CANDYMOUTH GOLD

I've heard my share of dirty songs, but this is one I'd never heard. The Clovers, who I knew from "Love Potion Number Nine", were a doo wop group with a few other hits under their belt. They were pretty successful, successful enough to convince Atlantic Records honcho Ahmet Ertegun to let them record their own song. Thus, "Rotten Cocksuckers Ball". The song went nowhere primarily because it was pressed nowhere. That is, until it was bootlegged roughly twenty years later. But as far as dirty songs recorded by major artists go it rivals Jackie Wilson and LaVern Baker's "You Better Think Twice (Version X)". Both pretty much make the Stones' "Cocksucker Blues" sound like childs play.

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Listen:
The Clovers - Rotten Cocksuckers Ball mp3 at Internet Archive
Jackie Wilson and LaVern Baker - Better Think Twice (Version X) mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Rolling Stones- Cocksucker Blues (streaming) at YouTube
Bonus Clovers:
The Clovers - Love Potion Number Nine (streaming) at YouTube
The Clovers - One Mint Julep mp3 at Internet Archive

DAMN GREEDY GEEZERS AND DAMN JUMPSUITS.

Well, what we got here is a few videos of the Stones showing the change in four key years, from 1968 to 1972. These was the transformation from the Brian Jones era to the Mick Taylor era. I chose these because the quality is good on all three. The first one is from the Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Circus. It was originally filmed for a TV special, it didn't get an an official store release until 1996. It also featured Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and The Dirty Mac, a hastily formed supergroup with John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards (on bass!), Mitch Mitchell, Ivry Gitlis (violin) and Yoko Ono ("vocals"). The Stones performed six songs on the show, but I'm only including one because it kind of shows the door starting to close on Brian Jones. His attendance at recording sessions was getting sporatic, his behavior more erratic and his contributions to the band getting to be less frequent. Drugs. Showing him on stage during "Sympathy For The Devil" playing only maracas, I had all sorts of jokes lined up. "Man, that cat could play anything, even maracas!" "Hey, one-upped by a Monkee, Davy Jones could do the maracas AND sing." Jones was clearly on his out. He died less then seven months later.

The next cip is from 1971, the song "Midnight Rambler". Including this one because it just shows that every band, including one at the top of their game, can drag a song out to a length that is totally unnecessary. The studio version of "Midnight Rambler" is already long, over six minutes, but they tack on another three minutes here and it is not needed. But, hey, back with two capable guitar players, there are a few tasty licks.

The last clip is from the film "Ladies and Gentleman, the Rolling Stones" a film of their 1972 U.S. tour. Before I go further, that one big truth: Jumpsuits do not look good on anyone. There are a few obvious exceptions (mechanics, astronauts, race car drivers, Devo), but, man. Particularly the tight jumpsuits. That's fucking REO Speedwagon mentality right there. Blech! And yet, from Elvis, to Jagger, Steven Tyler, fucking Ted Nugent! It's one shark jump after another. It's just fucking awful. And exhale. Anyway, this one because your rarely see Keith Richards singing "Happy" and even more rare is seeing him sing it right around the time it was released. The transformation is complete. This was the last time the Stones really mattered. In just a few years they'd lose Mick Taylor, pick up Ron Wood, lose Bill Wyman, and get Darryl Jones. This leads me to another damn tangent. Why isn't Darryl Jones an official Rolling Stone? He's toured with them and recorded with them since 1993...I just did a search. It's fucking money. That is still a bad answer. How about some respect? Man, fuck them.

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Video:
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil at YouTube Rock 'n' Roll Circus, 1968
The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler (Live, Marquee Club) at YouTube 1971
The Rolling Stones - Happy (From "Ladies & Gentlemen") at YouTube 1972

IT'S PARTISAN SOMEWHERE

I just realized, the Beatles vs Stones debate probably doesn't happen anymore. If you're of a certain age, you're thinking "Beatles vs Stones debate? What the hell is that?" Back in the day, it was a thing. You were a Beatles fiend or a Rolling Stones fiend. It was a binary choice. They. Could. Not. Be. Tied. Everybody had to take a stand. If you didn't, you were a music plebeian. I'm sure there were couples where it was a big enough deal that a marriage might not move forward if one didn't relent.

