Latest non-Elvis album you listened to
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Re: Latest non-Elvis album you listened to
JERRY REED "The Best Of"...yes son!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wB49tVsDU0, Matt
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Thanks for all your replies & suggestions.
My pick of the day - well, night - was Chuck.
Here's a review from AllMusic
https://www.allmusic.com/album/chuck-mw0003033782
Chuck Berry didn't hang up his rock & roll shoes after releasing Rock It in 1979, but he did stop writing and recording new songs. The next few decades were filled with performances as he traveled across the country with guitar in hand, settling down in his hometown of St. Louis for a residency at the local restaurant Blueberry Hill in 1996. He wasn't a recluse but he was indifferent to a recording career, consenting to be the subject of Taylor Hackford's 1987 documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (and proceeding to drive the director mad) but adding no new songs to the film. By all indications, Berry had lost interest in composing, but in a December 2001 profile in Rolling Stone he mentioned that he had started writing songs again. He admitted he had been "reluctant to make new songs" and worried that it might be "ill-mannered to try and top myself, adding, "You see, I'm not an oldies act. The music I play, it is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that."
New Chuck Berry music didn't appear the following year or the next. It didn't arrive until June of 2017, when Chuck appeared three months after Berry passed away at the age of 90. Chuck proves Berry's contention that he wasn't an oldies act to be correct. Neither an exercise in nostalgia nor a desperate stab at relevance, Chuck is the most unexpected of things: a new album that feels like authentic Chuck Berry music. It helps that Berry frequently tips his hat to the past, revisiting all the sounds and styles he's favored since the mid-'60s. Naturally, there are a bunch of three-chord rockers and blues, but Chuck also indulges in a bit of raunchy crowd work via "3/4 Time (Enchiladas)" (a sharper variation of "My Ding-A-Ling"), dreamy love songs ("You Go to My Head," "Darlin'"), and his song-poems ("Dutchman," which is the best of these he ever wrote). What's striking about these cuts, along with the ravers "Wonderful Woman" and "Big Boys" that get Chuck off to a rousing start, is how this record feels familiar but fresh: Berry may have been working from a weathered playbook but he's only interested in the moment at hand, the present when he steps to the mike to play guitar and sing. To that end, Chuck benefits by existing somewhat outside of time. It contains ten songs written between 1980 and 2016, all recorded sometime after 2001 (and likely well before 2014, considering how robust Chuck's vocals sound). Berry makes no attempt to chase trends or offer a final statement; he just gathers his ten best recent tunes and that's why Chuck is such a fitting epilogue to a legendary career. It captures the essence of Chuck Berry, how he could turn the everyday into something exciting.
My pick of the day - well, night - was Chuck.
Here's a review from AllMusic
https://www.allmusic.com/album/chuck-mw0003033782
Chuck Berry didn't hang up his rock & roll shoes after releasing Rock It in 1979, but he did stop writing and recording new songs. The next few decades were filled with performances as he traveled across the country with guitar in hand, settling down in his hometown of St. Louis for a residency at the local restaurant Blueberry Hill in 1996. He wasn't a recluse but he was indifferent to a recording career, consenting to be the subject of Taylor Hackford's 1987 documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (and proceeding to drive the director mad) but adding no new songs to the film. By all indications, Berry had lost interest in composing, but in a December 2001 profile in Rolling Stone he mentioned that he had started writing songs again. He admitted he had been "reluctant to make new songs" and worried that it might be "ill-mannered to try and top myself, adding, "You see, I'm not an oldies act. The music I play, it is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that."
