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French Music Recommendations for Americans:
1. Camille
2. Noir Désir
3. Serge Gainsbourg
4. Rita Mitsouko
5. La Mano Negra
- Julie Meckler
Songs I'm Currently Listening To:
1. Blood Visions - Jay Reatard
2.
As We Enter - Nas
3. Det Du Tänker Idag Är Du I - Dungen
4. I Feel Cream - Peaches
5.
Tears Dry on Their Own - Amy Winehouse
And 3 more:
6. Let It Die - Feist
7. It Takes A Muscle - M.I.A.
8. Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian - Those Darlins
- Ida Maria
Sixties Garage Hits You Never Knew Were From Chicago:
1. Gloria - Shadows of Knight
2. Bend Me, Shape Me - The American Breed
3. I Lie Awake - The New Colony Six
4. Kind of a Drag - The Buckinghams
5. The Sailing Ship - The Cryan' Shames
- Miss Alex White
Funky Grooves To F*ck To:
1. My Neck, My Back (Lick It) - Khia
2. T.N.T. - AC/DC
3. Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
4. Double Team - Tenacious D
5. Dunwich* - Electric Wizard
* Dunwich is the record label that released "Gloria"!
- Francis Scott Key White
Songs That Make Me Tingle:
1. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby - The Orions
2. The Feeling is Real - "5" Royales
3. Connection - King Tuff
4. He is the Boy - Little Eva
5. Too Much in Love - The King Khan & BBQ Show
- Jessi Darlin
Modern Marvels:
1. Night Rider - Johnny Corndog
2. Ohh Basketball - John Wesley Coleman
3. The One Legged Horse (race) - Puta Madre Brothers
4. Those Eyes - Natural Child
5. I Wanna Go Home - Shannon and the Clams
- Nikki Darlin
Songs to Help You Survive a Snowstorm in Minneapolis:
1. Block of Ice - Thee Oh Sees
2. Message From the Law - Sic Alps
3. Hot Wire My Heart - Sonic Youth
4. Wintertime - Drug Rug
5. 5FT7 - Tonstartssbandht
- Kelley Darlin
The Teej, the Wood and Snowman 2011 (If
you ever meet that faceless devil of the highway sometimes called
"Black Ice", make sure you've got at least a couple of these babies in
your back pocket. Surefire killer of the yips and other mentally
deteriorative diseases caused by 360s, tailspins and backseat
white-knuckling.):
1. Slip Away - Clarence Carter
2. Strawberry Letter 23 - Shuggie Otis
3. Action Speaks Louder Than Words - Rueben Bell
4. Cryin' in the Streets (Part 1) - George Perkins and The Silver Stars
5. Uptown Top Ranking - Althea & Donna
- Linwood Regensburg
Songs:
1. Angel of the Morning - Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts
2. Fire - The Pointer Sisters
3. These Days - Jackson Browne
4. Will It Go Round in Circles - Billy Preston
5. American Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- Grace Potter
Worst Things about Traveling on Tour:
1. Arriving to the first show on a UK tour to promote a new album and
finding that the album release has been delayed until after the tour
and that the first show has been promoted only with a handwritten sign
on a sandwich board in front of the venue.
2. Host housing that smells like cat pee, with slugs on the kitchen floor and spiders.
3.
Explaining to the condescending airport check-in agent that the
upright bass flew with us on the outbound leg of the trip, and that
yes, in fact, it will fit on the plane, but having it accidentally go
to Karachi, Pakistan by mistake anyway.
4. When the soundman rides the knobs on the soundboard all night and then saturates my violin in reverb during a ballad.
5.
Putting on high heels and ball gown in a porta potty on a sweltering hot day.
- Elana James
Dressing Rooms in American "ClubLand":
1. The Mohawk Place, Buffalo, N.Y. - Totally punk rock, looks like the Fight Club
house...couch/coffee table room upstairs with a frat house fridge,
ashtrays and eclectic, velvet bullfighter artwork on the walls.
2.
