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As a long time and big fan of Skynyrd, it's difficult to seperate the obscure to the more known songs.. But I suppose I need you, Roll gypsy roll, Lend a helpin' hand and Was I right or wrong counts as pretty obscure, and those are definitely favs of mine.
I think Lynyrd Skynyrd are one of few bands that I have listened to regulary ever since I first discovered them.
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Not really a fan of ether of these two bands but if you like Blood Ceremony you might like Jex Thoth.
Thanks for the tip. It didn't really appeal to me though.. I think it's the organ, flute and heavy Sabbath influences that I like with Blood Ceremony. And the girl on vox is cool, she's not the greatest singer, but very 60's psych sounding..
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Thanks for the head's up. It's gonna be a busy week with Earl Scruggs, the Black Crowes, Drivin' n' Cryin', Megafaun and the Drive-By Truckers all playing in the area.
Got turned onto a Swedish band during Hopscotch called Dungen. Have you heard of them?
Wow, sure sounds like a busy week!
Dungen's first record is great. I would also like to check out their new album, I think the video you posted actually are the titel track of the new album.
Here's one awesome song which needs to be heard! (courtesy of Swede who posted this song yesterday on the "Rate The Song Above You" thread)
The Soledad Brothers are one hell of a band!
Cool. The Soledad Brothers made four studio albums and one live album, all of which are great IMO. Unfortunately they broke up a couple of years ago, but Johnny Walker (guitarist and vocalist) formed a new band called Cut In The Hill Gang, which are great too.
I highly recomend checking out all their albums, but the first and last might be a good start:
From www.allmusic.com
Soledad Brothers / s/t (2000)
Guitarist/vocalist Johnny Walker presents a faux southern minister's drawl for much of the record, and while some of the tracks become repetitive ("Gospel According to John"), they are saved by Walker's Delta bluesman-derived style of fingerpicking between the bass and treble strings on his guitar. This helps to fill out the bass-less sound of the duo. Drummer Ben Swank keeps his playing straightforward for much of the record, adding fills only where they're needed ("Front St. Front," "Gimme Back My Wig"). Swank also knows where to add feeling and depth, such as on "The Weight of the World," where he only accents the first beat of every measure with his drums for the first half of the song until the tension builds and the full drum kit enters. Walker and Swank also manage to sound like a more threatening and haunting version of the "Play With Fire"-era Rolling Stones on tracks like "Mysterious Ways" and "Handle Song." This is a raw album that should be well liked by fans of the British Invasion and blues artists such as John Lee Hooker and Honeyboy Edwards.
Review by Stephen Howell
Soledad Brothers / The Hardest Walk (2006)
The Soledad Brothers' fifth album, The Hardest Walk, opens with "Truth or Consequences," a solid and gloriously raunchy slice of blues-shot rock & roll that recalls the Rolling Stones in their Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St. glory days with its gutsy guitar lines and horn accents. But the Soledad Brothers don't seem to be channeling the sound of the Stones so much as their approach on The Hardest Walk. Like those abovementioned albums, The Hardest Walk isn't afraid to make with the rock, and with the band expanded to a quartet for these sessions with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Dechman, songs like "Crooked Crown" and "Good Feeling" are rich and full bodied without sounding cluttered or losing the spaces around the notes. But just as the Stones found as much hard groove and hard soul in their slow and quiet numbers as the rockers, the Soledad Brothers explore the sense of dynamics they discovered on 2003's Voice of Treason, and "Crying Out Loud (Tears of Joy)," "Let Me Down," "True to Zou Zou," and the title song are late-night numbers that add a potent atmosphere to the disc that straight-up guitar wail couldn't have brought them. The Soledad Brothers have obviously learned that their musical world does not begin and end with the messed-up blues-rock of their early days, and The Hardest Walk sounds like their most satisfying offering to date.
Review by Mark Deming
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Looking forward to seeing this band, the Strange Boys and Gentleman Jesse in Chapel Hill tomorrow night.
Cool. I've seen The Strange Boys, nice Texan band. Pretty good.
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Zeppelin is still tops for me, but I certainly feel you on Skynyrd.
They're totally different anyway, so they don't really "compete" in my preferences.
Did not know, but that's pretty awesome and I can imagine the scene.
It's a very powerful song.
