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Can't hold out until Friday....

Posted about 4 years ago
A small package of value appeared on my doorstep last night, containing one copy of James Booker's unreservedly funky "Lost Paramount Tapes." Recorded in '73 and unreleased for many years, this is a heaping helping of gumbo with extra Crystal (the hot sauce, not the drug....). I can't stop playing this track. It's got a groove so deep you could plant an oak tree in it. The only way to shake this cut is to share it....
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Comments (34)

  1. Cody B
    Cody B says Oh great...now i have to buy something else...damn you ivy.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  2. Spike
    Spike says It's hard to believe a pianist's fingers could move so fast during a solo like his. His voice and his rearrangement of this Chuck Willis song pack a punch. Great choice.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  3. I am
    I am says Somebody has an itchy trigger finger. That is a deep groove, so deep it's measured in fathoms. Thanks for sharing, now I got to have it. Your a jerk, Did I ever tell you that? Hey, whatcha doing on the 30th of Nov. Interested in going to a lecture at Drexel?
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  4. ivylander
    ivylander says I know I'm a jerk. Cody told me so. Who's speaking?
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  5. I am
    I am says Scott McCloud an excellent comic artist and .... what the word.... art theoretician. Here a link to his site: http://www.scottmccloud.com Do you remember Zot! comics?
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  6. ivylander
    ivylander says Zot! is new to me, but I checked out his site and am very interested. Must clear this with Mrs. Ivylander, but am most definitely interested....
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  7. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says Damn. Spike said it all.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  8. indiepixie
    indiepixie says God do i feel like a ballgame on a rainy day or what? perfect lyrics...where's my Ray Charles shades when I need em? :) way chill homey.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  9. Carolyn O'Brien
    Carolyn O'Brien says "It’s got a groove so deep you could plant an oak tree in it." You sir, are a poet. I love that sentence. I think this great groove should be the national arbor day theme song. I love this. The only reason I don't think you're a jerk as some of the others have said is because I'm already broke. So, fuggit. I'll just come to this post all the time. How's about more, though? Puuuullleeeeeeease?
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  10. ivylander
    ivylander says Anyone who calls me a poet can have anything they want. ~5z6iFkGnOe0.mp3~
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  11. Carolyn O'Brien
    Carolyn O'Brien says How are you at mixing drinks, honeybunch? While you dust off that martini shaker, I'm gonna shake somethin' else up in this beotch. This is wonderful. You are cheering me up somthin' fierce! Keep it comin'.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  12. Carolyn O'Brien
    Carolyn O'Brien says p.s. thought you might like to know that I'm wearin' nuttin' but a frattois and a smile. this song just made my night.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  13. ivylander
    ivylander says One more before I settle under the covers with a crossword and a laudanum. By the way, among some folks I know a frattois is considered lingerie. Just saying.... ~82f1vGkOPjG.mp3~
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  14. Carolyn O'Brien
    Carolyn O'Brien says well, kid, I am also on laudanum (tell ya later), I am currently doing a crossword (NY Times online) and yeah, a frattois is not only lingerie, but it works out nicely as armor for jousting. Not that I am part of the society for creative anachronism or anything, but if I find myself snatched from cajun band practice, put atop a horse and rushed to a giant field for some sort of match, I'll feel much more secure knowing I'm safe, and, well freakin' hip. thanks for this good good eatin'.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  15. walkingthecow
    walkingthecow says thats some good stuff. funky.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  16. I am
    I am says Do I smell ointment? *crossword and a laudanum.* Bill, you're all class. Forget about it Carolyn, Ivy plays for Team East. So quit your recruiting schemes. Nice stack man, I thank you.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  17. ivylander
    ivylander says To be precise, Chris, it's VapoRub. Carolyn, it took me a minute to figure out that you meant jousting literally. I can't keep up with the latest cool lingo. Spike, I shoulda mentioned this long, long ago, but quadruple points for mentioning the sainted name of Chuck Willis.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  18. soulrocket
    soulrocket says this is great stuff. i love james booker and i was unfamiliar with those recordings. i cant have enough new orleans artists in my collection, those nasal voices are beyond cool. it was good you couldnt wait until friday, man.
    Permalink posted 11/13/2007
  19. Mike the Knife
    Mike the Knife says Lawdy, ivy. That is baaaaaad-ass! Gratitude.
    Permalink posted 11/14/2007
  20. mickimicki
    mickimicki says Ouch. This is hitting _heavy_! Deep groove all right... almost gets me drinking before _noon_... what a find! (Poor Cody. Now he's got to buy something again. And there I was thinking he was finished buying...)
    Permalink posted 11/14/2007
  21. Cody B
    Cody B says If only my support group met today..ack..This place is just heartless enablers.
    Permalink posted 11/14/2007
  22. ivylander
    ivylander says Yes, but we do care about you....
    Permalink posted 11/14/2007
  23. mickimicki
    mickimicki says Wow, New York has it all. Box Set Collectors Anonymous? BSCA? I just hope the church basement where you meet isn't next to a record store... and, can you play music during the meetings, or is it "cold turkey"? (I'm missing on out my Cold Bitches Meeting tonight :P)
    Permalink posted 11/14/2007
  24. Cody B
    Cody B says oooh, those cold bitches meetings are the best place to.....get box sets they are selling 'cause they kicked their boyfriends out the house.
    Permalink posted 11/14/2007
  25. mickimicki
    mickimicki says Not me :D You're giving me an idea here..... (Which reminds me of my ex-boyfriend from WAYYYY back... his dad had given him his complete Beatles vinyl box... he used to say I was going to get them if I married him... well that never happened, and he later SOLD THEM FOR 100 DEUTSCHMARKS, which is something like $ 50. I was FUMING when he told me!!!!! – which was probably what he'd had in mind :((((
    Permalink posted 11/14/2007
  26. Cody B
    Cody B says That dude was a dummy on a number of levels.
    Permalink posted 11/14/2007
  27. goodmusiconly
    goodmusiconly says hmm, there's a swing hanging from that oak tree ... gonna take it for another ride!
    Permalink posted 11/14/2007
  28. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says Good tune. Thanks.
    Permalink posted 11/15/2007
  29. Girlcrawl
    Girlcrawl says Stellar grooves! The most aurally satisfying post I've visited in days - thank you.
    Permalink posted 11/15/2007
  30. Dabeef
    Dabeef says

