Shady Acres Jukebox

[_gramps]

Here is Gramps’ first set for the Shady Acres jukebox. Hope ya’all don’t be mindin’ that we do a little country/blues/folk set. These are a few of my favorites. I hope you enjoy them.

Let’s begin with some 12-string guitar. This guy should be better known than he is, but so be it. Minnesota likes to claim him as his own. I believe he does in fact reside there, but was not born there.

If you don’t know who Leo Kottke is, well here is a little sampling of some of his stuff. He is a virtuoso 12-string guitarist, who can cover the complete range of country, bluegrass, classical.

If you are wondering what album to begin with, I recommend Ice Water. Here is a beautiful vocal piece to start things off:

Pamela Brown

Lyrics:

by Tom T. Hall
Copyright 1971 Hallnote Music/BMI
recorded by Leo Kottke on:
1973 "Ice Water" (Capitol)
1978 "Leo Kottke The Best" (Capitol)
1987 "The Best of Leo Kottke" (Capitol)

I'm the guy that didn't marry "pretty" Pamela Brown
Educated, well-intentioned good girl in our town
I wonder where I'd be today if she had loved me too
Probably be driving kids to school

I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown
All of my good times - all my roamin' around
One of these days I might be in your town
And I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown

Seen the lights of cities and been inside their doors
Sailed to foreign countries and walked upon their shores
I guess the guy she married was the best part of my luck
She dug him cause he drove a pick-up truck

Chorus:

I don't have to tell you just how beautiful she was
Everything it take to get a guy like me in love
Lord I hope she's happy cause she sure deserves to be
Especially for what she did for me

Chorus

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cXiReAlRcx8

Up next is a little medley to show off his guitar skills. Hope you enjoy it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lnQTC5ICGik

And, finally, here is Kottke with Doc Watson, together on the Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OR63Y5LIQDI

Well, let’s continue with a little Doc Watson. One of the greatest bluegrass/country/blues guitarists of all time. He is blind from birth, but it doesn’t seem to have hampered him at all. Actually, I am not sure if he is still alive. I seem to recall he passed away a short time ago. Our loss.

Here’s Deep River Blues:

Let it rain, let it pour,
Let it rain a whole lot more,
'Cause I got them deep river blues.
Let the rain drive right on,
Let the waves sweep along,
'Cause I got them deep river blues.

My old gal's a good old pal,
And she looks like a water fowl,
When I get them deep river blues.
Ain't no one to cry for me,
And the fish all go out on a spree
When I get them deep river blues.

Give me back my old boat,
I'm gonna sail if she'll float,
'Cause I got them deep river blues,
I'm goin' back to Muscle Shoals,
Times are better there I'm told,
Cause I got them deep river blues.

Let it rain, let it pour,
Let it rain a whole lot more,
'Cause I got them deep river blues,
Let the rain drive right on,
Let the waves sweep along,
'Cause I got them deep river blues.

If my boat sinks with me.
I'll go down, don't you see,
'Cause I got them deep river blues,
Now I'm gonna say goodbye,
And if I sink, just let me die,
'Cause I got them deep river blues.

Let it rain, let it pour,
Let it rain a whole lot more,
'Cause I got them deep river blues,
Let the rain drive right on,
Let the waves sweep along,
'Cause I got them deep river blues

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MFRNMTxvt08

This last Doc Watson is a beauty. An old spiritual. He sings it together with Ricky Skaggs and one of my favorite artists, Alison Krauss.

Down In The Valley To Pray

As I went down in the valley to pray
Studyin' about that good old way
And who shall wear the stary crown
Good Lord, show me the way
Oh fathers let's go down
Let's go down come on down
Oh fathers let's go down
Down in the valley to pray

As I went down in the valley to pray
Studyin' about that good old way
And who shall wear the robe and crown
Good Lord, show me the way
Oh mothers let's go down
Come on down don't you wanna go down
Come on mothers and let's go down
Down in the valley to pray

As I went down in the valley to pray
Studyin' about that good old way
And who shall wear the stary crown
Good Lord, show me the way
Oh brothers let's go down
Let's go down come on down
Come on brothers and let's go down
Down in the valley to pray

As I went down in the valley to pray
Studyin' about that good old way
And who shall wear the robe and crown
Good Lord, show me the way
Come on sinners and let's go down
Let's go down oh, come on down
Come on sinners and let's go down
Down in the valley to pray

As I went down in the valley to pray
Studyin' about that good old way
And who shall wear the stary crown
Good Lord, show me the way

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WRGxbFmIni

Well, since Allison Krauss has made her appearance, let’s listen to a few of her songs. Here is one of my favorites:

Let Me Touch You for a While

It’s been a long time coming
As you shed a lonesome tear
Now your in a wonderama
I’m wondering what your doing here

