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May 22, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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DAILY BRIEFING: American Music Tribute

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Welcome to today's Sunday Daily Briefing.
I say a hearty hello and a hi-oh silver to you and you and you.
Two announcements that I want to make.
First, for reasons I do not know, my dear brother-in-arms, our great honeyman, Chris Stose brought this up, another one of you.
I'm going to be at the cutting room on July.
July 16. I think I was saying September.
I don't know why.
I have no idea.
July.
July 16. July.
Let me get a thing for you right now.
I'll pin this up for you.
How about that?
This is going to be a little different than usual.
First, do I have my stuff handy?
Let me see.
I'll get that later for you.
Just go online.
July, July, July, July, July.
Not September, July.
Don't know why.
July.
Number two, comments are open.
I'm not going to go through And that's that.
Now, The other day, I get hit by things.
Sometimes I'll think of something like, oh, that's odd, which is the way I am.
Coming out around, going into the Lincoln Tunnel, the helix, as we call it, and you're coming from Route 3, if you're Jersey-bound, you make this big loop, and you go into the city.
Big sign for Eric Clapton at the Garden.
Eric Clapton, still going on.
Bless us, still doing this thing.
And let me tell you what I thought.
Maybe this is...
As one...
I don't know if it's because one gets older or if it's because we get bored or...
I don't know if it's a matter of age, per se.
But I never, I mean, the last concert we went to, I went to, was Steely Dan at the Beacon.
Here, that's it.
I have absolutely no interest in sporting events, especially sporting events.
Concerts, going there, what do we do?
I don't know, I don't, I don't know why.
What happened?
Are you like that?
Does this make you think to yourself, wait a minute.
What happened?
Maybe because they were more fun then?
I don't know.
Is it because I don't like the human spirit of interaction?
No.
I think it's important.
I thought to myself, at the garden?
Oh, God, no.
No, no, no.
And immediately I'm thinking, oh, I've got to hang around with people.
Oh, no, no.
You've got to wait.
Forget getting a good seat.
I don't know what happened.
Now, there was a time when that, in a weird way, would have actually enticed me, the brutality of the event.
Anyway, it got me thinking, as I'm creeping along the helix, I'm looking at Clapton, thinking about this.
When do we really enjoy Yes, Crystal says the Jones Beach event.
Went to Jones Beach to see Hall of Notes, I think.
Walked in.
I've never been to Jones Beach.
I show up and immediately they say there's what was it?
A purse inspection?
Oh, no purses, and you know what?
See, you know what?
The hell with it.
Turned around and went back.
Hall of Notes.
I can see Hall of Notes.
Why do I want to go see Hall of Notes while I'm there?
I have no idea.
So July, July 16th, at the cutting room in New York City, that's different.
That's Q&A.
That's different.
That's completely different.
That's another story.
Now, when you meet somebody and you want to make some time, so to speak, and you want to just...
Not that you'd be doing this, but let's say you're on a date or something, or maybe you're looking for a job, or you just want to kind of break the ice with a question.
That's kind of an interesting thing.
One question is, people love to talk about, what was your first car?
Everybody loves that.
I don't know why.
I don't know why.
You remember it.
You remember it, and it meant it was the first time that you were able to be mobile.
And a lot of kids today, unfortunately, are not experiencing that.
Because there appears to be not the same degree of desire to want to get away and cruise or do whatever you're supposed to do.
And the other one is, speaking of Clapton, your first concert.
And why does that matter?
What is it?
Why do we go to these things?
Why?
Is it to see the person?
Sort of.
Sort of.
Let me ask you a question.
Assuming you wanted to go see Clapton, which is good.
And I saw him, oh my god, in high school.
Not exactly the most exciting performer, but still.
I think the most boring performer ever was Robert Palmer.
Just didn't move.
Whatever.
Leo Kotke was up there as well.
Not exactly riveting.
But what is it?
Do you want to...
Think about this.
Do you go to a concert because you want to be with other people?
