I recently reconnected with some of my childhood friends after a good decade of being out of touch. As of late myself and one of those friends have been exchanging songs and musical commentary via email. We’ve also fought about some differing political views a few times but that’s a post for a different blog. Anyhow, back to the music discourse. It’s funny how after years of differing paths through life you can find yourself in a pretty descent alignment with someone. Anyhow, this past week she has sent me a few things that I think are just too damned cool not to share with everyone. The first is what could quite possibly be Stevie Ray Vaughn’s last song. I’ll let her tell ya the story:

This is a live recording from the night before Stevie Ray Vaughan died (8/26/90), It’s actually Eric Clapton talking, he was so drunk that he didn’t remember even playing with Buddy Guy…..they left after this concert Eric Clapton’s band and Stevie Ray’s band in 4 helicopters…the weather was bad and Stevie Ray was dead not long after they took off which was after midnight so his death date is 8/27/90…..they hit a mountain….none of the other choppers even knew they were gone until they all landed and were missing one…..The strange thing is, in his book Eric describes knowing something bad was going to happen and having that “bad feeling” when they were getting on the choppers…..Listen to the energy….It will give you chills…….

Listen indeed:

Stevie Ray - Sweet Home Chicago [w Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Vaughn]

The other one is a video of Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis & Fats Domino on stage together, each with their very own piano. That right there makes it a must see but then you get Paul Scheffer (yes, Late Night Paul) directing the whole thing and then a freaking cameo by Rod Stewart…Too much….this will put the fucking Boggie in your Woogie:


Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis
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If you did not enjoy that then I just dunno…