Most non-Deadheads don’t know that Jerry Garcia started off as a banjo player. This is magical.
Travelin’ Every Day
I’ve said for decades that the Allman Brothers is (was) the best rock and roll band ever, and that Chuck Leavell is the best keyboards player who ever lived. Here’s one of many reasons why.
The entire thing is perfect. The keyboards at 3:04 are out of this world.
Brothers and Sisters, maybe the best record ever made, at Amazon.
That Bitter Taste
It was the 3rd of June
Another sleepy, dusty, delta day.
“In 1967, it was a No. 1 hit for Bobbie Gentry, a singer-songwriter from Chickasaw County, Miss. For two weeks, Gentry was bigger than the Beatles, as her album bumped Sgt. Pepper off the top of the charts.”
“There’s so much power in the brilliant instrumental arrangements in the song, the string section echoing the sound of flowers fluttering down off the bridge, and the pulse of the Tallahatchie River itself.”
Clown Show: Budget Edition
“Budget proposals always involve some guesswork into the unknowable, and administrations routinely massage numbers to their political advantage. But this proposal is unusually brazen in its defiance of basic math, and in its accounting discrepancies amounting to trillions-with-a-t rather than mere millions or billions.”
(via Politico)
The Most Amazing Race
Stuff like this is what makes the internet wonderful.
