Music Acquisitions, Old and New

[Here'sToYa!]

Well, I borrowed this CD, so it's only a temporary acquisition, but . . .
I checked out a CD from the library consisting of the first two Sandpipers albums. Is anyone familiar with this group, and, if so, is the CD worth downloading to my space-deprived hard drive?

[RGMike]

Well, I borrowed this CD, so it's only a temporary acquisition, but . . .
I checked out a CD from the library consisting of the first two Sandpipers albums. Is anyone familiar with this group, and, if so, is the CD worth downloading to my space-deprived hard drive?

Gaz might be more familiar with them -- all I know is "Come Saturday Morning", a lovely tune. I always lump them in with the Lettermen and such.

[Alicat]

Foghat covering Al Green Take me to the River. Good.

[ggould]

Foghat covering Al Green Take me to the River. Good.

Foghat? Good?
 

[RGMike]

Foghat covering Al Green Take me to the River. Good.

Foghat? Good?
 

Bwahahaha! NOW who's the snarky one? 

[ggould]

Foghat covering Al Green Take me to the River. Good.

Foghat? Good?
 

Bwahahaha! NOW who's the snarky one? 

Sorry, I couldn't resist!  Nobody was more prepared to like Foghat than me.  I was a big Savoy Brown fan, and here was almost all of Savoy Brown, reincarnated in a new band.  I saw their first gig at Winterland, sandwiched between The Mothers and Ruben and the Jets, and they were horrid, booed mercilessly by the audience.  Obviously, it was a bad combination bill!

[RGMike]

Listening to a fine 2-CD War anthol (Icon: the Hits & More) and the ones that are NTM are the most interesting -- several mellow instrumentals that are kinda like "All Day Music" without lyrics.  Nice stuff.

[Tinka Cat]

Listening to a fine 2-CD War anthol (Icon: the Hits & More) and the ones that are NTM are the most interesting -- several mellow instrumentals that are kinda like "All Day Music" without lyrics.  Nice stuff.

Cool! I like the band.  Is it an actual CD?  or downloaded files?

[RGMike]

Listening to a fine 2-CD War anthol (Icon: the Hits & More) and the ones that are NTM are the most interesting -- several mellow instrumentals that are kinda like "All Day Music" without lyrics.  Nice stuff.

Cool! I like the band.  Is it an actual CD?  or downloaded files?

an actual bought-on-Amazon CD.

[RGMike]

Picked up a cheap copy We'll Get Over, an early Staples Singers (circa 1969) album reissued on CD with a couple bonus tracks. Really nice stuff, tho' not quite in the funky groove they would find a few years later.  Mostly covers of songs I know and like: Sly's "Everyday People", "Games People Play" (Joe South), "End of Our Road" (Gladys/Pips), and Al Kooper's sadly forgotten "Brand New day". My fave may be their soulful rendition of "Give a Damn", the Spanky & Our Gang anthem from that long-ago poverty PSA, which I didn't think ANYONE else had recorded.  And (of course) Steve Cropper on guitar and "Duck" Dunn on bass.

Nicest surprise: "A Wednesday in Your Garden", which was NTM and when I looked to see who wrote it, the name listed was... Randal Bachman -- yes, it was a Guess Who LP cut at the time. Color me gobsmacked!

[RGMike]

Not a new acquisition, I've had it for years, but I dug a Grand Funk anthol out of mothballs as part of my ongoing early-'70s research -- quite a hodgepodge of good singles and bad album cuts.  Smack in the middle of the CD, back-to-back, were 2 of the most unnecessary cover versions of the '70s:  Their takes on "Feelin' Alright" and (I'm not kidding) "Gimme Shelter", which rivals BS&T's "Sympathy For the Devil" as worst Stones re-do evah.

Fun fact: Todd Rundgren was inspired to have them remake "The Loco-Motion" after hearing the Raspberries do it at their Carnegie Hall concert.

[RGMike]

Listening to Marshall Crenshaw's podcast, "The Bottomless Pit" via wfuv.org -- he played the censored version of the Who's "Substitute", where they, er, substitute the line "I tried walking forward/but my feet walk back" for the infamous "I look all white/but my dad was black "   -- never knew that existed.