Eloquent Profanity, It Rolls Right Off My Tongue

I always loved that line.

Haven't listened to Paul Barrere/Fred Tackett acoustic shows in awhile, but I updated my Sage blogroll today and found a new one, where they play "Roll Em Easy", which as everyone knows, is the sweetest little acoustic ditty on Dixie Chicken. Just great stuff.

Old Folks Boogie, Boogie They Will.

Roll Em Easy

Whole show

(I tried to embed the archive.org flash player here but blogger.com choked on it. Sigh.)

Bag of Reds

Well it's 90 damn degrees here in the swamps of Jersey. October 8. WTF? Anyway I'm coming off an amazing weekend of Fenway Friday (Manny Moonshot), Boss Magic in Philly (more on that later, but a quick shout out to the great h9/le/nbc crew, and the preacher's daughter who helped me navigate the subway...sort of :), and finally, the Giants blood-pressure-raising win in the Meadowlands Sunday (is there any other kind?) and thanks to Brendan and Tony D for the great tailgate.

I won't need to go out for months after that, but definitely a three for three weekend! And hey Yankee fans, make no mistake, I'm rootin' for 'em now; it just wouldn't be right for the the Sox to cruise through the AL without facing off against the Empire. (And who the hell wants to face the Tribe pitching staff?)

Today I'm resisting the temptation to write that inevitable Bruce post, just because catching up on an archive.org blog feed, I noticed an amazing sounding vintage Feat show. One of my favorite old Feat boots was named "Bag Of Reds", Halloween 75, Orpheum, Boston. It's now been "liberated", as they say. Enjoy, and Brendan, watch this space for The Goblin Girl by month's end!

Bag Of Reds mp3Long Distance Love mp3

Whole Show - totally worth the download & burn; definitive show of the era. Just do it!

She Walks These Hills

So was having dinner with a bunch of good friends last night and my buddy Steve's iPod is programmed with an absolutely great, widely varying playlist. The wives express profound annoyance about how much time we men put into preparing such a playlist, and in particular, doing it right before guests arrive.

While the timing of playlist preparation is perhaps indefensible, there's no question that making a playlist for a party or gathering is an intensely personal statement, very similar to the mixtape phenomenon documented so perfectly in High Fidelity.

Anyway, one of the fine selections on Steve's playlist was the classic Long Black Veil by The Band. I mentioned to Rob, (a huge Band fan - I just love watching his face strain as he sings along :-) that Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett of Little Feat do a great job on this tune at their live acoustic duo shows. Here's a nice version:

Long Back Veil mp3
whole show (Bridgeton Folk Fest 2006)

Like Sonny

I was in NYC last week, and caught up with my buddy John for the first time in awhile. I love John but let's say his taste in music falls somewhere in the Foreigner/REO Speedwagon space, so I was pretty shocked when he told me he was going on an NYC blues cruise to see Sonny Landreth.


Now I just love Sonny's playing on John Hiatt's best records, and have South of I-10, which is a damn good record in its own right. But I was surprised when I popped on Archive.org to see if I could find something to prep John for the experience, and lo & behold, there are shows of Sonny playing with Little Feat! Had no idea and I'm something of a Feat fan.

While the sound quality is a bit lacking, there's some hot jamming on this version of Let It Roll from the Keswick show in 2006 (mp3) And here's a goodie from Sonny's official site: key to the highway

you can find a bunch more mp3's in the "lagniappe" section of the site