Stupid Rain ruins Lake Street Dive(Music Monday)
Also, this Paul McCartney guy is pretty good, and an album to listen to as you drive cross-country with Mick Jagger
You know how the weather has been amazing the entire month of June, except for two hours on Friday night? That was when I was supposed to go see Lake Street Dive at the Stone Pony Summer Stage.
Through nobody’s fault, a gusty thunderstorm blew through around 7 and the show wound up being postponed. I applaud the band and venue for calling it at 7:30 instead of making us sit around for several hours.
Anyway, that has thrown a hole in my editorial calendar which right now is asking for a review of the concert.
This band, Lake Street Dive, that you’ve never heard of, is playing Madison Square Garden later this summer. One of their songs has 85 million streams on Spotify. But it’s not this one, this one only has like 15 million.
The true magic of LSD isn't simply in their ability to hopscotch effortlessly across styles and genres. It's in how Lake Street Dive wield that freewheeling sonic adventurism to reinvigorate age-old song forms with a palpable sense of unrestrained joy.
Also, this is fun.
They aren’t a cover band, but they do covers. Fun stuff. Lake Street Dive has a new album out this Friday!
Meanwhile, Paul McCartney released One Hand Clapping. UDiscoverMusic explains:
Recorded in August 1974 at Abbey Road, One Hand Clapping is the sound of a rejuvenated Paul McCartney & Wings at the peak of their success. In an echo of his former band’s Let It Be sessions, McCartney had decided to film the rehearsals for an intended TV special. The footage was never fully released and the shows were postponed, but 50 years later, the soundtrack to One Hand Clapping is finally available to hear, complete with the original intended artwork.
The more I listen to Wings, the more I am convinced that in a Beatle-less universe, Wings would be right up there with (the) Eagles as one of the great rock bands of the 70s. Wings gets overshadowed because the aren’t the Beatles, but come on “Live and Let Die”, “Silly Love Songs”, “Listen to What The Man Said” “Junior’s Farm” and the entire Band On The Run album….this Macca guy is pretty good!
I Stumbled across Charley Crockett. I don’t know a thing about him, but I love this album. It’s country music by way of Morphine (the band) dragged thru an episode of Dragnet. This album probably sounds best coming out of a jukebox from a dive bar on 23rd street and Second Avenue, while you smoke a cigarette out front.
If you ever find yourself driving cross-country with Mick Jagger, this is the album to play to be cool.