Last week I ran across some Exile on Main St.-era Stones videos (1972). Playing live in a studio, a sound-stage or something. Pretty clean footage, and nice to see them in a controlled environment, live without the distraction of an audience. Then last night I ran into a great Beatles related video. Peter Jackson, the guy who made the Lord of the Rings movies, got a hold of fifty something hours of Beatles footage, from when they were making Let It Be. The clip was about six minutes, including a introduction by Jackson. It's a teaser for a documentary he's making from the footage, now apparently delayed due to the pandemic. The footage is from roughly 1969, presented as sort of a montage, some synced to the backing track, them rehearsing "Get Back". It's excellent. There's a link down there with Paul McCartney raving to Howard Stern about how good the footage is.

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Watch:
The Beatles: Get Back - A Sneak Peek from Peter Jackson at YouTube
Paul McCartney Has Seen the Upcoming Beatles Documentary From Director Peter Jackson at YouTube
The Rolling Stones - Loving Cup (Montreux 1972) at YouTube
The Rolling Stones - Shake Your Hips (Montreux 1972) at YouTube
The Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice (Montreux 1972) at YouTube
The Rolling Stones - Jam Session (Montreux 1972) at YouTube

 

MAKE THAT THREE.

Most of you know who Robert Johnson is and some of you know exactly how many known photos of him there are. I hadn't checked in a while, but I know the last time I did, probably about twenty years ago, there were two. Now there are three. And that's big news. It was recently posted online, as in the last day or two, and is from the cover of a book about him by his sister. She had the photo with others in a cedar chest for years. The whole story about it is at Vanity Fair.

For those of you who don't know shit, Johnson was a blues man, had a short life, highly influential, sold his soul to the devil, blah, blah, blah. There's tons of shit elsewhere. There's a couple songs down there and a couple covers (the Stones and the Gun Club) but the real reason is just to hep you to photo #3.

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Listen:
Robert Johnson - Preaching Blues mp3 at More Things
Robert Johnson - Stop Breaking Songs mp3 at More Things
Gun Club - Preaching The Blues (streaming) at YouTube
The Rolling Stones - Stop Breakin' Down (streaming) at YouTube

LOCK DOWN THEATER NIGHT 12

You may have seen this before if you're a Stones freak or old, or both. If you haven't seen it you might want to see what the Stones were like back when the were still cool. Live footage, off stage footage, studio footage. It looks like it's the whole film, but I didn't watch every minute so I could be wrong. I have the DVD so I know how it ends.

THE SPECIALS ARE GHOSTIER

Well, would you look who's recorded a "stay at home" song. The Rolling Stones. Two things occur to me. One is that although "we're all in this together", it's hard to imagine the Exile On Main St.-era Stones (arguably when they peaked) recording a topical song based on current events, that is unless it was something that happened to them. Well, this one did, they had to postpone a tour. Although the song was already written, Jagger went back and changed some of the lyrics. It kind of reeks. Cheap gimmicks, stealth marketing. Pandering. Not because it's a bad song, it just really isn't the "we're all in this together" moment it would seem. I can't read their minds but by releasing it and getting mentions in the press (and hack blogs) they're keeping their name out there for when the tour is allowed to go on.

The other thing that occurred to me is that the Specials visited the same terrain in a heavier sounding song almost forty years ago. Right after the stay at home orders were issued and the streets became deserted at least three or four of my friends posted the Specials' "Ghost Town". I'd been putting it off because it seemed too obvious. That and because I'm tired of thinking about covid shit all day.

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Listen:
The Specials - Ghost Town mp3 at Thighs Wide Shut
Video:
The Rolling Stones - Living In a Ghost Town at YouTube
The Specials - Ghost Town at YouTube

A NICE BREATHER

Someone posted this on Facebook and I about peed my pants. Then I went looking. I came to find that it's nearly impossible to find anywhere but Facebook. It might be because it is easily searchable under the original title and was being taken down all the time. Who knows? I looked elsewhere, used different search terms and eventually found it. That's the good news. The bad news for those lacking in a sense of humor is that it is not a vintage live performance. It is a piss take, a shred video. It's silly and it's just what I need. Watch the first thirty seconds. If you don't at least chuckle, I don't know you.

