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Suggested Listens August 25, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our six musical recommendations for the week; five streaming suggestions and one recommended album on CD.

Freegal Streaming Suggestions*

The Genius Of The Electric Guitar by Charlie Christian:

This collection features the seminal work of early electric guitarist Charlie Christian. Christian died tragically young of tuberculous in 1942 at age 25; but not before recording some great music with Benny Goodman’s band. In an age when popular music was dominated by horns, Christian was one of the first guitarists to bring the new electrified guitar to the front and center of the stage and recording studio.

This is an outstanding collection featuring all of Christian’s best recordings including Flying Home, Rose Room, Memories of You, AC-DC Current, Gone with the Wind, Lester’s Dream & Wholly Cats. Guest musicians that appear on this collection are a variable who’s who of Jazz/Swing greats of the time including Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden, Fletcher Henderson and Benny Carter. Check it out!

Here’s a link to stream the Charlie Christian collection:

https://goo.gl/gQ7MS4

The Essential Jimmie Rodgers by Jimmie Rodgers:

This Columbia Records collection features songs recorded by the yodeling country music pioneer from 1927 to 1933. Rodgers was an extremely talented individual who was one of the first country singers to sing of the hard working life laborers experienced in the early twentieth century. Rodgers was a hard working laborer himself. He spent a number of years working as a break man on the railroads; so when he sang about gamblers, ramblers, bounders and rounders, as his AllMusic biography states – he knew of what he sang! And I had to look up definitions for the early twentieth century words “bounders” and “rounders;” as I had never heard them before! The former term describes a dishonorable man and the later a drunken man. Rodgers, like Charlie Christian, died young of tuberculosis; but he left behind wonderful recordings that not only influenced country musicians for decades after his passing, but that also, like Woody Guthrie’s music, captured what life was like for poor working class Americans in the early twentieth century.

This collection includes the following songs Blue Yodel (T for Texas), Train Whistle Blues, In The Jailhouse Now, My Carolina Sunshine Girl, Frankie and Johnny & Peach Pickin’ Time in Georgia.

Here’s a link to stream the Jimmie Rodgers collection:

https://goo.gl/5xLNzA

 Pearl (The Legacy Edition) by Janis Joplin:

This 1971 release shows the gritty classic rock singer Joplin at her finest. It is regarded by many critics as her second masterpiece, after her 1968 debut Cheap Thrills. Songs include: Move Over, Cry Baby, A Woman Left Lonely, Half Moon, Buried Alive in the Blues, Me and Bobby McGee & Mercedes Benz.

Here’s a link to stream Pearl:

https://goo.gl/aFEgs4

The Search for Everything by John Mayer:

Popular singer-songwriter & excellent guitarist John Mayer released his first album Room for Squares in 2001. On that first album, Mayer concentrated on producing thoughtful acoustic folk-rock music. Since then, he has emerged as a talented guitarist and branched out to record music that includes blues and jazz elements. The Search for Everything is his new album and features the songs: Still Feel Like Your Man, Emoji of a Wave, Love on the Weekend, In the Blood, Changing, Moving On and Getting Over and Rosie.

Here’s a link to stream The Search for Everything:

https://goo.gl/su7JNy

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy by Sarah McLachlan:

Talnted singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan released her first album, Touch, in 1989. 1993’s critically acclaimed Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was her third album and is considered a classic. Songs include: Possession, Good Enough, Elsewhere, Hold On, Fear and the title track – Fumbling with Ecstasy.

Here’s a link to stream the LP Fumbling Towards Ecstasy:

https://goo.gl/yofi4p

CD Suggestion of the Week:

Eight Classic Albums by Dinah Washington:

This set contains eight albums from the wonderful singer including: Dinah Jams, For Those in Love, In the Land of Hi-Fi, The Swinging Miss D, What a Difference a Day Makes, The Two of Us (With Brook Benton), I Concentrate on You, September in the Rain, Summertime, Come Rain or Come Shine, There’ll Be A Jubilee, On The Sunny Side of the Street and many more.

Here’s a link to request the Dinah Washington collection on CD:

https://goo.gl/oZtFhe

Music Videos of the Week:

Charlie Christian:

Swing to Bop

Stompin’ at the Savoy

Jimmie Rodgers:

Waiting for a Train

Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)

Janis Joplin:

Ball and Chain

Somebody to Love

John Mayer:

Ain’t No Sunshine

John Mayer & Keith Urban:

Don’t Let Me Down

Sarah McLachlan:

Angel

Building A Mystery

Dinah Washington:

Cry Me A River

What a Difference A Day Makes

References

Artist Biography & Discography Information
http://www.allmusic.com/

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn (Billboard Books. New York. 2009.)

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

P.S. If you have any questions about how to download or stream free music through the Freegal Music service to a desktop or laptop computer or how to download and use the Freegal Music app let us know! Drop by the library or give us a call at: 607-936-3713

*You must have a library card at a Southern Tier Library System member library to enjoy the Freegal Music Service. Your card can be from any library in the system, and the system includes all public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Allegheny Counties and including our own Southeast Steuben Count Library in Corning, New York. Library cards are free and at our library you can obtain one by visiting the Circulation Desk and presenting staff with a form of ID that features both your name and your current address.

Weekly Recommended Listens: June 9, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, this week we’re kicking off a month long look, at the American music that was influenced by, and came just after, the first British Invasion that began with The Beatles appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.

As a reminder, our weekly music postings feature the following sections:

I. Links to AllMusic Biographies of the Artists/Groups of the Week

II. Freegal Music Recommendations Of The Week (streaming music)

III. CD Music Recommendations Of The Week

IV. Videos Of This Weeks’ Artists/Groups

V. References (for those who’d like to know a bit more about the artists of the week).

And this week we’ll check out the music of three of the most popular American bands of the mid-sixties: The Beach Boys, The Monkees and The Grass Roots.

I. Links to AllMusic Biographies of the Artists/Groups of the Week:

The Beach Boys AllMusic Biography by John Bush
https://goo.gl/AqNSLM

The Grass Roots AllMusic Biography by Bruce Elder
https://goo.gl/KT1tEj

The Monkees AllMusic Biography by Mark Deming
https://goo.gl/2Zdf5D

II. Freegal Music Recommendations Of The Week (streaming music)

The Beach Boys:

The Beach Boys originally hailed from Hawthorne, California and consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis & Mike Wilson their cousin Mike Love and mutual friend Al Jardine. Bruce Johnson joined the group in the mid-sixties after the band’s songwriter Brian Wilson retired from touring. The Beach Boys played Surf Music to begin with and then transitioned into playing great sixties era rock music until Brian Wilson, the creative genius behind the group, became ill and retired from the group for the remainder of the sixties. Brian eventually regained his health and later returned to playing music.

