So, what have you been listening to lately?

[slinkp]

RIP Tina. A legendary performer. Powerful, charismatic, beautiful. She was larger than life and I just assumed she'd live forever.

[westen44]

Another Swiss band i have encountered by accident.  Hillbilly Moon Explosion.  They are based in Zurich.  It's hard to get a grasp of them just by listening to a few songs.  Because their style covers several genres.  They're not wildly famous, though, it seems and still would have to be classified as underground as far as I can tell.  I like this cover of "Call Me" better than the original.  Of course I was never a Blondie fan, although I always thought they were okay.  The HME lead singer is Italian-Swiss, BTW.

After watching the band's videos a little more, I thought there is one thing I need to add. Sometimes they have a guest vocalist with a very gruff and deep voice.  Exactly why they choose to do this, I really don't know.  I don't think it adds anything to the music.  But he isn't part of the actual band.  To me it ends up being a little quirky, but I think it's safe to say a number of rockabilly bands are quirky.  Wikipedia describes HME as European rockabilly with a mix of rock and roll, jump blues, roots rock, surf music elements, etc.  They've been around for a while.  They opened for Jeff Beck in 2010, one of the earliest references I've seen.  I'm just giving info I've run across.  Personally, I seriously doubt I would even be able to adequately explain the difference between psychobilly and rockabilly. 

[uwe]

Luuuv that song ...

[westen44]

It's a cool song, but must have been played billions of times on American radio in the 1970s.  After a while, it became a little mind-numbing because it seemed to be on almost every time you turned on the radio.  It is intriguing, though, the idea of Brandy in that song.  Maybe not quite so appealing as Molly in "Whiskey in the Jar."  This is despite the fact that Molly was ultimately bad news. 

[uwe]

I like songs that tell a little story.

[Ken]

I like songs that tell a little story.

This is one of my absolute favorites.

[Dave W]

Single from Glen's new album, Consequences Coming, which was released in late April.

[uwe]

Yup, have it on order. His last two were good too.

[TBird1958]

 I have to thank Rob for this as it was in my FB feed under his name, Nuno is still damn cool!

[uwe]

[Dave W]

Relatively obscure Box Tops record that I've always liked.

[uwe]

Dave and his teenage lust songs about adolescent sex practices. 

[TBird1958]

Dave and his teenage lust songs about adolescent sex practices. 

I'm glad to be innocent of such things!      

[uwe]

You basically invented the concept of innocence, Mark.

[Dave W]

Dave and his teenage lust songs about adolescent sex practices. 

I was in my 20s when it came out, and a certain woman was in the process of tightening her grip on me.    No, not the one with the Che poster on her fridge, that was a blind date that mercifully led nowhere.