HE ALSO DID THIS

Robert Frank just died, on Monday. He was 94. He was a damn good photographer whose lifes work would be complete if he did nothing other than The Americans, a book of his photographic images, with text by Jack Kerouac, published in 1958. In the glossy days of Ozzie and Harriet, white picket fences and All-Americans, he chose as his subject matter the flip side. The seedy, the poor, the tough, all the shit that the get-off-my-lawners wanted to pretend didn't exist.

Robert Frank, 1973, photographed by Richard Avedon.

 

Frank also made films. A year after The Americans, he made his first film, Pull My Daisy, with narration by Kerouac and featuring poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso. That's some heavy hitters. In the early seventies, he worked with some other heavy hitters, making a feature length film with the Rolling Stones. (His photography was also featured on the cover of Exile on Main St.) Finished in 1972, the film, Cocksucker Blues was never widely released, apparently a little too telling. If you know anything about the Stones, you can probably think of a dozen things that happen behind the scenes with them on tour that they would think would damage their career. Probably two dozen. The Stones tried to keep the lid on it but Frank wanted it released. After the dust settled the court order stated that it could be shown, but only if Frank was present in the theater. Now that Frank is dead, what happens?

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I only mention this because I was amazed to find it online, on YouTube of all places. There are a few links to it on dubious looking sites so I went way back in the search results. If you want to see it, particularly if you're a Robert Frank person, I'd check it out right away. With Frank's profile raised after his passing, it probably won't be up for long. Check the comment by "whenAM radiorocked" under the video (at YouTube) for the story of how it ended up there. And check out Frank's work. Photography today would be different if he had not been so tuned to the street.

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Visit:
Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 at NY Times
The Shock of Robert Frank's "The Americans" at The New Yorker
Robert Frank at Wikipedia
Robert Frank photos via Google image search
Video:
The Rolling Stones - Rocks Off at YouTube Shot by Frank

MISSISSIPPI SLIM JOHNSON

Been on a bit of a Stones binge lately. Let It Bleed through Exile, at the same time reading Keith Richard's Life and the 33 1/3 Series book on Exile On Main St.. Both books are great, they complement each other, particularly if you're into that era of the Stones, roughly '69 through '72, and you happen to be on that sort of binge. Alas, every time I've posted Stones stuff I've been respectively requested to cut that shit out. Freddy Sessler is on it. So, here's three songs they covered, "You Gotta Move" by Mississippi Fred McDowell (covered on Sticky Fingers), and Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips" and Robert Johnson's "Stop Breaking Down Blues" (covered on Exile On Main St.).

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Listen:
Mississippi Fred McDowell You Gotta Move mp3 at Tumblr (?)
Slim Harpo - Shake Your Hips mp3 at Le Mellotron
Robert Johnson - Stop Breaking Down Blues mp3 at More Things

THIS HAPPENED YESTERDAY. WHY?

Of all the covers to do, why this one? What, are we Aerosmith now? Jeez. I can think of plenty of other Beatles songs that they could have done that would not have reminded me of fucking Aerosmith, the band that has always so desperately wanted to be the '72-era Stones. They should've known better.

I'M SORRY, WE'RE OUT OF TIME

Man, Roxy Music just can't get a break around here. After constant detours, I was finally going to kick out a post about them, and just get it out of the way. But for the fourth or fifth time, I ended up somewhere completely different. Tonight it was going to start with "Editions of You" because it's early, relatively raw, and it pretty much rocks. Then it was going to be Mudhoney's cover of it (insane guitar on that one), and on to more Roxy Music from there. But I paused, thought about how "Editions of You" could very well be their "Rip This Joint", which is, of course, one of the most rocking songs the Stones ever did. Both songs are raw, and both with a nod towards fifties era rock 'n' roll, particularly the sax solos. Then I ended ended up watching a clip of Green Day doing "Rip This Joint" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, which I hadn't seen before. Or at least remember seeing. It's tight, but all I could think was "they better have a sax solo". They did. And now I'm no longer thinking about Roxy Music. That's how that happens.