The early Beach Boys albums, and they released five albums in the U.S. before the arrival of The Beatles, are great Surf Rock albums. And by the time they released 1965’s Today! album they really had transformed into playing great sixties rock with Brian Wilson’s top notch songwriting as a base.

The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys

The Freegal Music Catalog doesn’t feature any original studio albums by The Beach Boys. However, they do have an interesting collection of their songs, some recorded live, on an album released by the Piros/Send label and titled simply The Beach Boys. I would describe their early music as having the combo theme of being Surf and “it’s cool to be young” style of music – and those are the types of songs that are dominant in this collection. This collection includes the songs: Surfin’ Safari, Surfer Girl, I Get Around, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, and Ride The Wild Surf.

The album also contains one song, Good Vibrations, in which you can hear the beginnings of the blossoming creativity the group found in the mid-sixties under the songwriting and musical production guidance of Brian Wilson. And as that lone song is from their more creativity period – I’ll save the suggestions for their later songs for the CD section of this posting – as we there are a variety of great Beach Boys albums available for request in StarCat.

Here’s a link to stream The Beach Boys album:
https://goo.gl/undv3M

The Monkees:

The Monkees were a band put together directly in response to The Beatles! Specifically, they were put together in response to The Beatles success with their 1964 film A Hard Days Night. The band consisted of Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz. The group had their own zany TV show, which was certainly inspired by A Hard Days Night, and released some great pop-rock music. And they actually get something of a bum rap as being nothing more than a Beatles knock off band. However, if you listen to their music it does hold up as solid upbeat pop-rock music.

The Freegal Catalog doesn’t feature any of The Monkees studio albums; however, two of their best-known songs can be found in the catalog – the Neil Diamond classic I’m A Believer and the theme from their TV Show “Hey, hey, we’re the Monkeys and people say we monkey around, but where too busy singing to put anybody down” – very catchy!

And on to the streaming suggestions!

I’m A Believer from the various artists LP Sugar Sugar
This is the original song from a various artists album with a super long title: Sugar Sugar: The Very Best Pop Golden Oldies of the 1960s by the Ronettes, Sonny & Cher, The Monkees, And More

Just a pre-listening note: This album features a few original recordings, including I’m A Believer, some re-record version of popular songs and a few songs credited simply to “Various Artists.” Nevertheless, the album contains a solid collection of upbeat pop-rock and is perfect listening to whilst sitting around the pool!

Here’s a link to stream the album:
https://goo.gl/3Q5yD8

The Monkees TV Show Theme from the various artists LP Aquellos Maravillosos Años

Here’s a link to stream the song:
https://goo.gl/c57E2R

The Grass Roots:

The Grass Roots formed in Los Angeles in the mid-sixties and consisted of Rob Grill on vocals and bass, Wayne Entner & Creed Barrington on guitars and Rick Coonce on drums. The group was guided by the classic rock songwriting team of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri who wrote a number of their songs.

The Grass Roots recorded some great songs that complimented the mid-to late sixties era including: Where Were You When I Needed You, Let’s Live For Today, Things I Should Have Said, Temptation Eyes and Midnight Confessions.

And the Freegal Music Catalog features a number of greatest hits style collections by the band, however, they all feature re-recorded versions of their music – so I recommend you skip them, check out the YouTube videos by the band further along in this posting and request a CD by the group through StarCat!

III. CD Music Recommendations Of The Week

The Beach Boys:

Five Classic Albums:

This multi-disc set features five of the band’s early albums: Little Deuce Coupe, Surfin’ USA, All Summer Long, Summer Days (And Summer Nights) and Pet Sounds. This five album, five disc set, contains more than fifty songs. To my ears the first two albums Little Deuce Coupe and Surfin’ USA find the band playing solid Surf rock but still finding their musical footing while their songs/playing on the last three albums All Summer Long, Summer Days and Pet Sounds are really solid as if they did indeed find their footing and were beginning to creatively blossom as a band.

The songs on this set include: Surfin’ U.S.A., Shut Down, Little Deuce Coupe, I Get Around, Wendy, All Summer Long, Help me Rhonda, California Girls, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, God Only Knows and many more.

Here’s a link to request the five CD set: https://goo.gl/IXoiH9

The Smile Sessions:

In 1966 The Beach Boys, under direction of their primary songwriter and musical director Brian Wilson began working on the album SMiLE which Wilson intended to be a seminal work of progressive pop rock with psychedelic roots. Many, many hours of studio recordings were made but the album, which the rest of the band and their record label – Capital didn’t think was a commercial enough project put pressure on Wilson to finished it or abandon the project – so abandon the project they did. And in the decades that follow this unreleased album took on an almost mythical reputation as the greatest rock album never released. The album was finally released on CD in 2011 and the music is very cool! This is no Surf or youth orientated album – and if you are already a Beach Boys fan you should enjoy this set – if however, you’re new to listening the band in an in-depth way – you might want to skip this album and check out Pet Sounds or the classic greatest hits collection Endless Summer.

This collection includes the songs: Our Prayer, Heroes And Villains, I’m in Great Shape, Child is Father Of The Man, The Elements: Fire (Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow), Good Vibrations, You’re Welcome, Cool Cool Water and more – 40 songs in all.

Here’s a link to request the Smile box set in StarCat: https://goo.gl/rmydjC

The Monkees:

The Monkees Greatest Hits:

This is a 1995 album released by the great Rhino Records and it includes The Monkees (TV Theme), Last Train To Clarksville, I’m A Believer, (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone, A Little Bit Me, A LIttle Bit You, Daydream Believer and Pleasant Valley Sunday.

