Dylan Cover #651 Darro and Dolly Long "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"

In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's artists, Darro & Dolly Long performing a live cover of "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" 

Thoughts on Dylan Original:
From the first time we tackled a cover of this tune:
A simple little number coming off of John Wesley Harding it discards the lyrical wizardry for a down home spin.  We are rewarded with easy bliss, not often found in Dylan tunes. The emotions displayed by the singer here are heartfelt, hearty and easy going, just like the tune as a whole. Always a pleasant ride, bring that bottle over here...   

Cover:


Thoughts on Cover Artist:
This is the first time RtBE have encountered Darro and Dolly Long

Thoughts on Cover: 

A excellent acoustic cover that strikes a gentle balance for this Monday. 

Full Show Friday: Aretha Franklin - Fillmore West, March 5th, 1971

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Aretha Franklin!

Some months our Full Show Friday's will focus on specific artists, years, venues, tv shows, festivals or some combo of it all. These are our Special Focus series.

This months Full Show Friday Series focuses on concerts from San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium.

A few days ago RtBE spent some time exploring the Bay Area, so we wanted to do the same in our Full Show Friday's feature. Starting this special focus month with a huge bang, Aretha Franklin live at Fillmore West, March 5th, 1971.

Enjoy!

New Single Ghost Hounds "Long Ride Home" Feat. Patty Griffin

The Pittsburgh, PA based country/folk/rock outfit Ghost Hounds cover Patty Griffin and have her join them on the chorus of "Long Ride Home". 

Check out the crisp, straight-ahead cover below:

Live Stream: Joe Russo's Almost Dead - Hurricane Relief Benefit Tonight

We are now heading into the new normal with live music. Live shows will need to be flexible and streaming is a great way to keep music going. Streams have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE.  We will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing/listening pleasure. You can check out our weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past and as always, please support the artists any which way you can.

Live Stream:  Joe Russo's Almost Dead - Hurricane Relief Benefit 

On nugs.net, here is the info:

Join us this weekend in support of Hurricane flood relief. Tune in on Thursday for JRAD LIVE from Ting Pavilion & watch Friday and Saturday for two premieres from the archives. All proceeds will benefit MANNA FoodBank & BeLoved Asheville. All proceeds benefit Hurricane relief. *Subscriber discounts are not available for benefit shows. Watch unlimited through Oct 19, 2024, followed by 48 hours of on-demand access.

Go here to grab it tonight. To get in the mood, here is some live JRAD:

Album Review: Tuba Skinny - Live @ D.B.A.

Tuba Skinny

Live @ D.B.A.

**** out of *****

Traditional jazz is not the craze it was one hundred years ago, but in New Orleans time moves slow. It is the one city in this country that truly holds onto that style and has a host of bands doing it, but none currently cut to the trad-jazz core like Tuba Skinny. Their newest live album, Live @ D.B.A is a testament to their talent and the vibrancy of this quintessential American art form. 

Happy 35th Anniversary to Neil Young's Freedom

Happy 35th Anniversary to Neil Young's Freedom.

Neil Young's mid career masterpiece turns 35 today. 

More thoughts and tunes after the jump.

Album Review: LA LOM - The Los Angeles League of Musicians

LA LOM

The Los Angeles League of Musicians

***and1/2 out of *****

The Los Angeles trio LA LOM's debut full length, instrumental album, The Los Angeles League of Musicians on the legendary Verve Records, is a sultry mix of styles. Everything from Latin music from the 1930's to cumbia to retro rock and soul seeps into the bands sound which they say is strictly influenced by their diverse home city. 

Happy 40th Anniversary to The Ramones - Too Tough To Die

Happy 40th Anniversary to The Ramones Too Tough To Die, which was released on this date in 1984.

Some thoughts about the record and a few tunes after the jump.

Album Review: JD McPherson - Nite Owls

Hey all, got a new review up @glidemag which you can read Right Chere!!!

It is of the newest release from JD McPherson titled Nite Owls. 

Last time we checked in with the retro-rocker we liked Let The Good Times Roll, even making our year end list in 2015.  This one is solid as well, if a touch below that one. 

