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Peter Green……1946-2020

one of the GREAT british guitarists, singers, and songwriters, the remarkable Peter Green went to sleep on July 25th and forgot to wake up.  he was 73 years old.

 

everybody knows Fleetwood Mac.  but not many know that the band was created by Green back in ’67, along with drummer mick FLEETWOOD and bassist john MACvie.  and many of us don’t know that that first version of the Mac was EXTREMELY popular, at least in the UK.  they were STARS, mainly because of Green, who was really good. the author of Black Magic Woman (yep, that’s a fleetwood mac song covered by santana) and a revered guitarist (none other than B.B. King once said Peter was the only guitarist who could give him chills), it’s obvious we need to pay tribute to his memory and legacy.

 

so yes….a tribute show is coming.  it’s currently in production, stay tuned for details……should be ready to roll by thursday?

 

 

 

JOHN PRINE……has left the building.

one of the GREAT singer songwriters has passed on.  yep, a victim of the corona bug.  john prine was 73, and his death wasn’t a shock.  his family announced last week that he had been admitted to a nashville hospital, and that things weren’t going well.  john, in his seventies, had danced with cancer often these last few years, so he fit the profile of a person who was going to struggle with this virus.  and sure enough….the bug was too much.

hey, john effing prine was too much!  so if you feel like doing some prine time today, here are some quick suggestions that can’t miss.  his first record now can be seen as a towering achievement in folk rock acoustic coolness.  called John Prine, it’s just way good.  also terrific listens are Sweet Revenge from ’73, his “best of ” record called Prime Prine will obviously work, and then you got The Missing Years from ’91, and the awesome Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings from ’95.  all really really really really good records.

yes, a tribute show is gonna get done.  what the heck, it’ll be far more rewarding than watching another crummy science fiction flick on NF!

 

 

Jive in the muddy mississip…

Our crack street team in the heart of the Mississippi Delta town of Clarksdale spotted this Jive graffiti outside Red’s Juke Joint. 

That’s one sano AC install…

Lately It Occurs To Me–the tribute to Hunter

ok, our crack team of crackpots got crackin’, and finished the insta-trib to the redonkulous Robert Hunter, deluxe lyricist for The Grateful Dead. This 80-minute marvel of maniacal mirth and merry music just got the ok from the Ice Cream Kid, which is good enough for us.

so the schedule…….Tuesday (10-1) at 7 pm.  Thursday (10-3) at 3pm.  Sunday (10-6) at noon. maybe once or twice the next week. Soon, we’ll get it in the Tributes section here on our home page, and you’ll be able to listen at your leisure.

We hope you enjoy the music and memories. And sorry for all the songs that didn’t get used. There were a lot of good ones to choose from! (the ones that got in work pretty well…..)

Dr. John sez Later, y’all!

one of the prime time big daddy cool cats of ’em all just slipped on out the do’……..Dr. John recently expired, as of June 6th, when his big ole heart just sorta conked out.  he was 77.  a real rascal of New Orleans, Mac Rebennack was pretty well known to the NOLA PD, and did some time in the early 60s in some Looziana hellhole. when he got out, he took himself and his musical talents (a guitar player first, who then got damn good on piano) to L.A., where he became a part of the mighty Wrecking Crew of ace studio musicians.  it was while in L.A. that he cooked up the persona of Dr. John the Night Tripper, and in ’68, his first album Gris Gris came out, and it was some psycho delic zombie woof woof that one would still to this day call A Piece Of Work.  for real.

over the years, came more great albums, like Gumbo, In The Right Place, Television, Anutha Zone, and In A Sentimental Mood, among others.  in fact, if you feel like having a little Dr. John party of your own, any of those albums will get you goin, for sure.

we’ll get a tribute show going here in a few days…..research has already commenced!  stay tuned for air times, which we’ll post soon.