Album of the Week 9-21-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 09/21/2024 - 3:00pm
Afternoon folks!
It's a good week, we've got a great compilation of Guitar Slim tunes and another compilation of Texas blues with names that Evening Blues readers should recognize amongst them. After that we've got an album of hippie music from the Holy Modal Rounders, an album of soul music from the Staple Singers, an album from a famous unknown guitar player Amos Garrett and we finish up with an album from Richard Thompson.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Here 'tis:
Guitar Slim ~ The Atco Sessions
Blues As Big As Texas - Vol. 1
Holy Modal Rounders ~ Last Round
Staple Singers ~ City In The Sky
Comments
Voters in Brandenburg Germany have started casting their ballots
Interesting facet: the voting age in Brandenburg has been lowered to 16.
Surprisingly, the youngest voters, rather than favoring green-left parties as originally expected, have been polling as the age bracket most likely to favor the right-wing populist AfD (“Alternative for Germany”).
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-seeks-further-boost-in-brandenburg-ele...
Caveat: DW, like all government-funded broadcasters in Germany, hates the AfD and, in their reporting, shamelessly puts a pretty heavy thumb on the scale to make it look bad and propagandize against it.
The Holy Modal Rounders on the soundtrack of the movie Easy Rider:
evening lotlizard...
i just saw reporting on the guardian that said that afd lost by a hair to spd. it also said that bsw did pretty well (somewhere around 12%). i guess we'll see if those results hold up. doesn't exactly look like a mandate for the pirate scholz.
Commentary in English by German blogger Eugyppius:
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/brandenburg-election-post-spd-leading/
Record turnout of 72.9%, up 11% from last election in 2019.
Final results here under the heading “Landtagswahl 2024”:
https://www.wahlrecht.de/news/2024/landtagswahl-brandenburg-2024.html
Seats: SPD 32; AfD 30; BSW 14; CDU 12 — total: 88
% ≥ 5: SPD 30.9; AfD 29.2; BSW 13.5; CDU 12.1
% < 5: Greens 4.1; The Left 3.0; BVB-FW 2.1; Animal Rights 2.0; … FDP 0.8; …
Heh, hippie music. ;-)
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
yeah, i was trying to find a simple way to describe their style and that's what dribbled onto my keyboard.
have a good one!
I think they use those words in one of their songs, and it
fits them just fine. I was turned on to them when they first started,which was, I think, pre-hippie, but the right spirit anyway.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Holy modal rounders!
Hi Joe,
Holy modal rounders!
That was neat. They were very good musicians to do that so well.
The Amos Garrett was interesting too. Ol' whatshisname, been on everything.
Think I'll mosey back to the platter smorgasbord for more...
Thanks for the great sounds man!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
evening dystopian...
glad you're enjoying the tunes. i always got a kick out of the holy modal rounders and amos garrett has done some really fine guitar work over the years.
have a good one!