Let’s raise a glass to the hard-working people! (You and me)
As we slide into the Labor Day weekend, I cannot think of a more appropriate way to mark the holiday than to enlist some exceedingly rich people — all of them self-made capitalists of course — to sing the praises of the hard-working people, the lowly of birth, the rag-tagged people, the salt of the earth.
So … SAAALLLUTTTTE!
– Jay Bookman
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godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
5:57 pm
Where’s Redneck Convert? I found one for him.
http://youtu.be/ol2q9VgS-Nk
josef
August 31st, 2012
5:59 pm
He ne ha
Unmentionable says we’ll not tell the Shawnee and we’ll see if we can’t get THIS Tsa-la-gi dancer to show you just how good they are…speaking of working women…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4QnalIHlVc
skydog
August 31st, 2012
6:01 pm
“dog, you truly are one badass blues kinda rocker, ain’t ya?”
Thanks mon.
I`m 61 and was lucky enough to get to live through the good stuff. I would climb to the top of south Ga. pine trees for transistor radio reception. Reception was best right before a thunder storm. (those cons don`t even know who they are dealing with do they?)
My son is the walking music history lesson. He has 37,000 songs on his iPad. All hand picked, no 100 here 100 there.
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
6:02 pm
Y’all have a safe weekend. I’ll catch y’all later.
Finn McCool
August 31st, 2012
6:02 pm
Wow, from my fvorite album of all time!
Jigsaw Puzzle, Factory Girl, Stray Cat Blues
“I can see you’re only 15 years old, I don’t want your I.D”
“I bet your momma neve saw you scratch like that…..bet she never saw you scratch my back”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obHLK6iW7g
skydog
August 31st, 2012
6:03 pm
heathen, do you know the leadbelly story? He sung himself out of a Miss. prison.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 31st, 2012
6:03 pm
“Eastwooding”
Sounds like something that hookers charge extra for.
Finn McCool
August 31st, 2012
6:03 pm
and Jay picked a song sung by Keef, too!
sweeeeeeeet
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
6:04 pm
speaking of working women
Sorry for the repost but sooo on topic.
http://youtu.be/-9-R9S1m4dA
Finn McCool
August 31st, 2012
6:07 pm
Dear Doctor
Oh help me, please doctor, I’m damaged
There’s a pain where there once was a heart
It’s sleepin, it’s a beatin’
Can’t ya please tear it out, and preserve it
Right there in that jar?
Oh help me, please mama, I’m sick’ning
It’s today that’s the day of the plunge
Oh the gal I’m to marry
Is a bow-legged sow
I’ve been soakin’ up drink like a sponge
josef
August 31st, 2012
6:08 pm
ZamVet
Thanks…I think…
matti
and the present perfect passive would be “I have been Eastwooded?”
So. is Eastwoody a noun or an adjective?
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
6:08 pm
Matti baby, way funny!
heathen, I suspect that Redneck IS Doyle.
Another side of the Amazing Tina Turner…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rJGX8uqoL8
Matti
August 31st, 2012
6:10 pm
skydog,
The good book says if your raise the children up in the way they should go, they will not deviate from it. (Or something like that.) While I’m not quite as “up there” as you are, I took that aspect of parenting seriously as well. Being able to “name the British supergroup” was an important travel game in our car!
Bette breaks it down on the work thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlU6zTRKptA
josef
August 31st, 2012
6:12 pm
Heathen
Okay, it’s FNM, so…I’ll send one out to the Du-k-sha-nee…no wonder she got fat…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzWOa8loCDI
Finn McCool
August 31st, 2012
6:12 pm
Jay, I went to http://www.rollingstone.com the other day to find the Taibbi article but saw the front page link to the greatest Rolling Stones albums – I got sidetracked for about 5 hours!
Is that where you got the inspiration for tonight’s song?
I forgot how good the “Let It Bleed” album is…..
