Travelin’ music? SHE’ll tell you about travelin’ music!
Bettye Lavette’s been around a while. In fact, if you were touring back in the early ’60s with the likes of Ben E. King, Otis Redding and James Brown, and you’re still at it today, you qualify as an authentic R&B veteran. That’s a marathon runner in the musical world.
And as you’ll see if you watch this remarkably emotional performance from just a couple of years ago, Bettye does not sell her audience short. To the contrary, she sells everything she’s got and then some.
Ladies and gentlemen, to kick off the weekend, I give you the fabulously soulful Miss Bettye Lavette!
– Jay Bookman
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skydog
September 28th, 2012
9:05 pm
Ug oh, malfunction.
skydog
September 28th, 2012
9:07 pm
If we don`t win we`ll just…………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHJmPcILfg8
JamVet
September 28th, 2012
9:20 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLAEI9seMY&feature=related
skydog
September 28th, 2012
9:24 pm
When they a`int Talking Heads they are Tom Tom Club. The drummer and bass player are married.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIW4skg3Ceo
Jerome Horwitz
September 28th, 2012
9:32 pm
Meant to post a GP song last week in honor of the anniversary of his death. May Cosmic American Music live on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VYxdqt4k3A&feature=related
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 28th, 2012
9:34 pm
Jerome
JT is a wanker.
Just sayin’.
skydog
September 28th, 2012
9:39 pm
Come on down to Waycross in a couple of weeks Jerome. The Gator Pull they call it.
http://www.gramparsonsguitarpull.com
JamVet
September 28th, 2012
9:58 pm
Bird on the horizon,
sittin’ on a fence
He’s singin’ his song for me
At his own expense
And I’m just like that bird
Oh, singin’ just for you
I hope that you can hear
Hear me singin’ through these tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCu_0jAc7mI
Jm (not a con)
September 28th, 2012
10:10 pm
Sky dog
You crazy dude
Jerome Horwitz
September 28th, 2012
10:10 pm
Thanks Skydog – I stumbled across the Gator Pull a couple weeks ago and was all fired up until I realized I’ll be visiting Mom that weekend. Next year.
Surfing Youtube tonight and remember this powerful piece of music from my teen years. Should be required listening for every politician.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxoWWnWK3lc
Jm (not a con)
September 28th, 2012
10:11 pm
Sky dog
Rattle snake round up
Boom
stands for decibels
September 28th, 2012
10:16 pm
skydog, not only are chris and tina married, they’ve been wed 35 years.
Jerome Horwitz
September 28th, 2012
10:22 pm
Kam – Glad JT plays for the Blues and not MU. A real piece of work.
Orange12
September 28th, 2012
10:23 pm
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-ZtcWU1lyssk/obamanation_anti_obama_song_by_ash_soular/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 28th, 2012
10:26 pm
Jerome
I shoulda known better after that off-pitch nonsense JT had with Wayne Bridge’s girlfriend. We shoulda transferred his punk ass then.
We’re the early game tomorrow on ESPN 2 against the Gunners. Should be a pretty good match.
Jm (not a con)
September 28th, 2012
10:28 pm
Obama has a Clinton crutch
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81794.html?hp=t3_3
JamVet
September 28th, 2012
10:32 pm
Jm, when you were born did the doctor slap your mama instead of you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqFUmo8VVg0
getalife
September 28th, 2012
10:52 pm
Ann Romney: Biggest Concern Is Mitt’s ‘Mental Well-Being’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGt-8adyabk
Ahem
September 28th, 2012
11:05 pm
I guess that eventually, even the willing dolts can’t stand the smell of rotting integrity, hence the lack of interest in Jay’s missives lately. And when we look at the cable ratings we can clearly see that most people with functioning brains are growing weary of the lies; deceit; and abject BULLSHEET offered by the losers grasping for acceptance.
