good stuff...they know how to draw you in with just one verse...
Hallelujah, I'm a bum.
Hallelujah, bum again.
Hallelujah, gimme a handout,
Revive us again.
(sorry, not the best opening lines, but that just popped into my mind)
Hey, line man. Good to see you back.
Its been somethin seein you again
and in this time weve had to spend
youve been so good to be around
and thank you for that special thrill
to keep me goin on until
The next time Im in town-------Mark Knoepfler
Farmer...is that from Dire Straits?..or the new folk stuff?
Yes we're gonna have a wingding
A summer smoker underground
It's just a dugout that my dad built
In case the reds decide to push the button down
We've got provisions and lots of beer
The key word is survival on the new frontier-
D Fagen
Agents of the law and luckless pedestrians,
I know you're out there with rage in your eyes and a megaphone.
Saying "All is forgiven. Mad dog, surrender!"
How can I answer? A man of my mind can do anything.
- Steely Dan ("Don't Take Me Alive")
Pan-Thaats from Mark Knoepfler and chet Atkins "Neck in Neck"
This is one song that pedal steel makes a lovely accompaniment
I gather there's a slew where it doesn't...
Jes- I always loved the chorus:
I'm a bookkeeper's son
I don't want to shoot no one
Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don't take me alive
Got a case of dynamite
I could hold out here all night
Yes I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don't take me alive
Tell us a storeeee
bout how things used ta beee
make it up
write it down
just like historeee
Paul Simon
AH, excellent, Panzade! We should start a Steely Dan appreciation topic. Then again, it might just be you and me posting.
Give me one more time and Ill make the Northwest Passage
And find the hands of Franklin reachin for the Beaufort Sea
Tracing one warm line in a land so wild and savage
And Ill find a Nortthwest PAssage to The Sea
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a Stan Rogers song of which I became particularly fond while spending ttime on Baffin and Somerset Islands. brrr
pan-playing a peadl or lap steel is like plaaying an accordion. Not too many places it fits in, but when you find one, it makes tthe piece ring out.
If you like Ry Cooders bottleneck, a steel guitar can sound even more haunting. Its not just for that goddamm Hawaiian Don Ho crap.
So true...Knopfler did a group album that I loved had some great pedal steel in the first song...help me...
I don't like Hawaaian steel much but I'm a scholar of pedal steel and have an extensive album collection...In fact I took lessons from a now well known Nashville session guy...back when he was gigging in Maryland.
you dont meaan "Crabmeat"?
PS, nice avatar. who spots for you? I guess you need a "fluffer" too.
People say I'm the life of the party cause I tell a joke or two
Altho I might be laughing loud and hearty, deep inside I'm blue
Tracks of My Tears
Smokey Robinson
Never forget those first melancholy words EOE...good one
On 31 May 1986, Mark Knopfler played a low key gig at the Grove pub in Holbeck, Leeds, with old friends Steve Phillips and Brendan Croker. They were billed as the Notting Hillbillies and each received the princely sum of £22 for their performance. Phillips first met Knopfler in 1968 when both interviewed a local blues and country guitarist (also called Steve Phillips) for the YORKSHIRE POST. As both journalists played guitar they formed the Duolian String Pickers duo and played together during the late '60s. They split when Knopfler went to university in 1970. When he finished studying three years later he went to London and eventually formed Dire Straits. Meanwhile, Phillips formed the Steve Phillips Juke Band to play rockabilly. In 1976 Bradford-born Croker met Phillips and when the Juke Band split they toured as Nev And Norriss. In 1980, Phillips temporarily retired from music to concentrate on art. Croker eventually got the 5 O'Clock Shadows together. In 1986 Knopfler, flushed with success through Dire Straits, decided the time was right to do something a little different. In 1989 they started to work on a album and all three musicians came together, Mark also called on Dire Straits cohort Guy Fletcher to play keyboards and subsequently to help with the production of the album "Missing......Presumed having a good time" released in 1990.
