JSngry

Or maybe he was improvising with spelling, liking the way those letters looked next to each other and were still saying what he had to say. He did that with his playing, his notes, "wrong notes" not wrong at all. In which case, a higher level of literaccy.

b/w go figure.

pretty damn fine record, apparently first released on Period and recorded by Peter Bartok!!! No matter, damn good record, period (no pun intended)

possibly the discomfort of the subliminal implications of the whole ball-kicking thing.

Possibly the live stuff has been pitch-corrected? Not remembering if Blue Note already did that, though.

So many ways for all that to have gone wrong, but they all went right. That was when I said, hey, this cat's not bullshitting or posing, he's coming to play. Never spectacular, but always true within himself, which is about all anybody can get to anyways. Now, were they all high? Maybe so. But oh well about that. They all came out with a long game, so ain't my concern.

https://www.nola.com/entertainment/2019/06/dr-john-a-true-new-orleans-music-legend-dies-at-age-77-report.html

A real falled-thru-the-cracks stone gem 1973 Atlantic record produced by Roberta Flack.

I very much appreciate how he didn't try to hang on to the "rock star" thing after that little bit of glitch was over. Instead he became an advocate for his home town and it's heroes. That first Bluesiana Triangle album was what sealed the deal for me.

That's one of the greatest, most stealth of the post-comeback blue Notes, a real gem in every way. I knew a DJ who would pack his dance floors with "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" off it. RIP to a guy who I was once a little unsure about in the early days, but more than won me over, more than all the way. He always represented, and he always came correct.

Excellent production. Excellent, but totally disconnected from the songs and the singer. E for effort, F for fail. Too bad. ok, the last 3 cuts or so are actually pretty good. why they buried them at the end of the record...who knows? wow...

Sometimes it hits a groove, sometimes not. When it does, it's a for-real party. And when it doesn't, it's just plain lonesome, there's a band and there's all this reverb, and it's like there's a band there, but they're not there, they're just in that reverb without a way in or a way out, just lonely, lonely and lost, The Band That Plays The Blues indeed.

and the hall can be heard on Crisis. the omission of the single is an egregious error. and it is now is the time to investigate whether or not the sun suite was recorded, and if it was, how'd it go, eh?

Oh, further research corrected me to the point that it was Goodyear that did the long run with Columbia. Firestone also had a Christmas series, but it was through RCA. Although at some point, they switched. Stories here: http://goodyearchristmas.blogspot.com/2009/12/stanley-arnold-story.html http://yulelights.com/goodyear/goodyear.htm https://christmasshareomusicblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/goodyear-tire-christmas-record-series.html

with 30 or so years in between, that sounds interesting, thanks for the pointer. The writing on this Phillips date sounds fine, but the playing doesn't sound "lived in"

Not if it wasn't recorded at all, or recorded badly, or performed badly. otoh, maybe it's still in some vault somewhere waiting to be discovered, and maybe it's revelatory.