Kevin's Watch

Lucimay is down with this guy and so am I...check it out:

www.chriswhitley.com/index.php?id=bio


As Luci has said...Chris was a Giant!

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm always looking for new, good music. I tried out about five of his downloads. I regret to say it's not my cup o' tea. I'm not trashing it--I know that we all hold our own personal musical tastes dear to our hearts. Honestly, I don't have anything bad to say about it, except to say I listen to music for different reasons than anything I heard here. But Luci does have some fantastic taste in music, so perhaps I just didn't listen to enough samples.

Luci turned me on to him too. Not the greatest, but certainly not bad.

ooooh!!!! i found this!!! chris talks about his music!!!! wooo hoooo!!!!

www.ascap.com/audioportraits/chriswhitley.html

click the one that says Anthology(only one i've listened to so far)

and here's some more samples...

the ones on chris' site (in the download section) aren't his best work.

the Anthology - Long Way Around - is the first thing i listened to. it has songs from 10 years worth of work on it.

that's the one i recommend for anyone interested in hearing Chris for the first time.

my favorite album is Rocket House

I bought "Living With The Law" in '92. Even though that genre is not really my thing I really like that album.

I haven't heard any of his other stuff, but if Lucimay thinks that Rocket House is better I may have to look out for it.

Whitley's ability as a guitarist was almost overshadowed by his skills as a songwriter. If you get my drift.

Trapper439 wrote:I bought "Living With The Law" in '92. Even though that genre is not really my thing I really like that album.

I haven't heard any of his other stuff, but if Lucimay thinks that Rocket House is better I may have to look out for it.

Whitley's ability as a guitarist was almost overshadowed by his skills as a songwriter. If you get my drift.

if you've only heard Living with the Law, Trap, Rocket House will surprise the hell outa you!!! he just MORPHS into a near ambiant/trance thing that ONLY chris whitley could pull off. just amazing to hear his evolution (which is why i liked that anthology sooo much. you get to hear his transitions and they always make perfect sense).

i could extoll his virtues for ages but you really just have to listen to it. it's hard and i mean HARD for me to imagine that this man doesn't play something that EVERYBODY would like.

(ok...have i effused enough for one post?)

"To Joy" is a great piece of studio work. Brook no delay and download off of I-tunes!

bump to reinvigorate

wheeee! Here is my playlist that will appear on I-tunes as an "Imix"

As Flat As The Earth
Poison Girl
Wild country
Kick The Stones
Narcotic Prayer
New Lost World
Living With The Law
Spanish Harlem Incident
Scrapyard Lullaby
To Joy (Revolution Of The Innocent)
Weightless (Lanois re-mix)
Big Sky Country
4th Time Around
Made from Dirt
Phone Call From Leavenworth
Her Furious Angels
Say Goodbye
War Crime Blues
Immortal Blues
Dead Cowboy Song
The Call Up
Automatic (simply the BEST pop song of the mid-nineties!)

Noe Valley Ministry

where i saw Warren Zevon

some of that concert ended up on this album

Lucimay wrote:

Noe Valley Ministry

where i saw Warren Zevon

some of that concert ended up on this album

I love me some learning to flinch. It is a great title! Hey, Luci...do you have a copy of stand in the fire? It is supposed to be one of the greatest concert albums like EVER. I have only heard one cut off of it..."Jeannie needs a shooter"...a great tune btw.

jefitoblog.com/blog/?p=420

The link takes you to "The Idiots guide to Chris Whitley:

This link:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Whitley

needs no explaination! Go there music lover!!!!!!

"The post-Hendrix explosion of whammybar wankers hasn't produced a single axeman who can compare to Chris Whitley. His eerie, bluesy voice and American gothic tunes frequently draw attention from the fact that he picks like a pissed off Doc Watson jacked through a Marshall stack" - RollingStone.com

woooo hoooo!!!! yeah baby!!

Lucimay wrote:

"The post-Hendrix explosion of whammybar wankers hasn't produced a single axeman who can compare to Chris Whitley. His eerie, bluesy voice and American gothic tunes frequently draw attention from the fact that he picks like a pissed off Doc Watson jacked through a Marshall stack" - RollingStone.com

woooo hoooo!!!! yeah baby!!

