So, what have you been listening to lately?

[westen44]

I didn't know (or had forgotten) that Bobbie Gentry had Portuguese roots. Via this forum, I have become a great fan of her and have by now all her recorded work. There is a very good boxed set out there that compiles all of it (it wasn't that much - six CDs -, she retired early from recording).

I don't think it has ever been mentioned here before that Bobbie Gentry was of Portuguese descent.  Her Portuguese parents divorced when she was very young and she was raised by her grandparents in Mississippi. 

[Pilgrim]

Blue Monday done beautifully.  I saw George Benson live in Las Vegas years ago; it was a real treat.

[Granny Gremlin]

Sigh, ignorance is never worn with greater pride than on the shoulders of youth!

The Allmans are not just Jessica and Ramblin' Man, but had - especially in their early days - a penchant for lengthy and jazzy improvisations. Much jazzier than anything you would hear with, say, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Dickey Betts could do quite a bit of Django Reinhardt.

More like the glibness and sardony of middle age.

But fair enough - all I ever really learned from the Allmans was that Cerwin Vega made some cool guitar/bass speakers.

[uwe]

Sardowhat?

[uwe]

Blue Monday done beautifully.  I saw George Benson live in Las Vegas years ago; it was a real treat.

I bought that album where this is from when it came out a few years ago. Very pleasant.

[Dave W]

Blue Monday will always belong to Fats. He co-wrote it with Dave Bartholomew.

Longtime YT personality Julia Nunes is partially of Portuguese descent.

This video from 2008. when she was in college, wasn't her first but it's the one that made her semi-famous.

[Dave W]

Real country music, 58 years ago.

Norma Jean and Buck Trent are still performing.

[uwe]

Wot, there was more than one Norma Jean?  I first thought "Norma Jean" was the title and the "two-faced blonde" referred to you know who!

Jaunty though and well-executed.

[uwe]

Fast forward 58 years and our favorite Swedish vaudeville ghouls/rockmock satanists are at it again, with a love song to the devil and a heartfelt homage to Jason with, uhum, cutting melodies ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD2m_iqD7dI&list=RDrtkaUZvMaG8&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtkaUZvMaG8&list=RDrtkaUZvMaG8&index=1

Who comes up with stuff like this, hilarious! Great attention to period detail.

[uwe]

Lecherous Gene in great form with one of the most underrated ZZ Top Kiss songs ever.

[Basvarken]

I like that better than most other Kiss songs!

Here's another nice Domino

[uwe]

That has a nice tense rhythm, new-wavish even.

[gearHed289]

I like that better than most other Kiss songs!

It's from one of their least silly albums Revenge. The tour was great if you're into that sort of thing.  Their strongest lineup by far with Kulick and Singer.

[uwe]

True, very underrated (also Bob Ezrin-produced) album. Ole Gene also looked his best rock'n'roll outlaw around that time. I actually liked the way Kiss looked in their no make-up phase. Going back to the make-up was a bit chickening out to me.

This is from the same album, should have been smash hit:



And of course this late classic here, also from Revenge. Gene's voice is the epitome of cool.



Gene was really writing strong songs on that album:

[slinkp]

I was driving the car and on a whim said "youtube play iron maiden live" and this came up. Did not expect a whole concert! Never listened to (or watched) this before.
I enjoyed the whole thing. Great band. And I still don't understand how Mr Harris makes flatwounds sound like that.

After listening to it audio-only, I looked up the video. Pretty funny to see all the striped spandex. Still great!