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Listen:
Roxy Music - Editions of You (streaming) at YouTube
Mudhoney - Editions of Youth mp3 at I Am Fuel, You Are Friends This rips.
Rolling Stones - Rip This Joint (streaming) at YouTube
Video:
Green Day - Rip This Joint at YouTube From Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Roxy Music - Editions of You at YouTube

YOU CAN SHAKE OTHER STUFF TOO

It isn't often that you run into Exile-era Stones clips that aren't concert footage, so, what the hell. Check the clip linked below. It's them doing "Shake Your Hips" from the German TV show Beat Club, what appears to be a rehearsal, or maybe just a promo film. To compare and contrast, there's the original too, from Slim Harpo. As things happen, while looking for an image I ran into a high resolution of that baddass one above. That was it. Fuck the Stones, it's Slim Harpo's night.

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Listen:
Slim Harpo - Shake Your Hips mp3 at Snuhthing Anything
Slim Harpo - Baby, Scratch My Back  mp3 at LZ Center
Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Slim Harpo - I Got Love If You Want It mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban

Video:

The Rolling Stones - Shake Your Hips (Beat Club) at YouTube Followed by "Tumbling Dice"

Pin up:
Slim Harpo at Ace Records High resolution copy of above image.

USED TOOLS FOR SALE

The Rolling Stones are reportedly playing a private party tonight, in a venue near San Diego that holds about 500 people. They are being paid by Ralph Whitworth, an ex-HP fat cat, reportedly to the tune of two million dollars. That's $2,000,000. That's a lot of cheese. This Whitworth fellow must have a deep wallet, and really, really want to impress his friends. I think it's disgusting.

There are a number of reasons why this sucks, if it is indeed happening. First, the money. Defenders would say that in many cases like this, the artist just designates a charity and the money goes to a noble cause. Bullshit, I do cry. If this was so charitable, why doesn't the artist just donate the money without playing? Hell, how about Mr. Bucks Deluxe? Another thing that bugs me, is that it's the Stones. Yeah, they've been an exclusive lot for a half a century, practically out of the gate. But what happened to those nose thumbing rebel rousers who once stated "We piss anywhere, man."? We all know that changed years ago, but c'mon. Suckups. (Note: You kids of today, nothing past "Exile". If you don't know what that means, you will.)

And then there's Whitworth. I don't know anything about him, other than he's obscenely wealthy, entirely out of touch, and insanely desperate for attention. And he's sucking our oxygen. Think I'm being harsh? Check this, the same guy hired another band to play as a surprise for his wife's birthday party, and that set him back one million dollars. I don't know if the band had a name, but the singer was some hack named Paul McCartney. True story. His money did go to charity, but again, just get out your checkbook and quit showing off like an asshole. 

That felt good.

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Listen:
The Rolling Stones - Salt of the Earth (streaming) at YouTube
Visit:
An ex-HP exec repotedly paid millions for a private Rolling Stones show near San Diego at Business Insider Found by web search, just so you know.
Rolling Stones rumor: Secret show Wednesday night? at CBS8 Video Report

CHARLIE HAS GOOD BUD

I ran into an interesting post at this weeks salvage yard, Now That's What I Call Bullshit. The site hasn't been updated for a year, but there's a lot of good stuff buried in their old posts. This particular one is from 2009.  It's four songs by the those guys pictured above. I'm not linking to the songs themselves because every time I link to mp3s by them I get a nasty visit from the goon squad. I'll just give you an idea of what's there, give you a link to the post that has them, and be on my way.

It's four oddballs, three of which are Beggars Banquet outtakes. "Pay Your Dues" is an alternate version of "Street Fighting Man" with different lyrics and title. The second is from the last session with Brian Jones, a ten minute version of Muddy Waters's "Still A Fool". The third outtake is"Sweet Lucy", a version of which ended up on Metamorphosis (a cash-in compilation of Stones oddballs), as "Downtown Suzie". The other song is "Memo From Turner", released in two different versions, one on Metamorphosis, and the other on the soundtrack to the film Performance. The one posted over there is the soundtrack version, and is actually Jagger's vocal laid over backing tracks recorded later, the slide by Ry Cooder, with Randy Newman playing piano, and Jack Nitzsche producing. There's at least one other version that's wound up on bootlegs, supposedly with some or all members of Traffic, and few Stones. I'm not sure of all of the details, but there's a whole Wiki page for the song, so dig in if you're so inclined. But, the one on the soundtrack is the defining version, with Cooder's slide, which really is what makes the song.

