Jackson Browne - Daddy's Tune/Running on Empty

Jackson Browne - Daddy's Tune/Running on Empty

Jackson Browne Wednesday Club

OLD PA'S WEDNESDAY CLUB

TAKE GOOD CARE OF OLD PA

 

JACKSON BROWNE - Daddy's Tune

Just got back from a visit to the UK to visit Shellhunter and Flycasual and to see all my Grand kids especially the new addition Ripley. It was indeed a pleasure. This is really what it is all about!!

Only trouble is, Ted, Flycasual's youngest goes to nursery and picks up every disease know to man. He of course passes them on in his nice little way to anybody who to give him a kiss (queue David Cameron).

Guess who picked up the dreaded vomiting disease. I rushed to the loo in the middle of the night, just got on my knees, was about to lift the lid when whoooooshhh! a hot stream of vomit everywhere. I tried to mop/wipe it all up. But you know how it is, there is always a tell tale carrot hiding somewhere.!

Parents and kids - who'd have 'em!  

I hope to get back in full swing shortly, can't wait to catch up!

 

JACKSON BROWNE - Running on Empty

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TRACKS OF THE WEEK 24/08/2014 - Tom The Lion, Jackson Browne, The New Basement Tapes, SBTRKT, Zero 7

TRACKS OF THE WEEK 24/08/2014 - Tom The Lion, Jackson Browne, The New Basement Tapes, SBTRKT, Zero 7

Jackson Browne SBTRKT The New Basement Tapes Tom the Lion Tracks of the Week Zero 7

Five Tracks to get you warm and dry again

Old Pa's Corner :-
Jackson Browne - The Birds of St Marks (2014)

 

The song is supposedly written about Nico (Velvet Underground) after a  relationship. Good old Nico did not to o bad in the affairs stakes and the songs written for or about her. Dylan's I'll keep it with Mine is in that category.

JB wrote the song in the sixties and an acoustic version appeared on the album Solo Acoustic Vol 1 (2005). However he always thought the song was taylor made for the Byrds with Roger McGuinn's signature guitar sound. Do you know what?. He was spot on there. Can't wait for the new album out in October. Standing in the Breach (2014)  

Shellhunter:-
Zero 7 - 'Simple Science' (2014)

Zero 7 went off my radar for a long time but I was heavily into their debut album Simple Things for their fantastic ambient trip hop. Seeing their name again on BBC6 recently played list sparked my interest and I'm pleasantly surprised with this latest offering. Although it's a different road altogether from their chill out electronica, I like the fact it makes me want to tap my feet. There's nothing wrong with dabbling in something more up tempo. Simple Science is one of 2 EPs released this year and a full album is due out later this year. Here's to a fresh new wave of Zero 7!

London Scouser:-

The New Basement Tapes - 'Nothing To It' (2014)

A few days ago I was randomly looking at some music websites where one page has a link to another and so on when I came across a page that mentioned a certain Mr B Dylan. Nevertheless I still gave it a read and decided to watch the video. As soon as the song started I thought wow, this is bloody good. It sounded familiar so my first thought was that it was a cover, but reading about it I see that the lyrics were written by Bob Dylan almost 50 years ago and found in a box along with a bunch more. Not being a BD aficionado I am not familiar with his 'Basement Tapes' phase but apparently these newly discovered songs were written at the same time. I still can't figure out what the song reminds me of but I'm happy because it means I get to listen to the song a few more times until I do. I really like the video too, it's a lyric video which are quite the rage nowadays but with a twist... The lyrics used are the actual handwritten ones that Bob wrote way back when.
The New Basement Tapes is a supergroup containing T-Bone Burnett, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops) & Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes). For more details, check out their website here

Flycasual:-
SBTRKT - 'New Dorp, New York' (feat Ezra Koenig)

I first heard this and thought "what's all this about?" but then a week or so later I was hooked. Caught up in the simmering minimalist bass and rhythm, synonymous with London's elusive and masked SBTRKT. With Ezra Koenig providing the distinctive vocals, 'New Dorp, New York' is the first single taken from SBTRKT's new album, Wonder When We Land, out in September. I Love the subtle references to my favourite city, particularly the 'Top of The Rock', where I ambushed my now wife and proposed an alliance of love. Gross eh? I never meant it to be akin to the scene in Sleepless in Seattle mind, I wanted to do it at the home of Hip Hop in the Bronx. Word!

