Quoted From You Tube: Keith alone singing and playing piano performing “Nearness Of You” by Hoagy Carmichael and “Sing Me Back Home” by Merle Haggard. These two recordings come from a Keith bootleg called “A Stone Alone,” which features recordings that Keith did back in 1977 when he couldn’t leave Canada due to being busted for heroin in Toronto. It also features some home recordings he did in 1981. The bootleg shows that Keith has exquisite taste in music as he covers songs by people like George Jones, Merle Haggard, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Everly Brothers, etc. Keith’s vocals are sweet, delicate, heartfelt and completely soulful — he gets completely inside each song, and makes each one feel like an autobiography of sorts.
I was particularly happy to have found this version, finally, and to know where to get the recording, because this is one of the better songs Julian Schnabel chose for his movie Basquiat. Unfortunately, maybe paying for the rights to the song was cost-prohibitive, as it never made it to the soundtrack. Here it is, and now you know where to find it. Hearing this song again makes me almost as happy as the time I read David Rees refer to Heineken as “The Poor Man’s Pinot Grigio.”
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Brewery Artwalk is today (Saturday 4.18) and Sunday (4.19) from 11am-6pm:
The Brewery, located in Downtown Los Angeles, is the world’s largest Art Colony. This renowned live-work complex was converted from the industrial buildings of a former Pabst Blue Ribbon brewery and bottling plant. It is now home to over 300 artists and arts-related businesses.
Over 150 artists; painters, sculptors, photographers, craftsmen and designers of the Brewery Arts Colony will open the doors of their studios to the public to sell art.
Can’t stop delivering on the 70s, but this one is not something worth apologizing for. In fact, you all should be thanking me for what you’re about to see.
Video Analysis of Boogie Nights by Heatwave
How many disco songs have you heard of that begin with a miniature Jazz Odyssey? (more…)
Getting into anachronistic culture is fine – I mean, it’s got to have its limits, for sure. The horrid fashion and haircuts that always seem to come back around, where everyone looks like Ron Wood from the time when he was in The Faces with Rod Stewart? Come on, people. Anyway – my point here is not to rant. It’s just to say, if you’re gonna’ go back to the 70s, at least make sure you find all the gems. Brandy is one of them.
