Single of the Week: Jimmie’s Chicken Shack and Deep Purple
Posted on December 6, 2007Our first single for the week was inspired by DB, who IMed me a couple of weeks ago about downloading some Jimmie’s Chicken Shack from the excellent Amazon MP3 store. I hadn’t listened to JCS in a long time, so I decided to pull Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope off the CD rack and ripped it into iTunes (figure I’ll do that while it’s still legal). Immediately, songs like “Dropping Anchor” and “Another Day” took me back to the days of high school. Ahh, good stuff. So this week’s single is “High“, which happens to be one of the first songs I figured out on my own to play on guitar. The whole album has a really heavy, funky sound. Definitely check it out.
Secondly, a Deep Purple song that isn’t “Smoke on the Water”. From their debut album, Shades of Deep Purple, “Hush” is an excellent song. Originally a country tune penned by Joe South for Billy Joe Royal, it’s a fast rollicking song, heavy on organ and blistering guitar work, and it stays true to the original version. A fantastic single from 1968.
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I haven’t checked out that JCS yet, but you know I’ll be pulling it up at the Amazon store this week. Nothing better to help with the Christmas spirit!