What are you listening to?

Very !

 

"20th Century Masters, The Best of Andres Segovia".
The best classical guitarist of his time.
Playing in my truck's CD player all this week.

 

My wife was yelling at me "Jeff, stop singing that - you're going to get in a fight!"

I was with her in a shopping mall near our house, and I was in a musical mood so I started singing this nice song in a very loud voice. Truthfully, there is a lot, and I mean a LOT of politics behind this song. It came out after the fall of the Greek junta in 1974. I used to hear a lot of this music while I was living in Greece and I really enjoy some of it.

 

Here's another great song which gets my wife hates to hear me sing. I heard it at a Mikis Theodorakis concert a week before my family and I left Greece to move here to Canada. I was at this concert with a bunch of my friends, and when this song began we started singing it and waving Greek flags. I was a bit sad because I was not looking forward to moving here!

 

Haven't played it in a while, but here is an album that has been with me for thirty years.... He is just an impeccable musician and artist. Ive seen him solo three decades ago, with The Dead two or so ago, with Bob Weir five years ago... When he performs, he just owns you.

 

Hornsby contributed Valley Road to this album, but here's the John Hiatt /Rosanne Cash track.



https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=m4PvPQ-wq84

 

I bounced for a The Dirt Band show in '89 when they played the Anoka County Fair. (Twin Cities, MN) Hornsby wasn't there, it was more of a Fishin in the Dark show. Beer tent stuff. That particular show, I ended up chasing after some douchebag for some "God remembers what" reason, and slashed my leg open on the top of a pounded tent spike. I don't even remember, 30-40 stitches, but still a Hell of a scar.

 

Sounds like a heck of a shindig buddy!

 

Well now I looked the album up, and how can you beat kicking off with Jonny Cash and following with John Prine?

Thanks for the headsup, @jmudrick !

 

It's a fine collection.

The first show I ever saw was the Dirt Band in its original configuration playing the Hollywood Palladium at the LA Teenage Fair in spring '67.( I was a child at the time...)

 

Sounds way cooler than the prolly $50 bucks I made for bouncing drunks all night.

I was always a lover, (I wish) not a fighter. I couldn't help being born kinda big, it just paid bills sometimes.

All of the bouncing I ever did, I had way better times doing doors for "whatever"...... just helping out, than actual Simms "rolled up T-shirt" stuff. Little of both.... LONG time ago.

Decades.

But the 80's were a blast.......

 

I was BORN in 70. Kindred spirits, K?

 

Music appreciation knows no age restrictions. You just wind up with a different concert t-shirt collection.

 

Too funny. But if you get too much older than me, there were no t-shirt collections.

 

Another Mikis Theodorakis song which I love. (and my wife hates!) The singer is George Dalaras The song is Tis Dhikeosinis tis Ilie. (Greek for Justice of the Sun)

 

One more and that'll be it! (for a while!)

Dhoksa to Theo (Thanks to God) sung by Mikis himself - love this song!

 

First concert t-shirt I remember getting was on the Clash's Give Me Enough Rope tour in 79. Saw them twice that tour. Sadly the t-shirts did not survive.

https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=QsGhPprJpZw