Top ten lists of albums, songs, concerts and performers are not something I do, because there is so much music that I love, and love at different times for different reasons.
But this in-concert collaboration by a bunch of artists, including Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and George Harrison would be atop any of those lists.
The older I get, the more meaning this song takes on for me.
Forty-seven years ago today, eighteen bucks was a lot of bread. And it turned out you didn't need a ticket after all.
Ian Tyson and Sylvia Fricker sing a Phil Ochs tune.
Parkinson's has stolen her ability to sing any more, but she was something special.
Time to get up, wiggle your butt, and take on the day.
If you happen to be in the neighborhood...
I first saw Elvin Bishop with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, where he dueled with Mike Bloomfield on guitar.
Those duels were legendary. That band was legendary. And Elvin took some of that magic with him when he left the band in the early Seventies. As in this song, his best.
And Mickey Thomas has the perfect voice to sing it.
I'm younger than that now.
(You may have to click on the YouTube link and sit trough a commercial, but it will be worth it.)