The Bottle Tree, Birmingham, Ala. - Hard to recall but it has an old
50s/early 60s AirStream Trailer for pre-game hang, Christmas
lights, vintage lamps and an old Hi-Fi record player.
3.
Smith's Olde Bar, Atlanta, Ga. - Despite one of the worst load-ins in
"ClubLand," Smith's dressing room spills right onto the stage, which is
encased in a drawstring curtain. This means you can be a train wreck
right up till showtime. The "poop" graffiti is a little much, however.
4.
The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Mo. - Rich with the spirit
of Chuck Berry, who forever seems to have played there the night
before, this dressing room is well stocked, permits smoking and has a
lockable bathroom...It's the little things that make life on the road
livable. Brian Henneman from St. Louis' own Bottle Rockets has a great
story about the mysterious door backstage at the Duck Room. Ask him
sometime.
5.
400 Bar, Minneapolis, Minn. - This basement green room is private and
very un-policied, smoke yes, drinking fine, sign the walls, pee in a
strange hole in the cement OK...Best of all down here you can feel the
weight of the crowd and watch the floor sag and bounce to the support
band...It's fun to imagine all the great rock 'n' rollers who collapsed
sweaty and proud on the old sofas down here. Go Twins.
- Dave Bielanko
Worst Gigs I've Ever Played:
1. Volleyball game at a Catholic college in Schenectady, N.Y. (1992) -
For some reason they wanted entertainment during the game. No one paid
attention and the money was great. The priest paid me with a big ol'
smile on his face saying, "We'll see you next year!!" which of course
they didn't.
2.
Trailer park in Adams, Mass. (1993) - This was sold as a hipster love
fest but it was just an "activities" part of the scheduled events,
which also included a sack race. They passed around a coffee can and
along with the $13 someone deposited a chewing gum wrapper.
3.
Tipitina's, New Orleans, La. (1997) - By union law supposedly the world
famous Tipitina's has to have entertainment seven nights a week. I was
touring through and they booked me on a Monday for fair money despite
the fact they they were closed. Closed. I played to no one for four
hours, got paid and left.
4.
Opening for Echo & the Bunnymen, at Hammersmith Odeon, London,
England (2003) - The first 50 rows were beautiful Asian teenage girls
who hadn't a clue what I was saying. I have never heard such quiet,
polite applause from thousands of people. Weirdly eerie.
5.
Unnamed location, Madison, Wis. (2003) - I used to play this great
place in Madison, which is a really cool town for music. The name
escapes me. The woman that owned the place was working really hard to
make a go of it. She worked 80 hours a week and had great bands. She
hired a "shady" manager who I caught dealing blow over by the
soundboard to college girls and I knew it was the beginning of the end.
Sure enough next time through it was gone.
Best Gigs I've Ever Played:
1. Opening for Ani DiFranco at Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles,
Calif. (2000) - Eight thousand people, totally in the zone the night
they were recording my live album. Some nights the stars are aligned.
2.
SXSW at Electric Lounge, Austin, Texas (1996) - Got signed to Mercury
Records with a stellar gig, packed house, David Fricke was there, my
A&R guy Peter Lubin bought the deal. My experience with Mercury was
actually very good, learned a lot, got my touring started, unlike a lot
of acts I got no complaints. It was cool. As a matter of fact all my
label deals have been pretty great.
3.
Reading and Leeds Fest, England (2002?) - I played a small side tent to
a couple thousand people and it went stellar. My friend Kimya Dawson,
who was playing there with the Moldy Peaches, said because I had a
laminate I could go backstage on the mainstage where Iggy was playing.
The Strokes, Run DMC, The Donnas, PJ Harvey, Green Day and Travis were
all playing but Iggy stole the show. Murdered it. It could be the
greatest show I've ever seen in my life and I've seen The Who with
Keith Moon, Hendrix and The Replacements in their prime.
4.
Opening for Jim Carroll at Maxwell's, Hoboken, N.J. (2004-5?) - Always
great to meet a hero, twice as great when they're really cool people.
5.
