Upper Realm Shrieks: Music and Words
David D. Young
I picked a recent CD by Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands entitled The Hazel & Alice Sessions. Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard recorded music in 1965 which are the basis for this Laurie Lewis recording done recently. I decided to include a song from the 1965 recording, Dickens Jones & Hawker released in 1998 & a recording by Alice Gerrard released in 2013 which was produced by Laurie Lewis. I saw Hazel Dickens at 1 of the earlier Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festivals in SF's Golden Gate Park. She goes straight to the heart. Thus this show is quite full of love songs. Other kinds of Music are included too including a dynamite piece by the Paul Rutherford Trio recorded live in 1983. The theme today is Love on a Labor Day Weekend in a world which I see to be Overmechanized in which the People are too machinelike because of their dependance on Electronica for Every Single Move They Make.
Genre
Bluegrass & Blues & Jazz & Recitation & Rock
Missed the Show?
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis, Laurie & The Right Hands | lLet That Liar Alone | The Hazel And Alice Sessions | Spruce & Maple Music | 2015 |
| Tito Puente | Mambo King | Mambo of the Times | Picante | 1991 |
| Lewis, Laurie & The Right Hands | You'll Get No More of Me | The Hazel And Alice Sessions | Spruce & Maple Music | 2015 |
| Tito Puente | Passion Flower | Mambo of the Times | Picante | 1991 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| John Sinclair & his Blues Scholars | Monk in Orbit | Full Circle | Alive Records | 1996 |
| Rutherford, Paul | Gheim 2 | Gheim (Live at Bracknell 1983) | Emanem | 1983 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Steppenwolf | Foggy Mental Breakdown | Steppenwolf 7 | Dunhill | later 1960s |
| Vranich, Mick; Wordban'd | Coming Into Town | Cloak of Skin | New Alliance | 1992 |
| Dickens, Hazel & Gerrard, Alice | Just Another Broken Heart | Pioneering Women of Bluegrass | Smithsonian Folkways | 1965 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Various Artists | Fisk Jubilee Singers / There's A Great Camp Meeting | Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History | Smithsonian Folkways | 1955 |
| Speed, Chris | Nimble Demons | Really Ok | Skirl | 2013 |
| Various Artists | Booker T. Washington - Atlanta Exposition Address | Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History | Smithsonian Folkways | 1901? |
| Cage, John | Book I | Music Of Changes | Lovely Music | 1998 |
| Blue Hippos | Sailor's Knot | 40 40 | Twin Tone Records | 1987 |
| Blue Hippos | Stupid Breakfast | 40 40 | Twin Tone Records | 1987 |
| Blue Hippos | We've Found | 40 40 | Twin Tone Records | 1987 |
| Dickens, Hazel/Jones, Carol Elizabeth/Hawker, Ginny | Let Me Go | Heart of a Singer | Rounder Records | 1998 |
| De La Soul | Genesis | and the Anonymous Nobody | Kobalt | 2016 |
| Gerrard, Alice | My Once True Love | Bittersweet | Spruce & Maple Music | 2013 |
| Copeland, Shemekia | Wrapped Up In Love Again | Outskirts of Love | Alligator Records | 2015 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Herbie Nichols Quartet | 'S Wonderful | Introspection; Neglected Jazz Figures of the 1950s & Eary 1960s | New World Records | 1952 |
| Curtis Counce Quintet | Into the Orbit | Introspection: Neglected Jazz Ffigures of the 1950s & Early 1960s | New World Records | 1958 |
| Cassidy, Nancy | I Have Faith | You Reel Me In | Twitter Twatter Music | 2004 |
| Johnny Rodriguez | Estitica | 1936-1940 | Interstate Music Ltd. | 1936 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Collins, Sugarcane | Going Back To Clarksdale | Going Back to Clarksdale | Self-Released | 2015 |