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Doobie Brothers - Michael McDonald
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Doobie Brothers - Michael McDonald
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Carl Wilson with Myrna Smith, Jeff Baxter and others during the recording of his 1983 album Youngblood. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives.
“[Carl’s] voice is soft and modulated; there’s no trace of the hip cockiness with which, according to rock ’n’ roll legend, beach boys everywhere have always charmed surfer girls out of their wetsuits. […] What soloing offers is a change of pace. ‘I loved working with Jeff Baxter (the former Doobie Brother who produced Youngblood],’ he said. ‘Jeff tortured me, but he did a good job. His decisions were right.’ And he has even kinder words for Myrna Smith-Shilling, a former member of the Sweet Inspirations who co-wrote seven songs on Young Blood. ‘She’s angelic. Writing songs together comes very naturally for us.’” - The Birmingham News (April 6, 1983) “Carl, ever sensitive, solid and dependable, is churning out material for his next solo outing, besides working intently on current Beach Boys' creations in the studios and looking out for the band's future. He has been an invisible backbone for the group since the early days; in many ways he has held the guys together during hard times. Carl has put together solo albums before, one withJim Guercio at Caribou Ranch (‘my favorite studio of all time,’ he says) and one with Jeff Baxter (‘a wonderful guy who loves to record’). He wants to record his next solo album in England. ‘I love English recordings,’ he says. ‘I think they're beautifully done. I'm looking for a manor studio type of setting to work in.’” - Mix (September 1989)
Two for Tuesday, folks. From the Michael McDonald-era Doobie Brothers.
The first, "Takin' It to the Streets" from '77, via Soundstage, features him and ace studio guitarist and former Steely Dan stalwart Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
The second, "What a Fool Believes," after the departure of Baxter and a few other members for various reasons, is from the September 19, 1979 No Nukes concert, featuring the radiant Rosemary Butler, who served as the swing backup singer across the five No Nukes shows at the Garden, on harmony vocals.
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CUNTY VINTAGE DIVA TOURNEY - ROUND ONE
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
Brian Connolly
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Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (1948-) Steely Dan - guitar; The Doobie Brothers - guitar Songs: "Takin' It to the Streets," "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" Propaganda: none
Brian Connolly (1945-1997) Sweet - vocals Songs: "Ballroom Blitz," "Fox On the Run" Propaganda: none
Steely Dan - Do It Again
Rewind: Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)
If cocaine made a sound, it might be The Hissing of Summer Lawns.
Released in 1975 as Joni Mitchell was settling into her jazz phase after the previous year’s Court and Spark, Summer Lawns is druggy. But it’s never drugged-out.
There’s a wired tiredness to the music - vaguely psychedelic, mostly jazz with glimmers of folk and rock. All of this makes The Hissing of Summer Lawns essential and essentially impossible to hear too many times.
Set in snow-covered California, the album makes references both explicit - he tilts their tired faces gently to the spoon, in “Edith and the Kingpin” - and implicit - drooling for a taste of something smuggled in, on “The Jungle Line” - delivered in the percussion-and-vocal format Mitchell’d revisit on “Dreamland” from Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter.
This is Mitchell at her zenith, backed by a host of top-tier players and singers in keyboardist Joe Sample; drummer John Guerin; guitarists Larry Carlton, Robben Ford and Jeff Baxter; horn blowers Chuck Findley and Bud Shank; and background vocalists David Crosby, Graham Nash and James Taylor; among others.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns starts happily enough with the celebration of youth that is “In France They Kiss on Main Street” - looking for a party, looking to raise Jesus up from the dead, Mitchell sings. But soon enough, she’s singing of powerlessness and dreams deferred on the languid, sinewy and arresting “Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow.”
Truth goes up in vapors/the steeples lean/winds of change patriarchs/snug in your Bible Belt dreams/god goes up the chimney/like childhood Santa Claus/the good slaves love the good book/a rebel loves a cause, she sings, sounding exhausted over six verses and no chorus.
Everybody talks about Blue - and with good reason - but The Hissing of Summer Lawns is the Joni Mitchell LP Sound Bites would take to the proverbial desert island.
Grade card: Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975) - A
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