Any gig at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton, Texas - One of the greatest
places for live music on the planet. Smart, awesome, unpretentious
people, great sound, astonishing book-and-record store nearby and
invariably some Texas swing, rockabilly band or hardcore act on the
same bill that will blow your mind.
* Dates are a reeeeeeeeal ruff guess (but damn close)
- Ed Hamell
Favorite Elvis Presley Songs:
1. Like a Baby
2. She's Not You
3. One Night
4. Trying to Get to You
5. A Mess of Blues
- Wanda Jackson
Annoying Things Said to Me on Tour:
1. (From a club owner) "It's very nice music. But can you make it a bit more funky?"
2. (From an audience member) "Nice music. But you should ditch that upright bass, ya know, make it a bit more funky."
3. (From a former bandmate) "You know I like your singing, but can we start doing vocal warm-ups?"
4. (From the promoter) "Stage plot?! Who reads that shit?"
5.
(From the sound guy, before hearing us play a single note) "Your
drummer's going to have to play brushes on everything, and your guitar
player needs to turn his amp way down."
- Eilen Jewell
Reasons to See Webb Wilder:
1. Every time you don't...an angel dies.
2. He is an electrifying artist.
3. Like Elvis and Muddy Waters...he's from Mississippi.
4. He can sing low and LOUD.
5. He plays rock and roll!
- Webb Wilder
Worn-Out Radio Songs I Will Never Turn Off:
1. Lola - The Kinks
2. It Never Rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond
3. Maggie May - Rod Stewart
4. Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney
5. Heart of Gold - Neil Young
Worn-Out Radio Songs I Will Always Turn Off:
1. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
3. All Right Now - Free
4. New Year's Day - U2
5. Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad
- Brian Henneman
Uses of "Fuzz Bass" in a Soul/Funk/Rhythm & Blues Song:
1. Two Sisters of Mystery - Mandrill
2. (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going To Go - Curtis Mayfield
3. (tie) Dance to the Music - Sly and the Family Stone / Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - The Temptations
4. Showstopper - Iron Knowledge
5. Past, Present and Future - Demon Fuzz
- Velcro Lewis
Rain Songs (in Honor of the Crazy Amount of Rain We've Been Getting in Nashville):
1. Can't Stand the Rain - Lowell George (Tina Turner's version rocks too!)
2. The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin (melancholy high school days)
3. MacArthur Park - Jimmy Webb (Lots of us in Nashville didn't even leave it out in the rain and it's soggy anyway)
4. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan (Love Edie Brickell's version)
5.
Who'll Stop the Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival (I know John
Fogerty lost a bunch of guitars in the flood...Bless his heart, love
him so)
- Suzy Bogguss
Songs About Days of the Week:
1. Manic Monday - The Bangles
2. Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
4. Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
5. Easy (Like Sunday Morning) - The Commodores
- Leilani Frey
Songs That Could Cheer Me Up Even If My Cat Just Died, My Boyfriend Just Dumped Me, I Just Got Fired and My Band Just Broke Up:
1. It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
2. Tonight It's You - Cheap Trick
3. Hot Blooded - Foreigner
4. I Was Made For Loving You - KISS
5. Sixty Minute Man - The Dominoes
- Ellie Maybe
Songs That Make Me Feel Like a Bad Feminist:
1. Cuddly Toy - The Monkees
2. Johnny Get Angry - Joanie Sommers
3. I Gotcha - Joe Tex
4. He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) - The Crystals
5. Run For Your Life - The Beatles
- Emily Agustin
Oldies That Are About Stalking or Killing:
1. I Like It - Gerry and the Pacemakers
2. I'm Your Puppet - James & Bobby Purify
3. Little Blue Man - Betty Johnson
4. I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March
5. Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren
- Vee Sonnets
Guitars in My Arsenal:
1. '59 Supro DualTone
2. '73 Fender Strat
3. '95 Martin HD-28 acoustic
4. Gibson Chet Atkins acoustic electric
5. Hamer DuoTone with P90s electric and acoustic
- Michelle Malone
Labor Protest Songs:
1. I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister - Written by coal miner Jim Garland in 1932.
2.
