Indeed
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 December 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
excellent revive!
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 28 December 2023 18:55 (five months ago) link
Y’all should have been there when I did “Run Rudolph Run” at karaoke last week.
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:07 (five months ago) link
lily I love that song & your post
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:22 (five months ago) link
Seconded.
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:42 (five months ago) link
the way he purposely mispronounces a la carte "workin' on a t-bond steak alla cart-y flyin' over to the Golden State" is pure genuis
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, December 28, 2023 12:35 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
The verb "working" is perfect too, you can almost picture him with plastic utensils hacking a tough airline steak on his tray.
― BrianB, Thursday, December 28, 2023 12:43 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
totally, also he's conscious of exactly how many syllables he needs to make the syncopation of the line work perfectly
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, December 28, 2023 12:56 PM
Wait -- which version of "Promised Land"?
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:50 (five months ago) link
had never looked into the "bypassed Rock Hill" line!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Nine
― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:49 (five months ago) link
i agree that LD's post is great and that "Promised Land" is a towering masterpiece
― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:50 (five months ago) link
just thinking about it gives me chills!
― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:52 (five months ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, December 28, 2023 11:56 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
his almost clipped delivery and the efficiency with which he gets out most of lyrics make it all the more rewarding when he lingers on "swing low chariot, come down eeeeee-asy"; one of many small details that really make the song
― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:02 (five months ago) link
Elijah Wald with help from New York Rocker’s Andy Schwartz re Chuck Berry’s “Promised Land” and lyrical references to the civil rights Freedom Riders. As an aside ,Wald’s playing of song in his video there is too folky
https://www.elijahwald.com/songblog/promised-land/?fbclid=IwAR3kqa1tOdHzex-5FqpvtB9OM7ZJdvEKf0I37GA39mrvzyDpRQvuUqM8Xew_aem_AcqFkEBw7IEBpxkyPKgWQwhEwCrZ1BfFV6zIzmlZWyqKz300hnHydDMyRCfzgWaJwXg
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 February 2024 05:53 (three months ago) link
damn. the video he posted of himself performing "promised land" is kind of brutal and has sort of altered how i see him fundamentally
― budo jeru, Monday, 19 February 2024 18:20 (three months ago) link
Can you elaborate on that?
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 05:21 (three months ago) link
i just mean that it's terrible and makes me wonder why he'd post something like that. what the fuck is this shit
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 06:13 (three months ago) link
it's an older guy who enjoys a song playing it to boost engagement, and having a good time playing it. one can see how a person would get really aggro and weird about that, and how it would "alter how [they] see him fundamentally," I mean that's just really rational and sensible
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 12:52 (three months ago) link
You'll never earn yr top Grateful Dead fan badge if you keep on objecting to shitty Chuck Berry covers.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 14:02 (three months ago) link
hi can we all just please calm down and have a rational and sensible discussion about chuck berry? thanks
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:24 (three months ago) link
lol, Ward
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:41 (three months ago) link
Also, “they’ll hear it the way Elijah Ward played it!”
(xp) Elijah or Fowler? Or both?
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:42 (three months ago) link
Heh, meant Fowler but realized the problem after posting
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:43 (three months ago) link
I feel like I am an outlier, but I have never totally bought or wanted to dig into EW’s übercontrarian shtick which from where I sit looks like endless iterations of “actually, Robert Johnson wasn’t a blues singer at all, and if he was, he was terrible, he was really just a creation of John Hammond’s febrile mind” or “actually Beatlemania wasn’t really a thing” shockas.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:57 (three months ago) link
And then this Maxwell’s Demon of authenticity games goes and does a super-corny oldbro Chuck Berry cover without any Peter Stampfel Wollheim weirdness to skew it and add interest.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:58 (three months ago) link
lol. that's interesting. he has always seemed okay to me, even astute, but on reflection i think that might just come down to the recommendations of others i esteem who have read and enjoyed EW, because i've never read one of his books.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 04:06 (three months ago) link
but have read little things here and there, like the blog post linked about "promised land." which i think is great. the video's another story.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 04:09 (three months ago) link