One of the shameful mistakes from my past:
The second-to-last show Skynyrd played before the crash was at Lakeland Civic Center, and either the day of or day before they came to a record store in the mall.
One of my friends got ALL of their autographs on his wallet!
Anyway, not only did I not go to the record store, I wasn't able to make the show, and of course a few days later came the plane crash.
Well, they really doesn't compete in my preferences either..
I'm sorry you missed them. They sure have a great reputation for have been an awesome live act. I have only seen the tribute band, which was great (then), but not by a mile near the original band I can imagine.
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Not sure I get either of these comments...
Occam'sRazor - 6 minutes earlier - you didn't want to hear Tuesday's Gone?
Swede - I'm guessing you're being sarcastic.
Anyway, growing up in Orlando I was a huge Skynyrd fan.
Second Helping is my favorite album, as well as the second album I ever owned.
I Need You is probably my favorite Skynyrd tune, along with Tuesday's Gone and Simple Man.
Lynyrd Skynyrd possessed a magic few bands have.
It was what I sometimes refer to as "whiteboy soul."
They had earnestness and sincerity in their words and music that was completely imparted to the listener.
3 guitarists didn't hurt, either.
I still thrill to the lead changes throughout Free Bird - like Stairway, it never gets old.
LOL, yes I was sarcastic and joking. But truth is, I am probably more of a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan than I am a Zep fan.
I need you is one of my favs too! Did you know Ronnie asked them to turn off the lights in the studio and then he did the vocals in one take? All according to Ed King.
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I never saw him, but you can tell by the performances which are available on DVD that he definitely was an electrifying performer. First song that got me was his Irish Tour '74 version of "I wonder who" which my dad used to have on an obscure 70's compilation LP.
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I am a fan of Rory too. I have the Irish Tour '74 DVD which is pretty damn good, and so is Live at Montreux.
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I highly recomend checking out The Almighty Defenders. It's a band consisting of members from Black Lips and King Kahn & BBQ Show.
Their music is a blend of doo wop, garage rock and gospel. A great live act too, if I may say so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnDY6UgN4hE
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LOL.
I like Pandora. I also like Spotify and Grooveshark, which is slightly different than the other two. It doesn't give you recommended artists/related artists, but it does give you better sound quality than YouTube videos. So if you wanted to listen to more of a band's material for example, you could search for them in Grooveshark and pull up songs. If you sign up for a free account, you can create playlists of your own, look at other users' playlists....it's great. I highly recommend it.
And I've never had a virus problem!
Grooveshark sounds similiar to Spotify then..?
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User reviews can be helpful sometimes so to is just browsing through sub-genres and then youtubing the bands. Is Spotify similar to Last.fm? Thats what I use.
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With last.fm you can stream music and get recommendations based on what you listen to or listen to an artists/bands radio which is streaming music from similar artists/bands.
Spotify is a channel where you can find loads of music and stream whole albums. Almost every artist who ever had an official release is featured there, not counting bands like Metallica, U2 and a couple of other giants that has refused to be available there (but who cares about them anyway). You can choose to sign in for free and have commercial every 20 to 30 minutes or have premium and pay an amount every month without commercial breaks.
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Btw, since 2000 at least 5200 contemporary folk albums have been released. Not all of those by new artists but many of them yes.
http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Contemporary%20Folk/173
I have never really checked out music at rateyourmusic.. I might have to do that.. I have recently signed up for Spotify, which also is a great source for music.
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When you go to a Red Collar show the audience and band become one, it's really quite the experience.
That's cool. Few bands have that impact.
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^^ Good stuff Jahfin, sounds like the crowd loves what they hear LOL.
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Six ass kickin' 50's and 60's 45's! Money well spent:
Little Walter - Last Night / Mellow Down Easy (Checker 1954)
I've got this fab 45 but I just had to upgrade it to a better copy. Mellow Down Easy ROCKS!!!
Black Crowes and Jimmy Page did a nice cover of it on their live collaboration.
Lee Rogers - You're The Cream of The Crop / Somebody Else Will (D-Town 1965)
Great bluesy r'n'b, will do magic on the dancefloor!!
The Shoelaces - Ball And Chain / Work Song (Brite Leaf 1963)
I don't know shit about this group and release, but it's frickin' great! Both sides!!