I noted that quote myself!!! "whammybar wankers" indeed!

bump for Bloodguard Boblet





Brother runnin' powder money
Daddy somewhere on a drunk
In the hours after washing
I do my dreaming with a gun


Well I come down from the country
Find a lesson in the draw
There ain't no secrets in the city
It's hard living with the law
They got machines mama I can't figure
They got a romance made for doing time
Send me out child, running outside

Out along a world of crime
Gonna swing my scythe, got a hand upon the handle
Gonna shade my children ways I understand
Milk the trigger, kill the hunger
Staring down this broken land
So fetch on up your greasy apron
Spread your lover in the straw
Hear me baby, I'm nearly crazy
It's hard living with the law

listening to Living With the Law is unbelievably like listening to robert johnson or hank williams or leadbelly for the first time.
(except recorded with waaaaay better equipment so you can feeel
the scratchy round wound strings as he scrapes over them and hear
him take breaths and tap his foot in "phone call from levenworth")

whatever is coming up outa the ground down south chris whitley
caught a big dose of it.

Click and Scroll down for Jeff Pitcher's blog after Chris died



Who's gonna win the medal?
Who's gonna win the glittering prize?
Everybody out here now
No one can disguise
No one can disguise
I woke to you that blessed morning
That's when I knew you was the one
Somebody always cryin' somewhere
Look what love has done
Used to be when things got tight
I could bid you a well bye bye
Riding some two-wheeled sex machine
Like I don't have to try
Now I say my my baby
My how you have grown
I say look what love has done
Some folks gonna live forever
Some they won't never cross that line
But everybody out here now, trying to unwind
We rode out in the open
Lord I love the way that you run
Somebody always crying somewhere
Look what love has done
Look what love has done

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Moonlight over the alley
Baby where I come from
There's a poison girl, a poison girl
Sister do medicine business
Three dollar down for the gun
She's a poison girl, poison girl
I be waiting uptown
While she gone underground for a ride
I be waiting uptown
While she passes some trick on the side
Well I'm sitting here burning my money
Worth nothing if only to score
With some poison girl, poison girl
There's a place an' I know
Anybody can go for a price
There's a place an' I know
You be putting your soul up on ice
Well now mama said son what's your hurry?
Mama don't know what I done
For the poison girl, poison girl

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Out on a range in a season too soon
No electric light up in my room
With a dark skin woman I'm naked and sane
You could learn about the world in an afternoon


The bordertown shook my hand
It was the gateway to some other land
The bordertown is the great divide
Just the gateway to some other side
I got to get across

Now some folks live in the trailer park
With the Naugahyde law and the liquor shark
Where the networks and the new machine
They don't even try to make no mark


When you came round I loved you well
When you got paid it was harder to tell
Now I got no grind with cruel gold
I'm just sitting 'round wondering what next to sell

The bordertown shook my hand
It was the gateway to some other land
The bordertown is the great divide
Just the gateway to some other side
I got to get across

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They hold me here much longer
Probably go mad all by myself
Now I really need somebody
Said I really need somebody's help
Why does a man up in the judgement chair
Got his ass and God's right arm in some double pair - alright
Walkin' a frozen line
A western winter be hail and rain
Way back in New York this mornin'
There ain't no one there who ever gonna remember my name
Now when the sun comes up
Mama you should know
That now I just don't care no more - alright
Three o'clock this morning
When I thought I saw Jesus coming down
He came through the concrete baby
He came through them walls without no sound
Now I mean concrete walls that ain't no clay
I closed my eyes and he slipped away - alright
They look at you sideways
They call no man by his Christian name
All you got is your backbone to lean on
You can expect no help from your brain
Now when a man wants reason
He best be willin' to pay
I'm down in Leavenworth prison now
I do not count no days

Great find Luci... you are of course Preaching to the choir. Everywhere i go, when i meet someone who gives off that "feel" of someone who really gets music...I try to turn 'em on to CW.

He was a GIANT. LWTL is one disc that i could not live without. I saw him open up for Petty back in 1990, and the very next day went out and bought LWtL...what a freakin' revelation it was!

Check Chris out on youtube!