Normal Free, Pro Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
August 31st, 2012
6:17 pm
A taste of cinnimon…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdtUDaBfRA
skydog
August 31st, 2012
6:18 pm
Yeah Matti, I let them do their own thing with music, but I would make my poor wife, skyqueen, take them to the bs shows. Skyqueen had to do Marilyn Manson one nite.
Normal Free, Pro Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
August 31st, 2012
6:19 pm
Josef,
about your 6:12…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
6:19 pm
So. is Eastwoody a noun or an adjective?
I think it depends on which direction you’re facing as well as how you’re hangin’.
Finn McCool
August 31st, 2012
6:23 pm
Actually, the Dear Doctor lyics are so funny I will show them all:
Oh help me, please doctor, I’m damaged
There’s a pain where there once was a heart
It’s sleepin, it’s a beatin’
Can’t ya please tear it out, and preserve it
Right there in that jar?
Oh help me, please mama, I’m sick’ning
It’s today that’s the day of the plunge
Oh the gal I’m to marry
Is a bow-legged sow
I’ve been soakin’ up drink like a sponge
“Don’t ya worry, get dressed,” cried my mother
As she plied me with bourbon so sour
Pull your socks up, put your suit on
Comb your long hair down,
For you will be wed in the hour
So help me, please doctor, I’m damaged
There’s a pain where there once was a heart
I’m sleepin, it’s a beatin’
Can’t ya please take it out, and preserve it
Right there in that jar?
Oh help me, please doctor, I’m damaged
There’s a pain where there once was a heart
It’s sleepin, it’s a beatin’
Can’t ya please tear it out, and preserve it
Right there in that jar?
I was tremblin’, as I put on my jacket
It had creases as sharp as a knife
I put the ring in my pocket
But there was a note
And my heart it jumped into my mouth
It read, “Darlin’, I’m sorry to hurt you.
But I have no courage to speak to your face.
But I’m down in Virginia with your cousin Lou
There be no wedding today.”
So help me, please doctor, I’m damaged
You can put back my heart in its hole
Oh mama, I’m cryin’
Tears of relief
And my pulse is now under control
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
6:24 pm
That’s just the way it is.
skydog
August 31st, 2012
6:26 pm
Matti – I was pretty cool sitting with my 29 & 35 year old kids at BB King. When BB came out they immediately said, what`s wrong with him dad? I reminded them he is 86, just soak it up. We did, but BBs sound was way off, but he worked the crowd with his personality.
Susan Tedeski and Derrick Trucks closed the night with a blistering show.
skydog
August 31st, 2012
6:27 pm
It not I
josef
August 31st, 2012
6:31 pm
matti
Love that Bette…nobody quite like her…
NORMAL
I really like their version of that…
Matti
August 31st, 2012
6:32 pm
skydog,
Um… I like Marilyn Manson! In brief doses of course. But yeah… King, Trucks, Tedeschi… that’s my true love. The Experience Hendrix tour comes around… OMG… guitar greats doing three hours of Jimi… It’s like being in a spirit-filled revival!
josef
August 31st, 2012
6:33 pm
TAXI
@ 6:19
josef
August 31st, 2012
6:37 pm
Is it Mick or isn’t it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 31st, 2012
6:38 pm
Okay, it’s FNM, so…I’ll send one out to the Du-k-sha-nee…no wonder she got fat…
Hey! The missus ain’t done nothing to you preverts!
Finn McCool
August 31st, 2012
6:41 pm
Redneck, you hae a missus? beast or fowl? or fish?
