If you’re not familiar with the story of Daniel Johnston, then immediately stop reading this post and find yourself a copy of the riveting documentary The Devil And Daniel Johnston.
This week, we have the long overdue Cover Wars debut from legendary British rockers Dire Straits. Sultans Of Swing was the band’s first single off their first album, which was self-titled and released in 1978.
In The Fender Stratocaster Handbook: How To Buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot, and Modify Your Strat, Mark Knopfler shares how Sultans Of Swing almost had an entirely different melody, funny to think if the song would have still been popular with the alternate structure. Knopfler says no.
I originally wrote Sultans Of Swing on my National steel guitar, open tuned. Same lyrics, but a different tune. Since I can’t remember it, it was completely unremarkable! When I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Vibrolux, it became something else.
Check out the rest of that page over on Google Books for some funny quotes from Mark as he discusses the pros and cons of music theory.
The Contestants:
Agents Of Good Roots: Here’s a blast from the past in the jambands department. Fans of the Dave Matthews Band might remember these guys as the band that Dave shared some stage time with in the mid 1990’s. Source: 2-5-2000
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/agrswing.mp3]READ ON for the scoop on the rest of this week’s contestants…
Drive-By Truckers – Asheville, NC 01/31/2009 [zip file] This has been a great 12 months for the Drive–By Truckers. The band beat the odds after losing one of their key
During my stay at the Southern Girls Rock’n’Roll Camp I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with the ladies of Tennessee’s own Those Darlins. The band’s roots run deep with the camp – Kelly Darlin founded it in 2003, Jessi was an original SGRRC participant that year and Nikki came along soon after and the rest as they say is herstory.
[Photo by Jennifer Kirk]
The band who’s self-titled album
Jennifer Kirk: What was your favorite gig of the last tour?
Those Darlins: Minneapolis and Chicago. It was our third time playing in Chicago and that’s a great city to play. We also just played the SGGRC on Monday and it was really fun to see all the girls dancing on stage. The New York City gigs we’re good too. We played with John Spencer’s new project Heavy Trash one night and that was a great experience.
READ ON for more of Jen’s chat with Those Darlins…
R.E.M. will release a brand-new double live album, entitled R.E.M. Live At The Olympia on October th, 2009 via Warner Bros. Records. The two-CD set, produced by Jacknife Lee, features
Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times, A Visual Biography of the Ultimate Band [Abrams; October 2009; hardcover], by Jerry Prochnicky and Ralph Hulett, with a foreword by Anthony DeCurtis, captures
This five song EP, in classic punk fashion, clocks in at just under eight minutes, but we all know it's quality, not quantity, that counts. These tracks, culled from two different shows, reflect GI's hardcore heyday in 1982-83.
ATO Records is excited to announce that Rodrigo y Gabriela have just added a number of October dates to their upcoming North American tour. With the new album, 11:11, being
Philip S. Bryant’s Stompin’ At The Grand Terrace captures the heart and soul of jazz like no written words have since Jack Kerouac’s On The Road.
Earlier this year, Ryan Gosling and his best friend Zach Shields debuted their grandly eccentric musical experiment, Dead Man’s Bones, to great interest. Now, the project, which features the two