Or do you go to a concert because you want to see this person?
You say, I want to see.
I want to see this person.
I've got to see whether he's really alive.
Yep, that's him, alright.
Let's go.
No, I want to see him.
Well, that's him.
He's playing live.
What does live mean?
What is it?
What does it matter?
I don't know.
I ask you.
It's a conviviality.
A conviviation.
It is you are a part of a human circuitry.
You are part of this event.
This event where you are sharing your You're like a transistor.
You're part of the circuitry.
You and whatever.
In addition to seeing the person.
There are certain things you have to go see.
Broadway.
I wish every one of you could see a really great Broadway show kind of the way it used to be.
The way it used to be.
With actually a curtain.
You know, not this weird thing they're doing now, but a real Broadway, something serious.
There is nothing like it.
There is nothing.
I'm not a musical person, but that you have to see.
You don't want to see, you know, whatever.
You have to see it live.
Going to a bar can only be done there.
It's one of the reasons why you don't want to drink at home.
You want to go to a bar with other people to be served.
To see what happens.
To see people in their various stages of interbriety.
So there's sometimes when you have to do something.
Woodstock was an example of a...
That is the classic Gustave Le Bon kind of a crowd movement.
This is not...
That wasn't just a concert.
That was...
They didn't even know what happened.
And if all of the people who claimed to have been at Woodstock actually were there, you would need the state of Wyoming.
To handle all these people who swear they were there.
It is quasi-religious.
I agree with you.
It is.
There is something spiritual about that.
The notion of sharing something with the humanity, kind of like we're doing now, in a weird way, in a strange way.
But it's something that I don't know if people...
Because we are getting away from mass celebrations.
We are getting away from people there who want to be a part of the cacophony, the melange of humans.
People are not into that.
But, in my lifetime, concerts were great.
I loved it in high school in particular.
My first concert, Three Dog Night, Tampa Stadium.
Opening act.
A friend of mine told me he was Buddy Miles, too.
I don't know.
But it was...
Oh, God.
Not Proko Harum.
Oh, God.
Steve Marriott.
Who is Steve Marriott?
Come on, what was the group?
Humble Pie, Humble Pie.
Hot and Nasty, still one of the greatest songs ever.
Peter Frampton was in Humble Pie.
That was the most incredible thing.
Three Dog Night, nobody gets how big they were.
Nobody gets, nobody understands it.
They think, oh, joy to the world.
They were unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
There was a riot.
There was a riot on the field.
I couldn't believe it.
You know, I mean, it was there.
I think I took my sister and her friend.
I'm kind of like the quasi-adult.
I was just a couple of years older.
But it was great.
You walked in there.
It was festival seating.
Remember, this is weird to say this, but the smell of weed when it was actual grown, it kind of smelled nice.
Spooky Tooth, by the way, was...
Gary Wright.
Remember that, Gary Wright?
Dreamweaver?
Anyway.
It was different.
The beach ball.
You got there at noon.
Gates opened at noon.
You walked in with coolers.
Nobody checked anything.
You just sat around?
Nobody.
I don't know.
They just did this thing.
Loved it.
I don't know why.
It was just, I loved it.
It's just people watching.
How about just walking around?
That's the greatest thing in the world.
Nobody got into fights.
No fights.
No nothing.
It was wonderful.
I loved it.
Loved it.
Loved those concerts.
I remember going to see Motown.
My cousin.
We were, I don't know, young.
That was something.
Motown is still the greatest.
That's an act.
Seeing, yes.
With Rick Wakeman?
With laser lights?
Oh my God!
It was incredible.
I saw Chicago a million times.
I saw Bob Seger so many times, it's not even funny.
Lakeland Civic Center.
I saw Steely Dan open for Chicago.
Steely Dan wearing baseball uniforms.
Is it Steely Dan?
Nobody remembers that one, but I saw it.
I loved it.
Don't have any interest in it.
Don't want to have a ticket with a number L3.
Are we in the loge?
Where is this?
We can't see.
It didn't matter.