Finn McCool
August 31st, 2012
6:42 pm
sheep count, i guess
skydog
August 31st, 2012
6:45 pm
Atlanta`s own and still out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbaHaiIldA
They BOTH suck
August 31st, 2012
6:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytbzAcW5KHI
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
6:56 pm
For the red one and his missus…
Pretty little one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ggd0YrrZ0
skydog
August 31st, 2012
6:58 pm
I`m going back Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQrGq6DgCq8
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
7:01 pm
Ah but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
(Knockout harmonies)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h80l4XIPJC4
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 31st, 2012
7:03 pm
I’m thinking Mrs. RC (R–apoi) is more along the lines if this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFG9dwolo3Q
skydog
August 31st, 2012
7:03 pm
Ya`ll may have thought these guys were a joke last week. They can play.
http://www.straitjackets.com/fr_intro.cfm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 31st, 2012
7:05 pm
“of” not “if”
skydog
August 31st, 2012
7:15 pm
Don`t let this girl get under your radar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cckroKLPsqg
wet wiccan
August 31st, 2012
7:17 pm
nickle and dimed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCktOsuKpEs
skydog
August 31st, 2012
7:17 pm
Here is one from Lucinda for the cons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1B4Q0hugV8
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
7:18 pm
I’m thinking Mrs. RC (R–apoi) is more along the lines if this:
Her theme song?
http://youtu.be/Zx-MHXc5zGc
skydog
August 31st, 2012
7:19 pm
Once I get to Lucinda ering, I can`t stop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mlp7N3t1fs
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
7:21 pm
sky,
Been a fan of Lucinda’s for a while.
Here’s one for the “con” convention.
http://youtu.be/GBD_d9SZYnw
skydog
August 31st, 2012
7:22 pm
Her biggest hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainIBDO6a8E
josef
August 31st, 2012
7:27 pm
skydog
One of our “theme songs” in this household…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRMRWp4oiq8
Normal Free, Pro Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
August 31st, 2012
7:28 pm
Ode to the Gulf Coast…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obfci1CIqq8
skydog
August 31st, 2012
7:29 pm
Yeah, that`s a good one josef.
skydog
August 31st, 2012
7:33 pm
Do you remember this hurricane song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHr6fiyuJJw
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
7:38 pm
6 feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
http://youtu.be/91Eb3FiebTs
Normal Free, Pro Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
August 31st, 2012
7:40 pm
Skydog…good Dylan…
My Grandson is learning this one. I know it’s a bit played in it’s time but…He says he wants to play it for me. Irony! I played it for my old man when I was 24…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcdSWfWSqGE
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
7:42 pm
Time to watch the Bravos.
http://youtu.be/quyB8PMTD3o
josef
August 31st, 2012
7:46 pm
another one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na1Lv3eAcCk
Normal Free, Pro Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
August 31st, 2012
7:47 pm
Every political season I think of this song, I feel like I owe it to someone…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4YpqRPLIWc
Normal Free, Pro Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
August 31st, 2012
7:50 pm
Since we are talking about the South, I’m going to stir the pot some…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvijfZp3_eU
skydog
August 31st, 2012
7:51 pm
If these kids come through your area, they are the real deal. The girl drumming in this video is about 11, but there are only a handful of drummers in Atl that keep time like this.
Homemade Blues Band out of Miss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujf6zeo3D2k
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 31st, 2012
7:52 pm
I`m going back Jam
Well, me too—some day. It’s been alot of years since I been to the place I call my real home, and Simpsons Trailer Park ain’t it. Here’s a great artist covering a great artist and saying it best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceYjg1dy-h0
Fred ™
August 31st, 2012
7:53 pm
Skydog: Aren’t you the one with the blues band? If so do you have a gig for the 15th of September? If not, do you want one?
skydog
August 31st, 2012
7:54 pm
Oh yeah, those kids in Homemade band are brothers and sister.
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
8:00 pm
Music such as this would be lost on a Romney White House.
Oscar
August 31st, 2012
8:01 pm
Josep
I have heard some of her story. Where can I find the rest?
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
8:05 pm
Music such as this would be lost on a Romney White House.
You mean it would be the end of Obama’s private party palace?
