Mental Defective 70’s Blues Rock
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Topic: Mental Defective 70’s Blues Rock
Posted By: DallasBryan
Subject: Mental Defective 70’s Blues Rock
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 07:03
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anyone have an opionion on some of these guys? Leon Russell, Ry Cooder, JJ Cale and/or Little Feat.
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 10:32
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I always confuse Russell with Redbone. Love Cooder- one of the greatest slide players ever. Does cool soundtrack work, too. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 13:49
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Haven't heard leon Russell but the rest I love
Cooder's Chicken Skin Music is cool JJ Cale is fabulous 3am music and Dixie Chicken is my favourite Feat album and one of my all-time favourite 'southern rock' records Roll Um Easy is a wonderful, wonderful sad little song, and i love Fool Yourself (what a chorus!) Funny I kinda lump those guys in with the Allmans for some reason even though i know its different. |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 14:25
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I agree with what Arcer said about JJ Cale
Little Feat is a damn fine outfit of Jamband music. Really good musicians.
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"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 18:13
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Lowell George.... Oh my, chicken pickin' fun. Cooder, Russell, Cale? All good stuff. Have you heard of Sonny Landreth.... toss him in with that bunch and we'll have us a Hurricane Party. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 18:30
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I find Ry Cooder a bit lightweight,for all his slide-playing prowess.
Particularly like his Paris Texas work.. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 19:29
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For those wanting to investigate some lost southern
classics! As good (no kidding!) as the Allmans, Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top, the classics by these artists(much better than the most of the ones you are listing) IMO. Leon Russell - Carney, Leon Russell and the Shelter People(Elton John never made albums better than these) Ry Cooder - Jazz(mostly all instrumental, a classic!) JJ Cale - Naturally or more recently Closer to You(of course you knew he wrote Cocaine and he's version is better than Claptons!) Little Feat - Feats Dont Fail Me Now or Sailin Shoes(equal to Dixie Chicken) southern fried 
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Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 20:00
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I agree with that. He also wrote Bringing it Back that Kansas covered on their first album.
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DallasBryan
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: May 14 2005 at 04:37
------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: May 18 2005 at 21:28
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He also wrote Call Me the Breeze, on Lynyrd Skynyrd
s first, he also wrote, he also wrote, he also wrote......... |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 18 2005 at 21:51
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YOUR ACE BRYAN BUT DO YOU ACTUALLY LIKE PROG ROCK?
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Posted By: Jerjo
Date Posted: May 19 2005 at 11:08
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Little Feat was incredible in their day. Check out their live Waiting for Columbus. The quality of playing would please the most discriminating progger but with a great funky groove and superior songwriting. Sonny Landreth might be the best slide player working right now. His best is South of I-10. |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: May 20 2005 at 07:43
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I really dig the first three Feat LPs....then they went off into what Lowell George described as "Weather Report music" after that.....but still fine LPs....one of my fave rock bands of all time. Leon Russell was a key part of the Wrecking Crew in the late 60s....a bunch of LA session men who'd get the call at all times of day to carry out the more complex charts being laid down by pop/rock bands....my fave LP from Leon is an LP called "Carney" that was used as the soundtrack to the movie of the same name and produced by Robbie Robertson. Ry Cooder is a conservative experimentalist....he played on the Stones "Let It Bleed" LP and then recorded some excellent LPs in the country-rock vein....he even recorded an excellent LP of depression era folk songs. Recently he's been into Indian ragas (check out the "Meeting by the River" LP with V. Bhatt), Cuban jazzy blues (Buena Vista Social Club)....hell, he recorded a Hawaiian music LP some years back called "Chicken Skin Music" that opened up a whole generation to the slack stringed style of the Hawaiian islands....the man's a credit to musicians everywhere no matter what anyone may think of him.... JJ Cale has a nice mellow blues style....but, IMO, if you've heard one JJ LP, you've heard 'em all....he's the man responsible for Eric Clapton's descent from guitar god soloist to laid back pop-blues a la "One in Every Crowd".....still, excellent music for a groovy summer night. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: May 20 2005 at 20:28
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Little Feat - Dixie Chicken, Sailin' Shoes, Feets Dont
Fail Me Now are classics. Leon Russell was a key part of the Wrecking Crew in the late 60s....a bunch of LA session men who'd get the call at all times of day to carry out the more complex charts being laid down by pop/rock bands....my fave LP from Leon is an LP called "Carney" that was used as the soundtrack to the movie of the same name and produced by Robbie Robertson. Leon's best records where equal to the best Elton John albums. Leon Russell - Carney and LR and the Shelter People are classics! Ry Cooder is a conservative experimentalist....he played on the Stones "Let It Bleed" LP and then recorded some excellent LPs in the country-rock vein....he even recorded an excellent LP of depression era folk songs. Recently he's been into Indian ragas (check out the "Meeting by the River" LP with V. Bhatt), Cuban jazzy blues (Buena Vista Social Club)....hell, he recorded a Hawaiian music LP some years back called "Chicken Skin Music" that opened up a whole generation to the slack stringed style of the Hawaiian islands....the man's a credit to musicians everywhere no matter what anyone may think of him... Ry Cooder - Jazz and Randy Newmans - 12 Songs w/ Ry are classics. JJ Cale has a nice mellow blues style....but, IMO, if you've heard one JJ LP, you've heard 'em all....he's the man responsible for Eric Clapton's descent from guitar god soloist to laid back pop-blues. Cocaine was written by JJ and his version sounds better! cant blame JJ for Eric love for his sound! JJ Cale produced an album in the 90's Closer to You that hints back to the prime period of rock and is superior to most anything else produced in this time period!
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Posted By: gleam
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 15:12
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Little Feat's "Waiting for Columbus" is a great live album. Ry Cooder's "Chicken skin music" is heap big fun. check out his work on "The buena vista social club", great Cuban music. Leon Russel peaked in the early seventies with his own live album and his collaboration with George Harrison on "The concert for Bangladesh".
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