Ooh La La

 

A photo from Rod's 80th birthday party.

I was going to wait until the next Instagram dump, but this pic made me happy and I had nothing else going on today.

Songs Of The Week, 2025: 1/11-1/17

 

Rock & Roll- The Redwalls
No Bread, No Meat- Katie Webster
Heart of Stone- The Rolling Stones
Fairy Dust- The Joe Jackson Band
You Can't Catch Me- Love Sculpture
You're Lonesone Now- Charles Perrywell
Rockin' On The Stage- Roy Wood & Phil Lynott

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Rock & Roll- The Redwalls
(I first saw these guys open for Fountains Of Wayne. Decent enough debut record, but nothing quite as good as this track.)

No Bread, No Meat- Katie Webster
(From the legendary Jay Miller sessions. They don't make'em like that anymore.)

Heart of Stone- The Rolling Stones
(Okay, we've all heard this song before. But last week it really hit me. This is some great record!)

Fairy Dust- The Joe Jackson Band
(In case you forgot just how good that reunion album "Vol.4" was.)

You Can't Catch Me- Love Sculpture
(Dave Edmunds, pre-Rockpile, kinda psychedelic, almost hardcore.)

You're Lonesome Now- Charles Perrywell
(Some sweet swampy soul from Shreveport, please dig Charles "Diamond" Perrywell and his Fairlanes.)

Rockin' On The Stage- Roy Wood & Phil Lynott
(Hadn't heard this one-off single from two of my rock and roll heroes in a long time. This was fun.)

Saturday Instagram Photo Dump

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer, 1972

 

Jennifer Warnes had been making records since the late 60's, but it wasn't until her 1976 hit "Right Time Of The Night" that anyone took notice. Okay, maybe some of you took notice before that, but I sure didn't. 

Then came the now classic Leonard Cohen tribute, "Famous Blue Raincoat," and of course the monster duet with Bill The Righteous Brother for the "Dirty Dancing" soundtrack. Since then, not much. She is alive, thankfully, but there hasn't been much activity musically.

But I am here today, ladies and gentleman, to talk about her 1972 release for Warner Brothes, entitled "Jennifer." It was only recently that I discovered that this record was produced by one of my music heroes, John Cale. And it was only yesterday that I finally got to listen to it. And I really dug it.

Warnes is backed by an all star lineup that features Spooner Oldham, Richie Hayward, Russ Kunkel, Ron Elliott, Jackson Browne, Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Milt Jackson. Musically, this record is very reminiscent of Cale's masterpiece "Paris 1919." The setlist includes covers of Free, Jackson Browne, Procol Harum, The Bee Gees, as well as a John Cale original.

Is "Jennifer" the great lost record of the 70's? No, not at all. But if you are a fan of any of the people involved, this was a really pleasant spin and I am glad it finally found me.

Meet the BeeGeetles

 

An Artist Is An Artist

 

 

 

I can't say I've listened to a lot of Skunk Anansie in the last 25 years, but I did enjoy their first few releases back in the 90's, or at least some of those records. 

They have a new single and I love everything about it. It's an earworm for sure, kind of like X-Ray Spex meets The Cure meets INXS.

I dig the lyrics, too.

The Rumble

 

From the band's website:

The Rumble continues the legacy of Mardi Gras Indian funk, which was pioneered in part by Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr.’s father Big Chief Monk Boudreaux with the Wild Magnolias. The younger Boudreaux is a Grammy nominated singer himself and a well respected leader of the Black Masking Indian community. Trumpeter Aurélien Barnes masks with the Northside Skull and Bone Gang, another hallmark black masking carnival group. The brass band culture of New Orleans is represented by Barnes, and especially by trombonist José Maize of the TBC Brass band, known for electrifying crowds at the city’s famous second line parades.

Now that you are caught up, get caught up in this record. "Stories From The Battlefield" 

This record makes me happy and that's no easy task.