Besides the four songs mentioned above, as mp3s (at the bottom of their post), and some text, there's a letter from Big Lips McGhee to Andy Warhol, wherein he thanks him for taking on the Sticky Fingers album art job, and then proceeds to make suggestions. Yeesh.

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Listen:
Four Stones oddballs at Now That's What I Call Bullshit (see above)
Rolling Stones - Memo From Turner (streaming) at YouTube Personnel unclear
Rolling Stones - Memo From Turner (streaming) at YouTube Ditto
Video:
Mick Jagger - Memo From Turner at YouTube A clip from the film Performance
Visit:
Memo From Turner entry at Wikipedia
Letter from Jagger to Warhol Large readable scan
Pay Your Dues lyrics (scroll down)

WE'RE NEW HERE

Well folks, this is how it's done when it's done well. Boogie Woogie Flu just posted their third in a series about the Stones' early years, from 1963 through 1965. They do it up right, with some interesting factoids, Stones songs from the period (including some unreleased), and a bucket load of original versions of songs that the Stones covered. If you're at all a fan of their early stuff, these posts should take care of a good chunk of your allotted lurking time. I'll just leave it at that.

Here's a sip, just a few of the original versions of the Stones covered songs. There's a whole lot more where these came from. While you're over there, dig around a bit. If it's good enough to make it to the Get Lost list, that's just what you should do. As on Hee-Haw, "Sal-luuute!"

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Listen:
Chuck Berry - Come On mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Muddy Waters - I Want To Be Loved mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love To You mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
The Coasters - Poison Ivy mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
The Valentinos - It's All Over Now mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Visit the posts:
Gather No Moss - Rolling Stones post, Part 1 at Boogie Woogie Flu
England's Newest Hitmakers - Rollings Stones post, Part 2 at Boogie Woogie Flu
2120 South Michigan Avenue - Rolling Stones post, Part 3 at Boogie Woogie Flu

WE PISS ANYWHERE MAN

I was bumming around The Hound Blog the other day and I ran into a really good post about the bootleg 6 CD set that is The Genuine Black Box, a set that the Hound rates as the best ever Stones bootleg (and this guy knows his shit). He posted a whole bunch of worthwhile stuff, from early demos and unreleased finished songs to alternate takes and alternate vocals (Jagger on "You Got The Silver," and Richards on "Gimme Shelter"). I'm not linking to any of the songs, because you really ought to go there to get them, he's got all these awesome annotations going on. (Click on the linked song titles in the text for the songs.) All the stuff is great quality, some much more raw sounding than the released versions, which suits me fine. (Check out "Jumpin' Jack Flash.") Well, don't just stand around looking stupid. Go get 'em!

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Listen:
The Secret World Of The Rolling Stones- The Genuine Black Box at The Hound Blog Roughly 18 songs, a few videos and and the background information on the songs and set.

JERK IS THE WORD

Who's idea was it? I have wanted to know for years, just who's idea it was for the Stones to change the phrase in Chuck Berry's "Come On," that goes "some stupid jerk trying to reach another number" to "some stupid guy trying to reach another number"? Being that it was done on their very first 45, it could be the secret of the whole dynamic of the band. What if Jagger and Richards agreed about everything else up to that point, but Jagger was insistent enough about changing the word "jerk" to "guy," that Richards assumed the "fuck off" attitude of the band, right then and there? Or could it have been the idea of Andrew Loog Oldham? Maybe they had a vote. Who knows? I thought that the answer to this lingering question would be in Richards' tell-all autobiography Life, but no. He doesn't tell all. Not of what I want to know.

