Personal Fav : New Grass Revival (best mando in the world)

New Grass Revival was a progressive bluegrass band founded in 1971 and composed of Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, Ebo Walker, Curtis Burch, Butch Robins, Béla Fleck and Pat Flynn. They were active between 1971 and 1989, releasing more than twenty albums as well as six singles. Their highest-charting single is "Callin' Baton Rouge", which peaked at #37 on the U.S. country charts in 1989 and was a Top 5 country hit for Garth Brooks five years later.

Screw anything more. The lineup that I had seen in the day (3 times) was Bela Fleck, Banjo, Sam Bush Mandolin (a genius), John Cowan bass and lead vocals and Pat Flynn guitar. these guys were absolutely amazing. Fleck has done things with banjo that haven't been done (and it worked!) Sam Bush plays the mando like no one I have ever seen play before or since, Pat Flynn plays some really great Flat picking guitar and John Cowan...Bass...4 octave range.

They all sing and they were just amazing onstage. A quartet that was unbelievable. Just as they were really gonna make it big time, they split.

Watch the videos. You will see what I mean. What's a couple of minutes for an education in music? first two are instrumentals. Just see what they can do.

Seven by Seven
(watch how they hand the lick off to each other. Particularly the mandolin



Metric Lips



Can't Stop Now



every now and then, they went back to roots. In this video, Bela not only sings, but has no Banjo (very rare in both cases) 4 part harmony "gospel". Figured PJ would appreciate it.



Looking Past You



There's a lot of others, but now to the "Off Shoots" I will focus on the two best; Sam Bush and John Cowan.

Sam Bush

Sam Bush (b. April 13, 1952 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.

Sam Bush & Pastor Mustard Jam; Sam Bush and Pastor Mustard of Aspen Public Radio have an impromptu jam. Recorded January 11th 2009



John Cowan (b. Aug 24, 1952 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival.

John Cowan "Carla's Got a New Tattoo"



Together....

John Cowan and Sam Bush - Dark As A Dungeon



Sam Bush and John Cowan -Sailin' Shoes (one of my favorite songs by them)



Talk About Suffering (acapella)- John Cowan



Sam Bush and John Cowan - Body And Soul



These guys were (and are) the best of the best...separate and together.

Chicago Transit Authority/Chicago/Terry Kath part one

Terry Alan Kath (January 31, 1946 – January 23, 1978) born in Chicago, Illinois, was the original guitarist and founding member of the rock band Chicago. He died in 1978 at the age of 31 from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. Kath reportedly had a history of using alcohol and drugs, including cocaine and marijuana, in his last few years.Kath was working on a solo album before he died). But despite his personal problems, this was not the cause of his accidental death.

Around 5 p.m., late in the afternoon of January 23, 1978, after a party at roadie Don Johnson's home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, Kath — being a gun enthusiast — took a .38 revolver and put it to his head, pulling the trigger several times on the empty chambers. Picking up a semiautomatic 9 mm pistol, Kath put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger, saying, "Don't worry, it's not loaded," after showing the empty magazine to his friend. However, one bullet remained in the chamber, killing him instantly when fired; a week shy of his 32nd birthday. The circumstances of his death gave him the dubious distinction of being one of the first celebrities to be nominated for a Darwin Award.

Chicago (Terry Kath) - I'm A Man 1968 (this is one of my fav's from them)



Chicago is an American pop rock/jazz fusion band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had a steady stream of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Second only to the Beach Boys in terms of singles and albums, Chicago is one of the longest running and most successful U.S. pop/rock and roll groups.

Chicago Terry Kath 25 or 6 to 4 1977 Houston - Here is the late great Terry Kath in his last videotaped performance in the summer of 1977 in Houston, Texas.



Chicago- Terry Kath- "Uptown" (1977) Tell me Stevie Ray wasn't influenced by him.



Their first record (released in April 1969), the eponymous The Chicago Transit Authority, was an audacious debut: a double album, very rare for a rookie band, featuring jazzy instrumentals, extended jams featuring Latin percussion, and experimental, feedback-laden guitar abstraction. The album began to receive heavy airplay on the newly popular FM radio band; it included a number of pop-rock songs — "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", "Beginnings", and "Questions 67 and 68" — which would later be edited to a radio-friendly length, released as singles, and eventually become rock radio staples.

Soon after the album's release, the band's name was shortened to Chicago, when the actual Chicago Transit Authority threatened legal action.

Dialogue (1975)



Chicago- Colour My World- "Live" 1977



(I've been) Searchin So Long



Chicago 1972-Make Me Smile



Beginnings (1970)

The Guess Who: AMERICAN WOMAN

The Guess Who were a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Produced by Jack Richardson, C.M., they were the first Canadian rock group to have a No.1 hit in the United States.The Guess Who started out as a local Winnipeg band formed by singer/guitarist Chad Allan in 1960 and initially called Al and the Silvertones. This was changed to Chad Allan & the Reflections in 1962, by which point the band consisted of Chad Allan (vocals/guitar), Bob Ashley (keyboards), Randy Bachman (guitars), Jim Kale (bass), and Garry Peterson (drums). All the band members were born in Winnipeg.