Remember the feeling when you were a kid and all of a sudden, at night, you're waiting and you're hearing the music.
And then in the...
I never understood this.
In the...
kind of like...
they weren't really...
Tailgate parties.
But somebody would be outside with the door open of like some big muscle car with playing the music of...
I'd say, what are you doing?
One time I saw, was it the Meadowlands or whatever, the Stones?
And somebody was playing the Stones in the parking lot.
I was like, can you wait?
I don't want to hear, bitch, you know, or...
Can't you hear me knocking?
I mean, we're going to see it.
Can't you wait?
It's like it ruins it.
Don't play.
Anyway.
But that's not the one that got me.
Look at this.
MC5.
Oh my God.
Kramer.
Wayne Kramer.
MC5 was an exceedingly important critic.
Let me stop for just a second.
Miles Davis.
Miles Davis is deity.
Edgar and Johnny Winter, ACDC, look at this, In the Round.
I love this.
Those days are gone.
I think so.
I think so.
Blood, Sweat and Tears with David Clayton Thomas.
David Clayton Thomas.
David Clayton Thomas, in my pantheon of white singers who did not sound gratuitously soulful.
Or inauthentic.
David Clayton Thomas.
Bill Champlin, who played with Chicago for years.
He was like Sons of Champlin.
Listen to him on a song.
Listen to him on Isn't She Lovely on Captain Fingers, Lee Rittenour.
Listen to him.
And when you tell somebody, when you say he sounds authentically like a black blues singer, and you say with the utmost respect, not like Michael Bolton, but somebody who has their own style.
Their own...
Terry Cass from Chicago had their own...
It's not a rip-off, but it's as close to it.
Bobby Caldwell.
What you won't do for love?
They thought he was black.
They thought Charlie Pryde was white.
Because nobody knew.
Nobody knew what Tony Orlando from Dawn, because he was a CBS employee and couldn't show his face.
Van Morrison, yes.
Van Morrison.
Where did that come from?
That is a real sound.
A real...
I used to have a list I could just rattle off.
The people who sounded so...
Bill Medley.
And that's the ultimate respect.
There's this...
I remember years ago people would say, you can't say that.
Yes, you can.
Anybody who says this, you don't think you can hear John Lee Hooker?
You think John Lee Hooker could be anything but this black blues man who spent his whole life in honky-tonks and cigarettes and booze?
I mean, are you kidding me?
Or Muddy Waters?
I mean, stop it!
Stop!
Steve Winwood!
Steve Winwood!
Weather Report.
Jaco Pastorius.
A friend of mine told me one time he thought he was at a bar in New York.
It was ladies and gentlemen.
Special guest, Jaco Pastorius.
He thought he said Jaco from Astoria.
From Astoria, Queens.
Jaco Pastorius.
Oh, look at this.
Christos.
Christos.
Rory Gallagher.
You're like fixated.
Rory Gallagher.
Nothing wrong with Rory Gallagher, but anyway.
Jaco Pastorius.
Stanley Clark.
Bootsy Collins.
Jamerson from the Motown.
Paul McCartney.
You're going to laugh at this one.
Peter Cetera.
Lewis Johnson from the Brothers Johnson.
Larry Graham from Graham Central Station and Sly, the family's known.
Those, they...
They created jazz bass.
Not jazz bass, but...
Oh, my God.
Jaco came along and said, what is he doing?
Phoebe Snow.
Phoebe Snow was a great, great friend of ours.
She was one of the funniest people she could tell a joke.
Outlaws.
Outlaws from Tampa.
Is it Monty Yoho?
I went to school with a guy, Robbie.
I think his brother was in Outlaws.
Remember, now listen to this.
See, I love doing this stuff.
This is my favorite.
Outlaws was a very important part of that time.
My great friend, Jerry Wexler, they formed Capricorn Records.
He and his buddy, they were both Capricorns.
That was the time of Marshall Tucker, Wet Willy, 38th Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Outlaws, Molly Hatchett to an extent, but not really, but sort of, yeah, yeah.
