Link to One For The Road video & annotated setlist below Back on July 4th, I annotated The Kinks‘ BBC-TV appearance from January 24, 1973. (Check out God Save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety.) That show bookended the band’s golden age that I’d say began with the transcendent “Waterloo Sunset” single (released May 1967) and […]
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“I know you got a new sad story You can tell it a thousand times But it’s a cheap blue memory It’s just a cheap blue memory” Faithful Adios Loungers may be familiar with the name Bozmo after I wrote about the band last year. They’ve just released a new album, Leather Umbrella, and it […]
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“I don’t like the hassling, silly things in rock. I want to keep writing very English songs.” —Ray Davies, 1967 A few days ago I praised Phil and Dave Alvin as a two-man, American roots music preservation society, offering them up as a bizarro version of The Kinks. Granted, instead of preserving village greens, […]
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“(Big Bill Broonzy‘s) influence on a variety of players went from the uptown musicians to the country blues guys like Big Joe Williams. He was an influence on Muddy Waters, an influence on the folk musicians of the early 1960s and one of the first blues guys to go over to Europe where he […]
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BOZMO IS: Bo Moore: lead vocals, lefty rhythm guitar, songwriting Jeremy Mendicino: righty lead guitar, backup vocals, production John Jannetty: bass Josh “J-Raff” Carrasco: drums If you’re an oldish fart like me (43 and counting), you’ve probably heard a thousand or so variations on the following laments. “MUSIC SUCKS TODAY! THEY DON’T MAKE ‘EM […]
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