CABLE NEWS RACE
SEPT. 27, 2012
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 2,841,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,511,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,185,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,080,000
FOXNEWS FIVE 1,960,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 1,857,000
CMDY DAILY SHOW 1,832,000
CMDY COLBERT 1,295,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,284,000
MSNBC SCHULTZ 1,235.000
MSNBC O’DONNELL 1,204,000
FOXNEWS FOX/FRIENDS 1,149,000
CNN PIERS 670,000
MSNBC MORNING JOE 552,000
CNN COOPER 477,000
getalife
September 28th, 2012
11:15 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ6pLKlU-8Q
Jm (not a con)
September 28th, 2012
11:28 pm
Jamvet
Mr negativity
Oscar
September 28th, 2012
11:37 pm
Time for more music. Let Me be There.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qjJR885cs
skydog
September 29th, 2012
6:46 am
Even if you can`t sing, don`t let that stop you. It doesn`t stop Lou.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31n-8ffVFVg
skydog
September 29th, 2012
7:31 am
Ahh…………Orange. That is about the worst protest song I have ever heard @ 10:23.
You can`t write these things sitting in a room in Nashville. Well you can, but they come out sounding like this or like Big and Rich. (hint to B&R: you ain`t that big, your blue jeans are just a size too small)
This is the way it is supposed to sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2rfbuaMXKM
JamVet
September 29th, 2012
7:51 am
Some more sweet Joni back at ya, skydog.
And LOL at 12’s choice. Like many (most?) rabid cons, he just doesn’t “get” music. Or post 1950s culture, for that matter. They never have and short of some epiphany, never will.
A stunning live solo performance…
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
Turn into butterflies
Above our nation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOGnVKWbwc&feature=related
skydog
September 29th, 2012
8:06 am
Ya`ll know Buckethead? He took over for Slash in G & Rs, but I think Axel haz screwed that up too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDB4xJsXVo
stands for decibels - race traitor
September 29th, 2012
8:09 am
And when we look at the cable ratings
Nothing quite so funny as “we have the tallest dwarf!” argument from the FoxNoozies.
Mick
September 29th, 2012
8:37 am
Ran into a couple of these last night…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9nE2EQwa18
For Kam (and others who fail to see "the emperor has no clothes"
September 29th, 2012
8:52 am
…When the laughter subsided, Leno continued, “A new survey out today shows how much time we waste every day in our lives. For example, we waste seven minutes in line every time we go to get coffee, 28 minutes getting through airport security, four years waiting for Obama to do something about the economy. Every year, we waste a lot. We wasted a lot of time.”
Yes we did. It’s about time media members began telling the nation that.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/09/28/leno-we-wasted-four-years-waiting-obama-do-something-about-economy#ixzz27rXfzHoY
skydog
September 29th, 2012
8:53 am
We have one more river to cross, but Jimmy will be with us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGeCeK85sUg
skydog
September 29th, 2012
8:55 am
The harder they come……the harder they fall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGE4dnrPPZQ
JamVet
September 29th, 2012
9:01 am
Kyle’s confused meat cracks me up.
Is the liberal media in the bag for O, or not? Make up your mind or better yet just get a better story/excuse for your impending disaster in November.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8T_PQoTC30&feature=relmfu
skydog
September 29th, 2012
9:01 am
Leno still has a show? Why?
Mick
September 29th, 2012
9:04 am
skydog
Could you repost that tejano band with the wrestling masks? If that was you from a couple of weeks ago?
JamVet
September 29th, 2012
9:07 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq8nQOhZ3u8
skydog
September 29th, 2012
9:08 am
Yeah Mick, these guys are a hoot. Los Straightjackets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls9-smAgSRI
skydog
September 29th, 2012
9:10 am
How about one more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZelMNqVjoO8
skydog
September 29th, 2012
9:13 am
This one is good too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qRQr2HI2KU&feature=related
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 29th, 2012
9:15 am
I’m supposed to be moved by Leno’s whining, why?
Mick
September 29th, 2012
9:18 am
skydog
Thanks….here’ s an interesting jam with stevie wonder on drums-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n7HZYulzvY
skydog
September 29th, 2012
9:30 am
Thanks Mick, I had not heard that one before. Stevie is one bad mamajama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISbkwLvrUDM
JamVet
September 29th, 2012
9:33 am
OJ, gang, gonna go work for a couple of hours and then off to a friends to watch his Buckeyes tangle with Sparty.
I’ll catch y’all later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZup5YLOWLE
JamVet
September 29th, 2012
9:34 am
OJ? Make that OK.
(If it does not fit, you must acquit!)
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
September 29th, 2012
9:40 am
Grand morning to all y’all good people! I’m feeling good today!
my offering to all y’all…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xoMhCT-7A
skydog
September 29th, 2012
9:46 am
Free speech?
