Filmed at the Iridium jazz Club in New york City, forever associated with the legendary Les Paul, this film captures Jeff Beck celebrating the great man with a selection of Les Paul songs and other great rock ‘n’ roll tracks. Jeff Beck is joined by some very special guests including Imelda may and her band, Gary US Bonds, Brian Setzer, and Trombone Shorty. The intimate setting puts you right there in the audience for a performance featuring stunning musicianship and truly great songs. It’s the best party in town.
This seems like a good time to remember John Lennon’s Christmas song, Merry Xmas (War Is Over), now that President Barack Obama has ended Bush’s war in Iraq. This is the official video. Watch, listen and share with your friends.
Oh Alabama
The devil fools
with the best laid plan.
Swing low Alabama
You got spare change
You got to feel strange
And now the moment
is all that it meant.
Alabama, you got
the weight on your shoulders
That’s breaking your back.
Your Cadillac
has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track
Michele Bachmann thinks she can use Tom Petty’s “American Girl” as her campaign song. Tom Petty slaps her with a cease and desist court order. Why do Republicans think they can use any song for their campaign without asking permission?
I new Eddie Hinton. Partied with Eddie Hinton. Wrote about Eddie Hinton, in Decatur, Alabama, in the mid-1980s.
Patterson Hood and crew made a series of mini-documentaries related to the various themes and influences the band explores on their next album, “Go-Go Boots.”
The eight episodes are a companion to this, their ninth studio album, due out Feb. 15. The episode above, directed with Jason Thrasher, delves into the band’s relationship with the music and mythology of Eddie Hinton — the obscure soul singer whom Hood described as “if Otis Redding met Howlin’ Wolf somewhere in the middle.”
“Back in the 60′s and 70′s, Eddie Hinton lived and recorded in my hometown of Muscle Shoals Alabama where he was a part of the thriving music scene that was based there,” Hood explains. “A triple threat (singer, guitar player and songwriter) Eddie participated in hit music by Percy Sledge, Bobby Womack, Aretha Franklin, Boz Scaggs, Dusty Springfield…. Later he made several incredible albums as a solo artist.”
The Op-Critical Band is back with a take on the Roger Waters classic “Another Brick in the Wall” medley. This version is called “Another Name on the Wall” and features awesome animation effects from the very artistic mind of Matt Brown, and collaborates with Gillian Brown and Sophia Fraser for some great artistic effects and style that is very original.
This is a song against wars, and the propaganda and monuments that people use to promote and start wars.
During the Bush years, we specialized in covering the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization. Our archives are about the most comprehensive for anyone researching the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and the original case against Richard Scrushy, which Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times.
