Soft-spoken Joe Pera is from Buffalo. He’s going on an extended tour soon, and the first of his two hometown shows is sold out. Joe will be in Boston on December 2nd.
Category: Music
Catchin’ the Blues
Yesterday’s post motivated me to play some more gravel-voiced Blues.
Prue Bury Blues
HAH! You’re in a Blues song, Prue! He got it right about Pretty Prue and Plain Pattie.
Monkey Business
The first time I heard “Monkey Man” by the Rolling Stones was on an 8-track tape of the “Let It Bleed” album that one of my sisters had.
The song was recorded in April, 1969, three months before Brian Jones died. Every time I listen to “Monkey Man” I hear Jones’ distinctively ethereal influence in the recording, balancing Mick and Keith’s straightforward approach. Despite Brian not being listed as present in the studio.
That Girl You Do
On his SiriusXM Friday Night Freak Out, Drew Carey played this 2013 song. Nine years old, it refers to blogs and Tweets.
I wonder if Boss Radio 66 DJ Tom Hanks, CEO of Playtone Records, has heard the Noisettes?
On the Road and in the Sky
There was quite a mix of hit songs in 1968, that year of great musical transition, as FM radio began to rival AM. There were soft singles like “Love is Blue” by Paul Mauriat, and “This Guy’s in Love With You” by Herb Alpert. But there was also “Hush” by Deep Purple and this one by Canned Heat.
Normal Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky” hit the charts a couple of years later. I heard something of “On the Road Again” in it, and whenever I hear one of those records I always think of the other.