Oscar
August 31st, 2012
8:08 pm
Midnight Special Leadbelly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqgysixP_48&feature=related
Fred ™
August 31st, 2012
8:08 pm
Well I reckon I’ll take that as a no. SOMEONE though posted a blues band they were in a week or so ago, I just can’t remember who and I know a dude with a bar who needs an act the 15th. Oh well.
josef
August 31st, 2012
8:10 pm
OSCAR
You sort of have to piece it together from various sources. The wiki entry is a good starting point…and gives a lot of good references and is a good place to begin a web surf…
She was Florence Owens Thompson…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Owens_Thompson
skydog
August 31st, 2012
8:11 pm
Sorry Fred, the phone rang as soon as i read your post.
Yeah, we try to play some blues.
http://www.reverbnation.com/theslydogband
Oscar
August 31st, 2012
8:12 pm
After a working day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwAgUvp36g
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
8:16 pm
Romney White House music:
http://youtu.be/gmO-NvPQTBw
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
8:16 pm
of course godless, cost cuts, dontcha know. balanced budget. that’s exactly what I meant.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 31st, 2012
8:22 pm
Someone may have already posted this but there’s a “Blue Moon” tonight !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP3mlz01QpM
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
8:27 pm
josef?
http://youtu.be/ptRHGlrfc9M
Oscar
August 31st, 2012
8:30 pm
Josep
Interesting story. Thanks. Looks old for 32. Lots miles on her face.
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
8:34 pm
Damn RC, I love Linda Rondstat.
She may just have been the greatest female voice in all of rock music…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qm8nq8RcA
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
8:36 pm
A little number to commemorate Mitt’s valiant effort. Four. More. Years.
skydog
August 31st, 2012
8:37 pm
Here ya go scout. I went through a Johnny Horton phase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU
Normal Free, Pro Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
August 31st, 2012
8:37 pm
Jam,
I respectfully submit this is the sweetest voice of them all..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI
skydog
August 31st, 2012
8:44 pm
best line heard today……….gonna beat you with your air force bag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPoHgKcqag
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
8:52 pm
Normal, yeah she too had one helluva set of pipes.
gonna beat you with your air force bag.
Aim high, baby!
dog, last year, I bought one smoking, good lookin’ USAF cap at the VAH down on Clairmont. (I like supporting them.)
I took it with me when I visited my bro down in St.Pete. And lo and behold, he takes me to a Rays game and unbeknownst to me, they are honoring the 50th anniversary of MacDill AFB, where I did duty in the early 70s! I was rockin’ the place and had tons of people come up and talk to me! Boy, things sure have changed!
Give her the gun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmC_MMdf_-Q
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
8:56 pm
Good times I remember
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRTMWzVoT_U
Josef
August 31st, 2012
8:57 pm
Heathen
@ 8:27
Sorta reminds me of, uh, well…you know who…..
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:00 pm
Some bluesy stuff courtesy of TR….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxw3KPpSANo
skydog
August 31st, 2012
9:02 pm
Yeah Jam, I went thru a period before rock came out when I listened to all the military branches songs.
Right before my Johnny Horton phase.
We were starved for music outlets down in Albany in the `50s.
Oscar
August 31st, 2012
9:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAK5Ids7l5g&feature=related
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:08 pm
Surprisingly, Rundgren did not record much in the way of blues (excluding his Robert Johnson cover LP from a couple of years ago). This from Utopia…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9IdVOq6wfo
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:14 pm
All-binny, huh?
I grew up in a little chicken village in Kansas and all we had was the local AM station in Wichita. And that is why my world changed forever and always because of these two songs.
The kids of today could not possibly conceive of the impact! When I saw McCartney a few years back at Piedmont Park, I saw grown men and women cry when he played this one. I damn near did!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZ17BWje1Y
And…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed_2W_KO_zI
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 31st, 2012
9:18 pm
For whoever conceived, wrote and approved of Eastwood’s performance last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwriTnDLKs
skydog
August 31st, 2012
9:26 pm
Here is one for the girls who are going to lead us to victory in Nov.