Here’s a link to request the album in StarCat:

https://goo.gl/JgZpFS

The Grass Roots:

The Complete Original Dunhill/ABC Hit Singles:

 Believe it or not, there isn’t a single album by The Grass Roots available through out the entire Southern Tier Library System – so we’re rectifying that musical travesty and have one on order! The LP is titled The Complete Original Dunhill/ABC Hit Singles and features all 24 of the hits they had in their mid-sixties heyday including: Mr. Jones (Ballad of a Thin Man), Where Were You When I Needed You, Let’s Live for Today (Both Censored & Uncensored Versions), Things I Should Have Said, Midnight Confessions, Temptation Eyes, Glory Bound and Anyway The Wind Blows.

The album should be available in StarCat soon!

IV. Videos Of This Weeks’ Artists/Groups:

The Beach Boys – three performances from the Ed Sullivan Show

Wendy

I Get Around

Good Vibrations

The Monkees

Last Train To Clarksville

Pleasant Valley Sunday

I’m A Believer

The first episode of Monkees TV series:

The Grass Roots:

Midnight Confessions

Temptation Eyes

Let’s Live For Today

VI. Print References:

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn (Billboard Books. New York. 2009.)
Sixties Rock: A Listener’s Guide by Robert Santelli (Contemporary Books. Chicago. 1985.)

Online References:

The Beach Boys AllMusic Discography by John Bush
https://goo.gl/Srpldb

The Grass Roots AllMusic Discography by Bruce Elder
https://goo.gl/KT1tEj

The Monkees AllMusic Discography by Mark Deming
https://goo.gl/PGMDhA

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

P.S. If you have any questions about how to download or stream free music through the Freegal Music service to a desktop or laptop computer or how to download and use the Freegal Music app let us know! Drop by the library or give us a call at: 607-936-3713.

*You must have a library card at a Southern Tier Library System member library to enjoy the Freegal Music Service. Your card can be from any library in the system, and the system includes all public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Allegheny Counties and including our own Southeast Steuben Count Library in Corning, New York. Library cards are free and at our library you can obtain one by visiting the Circulation Desk and presenting staff with a form of ID that features both your name and your current address.

 

Weekly Recommended Listens: May 2017: Week 2: Sixties Rock: The First British Invasion Continued

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, this week we’re continuing our look at the sounds of the First British Invasion that roughly covered the time frame from February 1964 through May 1967.

And just as reminder, each weekly recommended music posting features the following sections:

I. Links To AllMusic Biographies Of The Weekly Artists/Groups
II. Freegal Music Recommendations Of The Week (streaming music)
III. CD Music Recommendations Of The Week
IV. Videos Of This Weeks’ Artists/Groups
V. Wild Card Print Book Recommendations Of The Week

Our artists for this week are The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies & The Zombies.

I. Links To AllMusic Biographies Of The Groups of The Week:

The Dave Clark Five Biography by Richie Unterberger
https://goo.gl/SXRJEI

The Hollies Biography by Richie Unterberger
https://goo.gl/1pE3Cs

The Zombies Biography by Richie Unterberger
https://goo.gl/NXdOrO

Freegal Notes:

To access Freegal Music from a desktop or laptop simply click on the following link: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

The Freegal Music Catalog homepage will display — it looks like this:

The Freegal Music app can be found in your app store and it looks like this:

II. Freegal Music Recommendations Of The Week:

The Dave Clark Five: The Dave Clark Five hailed from the North London region of Tottenham and consisted of Dave Clark on drums, Mike Smith on vocals and keyboards, Denny Paxton on saxophone, Lenny Davidson on guitar and Rick Huxley on bass. The band came to the U.S. in early 1964, right on the heals of the Beatles, and had their first U.S. hit, Glad All Over in March. Subsequent hits included: Bits And Pieces, Do You Love Me, Can’t You See That She’s Mine, I Like It Like That, Catch Us If You Can and You Got What It Takes.

The Freegal Music catalog doesn’t feature any full-length album by The Dave Clark Five; however, I did find two songs by the group that you can stream through Freegal and they are:

One of their biggest U.S. hits, Glad All Over

From the various artists album Top 100 Hits – 1963, Vol. 1
https://goo.gl/o8X38o

And the fun instrumental Chaquita

From the various artist LP The Greatest Instrumentals 1934~1962:
https://goo.gl/ttRSuh

To request a full length Dave Clark Five album — check out the CD Recommendations section.

The Hollies: The Hollies formed in Manchester, England in 1963. The band consisted of Allan Clarke on vocals, Graham Nash on vocals and guitar, Terry Hicks on guitar and vocals, Bobby Elliott on drums and Eric Haydock on bass. Haydock was replaced by Bernie Calvert in 1966.

The Hollies U.S. hits of the sixties included Look Through Any Window, Bus Stop, Stop Stop Stop, On A Carousel, Pay You Back With Interest, Carrie-Anne and Jennifer Eccles.

Late in 1968, Nash left the band to form the seminal trio, Crosby, Stills & Nash, with David Crosby and Steven Stills.

Clarke, Hicks and Elliott continued playing with the band into the seventies; and the group had three more top ten hits: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother, Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) and The Air That I Breath.

The Hollies Greatest Hits:

This album contains all the band’s U.S. hits of the sixties hits except Jennifer Eccles. And as a bonus it contains their three big seventies hits: https://goo.gl/3UtfvB

Evolution: Evolution was released in 1967 and features a cool blend of vocal harmonies, classic rock and psychedelic influences with some nice sounding acoustic guitar playing woven in for good measure. Songs on the album include Jennifer Eccles, Carrie-Anne, When Your Lights Turned On and the nostalgic Ye Olde Toffee Shop.


https://goo.gl/ksYp3u

The Zombies: The Zombies were from Hertfordshire, England and consisted of Colin Blunstone on vocals, Rod Argent on keyboards, Paul Atkinson on guitar, Hugh Grundy on drums and Chris White on bass. The group produced excellent, smooth flowing pop music rich with harmonies and organ playing. The group put out four great albums in the sixties: The Zombies, Begin Here, I Love You and Odessey and Oracle, and had three top ten hits during that era: She’s Not There, Tell Her No and Time Of The Season.

As with The Dave Clark Five, The Freegal Music Catalog does not contain a full-length Zombies albums; however, you can stream several of their hits – found on various artists compilations.

She’s Not There

From the various artists collection 60’s Top Hits, Vol. II
https://goo.gl/TZ2UHp

Tell Her No

From the various artists collection Essential in Music, Vol. 2
https://goo.gl/z0lsTm

Time of the Season

From the various artists album Grandes Éxitos 1969:
https://goo.gl/QUaozd

As with music of the Dave Clark Five, for a link to StarCat to request a full-length Zombies album on CD, check out the CD Recommendations Section.