The flame no longer flickers
You’re feeling just like a fool
You keep staring into your liquor
I’m wondering what to do

I don’t hardly know you
But I’d be willing to show you
I know a way to make you smile
Let me touch you for a while

I’m gonna ruin my black mascara
You’re drinking whiskey when it should be wine
You keep on looking in to that mirror
But to me your looking really fine

I don’t hardly know you
But I’d be willing to show you
I know a way to make you laugh at that cowgirl
As she’s walking out your door
I know a way to make you smile
Just let me whisper things
You never heard before
Just let me touch you baby
Just let me touch you for a while

I don’t hardly know
But I’d be willing to show you
I know a way to make you smile

It’s been a long time
Just let me touch you for a while

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiyKwigIvkI

This is a really nice one, too.

Restless

Honey, I know you've been alone some,
Why don't you 'phone some, 'cause I love you.
An' honey, I know I've been away some,
I've had to pay some and you have too.

But the one thing I know: that when I, I turn out the light,
Visions of you, dear, dance in the night.
I've been put down, pushed around, apprehended and led downtown.
An' I can't help it if I'm out of sight,
'Cause I'm restless tonight.

I just can't stand bein' alone.
Gonna have to change that some day.
There's a restless feelin' in my bones an' I know,
That at times, it just won't go away.

So if it's all the same, honey, I can't take the blame, baby,
I can't play your game, honey, what's true is true.
And if, in the end, the temptation wears you thin, honey,
I'll, I'll just pretend that I'll leave it up to you.

But the one thing I know: that when I, I turn out the light,
Visions of you, dear, dance in the night.
I've been put down, pushed around, apprehended and led downtown.
Can't help it if I'm full of fire.

But the one thing I know: that when I, I turn out the light,
Visions of you, dear, dance in the night.
I've been put down, pushed around, apprehended and led downtown.
An' I can't help it if I'm out of sight,
'Cause I'm restless tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp-xgWjHu90

And, finally, here is Allison with Bonnie Raitt, another great female blues/folk singer. But, we’ll get back to her in a minute.

First:

You

nobody else can make me happy
noone could hurt me like you do
you were the only one that mattered
then you were gone
love had moved on
left me alone

thinking of you
there was never any other
you and i were created to dream

isn't it love that keeps us breathing
isn't it love we're sent here for
wasn't that love we were feeling
deep in our soul
deeper than we know
keepin' me whole
there was never any question
you are forever in my mind
you and me were meant to be together
i might as well have been dyin'
when we were appart
when you came back
i felt the beating of my heart

you and i there was never any question
you will forever hold my heart
you and me were meant to be together

youuuu
it was always you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8irv4mAYw64

O.K. Most people came to know Bonnie Raitt when she became popular again around 88, 89, 90. I love her first album, recorded on an island on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota, when she was a young, pudgy budding superstar. Her stuff was much bluesier than now, but she is good, whenever.

Here is some of her stuff, though of more recent vintage. I hope you like it.

Here she is with one of my favorites, with Bruce Hornsby on the piano:

I Can’t Make You Love Me

Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don’t patronize – don’t patronize me

Chorus: cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I’ll feel the power
But you won’t, no you won’t
cause I can’t make you love me, if you don’t

I’ll close my eyes, then I won’t see
The love you don’t feel when you’re holding me
Morning will come and Ill do what’s right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
Chorus: cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I’ll feel the power
But you won’t, no you won’t
cause I can’t make you love me, if you don’t

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlrXIvMmG3s

The next tune was written by John Prine. She likes his stuff. I do too. Enjoy it:

Angel From Montgomery

I am an old woman named after my mother
My old man is another child that's grown old
If dreams were lightning thunder was desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago

Chorus:
Make me an angel that flies from montgomry
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go

When I was a young girl well, I had me a cowboy
He werent much to look at, just free rambling man
But that was a long time and no matter how I try
The years just flow by like a broken down dam.

Repeat chorus:

Theres flies in the kitchen I can hear em there buzzing
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today.
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say.

Repeat chorus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5HpW1Sula8

Here is John Prine doing it himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpuJisDGldM

And, last, but not least, Bonnie singing a Jackson Browne tune, from one of his early albums, with Jackson backing her up. I think she does it quite well. They sound really nice together.

My Opening Farewell

A lady stands before an open window
Staring so far away
She can almost feel the southern wind blow
Almost touching her restless day

She turns from her window to me
Sad smile her apology
Sad eyes reaching to the door

Daylight loses to another evening
And still she spares me the word goodbye
And sits alone beside me fighting her feelings
Struggles to speak but in the end can only cry

Suddenly its so hard to find
The sound of the words to speak her troubled mind
So Im offering these to her as if to be kind:
Theres a train everyday leaving either way
Theres a world, you know
Theres a way to go
And youll soon be gone -- that's just as well
This is my opening farewell

A childs drawings left there on the table
And a womans silk lying on the floor
And I would keep them here if I were able
Lock her safe behind this open door

But suddenly its so clear to me
That Id asked her to see what she may never see
And now my kind words find their way back to me
Theres a train everyday leaving either way
Theres a world, you know
You got a ways to go
And Ill soon believe -- its just as well
This is my opening farewell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgegiFhAEQ

Finally, I would like to share one of my favorite songs. It’s been covered by everyone and their dog. Deservedly so.

