Makes sense. I hear the problem went on for twenty seconds so sounds right.
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
Would love to see the performance the second time they were on - they did "We Can Fly."
― timellison, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link
The audio for that seems to be available through the major streaming services, although I can't quite seem to click all the way through yet.
So the thing I posted upthread which shows up on Youtube as Taste of Rhode Island is from the first night, and the earlier set, before the inexperienced singer RIchard Cowsill loses his voice, which shows up simply as TORI, is this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFg-leBxM54
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
Ah, not available in US
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
Wow, Bill sounds fantastic. Is that Dick singing backup behind them by Barry?
― timellison, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
Oh sorry, I see you mentioned that that is indeed him...
― timellison, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
I think the other set is a bit better but watch them both if you have time.
Can't stream Sullivan version of "We Can Fly" but I think it may be worth the 99 cents to buy it.
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to the clip on iTunes and it sounds like the Sullivan house band or something!
― timellison, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
Yeah, me too.
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
This Billy Cowsill Everly Brother's pastiche is pretty sweet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL5Xe_550EDVBX4qjBJfQROlNCz5LKvnOI&time_continue=117&v=_RWKPl0vZgo
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
Everly Brothers (extra apostrophe ugh)Here is simpler link, "Love's A Hurtin' Thing"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RWKPl0vZgo
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
Although that full playlist is interesting
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
This is like a bottomless well. Just found yet another video of Billy singing incredibly well, starting with “Blue Bayou” then “Devil Woman” and I don’t know what comes next.RIP Billy Cowsill
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
Ahem. Sorry. Meant to post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXxZYUOiJTs
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 03:10 (five years ago) link
It’s presumably just some brunch gig but still
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
That striped strung-out Sunday sound
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
Billy sings Bob (not his brother):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QUNo_eRppk
Billy sings Merle:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQo4sComus
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
Billy sings Hank:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGhFOMxqWCs
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
Listening to what he does with his voice in some of this stuff, quite convincing imitations of various country styles, has made me go back to the earliest MGM stuff and listen with new ears. Even if he is singing in a more pop-rock style, one can hear or imagine hearing a certain melancholy in his voice that translated well when he went country.
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
I was a friend of Billy Cowsill over the last ten years of his life, and even was honoured to sing one of his Blue Shadows songs at his memorial wake here in Calgary, which was attended by 850 people. Billy was beloved here. In 1997 a group of his Calgary pals rescued Billy from Vancouver, where he had sunk into drug and alcohol dependency after the breakup of the Blue Shadows. They paid for him to get into rehab for an extended period (that brunch gig JR and the Bs linked to above was early on in the process when Billy started leaving the facility for the occasional afternoon gig, just to keep his chops up) and set him up in an apartment afterward. Billy took on a trio of younger local musicians to do mostly early 60s covers and called it the Co-Dependents. He stayed sober, mentored a lot of younger musicians, played extensively in hospital wards, seniors homes and long term care facilities and attended community college. Unfortunately the long term damage he'd done to his body led to his early death in 2006. I miss him a ton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_QgvUS-wfY&frags=pl%2Cwn
― Ρεμπετολογια, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
Thanks so much for that. Think I read that when he passed he was working on a psychology degree. Also, were you trying to post a video? There is an embed but it is not showing up properly.
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
Okay. Couldn’t see it in zing but do see it in Chrome.
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
"love's a hurtin' thing" is good and all but unfortunately gloria ann taylor recorded the definitive song with that title
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
Near the end of this clip he is singing and playing on another Arthur Alexander song.https://youtu.be/ErjqWzROMaM
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 September 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErjqWzROMaM
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 September 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
Really dig Billy’s song “Vagabond”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHKTSt4RZp8
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
Billy used to love telling the story about how he first recorded Vagabond as a demo in an NYC studio one night in 1972. His own guitar wasn't staying in tune so the engineer pulled a Gibson Everly Bros Flattop out from a closet, that had been left in the studio by the daytime occupant (recording "Sometime in New York City"), John Lennon. He couldn't believe he was playing Lennon's axe. Later in the Blue Shadows he wrote a song about the experience called "Johnny's Guitar".
― Ρεμπετολογια, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link
Thanks. Love these Billy stories you are providing.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 September 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
Just found the first Blue Shadows album on Spotify. Still kind of amazed at what a convincing country and rockabilly singer he became. Maybe I am a bit of fool on that point but the fool is the last one to know.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 September 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
Two notes on songwriting credits:
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 September 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
Just found this great live performance of “Deliver Me” with the Blue Shadows.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47DEbOiYTo
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 September 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
Oh, just noticed the latest Super Hits poll
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
Miranda Lambert, er, covered "Covered Wagon" on her last album.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:55 (five years ago) link
The Blue Shadows album really holds up
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
Like how the harmonies lean a little more towards the Louvins than most
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
Was referring to the first album. Here is the title track of the second album, which I just came across and enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtXWrB4xm4
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
cowsills free at port washington library 11/9 (long island). for nyc folks you can walk there from the port washington lirr stop.
https://pwpl.org/events/
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 29 October 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
Cool. But No tickets required, but please note that Port Washington residents will receive priority entry
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 October 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
If I can’t make that, might try to go to this one on December 8th: https://tickets.thecuttingroomnyc.com/event/1755325-cowsills-new-york/
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 October 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
last time i saw them there it was well-attended but not a full house. they'll usually squeeze folks in.
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
cowsills ruled at the library. rain kept some folks away, but the faithful came out. they were giddy because this was the last day of a long tour, and happy to be playing as a three-piece without the backing band. new news: they are recording a new cd!
here's the youtube of the event. they mixed the guitars too high, but that improves somewhat. there's a q&a at around 40 minutes where the run through some obscurities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpRDXfF4fA&fbclid=IwAR309xrDs0mE9orMFIL1ctgjWcsbV2xzAdSuxzJyfkS4LqQft8dX5yoTevM
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 10 November 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
Ended up not going last night. Maybe will watch Family Band again.
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 December 2018 05:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic6uELZD5zg
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 June 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
Guiltily thinking of this storm as Hurricane Barry Cowsill.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
Rewatched the Sullivan show video and some of that Rhode Island reunion and man, John is a great drummer.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
Down to here Down to there
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/PLBvPQAPl7w
― timellison, Thursday, 24 October 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Watch what happens when they start in the wrong key:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqwsBq9yeW0
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
And the other one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-fQTetggZ4
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link