Support the artist, buy the album, read the review and peep some video below:

Dylan Cover #650 Laura Marling "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall"

In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is a cover by Laura Marling playing " A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"

Thoughts on Original:

From the first time we tackled a cover of this song:
Dylan singing from a position of fear as he poetically discusses the Cuban Missile Crisis and the possibility of Nuclear annihilation. Dylan also mentioned in Chronicles that the song was inspired by a feeling he got when reading microfiche newspapers in the New York Public Library: "After a while you become aware of nothing but a culture of feeling, of black days, of schism, evil for evil, the common destiny of the human being getting thrown off course. It’s all one long funeral song." An apt description and a powerful song from a young songwriter.

Cover:

Thoughts on Cover Artist:

Laura Marling is fine British artist whose single "Patterns" was highlighted in July.

Thoughts on Cover:

The cover was recorded specifically for Peaky Blinders, which is fun, as the version has an upbeat strum and ominous marching/booming percussion accenting things as the effort builds and swells. The song never explodes, it just threatens to, with galloping pace and energy. Cool cover. 

Full Show Friday: Steel Pulse - Live At Reggae Lake Festival 2023 Amsterdam

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Steel Pulse!

This week it is reggae legends Steel Pulse Live At Reggae Lake Festival 2023 Amsterdam.

Pro shot, pro sound, Enjoy!

New Single/Video for The Red Crow "Haunted Eyes"

Portugal's The Red Crow delivers a dark psychedelic experience with new track "Haunted Eyes".

Check it out below:

Album Review: Houle - Ciel Cendre et Mis​è​re Noire

Houle

Ciel Cendre et Mis​è​re Noire

**** out of *****

The Paris based Houle deliver their debut full length in Ciel Cendre et Mis​è​re Noire as the outfit plunges the depths and rises to the crest of the waves with their self described "marine black metal". That feeling can be felt by non-French speakers before the music even starts just by checking out the evocative album cover art and wind swept logo. 

New Song/Video from New Earth Farmers "Frequency"

The Bay Area based New Earth Farmers just released their new video/single "Frequency". 

Regarding the song Paul Knowles, Lead Guitarist states:

“This one was written with my daughter (from a previous marriage) in mind. She lost her mother to gun violence last year and this was a song about what she is having to deal with in the aftermath. The song was definitely born from tragic circumstances and trauma.”

Check it out the tune below as it mixes modern sounds yearning singing about hard topics and classic rock riffs:

Album Review: Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

Waxahatchee

Tigers Blood

**** out of *****

On her breakthrough album, 2020's Saint Cloud, Katie Crutchfield embraced a more natural Americana sound for her songwriting to shine through. That style continues on Waxahatchee's newest release Tigers Blood, which is a confident mix of light rockers, pop-ish offerings and twangy strolls through stories and struggles. 

New Single from The Roamers "Lights Down Low"

The Los Angeles based twangy rock outfit The Roamers release their newest single "Lights Down Low".

About the song, Matt Rice states: 

"I wrote this song days before the first recording sessions. The demo recording was kind of a folky with just acoustic guitar. It was only the verses at the time — like a blues kind of structure: verse-verse-solo-verse- solo-verse. Producer Brian Whelan’s thought was “I like the song a lot but it isn’t finished. Go write the rest of the song and bring it back.” That caught me off guard but when I got home, I realized he was right. So I wrote a chorus, an extra verse and brought it back. It was still an acoustic folky song at that time but now it had more of a pop structure with verses and choruses. Together in the studio Brian, Luke and Matt mixed in a little Lubbock, Texas vibe with some Memphis groove and Hollywood seasonings to make the song it’s own thing."

Enjoy the dusty tune below:

Album Review: Manu Chao - Viva Tu

Hey all, got a new review up @glidemag which you can read Right Chere!!!

It is of the newest release from Manu Chao titled Viva Tu. 

I reviewed his last record for Glide, but it is over 17 years ago and it is no longer online. That was before RtBE even existed. That is some hiatus!