Not in Albany, Ga in 1968. This song was banned from radio play by the city. Albany also busted and confiscated the movie “Carnell Knowledge” about this same time.
http://vimeo.com/28157426
bman
September 29th, 2012
9:53 am
Skydog .. .. that song shouldn’t have been banned because of the lyrics. It should have been banned because it sucked lol
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
September 29th, 2012
10:04 am
SKY,
Was this one banned too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DtmEfj2gsk
skydog
September 29th, 2012
10:05 am
Dang gov`ment regulations. Where is the NRA when I need um?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02J_kPincA
skydog
September 29th, 2012
10:08 am
Normal – Yeah, I had a friend who was a DJ and he got fired for playing that one on a Sunday. (it was 12:15 on a Sat nite)
bman
September 29th, 2012
10:22 am
Skydog .. .. Howany instruments do you play?
skydog
September 29th, 2012
10:25 am
I guess the Albany city council were Dead fans because this one was no problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacvydVrhuI
skydog
September 29th, 2012
10:28 am
bman,
I play stuff you can beat on, drums, congas, bongos, shakers. I am guitar illiterate. My fingers just won`t make those shapes. My ears will not even let me sing in the shower.
bman
September 29th, 2012
10:43 am
haha Skydog .. .. These days it seems as if everyone can play at least “some” guitar…except you and I
TaxPayer
September 29th, 2012
10:45 am
A little tribute to that conga beat.
skydog
September 29th, 2012
10:49 am
Who put that bullet hole in Peggys kitchen wall?
Mr. Digets……have you been cleaning your 50 cal in here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38Ozhqiv2U&feature=related
wobble baby!!
September 29th, 2012
10:53 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd6UI6wEIsU&feature=relmfu
Recon 0311 2533
September 29th, 2012
11:04 am
Some travelin music for your listening pleasure
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=aiGg8D4hFLc&vq=medium
TaxPayer
September 29th, 2012
11:09 am
That Mitt and his hidden videos! What will he do next.
skydog
September 29th, 2012
11:11 am
bman,
A few years ago I heard of a bass guitar that had buttons at the top of the neck. A, B E….
That`s the trick! I thought.
I hunted one of these down after a long search. The man that owned it told me it took about twice as long to learn how to play this thing as it did to play a normal bass. Well dang.
Next I spotted a small keyboard bass. (Actually, I spotted it years ago on that Talking Heads video I posted @ 9:07 pm yesterday)
How hard could that little thing be to learn?
Well, there are about 5 of these things left on earth @ about $5,000 each.
Oh well, there is air guitar.
I also do interpretive dancing. I am trying to get Fred to do a duo one night.
skydog
September 29th, 2012
11:13 am
That`s funny TaxPayer.
Brosephus™
September 29th, 2012
11:15 am
haha Skydog .. .. These days it seems as if everyone can play at least “some” guitar…except you and I
Make it three. Until somebody figures out how to play the guitar with a pair of sticks or mallets, I’m stuck in the percussion section.
skydog
September 29th, 2012
11:32 am
Hey G. Mare. I hope you are feeling good this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOaXTg3nAuY&feature=related
skydog
September 29th, 2012
11:39 am
I hope I am not singing this song after todays games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s2XDRdm7v8
Fred ™
September 29th, 2012
11:40 am
skydog
September 29th, 2012
11:11 am
I also do interpretive dancing. I am trying to get Fred to do a duo one night.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I don’t dance. but I used play the hell out of keyboards. It took me about a year of listening and rewinding to get all the sounds down and programmed in on my synth’s but back when I was in practice I played this as my “solo” when I was in bands. Much of it was piano so I played that parts (and the harpsichord parts) on my OLD Yamaha, (last one they made before they developed MIDI).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9paOc-M4VIQ
Fred ™
September 29th, 2012
11:46 am
This one didn’t take nearly as long to learn. I was using a Yamaha DX7 (got one the second it came out lol, almost 3 grand. HUGE bucks for an 18 year old.) The problem was that the sound was too *clean*. I never could get that good Hammond B3 with leslie cabinets sound, and I couldn’t find one to buy, even if I could find the money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZcYP00b2FI
Fred ™
September 29th, 2012
11:52 am
Of course hailing not to far out of the Big Easy, I had to play something like this as well. Had to? Hell I loved it. Give me some keys, a few beers and a beat up, tacky, smo0ke filled honky tonk or blues joint and I was happier than a pig in sht. (and back in them days, the smoke was from them “green” cigarettes).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1TpeMt8aF4
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 29th, 2012
11:53 am
For all those Arsenal fans today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZYfi_Ex_gM
In the words of #1 FOXY LADY — SUCK IT!