New Chuck Berry music didn't appear the following year or the next. It didn't arrive until June of 2017, when Chuck appeared three months after Berry passed away at the age of 90. Chuck proves Berry's contention that he wasn't an oldies act to be correct. Neither an exercise in nostalgia nor a desperate stab at relevance, Chuck is the most unexpected of things: a new album that feels like authentic Chuck Berry music. It helps that Berry frequently tips his hat to the past, revisiting all the sounds and styles he's favored since the mid-'60s. Naturally, there are a bunch of three-chord rockers and blues, but Chuck also indulges in a bit of raunchy crowd work via "3/4 Time (Enchiladas)" (a sharper variation of "My Ding-A-Ling"), dreamy love songs ("You Go to My Head," "Darlin'"), and his song-poems ("Dutchman," which is the best of these he ever wrote). What's striking about these cuts, along with the ravers "Wonderful Woman" and "Big Boys" that get Chuck off to a rousing start, is how this record feels familiar but fresh: Berry may have been working from a weathered playbook but he's only interested in the moment at hand, the present when he steps to the mike to play guitar and sing. To that end, Chuck benefits by existing somewhat outside of time. It contains ten songs written between 1980 and 2016, all recorded sometime after 2001 (and likely well before 2014, considering how robust Chuck's vocals sound). Berry makes no attempt to chase trends or offer a final statement; he just gathers his ten best recent tunes and that's why Chuck is such a fitting epilogue to a legendary career. It captures the essence of Chuck Berry, how he could turn the everyday into something exciting.
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The Everly's album "Pass the Chicken and Listen" is worth a listen if you like country music records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dQLRx5oqMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dQLRx5oqMo
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WalterHaleJnr wrote:The Everly's album "Pass the Chicken and Listen" is worth a listen if you like country music records.
I had their Songs Our Daddy Taught Us album once.
Lent it to a girlfriend in 1960 & I guess she still has it...
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Colin B wrote:WalterHaleJnr wrote:The Everly's album "Pass the Chicken and Listen" is worth a listen if you like country music records.
I had their Songs Our Daddy Taught Us album once.
Lent it to a girlfriend in 1960 & I guess she still has it...
Col have a listen to 'Pass the Chicken' album or at least 'Sweet Memories' song on that album. More recently it was discovered that Roy Orbison cut a version of this back in 1970.
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WalterHaleJnr wrote:Col have a listen to 'Pass the Chicken' album or at least 'Sweet Memories' song on that album.
More recently it was discovered that Roy Orbison cut a version of this back in 1970.
Just off out - will have a listen later...
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In respect to George Young's passing aged 70, am listening to this now 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9qW5r2nk3w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9qW5r2nk3w
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WalterHaleJnr wrote:In respect to George Young's passing aged 70, am listening to this now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9qW5r2nk3w
The Easybeats should have gotten more fame and success than they had. I guess there was soo much to compete with at the time....The Monkees, Paul Revere & Raiders, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Beatles...etc...... RIP George Young.
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TCB-FAN wrote:WalterHaleJnr wrote:In respect to George Young's passing aged 70, am listening to this now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9qW5r2nk3w
The Easybeats should have gotten more fame and success than they had. I guess there was soo much to compete with at the time....The Monkees, Paul Revere & Raiders, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Beatles...etc...... RIP George Young.
Well said. That and the changes in music around 1966-1968 with Psychedelic, Hard Rock acts on the scene the Easybeats could not achieve a follow up record/single as popular as 'Friday on my Mind'.
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Roy's 1966 rare country and western tribute album to Don Gibson is just flawless. Sounds just as good now as it did back then 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jmvTCtVBGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jmvTCtVBGk
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oh no, the uploader on the second track put up NOT '(Yes) I'm Hurting' but rather Roy's earlier 1961 record 'I'm Hurtin'. Some Orbison fans out there confuse the two titles, much like the way Elvis fans who confuse 'Tonight's all right for love' with 'Tonight is so right for love'.
This is the second track -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT7DcJoDOCA
This is the second track -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT7DcJoDOCA
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RAY STEVENS "The Country Hits Collection" Varese Vintage VSD-5844 and
VAN MORRISON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GypKfOOjmwY
VAN MORRISON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GypKfOOjmwY
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Some of Louis Armstrong's earliest recordings, done 90+ years ago in Chicago for the OKeh label.
Absolutely amazing stuff.
Absolutely amazing stuff.
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