🌎 Great Music

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

You all check my MAN Trombone Shorty OUT..... Been to VIP concerts with this slick mofo. watch, see what the youth are really doing!!!!!

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Outstanding stuff!

I just read an article this morning and was looking for a place to post it, hope you don't mind it here. A new recording studio in The Shoals.

How a Shoals Studio Treats Musicians as House Guests

Michael Wright converted a property in the famed Alabama enclave to include spaces to record and to stay awhile

www.wsj.com

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

Outstanding stuff!

I just read an article this morning and was looking for a place to post it, hope you don't mind it here. A new recording studio in The Shoals.

How a Shoals Studio Treats Musicians as House Guests

Michael Wright converted a property in the famed Alabama enclave to include spaces to record and to stay awhile

www.wsj.com

Wow, hope they can recreate the magic!

 

[alabama mike]

Grew up in Florence and love the music history of the Shoals.

 

[Rolltide24]

Great article! I’ve passed by this house hundreds of times but never seen it looking this good. He’s transformed the place, it looks incredible. I wish his effort would spread to the rest of Sheffield. Dilapidated town needs a ton of TLC. It’s been depressing to drive through it the last 30 years.

 

[Rolltide24]

An interesting observation Eleven, WSJ has profiled 3 houses in the Shoals this year. One in Florence recently, one in Tuscumbia early in the year, and now this. Who’d have thunk it, WSJ in the Shoals. Maybe they have a writer with local ties. I’ve got to close friends/family that write independently for some major publications and live there, but neither have done these articles.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

An interesting observation Eleven, WSJ has profiled 3 houses in the Shoals this year. One in Florence recently, one in Tuscumbia early in the year, and now this. Who’d have thunk it, WSJ in the Shoals. Maybe they have a writer with local ties. I’ve got to close friends/family that write independently for some major publications and live there, but neither have done these articles.

Yeah, I was going to mention it, same writer on the other two house articles, including the downtown one that enclosed an open lot and the couple moving back buying the home from Elvis' bass player, and this article was by a different reporter. They did a pretty neat weekend getaway article on Birmingham a couple of years ago, too.

A Professional Photographer Builds a Picture Perfect Loft in Northern Alabama

Robert Rausch connected two abandoned buildings to create a spacious home studio.

www.wsj.com

In Alabama, an Informal House Tour Ends With an ‘Effortless and Organic’ Real-Estate Deal

It took a chance meeting and a single walk-through of Thimbleton for Wes and Heather Fleming to buy the historic estate.

www.wsj.com

In Alabama, an Informal House Tour Ends With an ‘Effortless and Organic’ Real-Estate Deal

It took a chance meeting and a single walk-through of Thimbleton for Wes and Heather Fleming to buy the historic estate.

www.wsj.com

 

[bamaledge]

I like the vibe!!

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Reviving this thread. Saw Band of Heathens last night at Terminal West in Midtown Atlanta, great little venue. The Texas Gentlemen opened and they were entertaining. BOH did a nice cover of Gillian Welch's "Look at Miss Ohio". The TX Gents joined them back for the finale, a great rendition of the Dead's "Deal".

When BOH announced dates, I also bought tix for the Saturday Bham show at Saturn, gave them to my youngest as he's over there now. He said that show was really good, too. I haven't been to that venue, yet.

Whiskey Myers will be at The Roxy by the Braves stadium May 6th, looking forward to seeing them again.

Blackberry Smoke is playing at the Sand Mountain Amphitheater on June 24th. If you're close and you haven't seen them, they put on a great show. May have to take that one in.

So happy live music is back. Son #2 is back touring full time, he's in Denver this week at the Grizzly Rose, will open for Stoney LaRue on Friday, after a week in St. Louis.

RTR,

Tim

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Wow, just stumbled across this, a new release of The Last Waltz. That version of The Weight is my favorite by far. Pops Staples had the smoothest voice.

Opinion | ‘The Last Waltz’ Review: Martin Scorsese’s Slow Fade

The newly-restored 1978 film of The Band’s farewell concert has a strange grandeur

www.wsj.com

 

[XXL TideFan]

My son graduated from Florence HS. It is sad that Sheffield and Tuscumbia are looking like parts of Birmingham. The kids in Florence and Muscle Shoals referred to them as Shefghanistan and Tuscompton. The downtown improvements in Sheffield prior to us relocating were very nice but the drugs and crime were still there at the time.

 

[Rolltide24]

Tuscumbia isn’t that bad! Maybe some outlier parts. Robbins poured a lot of money into downtown and the park, helped it out a lot. Now Sheffield… that’s a different story. Since I was a little tot it was an eye sore and blight. It brought down the quad cities. I always felt sorry for folks that lived there and the kids that had to go to the high school. I’m surprised they even still have a high school. Looks like about 60 kids per grade.

 

[RollllTide!]

