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The Mind of Love (where is your head kathryn?) by k.d. lang - Director: Jake Scott

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Joni Mitchell "Night Ride Home" Painting With Words & Music, May 1998.

[mitjalovse]

Some Great American Songbook LPs surprise us more than anyone would be really willing to admit. I mean, what could have someone like Glenn Frey done with such a material. He only did one album in this vein, titled After Hours, and I must say I'm intrigued. Sure, this feels like a warm-up, yet some moments on the LP cause you to be shocked. Frey rarely felt like a guy who could've listened to these tunes, let alone tackle them ts and he does seem to be a bit timid on the disc. However, I believe he may have had a plan to do more of these, but his band was the bigger priority for him. Sadly, I must add, he could've been a great singer of these pieces.

[krispyweiss]

Jackson Browne at Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio, June 3, 2023

With a fat songbook so packed with quality deep cuts and hits that he can’t possibly play all - or even most - of them, Jackson Browne walked on stage unannounced and by his lonesome June 3 in Columbus and kicked off his U.S. tour with …

… a solo-electric cover of Warren Zevon’s “Don’t Let Us Get Sick.”

It was an unexpected, gutsy and successful move that immediately won over the nearly sold-out Palace Theatre. It elicited warm applause as Browne sang Zevon’s prayer and immediately established his 74-year-old voice is much younger than its chronological age:

Don’t let us get sick, don’t let us get old/don’t let us get stupid, all right/just make us be brave and make us play nice/and let us be together tonight

It set the tone for a loose evening that found Browne engaging with the audience, teasing his guitar tech and heaping well-deserved praise upon the members of his freshly pared-down group.

After the Zevon number, Browne brought out his powerhouse “half-full band” - Greg Leisz (Watkins Family Hour, Bob Weir and Wolf Bros) on lap steel, acoustic and electric guitars; his wife, Mai Leisz, (David Crosby) on bass; drummer Mauricio Lewak; and singers Chavonne Stewart and Alethea Mills (who doubled on percussion) - and got right down to business with the show proper, which was generous across 60- and 90-minute sets.

Saying “I wanna play them all,” but knowing he couldn’t possibly do so, Browne, who accompanied his bandmates on acoustic and electric guitars and piano, did cover 49 years of music making, crafting a setlist that spanned from 1972’s “Doctor My Eyes” to 2021’s “Downhill from Everywhere,” a warning about the oceans’ fragile health and one of many highlights of the evening.

The reggae-tinged “I Am a Patriot” was another. Though released in 1985, the song seems to have intuited where the United States was headed. And Browne added some new lyrics - I ain’t no xenophobe, he sang - to place it even more firmly in the context of 2023.

Band members came and went to suit the songs. Stewart and Mills - who sang beautifully on occasional co-leads and in harmony with Browne, with whom they’ve developed an almost-familial blend - left their riser and joined the songwriter down front for “Until Justice is Real.” Greg Leisz and Browne played as a steel-and-piano duo on “Walls and Doors” and the (half) full band dug into “Running on Empty” so deeply that Browne kicked his leg high in the air and turned to stare down Leisz as he offered his take on the solo made famous by David Lindley, who died earlier this year.

Being the first night of the tour with a new band and a new set, there were a few hiccups. A muffed note here. Some not-quite-honed arrangements there. The occasional false start and botched lyrics. And Leisz’s pedal-steel guitar sat lonely and untouched all evening long, suggesting Browne was calling audibles as the night unfolded.

Someone wanting to hear the records in a concert hall might say these things were evidence of Browne losing his edge. Someone out for the without-a-net experience (put Sound Bites in this camp) might revel in the not-set-in-stone nature that led to such surprises as Browne deciding the first set wasn’t long enough and tacking “For Everyman” on to the end and causing Mai Leisz to run back on stage after assuming break time had come.

The same thing happened to Greg Leisz at show’s end, when Browne opted to play “The Load-Out”/“Stay” and the multi-instrumentalist - who wowed Browne and the concertgoers all evening long - struggled to get his lap steel situated on time. He made it with less than a bar to spare and Browne rewarded Leisz by calling on him to extend his solo, which he did to rapturous applause.

See more photos on Sound Bites’ Facebook page.

Grade card: Jackson Browne at Palace Theatre - 6/3/23 - A-

6/4/23

[nervoussystemmusicreverence]

James Iha - Be Strong Now

Music Video

Artist

James Iha

Composer

James Iha

Lyricist

James Iha

Produced

Jim Scott James Iha

Credit

James Iha – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, producer, string arrangements, production Neal Casal – harmony vocal, electric guitar Greg Leisz – pedal steel, lap steel and electric guitars Adam Schlesinger – piano Solomon Snyder – bass John Ginty – Hammond organ, piano Matt Walker – drums, percussion Curt Bisquera – percussion Eric Remschneider – cello James Sanders – violin Eric Remschneider – string arrangement

Released

February 10 1998

Streaming

Be Strong Now

James Iha · Song · 1998

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CHARLES LLOYD UN MÚSICO SIN FRONTERAS

CHARLES LLOYD UN MÚSICO SIN FRONTERAS

Año 2016 festival de Jazz de Valencia (qué tiempos aquellos). Última actuación del festival en el que no había acertado con las actuaciones. El jazz imprevisible. Mi desconocimiento del intérprete era total, pero a los acompañantes les tenía ganas. Eric Harland a la bateria y Jason Moran (al que en su día le dediqué una entrada) al piano. Al final acerté con esta despedida del festival. El…

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Robert Plant - "Rich Woman"

[lonelychimes]

I had this experience where I was in the studio with Kanye in Mexico, and it was so different than anything I'd done: One day Dave Longstreth is there; the next day Big Sean shows up. Sometimes it wasn't people working, just talking about music. I was, like, "I like this atmosphere. I need to loosen up." So I've been working with this 68-year-old guitarist, Greg Leisz, and this 18-year-old guitarist, Steve Lacy. A bunch of other people have been coming in and out. Now we're moving into the final stage where it's about, "How do you take all that energy and reduce it to the sound of the album?" It's tricky.

Ezra Koenig to Rolling Stone about lp4