Fred ™
September 29th, 2012
11:57 am
Shoot. I got hooked up with Lamar’s brother (Lamar’s Williams, played with the Brothers), Kirby and he took me to some back water bayou joints where I wouldn’t get out alive if I wasn’t with him. Who’s this white boy think he is. Ain’t no way he got keys………. Kirby played bass like his big brother and we’d open with this song and they were putty in our hands the rest of the night. I don’t know that we ever got paid from those places, but we never had to buy drinks or smoke either……….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JkT3p6H4Ws
skydog
September 29th, 2012
11:59 am
Fred,
I went and saw this guy one night and his keys man was using a Korg thru a Leslie. Sounded good and about 400 pounds lighter than a Hammond.
(Some of y`all may not know what a Leslie speaker is. It`s the brown box in this video. It has horn speakers inside that spin. The keyboard man regulates how fast they spin.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zifVD–aM3s
Fred ™
September 29th, 2012
12:05 pm
I thought this was “blues” or “country”piano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvfG9uFswis
but then The Blues Brothers came out and I saw this man and he spent the next couple of years teaching me to play. I started with this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN5V-6yCbpg
Fred ™
September 29th, 2012
12:17 pm
skydog: I got a Korg Poly 800 soon after they came out. It was tiny, but when conjoined with my DX 7 and piano, it packed a lot of punch. It was the synth Van Halen used for “Jump,” and we got a lot of mileage from that. The Jump sound was one of the pre-programmed presets lol. I was just sitting here wondering what the hell ever happened to that thing. I don’t remember selling it, losing it, or giving it away……..
http://tinyurl.com/9w44qvr
Fred ™
September 29th, 2012
12:24 pm
damn, look at the time. Gotta split. Let me leave you with another song I learned on my journey to get to be a half way decent, semi- mediocre, pie-anny picker……….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jseTa7HUIDU
ragnar danneskjold
September 29th, 2012
12:34 pm
Maybe I am the only one, but I am amused that the parent of the AJC is now delivering Rush Limbaugh’s show to Atlanta on a daily basis @ 95.5 FM. My traveling music is the latest from the genius Paul Shanklin, Another Bump in the Road.
http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2012/09/another-bump-in-road.html
skydog
September 29th, 2012
12:40 pm
Enter your comments here
skydog
September 29th, 2012
12:45 pm
Thanks for the tip rags. I sent this to BMI and ASCAP. Let`s make sure Pink Floyd gets their fair share if Rush sells any of these.
I can imagine that most repubs think the lyrics and the music are new. Cutting edge, doncha know, wink wink.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 29th, 2012
12:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGnnv2OkOFQ
Mr Right
September 29th, 2012
12:57 pm
The Slacker In Chief For Sure!! NEW YORK — Concerning the fun parts of his job, Barack Obama resembles the Energizer Bunny. If there are crowds to wow, entertainers to schmooze or donors to pitch, Obama is Johnny on the spot.
Too bad Obama’s sparks stop flying when it comes time for the serious, heavy lifting of the presidency.
According to the institute’s data culled from the official White House calendar and Politico.com’s news coverage of that schedule, Obama chose to skip his daily briefings and, instead, simply read his briefing book.
Obama skipped his briefings between last Sept. 4 and 11, the entire week before the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, suffered an Islamic terror attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, technical officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
Even worse, as Thiessen reports, Obama postponed and eventually skipped his briefing on the day after these planned and deliberate assassinations. This liberated Obama for a truly indispensable responsibility that day. As American embassies burned brightly throughout the Islamic world, Obama jetted off on Air Force One for a campaign fundraiser in America’s least solemn city — Las Vegas.
G Mare
September 29th, 2012
1:03 pm
Hi, sky dog. Touch of grey, indeed. Feeling okay physically today, but mentally psyched – facing surgery in the next few weeks. Haven’t been in a hospital since the early ’70s & I’m really scared. I know all y’all will hold a good thought for me.