Freegal Wild Card Streaming Pick Of The Week:

The Essential Herbie Hancock by Herbie Hancock:

I have to say, and I’m showing my vintage, I didn’t realize Herbie Hancock had been recording music for as many years as he has been. His first album, Takin’ Off, was released in 1962! Not a surprise to Jazz fans but to those listeners of pop and rock who came of age in the mid-eighties as I did – that came as a surprise. I was a young teenager when MTV launched, and I can recall his song Rockit and the stylish/bizarre companion video of the song that was shown on MTV.

And the song Rockit itself doesn’t sound like jazz to me — it has a very modern sound to it, even all those years later. And, in doing research for this posting I learned that Hancock has been very prolific both in recording music and in playing in a great variety of styles over the years including jazz, hip-hop, fusion, modern and dance.

The Essential Herbie Hancock album offers a good introduction to Hancock’s work and includes the songs: Butterfly, ‘Round Midnight, Hidden Shadows, Joanna’s Theme, People Music and of course, the MTV favorite Rockit.

Here’s a link to stream The Essential Herbie Hancock album:
https://goo.gl/H9uWGi

And if you want to know more about Herbie Hancock, here’s a link to his AllMusic biography written by Richard S. Ginell: https://goo.gl/09HJPV

III. Compact Discs Recommendations:

Dave Clark Five:

The History of the Dave Clark Five:

This fifty song double CD features the band’s greatest songs icluding: Glad All Over, Bits And Pieces, Do You Love Me, Because, Having A Wild Weekend and Catch Us If You Can.
https://goo.gl/8wO2Wk

The Hollies

The Clarke, Hicks & Nash Years: The Complete Hollies, April 1963-October 1968:

This six disc collection features all the songs The Hollies recorded between the spring of 1963 and the autumn of 1968. The music was recorded during the height of the band’s popularity and contains great songs written by Clarke, Hicks & Nash. In fact, all the singles released by the band from October of 1966 until Graham Nash left the group at the end of 1968 were co-written by Clarke, Hicks & Nash. The group produced great harmony-rich pop-rock and if you’re not familiar with their music you really should check it out.

The 158 songs on this collection include: Time For Love, Too Much Monkey Business, Honey And Wine, Look Through Any Window (both English and French versions), Hard, Hard Year, On A Carousel, Have You Ever Loved Somebody and much more.
https://goo.gl/0MuAj4

The Zombies

The Singles Collection As & Bs 1964-1969

This 28 song collection features the A and B sides of all 14 Zombies singles including: She’s Not There, Tell Her No, Beechwood Park, I’ll Call You Mine and Time of the Season.
https://goo.gl/a6Ib9h

IV: Videos Of This Weeks’ Artists/Groups:

The Dave Clark Five

Glad All Over:

Bits And Pieces:

Over And Over: 

https://youtu.be/AbyHPxFrFU8

Catch Us If You Can:

The Hollies

Bus Stop:

Just One Look:

Stop Stop Stop:

The Zombies

Tell Her No:

She’s Not There:

Time Of The Season:

V. Wild Card Print Book Recommendation Of The Week:

Our suggested music read this week is the autobiography of Cream drummer Ginger Baker! And here’s the info on the book:

Ginger Baker: Hellraiser: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Drummer

by Ginger Baker

The music, the marriages, the polo, the drugs, the trans-Saharan trucking scheme—the drummer best-known for his work in Cream and his contributions to World Music tells his whole fascinating story.

Peter “Ginger” Baker is a legend. A pioneering drummer who has transcended genres, he did much to popularize world music with his fierce passion for the rhythms of Africa. He is that rare thing, a critically-acclaimed musician who has enjoyed global success with not one but several supergroups to his name, including Cream and Blind Faith. Here, Ginger tells his story for the first time and without any self-censorship. It’s an often harrowing, but honest journey from his humble beginnings in war-torn south London to his adopted home in South Africa’s beautiful Western Cape—complete with polo club. He tells of his life-long love of jazz, how he discovered the drums and African music, and life on the road. He also confesses to the heroin use that should have killed him in his colorful 1960s prime, working and playing with the biggest names of the time. In the 1970s, he came up with a trans-Saharan trucking scheme, was a successful rally driver, built an ill-fated recording studio, and discovered a consuming passion for playing polo. He talks candidly of the loss and recovery of his fortune, his three marriages, Cream’s 1993 induction into the rock’n’roll hall of fame, their subsequent successful reunion in 2005, and his hopes for the future. — From the publisher.

Here’s a link to request the biography:

https://goo.gl/6Dj08H

VI. General References & Artist Specific References:

General References:

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn (Billboard Books. New York. 2009.)

Sixties Rock: A Listener’s Guide by Robert Santelli (Contemporary Books. Chicago. 1985.)

Recommended Artists Specific References:

The Hollies Evolution AllMusic Review by Lindsay Planer
http://www.allmusic.com/album/evolution-mw0000690238

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

P.S. If you have any questions about how to download or stream free music through the Freegal Music service to a desktop or laptop computer or how to download and use the Freegal Music app let us know! Drop by the library or give us a call at: 607-936-3713.

*You must have a library card at a Southern Tier Library System member library to enjoy the Freegal Music Service. Your card can be from any library in the system, and the system includes all public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Allegheny Counties and including our own Southeast Steuben Count Library in Corning, New York. Library cards are free and at our library you can obtain one by visiting the Circulation Desk and presenting staff with a form of ID that features both your name and your current address.

Weekly Recommended Listens: March 2017, Week 2: Sixties Rock: Blues Rock

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, wow what a snowy week we’re having for it being March!

At least it is almost spring!

And as I forgot that Word Press doesn’t use U.S. time, the original unfinished version of this posting went out much earlier today — I apologize for that! Here is the complete version!

We’re on to week two of our look at the sub-category of our 2017 music theme, Sixties Rock, Blues Rock!

And as usual we’ll be offering suggestions of music you can listen to both by streaming it through the library’s digital Freegal Music Service* and by checking out albums available in the library’s compact disc collection.

