You need a rocking chair out on the porch with a dog by your side to listen to this one proper like ... I miss the old western picture shows :yep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1-QLr6aBaw

In all seriousness, this is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.

I can only listen to it while I am alone, as it still brings me to tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi0jhTuUhiE

Not only is it a toe-tapping-tune, but the range and precision of Ms. Pons is simply amazing.

The past week saw the passing of Rick Hall, one of the "unknown giants" of the music world, a legend who along with Leonard Chess (Chess Records, Chicago), Barry Gordy (Motown, Detroit), and Sam Phillips (Sun Records, Memphis) significantly shaped modern music across genres and introduced performers who went on to be legends themselves:


Producer Rick Hall, 'Father of Muscle Shoals Music,' Dead at 85 --

https://www.rollingstone.com/country...-at-85-w514854

Hall’s Music Impact Hard for Us to Grasp --

http://www.courierjournal.net/commen...a59f6fd55.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle...s_Sound_Studio


Hall was a musician's producer, one who knew and understood the creative process and worked with artists to help them achieve their sounds. He was also a good judge of talent such as when he gave some kid who quite literally camped out at the door of the studio a chance to show his talent: that's how Duane Allman got his first big break, playing as a session man on a Wilson Pickett album; Duane also recorded his last album in Hall's FAME Studios. Hall also had an amazing studio 'house band' of session musicians known as the Swampers, immortalized in the Lynyrd Skynyrd song Sweet Home Alabama. There are few people in the recording industry of whom it can be said they were pivot points in the history of modern music and Rick Hall is one of them...

RIP, Rick Hall and thanks for all the great music you helped us to hear...


The first recording ever produced by Rick Hall, by an artist who is one of my favorites of all time:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utWFI3pIvM0


The recording done in Muscle Shoals that began the legend of Duane Allman:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5B1Vfdk7W8


Another bit of magic with Aretha Franklin:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7E_jz3jHQc









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Tailor made for me... :doh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO1bMHbDpY

PS.: Uiii - now I am "Commander"... :haha:

I listened to this constantly when it came out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLid-0cUcI

Lou Reed's Rock & Roll has long been a favorite of mine, since he first recorded the song with the Velvet Underground. The song rings true for those of us who are old enough to have experienced the first rush of Rock as it developed. I was one of those kids who, like the character in the song, first heard that "fine, fine music" over transistor radios, trying to tune in sometimes distant AM stations late at night; I remember listening to Wolfman Jack when he was broadcasting from a Mexican AM superstation that could be heard almost everywhere in the US. There were also the newer AM stations who had frenetic DJs who played that 'evil' R&R. I would put my transistor radio under my pillow, so as not to bring down my mother's wrath, and listen to all kinds of R&R songs. A lot of the kids at that time had to somewhat surreptitiously indulge in &R since it was still considered to be a bad influence, leading to all manner of depravity such as wild dancing, wearing blue jeans, and horror of horrors, talking back to one's elders, not to mention all the adults knew R&R was a gateway to becoming a JD (Juvenile Delinquent). Remember, at the time, radio was the domain of Doris Day, Pat Boone, Patti Page and the like; the 'rebels', before Elvis, were such as Fabian, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, Bobby Rydell, etc., so when Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Gene Vincent and other greats came along, it was a major shift in American pop music...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npm5vxharc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnNoKcxCw4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxDQXfi3enA


The last time I saw Lou Reed live was back in 1989, when he was touring in support of his New York album. He did something I thought was very cool; the opening act was The Feelies, a band heavily influenced by The VU and Reed; aside from the fact The Feelies were allowed to do a full set (most headliners didn't like letting the openers play more than a brief set), they also came back out to perform an encore; as the audience watched The Feelies do a VU song as the encore, it took a bit of a while to realize that at the far end of the line of backing singers, unannounced, was Lou Reed enthusiastically singing backup, much to the surprise and delight of The Feelies; a very classy gesture by an old veteran towards the newer act...






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If you like VU and Lou Reed, you just might like these guys:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5CvZTIoir8


Let me know what you think...







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