jWiltshire.org » Single of the Week http://jwiltshire.org Ack! Ack! A Robot Attack! Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Single of the Week: Jimmie’s Chicken Shack and Deep Purple http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/12/06/single-of-the-week-jimmies-chicken-shack-and-deep-purple/ http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/12/06/single-of-the-week-jimmies-chicken-shack-and-deep-purple/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:20:16 +0000 jWiltshire http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/12/06/single-of-the-week-jimmies-chicken-shack-and-deep-purple/ Our 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.

]]> http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/12/06/single-of-the-week-jimmies-chicken-shack-and-deep-purple/feed/ 2 Single of the Week: Rod Stewart http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/10/21/single-of-the-week-rod-stewart/ http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/10/21/single-of-the-week-rod-stewart/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:24:09 +0000 jWiltshire http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/10/21/single-of-the-week-rod-stewart/ The other night I was driving home, and I had a problem to solve. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to listen to the Rolling Stones, or should I listen to Rod Stewart and the Faces. What to do what to do. And then a solution presented itself. How about Rod Stewart doing a Rolling Stones song? Brilliant! Courtesy of the two-disc (at least, iTunes says it’s a partial album) Complete Mercury Studios Recordings collection, we have an excellent rendition of “Street Fighting Man”. It’s a slowed down, slick and sliding blues version, with some great resonator guitar action (Hey Paul, maybe you should get a resonator guitar… it’s still hillbilly, like you were looking for, but it’s cool, too.) and after it ends, it reprises with a an approach similar to the original version, but still acoustic. And really, it’s a fantastic track.

Bonus crossover fact: Ronnie Wood played guitar with the Faces with Rod Stewart, before joining up with Mick and Keith and the gang. Neat!

]]> http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/10/21/single-of-the-week-rod-stewart/feed/ 1 Single of the Week: Carlos Gardel http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/09/13/single-of-the-week-carlos-gardel/ http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/09/13/single-of-the-week-carlos-gardel/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:40:43 +0000 jWiltshire http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/09/13/single-of-the-week-carlos-gardel/ This week we have a very special single of the week. Special ‘cuz you get this song for free. Carlos Gardel was one of the most prominent figures in the history of Tango. An actor and singer, he wrote hundreds of tangos that are still performed today. He died in a plane crash at the age of 45, during the height of his career, creating the image of a tragic hero. Today’s single, “Madreselva”, is perhaps best known for its prominent use in the Italian film Il Postino, and because it’s a damn good song. I feel confident in posting the mp3 because it was recorded over 75 years ago and in another country, so it’s pretty much RIAA proof. Enjoy.

Carlos Gardel’s Madreselva

]]> http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/09/13/single-of-the-week-carlos-gardel/feed/ 1 Single of the Week: Project Jenny/Project Jan http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/08/27/single-of-the-week-project-jennyproject-jan/ http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/08/27/single-of-the-week-project-jennyproject-jan/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:32:00 +0000 jWiltshire http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/08/27/single-of-the-week-project-jennyproject-jan/ A lot of marching bands (or marching band teachers) think they’re cool by incorporating rock songs into their pep band repertoires, but really, hearing seven trumpets and a tuba playing “Centerfold” isn’t really all that cool at all. Enter Project Jenny/Project Jan. Instead of incorporating rock and roll into marching band, they introduced a marching band into their rock and roll, with “Fight Song“. Featuring a marching band fight song for a backdrop and Jim Morrison-style shouting, it’s definitely an interesting sound, and if you can track it down, an interesting video.

Check back in a couple of days for a post about freaks from the state fair. Whoop whoop.

]]> http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/08/27/single-of-the-week-project-jennyproject-jan/feed/ 1 Single of the Week: The Libertines http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/08/15/single-of-the-week-the-libertines/ http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/08/15/single-of-the-week-the-libertines/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:05:54 +0000 jWiltshire http://jwiltshire.org/archives/2007/08/15/single-of-the-week-the-libertines/ Ahh the Libertines. What’s not to love about them? An early ’00′s post punk garage rock revival band with a singer fueled entirely by crack cocaine and heroin. Drunkenly slurred lyrics over bashed out guitar rhythms and banging drums, the bands career blew up and fell apart almost as quickly as their songs did. So this week, I’ma feature a short song by them, “Arbeit Macht Frei“. This song bangs and crashes. Vocalist Pete Doherty drunkenly shouts out verses about hypocrisy and racism in post-war England. That is, if you can make out the words. And the whole thing is done in a minute and thirteen seconds.

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