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OT: country music and great story!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cttt3F_kGRs
it took someone from Sweden to notice his talent...shows that we don't give the homeless a second look. |
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Doug Seeger was interviewed on Buddy Miller's show on Sirius Outlaw County this week. https://www.facebook.com/BuddyandJim. He still plays out and busks on the street. This really is a great story!
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Was on NPR this morning - he talked about living under a bridge etc. but he always had his music - and we think we have had it tough.
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I'm listening to Doug Seeger's cover of the Gram Parsons cover of "She" as I write thus. It's a duet with Emmylou Harris, who sang the original with gram Parsons. It's really good. It makes me sad that Parsons died so young, but it really is great that Seeger is getting such attention from music legends like Emmylou.
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Harvard, Flying Burrito Bros, Byrds, etc. In my hour of darkness is a good one too. |
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Yep - some incarnation of Gram Parsons has been in regular rotation of my music since ~1972, whether it be in the Byrds, solo with Emmylou, Burritos, influence on the Stones....you name it. Fabulous, sweet cracking voice, remarkable harmony sense, unbelievable change agent and influence on a vast new genre of music while keeping one foot firmly planted in the traditional. Definitely one of my heroes who remains sorely missed after all this time....
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This thread inspired me to pick up Doug Seeger's release from iTunes. It really is excellent and the version of "She" alone makes it worth owning. (you can stream it here:http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/...song-premiere/) How this guy wasn't "discovered" earlier is a mystery. |
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It was a good video.
During my misspent youth, I used to take my guitar everywhere I went. I spent a lot of time in Fells Point, Baltimore. I used to run into a guy playing blues on an accordion on a street corner and we would play at blues stuff. He was pretty good. I read later that he was a state senator. Another time I was in Fells Point on an early Sunday afternoon. I had a bottle of wine and a bunch of street people showed up. We passed the bottle of wine around and the guitar. Every one of them knew and could play a song. The best was one guy who played Young love...They say for every Boy and girl. There's just one love in this whole world and I..... Nother time we were working on a job in New Orleans during the beginning of Mardi Gras. I was walking around the French Quarter late at night and ran into a guy playing a Martin guitar in a wheelchair. I said...hey I have a Martin. He gave me his guitar and said play something. I played House of the Rising Sun. For me, that is one of the coolest things I ever did. To play guitar in the French Quarter during Mardi Gras. You can run into cool people everywhere. |
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Just listening to Keith Richards "Life" in the car. Gram Parsons was a very good friend of Keith's and a major influence on the Stone's music around the Dead Flowers and Wild Horses period. Unfortunately, he also had quite the taste for heroin, as Keith did. Keith describes he and Gram going cold turkey in the same room at the same time. Gruesome. Then Gram took just a little too much one time.........
Saw Gram way back in the Rutgers student center. He was introducing young Emmy Lou Harris to the world at the time on that tour. I am really dating myself with that one.
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check out Searching for Sugarman
really interesting story about a forgotten US musician that was beloved in south africa, and brought to our attention decades later by another swedish filmmaker (tragically now deceased).
here's a taste of rodriguez's story on 60-minutes. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rodrigue...didnt-know-it/ |
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