Lonnie Russ - Tell Me How / Flip Flop (4J 1963)
Lonnie released another 45 called My Wife Can't Cook which is quite popular among collectors. This one is a great dancer too!
The Volumes - Monkey Hop / Why (Old Town 1964)
I've seen this single go for $150 but I got it for nothing in compare to that. Monkey Hop is great early r'n'b which is top notch for the dancefloor. Why is classic doo wop.
Johnny Talbot - Never Make Your Baby Cry Pt 1 / Never Make Your Baby Cry Pt 2 (Modern 1965)
Great swingin' r'n'b from Oakland!!
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Well, that documentary was all about the making of the album "Who's Next" and there were a couple of details about the abandoned "Lifehouse" project....with what little preview I got of all the songs, I really loved what I heard! I can now safely say this : "That album is going into my ipod tonight baby!!!"
And "Won't Be Fooled Again" seems to be quite the anthem and the song "My Wife" IMO, seems to have this sort of jazzy twist to it! Interesting and really cool stuff! As luck would have it, I just discovered that my dad has the deluxe edition of "Who's Next". There are 2 discs basically. The first contains the original album and something called "New York Record Plant Session" (15 tracks in total). The second disc contains something called "The Young Vic - Live" (14 tracks in total). Cool huh?!
I've got the deluxe edition too, it's a nice two disc album and the live stuff is great.
Who's Next is the album that made them go from big to HUGE in the US.
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Lookie here, this is rare footage by The Who in their Mod days, even before they called themselves The Who.. Here's The High Numbers!
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Who's Next is a classic by the way swede. Nobody would pick those albums you mentioned over Whos Next. Quadrophenia and Tommy are huge success;'s too. All right.
I'm not stupid, I know it is a classic. I like Who's Next, but that's when they started to sound like 70's arena rock and the rock opera thing has never appealed to me. Their first three albums were frickin' groundbreaking. Those albums and singles made every fuckin teenager in Europe and USA want to start a band and be rockstars. That was way ahead of Who's Next. Most people I know, which are Mods and fans of 60's r'n'b and soul, prefer the albums I mentioned over those you are speaking of. Just because millions of flies eat shit, it doesn't mean I'll have to do it, right?!
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What about the rock opera'a? Quad and Tommy?
Those are fine too. But I prefer the older stuff, when they were a sharp dressed mod band with high quality pop/rock songs with an attitude.
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Listen to Who's Next. Wont get fooled again, Behind Blue Eyes, Teenage wasteland (Baba Oreilly) and Ill tell you its on the top five of all time list. It is a great album and so too are Quadrophenia and Tommy. Great great albums. Who are you is good too, but the old stuff is better. The Who to me is in the top four of all time category. Zeppelin, Who, Beatles, Stones, and then Floyd and Eagles. It would not be right though for them to play without Entshistle. Takiing him and Moon away is even more of a loss to that band than Bonzo for Led Zeppelin. Because they lost two great great musicians. I have Entwistle tied with JPJ as the top two bass players in rock history. Sorry Paul. And Moon is clearly the second best drummer. By far and away.
Who's Next is a good album, but I prefer My Generation, Sellout and A Quick One.
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I've been aware of The Love Language for quite some time now so when an opportunity to see them finally arose over the weekend I took it. Actually, I ended up seeing them twice, once at an in-store appearance in the afternoon and a show later on that evening. The in-store was particularly unique because they learned a song by one of their opening bands (Gross Ghost) which they did in their set. You just don't see that sort of thing. It spoke heavily of The Love Language and it made me arrive at the show in plenty of time to catch Gross Ghost (who were also great, btw).
They kind of reminds me a little of Glasvegas.. Don't know if you've heard them.. Although Glasvegas songs are more simple in their construction.
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John Belushi impersonating Joe Cocker in SNL, and the man can sing too:
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I figured if you like them, they're worth a listen. So I checked out their website, listened to some songs -- not bad! I see they're a local (NC) band.
I like what I hear too.
And "Won't Be Fooled Again" seems to be quite the anthem and the song "My Wife" IMO, seems to have this sort of jazzy twist to it! Interesting and really cool stuff! 
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Walter, I got it.. In Sweden most everything but Sweet Home Alabama and Freebird would be concidered obscure, I guess..