Palm Sunday popular song Were you there. Started looking for the words found this

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Palm Sunday popular song Were you there. Started looking for the words found this

The perfect Palm Sunday bookend to Easter's Low in the Grave He Lay! It's hard for me to sing either with dry eyes.

I have a quick faucet, but there are hymns and secular songs that turn on the tears for me. Hard for me not to choke up during Victory in Jesus. Some hymns are real tear jerkers for me because I recall the sweet lady who sang alto on "He Washed My Eyes With Tears" during my youth who's no longer with us, or the old gentlemen whose bass regaled us with "Sing Me a Song About Jesus" who has passed. Music is about memories, common experiences, pains, joys and comraderie. Elegant hymns that include liberal amounts of Scripture, however, take it a notch higher.

Among more recent country ballads, when Riley Green says "I want every headstone next to me to read my last name", it chokes me up from the permanency of the statement. Tending to my Dad's grave over the last few years, and watching my Mom take care of my grandparents' plot, point to the little bit of space (both time and distance) we have. I know my bones will lie near a few generations of my kin (@JoseyWalesTheOutlaw plan for it to be worms, not buzzards). Years ago, my Dad and I would fish on Lay Lake and we'd tie up on the Talladega/Coosa side (east side, sorry on my county ignorance) and walk up to a War of 1812 cemetery where Jackson buried his dead after Horseshoe Bend. It was numbing to know they'd been there for 160+ years. In the years since, they moved the graves to build a subdivision - I was not pulling for their cash flow.

Sorry, off on a tangent. Where Rainbows Never Die is another.

RTR,

Tim

 

[TerryP]

Highly recommended: The Joe Rogan podcast with Waters. You'll likely disagree with some of his ideals and I'll guarantee you'll be fascinated with his stories. (If you have experience The Joe Rogan Experience, understand his interviews are two to two and a half hours long—some a little longer. There are some great conversations to listen to.)

IE: He and Joe spend several minutes talking about Floyd touring. Waters goes into some detail about his process and how much editing is done throughout the tour: it's as if he's working towards his final draft.

If you've seen their shows the light and video combinations are borderline overwhelming. We know no two live shows are alike. What I didn't know was he edits lighting, video presentations, stage effects, etc. after every performance.

 

[TerryP]

A remake in a different pitch ...

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Another music tangent. Although I have broad musical interests, from 80's funk to Broadway, I generally stay in the Americana/Southern Rock/Classic Country area. That being said, I accidentally happened across a folk group about ten years ago in a church coffee house on the backside of the Capitol near Union Station in DC. Ryanhood is their name, one a really good guitarist and the other an incredibly gifted guitarist, with combined vocal Simon-Garfunkel quality harmony.

They are based in Arizona, and typically stay west. I got a wild hair yesterday as I was YouTube-ing and looked them up to see if they were coming east anytime soon. Well, they're in the city of Auburn on December 15th for a free concert (tickets required, available free or with a donation) at, of all things, the Unitarian student life facility. I'll fill up before I go, of course, to maintain my pledge to never even buy gas in Lee County, maybe stop at Spring House in Alex City as well. If any are near, and you have an interest you won't be disappointed.

I Didn't Put Anything Into Your Place reminds me, topically, of Pay No Rent by Turnpike Troubadours



Sickbed Symphony was the song they played when I saw them that cemented my interest in seeing them again.



Embers is a pretty good tune…



The show may well have a holiday theme…



I know, it might be a little too sappy for your collective tastes, but they are top notch musicians, and enjoyable. I didn’t want to not mention a nearby show.



RTR,

Tim

 

[TerryP]

That being said, I accidentally happened across a folk group about ten years ago in a church coffee house on the backside of the Capitol near Union Station in DC.

How did you "happen across" a church coffee house in DC?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

How did you "happen across" a church coffee house in DC?

I was in DC for work. I was teaching my old Sunday School class in Kennesaw from some material that was related to the church, and it included their various ways of being intentional in interacting with the general community - both from a service perspective to help those in physical need, as well as from a mission imperative to interact with nonbelievers and seekers. The coffee house fit the second part. I went there just to visit the coffee shop, and found out there was a concert about to start in their basement music venue, and I squeezed in.

I guess it's more accurate that I went to the coffee shop, and happened across Ryanhood.

RTR,

Tim

 

[TerryP]

I was in DC for work. I was teaching my old Sunday School class in Kennesaw from some material that was related to the church, and it included their various ways of being intentional in interacting with the general community - both from a service perspective to help those in physical need, as well as from a mission imperative to interact with nonbelievers and seekers. The coffee house fit the second part. I went there just to visit the coffee shop, and found out there was a concert about to start in their basement music venue, and I squeezed in.

I guess it's more accurate that I went to the coffee shop, and happened across Ryanhood.

RTR,

Tim

I was walking downtown (bar hopping) several years ago and literally stumbled into one (Music Farm area.) I recognized a Hillsong song and stopped by for an hour or so. Fun experience.