tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post1270155659141075342..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: The Search for AuthenticitySippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-607599135785801992013-08-01T21:04:57.095-04:002013-08-01T21:04:57.095-04:00Hi SamArt- I love remembering the KA-CHUNK sound o...Hi SamArt- I love remembering the KA-CHUNK sound of an 8-track swapping tracks.<br /><br />Hi Gringo- We like Bob Wills here at the Cottage. It's happy music.<br /><br />Hi Sixty Grit- That's an interesting timeline.<br /><br />Hi Seppo- JJ was like a prototype of a million roadhouse musicians. An archetype.<br /><br />Hi Johnathan- Thanks for reading and commenting.<br /><br />Hi Rob- Interestingly, "Gospel For Atheists" is the name of my Black Oak Arkansas tribute band. But I digress.<br /><br />Hi TK- If I said that, I must be perceptive.<br /><br />Hi Cletus- Thanks for reading and commenting.<br /><br />Hi Sam- Thanks for reading and commenting.<br /><br />Hi Anon- The boys are most definitely still " a thing." They're preparing for several shows this late summer. More news ahead.<br /><br />Hi Harriet- A hipster is anyone that eats artisanal grilled cheese sandwiches.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-84056653607360443682013-08-01T12:33:41.943-04:002013-08-01T12:33:41.943-04:00Oh, what is a hipster?
Other people?Oh, what is a hipster?<br /><br />Other people?H. Gillhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866823621648796335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-61515879527307291912013-08-01T12:33:19.390-04:002013-08-01T12:33:19.390-04:00Aww. JJ Cale -- I too had his album and played it ...Aww. JJ Cale -- I too had his album and played it in my dorm room. <br /><br />I loved his music. I saw a clip of him playing with Clapton about a year ago --- Clapton gave him the nod. He should.<br /><br />I loved "After Midnight." The way he crooned that song...H. Gillhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866823621648796335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-54176794749037318322013-07-31T03:01:27.966-04:002013-07-31T03:01:27.966-04:00Lest we forget:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es...Lest we forget:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsIqEq9OFxE<br /><br />$50 For the Hancock. Are they still a thing???<br /><br />*The World Wonders*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-28824757101315002702013-07-30T13:13:14.342-04:002013-07-30T13:13:14.342-04:00Hipsters can't BE authentic. That just eats i...Hipsters can't BE authentic. That just eats into them.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-51225308511734702892013-07-29T21:25:01.701-04:002013-07-29T21:25:01.701-04:00Dang....
His gee-tat is smokin'Dang....<br />His gee-tat is smokin'Cletus Socratesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-63751165238652752962013-07-29T15:34:57.321-04:002013-07-29T15:34:57.321-04:00Hipsters like authenticity. Interestingly, they ha...<i>Hipsters like authenticity. Interestingly, they have a tendency to despise and revile the cultures that produce that authenticity.</i><br /><br />Clapton sounded his tribute because he loved that music and hoped he might produce something authentic from it; today's hipsters may love that music but have no hope that they will produce anything authentic.<br /><br />They're hopeless - really helpless. They hate the fact that what they despise - or are told they should - was capable of spontaneously creating what they find beautiful without setting out to be "authentic". Those cultures were unselfconscious and sincere. Sincerity terrifies hipsters.<br /><br />Today's hipsters annoy me, but they're lost, way more lost I think than their immediate predecessors of the '90s. The ones I know around here, when you get down to it, are <i>scared</i> and I can't hold them in contempt for it because they've been given nothing of their own to make sense of their lives. So they've scraped together bits and pieces of others' lives that seemed to make sense to <i>them</i>. It's like a culture cargo cult.<br /><br />Wasn't it you awhile back that stated something like "we are living in the ruins of a civilization we could not build"? <br /><br />Heck you probably said what I just said in this comment. Anyway. It breaks my heart.T.K. Tortchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00553301766027577975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-33616928604917845182013-07-29T14:06:46.036-04:002013-07-29T14:06:46.036-04:00"Hipsters like authenticity. Interestingly, t..."Hipsters like authenticity. Interestingly, they have a tendency to despise and revile the cultures that produce that authenticity."<br /><br />Yowsah.<br /><br />One of the worst things about getting addicted to bluegrass in the '50s was its subsequent adoption by hipsters. Nothin like singing gospel for atheists.Rob De Wittnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-87307695962780659512013-07-29T13:31:59.833-04:002013-07-29T13:31:59.833-04:00I remember hearing "Cajun Moon" when it ...I remember hearing "Cajun Moon" when it was released and was overwhelmed by it's simple majesty. It was only later that I learned that Clapton and others were making hits out of his songs. <br />After I introduced my then-10-year-old daughter to his music she kept hoping she'd get to hear him live. Sadly that never happened and now won't in this life.Jonathan Cooknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-13578232686102941242013-07-29T10:00:59.298-04:002013-07-29T10:00:59.298-04:00J J Cale is gone, and I can't believe it. He ...J J Cale is gone, and I can't believe it. He was an incredible talent, one of the very best, at creating his own sound, his own songs. I bought "Naturally" when it was first released, and listened to it constantly, as well as most of his other releases. Great songwriter, loved his singing, but his guitar work was really, really special. Just ask Mark Knopfler, Clapton, and most other masters you can think of. He played with great economy, what he didn't play was as important as what notes came out, and his tone was amazing.<br /><br />Look on Youtube for his performances, especially in the '70's with Leon Russell sitting in, or from his 2010 tour with Clapton, or Jools Holland show. Just outstanding, he could lead a band or play it all himself in the studio.<br /><br />John was authentic, lived his own life and didn't care about fame and its trappings. A great artist for certain, RIP, and condolences to Christine Lakeland, his wife.Sepponoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-38444771424867339532013-07-28T20:59:21.927-04:002013-07-28T20:59:21.927-04:00JJ was born two years after Buddy Holly was born.
...JJ was born two years after Buddy Holly was born.<br /><br />He was two years younger than Mr. Holly. <br /><br />Damn, those lousy planes with bad pilots in snow storms in Iowa.The Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05354536924604187137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-77123683461691855962013-07-28T20:40:33.871-04:002013-07-28T20:40:33.871-04:00I didn't realize that about JJ Cale. Thanks fo...I didn't realize that about JJ Cale. Thanks for informing. "Take Me Back to Tulsa" was originally a Bob Wills song. Here is another song from the King of Western Swing: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFef08YZ6qk" rel="nofollow">Ida Red.</a><br /><br />Even the Rolling Stones admit it:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwEOZtJm8pU" rel="nofollow">Bob Wills is Still the King.</a>Gringonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-12271471227605349022013-07-28T19:39:49.682-04:002013-07-28T19:39:49.682-04:00Oh, damn. That's sad.
Back in '72, "...Oh, damn. That's sad.<br />Back in '72, "Naturally" was practically our theme up there in Woody Creek while the good Dr. was brewing up Gonzo journalism at the bar. I about wore out the 8-track in my pickmeup on it. <br />Those were the days. And then some.SamArtDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07322356829966791319noreply@blogger.com