Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
RIP, Doc. My parents said he seemed out of it and didn't play much when they saw him last month at Merlefest. And his wife had a stroke and is in a nursing home.
Doc Watson and Pete Cosey within 24 hours of each other. Bad week for guitar geniuses.
How come I haven't heard of Regina Spektor until I heard her interviewed on public radio?
Anyway, What We Saw From the Cheap Seats is awesome! Any recs for other albums of hers?
Doc Watson and Pete Cosey within 24 hours of each other. Bad week for guitar geniuses.
Had a long conversation once with jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter about Pete Cosey (and Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland).
So I was listening to "More Than This" in Starbucks. They have 80s in their rotation this month and I was struck with the guitar work - especially toward the end of the song and I could SWEAR those guitar notes were reminiscent of Bruce Hornsby and the Range (80s) or Don Henley. It seems though that the guitar player of Roxy Music is Phil Manzanera, and I see no record of him playing with Henley or Hornsby.
Am I hearing a similarity that isn't there?
How come I haven't heard of Regina Spektor until I heard her interviewed on public radio?
...you don't watch enough fandom vids? That's where I heard of her, anyway.
It seems though that the guitar player of Roxy Music is Phil Manzanera, and I see no record of him playing with Henley or Hornsby
Manzanera was playing with Roxy Music from as early as 1971. He's a really well known guitarist and probably influenced some of the musicians you note. Also, he has a very particular style, clean with a lot of reverb (almost surf guitar) that might've been emulated.
Yeah, Manzanera is one of those guitarist's guitarists.
tommy, I haven't heard Regina Spektor's new album, so I don't know which of her previous albums it most closely resembles, but my favorite of hers is Begin to Hope.