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One Track Mind: The Carpenters, "We've Only Just Begun" (1970)
By Pico Since I'm on the topic of singles from 1970, here's another one that was in the family household record rotation forty years ago, but a much more somber and a lot less obscure. It began as a ditty for a local bank seeking to attract newlywed customers and within a year turned into a ...
One Track Mind: The Jazz Crusaders, "Thank You Fallettinme Be Mice Elf Again" (1970)
By Pico Today is a day for giving thanks for something or another, and everyone knows what Sly Stone is grateful for. And believe me, I was intent on making this One Track Mind about a 1969 hit for the Family Stone that pretty much set the template for '70's funk, but then I got to ...
One Track Mind: Steely Dan "Everything Must Go" (2003)
By Pico So a couple of years ago we saluted the national shopping holiday called Black Friday with some musings about a 1975 Steely Dan song of the same name. This time, we're going to mark the occasion with another ditty by the Boys From Bard (Walter Becker and Donald Fagen), called “Everything Must Go." This, ...
Obscuro: The Beatles, "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" (1970)
By Pico Paul McCartney declared it is “probably my favorite Beatles' track" and yet, it's also one of The Beatles' silliest, discombobulated and for decades, one of their most obscure. For me, “You Know My Name (Look up The Number)" just brings me back to a long-ago time. My family (I say “family" but it probably ...
Unsigned Treasures: Taketwo and Friends - Rochester Express (2010)
By Nick DeRiso A group of cross-country friends with day jobs got together to produce Rochester Express, this chummy, Woody Herman-style amalgam of galloping jazz joys. By day, the members of Rochester, Minnesota-based TakeTwo work as a cardiovascular surgeon, a respiratory therapist, and an IBM engineer. In this two day recording session, however, they emerged from ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Bill Frisell - Gone, Just Like a Train (1998)
By Mark Saleski When writing on or near the Thanksgiving Day holiday, it has become the custom to either enumerate the things we're thankful for or to go the consumerist route and talk about Black Friday. Black Friday? C'mon, when me and TheWife got up this morning, the temperatures were in the high 20's and there ...
Kevin Eubanks - Zen Food (2010)
By Pico Millions of people know him as an affable, guitar-wielding long-time bandleader of the most popular late night show in television history. Now that Kevin Eubanks has left his eighteen year stint as Jay Leno's musician sidekick on The Tonight Show, it's time to become acquainted with the Kevin Eubanks that's been around for nearly ...
The Orb Featuring David Gilmour - Metallic Spheres (2010)
By Nick DeRiso The Orb's signature sound—gorgeous but not quite ambient, hypnotic but typically not much more rhythmic than a chill-out room—always seemed to cry out for the guitar stylings of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. The band copped to the underlying influence on its debut album, 1991's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, the artwork of which prominently ...
Unsigned Treasures: Murray Flint - The Journey (2010)
By Nick DeRiso An album about dreams reclaimed, Murray Flint's The Journey traces his own road back from painfully debilitating tendonitis. After nearly a decade away from the guitar, Flint discovered the finger-style approach long associated with Merle Travis. The technique simultaneously sounds more complex, since the performer also includes bass and rhythm signatures, but also ...
One Track Mind: Billy Preston, "Outa-Space" (1972)
By Nick DeRiso A massive reissue project from Apple Records had me digging back through the old Billy Preston sides. None is more titanically funky, and lastingly influential, than “Outa-Space," with its greasefire groove and afro-shaking new clavinet sound. “Outa-Space" is not to be confused with his similarly named No. 4 hit of a year later, ...