Atlanta Rhythm Section.
That was Southern Rock.
Oh, can't you see?
Toy Carwell, Charlie Daniels, CDB, all that stuff.
That's Southern Rock.
Now, listen carefully, but in the middle, there was this incredibly, this natural biologic connector, the missing link, so to speak, was Graham Parsons.
Graham Parsons came along and gave us the birds, eagles, Flying Burrito Brothers, little Emmylou Harris, and made it.
Clarence White, the bender, you know, the bee bender, whatever that Kelly he had, playing with the birds, and a little bit of Dylan, because of his coordination with Johnny Cash, but Graham Parsons was this link that connected.
Because remember, country was always there.
Keith Richards loved George Jones.
That's my picture back there, me and the possum.
George Jones, hardcore.
That was, of course, a precursor to rock.
Rockabelly was country.
Prior to that, prior to that was, of course, blues, electric blues, right?
But Graham Parsons, absolutely critical.
He countryfied it.
But Southern, Allman Brothers.
Leonard Skinner, that was a whole different thing.
And nobody will ever understand this.
During that time, growing up in the South, I know people don't think Florida is in the South.
Believe me, it is.
Because Leonard Skinner is from Jacksonville.
Tom Petty is from Gainesville.
Florida's got a big, you know.
Anyway.
There was this preponderance and this love of the battle flag, Stars and Mars.
Nobody thought at all about slavery.
It was that thing about the South.
Nobody will ever understand this.
Nobody.
It was about saying We're not very cool.
Are we cool?
Yeah, we're cool.
We are?
Oh, they like us?
Yes.
And all of a sudden we had the resistols and those whatever the rest...
Well, not resistols.
Those hats to it have steamed and bent down.
I mean, it was something.
Buffett.
Buffett was critical living there because his whole thing was the beach thing.
He made us...
Buffett taught people from flora.
That it was cool to be part of that beach thing.
Because, I mean, it was a beach, but Buffett made it cool.
A1A, changes in latitudes of sound, drinking, oh, Key West, that whole thing.
Those are really critical moments.
Then, Detroit, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Bob Seger.
I think, who else was a big...
Well, the Boston groups.
Of course, Chicago.
Chicago.
See, this is...
That whole scene.
I don't know if we even have that anymore.
But there was a real...
Oh, and then Jersey.
The people who...
Springsteen, Bon Jovi to an extent.
Southside Johnny.
Then, there was the New York story.
Long Island versus the city.
Billy Joel was Long Island.
This was great stuff.
Who knew?
Who knew?
How?
By the way, Jimmy Carter was president.
That's a fascinating connection.
A fascinating connection.
Kimberly's from Florida.
Now, are you born?
Are you a cracker?
That's right, too.
Those...
I listen on my Spotify, my thing.
I don't...
And it's not because...
I mean, there's certain...
There's new things I know.
There's new bluegrass I love.
Billy Strings is just...
He's not really sort of new.
I have no real problem with...
I don't know anything about Top 40. I don't...
Understand any of it.
Herb Alpert was important.
Herb Alpert was critical.
Herb Alpert is critical.
Married to Lonnie Hall.
Remember Herb Alpert?
A&M Records, Tijuana Brass, and the Baja Marimba Band.
Does anybody even care about the Baja Marimba?
This was the knockoff.
Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart.
Do you know Jeff Beck, who is this?
Have you seen...
Oh, I've got to tell you something right now.
By the way, I hope you enjoy this as much as I do because I'm sorry.
You're stuck with this.
Have you heard Tal Wilkenfeld?
Tal Wilkenfeld?
I think she's from Australia.
She's 35?
Wow.
She's been playing with...
She looks 10. Maybe it's an old video.
I don't know.
Tal Wilkenfeld is, I think she's Australia, right?
Yep.
It's from Sydney.
Is a monster.
Monster bass.
Let me tell you one thing which is great about YouTube in particular.
