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Music For the Masses-Tom Waits Edition

Love him or hate him, you know what camp you’re in. Tom Waits is ‘bulo’s role model.  So, baby, this one’s from the heart.

“…and manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories, they want a piece of the action anyhow”:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmqbcBsTAw&feature=related[/youtube]

‘Tom Traubert’s Blues’- “Small Change”

“I’d buy a used car lot, and never sell any of ’em…”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw&feature=related[/youtube]

‘Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis’- “Blue Valentines”

“Gonna whittle you into kindlin'”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VDTa7uXUp4[/youtube]

’16 Shells From a 30-Aught Six’- “Swordfishtrombones”-Clip from the movie “Big Time”

“And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget…”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40FjQH3Xw0M[/youtube]

‘Time’- “Raindogs”-Clip from “Big Time”

“Never trust a man in a blue trenchcoat, never drive a car when you’re dead.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-t9z8OLoCg[/youtube]

‘Telephone Call From Istanbul’- “Swordfishtrombones”-From “Big Time”-the loser flipping cards is Iggy Pop.

“…and my plane, it will touch down, on the day after tomorrow.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM6SQvQKl0Q&NR=1[/youtube]

‘Day After Tomorrow’- “Real Gone”

“Children are playing at the end of the day…”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oGVDLcpXQ8&feature=related[/youtube]

‘I’ll Take It With Me’- “Mule Variations”

‘Bulo’s Music for the Masses-Week 2

As big a blues fan as the Beast Who Slumbers is, he’s always found George Thorogood’s bourbon-soaked brand too generic for his tastes. However, Thorogood’s own taste in guitar slingers has always been top shelf. Perhaps the greatest of ’em all, and ‘bulo’s all-time favorite, is Texas native son Albert ‘Iceman’ Collins. His unique tunings and stinging style of playing touch all the pleasure centers in ‘bulo’s brain and butt. Here he is, with two other outstanding players in their own right, Duke Robillard and Debbie Davies, with a definitive (even if the vid is a little washed-out) version of “Frosty”:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqqgqrbFdwM&feature=related[/youtube]

This video reminds ‘bulo of the night at the Chestnut Cabaret when Albert Collins, armed with the World’s Longest Extension Cord, led the crowd out of the Cabaret and down Chestnut Street, all the while playing those rapidfire riffs.

As long as El Somnambulo is on the subject of great shows he saw at the Chestnut, you’d have to go a long way to top the Neville Brothers circa 1987 or so. ‘Bulo believes that for a period of a few years, they were the best American performing band around. Combining funk, the entire N’Awlins musical gumbo, a soupcon of jazz, and a jam band ethos, there was nothing not to like.

Here from 1995, one of their seminal tunes:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXI4hvLtjKE&feature=related[/youtube]

Only thing left to say is ‘Mighty Kooty Fiyo on a Mardi Gras Day’.

Live Music at Noon – Rachel Schain

Come have brunch today at the Bellefonte Cafe in Wilmington, where you will be treated to the music of my lovely wife, Rachel Schain. She will be playing from noon until 3 (with breaks, of course). There will be good food, comfortable, casual atmosphere, and friendly people.

Here’s Rachel singing “The Fade to Black”, which is a cover of a Secret Dakota Ring song. Andy Ross of Secret Dakota Ring told Rachel, “You sing that better than I do!” and linked to it from his own site.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTnNAk8m2AU[/youtube]

The Bellefonte Cafe is at 804 Brandywine Blvd.