Easy Money

Dream Theater -

Jordan Rudess -

Edgar Meyer and Christian McBride

^ that was a day brightener!
Which then led to this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CQteS2GJa_M
Edgar and Victor.

Rob and Paul, we must have tuned to the same station... I was just listening to Douglas, Meyer, and Barenberg up in the shop last night.



On deck for me, Fleetwood Mac - Rumours.

Today -by the way- is the 40th Anniversary of it's release. It remains one of my all-time favorites to this day, one of the few albums I can just hit the <play> button and walk away. The title was actually suggested by bassist (and fellow Alembican) John McVie. It was said after listening to all the tracks, he declared, "...it sounds like a bunch of rumours." And so it was. 

I'm in a coffee shop enjoying a relax breakfast and they just put on the Rumours album, a nice way to start the day! 

Paul,
Nice Victor an Edgar piece, music is such a wonderful way to wash away the challlenges of the week!

Departed Master at work.  Jones. 

Classic Nashville rhythm track:  Quarter-notes with the kick under the verses, dotted in the choruses.  Notice the Nashville convention for this kind of chart where you root/five/root, but when the chords are going to change, in the bar before you go root-root.  Walkups and downs at phrase ends.

This kind of thing would fill the dance floor in one of those big Texas saloons with the basketball court-sized wooden dance floors, with all those cowboys dancing 'backwards in a circle' on a Lone Star Saturday night.  I do miss that . . . . .

This song has been around.  Similar take on George Strait's PURE COUNTRY soundtrack.

In the words of WSM deejay Eddie Stubbs, 'Country Music, don't you miss it?'

Yes.

Joey

Absolutely. 

I bought groceries by playing that root-five-root routine during my time in that town, all credit to my roommate at the time, Ernie Sykes, for showing me those ropes. He was a contemporary of Eddie Stubbs, both were walking country music encyclopedias. Ernie was in Monroe's Bluegrass Boys at the time, and Eddie had just started at WSM not long before. (he had been a deejay at a big station in Northern Virginia... WAMU I think...)

As an aside, it was one Sunday afternoon down near Broadway & 2nd Av. (making some grocery money) that I first encountered this guy playing an Alembic bass, a Distillate 5-string. He was kind enough to let me play on it for a minute during a break. I had never seen anything quite like it... it was more than just a bass - this thing was a work of art.  At the time, I knew a little of the storied past, but didn't realize Alembic was still in business. Wish to the world I could remember his name... never saw him or that beautiful bass again, but I never forgot that moment either.

Just received a copy of the recently released Furnace CD by Dead Man Winter.  Local MN band with two members of Trampled by Turtles (Dave Simonett & Tim Saxhaug).  Very nice!

I need to check out TBT; all I know about them is they are revered among the neo-hippie seasonal workers in Skagway, AK.

Peter

OK, checked them out; I like them.


Here's a sample.


Peter

Wood Brothers...Ophelia....I'm going to see these guys Wednesday night, should be fun!

...here's another Wood Brothers tune...