On the fifth day of Gheorghemas, Big Gheorghe gave to me:
Five musicians from San Antonio known as the Sir Douglas Quintet
A four-part Japanese life strategy (as told by our man in the OBX)
Three 80's Baseball Sports Looks
Too Many Entries
and a Cameo That Will Go Down in History
A four-part Japanese life strategy (as told by our man in the OBX)
Three 80's Baseball Sports Looks
Too Many Entries
and a Cameo That Will Go Down in History
I recently heard this song on the radio:
And I thought it was new song by the Black Keys and that they were getting back to their old Rubber Factory sound. But it wasn't! It was the Sir Douglas Quintet. I know this because the DJ said so, but not until after he followed it up with this diddy:
I never heard of them before. Wikipedia says they're from San Antonio. Spotify has at least 105 of their songs available to stream and I dig almost all of them. It's hard to boil down their sound. There are always varying degrees of country twang, psychedelia, drunkenness, and raw elemental rock and roll. That said, some are funky:
Sometimes they sound like a TexMex Beach Boys:
Other times they sound like a southern fried Beatles:
They cover torch songs too:
They even do something approaching yacht rock:
My favorites have that real southern rock sound:
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I'm excited to dig into this. My immediate thought was "this sounds like a group Gram Parsons knew." But according to Wikipedia, the associated acts do not include him.
Associate acts include the following tremendous names, none of which are familiar to me: Texas Tornados, Texas Mavericks, The Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm, Gene Taylor Band, The Last Real Texas Blues Band, Doug Sahm & Band, The Tex Mex Trip, Sir Douglas Band, The Formerly Brothers, The Cosmic Cowboys, The Cherry Ridge Riders, The West Side Horns, Los Blues, Augie Meyers & The Western Head Band, Lord August & The Visions of Light
(not sure why I put quotes around a thought I had in my head)
Surprised to not see Roky Erickson involved tangentially, given the multiple musical styles and being from the same time frame and general location, Austin.
Looks up Roky Erickson on wikipedia. Well it looks like they did cross paths. Sir Douglas Quintet produced a song or two for him after he was released from the mental hospital in the early 70's.
Happy Hannukah.
Beastie's cover
I watched a Doug Sahm documentary awhile back that was pretty good. Texas has produced some really unique musical artists, despite their intolerance of freaky psychedelic types.
austin is an oasis of tolerance for weirdos. it's not really texas, though.
There's an MF DOOM/Blackalicious sample in this post.
Years ago, there was an album of Sir Douglas (and their singer Doug Sahm) covers all played by a band I like called the Bottle Rockets. The album was Songs of Sahm. I enjoyed it but was never smart enough to dig into the originals. Thanks, Z.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-of-sahm-mw0000213907
scrod rocket, you say?
surfing dog!
Local low power station played a certain Pink Floyd tune many of you have heard dozens of time in a row.
I now have a headache. Related?
Unrelated. You should feel energized and willing to run as fast as the wind. But no faster than the slowest neophyte.
Blackalicious has not lasted as I’d hoped but they were a monster, sonically and lyrically in the late 90s and early aughts. Seeing them in a small club in Gainesville opening for DJ Shadow remains one of the live music highlights of my life.
I’ll be digging in to the Sir Douglas Quintet on my drive to S Florida tomorrow. Thanks, Z.
nathan knight, six minutes, three boards, two fouls, 0-1 from the floor in his nba preseason debut.
luka garza, competent
I took the opportunity today to go on a big bike ride. Sunny and over 50 is as good as I can expect in NJ. I decided to find Zman’s music rec on my phone. I ended up on “Sir Douglas Quintet At Their Best,” a 1977 release. Seemed especially tasty, with Turn on Your Love Light on the album. I dug the sound. Had a J Geils vibe, which I mean as a real compliment.
Headache is gone after two Advil and a few drinks. Still in one piece;)
We’re slated for two days of 60+ and sun this wknd, I hope to get a coupla road rides done. You can’t ride year round here, but 10.69 months of the year is good enough, on average.
J. Geils is indeed a compliment. Give it to me, gheorghies.
had a rare but lovely chance to hang with my little one and share music last night. she turned me on to the new taylor swift record, which is honestly pretty dope.
Really scary situation for Keyontae Johnson. A terrific player with an NBA future and, by all accounts, a reality good kid. Basketball doesn’t matter at all now though. Just hope he’ll be okay.
pour some out for charley pride, and kiss an angel good mornin'
Navy playing like they owe Army money
I was listening to some Conway Twitty today, and it feels squarely in TR’s wheelhouse, topically speaking. It may be a little too country for a New Jersey born son of Persia, but it’s good shit.
I am not a country music fan but there’s a local radio station that has a show named “Sunday Morning Coming Down”. It’s largely old country songs. Conway, Merle, Waylon, Willie, George Jones, etc. I’ve become a fan of that era of country. I don’t play it a ton but it’s just right when the mood strikes.
That’s my favorite Kristofferson song and my favorite Cash song
Navy... what you’re doing today... I’m not seeing it
George Jones had the voice of a god.
I loved loved loved the Burns doc on country music. I downloaded a ton of stuff to my phone as I watched. Not much has stuck besides a little Waylon and some George Jones. I appreciate the old stuff, but I need to hear it in a specific context to really appreciate it. Would love to hear that (or anything) live.
George Jones hates me. Different George Jones than you’re talking about maybe.
I was about to type that a 6.5 minute drive to open the 3rd qtr and give LSU a 2-score lead would make Gator fans nervous. And then Trask took them down the field right away. Will be interesting to see if LSU can put points up to keep some breathing room.
mls cup is underwhelming
The cleat throw heard ‘round the world.
I am 0-3 in South Florida when Florida plays a night game. This hurts. Hurts a bit less because Alabama was going to beat the ever leaving shit out of Florida next week regardless of tonight’s result.
Still really sucks to lose to a shitty LSU team at home on Senior night. Being a fan can really suck sometimes.
This Bruce performance on snl...for the ages
Absent that, the worst snl I memory
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Sounds like Danimal is not a Dionne Warwick fan.
But agreed on The Boss and his band. They sounded great, although I’m not impartial.
And this may be mean, but we need to take the “little” from Little Steven’s name. He looks quite rotund these days.
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