Sunday Morning Video: Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan Live
Time for da blooze: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan Live
Time for da blooze: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan Live
Are you ready for the Iceman? Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Albert Collins Live In Quebec
This is the third time I’ve posted an episode of this A&E series. It clearly works for me. This show aired in 1999: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Earth Wind & Fire Live By Request
I won’t use any purple prose today. And I won’t try to out scream David Coverdale: my vocal chords couldn’t take it. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Deep Purple Live At California Jam
This week’s selection is a 2009 BBC documentary about Sixties British blues rock. It has a swell full title, Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing The Whites. It features some terrific talking heads: Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Mick Fleetwood, and Ian Anderson to name but a few. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Blues Britannia
Bobby and the Midnites were a 1980’s side project of the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir. They had a helluva rhythm section with Billy Cobham on drums and Kenny Gradney of Little Feat on bass. Here’s a 1984 show from the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Bobby and the Midnites Live
Pete Fountain 1930-2016. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Pete Fountain R.I.P.
After I wrote my last convention wrap up post with its ode to liberal patriotism, I had Pink Houses in my head for days. Hence this 2004 program from A&E before they devoted their programming to shit like Duck Dynasty. Anyway, here’s John Mellencamp posing the eternal question: “Ain’t that America?” It’s the last numbah. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: John Mellencamp Live By Request
Phil Lesh & Friends have played many a homestand at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco. This time around the band features Joan Osborne on vocals and John Scofield on guitar: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Phil Lesh & Friends Live In 2006
I showed an except in my Boris Johnson post the other day. Here’s the entire episode: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Fawlty Towers- The Germans
Steve Marriott of Small Faces and Humble Pie was one of the best singers in rock history. He could do it all from crooning to screaming. This is his story: Time for some blurry lagniappe: Humble Pie live on ABC’s In Concert. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Life & Times Of Steve Marriott
This Vice documentary about Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn didn’t spark the challenge against him but it added several logs to the fire: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Outsider
The great bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley died this week at the age of 89. Mr. Stanley was one of the most soulful singers I’ve ever heard. He will be missed. Here’s a TNN documentary about him: Finally, here’s one of Ralph Stanley’s signature songs: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Life & Times Of Ralph Stanley
Here’s something for all the Jaco Pastorius fans out there: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Weather Report Live In Germany
It’s bacca-to-bacca Macca here at First Draft. This 1990 show was broadcast live on Brazilian teevee: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Paul McCartney Live In Rio
The great Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark died earlier this week at the age of 74. Here’s a set from the 1996 Kerrville Folk Festival: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Guy Clark Live In Texas
Here’s the current Jayhawks lineup live at the Lockn’ Festival in Arlington, Virginia: Lagniappe time. It’s a January 2015 appearance on KEXP radio in Seattle complete with video. And I thought video killed the radio star: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Jayhawks Live In 2015
Here’s another nugget from the Music Vault archives: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Bruce Hornsby Live At Woodstock 99
It’s guilty pleasure time here at First Draft. I’ve always had a soft spot for Bad Company who are technically adept musicians playing stripped-down blues rock. Besides, nobody tosses a mic stand as well as Paul Rodgers. And the man can sing a little. This is a 2008 show from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. That tour marked the return of lead guitarist Mick Ralphs. There’s no word as to whether the band had any dealings with Florida Man: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Bad Company Live
Ready for some roots rock? If not, you’re getting some anyway. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Tedeschi Trucks Band Live In 2012
The hills are alive with the sound of demagoguery in 2016. Rabble rousing populism is as old as the republic as are demagogues who take equally from the far left and far right. 1930’s radio priest Father Charles Coughlin was such a man. He was for FDR before he was against him. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Radio Priest
In honor of Mere Haggard’s passing, here are two short live sets. The first is from the mid-Eighties, the second from 2007: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Merle Haggard Live
I had a rather silly discussion about polka music with some old friends on Facebook the other day. My mind turned to the Schmenge Brothers the fake polka superstars created by John Candy and Eugene Levy for SCTV. In 1985, they made this mockumentary for HBO. Let’s polka: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Last Polka
This is a 2013 BBC documentary about the life and times of Mott the Hoople. The filmakers took the title from one of Mott’s finest songs. Here’s some lagniappe: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Ballad Of Mott The Hoople
Paul Rodgers has been around the block more than a few times. He’s the quintessential blues rock journeyman; so much so that the person who posted this video misspelled his last name. One more thing: the man can really belt it out. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Paul Rodgers Live At Woodstock 1994
The E in ELP, Keith Emerson, died the other day at the age of 71. Emerson was a brilliant musician and consummate showman. He will be missed. This show was filmed at Olympic Stadium during 1977’s Works Orchestral Tour. Get ready … Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: ELP Live In Montreal
If you didn’t get enough Bryan Ferry yesterday, here’s a 1977 set from Japanese teevee: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Bryan Ferry Live In Tokyo
Kinda sorta live and direct from the North Sea Jazz Festival: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Diana Krall Live In 2013
Zevon weekend continues with this 1982 show broadcast by MTV: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Warren Zevon Live At The Capitol Theatre
The weekend of the Monkees continues with a 1997 documentary: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees