Author Archives: Lloydville
A ROBERT MEYERS FOR TODAY
Click on the image to enlarge.
A JOHN BROSIO FOR TODAY
Click on the image to enlarge.
CAROLINA MOON
Paul McCartney’s extended family were a musical lot — family gatherings always involved plenty of singing and playing. This song was a special favorite, always saved for the climax of a musical evening.
SOUTH OF THE BORDER
Ringo Starr said he had no particular interest in music until he heard, around the age of seven, Gene Autry singing this song in a movie. It left him with a lifelong love of Country and Western music, and he called Autry the most significant musical force in his life.
The clip at the head of this post is probably the scene he was referring to, from South Of the Border, 1939, though Ringo would have to have seen a reissue of it sometime after WWII. Discussing it in 1976, he misremembered its details — he thought Autry had slung his leg over the horn of his saddle when singing the song — but he described it as his “first musical experience”, one that had stuck in his brain ever since.
He added that his bedroom was covered with Gene Autry posters.
MOVIE STAR
Click on the image to enlarge.
A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE
Wouldn’t you agree?
With thanks to PZ . . .
WHAT I’M SPINNING NOW
This double-LP set consists of excerpts from the film’s soundtrack complete with effects and dialogue. Not the best presentation of the musical score but a fascinating way to study the audio mix of the film, which is very complex and inventive. The sound effects and the dialogue and the score and the occasional rock songs were all integrated into a seamless “musical” tapestry.
Click on the image to enlarge.
SOMETIMES IT’S NICE
. . . to think about Brianna Keilar at a karaoke bar.
Click on the image to enlarge.
I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN
Hard-faced Southern women with big hair — their job was to separate the men from the boys.
WHAT I’M SPINNING NOW
This is the live album, Before the Flood, culled from Bob Dylan’s 1974 tour with The Band. The tour doesn’t have a high reputation among Dylan fans, musically speaking — for some reason Dylan decided to spit out all the lyrics angrily, which bothered many people — but I saw three concerts on the tour and found them electrifying.
Click on the image to enlarge.
A DAVID ROBERTS PRINT FOR TODAY
With thanks to Bryan Castañeda . . .
Click on the image to enlarge.
WHAT I’M SPINNING NOW
Doug Sahm died much too young but he left behind the best border beer joint dance music of all time.
This album, The Return Of Wayne Douglas, a mix of covers and original songs, was his last. The lyrics of the originals are not always as sharp as Sahm at his best but the music, country-tinged Tejano, is uniformly wonderful.
Click on the image to enlarge.
NEW YORK IN THE 1970s
When we first moved to New York my friend Lang Clay had access to a small courtyard in the building where he lived, where he set up a badminton net. We wiled away many hours playing badminton there. Eventually Lang and another friend, Cotty Chubb, got so good at the game that I couldn’t keep up with them. The elegance of my style, captured in the photo above, just wasn’t enough anymore. Then Lang moved to another apartment and our badminton days in Gotham were over.
Photograph © Langdon Clay
Click on the image to enlarge.
ON THE SET
Greed, 1924.
Click on the image to enlarge.