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25.01.2022 West Coast Swing

23.01.2022 The guy that really influenced me the most was Eddie Cochran - Brian Setzer

22.01.2022 The Everly Brothers performing "Rattlesnake Daddy" and "Bird Dog" on the Tennessee ernie ford show (1961)

19.01.2022 Charlie Rich - Lonely Weekends (1960)

19.01.2022 Rare photos johnny cash and johnny Horton fishing in Louisiana 1959

19.01.2022 JOHNNY BURNETTE and THE ROCK ROLL TRIO - LONESOME TRAIN - IN COLOUR

17.01.2022 Here from the USA are two awesome young vocalists Casi Joy & Woody James with this absolutely brilliant 'live' version of a great song 'Jackson'! https://youtube.com/c/CasiJoyMusic & https://instagram.com/casijoymusic/ For more great videos go to: https://themusicman.uk/

15.01.2022 Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock

13.01.2022 Here’s a new video I hope you enjoy! I’ve been working on it for a week and redone every single one of these parts about 187 times until I got it right. This wa...s HARD. A few weeks ago I was listening to the Kinks Waterloo Sunset, one of my favorite Kinks songs. That song has a melody that gets in your head and won’t leave! I was listening to it over and over again, and it struck me that even with Ray Davies’ cockney accent, the lyrics about London and the very British 1960s productionthat Waterloo Sunset could have been a Beach Boys song. It had the catchy hooks, it had the vocal harmonies, it had all the unique chord progressions and arrangements that I associate with the Pet Sounds era Beach Boys. I thought to myself, I’m going to give this song a Brian Wilson production treatment and see what it sounds like. Every young buck with a home recording studio at one time SAYS they’re going to do a Brian Wilson production, but it’s not that easy to replicate the sound of those fabulous big room recording studios, with the best equipment ever, and the greatest studio musicians playing on them. Those 60’s Brian Wilson productions are perfect pop masterpieces, it’s somewhat of a fool’s errand to even try! It also bummed me out that my voice doesn’t sound like a Brit OR a Californian, I have a Midwestern hillbilly twang in my voice that is just gonna be there no matter what I do. Facing these obstacles, I had a sound in my head and I chased it for a week redoing parts over and over (and over) again. The harmony parts were especially hard for me to do, because they start with high harmonies and then add even higher harmonies on top of that! It was also fun, but really challenging, to try and figure out the secrets of those Brian Wilson productions. They didn’t have THAT many tools available to them back in those days. It was mostly the way you played it for one thing. The approach of the musicians played the biggest part in that sound, and I found that the best approach on most of the instruments was a very careful, precise and low-volume approach to playing the parts. But those productions also used microphone choices, equalization, plate reverb, echo chamber, delayed reverb, echoes and compression to achieve their sound. I tweaked and I tweaked and I feel like I got kind of close, at least in the same ballpark, even though I was recording in small room. When I filmed the parts I tried to capture the look of those guys from the Wrecking Crew, the studio musicians who played on all those records back then. I always loved the fact that they wore plaid shirts and looked like squares, but then played on some of the best loved rock and roll records of all time. So I pulled every plaid Penney’s Towncrest shirt I owned out of the closet to pay homage to all those great Wrecking Crew musicians of the 1960s. When I finally got all the parts done, it was about 5:30 pm on Thursday afternoon, and I had one video window left to fill. I grabbed Sally Jo and we hopped in the car and chased down a section of the L.A. concrete river channel that faced westward and caught a fabulous California sunset right as the sun was disappearing behind the palm trees. In a way, Waterloo Sunset is about London, but the feeling in the lyrics is universal. The guy trapped in his apartment watching the rest of the world go by could be anywhere, really. It also represents many of us who have been trapped in our houses since March because of Covid. I decided that there really wasn’t any reason why I couldn’t make a Los Angeles style remake of this very British song. This song grabbed me and I couldn’t get it out of my head until I did this video. As I mentioned, it was a ton of work trying to get this one right, but I think it turned out pretty darn good. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it! If you’re enjoying these videos please consider leaving a tip for myself or any of the other full-time musicians who have found ourselves unemployed with no work coming in anytime soon, because of the Covid pandemic. You have no idea how much your tips have helped pay the bills around here, and put groceries on the table during this time. Please send tips to Sally Jo, who is managing my web orders, at her paypal link: paypal.me/DDweborders or to my Venmo @Deke-Dickerson Thanks so much!! I really appreciate all the support! See more

13.01.2022 Female Veterans Turned Pin-Ups Continue Their Service with Pin-Ups For Vets

11.01.2022 Jim Reeves He'll Have to Go

11.01.2022 I got mine! The first live Stray Cats album in 16yrs!! Out Sept 11

10.01.2022 Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (live 1960 with no glasses) July 25th. 1960 Roy Orbison reached No.2 on the US singles chart with ‘Only the Lonely,’ his first hit. The song was turned down by The Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley, so Orbison decided to record the song himself.

09.01.2022 Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire (1957)

04.01.2022 Eddie Cochran Tribute Let's get together -Summertime blues

02.01.2022 Johnny Cash - Big River

01.01.2022 THE STRAY CATS- Gene and Eddie (1990)