    Ivylander, just came across your James Booker post. After James came back to New Orleans from his European touring, he played regularly at the Maple Leaf. During that time the Maple Leaf was one of my hang-outs and when James was playing I was usually there. I remember that while playing he often showed signs of perhaps feeling ashamed. Who know what about, but I regret never having talked to him during any of his breaks. Man I miss N. O.

    Permalink posted 05/10/2009
  31. ivylander
    ivylander says

    Oh, man, how sweet that you got to hear him play live on a regular basis....

    Permalink posted 05/11/2009
  32. Cody B
    Cody B says

    "His death was widely mourned by music lovers, but was unsurprising to those who were aware of his life-long history of serious drug abuse and chronic alcoholism."

    From his suprisingly good wiki entry..

    Permalink posted 05/11/2009
  33. ivylander
    ivylander says

    This post wakes up from the dead a year-and-half later? What the hell's goin' on here?

    Permalink posted 05/11/2009
  34. Dabeef
    Dabeef says

    I was just thinking about James and searched MOG to see what it had on him. Lo and behold there was ivylander giving me that stern look; thanks for the MOG-jog.

    Cody B, I remember when James died at Charity Hospital, I had just previously moved to Nashville. While I was still in New Orleans there was a great buzz about Jame's return the the city and his problems. I'm was surprised back then that none of his old friends and comrades like Harry Connick, Jr. or Wynton Marsalis came to his aid when he needed it most. I can recall that both of them often spoke highly of James and his talent, which they claimed (and I truly believe) was far greater than their own.

    Permalink posted 05/11/2009

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