Just as a reminder, our weekly music postings have the following sections:

I. Brief Artist Bios

II. Freegal Music Recommendations Of The Week (streaming music)

III. CD Music Recommendations Of The Week

IV. Videos Of This Weeks’ Artists/Groups

V. Wild Card Print Book Recommendation Of The Week (a print book that focuses on a musician, musicians, songwriters or other musical genres, styles etc. from any musical era)

VI. References (for those who’d like to know a bit more about the artists of the week).

Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, here are our spotlighted bands/musicians for this week:

The Butterfield Blues Band,

The Electric Flag

& Johnny Winters.

I. Brief Artist Bios:

The Butterfield Blues Band: The Butterfield Blues Band was formed in Chicago in 1964. The group was one of the young American bands responsible for bringing the sounds of Chicago Blues music to the attention of white Rock n’ Roll fans. By 1965 the group had its classic line-up of: Paul Butterfield on vocals and harmonica, Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield on guitars, Billy Davenport on drums, Jerome Arnold on bass and Mark Naftalin on keyboards.

Just prior to recording their first album, the group backed-up Bob Dylan’s during his famous gig at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival – where Dylan stunned folk fans by switching from playing an acoustic guitar to playing an electric guitar and being backed by a band playing electrified instruments. Bloomfield went on to play on Dylan’s classic Highway 61 Revisited album.

But I digress!

Getting back to the Butterfield Blues Band, the band played a great mixture of blues and blues rock with a bit folk and sixties rock vibes thrown in! The band’s first three albums are top notch! Those LPs are: 1. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, 2. East West and 3. The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw.

The group was together from 1964 to 1971. Butterfield and Bishop went on to solo careers. And Mike Bloomfield was a founding member of the short-lived but very worthy of mention, and listen, band – the Electric Flag before he too went on to a solo career.

The Electric Flag: Former Butterfield Blues Band guitarist Mike Bloomfield was the driving force behind The Electric Flag. His idea in forming The Electric Flag was to put a blues rock band together and include a horn section. In addition to Bloomfield, the band included Nick Graventies on vocals, Barry Goldberg on keyboards, Harvey Brooks on bass, Buddy Miles on drums and a horn section including Marcus Doubleday on trumpet, Peter Strauss on tenor sax and Herbie Rich on baritone sax. The group recorded two soundtracks and two albums in their short existence of which the best is their first studio album A Long Time Comin’, which one might describe as a psychedelic blues album.

Johnny Winter: Guitarist Johnny Winter was born in Beaumont Texas in 1944, followed two years later by his future songwriter and keyboard playing brother Edgar. Interestingly, both brothers were albino. Both brothers played the blues, although Edgar veered off onto other musical paths as well – and I mention Edgar because his music is worth a listen too.

Johnny Winter met with critical acclaim that brought him to the attention of a larger audience after his first album, Progressive Blues Experiment, received a glowing Rolling Stone review. Winter released two more great blues rock albums in the 1960s Second Winter and, despite its title, his third album simply called Johnny Winter. He continued to record and play concerts until his death on tour in 2014.

Freegal Notes:

To access Freegal Music from a desktop or laptop simply click on the following link: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

The Freegal Music Catalog homepage will display — it looks like this:

The Freegal Music app can be found in your app store and it looks like this:

II. Freegal Music Recommendations Of The Week:

1. The Butterfield Blues Band Freegal Recommendation: There aren’t any full length studio recordings of The Butterfield Blues Band in the Freegal Music Catalog. However, there are some songs by the group available in the catalog and a cool album by guitarist Mike Bloomfield that also features a few songs by The Butterfield Blues Band.

1. The Don’t Say That I Ain’t Your Man!-Essential Mike Bloomfield 1964-1969

The Mike Bloomfield album,The Don’t Say That I Ain’t Your Man!, is credited to Mike Bloomfield as a solo artist.

However, the album two songs he recorded with The Butterfield Blues Band as well as music he recorded throughout the the 1960s – both before and after his tenure with The Butterfield Blues Band.

 Some of the earliest songs in the collection feature Bloomfield on vocals and he was a superb guitar player but not a super strong singer.

The two songs on the album that feature The Butterfield Blues Band are: Born in Chicago and Work Song.

Additional songs in the double album set include: I Got My Mojo Working, Killing Floor, Albert’s Suffle, It Takes Time and Don’t Think About It, Baby.

Here’s a link to stream the Don’t Say That I Ain’t Your Man! album:

https://goo.gl/PHZEEN

2. Born In Chicago by the Butterfield Blues Band from the compilation LP Monterey International Pop Festival (Live):

The second cool album I’m going to suggest from the Freegal Catalog, that features The Butterfield Blues Band, is titled Monterey International Pop Festival (Live).

The album features, and you guessed it, live performances by artists and groups that played at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s contribution is a live version of a song from their first album the previously mentioned titled Born in Chicago.

And granted, that is the only song by The Butterfield Blues Band on this set. However, the album is great fun to listen to, because, in addition to the Butterfield Blues Band, it features songs by a whole host of popular sixties artists including: Simon & Garfunkel, Big Brother and the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), The Association, Eric Burdon and The Animals, The Who, Otis Redding, The Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & The Fish, Booker T. & The MG’s and more.

Here’s a link to stream the Monterey International Pop Festival (Live) album:

https://goo.gl/HZezhe

And as a post script note on the Monterey Pop Festival album. I had actually forgotten how great the album and the video of the concert it came from both are, prior to doing this posting; as it has been a number of years since I’ve listened to the album and watched the video. So, in putting on my Acquisitions Librarian hat, I’ve ordered a copy of the DVD set The Complete Monterey Pop Festival from The Criterion Collection and it should be available to circulate soon!

The Electric Flag Freegal Recommendation: 

A Long Time Comin’

The Freegal Catalog does feature the first horn-centric upbeat studio album by The Electric Flag – A Long Time Comin’. Songs on the album include: Killing Floor, Groovin’ Is Easy, Over-Lovin’ You, She Should Just Have, Wine, Texas, Stittin’ In Circles, You Don’t Realize, Another Country, Easy Rider, Sunny, Mystery, Look Into My Eyes and Going Down Slow – this is definitely a fun sixties blues rock album!

Here a link to stream the A Long Time Comin’ album:
https://goo.gl/Vck6nn

Johnny Winter Freegal Recommendation The Essential Johnny Winter Collection:

If you find you like the music of Johnny Winter, which reminds me a bit of ZZ Top’s music, then you are in luck! As there are many, many of his albums listed in the Freegal Music Catalog. I’m going to recommend two: The Essential Johnny Winter Collection, which features more than thirty songs from throughout Johnny’s career including: Rock Me Baby, Highway 61 Revisited, Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Johnny B. Goode and Rollin’ and Tumblin.

