The end of summer and the coming frost
the thinning trees and a hint of bare branches.
the close of the regular baseball season and the inevitable collapse of the Mets.
Oh Autumn,
you are the season of loss.
Yeah, thanks for that Keely song Joe. I was lucky to see her with Sam Butera (Louis and Keely’s old saxist) in Vegas in 1994, then got the chance to interview her in the early 2000s for Time Out — she was so generous with the stories and (as far as I could tell) did not sugarcoat any of it. Great woman.
@steveo that makes me feel better about the 85 degrees here in Maine. I don't mind it except for the fact that I already tossed my window fan because it was broken in a way that made it impossible to dissemble and clean.
Mornin'! Back in my record store days we had to make handwritten placeholder cards for sealed CDs to put in the racks, and it became a game to quickly and accurately recreate the album covers on post-its. My two favorite people to draw were Chet Baker and Hank Williams; both had sharp features and beady eyes that were immensely satisfying.
@Andrea: Right? It just seems like time needs to SLOW DOWN.
9:45am
Brendan:
I agree Joe. I am happy to live in a four seasons locale, but no other season takes the edge off and says cool like fall. Autumn. The other climate change. Ask for it by name.
9:46am
chrestii @coffee before work:
fleep- as soon as there’s light in the sky. Also, tennis is free before 8
Melinda -- it's supposed to be snowing already in Maine (my spouse is from Brunswick so I can make this joke :)
Oh hey, also I had a nice moment listening to a (very good) Bethany archive over the weekend. That Terry Riley piece was on and thought it reminded me of some Who song and I checked the comment board and there you were mentioning Baba O'Riley, "but of course" and I was like haha me too.
9:47am
thea:
Enjoying the idea of a crisp autumn morning here on the south coast of nowhere. I missed hearing the artist/title of the instrumental interlude between Doris and Lee as I was preparing my morning coffee...Thanks for the lovely sounds
I agree, Malcolm, I just heard it this morning and I'm enamored with it.
10:14am
morphe':
Pollan's "BOTANY of DESIRE" [Intro attached]
Has a great section on "the apple(s) and a great true history of THE Johnny Appleseed ( a real estate story!!!Too) the barefootedd, vegetarian entrepenauer(sp?) Great Marijuana section also...The sheriff delivering wood to his garden where he was growing weed...The whole book is great!!
https://michaelpollan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/botany_of_desire_excerpt.pdf
And then there was this comment made by some reader named "Stu", saying that he liked what he was listening to but he got the feeling from the song that it was in the 70's and was "a little too "lonely" for today, although of course I was wrong. But I figured Stu was probably older than a lot of me and is like me, so I thought it was time to revisit Baba and I'm just going to give it a whirl. In any case, now you guys know why I like it so much.
Rod Stewart falls into my mental category of "musicians who have incredible songs and absolutely terrible songs". Bob Seger and Van Morrison are also in this category.
A guy named Gordon Huntley playing the pedal steel on Rod's Dylan cover. Huntley also played with Fairport Convention and on the track "Country Comfort" on Elton John's second album, Tumbleweed Connection, among others.
"His early playing career was with the Hawaiian Serenaders in 1959, for whom he played a triple neck Fender lap steel guitar. He converted this to a pedal steel by adding an accelerator pedal from a tractor connected with bicycle brake cable."
I posted this on Stashu's show a few weeks ago but here's a hard hitting investigative journalism piece I wrote for a local rag about 10 years on the re-branded Schlitz: www.smilepolitely.com...
i think Rod Stewart was mostly good and sometimes Excellent until a certain point in the 70s when he jumped on the disco bandwagon and mostly sucked from then on.
several excellent albums.
@coelacanth: I agree that the pickins get slimmer as the years go by. I love all of his Mercury stuff and the first couple of Atlantics and then it starts getting dicey.
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Brendan:
Marley Dogg:
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Joe McG:
fleep:
Lixiviated Life:
Real autumnal feel this morning.
Purrrrrr-fect
Colleen:
Joe McG:
Lixiviated Life:
You must love a torch song don't ya Joe?
Chet.... that reed like, haunting voice.
Slay me.
Lixiviated Life:
the thinning trees and a hint of bare branches.
the close of the regular baseball season and the inevitable collapse of the Mets.
Oh Autumn,
you are the season of loss.
karlward:
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Mike Wolf:
steveo:
βrian:
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Brendan:
chrestii @coffee before work:
Joe McG:
steveo:
Oh hey, also I had a nice moment listening to a (very good) Bethany archive over the weekend. That Terry Riley piece was on and thought it reminded me of some Who song and I checked the comment board and there you were mentioning Baba O'Riley, "but of course" and I was like haha me too.
thea:
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Malcolm:
Joe McG:
morphe':
Has a great section on "the apple(s) and a great true history of THE Johnny Appleseed ( a real estate story!!!Too) the barefootedd, vegetarian entrepenauer(sp?) Great Marijuana section also...The sheriff delivering wood to his garden where he was growing weed...The whole book is great!!
https://michaelpollan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/botany_of_desire_excerpt.pdf
prudy:
Brendan:
Joe McG:
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morphe':
2 hr PBS doc - Botany of desire..
https://archive.org/details/BotanyOfDesire2009
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Lixiviated Life:
but
schmaltz?
Never!
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tim from champaign:
prudy:
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tim from champaign:
Asheville Jon:
Asheville Jon:
prudy:
Rev. Turnip Druid:
And yes. Larry Wallis, Rest In Pink.
Also: hello.
steveo:
coelacanth∅:
Joe McG:
steveo:
tim from champaign:
coelacanth∅:
several excellent albums.
βrian:
Marc Francis:
THANKS FOR THIS. I love and miss Schlitz!!!!
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but yes i love most of the mercury stuff.
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Been to nights at The B Trotwood.. Anybody know Jason Collins of BathScene?
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Thanks!
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