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Wow great minds. Was about to post the identical!#We Stand with ourJewish community# -
I actually thought you were being serious there for a minute...I was thinking of So Far Away by Dire Straits or the Carol King one..,...or Far Away ( So Close) by U2...Originally posted by Rooster1908 View Post
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Even Slash is a SRV fan..this is from his Instagram
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This one reminds me of my first trip to the US. I had to bring back a copy of this for my then manager's husband.
Queens of The Stone Age - Nobody Knows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE
"Those who care about you can hear you, even when you are quiet" - Steve MaraboliComment
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"Those who care about you can hear you, even when you are quiet" - Steve MaraboliComment
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"Those who care about you can hear you, even when you are quiet" - Steve MaraboliComment
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"Those who care about you can hear you, even when you are quiet" - Steve MaraboliComment
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"Those who care about you can hear you, even when you are quiet" - Steve MaraboliComment
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Kate Hudson's children are very talented. You can tell the eldest one is the child of The Black Crowes' Chris Robinson..and the little one is amazing on drums:
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James Reyne and Mark Seymour having fun on guitars
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When you trust your television
what you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
they can bend it all they want
John MayerComment
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WHAT GOES ON!Originally posted by Jacks Fur Coat View Post
/ ROCK ’N’ ROLL CONFIDENTIAL
STEVE EARLE
The Hardcore Troubadour talks Jerry Jeff Walker, politics and staying sober.
AS TOLD TO MICHAEL SIMMONS
Lone star: Steve Earle has located his inner Chet Baker.
STEVE EARLE’s latest album, Jerry Jeff, (as in Walker) is the third in a trilogy of tributes to mentors following 2009’s Townes (as in Van Zandt) and 2019’s Guy (as in Clark). The prodigious Earle has also been acting in a musical called Coal Country for the past two years (pandemic permitting) about 2010’s Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, for which he also wrote and performed the songs, heard on 2020’s Ghosts Of West Virginia. Then there’s the novel he’s writing, a memoir on hold, a musical based on Horton Foote’s screenplay Tender Mercies and fathering duties for his 12-year-old autistic son John Henry Earle. He’s a busy man and he likes it like that.
You’ve called Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt “first-hand teachers”. What did Jerry Jeff – the Austin country outlaw who wrote Mr. Bojangles and much else – teach you?
Those three guys are all connected to me. And they were the first three people who made records that I knew personally. Jerry Jeff was by far the best performer of the three. He would go out and get an audience at all costs. In the ’60s there’d be a racket in the back of the club and suddenly they hear a guitar and he’s walking through the crowd strumming. He walked up to the mike and sang, “I’m a gypsy songman!”
What did all these guys have in common?
They were big deals for guys like me who had long hair and wore cowboy hats and were musically confused growing up in South Texas. Willie Nelson saved my life ’cos he moved back to Texas and all of a sudden I’m standing in a cow pasture listening to the same bands with guys that used to kick my ass [for being a hippy].“I’m a junkie who hasn’t had drugs in 27 years.”
STEVE EARLE
You recently went to West Virginia and performed Coal Country for locals.
We got to do it in Beckley, West Virginia which is the closest town of any size near where the explosion actually occurred. It was our largest single audience, almost 1,100 people, all West Virginians. When we got to the point where the actor says, “[Coal company boss] Don Blankenship will be indicted, ” the audience broke into a big cheer.
Many folks in West Virginia have political differences with folks like you. How do we talk to each other, progressives to Trumpers?
I’m not sure the term ‘Trumper’ is helpful because if you’re calling everyone who voted for Trump a Trumper, that’s inaccurate. We won’t be able to do anything about the environment and jobs unless we talk about them in the same conversation. This is a huge country and we need to get to the point where we have discussions based on the idea that you can’t expect people who live a different way to think exactly like you do. I thought if I could teach New Yorkers and West Virginians about each other, maybe I’d be helping.
In the last few years you lost bassist Kelley Looney and then your son Justin Townes Earle. Does work help deal with grief?
I don’t think anything helps deal with grief except grief. Ram Dass said about losing children, “Your pain is their legacy, so you’re not supposed to not hurt.” People lose kids every day. I don’t like to minimise someone else’s pain. I’m a junkie who hasn’t had drugs in 27 years so I’m a baby – I have a low pain threshold – I’m not that ****in’ tough. If it wasn’t for sponsoring people and having a sponsor and 12-steps, I wouldn’t be here now.
How have you changed musically?
I’m a way better singer now than I was when I made [debut] Guitar Town. I found my inner Chet Baker – not having to sing full blast all the time. And my records are all in mono now ’cos I lost the hearing in my right ear from sensorineural sudden deafness.
Tell us something you’ve never told an interviewer before.
I had a motorcycle from the time I was 14 until I was 40. Then I got clean and, like everything else, all my bikes went in my arm and I kept thinking I’d buy a bike, then I woke up one day and I realised I hadn’t had a conversation with a white supremacist in some time ’cos I hadn’t been in a Harley-Davidson shop. (Laughs) I decided my motorcycle days were over!
Steve Earle & The Dukes’ Jerry Jeff is out now on New West.
(Danny Clinch)EARLE’S PEARLS
Steve’s fave five platters.
1 Bob Dylan Just Like A Woman (COLUMBIA, 1966)
2 Townes Van Zandt (Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria(POPPY, 1968)
3 Jerry Jeff Walker Mr Bojangles (ATCO, 1968)
4 The Beatles Across The Universe (APPLE, 1969)
5 The Rolling Stones As Tears Go By (DECCA, 1966) ■
"Those who care about you can hear you, even when you are quiet" - Steve MaraboliComment
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Thanks RWB for posting this. Good yarn about Early. He's had a very colourful life mixed with prison stints, drug use etc. But he's come out the other side I think. An interesting character writes poetry, plays and books on top of his songwriting. And is very political, always gives a sermon at his gigs, kinda wish he didn't though.
Still one of my all time favourites.#We Stand with ourJewish community#Comment
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I found it just this afternoon in MOJO Music which I read every month online via the library's website. I was going to send it to you privately but then thought that some of the genuine contributors to this thread like Player 1 who started the original thread would like to read it also.Originally posted by Jacks Fur Coat View Post"Those who care about you can hear you, even when you are quiet" - Steve MaraboliComment
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When you trust your television
what you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
they can bend it all they want
John MayerComment
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