Monday's Long Song

 

In the early 1970's the international music scene was dominated by guitar slinging fossils and art-rock bands (if they wasn't named as glam). Many of them sounded identical to the same blues-rock pattern and you could be lucky to find a band that was different. One of those were Wishbone Ash, a British band whose originality consisted of going away from the worn out blues-rock schemes moving into an extensive use of harmony lead twin guitars. Of course they weren't the first one doing this kind but probably the best ones at these days. It is music I don't play often at my place but sometimes I just want to revel in nostalgia and remember the times of my first live concerts before punk broke and a lot of new and fantastic music came to my ears. This one is from their 1973 album Live Dates and shows exactly what they are famous for.

Wishbone Ash - The Pilgrim

Dixie Chicken

Back in 1973, a few years before punk and new wave appeared it was hard to find music that was different from the mainstream. One of those who gave us another kind of music was Little Feat. Formed by Lowell George, a former member of Frank Zappa's Mother's of Invention they played a very unique kind of country-rock, blues and boogie. Little Feat were always a live band. I saw them in the mid 70s and was fascinated (but I was more fascinated a few years later when I saw those new punk and new wave bands). In these days Little Feat were one of those bands you could agree with other people who were concerned to new music (Wishbone Ash was one of the others). Anyway, their music last over 40 years now and sometimes I play them when I am in a sentimental mood and their songs and arrangements have still a little magic inside.