Animal Wednesday

 

We continue this little series with a song from 1958. Another song by Don and Phil Everly that reached the top of the charts back then.

In 1970, Apeman was released as the follow-up to Lola and steadily climbed the charts. And this despite the fact that Ray Davis already had an inkling back then of what we were doing to our planet. Whether the consequence of this is a life in the jungle is still hotly debated today.

I was introduced to this song by Ed, an American friend of mine back in 2008 when he played this song while preparing barbecue. A simple but nice country song by Zac Brown from Georgia.

You Make Me Lonely

 

A new band appeared for me the recent days. Lucy's Diary is the band project by Lucy Joplin and JJ Crash and they do their own style of Americana influenced guitar pop. The songs are carried by Joplin's rich voice and harmonious guitar passages. I suspect they're British, even though the music is more typically American. Nothing earth-shattering, but a beautiful and solid album.

Monday's Long Song

 

Over at ‘Bagging Area’, Adam is running a series called ‘Oblique Strategies’. I’m a proud member of the Saturday community. My contribution from last week was a song by Billy Cobham.

Billy Cobham was a jazz/fusion drummer and known for his collaboration with Miles Davis. In 1973 he released his debut album Spectrum, a milestone in this genre. I know this is not everybody's cup of tea but on this record was an outstanding song. Stratus is a little masterpiece starting with a drum solo before really cranking up the guitars, until the keyboards kick in and it all builds to a fabulous groove. The guitar was played by the too early died Tommy Bolin and the keys were played by Jan Hammer, before he decided to compose film music. Decades later Massive Attack remembered this song and sampled it on them classic Safe From Harm.