The Queen of the Blues – Koko Taylor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fygyQiHoA
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:28 pm
Earlier this year, after not having heard it for forty years, I rediscovered this stunning song and was completely blown away by the awful, simple beauty of it. And I was at a place in my life then when it hit me right smack in the heart.
Scottsbluff’s Randy Meisner sings lead…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI5dJEjDwHo
Soothsayer
August 31st, 2012
9:29 pm
This is one of those “spiritual” songs that transcends all meaning. As good as Pat Metheny is on guitar, he would would be nothing without Lyle Mays on piano. Enjoy!
godless heathen
August 31st, 2012
9:30 pm
Kam: Right turn Clyde.
http://youtu.be/i98QrSSHxo4
November 2012
G Mare
August 31st, 2012
9:38 pm
Watched a Colbert from a few weeks ago. His guest was 93 year old Pete Seeger, still “pickin’ & singin’.” Amazing!
Curious Observer
August 31st, 2012
9:40 pm
I grew up in a little chicken village in Kansas and all we had was the local AM station in Wichita.
And I grew up in Greenbrier County, WV, and what we had was WRON, curiously the stopping point of famous people like Tom T. Hall, who served as a DJ there, and WOAY, which first announced Hank Williams’ death in his car just a few hundred yards from the station.
G Mare
August 31st, 2012
9:43 pm
I plan to see Clint’s new movie if only to get the picture of him last night out of my mind!
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:44 pm
CO, and that is what binds us all together.
No matter where we come from, we all found some way to listen to that sweet music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVgMzKMgNxw
skydog
August 31st, 2012
9:45 pm
Jam, I worked south of Toledo at Wolf Creek Nuke Station for about 8 months, in `89 or so.
Good folks, but it`s a long way between….ah..anywhere.
G Mare
August 31st, 2012
9:45 pm
PS to last post: Clint was not well-served by whoever planned/staged that. Clint deserved better.
skydog
August 31st, 2012
9:49 pm
Not Toledo, Topeka.
Curious Observer
August 31st, 2012
9:49 pm
Yeah Jam, I went thru a period before rock came out when I listened to all the military branches songs.
And then there the unofficial branch songs. like the U.S. Marine Corps version of “Bless ‘em all.” Oscar Brand recorded the best version, but it is not on YouTube. Here are salient lyrics:
We sent for the Army to come to Tulagi
But General McArthur said no,
I’ll tell you the reason it isn’t the season
Besides you’ve got no USO.
Well we sent for the Navy to come to Tulagi
The dear little Navy agreed,
In ten thousand sections from eighteen directions
Oh Lord what a screwed up stampede.
Then we sent for the Air Force to come to Tulagi
The Air Force appeared on the scene,
And They bombed out two donkeys, five horses three monkeys
And seven platoons of Gyrenes.
Then we sent for the Coast Guard to come to Tulagi
And waited for them to appear,
They sent back a letter we like it here better
But maybe we’ll make it next year.
Then we sent for the nurses to come to Tulagi
The nurses they made it with ease,
Their arse on the table each bearing this label
Reserved for the officers please.
Bless ‘em all, bless ‘em all
Bless ‘em all, bless ‘em all
The long and the short and the tall,
Bless all the sergeants and corporals too
Bless all the privates and above all bless you
So we’re saying good bye to them all
As back to our fox holes we’ll crawl,
There’ll be no promotion this side of the ocean
So cheer up my lads bless ‘em all.
skydog
August 31st, 2012
9:52 pm
G Mare, I read that the RNC didn`t vet his skit and let him do what ever he wanted. Sounds familiar?
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:56 pm
skydog, my mom lives in North Platte, Nebraska. If you head south out of town on Hwy. 83, you do not hit another town until you get to McCook, about 60 miles away.
And going north out of town, it is even more remote!
I remember getting up on cold winter Saturday mornings, hopping on my bike and delivering the North Platte Telegraph and I could hear Union Pacific trains 30 miles or more away.
That quiet seems so damn far away now…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YSh1-XuUKE