Here’s a link to stream the Essential Johnny Winter Collection:
https://goo.gl/i7LpVD

Johnny Winter – Second Freegal Recommendation – Second Winter:

And my second Freegal recommendation is Johnny Winter’s second album, 1969’s Second Winter. Second Winter too, is available in the Freegal Catalog. The album includes the songs: I’m Not Sure, Memory Pain, The Good Love, Slippin’ And Slidin,‘ I Love Everybody, Hustled Down in Texas and many more.

Here’s a link to stream Second Winter:

https://goo.gl/m48B3X

Freegal Wild Card Album Pick Of The Week:

The Essential Frank Sinatra, The Columbia Years:

I’m going to venture way off the Blues Rock path this week with my Wild Card Pick of the Week! I’m going to suggest a cool, kick-back and relax collection of songs by Frank Sinatra! The album is titled The Essential Frank Sinatra, The Columbia Years. This double album set features more than thirty songs including: All or Nothing At All, Night and Day, Blue Skies, Nancy (With The Laughing Face), When Your Lover Has Gone, Stormy Weather and many, many more from Sinatra’s early years. Check it out!

Here’s a link to stream the The Essential Frank Sinatra album: https://goo.gl/OUnx3O

III. Compact Discs Recommendations Of The Week:

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band CD Recommendations:

Our library owns three cool albums by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, their first three albums released in 1965, 1966 and 1967 respectivley: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band,  East West & The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw. If you only have time to listen to one album by The Butterfield Blues Band, I’m going to suggest you listen to their first self-titled album The Butterfield Blues Band CD as it gives you a solid low-down on what the group sounds like.

The Butterfield Blues Band Album:

The Butterfield Blues Band album, also referred to as The Paul Butterfield Blues Band album, features the following songs: Born in Chicago, Shake Your Money-Maker, Blues with a Feeling, Thank You Mr. Poobah, I Got My Mojo Working, Mellow Down Easy, Screamin,” Our Love Is Drifiting, Mystery Train, Last Night and Look Over Younder Wall. It is a great Blues Rock album!

Here’s a link to request the The Butterfield Blues Band CD via StarCat:

https://goo.gl/KWAFOl

The Electric Flag CD Recommendation: 

A Long Time Comin’ 

As with the Freegal recommendation, I’m going to recommend you listen to The Electric Flag’s first studio album A Long Time Comin’. Here’s a complete song list for the LP: Killing Floor, Groovin’ Is Easy, Over-Lovin’ You, She Should Have Just, Wine, Texas, Sittin’ In Circles, You Don’t Realize, Another Country, Easy Rider, Sunny, Mystery, Look Into My Eyes (Album Version) and Going Down Slow (Album Version).

Here’s a link to request A Long Time Comin’  on CD in StarCat:

https://goo.gl/hs14PB

Johnny Winter CD Recommendation: 

Second Winter:

The library owns two CDs by Johnny Winter, Second Winter from 1969 and 1991’s Let Me In. If you only have time to listen to one CD by Winter – I recommend the 1969 double album Second Winter.

Here’s the complete song list for the double album set:

Disc 1: 1. Memory Pain 2. I’m Not Sure 3. The Good Love 4. Slippin’ And Slidin’ 5. Miss Ann 6. Johnny B. Goode 7. Highway 61 Revisited 8. I Love Everybody 9. Hustled Down in Texas 10. I Hate Everybody 11. Fast Life Rider 12. Early In The Morning and 13. Tell The Truth.

Disc 2: 1. Help Me 2. Johnny B. Goode 3. Mama Talk To Your Daughter 4. It’s My Own Fault 5. Black Cat Bone 6. Mean Town Blues 7. Tobacco Road 8. Frankenstein and 9. Tell The Truth

And here’s a link to the StarCat request page for the Second Winter CD:

https://goo.gl/ug8Dh1

Wild Card CD Pick Of The Week:

A Sailor’s Guide to Earth by Sturgill Simpson:

This album won the Grammy for Country Album of the year last month. The album is classified as country but is really a mixture of country, classic rock and folk with a few tinges of jazz thrown in for good measure. The album includes the songs: Welcome To Earth (Pollywog), Breakers Roar, Keep It Between The Lines, Sea Stories, In Bloom, Brace For Impact (Live A Little), All Around You, Oh Sarah and Call To Arms.

Here’s a link to an NPR review of the album:
https://goo.gl/XO0LqJ

And here’s a link to request the CD version of A Sailor’s Guide to Earth album via StarCat: https://goo.gl/Ox0GKJ

IV: Videos Of This Weeks’ Artists/Groups:

The Butterfield Blues Band:

Driftin’ Blues – concert footage from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival:

https://goo.gl/pqf84m

Born In Chicago from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival:

https://goo.gl/qzlSEh

The Electric Flag:

Goin’ Down Slow & Killing Floor – this clip isn’t a concert clip but features some great music and a slideshow of photos of the group:

https://goo.gl/6Srlh7

Johnny Winter:

Be Careful With A Fool from Danish TV circa 1970:

https://goo.gl/wBPbdN

V. Wild Card Print Book Recommendation Of The Week:

Respect Yourself Stax Records And The Soul Explosion

by Robert Gordon:

In the late 1950s, Jim Stewart, and his sister, Estelle Axton, moved their little fledgling recording studio into the defunct Capitol Theater in Memphis, Tenn., opening their doors and establishing the record label that gave birth to gritty, funky soul music. A masterful storyteller, music historian Gordon (It Came from Memphis) artfully chronicles the rise and fall of one of America’s greatest music studios, situating the story of Stax within the cultural history of the 1960s in the South. Stewart, a fiddle player who knew he’d never make it in the music business himself, one day overheard a friend talking about producing music; he soon gave it a try, and eventually he was supervising the acclaimed producer Chips Moman in the studio as well as creating a business plan for the label; Estelle Axton set up a record shop in the lobby of the theater, selling the latest discs but also spinning music just recorded in the studio and gauging its market appeal. Gordon deftly narrates the stories of the many musicians who called Stax home, from Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, and Otis Redding to Isaac Hayes, Sam and Dave, and the Staples Singers, as well as the creative marketing and promotional strategies—the Stax-Volt Revue and Wattstax. By the early 1970s, bad business decisions and mangled personal relationships shuttered the doors of Stax. Today, the Stax sound permeates our lives and, in Gordon’s words, became the soundtrack for liberation, the song of triumph, the sound of the path toward freedom. -Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Here’s a link to the StarCat request page for the book Respect Yourself Stax Records And The Soul Explosion:

https://goo.gl/ZxvMzo

VI. General References & Artist Specific References:

General References:
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn (Billboard Books. New York. 2009.)