Sfw:- 
Tom The Lion - 'Silent Partner' (2014)

I've been playing this all week and I'm still smitten with it.  It's by Tom The Lion, a Leamington-born indie-folk-pop artist who has recently released his debut album ‘Sleep’ is out now on Wrasse Records.  With more influences to fill a zoo, comparisons such as Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, Foals and The Maccabees are probably not too far off the mark, which for me, is a good thing.  Check out the album - he's one to watch!

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Jackson Browne - Sing My Songs To Me/ For Everyman

Jackson Browne - Sing My Songs To Me/ For Everyman

Bob Dylan Dire Straits Jackson Browne Old Pa's Corner Wednesday Club

OLD PA'S WEDNESDAY CLUB

PLEASURE VOMIT!

To Enjoy! is to Vomit!

 

JACKSON BROWNE - Sing My Songs To Me/For Everyman

To Purr with Pleasure...the music sounds so good you almost feel sick 'Pleasure Vomit' I call it!

I just heard these two songs and it remided me how good Jackson Browne was and how much I just loved him back then and still do of course. When Sing My Song breaks at about 2:30 untill it breaks into For Everyman a minute later, is just pure 'Pleasure Vomit'. Listen for the the drum roll!. You have full permisssion to replay as many times as you wish. In my opinon, it is one of the highlights in rock music full stop!.

Now the big question is? do you have some 'Pleasure Vomit' moments....I will help you with some others I can think of, the ending of  Dylan's Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands from Blonde on Blonde or even the ending of Dire Straits live take on Alchemy of Tunnel Of Love.

They all leave me breathless and wiping my shirt!.

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Jackson Browne - The Pretender

Jackson Browne - The Pretender

Jackson Browne Wednesday Club

OLD PA's WEDNESDAY CLUB

'DEATH OF A LADIES MAN'

Most of the offending pic!

 

JACKSON BROWNE - The Pretender (1976)

I used to work with this guy who believed he was a bit of a 'ladies man', God's gift to womankind. He thought all the females, young and old fancied him rotten and wanted to be with him. He strutted around with an air of arrogance and confidence. Look at me girls!

If only he knew, mostly they were laughing at him and making fun of him behind his back. He was tailor made for me and I was always trying to set him up. I would encourage him and tell him that so and so really fancies him and he would be 'alright there'. 'She is gasping  for you to ask her out'.

He told us one day that his wife asked him to go to the Newsagent and get one of those Mags that had a centrefold of a man showing of his 'bits' as she wanted to add it to a card she was preparing for some friend of hers.

He got a magazine from the top shelf and was looking at one of the revealing manly pics, when a woman from work, who incidentally was Gay, just happened to walk in and caught a full view of the offending picture.

 'Well Steve is this what you are really into, welcome to our world!'

Steve was mortified!

'But, but it is for my wife'

'Come on Steve, they all say that, you have nothing to be ashamed off.'

Before he came back to the office, everybody new about it and did he take some stick. He even said to me and some other guys

'Tell them that I told you I was going to get if for my wife.'

'Sorry Steve, we don't know what you are talking about'

Sometime later he wanted to take an aptitude test to become a Programmer. He failed the test and was given the report back. Some of the feed back referred to him as having a big ego and being delusional. He could not accept it and was going to complain, until simultaneous voices said all together 'Sorry Stevey boy! the computer got it spot on'.  Beautiful.

It must be great for a person who has this fantastic idea of who they think they are and actually believe it. The world sees them in a completely different way. Just like our Steve.  He was an ok guy really and I did like him.