Union Maid - Woody Guthrie's 1941 classic always gets an audience singing.
3.
Which Side Are You On? - Florence Reece, wife of a blacklisted coal
miner, wrote this during a 1931 strike in "Bloody, Harlan County,"
Kentucky.
4. Bourgoeis Blues - Leadbelly's clever attack on racisim and the ruling elite.
5.
Dump the Bosses - An old IWW (Wobbly) tune that isn't well known, but is pointed and even soulful, with the right arrangement.
And 5 more:
6. The Pennsylvania Miner - A Phillips Thompson no-nonsense ballad from
an 1886 Pennsylvania strike. As far as I know, I'm the only person who
sings or recorded this song, which is too bad.
7. The Preacher and the Slave - Wobbly Joe Hill rewrote an old
Protestant hymn in this attack on those who preach about heaven as the
reward for your suffering on earth.
8. The Dying Miner - A recounting of the Centralia, Illinois mining
accident in 1947 that Woody Guthrie pasted together from notes written
by miners before they died.
9. London Calling - Who wouldn't want to get into the streets when hearing this Clash anthem?
10. Stockyard Blues - A 1947, slice-of-life blues tune from Chicago's Floyd Jones.
- Bucky Halker
Tearjerkers:
1. Possession - Sarah McLachlan
2. Into Temptation - Crowded House
3. I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
4. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
5. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
- Jane Wiedlin
Albums:
1. Elvis' Golden Records Volume 1 - Elvis Presley
2.
Truth - Jeff Beck
3. Abbey Road - The Beatles
4. Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits - Johnny Cash
5.
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
And 5 more:
6. Steppin' Out - Gary Stewart
7. Byrds - The Byrds
8. Aftermath - The Rolling Stones
9. Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
10. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
- Rosie Flores
Rock-and-Roll Bars:
1. The Decade in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. It was the "unk" in
funk. This was my home turf for many a year. The list of bands that
played there was incredible. There was great music, food and beer seven
nights a week for years on end. Dom, the owner, was Godfather, and the
bar, musicians and patrons were family. Our soundman was even buried
underneath the stage!
2.
The Tombstone Club in Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain. A gig we played
there in 1996 is still the most memorable bar gig of all time. Packed
house, dancing on tables and chairs, football chants, the bartenders
quit serving to dance on top of the bars, 7 encores. What a friggin'
night!
3.
The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J. New Jersey has always had tons of
great musicians and bands. You play right on the ocean. There is
nothing like it especially in the summertime. I feel like we have been
adopted like native sons there.
4.
Inn Men Square Club in Cambridge, Mass. I loved playing there. It was
about as big as my living room. Marshall, the owner-bartender, was
about as entertaining a man as I have ever met. I did a live radio
broadcast there in 1981 that is probably the best live recording I ever
made.
5.
The Bottom Line in New York City. Playing on the same stage that was
witness to so many great acts and musical history was always an honor
to me. (Owner) Alan Pepper is a class act all the way. I played there
with The Iron City Houserockers, my current band, solo, and as a guest
for Vin Scelsa's 50th birthday party. The hospitality was as legendary
as the club: a banana, a couple of Oreos and oranges, and a pitcher of
New York City tap water on ice.
- Joe Grushecky
Country Music's Coolest:
1. Coolest car - Hank Williams Sr.'s powder blue Cadillac convertible
(the one in which he died) at the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery,
Ala. I didn't stay in the back seat very long. Something's still going
on in there.
2.
Coolest cat in California - Merle Haggard. Go hang out with him, you'll
see. In case you can't get to him, listen to his recordings.
3. Coolest steel guitar player in the world - Ralph Mooney in Kenney, Texas. His pedigree includes:
a. Playboy - Wynn Stewart
b. Above and Beyond - Buck Owens
c. Swinging Doors/The Bottle Let Me Down - Merle Haggard
d. Rainy Day Woman/ Lonesome On'ry and Mean/Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings
e. Branded/Drifting Apart - Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
4.
