new young artists entering the scene. Like you, my tastes lean toward the catch-all Americ... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato But where are the young Rodney Crowells and Iris DeMents and Buddy Millers? They're all still marvelous songwriters but they're from another era. Who's going to carry on when they're gone? Taylor Swift? Olivia Rodriguez? Ed Sheeran? No thanks. | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato Maybe people who listen to the radio wouldn't listen to oldies stations if there was anything better on the new music stations. In your previous comment you mentioned Lucinda, Timmins, and Earle, but as great as the are they're all in their 60s. ... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato "As for the 21st century, I'm hard pressed to think of anyone who deserves to be mentioned or compared to any of the above songwriters." Totally agree. Most of the best songwriters of the 21st century got started in the 20th century. Try to name ... | |
| Top 10 Live Albums Scrounged through my digital collection of live shows and came up with these additions to the list: John Hiatt - Live from Austin TX Bill Monroe - Live from the Opry John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana - Love, Devotion, Surrender Johnny Cash-... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? @stuartk Yes, the Dead’s jazz influences don’t show up as consistently as with the ABB, probably because their music encompasses a lot more different musical styles and genres. But you can certainly hear it in songs like Eyes of the World, Bird S... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? @stuartk Must be hard to "sing along" with Liz Reed since it's an instrumental! Scatting? As I'm sure you're aware, Phil Lesh introduced the other members of the Dead to Coltrane, among others. And Bob Weir has often said that his chording style... | |
| Top 10 Live Albums Damn, you folks got just about all of them....but not quite. Don't think these have been listed yet: Lot of live Dead stuff, but I didn't see Live Dead mentioned. Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders - The Complete Keystone Collection Garcia, Grism... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "The Grateful Dead coined the phrase "the music plays the band" to refer to this phenomena and it seems as good as any. Once experienced, it’s unmistakable and when musicians access this state, there’s no way the audience won’t be swept along." A... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters Btw Garcia played the pedal steel part on CSNYs Teach Your Children. | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters When Jerry Garcia started playing pedal steel around 1970 he was quoted as saying it would take him another lifetime to master the instrument. | |
| Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing? 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall — Andy Kaufman | |
| Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing? Grateful Dead- Brown Eyed Women “I got a hankerin to fire up the still Drink down a bottle Get ready to kill “ |