I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year’s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
-RickDankoYou put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don’t sit around and sing it anymore unless you’re performing. That’s kind of sad.
-Rick Danko
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Roebuck “Pops” Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000) was an American gospel and R&B musician.
A pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 70s, he was a tremendous songwriter, guitarist and singer. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis, Yvonne, and Cleotha, later just Pops and his daughters.
Pops Staples – Gotta serve somebody (Jools Holland, 1994(?)):
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Check out this post @ alldylan.com -> Dec 27: Bob Dylan released John Wesley Harding in 1967
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| Released | December 27, 1967 (limited release); February 1968 |
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| Recorded | August 1967 Columbia Studio E, New York |
| Genre | Folk |
| Length | 41:09 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Producer | John Simon |
| Released | December 27, 1979 |
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| Recorded | 1979 at Wessex Studios and Air Studios |
| Genre | New wave, punk rock |
| Length | 47:04 |
| Label | Real (UK), Sire (US) |
| Producer | Chris Thomas, except “Stop Your Sobbing” produced by Nick Lowe |
-Egil
“When I heard Heartbreak Hotel, I knew what I wanted to do in life. It was as plain as day. All I wanted to do in the world was to be able to play and sound like that. Everyone else wanted to be Elvis, I wanted to be Scotty.”
– Keith Richards
Winfield Scott “Scotty” Moore III (born December 27, 1931, died June 28, 2016) was an American guitarist and recording engineer. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis’s Hollywood years. He was ranked 44th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2011. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
One of THE greatest rock’n roll guitarists of all time
…he died in 2016 and he is sorely missed!
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As a founding member of Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, songwriter Jay Farrar helped popularize the alt-country movement of the 1990s. He also launched a solo career during the following decade, making it plain that his musical ambitions stretched far beyond the retro-leaning twang of his contemporaries.
~Mark Deming (allmusic.com)“Woody has always been a reference point for me, as well a source of inspiration along the way. I was brought up around his music at a pretty early age, … The reference in the song relates more to the way my own children have become fans, I guess (laughs). If there was no Highway 61, we may not have had Bob Dylan or Leadbelly .”
~Jay Farrar
Son Volt – Windfall (Austin City Limits, 1996)
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Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born 25 December 1957) is an Irish musician and singer, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic trad punk band the Pogues. He was also a member of the Nipple Erectors and Shane MacGowan and the Popes, as well as producing his own solo material and working on collaborations with artists such as Kirsty MacColl, Joe Strummer, Nick Cave, Steve Earle, and Sinéad O’Connor.
Continue reading “December 25: Shane MacGowan was born in 1957”