Coolest record store - Ernest Tubb Record Shop No. 1, Lower Broadway,
Nashville, Tenn. A must for any hillbilly music connoisseur. If they
don't have it, you probably don't need it.
5. Coolest authentic country recording so far this decade - Marty Stuart's Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions. Ain't bragging, just telling it like it is.
- Marty Stuart
Dumb Pre-Show Questions (and a Post-Show One):
1. "Are you gonna rock tonight?" I wasn't going to but since you brought it up, I suppose that I WILL!
2.
"Where's Ray?" (Referring to Ray Manzarek, who produced the first
four X records & played on four songs on the first one.) This
question was usually asked by a drunken oldster in Pittsburg or an even
smaller town on a Tuesday.
3. "Are you gonna play Los Angeles?" Usually asked @ an X show (it is
our best known song, so...) but also asked @ solo acoustic shows.
Somehow this song never struck me as a good candidate for a rendition
on acoustic guitar.
4. "I have a really big house, do you wanna stay on our couch?" Hmmm...maybe 30 years ago, but...actually not even then.
5.
"Where's your Dad?" Asked of me while touring with the Wallflowers @
Bogart's in Cincinnati. Somehow this extremely high dude had mistaken
me for Jakob Dylan.
A Post-Show One:
1. "When are you gonna play here again?" I/We just played, how should we know when we'll be back?
- John Doe
Reasons I Got Kicked Out of a Rock Club:
1. Making out in the photobooth
2. Grabbing the doorman's crotch
3. Getting on stage and singing with the band (wasn't mine)
4. Smoking pot backstage
5. I don't remember - ha!
- Traci Trouble
Odd Gigs I Have Played:
1. The Cow Chip Festival. Yes, people fling poo in a contest.
2. On a float with Goofy standing next to me for the Disney Mag Mile Lights Parade.
3.
With a set-up that consisted of a Rubbermaid 50-gallon trash can, pots,
pans, brass railing and metal ladder. No, I was not a child.
4.
The band and I being wheeled out on a flatbed trailer around a minor
league baseball field and parked at second base where they hooked up a
generator for power. We performed the post-game show.
5. Hispanic transvestite bar. Nothing against it.
- Meg Thomas
Musicians to Cook Dinner with:
1. Courtney Love - although it may be more of a drug cocktail than anything
2. Dolly Parton
3. Roky Erickson
4. Lead Belly
5. GG Allin
- Inga Olson
People I'd Put on My Bowling Team:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Tommy Lee
3. Joan Jett
4. Weird Al
5. The Dude
- Susie Q
Weirdest Things That Happened Onstage During Love, Janis:
1. One of the theaters had a hotel in the building and it used to get
complaints from the guests about the incessant rocking. I'm not sure if
it was revenge or just old plumbing, but one night a sewer pipe broke
in one of the rooms upstairs and it began literally raining on the
audience. "It's just like Woodstock!" I exclaimed. It happened on a
weekend so there were several performances where they just roped off
those rows and it rained toilet water continuously throughout the show.
2.
A male senior citizen ran up to the stage at the last song of the show.
He had a cane and was wearing a white shirt and tie so I thought he
might be an usher as I ran over to sing to him and then I saw he looked
upset in some way and was yelling something like "Get off the stage" so
I thought maybe the theater was on fire and he was trying to warn me
but I had already reached out my hand which he was now squeezing as
hard as he could, digging his long old-man nails into my skin, trying
to pull me off the stage and seeming generally psychotic so now I was
scared that he was trying not to save my life but perhaps rather to
kill me and as he did not let go and the song was ending, I finally
ripped my hand away as hard as I could, which drew blood and left me
scarred for life (emotionally, of course).
3.
There's a scene where the unattended mic stand is lit dramatically in a
single spotlight. One night, the mic clearly decided to take advantage
of this opportunity for stardom. I watched as the mic popped out of its
clip, and with the cable slung over the clip and its own weight as
ballast, lowered itself in slow motion about 15 inches and then stopped
and hung there suspended.
