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Just discovered the Wood Brothers on Chris Thile's NPR show.
By: indigo_dave Date: March 10, 2018, 7:17 pm
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Amazing vocal harmonies, grooves and arrangements. They're from
Nashville. Creative shit that makes you move with the groove.
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Re: Just discovered the Wood Brothers on Chris Thile's NPR show.
By: AJ Date: March 11, 2018, 8:28 pm
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NPR is a national broadcast treasure really. The Right sez they
are liberal but I don't hear that at all. They seem to dig into
every story and get all viewpoints and let listeners decide
where the truth is.
Fox news claim they do as well....But they don't.
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Re: Just discovered the Wood Brothers on Chris Thile's NPR show.
By: indigo_dave Date: March 13, 2018, 8:11 am
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I'm going to include this performance in this thread. In a
world filled with (IMO) way too many 4 chord singer songwriters
and 4 chord EDM musicians it's refreshing for me to find guys
who have spent the time and effort to master their instruments
and learn music.
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Re: Just discovered the Wood Brothers on Chris Thile's NPR show.
By: AJ Date: March 13, 2018, 9:30 pm
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Shit those guys are GREAT! I love everything about them. While
the music seems to come out of them effortlessly, it's complex
enough that you know it takes a lot of discipline and practice
to pull it off. The music alone would be cool enough but you add
the vocal chops and harmonies and WOW!!
The simple traps setup the drummer is using knocks me out. I've
only seen a few drummers that can totally fill in the backbeat
with suck a small arsenal at their disposal. The bass player is
top drawer in every way you can be on a bass fiddle...Serious
chops on a difficult instrument to play. So much territory on a
bass violin to cover and there seems to be not a square inch he
doesn't hit. The guitar player has that thing going on...Clean
chops, really great tone.
yeah i know Dave...Guitar players and tone....But the Dude has
it!
Great share Dave!!
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Re: Just discovered the Wood Brothers on Chris Thile's NPR show.
By: indigo_dave Date: March 14, 2018, 10:16 am
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I love Oliver's (the guitar player) tone. But try out this
analogy AJ. A painter. No, not a house painter. But let's say a
painter finds a certain type of paint, a particular brand, or
mixture of paints that he likes. They have a certain look or
character to them. Tone might be analogous to this particular
paint. There's still the actual picture, AKA the painting. My
impression is that many guitar players these days get stuck on
the paint, to the detriment of the actual painting. And of
course, you can disagree. Reasonable people should be able to
disagree and engage in an honest conversation about aesthetics.
BTW, in the radio concert there is some interview time. If you
didn't watch the whole thing, their father was a Harvard
educated molecular biologist (whatever that is exactly). Their
father was also a musician. I think a folk musician. They grew
up playing with him and so on. They dug into his Beatles albums,
and much more. When "Freight Train Blues" in mentioned, one of
them points out that it was on Bob Dylan's 1st album.
And, Chris Wood has been a part of a band that's not been on my
radar, Medeski, Martin and Wood. Apparently they're (or were)
a jazz fusion sort of trio. Not really familiar with them. But
this Woods Brothers format resonates with me. They've going to
be in Brevard NC on April 21st. I've been planning to leave
around mid-April on a trek toward Santa Fe (road trip). The
question here is whether I want to delay my trip to trek up to
see these guys. My sister (up in Asheville) checked their
website and told me they will be headed to the UK and won't be
back in the region (they're based out of Nashville) till
October.
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Re: Just discovered the Wood Brothers on Chris Thile's NPR show.
By: AJ Date: March 14, 2018, 10:34 pm
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Of course I see your point about tone and paint. I was tempted
to go into a spiel about how drastic the changes involving
guitar tones over the last half century....Thinking about it
though...It's been just as drastic for keyboard
players....Except over a longer period of time...I'm speaking
now about the evolution of the two general families of
instruments.
Keyboards, got loud first actually, with the advent of organs.
Before then I guess with the evolution from harpsichords to
piano fortes, THEN the next big evo was organs. Guitars started
out as lutes and went from there I guess...Did electric organs
predate electric guitars? I think so. Once guitars became
electric, amplifiers were just a method of bringing the guitar
out of the background. Fender amps were the first big leap I
think in the tone department....
Ok now I'm jumping off into another discussion altogether.
And I admit it Dave...I am a tone junkie....I've got problem...
;D
I think you should go see those guys. Hell I would.
I love New Mexico. Several years ago I took the Lad...Just me
and him out to NM and we had a blast. It's such beautiful
country and such a wide variety of ecosystems. We had a lot of
special moments there...Standing on Mt. Apache in the snow,
looking down over the desert...Touring the VLA...Bandera Volcano
and the Ice Caves, Carlsbad Caverns, Grant and Route
66...Ventana Arches and the vast lava fields....Lincoln, the
best preserved western town in America. The jail where Billy the
Kid busted out of with all the bullet holes still in
it.....And....PIE TOWN BABY! PIE TOWN!!!
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Re: Just discovered the Wood Brothers on Chris Thile's NPR show.
By: indigo_dave Date: March 15, 2018, 9:13 pm
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I think there's a 10 step program these days. I think it's
called Toneheads Anonymous. Your higher power and all that
stuff. Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn are my higher powers.
Anyway I like a good tone as much as the next guy. Love what
Hendrix came up with. But his playing was the painting I admired
the most. Of course the box of paints he came up with -
glorious.
You mentioned the organ. I think it became the rage sometime in
the 1950's. I'll have to google it. But I did read that 2
pianist/arrangers toured with Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five.
Not sure of the years both worked with Louis, but I read that
one of them would play piano in the band one week and the other
would write arrangements for the band. The next week they'd
switch roles. The 2 pianist/arrangers were Bill Dogget and Wild
Bill Davis. What it read is that sometime in the 1950's Bill
Dogget got one of the new large console organs - I think they
were Hammonds. But at some point after he got it, he quit the
band and struck out on his own. He had a huge hit called "Honky
Tonk Parts 1 and 2". Well Wild Bill Davis decided to get an
organ too after he saw how well Doggett was doing with his own
band. But Davis was afraid that if Louis discovered he'd bought
an organ he might get fired - Louis figuring Davis would be
quitting too. I think Louis found out (IIRC) and had him play
it with the band. But Davis struck out on his own eventually.
I don't like the sound of the organ in Louis' band as much as
the clean sound of a piano. Of course the 2 songs are completely
different in character. But I don't like that organ sound much.
But I'm pretty sure it was a big rage for a few years. Someone
told me once that a lot of night clubs had the big Hammonds in
the 50's. Not sure how common though.
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