January 17, 1974 ~ A close #2 on my list of fav albums from The Chirp. It’s her sixth album and remains her most successful.
It’s #111 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Like millions of others, the album helped me through high school and life.
Eric Clapton had been off the grid so to speak for a couple years and Pete Townsend decided he needed “a little help from his friends.”
Jim Capaldi, Ronnie Wood and Steve Winwood were among the musicians who joined Townsend and Slowhand at The Rainbow Theatre in London, January 13, 1973
Sad news hit the rock n’ roll world this afternoon with the news that legendary RUSH drummer Neil Peart had passed away. He’d quietly battled brain cancer for the last three years. There’ll be plenty of rememberances over the next few days, all of them worthy. For now, here’s The Professor’s fav RUSH songs …
Happy birthday, Rod …
Syd. (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006)
https://open.spotify.com/track/71qGIrxRlhEFiSrSJqLbnk
Source: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up …
b. January 5, 1923. Music biz legend. Check out The Kitchen Sister’s piece on Sam and Sun Records. It’s a delight.
He slingshoots his random rivets at you and you can catch as many as you want or let ’em all clatter right off the wall which maybe’s where they belong anyway. Bruce Springsteen is a bold new talent with more than a mouthful to say, and one look at the pic on the back will tell you he’s got the glam to go places in this Gollywoodlawn world to boot.
Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone , July 5, 1973
January 5, 1973 ~ With a boulder on his shoulder, feelin’ kinda older, 23-year-old Bruce Springsteen releases his first album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
b. January 4, 1960.
( b. January 3, 1945)
Neil Young calls him a genius. Happy birthday to Captain Manyhands …
If you’re a hardcore Americana/Country fan, the day is kind of melancholy.
Townes Van Zandt, one of the greatest songwriters of his generation and a long-suffering alcoholic, died of a cardiac arrhythmia after hip surgery at age 52.
And, the man who many consider the most significant singer/songwriter of the 20th Century and one of the most important country music artists of all time — Hank Williams — died of a heart attack brought on by a lethal cocktail of pills and alcohol aged 29.
Thirty-five of his singles (five released posthumously) were placed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, 11 of which ranked at No.1, including ‘Cold, Cold Heart,’ ‘Hey, Good Lookin’, ‘I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive,’ and ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart.’ During his last years Williams’s consumption of alcohol, morphine and painkillers severely compromised his professional life.
So, while you’re recovering today, play some Townes and Hank and listen to the words.