Blacks and Whites Made the Blues ‘Born in Chicago’ Tells of Titans Who Taught Young Protegés by Larry Rohter (JULY 25, 2013)

Blues Who’s Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers by Sheldon Harris. (Da Capo. New York. 1991).

Sixties Rock: A Listener’s Guide by Robert Santelli (Contemporary Books. Chicago. 1985.)

Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth: Nashville rebel pens a song cycle to his son that’s full of soulful left-field brilliance
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/sturgill-simpson-a-sailors-guide-to-earth-20160414

Artist Of The Week Specific References:

Electric Flag Biography by Richie Unterberger
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/electric-flag-mn0000135829/biography

Johnny Winter Artist Biography by William Ruhlmann
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-winter-mn0000819983/biography

Johnny Winter, Virtuosic Blues Guitarist, Dies at 70 by Ben Sisario (JULY 17, 2014)
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/arts/music/johnny-winter-dies-at-70-virtuosic-blues-guitarist.html

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Biography by Steve Leggett
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-paul-butterfield-blues-band-mn0000016835/discography

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

P.S. If you have any questions about how to download or stream free music through the Freegal Music service to a desktop or laptop computer or how to download and use the Freegal Music app let us know! Drop by the library or give us a call at: 607-936-3713

*You must have a library card at a Southern Tier Library System member library to enjoy the Freegal Music Service. Your card can be from any library in the system, and the system includes all public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Allegheny Counties and including our own Southeast Steuben Count Library in Corning, New York. Library cards are free and at our library you can obtain one by visiting the Circulation Desk and presenting staff with a form of ID that features both your name and your current address.

New Weekly Series Of Recommended Listens!

Linda Reimer

Today, we’re kicking off a new weekly posting series that will focus on recommended music you can listen to both through the library’s digital Freegal Music Service*, which allows you to listen to and download songs to a PC, Mac or mobile device, and via the library’s compact disc collection.

You can think of these postings as an audio version of the traditional reader’s advisory services public libraries provide – instead of suggesting that next great book for you to read – we’re going to recommend that next great song, album or artist you can listen to!

For 2017 our music theme will be sixties rock. Each month we’ll focus on a genre of sixties rock and each week we’ll focus on three artists or groups that fall under the umbrella of our monthly genre of sixties rock.

Each weeks posting will have four sections:

1. Freegal Music Recommendations: These suggestions will feature music available to stream or download from the Freegal Music Catalog (which is free – library card required!). You can stream three hours of commercial free music per day from Freegal so it is a good way to check out artists and groups and expand  your musical horizons!

To access Freegal Music from a desktop or laptop simply click on the following link:

http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

The STLS Freegal Music Catalog homepage will display — it looks like this:

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The Freegal Music app can be found in your app store and it looks like this:

freegal-music-app

2. Compact Discs Recommendations: These recommendations will feature songs and albums found in the library’s compact disc collection and available for check out at the library.

3. Videos: This section fill feature short videos found online, mostly on YouTube, of each spotlighted artist.

4. References: This section will include links to the references used to create each weeks posting – so if you want to know more about an artist or song – just click a link!

With that in mind, our February category of Sixties Rock Suggested Listens is Twangy Guitars. And with our guitars in hand, or at least in mind, we’ll enjoy listening to some of the most popular and influential guitarists of the early 1960s (think pre-Beatles guitarists).

And for this first full week of February our three recommended twangy guitar players are Duane Eddy, Lonnie Mack and Link Wray.

FREEGAL MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS:

Recommended Guitarist 1) Duane Eddy

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Album: The Complete US & UK Singles and EP’s A’s & B’s 1955-62:    

This album includes a number of Duane Eddy’s best known songs including: Rebel RouserAKA Rebel-‘rouser, Along Came Linda, Caravan, Pt 2, Cannonball, Peter Gunn, Night Train To Memphis and more!

Here’s the link to the album:
https://goo.gl/ebXHd9

Recommended  Guitarist 2) Lonnie Mack 

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Album: Roadhouses and Dance Halls:

This one was Mack’s last solo album, released in 2001 and it is the only full album of Mack’s material found in the Freegal catalog. Having said that, this is a solid album and you can hear that Rockabilly player that he was Mack never ventured too far from his country music roots.

The album includes the songs: Plain Jane (In A Mustang0, Honkey Tonk Man, Riding the Blinds, Hard Life and more. And my favorite song on this album is Lucille which despite the title is not the tune of Little Richard fame but instead a neat song that those of us of a certain age will certainly appreciate – one of the main lines in the song goes “My get up and go, got up and went with Lucille!”

Here’s the link to the album:
https://goo.gl/2fZnxp

Recommended  Guitarist 3) Link Wray & The Wraymen:

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Album: Link Wray & The Wraymen: The Definitive Edition

(Bonus Track Version):  

This album features most of Link’s classic era songs including Rumble & Raw-Hide. In addition to those songs I’m also very fond of the tune Golden Strings which is based on a Chopin Etude and has a nice, and unexpected, piano player alternating his playing with Link’s guitar playing.

Here’s a the link to the album:
https://goo.gl/qJsB20

Week 1 Freegal Wild Card Pick:

Album: Moochin’ Abouts Stateside Hitlist 1962, Vol. 1 by Various Artists

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I know I said not all Wild Card picks of the weeks for this year would focus on sixites rock, and indeed the CD Wild Card pick doesn’t; however, this is a really nice collection of popular hits form 1962 including The Night Has A Thousand Eyes by Bobby Vee, I Can’t Stop Loving You by Ray Charles, The Stripper by David Rose & His Orchestra, Snap Your Fingers by Joe Henderson, Ramblin’ Rose by Nat King Cole and many, many more – I just couldn’t resists as it is a really fun collection of songs!