They have introduced us to some of the greatest women drummers, bass players, bass players, Just Have you seen Tal?
She?
T-A-L.
Tal.
Tal.
T-A-L.
Wilkenfeld.
W-I-L-K-E-N-F-E-L-D.
Have you also heard this one?
Now this.
How about J.D. Beck and Domi?
Tell me one person.
Have you ever heard that this J.D. Beck?
He looks 10. He looks...
The outfit, the overalls.
Have you ever heard of him?
He plays drums.
They're going to stare very, very...
They put a box on top or a towel or something to mute the sounds.
J.D. Beck is...
And Domi, I guess it's his girlfriend, she plays...
I think she was Juilliard.
She plays keyboards.
I've never seen anything else.
It's unbelievable to see this.
There are some...
Here's one.
Another one, too.
I was listening to you the other day.
I know it's Randolph.
I think it's The Family.
Robert Randolph.
Robert Randolph is an African-American young man playing the pedal steel, playing 12-string and 7-string pedal steel guitar.
Robert Randolph, I think his family plays it as well.
Now this is a guy, if anybody came along and said, where do you think the likelihood of finding a hip black musician playing pedal steel, which has always been associated with country music, He reinvented it.
Completely reinvented it.
I've never heard anything like that.
He's J.D. Maness from Desert Rose Band.
I think he's the best.
I love to watch him.
But that's old style.
This is amazing.
So what I'm trying to say, my dear friends, is there is so much great music.
I don't really necessarily have to Go to concerts.
I see concerts all the time.
Now, let me see what you're saying.
Billy Cobham.
Billy Cobham with George Duke.
George Duke.
George Duke played with Zappa and the Mothers.
Billy Cobham, one of the mainstays.
One of the...
I guess you would call him maybe in the Pantheon.
Boots Randolph.
Yakety Yak.
Oh, Steve Gadd.
Christos is right.
Steve Gadd is just...
How about Steve Gadd?
Is it Asia?
Rick Beato did a piece, I think, on some of the...
Steve Gadd...
There's one thing about Steely Dan, too.
All of the guitar solos, all of them, are so unique.
Larry Carlton played with them.
Denny Dias played with them.
There's others as well.
I think Elliot...
Randall, who did, of course, Reeling in the Ears, completely different, but all of their stuff.
Walter Becker's no slouch either.
Steve Wolfe, Golden Earring, Sugarhill Gang, Old School Rap.
Sugarhill Rap, remember where it came from.
This is Uptown.
It's in the Bronx, right?
It's in Harlem or the Bronx.
Bronx, they narrowed it down to an apartment.
I loved that.
That's syncopated.
But you're going to think I'm crazy.
Go back and listen to Hank Snow with I've Been Everywhere.
Talking about syncopated lyrics.
Very, very difficult things to say.
Look at this song.
Tao with Jeff Bex 12 years ago.
Awesome.
It's unbelievable.
They're just...
Bob James is great.
Bob James played Yogi with...
Remember he did that great...
I think I mentioned it the other day.
Played Angela.
On the great Fender Roads, the theme from Taxi.
Skunk Baxter.
Excellent with the Doobies and Silly Dan.
Tommy Emanuel.
Larry Coriel.
Larry Coriel.
A sad story.
Larry Coriel was part of that...
I'm sorry, Harlem.
Oh, Harlem.
Okay.
Larry Coriel was part of the Larry Carlton Larry Coriel I don't want to speak.
He was yeah, he died in 2017.
That was he was excellent.
What was died of heart failure?
Yeah, he was at the Iridium.
By the way, the Iridium right there on Broadway Is where Les Paul would play every Monday night.
That used to be in...
Remember when the Iridium was across from Lincoln Center in a hotel that was in the basement?
And then they moved.
You never knew who would show up there.
You never knew who would play.
Anyway, but Coriel, I'm reading your...
By the way, this is just for me today.
So, I'm sorry.
Tommy Emanuel, as I said, is a monster.
Tommy Emanuel.
