Quotebye bye johnny How Willie Nelson Sees America On the road with the musician, his band, and his family. By Alex Abramovich December 22, 2025 -- GREAT read. Thank you for the article. Great read indeed.
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QuoteRocky Dijon 19 STITCHES was bandied about at a time when nine other tracks were under consideration at the first mixing sessions in late summer 1985. I always wondered if a possible double album was planned. The weird thing is just how many Keith lead vocals we would have had. The other nine tracks listed at the time were: Strictly Memphis, Nobody's Perfect, Deep Love, Crushed Pearl, Yo
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QuoteNeddieFlanders Looks like they left off the MJ-track on the physical releases of the album. It's neither on the CD which I received yesterday nor on the two new entries for LPs on Discogs. Pity! Does anyone know a pressing either LP or CD which added Empty Chairs to the tracklisting? N How weird. Why would anyone hide a star cameo like that?
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Thanks for the hint. This is promising to be quite a good CD, given all the talent involved. It's a new entry on my wish list! Looks like the Lobos' very own David Hidalgo and Max Baca of Los Texmaniacs are going to be playing their accordions themselves while most of the other popular singers get an accordion master to play with them. The guest list is making me wonder how Flaco Jim
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Given their track record, most likely, a live album from the Hackney Diamonds tour will be next. Any new songss that they still have left unreleased from those sessions might see a release as bonus tracks on either that or a new compilation. Also: I Want You To Paint This! Ronnie's coloring book for pre-schoolers ;-) No, just kidding. I can only hop that the next album from Steve&#
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Quotejackflash27 Some filing challenges for people who file alphabetically: The Alan Parsons Project: P or A? Jethro Tull: J or T? Franz Ferdinand: Fr or Fe? 13th Floor Elevators: before A, after Z, or T (Thirteenth)? Alice Cooper: A or C? Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: C? Dr. John: D or J? I have Dr. John at D, Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project at C, CSNY at C, 10cc at T for ten, E
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Ronnie Wood played so much great guitar in Faces that this is all a bit of a moot point by now. Still, it's interesting to find out more about the so-called auditions for the role.
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Let's not forget his cover of Hank Williams' "You Win Again". That one could actually go down well received in a Stones concert located in a major country music market.
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"I Want You To Hear This". "I Want You To Buy This". As long as enough people are buying, these things will get produced. I would buy a solo album. But not a single disguised as a boxed set with art prints.
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Whole Wide World Brand New Car She Saw Me Coming
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"Whole Wide World" is still my favourite of these tunes. Also, Steve sounds very Charlie to my ears on this one.
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Before the 1st lockdown, Steve Jordan and his wife Meegan Voss reportedly had a new album by their group The Verbs ready for release, to be entitled "Garage Sale". They even got so far as to put out a single. Since then, Jordan has put out an album with Mix Master Mike and an album he produced for Bettye LaVette on their own label. Here's hoping that the new The Verbs is still
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The post-reunion albums from the late 80s onwards probably are not that well-represented either, given they only played a few from each of these except "Steel Wheels" on each respective tour. However, the real thing to bemoan, if you want to do such a thing, was the long break without an album's worth of new material between "A Bigger Bang" and "Blue and Lonesome
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From back in my mixtaper days when I used to make tapes for the car, I still have quite a few Maxell, TDK, BASF, Sony, etc tapes. I am sure there are enthusiasts out there who would like to record over them. Some of those tapes have previously been subjected to heat while located in parked cars in the summer decades ago. I just cannot tell which ones. Some haven't. We had an old car with
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Glad to see that Sinead O'Connor's "Gospel Oak" has already been mentioned. I would like to add: T-Bone Burnett - Trap Door
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This has always been a nice forum but my participation on here has not helped influencing the band in producing any further new material than they would have done otherwise. I was here before "A Bigger Bang" came out. They could have put out so much more new material if they had actually wanted to. But they do not. They very much have got their finger on the pulse of the market. And the
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Some 15 years back or so, I bought the CD version of "40 Licks" online for $10 when it was just about to switch distributors from the one owning disc 1 to the one on disc 2. Also, it was the 1st time that I got any of these songs. There's hardly been a purchase with a higher value-to-money ratio. The reissue looks as solid a set as "40 Licks" has always been.
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It was a marketing decision, and an obvious choice at that, why the songs from the archives were put out as bonus tracks for expanded reissues: the ever so elusive "casual fans" are already familiar with the good reputation of the well-known catalogue albums, and trying to get them to buy something is the reason for creating interesting stuff to lure in the real fans so they will create
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Thanks for the beautiful picture. Given the length of this thread and the fact that it was created in 2015 because of the high number of Taylor threads in earlier years made it necessary to group all those discussions into one place, I get the feeling that Taylor would have sold quite a few units of solo albums from the mid-00s through the 2010s, if he had chosen to record new material during
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Quotedmay I've enjoyed much of his music from the 1960s onward. Some of his latest albums - Praise and Blame, Spirit In The Room, Long Lost Suitcase, Surrounded By Time - are well worth discovering. Add to that his album with Jools Holland on which he fronts the Rhythm N Blues Orchestra.
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QuoteJavadave Los Lobos (1973) Both still recording and performing. Well, the Lobos were led by Francisco "Frank" Gonzalez in the beginning, who was out of the band even before their 1st record in the 70s. He is sadly no longer with us since last year. But his Veracruz harp solo record from the 2010s titled "The Gift / El Regalo" is excellent.
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Somebody on this very board wrote years ago that Ron Wood had recorded 3 unreleased albums during the 90s. I don't know if this is just a rumour or hubris or if there is something to it. But if there were indeed recordings from this era, I'd sure love to listen them, on the strength of "Slide on This" and "Not For Beginners" alone.
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Bill Wyman should have done "Si, si je suis un Rockstar" with the Stones, and sung it himself as he was the band's 3rd lead vocalist. This is the best disco song to come from somebody in the Stones camp. His bass playing would not be as low in the mix then as it is on the solo track it actually is.
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QuoteMeryl03 Carla Olson has been on a few podcasts recently and she said about Mick "He basically seems to be not really wanting to be on the road or do anything, y'know real real depressing, but this record is one of the things that changed my life." She also said Mick is close to her heart and like a brother to her. This quote, combined with the lack of public appearances in r
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Quotedaniel t I don't know WHEN he stopped being allowed to sing background vocals, but this is definitely WHY... Wow, that is Paul Carrack on the organ.
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This one is pretty good indeed. But in a way, can it really be a vehicle for a fragrance? ;-)
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Well, how could they curate a boxed set without the help of Bill, their historian?
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In the late 90s, he also played in Bernie Taupin's band Farm Dogs. They put out an album of acoustic music in the folk tradition (Last Stand in Open Country) and a folk-rock album (Immigrant Sons) with some pretty great songwriting.
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Keith played guitar on this track by Canadian/Somalian artist K'naan, who is considered by most as a hip-hop artist a/k/a rapper: The connection there is probably Manny Marroquin who mixed both K'naan's album and the Stones' "Doom and Gloom". It would have been awesome had the Stones done a whole album with Marroquin.
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"Far out!" is probably the only appropriate comment here. From the 50s onwards, whole generations of people have been raised with fantasies of outerspace and space travel. It is a myth that helped develop a lot of more or less useful stuff, yet as a goal, seems particularly unrewarding at this stage, given the risks and expenses involved, unless of course, your ego yearns for prestig
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