'You are lazy, selfish, arrogant, irresponsible, childish, you have never grown up, you have a pathetic obsession with Bob Dylan and Andy Murray, you are useless with money, you have a crap sense of humour, you have crap taste in music, your on the computer all day'

'Aw! come on Old Ma, Im not that bad?'.         

 

JACKSON BROWNE - The Pretender (Live)

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DYLAN COVERS #62 Bruce Springsteen & Friends - Highway 61/All along the Watchtower

DYLAN COVERS #62 Bruce Springsteen & Friends - Highway 61/All along the Watchtower

Bob Dylan Bonnie Rait Bruce Springsteen Dylan Covers Jackson Browne Michael Strollo

You must be putting me on!

How about some more from the Boss. This first one is taken from a concert Live at the Shrine Auditorium in  Los Angelas on the 17th November 1990 . It can be found on the 'Boot' Acoustic Tales - Second Night. Joining Bruce on this great cover is Jackson Brown and Bonnie Rait. I like this one a lot.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, JACKSON BROWN, BONNIE RAIT - Highway 61 Revisited(1990).

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & Michael Strollo - All Along the Watchtower

There are so many covers of AATW you may well say! 'Oh no not another' but if you have not seen or heard this version 'strap your self to a tree with roots'  because you may have lift off. This is pretty near as good as it gets. I love the Boss covering Dylan. Click here for earlier Brucie Dylan Cover Post  If you want to hear this in much better quality or copy from YouTube  click here.

For more Dylan Covers

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TRACKS OF THE WEEK - 04/09/2011

TRACKS OF THE WEEK - 04/09/2011

Cover Me Florence and the machine Jackson Browne Little Roy Reggae Ting Tracks of the Week

It's track of the week time and we have three bumper pack tracks of chewie bones for you! Do you have any treats for us? Please let us know!

SFW:-
Florence + The Machine - 'What the water gave me' (2011)

I've been mulling over my TOTW but I must admit I'm smitten by this track. It's an epic return for Florence (& her machine), it supposedly references Frida Kaha and Virginia Woolf, but I haven't heard it.. If you don't like her, give it a listen (a few times) and it might change your minds - it did me. I'll be dressing up like a fairy with butterfly wings next, don't know if it's due to this though - sorry, I digress....


Old Pa's Corner:-

Jackson Browne -You know the Night

WARNING "Track of the Year contender"

JACKSON BROWN - You Know the Night by stellagoodgirl
“You Know the Night,” performed by the magnificent Jackson Browne with Rob Wasserman, is the lead single from Note of Hope, a celebration of Woody Guthrie, based on unpublished writings that the great man wrote between 1942 and 1954 while living in New York City and Brooklyn.  Browne and Wasserman wrote the music for “You Know the Night". The album version of the epic love song – which describes the evening Woody first met the woman destined to become his second wife, Marjorie Mazia – is nearly 15 minutes long while the radio edit is four minutes.  I am looking forward to that 15 minute version, in fact can't wait for the full album. Jackson Browne is up there with my all time favourite artists, check him out! A Best of will enhance any Collection.

Woody copying young Bob Dylan pose

Flycasual:-
Little Roy - 'Come As You Are' (2011)

                                           

Love Reggae? Check! Love Nirvana? Check! So this is win win! However I'm just a little unsure of it as yet as I can't help but feel that it's a bit of a novelty record. I enjoyed the Easy Star Allstars covers of Radiohead and Pink Floyd so I will crack open the Red Stripe and give this a real go.

This is taken from the forthcoming Nirvana covers album, Battle For Seattle and is to coincide with the 20th anniversary (yes I said 20) release of the classic, Nevermind. Battle For Seattle is by Reggae veteran Little Roy and produced by Brighton based roots rocka Prince Fatty, with his trademark dub sound. I'm fans of both so win win again! Hear meh kno!

Can't remember where you hid dem chewie bones? Click here

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