The band's debut single ("Tribute To Buddy Holly") was released on Canadian-American Records in 1962. Chad Allan and the Reflections then signed with Quality Records and released several flop singles in 1963/64, including one mis-credited to Bob Ashley & The Reflections. By 1965, the group was forced to change its name to Chad Allan & the Expressions after a U.S. group called The Reflections had scored a hit with "Just Like Romeo & Juliet".

AMERICAN WOMAN - LIVE (1970)



It was at this point that the band scored their first hit, a 1965 rendition of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates' "Shakin' All Over". This track reached #1 in Canada, #22 in the U.S (where Quality had licensed the track to the American Scepter label for release in the U.S.) , and #27 in Australia. However, in an attempt to build a mystique around the record, Quality Records credited the single only to "Guess Who?" It was hoped that some listeners might assume the "Guess Who?" identity was deliberately masking several famous performers working under a pseudonym -- given the "beat group" nature of the record, perhaps even members of The Beatles and/or other popular British Invasion bands. In concealing the identity of the band in this fashion, Quality Records may have been influenced by a similar ploy made the previous year by "The You Know Who Group", an American outift whose Merseybeat-ish 1964 single "Roses Are Red My Love" had peaked at #43 in the US, and at #21 in Canada.

It is debatable as to whether anyone was really fooled by the "Guess Who?" ruse, or if the record would have been a hit regardless of the artist credit. But the upshot was that, even after Quality Records revealed the band was "really" Chad Allan & The Expressions, disc jockeys still announced the group as Guess Who?, effectively forcing the band to rename themselves. So although singles were issued as being by "Guess Who?", on their first two albums, the band was credited as both "Guess Who?" and "Chad Allan & The Expressions".

Laughing (1968)



No Sugar Tonight New Mother Nature live



Share The Land



She'd Rather Be with Me (1966?)



THESE EYES

10cc: I'm not in love

10cc is an English art rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. Initially comprising four musicians — Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme — who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the “10cc” name in 1972.

Two strong song-writing teams, a commercial team and an artistic team, injected sharp wit to lyrically-dextrous songs. The commercial team (Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman) were straight pop-song-writers, who created the band’s most accessible songs; the artistic team (Godley and Creme) were the experimental half of 10cc, featuring an Art School sensibility and cinematic writing. Each man was a multi-instrumentalist, singer, writer, and producer, and each could perform as the lead singer.

I'm not in love (edited down, DJ version)



I'm Not in Love (Acoustic)



The Things We Do For Love



Wall Street Shuffle

Andrew Gold: Lonely Boy

Andrew Maurice Gold (born on August 2, 1951 in Burbank, California) is an American singer, musician and songwriter, best known in his homeland for his 1977 Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" and the 1978 single "Thank You for Being a Friend." His best known solo single in the UK is "Never Let Her Slip Away", which reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart in 1978. It also reached number 5 again, 14 years later, in a cover version by UK dance act Undercover.

He has the singular distinction of being the first human voice to be 'heard' on the surface of Mars: his rendition of the theme from the television series Mad About You, entitled "Final Frontier," was used as the wake-up call for the Mars Pathfinder space probe in 1996.

Lonely Boy



Thank You For Being A Friend

Climax Blues Band: Couldnt Get it Right

The original Climax Chicago Blues Band, later to become known as the Climax Blues Band was formed in Stafford, England in 1968 and continued until 1988. The original members were guitarists Peter Haycock and Derek Holt, keyboardist Arthur Wood, bassist Richard Jones, drummer George Newsome and vocalist/harmonica player Colin Cooper.

In 1970, the band shortened its name to the Climax Blues Band due to pressure from the American band Chicago Transit Authority. The band released at least eighteen official albums and has had Top 40 hits in the UK with "Couldn't Get It Right" and with "I Love You". Both songs were big American hits as well; "Couldn't Get It Right" reached #3 on the Hot 100 in 1977, and "I Love You" reached #12 in 1981.

Couldn't Get it Right 1976



I Love You

Soggy Bottom Boys: Man Of Constant Sorrow

this is predominantly Alison Krauss' band Union Station. Jordan Rivers and the Soggy Bottom Boys are the fictitious Depression-era "old-timey music" quartet and accompaniment from the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? The name Soggy Bottom Boys is possibly a reference to the famous Foggy Mountain Boys, a West Virginia bluegrass band of the 1940s with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

The voices behind the Soggy Bottom Boys are well-known bluegrass musicians: Union Station's Dan Tyminski (lead on "Man of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright. The three won a CMA Award for Single of the Year

Man Of Constant Sorrow

Alison Krauss : Whiskey Lullaby

Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971 in Decatur, Illinois) is an American bluegrass-country singer and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss + Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.

During her career she has won 26 Grammy Awards, making her the most awarded female artist (and the third most awarded artist overall) in Grammy history. She teamed up with Brad Paisley to do this song;

"Whiskey Lullaby."



Baby, now that I've found you



I Will



When you say nothing at all



Alison Krauss & Union Station - Oh Atlanta



Shadows



all she needs is 6 more grammys to have the most ever received in music history