Music from my generation

Too long since I posted in this thread. Not all the great music from my generation was rock.



Willie Nelson born April 29. 1933 age 89

Two greats sing together- try and key your eyes dry...

The real Willie: Toby Keith and Scott Emerick singing this song during Willie Nelson's 70th birthday celebration.



I will leave you with this song by the son of Woody Guthrie from 1967

 
Well, 2tank, I thought I liked this Alice's restaurant but not tonight. We did like the first 2 & the fourth, fun & funny stuff! The others were too dirge-y/long. We have a limited scope often.
 
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorcycle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorcycle
And I don't want to die
I just want to ride on my motorcycle

Play this in 1080p or at least 720.
 
"Birdland" is a jazz/pop song written by Joe Zawinul of the band Weather Report as a tribute to the Birdland nightclub in New York City, which appeared on the band's 1977 album Heavy Weather. The Manhattan Transfer won a Grammy Award with their 1979 version of the song, which had lyrics by Jon Hendricks.[1] Quincy Jones won two Grammy Awards for the version of the piece he included on his 1989 album Back on the Block.[2]
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I am sure I posted the original Weather report version of this tune. But a couple of days ago I stumbled onto this. It was one of those good things that resulted from the pandemic. Play it in 1-80p.

 
Wow- another find.

I make no secret of my love for slide aka bottleneck, guitar. I have often posted in this thread about my love of Little Feat and especially Lowell George. Well I can across this on YoUTube. It is from a show he did after he left Feat and went solo. It was recorded on June 20 , 1979. Lowell passed 9 days later in a hotel in Alexandria, VA.

Somebody once wrote thins describing Lowell George: "Two degrees in bebop, a PHD in swing, he's a master of rhythm, he's a rock and roll king" That very well might be an understatement, imo.


 
Here is a real blast from the past....



"Sixteen Tons" is a song written by Merle Travis about a coal miner, based on life in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.[2] Travis first recorded the song at the Radio Recorders Studio B in Hollywood, California, on August 8, 1946. Cliffie Stone played bass on the recording.[3] It was first released in July 1947 by Capitol on Travis's album Folk Songs of the Hills.[4] The song became a gold record.

The line "You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt" came from a letter written by Travis's brother John.[2] Another line came from their father, a coal miner, who would say: "I can't afford to die. I owe my soul to the company store."[5]


The best known version was recorded in 1955 by American singer Tennessee Ernie Ford reached number one in the Billboard charts,[6] while another version, by Frankie Laine in 1956, was released only in Western Europe, where it gave Ford's version competition.

On March 25, 2015, Ford's version of the song was inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.[7]


Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons 1955
 
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