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It’s on my listening list! So many good podcasts, so little time…
they're my favorite country band
Relevant to the Jason P. Woodbury podcast I just did on Known Associates,
Saw ‘em live in a small, sweaty WDC venue many moons ago - one of my all-time favorite shows. “I got a shirt that cost $1.25 / I know I’m the best dressed man alive / I put it on & head down to the local dive….” That song still makes me wanna shout along & pogo to this day.
Mine almost definitely was. But I know what you mean.
Conjuring ZZ Top and the Dead much in the manner that the Minutemen chanelled CCR and Van Halen, the Meat Puppets' weird boogie odyssey ‘Huevos’ is one of the great guitar records. An alternate history of punk where its major deity isn’t Johnny Thunders, it’s JJ Cale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrCH...
On the brand new edition of my podcast Known Associates: me and the brilliant songwriter and critic Jason P. Woodbury touch on the mysteries of the desert, future journalism, the imperative need for gratitude and his transporting new record. An all time fave talk! southwestreview.com/known-associ...
On the brand new edition of my podcast Known Associates: me and the brilliant songwriter and critic Jason P. Woodbury touch on the mysteries of the desert, future journalism, the imperative need for gratitude and his transporting new record. An all time fave talk! southwestreview.com/known-associ...
Newest episode of my podcast 'Known Associates' is up! Amazing talk with Jason P. Woodbury, a brilliant musician and writer with a wonderful new LP! I enjoyed this immensely, and I think you will too!
It was an utter delight having The Paranoid Style @paranoiacs.bsky.social on today. We had a great conversation, listened to some songs that influenced the new album Known Associates, and they played a handful of songs live in the studio. Check it out here: www.mixcloud.com/rockrabbitho...
Me too!
ZZ Top appeared on a BBC show with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1980 and nicked not only their sound but also their dance moves domino.elfworld.org/omd-zz-top-s...
I like it! The singing reminds me of Canned Heat, of all things.
Amazing.
Love it unreservedly and with all my heart!
I love all their records!
Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp guitar hook and a Simmons SDS-V
Works like a charm!
Me too!
I guess the band had pretty much exhausted the boogie-band trio thing after a decade, but I prefer my ZZ Top sans Fairlight!
Texas meets Essex and gets funky
![ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin' (Official Music Video) [HD]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4dm4val52snkcppjntvwlok3/bafkreib2hohhn3uwxvfco2kd2jib2tyj7pc6azrapuvrdrgtmwm4gwphee)
The astonishing outcome of Billy Gibbons' on-its-face-insane inspiration to make ZZ Top sound more like Depeche Mode, ‘Eliminator’ is forty-five minutes of ecstatic hooks and Fairlight boogie whose groove is nothing less than a novel musical vernacular. A masterpiece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae82...
Elizabeth Nelson, singer and songwriter for The Paranoid Style, is a woman with blonde straight hair seen standing towards the left of the frame wearing a colorful spring dress and white high heeled boots. She is standing on a path of those honeycomb type pavers, which seems reckless in those boots. In the background are ferns and lush greenery. If you look closely, she is holding a mostly-empty glass tumbler in her right hand and her left is on her hip, as she stares off and away to her left. It's hard to tell if she's amused by something she sees over there, or is just thinking about something else. Just off her elbow are some big letters in a playful, angular yellow and pink font. THE PARANOID STYLE they shout with glee. Maybe it's the words "Live in Studio!" sitting just below that have them so worked up. Rather more reserved text top and bottom says The Rock and Roll Rabbit Hole Tues. 12-2 WOWD 94.3.
This Tuesday, we welcome Elizabeth Nelson & Tim Bracy of The Paranoid Style. They'll play a few songs live in the studio, and walk us through some influences behind their brand new album, Known Associates. March 10 from Noon-2pm Eastern at TakomaRadio.org and WOWD 94.3 @paranoiacs.bsky.social
absolutely hijacking international women's day to suggest that you consider purchasing a copy of THREE CHORDS AND BLESSED NOISE, a chapbook written by a woman about Patti Smith's Horses 50th Anniversary tour! jukeboxgraduate.bigcartel.com/product/thre...
Thank you very much!!!
I’ve been an X’gauer since 1992. I occasionally subscribe to his Substack, and plan to restart in April. If not for the Dean of American Rock Critics, I wouldn’t have discovered The Paranoid Style. Congratulations on yet another another solid “A!”
As someone who practically memorized his 'Rock Albums of the Seventies' you are in fine company and it's well deserved.
Kudos!
When I began writing songs, it was outside the limits of my imagination that I'd ever get an A grade from Robert Christgau for any of my records. Today's Consumer Guide marks five full A's in a row for the Paranoid Style. Sharp as ever. I couldn't be more grateful.
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I co-sign all of this.
Jody Stephens once said to the effect of feeling like he was allowed to rave about Big Star because he didn’t write the songs. I feel similarly in this case.
