your looks and my language
What is it about the musical/physical yin and yang that creates such sweet perfection? Take the genius of Derek Trucks, dude breaks a string doesn’t flinch - I say his lack of facial expression and intense concentration only adds to the intensity - working off the other. Some say you need show how you’re feeling. Why? His fingers show it all.
And then take that yin and and kick it in with a little Solomon Burke yang and man - ye really is complete - from DTB’s Joyful Noise:
And just because I care. Some healing for the soul:
categories: music
tags: Derek Trucks, Solomon Burke, soul
posted by asstral at 04:01 pm
asstral, do you know that scene from “Out of Africa” when Robert Redford tells Meryl Streep not to move? You should.
Here’s a Solomon Burke “Soul Service”. You can click on the songs you like to hear. He comes in on track three. This is an artist that touches on all of it for me and has inspired an infinite number of artists on so many levels.
http://www.fabchannel.com/
(click on concert/search on Solomon (2005 show)
good post, asstral, you got back baby
Solomon was a pioneer that fought against being labeled R&B. He sang country before Ray Charles. He wasn’t going to sling, sexually suggestive lyrics in the cliche tongue in “cheek” (sorry asstral) bluesy forced R&B way. He has eleven + children and is not a monk, but knew how to convey the essence of a song. When I first heard Cry to Me, I remember getting it before I ever got it, which was years later. A master.
I am clearly still just a child debunot. I first heard Cry to Me when I was 10 years old watching Dirty Dancing trying to decide if I wanted to be Swayze or Baby. I enjoy the way he moves from talk to song effortlessly. You know, he’s performing at the Montreaux in a couple weeks - don’t think I’m not thinking about going.
Thanks for the video of Trucks, dude. I’d never watched him play, only heard him, but I’ve been wanting to see him since reading something Rolling Stone said about his stillnes in their article a few months ago about the “new guitar gods”. I googled it up since my memory for detail sucks. Here’s the part that grabbed me:
I like that concept of spiritual poise, maybe because I’m pretty sure I possess none. But I also like the fact that when it takes over, it hits different people in different ways (or maybe, it’s different times, not different people). It’s like it severs the brain/muscle connection - so movement is either controlled only by emotion, or shut down almost entirely. Whatever it is, I feel like I’m watching a different, better species.
I’d like to know more about Trucks’ “deep study” of Indian music.
Yeah very interesting. To me it’s almost like you can see the energy pour out of his fingers into the strings. He’s phenomenal to watch.
I didn’t intend for my post to read as a friggin’ bedtime story my child. I was just giving you some history. It doesn’t mean I am. You don’t know when I first heard the song baby swayze. Sorry, this oldster gets crabby-assed after 8PM.
hahahahahhaha. bullshit. it was a bedtime story and you know it.
Just have to say, the mp3 you posted is the perfect antidote to the work I’m stuck doing tonight. I wonder how that works? I mean i’ve had music fit what i’m doing, and i’ve had it clash, but I don’t remember having it erase before. Interesting phenomenon.
I’ve been trying to tell you about me.
and the conversion is good
I like Doyle Bramhall also.
Debunot, I think Doyle Bramhall II is one amazing dude myself. Would have been cool to grow up in his house too getting to know Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan-be around his dad. He had some incredible role models.
I love this clip because you just get to live in the guitar. That’s a nice place to be.
Cool thread too — I thought about it all night — It made me listen to a ton of music — sometimes the really great stuff just makes me quite–so I let you guys talk but I was loving it.
You know we keep coming at the topic from a bunch of angles and I keep getting back to thinking that what really moves the soul is a combination of great execution and some not really quantifiable something. It’s like the execution and the impetus behind it or something. SB sure has buckets of that. He hits you in the gut so hard you’re on the floor and you wonder — “huh– how did that happen?”
Derek Trucks gets me in ways that Tuck Andress does. Not the way they play but the place they go to, to get there or something.
Anyway enjoy the clip dudes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yikAMr8p27Q
And while I’m at it I HAVE TO toss in this Tuck. I’ve had the joy of seeing him live in a tiny venue a few times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diZjE1lYoQw
Thanks Meg. Here’s one for you. The stoic step dancer of the subconscious. He shared your night terrors and highest hopes.
Watch the audience as well you couldn’t buy a static charge to save your life from the lot of them. In all fairness there was probably a language barrier to contend with.
Roy Orbison - Holland 1965 Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT1RjKC2Wbo
There are parts 2-4 listed as well. Great to listen to and not watch as well.
especially part 3 — What’d I say and It’s Over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VYKAawSa5s&mode=related&search=
I’ve been trying to find some clean documentation to support this; it’s still shaky. What was wondering how Derek Truck got into Indian music. I feel sure it is because of his relationship with Eric Clapton and Clapton’s strong interest in sounds from India. Derek is so eclectic and also so open to new stuff. I love the fact that he titled his album “Songlines” after he became enamored with
the Aboriginal creation myths that holds that the world itself was originally sung into existence by legendary totemic elder beings who wandered the Australian continent along invisible pathways (later known to Westerners as “songlines” or “dreaming-tracks”) singing out the names of everything–trees, flowers, streams, animals, clouds, earth–breathing form, order and beauty into the unfolding world. Derek is quoted as saying:
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“I was turned onto the book, ‘The Songlines’ [by Bruce Chatwin], and it seemed to my mind appropriate with the amount of different types of music we play, it’s kind of what we’re doing: just wandering and taking a little bit here and a little bit there. A lot of it is trying to turn on a new generation of listeners to music that formed this country and the culture. A lot of it falls by the wayside if you don’t introduce it to people. You have to judge a tree by its roots.”
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I’m going to keep checking for data but in the mean while that whole album is worth getting in my mind. The band is tight and he is unreal.
Derek Trucks again… This is a solo w/Clapton’s band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OahHiQUOQb0&mode=related&search=
Different strokes for different folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqK1JJOFxw
I just saw the “Soul Stew Revival” concert with The Derek Trucks Band and Susan Tedeschi the other night. I wish I could see it again..beautiful venue, beautiful music. Songlines is in heavy rotation around here because everybody in the house agrees on it. That is quite unusal in my family!
asstral said, “Some say you need show how you’re feeling. Why? His fingers show it all” So true. And it reminds of one of my other favorite artists, Lyle Lovett. He is such a soulful singer, yet his face and his body show nothing. nada. zip. Some say he looks like a statue when he sings. But it doesn’t matter. It is all in the voice.