Sunday Set - August 11, 2024

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We're over on the Island, again, this weekend.

This time we're here for the wedding of one of E and e's cousins...

This Set of warbling was recorded ahead of time, on Thursday night, in a bit of a rush/with little practice (just like the old days!) before littler e and I went out for a practice drive - she's working on moving from the L to the N in a few weeks.

Anyway...

There's an old Felice Brother tune in this one. Why? Well, because any day is a good for a little bit of the Felices. And, as an added bonus, they have new music out thanks, at least in part to the patron saint of all things FB, Conor Oberst:

...What do a doomed heiress chanteuse, a devoted New York City bellhop, a prostitute in pastel tights, a dead man’s guitar, and a wistful railroad traveler have in common? Each appear vividly in songs on the latest album from The Felice Brothers, Valley of Abandoned Songs, the band’s first on Conor Oberst’s new label, Million Stars...

Additionally, this particular Sunday Set is bookended by a medley of Townes Van Zandt's hit, singular, and Lucinda Williams' tribute to one of Townes' buddies, Blaze Foley. That's them at the top of post. There's also a little bit of old, old Neil with an on-the-fly key change and a wee bit of Indy CanCon from Danny Michel electrified.

Selah.

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Friday night we were all at Grandpops house, and E and her musical and more partner A were working on their wedding song set list...One of the tunes was that big Sonny and Cher hit...Which sent me to searching thinking that there could be no way that Mr. Bono could have written that song...I figured it was probably somebody like Lieber and Stoller or something...Turns out Sonny, who at the time was working for Phil Spector did actually write the thing...But the real shocker that popped up from all that searching about Sonny?...Well, Townes' quip about playing 'Pancho and Lefty' as a medley of his 'hit' was actually swiped from Bono, who once said the same thing about his only hit without Cher, 'Laugh at Me'...Go figure.




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