4. Julie Andrews gave me a standing ovation...at the end of the first act.
5.
I busted my pants open singing "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)." I held
them up with one hand and cued the band with the other. (That's
actually more pathetic than weird, hence its #5 position.)
- Cathy Richardson
Worst After-Show Compliments:
1. I saw you on Austin City Limits. It was awesome but what happened with your record?
2. You've gotten so much better!
3. I love you guys! Are you in Wilco?
4. There's a guy here in town that you would just love. Now, he's an incredible player.
5. Tie: (a) How long you been playing roughly? (b) I can't tell you how great that was.
- Susan Voelz
Defunct Chicago Venues:
1. The Cellar
2. Beginnings
3. London House
4. Mister Kelly's
5. Thirsty Whale
- Jim Peterik
Fiddle Players:
1. Joe Thompson
2. Mark O'Connor
3. Liz Carroll
4. Regina Carter
5. Kala Ramnath
- Anne Harris
Drum Songs:
1. Skin Deep - Louie Bellson with Duke Ellington and his orchestra
2. Channel 1 Suite - Buddy Rich with The Buddy Rich Big Band
3. Aja - Steve Gadd with Steely Dan
4. Toad - Ginger Baker with Cream
5. Moby Dick - John Bonham with Led Zeppelin
- Kenny Aronoff
CDs of 2009:
1. Pizza Box - Danny Barnes
2. Cotton - Sam Baker
3. Acquired Taste - Delbert McClinton
4. Electric Dirt - Levon Helm
5. Somedays the Song Writes You - Guy Clark
- Gurf Morlix
Breakup Songs:
1. Can't Let Go - Lucinda Williams
2. Don't Answer Me - The Alan Parsons Project
3. The Loneliest Guy - David Bowie
4. Down to You - Joni Mitchell
5. Sometimes It Snows in April - Prince
- Jann Klose
iPod Songs:
1. Little Glass Folk - Anoushka Shankar
2. Blood Red Sky - Seth Lakeman
3. Ninth Symphony - Beethoven
4. Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart
5. Dirty Love - Frank Zappa
- Ian Anderson
Songs for a Gloomy Day:
1. Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
2. I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine - The Ronettes
3. I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
4. The River - Bruce Springsteen
5. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
- Sune Rose Wagner
Parenthetical Song Titles:
1. Anna (Go to Him) - Arthur Alexander
2. (I Know) I'm Losing You - The Temptations
3. Remember (Walking in the Sand) - The Shangri-Las
4. Dawn (Go Away) - The Four Seasons
5. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
- Dennis Diken
Songs for Protest and Demonstration:
1. Dancing in the Street - Martha and the Vandellas
2. Southern Man - Neil Young
3. Chimes of Freedom - Bob Dylan
4. The Bourgeois Blues - Lead Belly
5. I Don't Care - Judy Garland
- Stan Ridgway
Awkward Moments in My Musical Life:
1. Realizing mid-song that my fly was down when I played the Letterman show in John Doe's band.
2.
Discovering that the beautiful French woman, who had been telling me
for over an hour I was a genius and that Americans could never
appreciate my brilliance, had actually mistaken me for Boxcar Willie.
3.
Eating breakfast next to Tom Waits at the counter of the old Tropicana
Motel in 1985. He put so much ketchup on his eggs and Potatoes O'Brian
that you could no longer even see the food on the plate, and for some
reason it forever diminished "The Mystique" for me. I dunno. It's hard
to explain. I mean, he's still a genius and all, yet somehow the whole
thing...I dunno. Let's move on.
4. Being asked to leave the listening party for The Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me
for being "too drunk and making a scene." Now, while I confess I don't
remember exactly what transpired, it just seems like...I mean, c'mon,
it's THE REPLACEMENTS for chrissakes. Define "too drunk" to me in the
context of a Replacements party...Is such a thing even physically
POSSIBLE?!?
