Blast IT

[caseyjo]

Whats the last song, Tv Vid, or on-line tune you listened to?..If you cant remember, what do you feel like listening to & if you dont feel like listening to anything, what is one of your all time favorite tunes?..Take your pic.....It's Blast it  time in the old TBd music room tonight.... So hit it peeps This is what I just listened to......It's actually on my profile right now.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"In The Jailhouse Now", recorded 2/15/1928, in Camden, NJ (Jimmie Rodgers)

Steve Earle & the V-Roys recorded it for the 1997 various-artists compilation, "The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute"

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, February 16th, 1966 and 1974:

A twofer for Zimmy: In 1966, Bob Dylan, during the sessions for "Blonde On Blonde", records "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands"



And, in 1974, Bob gets his first Number One album: "Planet Waves" 

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"I Still Miss Someone"; not a single, but the B of "Don't Take Your Guns To Town", #32 Pop, 2/16/1959 (Johnny Cash)

Spirited cover by John Doe and the Sadies, from their one-off 2009 album, "Country Club"

[Snagg]

Today, In Musical History, February 17th, 1966: Brian Wilson begins recording "Good Vibrations".

He finishes 8 months later, spanning seventeen different sessions at four different studios. 

Allegedly edited together out of 90 hours of tapes, and costing somewhere between 50 and 75 grand to record, it so challenged and frustrated Wilson that he nearly abandoned it several times, only to be coaxed back to it by others.

(Cementing his position as one of the biggest assholes in the music industry, Mike Love was at first horrified by the song, hearing it as a direct challenge to the tastes of Beach Boy fans (whom he already held in contempt), and actively tried to get the song squashed -

Until it became a monster hit - then, Love went around trying to tell people that it was HIS song, that HE had written it in a flash of brilliance, and that he deserved ALL the credit for it; He never seems to notice that, for all his self-proclaimed musical genius, he's never, ever had a single hit song that he did all by himself...No wonder Love is a Trump lover.)

[Angharad]

Mike Love sucks.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"You Got To Move" (Trad.)

First known recording made by the Willing Four, in February, 1944; Literally hundreds of known cover versions, including the Stones, Lucinda Williams, the North Mississippi All Stars, Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens, Aaron Neville, Cassandra Wilson, Townes Van Zandt, Sister Rosetta Tharp - it's a looooong list. Some reverent, some not so much.

Here's one of the not-so-reverent ones, by Charles & the White Trash European Blues Connection, from their eponymous 1998 album. 

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, February 18th, 1959:

At Atlantic Records studios, in NYC, Ray Charles lays down "What'd I Say" - A song he'd ad-libbed in Pittsburgh a few nights earlier, to kill 12 minutes at the end of a concert.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Breakdown", #40 Pop, 2/18/1978 (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)

Cover version by Danny Malone and Bob Schneider, which appears on volume Four of the "All ATX" series, where Austin, TX artists record covers by the bushel