First, we’ll let Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed have a go at it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e98vNqJgjQ

Next, Peter, Paul, and Mary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ93dg8mnUk

Why not Eric Clapton?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCJ15r-ny5Q

And then finally the artist who wrote the tune. The original, the way it first came out:

Bob Dylan.

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don’t know by now
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It will never do somehow
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Well I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
But we never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never done before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, gal
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkVGClqrT4

That’s it for now. Hope you enjoyed gramps’ first set.

Coming up soon: Trance/techno/drum ‘n bass/ambient-chill

[_KimberlyAnn]

Gramps, I love your taste in music!

Allison Krauss has the voice of an angel; it's absolutely ethereal. And Doc Watson was a favorite of my dad's. I'm really just a hillbilly girl from the backwoods, so I've been exposed to a lot of country/blues artists, and when I was growing up, my dad played guitar and sometimes banjo in a band. They played a lot of music that reminds me of the Allman (sp?) Brothers. Every time I hear the Allman Brothers I remember the jams that used to go on in my living room when I was a girl.

Thanks for the tunes!

KA

[_gramps]

Gramps, I love your taste in music!

Allison Krauss has the voice of an angel; it's absolutely ethereal. And Doc Watson was a favorite of my dad's. I'm really just a hillbilly girl from the backwoods, so I've been exposed to a lot of country/blues artists, and when I was growing up, my dad played guitar and sometimes banjo in a band. They played a lot of music that reminds me of the Allman (sp?) Brothers. Every time I hear the Allman Brothers I remember the jams that used to go on in my living room when I was a girl.

Thanks for the tunes!

KA

You are welcome. Hope you enjoy them all.

I played banjo in high school, but I never got past Cripple Creek, usually the first tune one learns on the banjo. You can see I didn't get too far! LOL

I saw Doc Watson in concert with his son, Merle. They were on a one-foot stage and I was on the front row, sitting on the floor. The old Terrace Ballroom in SLC. Saw Lynryd Skinner there, and Fleetwood Mac there before the Rumours album (the beginning of their downfall).

I saw Dylan in SLC too. Front row. I have a really funny story about that. Also saw him in Tokyo, thirty years later. I have another funny story about that.

Ask and ye shall receive!

[_KimberlyAnn]

I saw Dylan in SLC too. Front row. I have a really funny story about that. Also saw him in Tokyo, thirty years later. I have another funny story about that.

Ask and ye shall receive!

You have funny stories? What are they? Have they names? Will you give them to me? ;)

KA

[_gramps]

I saw Dylan in SLC too. Front row. I have a really funny story about that. Also saw him in Tokyo, thirty years later. I have another funny story about that.

Ask and ye shall receive!

You have funny stories? What are they? Have they names? Will you give them to me? ;)

KA

I will through the veil (in about three or four hours time from now)!

[_Runtu]

I've been on this weird 80s nostalgia thing for a few weeks. Maybe it's being so close to BYU, but my mind keeps going back to an earlier day. This week it's been a lot of Echo and the Bunnymen.

Here are a couple of old ones I like:

Do It Clean (Live)

Never Stop

[_barrelomonkeys]

I just looked over this thread.... I have been on an emotional rollercoaster ride for OVER a month now... and before this thread was started.

Good grief!


Posting it again for good measure!
The Damned - Can't Be Happy Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXGCtyTd ... ed&search=



Gramps! Loved everything you posted listening to it all now....... will take a while.....

Runtu, love Echo and the Bunnymen.

[_barrelomonkeys]

Gramps, I enjoyed your first set.

YOU, almost brought me to tears though.

[_KimberlyAnn]

Gramps, I listened to all your songs, and they were fantastic! I couldn't get Down in the Valley to Pray to play, but I've got that on CD and have heard it lots of times. Someone else might like to listen to it, though, so here's a link that works. :) http://youtube.com/watch?v=WRGxbFmIni4

Again, thanks for the tunes!

[_gramps]

Gramps, I listened to all your songs, and they were fantastic! I couldn't get Down in the Valley to Pray to play, but I've got that on CD and have heard it lots of times. Someone else might like to listen to it, though, so here's a link that works. :) http://youtube.com/watch?v=WRGxbFmIni4

Again, thanks for the tunes!

Thanks for fixing that link. I appreciate it!