They BOTH suck
September 29th, 2012
1:23 pm
G Mare
Wishing the you best as well as the doctor and those assisting the doc.
josef
September 29th, 2012
1:31 pm
GMARE
Best wishes…
skydog
September 29th, 2012
1:47 pm
Sending some good love your way G.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpihAfPIId8
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 29th, 2012
2:01 pm
Ah ………… more wonderful “Arab Spring” !
Headline: “US Embassy issues terror warning for Americans in Egypt”
“Citing credible threat to women engaged in missionary activities, diplomats urge citizens to exercise vigilance.”
Mr_B
September 29th, 2012
2:05 pm
Gee whiz , Mr. Right. Tell us how many embassies are burning so brightly!
skydog
September 29th, 2012
2:11 pm
I hope Obama waits until after the Ga. game before he institutes martial law.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 29th, 2012
2:15 pm
Surrender if Never and Option:
” Most of the folks I know will probably agree with the thoughts expressed in this posting. Those who don’t should still have to know, that at some time in their life, a situation may develop which will place the unavoidable decision on their shoulders. Life’s choices are made easier by having the state of mind to have already have made the conscious decision aforehand to not give in to forces of evil.
Like those brave people on flight 93 that was brought down on 9-11-2001 in a Pennsylvania field, rather somewhere in Washington,D.C., when there is no way out …. just don’t give blood cheaply. Make ‘em pay dearly. ”
http://www.downrange.tv/blog/why-surrender-is-never-an-option/12837/
Yo!
September 29th, 2012
2:17 pm
What the dems don’t have these days!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=81iA408UkZE
They BOTH suck
September 29th, 2012
2:17 pm
skydog
I’m with you on that. I figure he will declare martial law then call off the elections. You know he is really behind in all the polls. It is the “librul media” that is conspiring with Obama.
skydog
September 29th, 2012
2:25 pm
Like last time when the handwriting was on the wall. McCain had to haul azz to DC to keep the economy afloat. Yeah, right.
Are we getting wiser or these cons getting dumber?
They better consider us smokers if they enact martial law. Gov`meant better deliver or get out of the way, we are going to the store!
St Simons
September 29th, 2012
2:26 pm
if you’re goin all the way cross to waycross, might as well come
to de island mon.
Etta James, good josef.
in this genre –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=MV4ytI0ZgHc&NR=1
St Simons
September 29th, 2012
2:31 pm
emails from DSCC, Barb Boxer, & Al Franken’s office –
Republicans & Karl Rove diverting massive (dirty money) war chest
to Senate races.
cmon cons – don’t give up on Lil Lord Fauntleroy & AynRyan yet
skydog
September 29th, 2012
2:47 pm
I`m not seeing any Romney ads here in Acworth. Very few bumper stickers or yard signs.
I`m not flying my colors.
Unlike Israel, I realize I am a black ant surrounded by red ants and I better just keep my head down.
St Simons
September 29th, 2012
2:47 pm
Dinah Washington, Etta James, & nitroglycerine all rolled into one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KnBVJfXHx8
They BOTH suck
September 29th, 2012
3:19 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhtSbptacb0&feature=related
They BOTH suck
September 29th, 2012
3:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnlXAgGl3M8&feature=related
Orange12
September 29th, 2012
3:27 pm
“I`m not seeing any Romney ads here in Acworth. Very few bumper stickers or yard signs.”
I can get you a Romney yard sign if you like. That way you could hold your head up with all those red ants.Funny though, I thought you guys think Obama is running away with this election. According to your post, maybe not.
Mary Elizabeth
September 29th, 2012
3:27 pm
G Mare, I am truly sorry to read about the need for your surgery. Anyone would be scared, but I sense that you have untapped inner resources to call upon. Who we are is so much more than the flesh. My thoughts and prayers will continue for you, as you overcome this necessary hurdle. And, I know you will. . .
getalife
September 29th, 2012
3:39 pm
G Mare.
Waiting is the hardest part. If you let the nurses know you are scared, they will help you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyCa35_mOg
Jm (not a con)
September 29th, 2012
3:46 pm
I dig it
Mick, you might too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrYHyV9j8GQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Jm (not a con)
September 29th, 2012
3:50 pm
OJ12
Romney stickers and signs everywhere here in FL
Also, spotted on a Prius’ bumper sticker
(photo of Obama) “Does this ASS make my bumper look big?”
Jm (not a con)
September 29th, 2012
3:51 pm
Gmare
Best wishes