The answer's probably out there, in some Stones book, or in the mental database of any real Stones fiend. Regardless, I was reminded of that when I ran into a couple posts at Boogie Woogie Flu. Both posts are about the Stones' early material, particularly the covers they did, and they're a nice mix of the covers original versions, early Stones oddballs and a couple of unreleased tracks. I'm not linking directly to any Stones stuff (just go there to get them). Let's just say that this time it's because they changed the lyrics to a Chuck Berry song on their first record. Yeah, they're lucky this big shot listens to them at all.

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Listen:
Chuck Berry - Come On mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Muddy Waters - I Want To Be Loved mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love To You mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Bo Diddley - Mona mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Visit:
Gather No Moss - Rolling Stones post, part 1 (13 more songs) at Boogie Woogie Flu
England's Newest Hitmakers - Rollings Stones post, part 2 (9 more songs) at Boogie Woogie Flu

A TV OFF A BALCONY. REALLY?

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YOU GONNA EAT ALL THAT?

What we got here is a good old fashioned time waster. At Quoperative, a blog I just ran across today, there's a post leads to an interactive gizmo that separates all of the different tracks of the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" so that you can listen to them isolated as single tracks, or you can just drop out Bill Wyman. As the host of the blog, a guy named Steve, points out, you can hear imperfections that you wouldn't ordinarily hear (he mentions Merry Clayton's voice cracks at 3:00). Unfortunately there's no fader or volume controls, so you'll have to wait to play full-on producer.

I would have posted some mp3s of "Gimme Shelter," and some covers (specifically Merry Clayton's) but I've got to play it safe. I've been on the receiving end of two stern reprimands for posts, and the only common denominator was the Rolling Stones. Long story short, Jagger has it in for me, dating back to a grilled cheese sandwich incident at a Denny's in Sayre, Oklahoma back in '75. So, no mp3s, but there are a couple links to pages where you can find the grilled cheese watchdog & company doing "Hound Dog" live, and another link to a page that has the guitar and vocal tracks isolated and posted as mp3s, along with a nice little write up about the song itself.

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Listen:
Gimme Shelter Deconstructed at Quoperative
Gimme Shelter Deconstructed blog post with description at Quoperative
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter post at Plain or Pan
Bonus:
Rolling Stones - Hound Dog (Live, Memphis 1978) at Rollo & Grady

STONES PLAY WAYLON

Let's just get this out of the way, for you one song cherry pickers: The Stones doing "Waylon Jenning's "Bob Wills Is Still the King" live video is here. It's okay, Ron Wood plays pedal steel. Hey, I'm a card carrying Jagger-doubter, and I found it interesting. Stick around for the Wills.

I'm lame. My whole country and western lack of knowledge thing is downright embarrassing. I know the big names, and some tier two stuff, but when it gets deeper than that, I defer. I know I like 'em old, and I know I like 'em authentic. One who's both, the archetype of (the "Chuck Berry of" if you will) western swing is Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. (That always bothers me, that whole "and his" jive. Seriously, you don't own them.) My initiation to western swing was from an early 70's Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airman concert. (There you go, another "and his"! Knock it the hell off!) They were riding high on their hit cover of Johnny Bond's "Hot Rod Lincoln". A friend gave me and my brother some tickets that he won from a radio station. Of course, they played their hit, and songs that sounded a lot like it. But they also dipped into their hat and pulled out some rockabilly and some western swing (including Bob Will's biggee "San Antonio Rose"). Other than the odd rockabilly hit on the oldies station, this was my introduction to both western swing and rockabilly. Weren't the 70s great? You could get a musical education from a bunch of long haired potheads.

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Listen:
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - San Antonio Rose mp3 at The Rising Storm
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Big Ball's In Cowtown mp3 at The Rising Storm
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - What Makes Bob Holler mp3 at The Rising Storm
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Cotton Eyed Joe mp3 at Rocky-52.net
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airman - Hot Rod Lincoln mp3 at CHS1968.com
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airman - Seeds and Stems mp3 at The Rising Storm
Watch:
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Ida Red video at YouTube
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Everybody's Doing It video at YouTube
The Rolling Stones - Bob Wills Is Still the King (live) video at YouTube
Read:
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Extensive Fan site, bios, the works