5.
While recording with Toni Price at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studio, I
mistook Willie for the maintenance guy and told him that the handle on
the hallway toilet kept sticking and you had to jiggle it or else it
would just keep running...I told him he oughta take a look at it, it's
an easy thing to fix. It was dark, it was late, I was tired and he was
wearing coveralls and a gimme cap...You can see how that could happen.
He said, "I'll git right on that," and sorta ambled away. That was
pretty awkward.
- Jon Dee Graham
Music DVDs:
1. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2. Les Paul - Chasing Sound!
3. Mayor of the Sunset Strip (Rodney Bingenheimer)
4. The Fearless Freaks (The Flaming Lips)
5. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
- Steve Forbert
Bass Guitar Parts:
1. Something/With a Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles
2. Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
3. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
4. For the Love of Money - The O'Jays
5. Spanish Boots - Jeff Beck Group
- Kasim Sulton
Records I'm Currently Listening to:
1. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
2. Lhasa - Lhasa
3. Diplo/Santogold - Top Ranking
4. New York Dolls - 'Cause I Sez So
5. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
*6. Tricky - Knowle West Boy
* because 5 isn't enough
- Lucinda Williams
Songs That Celebrate Size:
1. Big Fat Mamas are Back in Style Again - Bull Moose Jackson
2. They Call Me Big Mama - Big Mama Thornton
3. Fit, Fat and Fine - Billy Valentine with additional lyrics by Candye Kane
4. 300 Pounds of Heavenly Joy - Willie Dixon
5. That's Big - Rick Estrin and The Nightcats
- Candye Kane
Carnival Acts I Have Backed Musically (in the '70s):
1. Big Jimmy (The 300 pound female impersonator)
2. Onyx and Pharaoh the Boa Constrictor
3. El Hombre de Goma (The Rubber Man of Puerto Rico)
4. Spongy the Rubber Girl
5. Polka Dot the Dancing Horse
- Tom Russell
Favorite Harmonica Players:
1. Paul Butterfield
2. Kim Wilson
3. Slim Harpo
4. Sonny Boy Williamson
5. Little Walter
- Mickey Raphael
Banjo Players Who Made Up Their Own Styles, with Zero Reference to Earl Scruggs:
1. Reed Martin
2. Will Keys
3. Walt Koken
4. Bruce Molsky
5. Scott Ligon
- Robbie Fulks
September Songs:
1. Don't Lose Your Cool - Albert Collins
2. Out Of Left Field - Percy Sledge
3. Lovers Rock - Sade
4. It's All Good - Bob Dylan
5. Shiny Shoes - The Pines
- Pieta Brown
Cowbell Songs:
1. Born on the Bayou - Creedence Clearwater Revival
2. Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
3. Time Has Come Today - The Chamber Brothers
4. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
5. Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
- Alice Peacock
Female Blues Singers:
1. Koko Taylor
2. Ruth Brown
3. Mahalia Jackson
4. Etta James
5. Big Maybelle
- Shemekia Copeland
Guitar Riffs or Solos:
1. Midnight at the Oasis - Maria Muldaur
2. Beat It - Michael Jackson
3. Intro/Sweet Jane - Lou Reed
4. Cannonball - The Breeders
5. That Lady - The Isley Brothers
- Jill Sobule
Drumming Songs (That Made/Make Me Want to Play Drums):
1. Slipnot - Surfacing
2. Slayer - Angel of Death
3. The Mars Volta - Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus
4. Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants
5. The Parlor Mob - Real Hard Headed
- Jay Weinberg
Non-Conjugal Duets:
1. Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl From The North Country
2. Ira & Charlie Louvin - When I Stop Dreaming
3. The Davis Sisters - I Forgot More (Than You'll Ever Know About Him)
4. Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - The Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia
5. Frank & Nancy Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
- Amy Rigby
Kevin
Coyne Songs:
1. Blame It On
The Night
2. Having A Party
3. Karate Kid
4. I'm Just A Man
5. Fat Girl
- Jon
Langford
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