Here’s a link to the album:
https://goo.gl/OtZLEw

COMPACT DISC RECOMMENDATIONS:

1) The Very Best of Duane Eddy by Duane Eddy:

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This three disc set features all of Eddy’s most popular hits including Rebel Rouser, Because They’re Young, Moon River, Shazam!, Ring of Fire, John Henry, Forty Miles of Bad Road, Cannonball & more!

Here’s a link to the request page in StarCat:
https://goo.gl/7mSSA0

2) The Wham of that Memphis Man by Lonnie Mack:

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Lonnie Mack’s seminal debut LP featuring the songs: Wham!, Suzie Q, Farther on Down The Road, Chicken Pickin’, Memphis, Why and more!

Here’s a link to the request page in StarCat:
https://goo.gl/CSJxef

3) Rumble! The Best of Link Wray by Link Wray:

link-wray-front

This album features 20 of Wray’s best songs including: Rumble, The Swag, Raw-Hide, Dixie-Doodle, Ramble, Deuces Wild, Batman Theme, Ace of Spades and more!

Here’s a link to the request page in StarCat:
https://goo.gl/tzIbjx

Week 1 CD Wild Card Pick:

Sidewinder by Lee Morgan:

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Carried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul-jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge. While the rest of the album retreats to a more conventional hard bop sound, Morgan’s compositions are forward-thinking and universally solid. Only 25 at the time of its release, Morgan was accomplished (and perhaps cocky) enough to speak of mentoring the great Joe Henderson, who at 26 was just beginning to play dates with Blue Note after getting out of the military. Henderson makes a major contribution to the album, especially on “Totem Pole,” where his solos showed off his singular style, threatening to upstage Morgan, who is also fairly impressive here. Barry Harris, Bob Cranshaw, and Billy Higgins are all in good form throughout the album as well, and the group works together seamlessly to create an album that crackles with energy while maintaining a stylish flow. – AllMusic Review by Stacia Proefrock

Here’s a link to the request page in StarCat:
https://goo.gl/OdyGL5

And if you have ten minutes to spare – here’s a link to YouTube where you can listen to one of the most engaging songs on the album Totem Pole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12srcPirMeM

Video Clips:

Duane Eddy:

Rebel Rouser – From the Night Beech-Nut Show. July 19, 1958.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8uZutr1avs

Duane Eddy – The Theme from Peter Gunn – live in Glastonbury 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhVFK9tYu84

Lonnie Mack:

Memphis – the original version from the album The Wham of that Memphis Man – this video features photos of the early sixties but does not show Lonnie Mack himself; however, the sound quality of the song is good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExRdQtqHyac

Memphis – this version is from the 1980s and shows Lonnie playing a slightly mellower version of Memphis than the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOlEYLEvkXk

Wham – with another great guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn – from 1986:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbfgBlkSoqc

Link Wray:

Rumble!

Rawhide (Wray and his band are introduced by Dick Clark!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn5hl2IA7_s

References & Brief Artists Description:

Brief Artists Bios:
Duane Eddy (4/26/1938): As many of you will know Duane Eddy has a local connection. He was born in Corning Hospital, the one on Denison Parkway that they are tearing down now, on April 26, 1938 and lived in the Corning area until he was seven. Eddy began his career in the 1950s, picked up steam in the 1960s and continues to play today.
His twangy guitar riffs were heard on 15 top 40 hits released between 1958 and 1963. And his music has been featured in a number of films over the years including Forrest Gump.

Some of Eddy’s best known songs include: Rebel Rouser, Peter Gunn, Movin’ and Groovin’ and one of my favorites John Henry with its cool hammer sounds interspersed with Eddy’s guitar riffs.

Lonnie Mack (7/18/1941-4/21/2016): The great Rockabilly guitarist Lonnie Mack was born Lonnie McIntosh in Harrison, Indiana on July 18, 1941. Mack is best known for his debut album The Wham Of That Memphis Man released in 1964. Also of cool note, Mack played rocking blues solo on the Door’s song Roadhouse Blues. Two of Mack’s best known songs are Wham and his version of Chuck Berry’s Memphis – both found on his debut album.

Link Wray (5/2/1929-11/5/2005): Power Chord pioneer Link Wray was born on May 2, 1929 in Dunn, North Carolina and came to guitar prominence in the late fifties and early sixties. His known for a number of instrumental classics including Rumble and Raw-Hide. Wray’s music came back into pop culture awareness in the nineties when film makers including Roland Emmerich (Independence Day), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) and Robert Rodriquez (Desperado) used his music in their films.

References:

General References:

Santelli, Robert. Sixties Rock: A Listener’s Guide. Contemporary Books. Chicago. 1985.

Sidewinder by Lee Morgan, review by Stacia Proefrock, AllMusic.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-sidewinder-mw0000241127

Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. Billboard Books. New York. 2009.

Duane Eddy References:

100 Greatest Guitarists #64: Duane Eddy. Rolling Stone.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/duane-eddy-20111122

Duane Eddy Biography. LastFM. http://www.last.fm/music/Duane+Eddy/+wiki
Duane Eddy. AllMusic.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/duane-eddy-mn0000171637

Play Like Duane Eddy by Jesse Gress, Guitar Player. http://www.guitarplayer.com/artists/1026/10-things-you-gotta-do-to-play-like-duane-eddy/22245

Lonnie Mack References:
Lonnie Mack. AllMusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lonnie-mack-mn0000274822/biography

Lonnie Mack, Singer and Guitarist Who Pioneered Blues-Rock, Dies at 74 by William Grimes, New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/lonnie-mack-singer-and-guitarist-who-pioneered-blues-rockdies-at-74.html?_r=0

Link Wray References:
Link Wray (Artist Overview). AllMusic.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/link-wray-mn0000240311

Link Wray, 76, a Guitarist With Raw Rockabilly Sound, Dies by Ben Sisario. New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/arts/link-wray-76-a-guitarist-with-raw-rockabilly-sound-dies.html

Have a great week!

Linda, SSCL

*You must have a library card at a Southern Tier Library System member library to enjoy the Freegal Music Service. Your card can be from any library in the system, and the system includes all public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Allegheny Counties and including our own Southeast Steuben Count Library in Corning, New York. Library cards are free and at our library you can obtain one by visiting the Circulation Desk and presenting staff with a form of ID that features both your name and your current address.