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[javadog]

Heard this today while getting a haircut:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bynWXFY5U6U

[HobieMarty]

He's going the distance, he's going for speed...

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[IROC]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

If you like Drive By Truckers, you'll like Jason Isbell.

Didn't Drive By Truckers evolve out of the remnants of a band called Adam's House Cat? I lived in Decatur, AL in the late '80s and Adam's House Cat often played at a bar I frequented back then. They were extremely good for a local North Alabama band... I always wondered what happened to them and it seems a couple of the members formed Drive By Truckers?

[thingmon]

Los Skarnales... Great live band out of Houston.
https://youtu.be/0ommUbJIM1c?si=-80ILEcJj2SDOdYl

Fabulous Thunderbirds
https://youtu.be/OUdwGD40yxo?si=kaJwewfpi5Yrw_dP

[thingmon]

Buena Vista Social Club
https://youtu.be/OUdwGD40yxo?si=kaJwewfpi5Yrw_dP

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by IROC

Didn't Drive By Truckers evolve out of the remnants of a band called Adam's House Cat?

You're probably right. I own a couple of DBT albums, but I haven't done a deep dive into their history.

Adam's House Cat is a terrific name for a band.

[Superman]

https://youtu.be/97Pxe9KTgJc?si=PxwWU_y3exR4BndL

[Superman]

Try this again.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by IROC

Didn't Drive By Truckers evolve out of the remnants of a band called Adam's House Cat? I lived in Decatur, AL in the late '80s and Adam's House Cat often played at a bar I frequented back then. They were extremely good for a local North Alabama band... I always wondered what happened to them and it seems a couple of the members formed Drive By Truckers?

Patterson Hood (son of legandary Muscle Shoal's bass player) and Mike Cooley ... and speaking of Muscle Shoals....

I've been a Dire Straits fan since I first heard SofS in my college cafeteria freshman year ... but only have their first 4-5 cds... first three have never left "my rotation" ... still .

The 2nd .... "Communique" was recorded at Muscle Shoals (along with a bunch of classic rock albums) and is still my favorite ... but I have zero "new" Knophler in decades .... .

H_O .... Please help me ...

List some MK discs that I should add

Thanks Mike!

Or anyone else....

[KFC911]

"Home is Carolina" .... yes indeed!

Thank you Gogar ... just gave it a listen .... for 30 seconds ... on my phone .

....and the bands played on

Great thread....

[IROC]

Pardon the DBT tangent a bit longer - couldn't resist looking into the DBT/Adam's House Cat connection. Bit of trivia - my first wife's brother owned the bar where Adam's House Cat played in the late '80s so I got to hang out with them a lot. I didn't think much of it - just some fun guys who liked to drink beer. They had a song called "Everyone Needs a Dad Like Fred McMurray".

Google is awesome:

While Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood may have founded Drive-By Truckers in 1996, the two musicians had in fact first come together more than a decade prior. They met on August 1, 1985, the day Hood moved into a dank basement apartment in North Florence, AL shared by Cooley. The two young musicians took notice of each other’s guitars and became fast friends, drinking cheap beer and singing songs together on the flat’s shabby couch. Among those songs were originals penned by Hood, including one that took its title from the Southern colloquialism, ‘I wouldn’t know him from Adam’s house cat.’ Hood and Cooley worked out a rendition of the song that quickly led to another and then another. That first collaboration eventually gave the band its moniker – Adam’s House Cat was born.

Beginning in 1987, Adam’s House Cat spent three years grinding it out in bars and clubs around their home region, from Birmingham and Huntsville to Nashville, Memphis, and Oxford, MS. Wider attention came when the band’s infectious “Smiling At Girls” was named one of 10 First Place winners (out of over 1,500 entries) in MUSICIAN Magazine’s Best Unsigned Band Contest, judged by an all-star panel that included Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett, Mitchell Froom, and Mark Knopfler. The track was featured on a nationally distributed compilation CD, garnering interest from an array of labels and managers across the South.

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by KFC911

List some MK discs that I should add

Thanks Mike!

Or anyone else....

If you don't have this one you're missing out...

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by KFC911

List some MK discs that I should add

Shangri La is a must-have and if you like that, maybe All The Roadrunning with Emmylou. Ragpickers Dream is good, too, and I haven't heard all of it, but I'm liking what I have heard from his new one called One Deep River.

But definitely Shangri La. (This is a little ditty about Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalsds)

[Steve Carlton]

^ just added that to my Spotify queue.

[Deschodt]

Putting that one out there cause *I* had no idea they existed until now: Manchester orchestra
Mellow and pleasant... great voice

(try The way, I know how to speak, I've got friends)

[herr_oberst]

I watched a doc on Netflix recently about Nashville songwriters; the dream, the struggle.

The whole time I'm watching, I'm thinking of the ones that have an unworldly gift for words.

Here's a couple of Hiatt masterpieces.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by KFC911

Patterson Hood (son of legandary Muscle Shoal's bass player) and Mike Cooley ... and speaking of Muscle Shoals.....

Speaking of Muscle Shoals:

We were at a hotel somewhere in the south - Memphis maybe. Vicki went out to have a cigarette. She was gone too long so I went down to see about her. She was talking to this scrawny little guy, who was also out there to smoke, about pickup trucks. I joined the conversation while they had another cigarette and he mentioned Neil Young’s trucks. I thought, “How does he know about Neil Young’s pickup trucks?” We went inside and had something to eat and talked about trucks a traveling and stuff. The guy was Spooner Oldham.

[KFC911]

John Hiatt .... always in rotation with or without Sonny Landreth .... who slides like nobody else... even Derek ... and ol' Duane... which brings us back to Muscle Shoals and Patrick's awesone encounter .

Duane Allman's Anthology discs contain his session work at MS ... I have them ....
somewhere in a player or ???.

Crossing Muddy Waters ... when I bought it .... I thought it was about pissing off the blues guy .

JH is great .... solo or with them Goners

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by KFC911

Crossing Muddy Waters ... when I bought it .... I thought it was about pissing off the blues guy .

I think both the songs I posted might have been written as eulogies to his wife.

[KFC911]

Thanks! I just ordered "Shangri La" and "Neck and Neck" ... and saw a live Little Feat (with Lowell) disc ....

NEW MUSIC to listen too

Thanks guys !