Carlos Santana.
Christos has got it right.
Dance Sister Dance off Moonflower is, I think, the greatest guitar solo ever.
He does everything from wah-wahs to sustains.
Carlos Santana is incredible.
Lionel Hampton.
Remember when Lionel Hampton's house, his apartment caught on fire?
Remember that?
Here in New York, he had all his stuff.
Curtis Blow.
I'm looking at your things.
Okay.
So, going back to where I started from.
It is wonderful for us sometimes to stop The Cacophony of Lunacy that we have to go through.
And through...
I love Spotify.
I love when all of a sudden I will hear someone...
I was rediscovering Diane Shore the other day.
Great piano player.
Art Tatum.
I love the way you can just put in classic jazz piano.
Oscar Peterson is my favorite.
Monty Alexander.
A friend of mine.
Lives in the city here.
A monster.
Monster!
There's just...
It is the thing that I hope to God we can...
I don't know.
I'm afraid we're not...
I'm afraid for the newer...
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm wrong.
But I don't know if they are as attuned to our music because when we were...
When you were growing up and you were 15 or 16 or whatever years old, your music, your music that you listened to was a part of your experience.
It was your statement.
Otis Taylor.
I play Otis Taylor for the Lionel Media.
I have all, all.
I have, for the subscribers, the video portion, some pros.
Then a song.
Something that I've been listening to.
Something that I think is incredible.
Something that is just.
And American blues.
American blues and American jazz.
That's it.
This is fundamental.
You do not.
The greatest thing that we do as a country.
The greatest has been our music.
Period.
Period.
I will say that unabashedly.
I'm not going to compare it to Mozart.
No, no, no.
I'm talking about popular music.
From Broadway to rock to blues to electric blues to Robert Johnson blues to ragtime to Stride, Fats Waller to name it.
Hip-hop, rap, metal.
Just the type.
Just the country music.
And country music got a little bit from Gaelic, but country music is bluegrass.
This is Bill Monroe.
Torch and Twang.
Kitty Wells.
Kitty Wells one day will get her due.
Kitty Wells is one of the most important female artists ever.
This was a mom, Mary, singing about honky-tonk angels and fallen women.
Anyway, Kitty Wells.
Lefty Frizzell was honky-tonk.
The man, George Jones's.
Country and Western.
Western was Bob Wills.
The Texas Playboys.
Bob Wills.
And Western, to an extent, maybe a little, you know, Eddie Arnold and Slim Whitman, the great.
But Ray Benson from A Sleeper in the Wheel took that over.
So, so far we've got all of those.
Then, Rockability came along, which was country.
Carl Perkins, these guys, these were country singers.
Ever fool yourself.
You'll never forget what Elvis was.
This was country.
Yeah, gospel true to an extent.
Then they kept going.
And the most important, the most important was the outlaw group who basically told Nashville, we're going to do what we want.
When Red-Headed Stranger came out, it was one of the most explosive.
1976.
I remember at the time, everybody had this.
Willie Nelson, who's that?
Waylon Jennings, it was Tom Paul Glazer, Jesse Coulter.
They broke away from Nashville.
They said, we're going to do what we want.
Johnny Cash, in my opinion.
In my opinion, Johnny Cash is absolutely an outlaw.
Roy Acuff told him, no drums.
He played mariachis.
He got drums.
Ring of Fire.
I mean, come on.
He broke away from everything.
And the one today, I'm telling you, who's kind of sort of doing it from Bill Monroe is Ricky Skaggs, but Billy Strings.
Billy Strings is a monster.
Listen to him.
He's got it.
Absolutely got it.
Look at this.
UB Blake playing piano on Bill Boggs.
Remember UB Blake's fingers?
His fingers were just like...
UB Blake was incredible.
Ah, Sister...
Rosetta Tharp, absolutely.
This is a very, very enlightened group here.
Stevie Ray was wonderful.
Of course, it goes without saying.
Glenn Campbell, one of the monsters.
Monsters.
Jimmy Vaughn.