This is classic Manu Chao, if a bit more sleepy. Still really good though. 

Support the artist, buy the album, read the review, and peep some video below:

Dylan Cover #649 Dirty Projectors "Dark Eyes" Live

In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is a live cover by Dirty Projectors playing "Dark Eyes"

Thoughts on Original:

From the first time we tackled a cover of this tune:
"Dark Eyes" is the sparse album closer on the mixed bag Empire Burlesque. That record has lots of interesting songs, but falls into that dreaded period called "the '80's". The production was modern at the time and almost instantly sounded dated. The bootleg release Springtime in New York rescues a lot of these songs, showing that other takes of these tracks prove there was still strong songwriting and performing from the Bard during this era. One song that did not need rescuing is "Dark Eyes" a stone cold stunner from/for any decade; a lesser known great song from Dylan.  

Cover:

Thoughts on Cover Artist:
RtBE have never been big fans of Dirty Projectors. 

Thoughts on Cover:

Well, that could change as we REALLY like this cover. A gorgeous take on the track with pristine backing vocals that help support he acoustic guitar and lead vocal. A stunning live cover, very well done.  

Full Show Friday: Dolly Parton - Live and Well, Complete Concert 2002

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Dolly Parton!

This week we head back to 2002 in Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, TN for Dolly Parton's Live and Well Concert. Ever think you would hear Dolly cover Led Zep? I didn't...

This is a good one, pro shot, pro sound, full setlist and info below. Enjoy!

1 Orange Blossom Special-Written by E.T. Rouce 1a Train, Train (1:42) Shorty Medlocke 2 The Grass Is Blue (4:17) Dolly Parton 3 Mountain Angel (6:49) Dolly Parton 4 Shine (15:12) Ed Roland 5 Little Sparrow (20:29) Dolly Parton 6 Rocky Top (25:13) Boudleaux & Felice Bryant 7 My Tennessee Mountain Home () Dolly Parton 8 Coat Of Many Colors (31:34) Dolly Parton 9 Smokey Mountain Memories (36:52) Dolly Parton 10 Applejack (42:27) Dolly Parton 11 Marry Me (47:00) Dolly Parton 12 Halos And Horns (50:25) Dolly Parton 13 I'm Gone (55:31) Dolly Parton 14 Dagger Through The Heart (59:49) Dolly Parton 15 If (1:03:46) Bread's David Gates 16 After The Gold Rush (1:07:54) Neil Young 17 9 To 5 (1:11:33) Dolly Parton 18 Jolene (1:14:54) Dolly Parton A Cappella Medley (1:18:44) 19a Islands In The Stream-Barry, Maurice & Robin Gibb 19b Here You Come Again-Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil 19c Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That-Bob Carlisle, Randy Thomas 19d Two Doors Down-Dolly Parton 20 We Irish (1:24:53) Dolly Parton 21 Stairway To Heaven (1:29:38) Led Zeppelin cover Jimmy Page, Robert Plant 22 I Will Always Love You (1:37:15) 

Dolly Parton Dolly's backing band is The Blueniques. Personnel is Gary Davis - banjo, acoustic guitar; Richard Dennison - acoustic guitar, keyboards, vocals; Randy Kohrs - resonator guitar, vocals; Jimmy Mattingly - fiddle; Brent Truitt - mandolin; Steve Turner - drums; Jay Weaver - acoustic bass guitar; Kent Wells - acoustic guitar, vocals. 

Dolly Parton Live and Well was recorded live at the Celebrity Theater in Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, TN on December 12 & 13, 2002. The INgrooves #DollyParton CD/DVD 3-disc combo was mixed at Southern Sound Studios, Knoxville, TN, mastered at Soundcurrent Mastering and released in 2003.

Dora Jar Releases New Single "Ragdoll"

The California based artist Dora Jar has released a new single "Ragdoll"

About the song the singer states: 

 “Ragdoll is about me feeling sometimes powerless in my own life, and also finding the power in going with the flow. If I don’t have control let me just swing around and decide I’m ok with this.”

Check out the indie pop tune below: