Hindustan Times
Take a stiff shot of the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Add some more grit, grime and edge. Shake it up well in an old cocktail-shaker and serve it straight up. What you’ll get is what a band called Drive-By Truckers serves up. I first came across the Truckers when I heard their two-CD epic, The Southern Rock Opera, released in 2001. A concept album that explores southern rock music, the album is themed on Lynyrd Skynyrd, the rock band that Ronnie Van Zant founded in 1965. Van Zant and two of his band members were killed in a plane crash in 1977 but not before Lynyrd Skynyrd garnered a huge following—even in India. On my infrequent visits to some Delhi bars I still hear their anthemic song, Free Bird, being played by DJs.
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged A Blessing and a Curse, Alabama, Decoration Day, Download Central, Drive-By Truckers, Free Bird, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Music, Patterson Hood, Ronnie Van Zant, Southern discomfort, The Dirty South, The Southern Rock Opera
Jazz legend Duke Ellington, who’s credited with many interesting quotes on jazz, blues and music critics is believed to have once said: “There are two kinds of music. Good music and the other kind.” But what’s good and what’s the other kind is entirely a matter of individual taste. Mentioning Ellington’s quote, a recent article in Uncut magazine said perhaps The Beatles are one those rare bands on whom there is a consensus. Everybody thinks The Beatles made great music.
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(5 votes, average: 3.2 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged bittersweet, Boys And Girls In America, Buckley’s dark, CD, complimentary CD, Download Central, Duke Ellington, Ellington, Fairport Convention, favourite rockstar, Good music, Grace, Jazz legend, Jeff Buckley, McCartney, Mick Jagger, new music, Rolling Stones, Ryan Adam, Soft Machine, The Beatles, The Dirty South, The Texas-Jerusalem, Uncut magazine, Wyatt