Jimmy Vaughn's opening for...
Jimmy Vaughn, bless his heart, to have Stevie Ray as your brother.
But...
He's opening up for Clapton.
By the way, John Jorgensen, remember the Helicasters?
He was also with Desert Rose Band, a great, great, with Herb Peterson and Chris Hillman.
But we saw him at Lincoln Center.
No, Jazz at Lincoln Center, excuse me.
And it was a tribute to...
Django Reinhardt.
And he had all these gypsy guitars from all over the world.
Merle Haggard.
In my mind, I'm going to Carolina.
I think that's true.
George Jones is the greatest.
Full stop.
That's it.
George Jones.
Nobody.
But nobody.
And He Stopped Loving Her Today is the greatest country song that's ever lived.
And that's it.
That's it.
That's it.
Haggard, number two.
I hear Lefty Frizzell, Ernest Tubb, and they're very, very good.
But that's, maybe it's before my time.
But today, the two are George Strait and Alan Jackson.
I think they are, they are, they can really do it.
And I'll tell you another guy, too.
Nobody wants to give him any credit, because he's sometimes, I think he's a misnomer.
It's Toby Keith.
Toby Keith is a monster.
Toby Keith and Merle Haggard doing Mama Tried.
Oh!
I spent 21 in prison doing life without parole.
No one can set me right.
Mama Tried.
Mama Tried.
Alright.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
Loved it.
Tony Rice.
Oh!
Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Larry Sparks, Jerry Reed, Coco Taylor.
Listen to anything from the Alligator.
Just go online.
Alligator Records.
Coco Taylor is...
Big Mama Thornton, but Coco Taylor is just...
She does woman, voodoo woman too.
Incredible.
Funkadelic.
Explain funk to someone.
Explain that.
What is it?
Is it soul?
Well, souls.
Come on, James Brown.
Explain fun.
To really understand it, the greatest proponents today, and always has been, Tower of Power.
Absolutely.
Emilio Doc, remember Rocco on base?
Uh...
I think they've had like 180 people throughout the years.
Funk.
Funkadelic.
Parliament.
Here's one for you.
Ohio Players.
Sweet Sticky Thing.
Greatest song.
Deodato.
Deodato's son-in-law is Stephen Baldwin.
Dave Brubeck.
Dave Brubeck.
Is responsible for giving us Paul Desmond.
Paul Desmond was the greatest, sweetest, most incredible.
Randy Backman.
Not Bachman.
Backman, as he pronounces it.
Incredible.
Part of that wonderful Canadian influence.
Guess who?
Burton Cummings.
My favorite.
Power in the Music.
Road Food.
Star Baby, of course.
Rain Dance.
Listen to the Power in the Music album with Dominic Troiano.
Do you remember CTI?
Creed Taylor.
Gary Moore.
Incredible.
Maceo Parker.
Yes.
James Brown.
Eddie Van Halen.
On his own.
Just on his own.
Louis Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong or Louis Armstrong.
Nobody understands the significance of him and how he was.
His house is still in Queens, right?
You can go see it.
John Prine.
It broke my heart when he died.
Love John Prine.
One of the simplest guitar players.
That's it.
Two fingers.
What is this?
Anyway.
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And everybody from around the world, God bless you.
By the way, I don't know if our friend Eric is here.
The Italian group...
PFM, Primiata, Funeria, Marconi.
Il Banquetto, one of my favorites.
Joni Mitchell, by the way.
You never can hum a Joni Mitchell song, but Joni Mitchell and her tribute to Mingus and the work she did with Pat Metheny.
Have you seen that?
Coyote and...
With Jocko and Pat Metheny.
I can go on and on in there.
I'm not going to...
Mickey Gilley.
We just lost Mickey.
Brian Stelter.
Remember Stray Cats?
Remember when that swing stuff?
I don't know if it was called Swing.
Whatever that was.
I was overwhelmed with it for a while.
But it's very, very good.
Played the big arch top.
Very good stuff.
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