August 2010
Candy
Big Maybelle
Candy ~ Big Maybelle
Monday brings the Blues pick back into mind of the Flimwell Papers’ Music Corner selector….and what a hugely underrated talent Big Maybelle was! Many only think of for only one tune which was covered by that skinnyassed white kid, Elvis…ah, seriously folks have a listen to how versatile she makes her booming gal voice on this version of Candy! And that note near the ending..that’s not a note one makes unless in the throes of…something else! Amazingly underrated I’d say. Cheers now
Blues Walk
Lou Donaldson
Blues Walk ~ Lou Donaldson
Ahh…the Sunday selection here at the Flimwell Papers’ Music Corner is either Jazz, Jazz Vocal, Instrumental or Pre-War II item….this one is a classic tune from the master of combining country blues and jazz! He’s one of the greats in my mind, after all Few musicians today can claim to have changed the direction of jazz. Lou Donaldson did so twice—once in 1953 with Clifford Brown and again in 1957 with Jimmy Smith. There is so much I could say or write about this tune but space is limited and so is your patience I fear. I saw him do it live and there you see the genius of adding Ray Barretto to anchor the feel of this tune and the rest on the album…pure musical genius taking him beyond the label of just another player influenced by Charlie Parker!
This one never ever fails to get my feet to tapping and my blues to fly away….and “Sweet Poppa Lou,” is still out there playing at 83 years young. He’s in New York this week at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola.
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Main Theme
Pink Floyd
More (Soundtrack - main theme) ~ Pink Floyd
Oh it’s Soundtrack Saturday — wanna thank all who send along ideas, suggestions and finds to me on this topic and I will get around to speaking to them promise — and today’s Flimwell Papers’ Music Corner selection is one that I have a fair bit of connection to. So forgive the Pink or is it the Floyd for bit of navel gazing and arch hippie-dippy heavy handiness, the opening 30 seconds of lovely panning gong gets married up to a bit of organ work that sounds like it belongs on Hammer Horror flick and then the fact that most have forgotten the film this soundtrack comes from…..and there you have it…a typical off the wall off the beaten path I love! My connection — yes I had a short gig doing some script consulting and editing for the director of More, Mr. Barbet Schroeder,
- Frank had a bumper sticker that loosely translated from the French to English said, "Let's make the term 'junkie' as unacceptable as queer!"
Passing notes
Old art bats, on mescaline, unite.…merci beaucoup to la-reine-storms for this…..my exper-enhances with mescaline are rather Castaneda’ian!
I must reiterate that I advocate nothing….I do not actively or passively even suggest that anything I do was either good for anyone else or that should be tried. I have found, however, that there is too much myth, archaic knowledge and even less understanding about the role and place of so-called consciousness altering drugs! But there are many, far to many abandoned souls lost along that byway and I have lost a few of my own dear friends — never my own troubles…but no one twisted my arm and I was never a “junkie” on anything — well except coffee and alcohol — which that gawd now I have under something of a leash control.
Why am I venturing forth with this screed at my luncheon driving break today, I got an email saying a dear friend in Montreal after the ravages of prostate cancer and sinking under the weight of a terminal diagnosis took his life on a massive dose of morphine spiked with a rather large amount of mescaline. Bonne Nuit Frank — I loved your poetry, your brave soul for saying always the truth, and for living your life on your terms never on anyone else’s!
