Rob Siegel Clean Living six songs off the first album in tribute to its 50th anniversary скачать в хорошем качестве

Rob Siegel Clean Living six songs off the first album in tribute to its 50th anniversary

0:00 Intro 6:38 Backwoods Girl (Norman Schell) 10:48 Jubal's Blues (Norman Schell) 15:03 Listen to the Music (Tex LaMountain) 20:12 Price I Pay (Norman Schell) 24:00 Waterfall / Killers (Dan Velika / David Carron) 28:43 Charles Street in the Morning (Norman Schell) 33:15 Emotional closing remarks Those of you who I know me from my years in Amherst or who have heard me play a lot know the story of Clean Living. A wonderful band from central MA in the early 1970s, Clean Living played an intoxicating blend of folk, rock and roll, and country. The band was fronted by Norman Schell with his honey-like baritone vocal, but other players sang as well, and harmonies were thick. CL played frequently in the Amherst area when I was in junior high school. I probably heard them 20 times on the town common, in the Amherst Folklore Center, out by the UMass pond, even at a dance in my jr school gym (what were they THINKING, hiring these guys?). Thinking back on it, it may have been the first original live music I ever heard. Clean Living put out an album on Vanguard Records in 1972 which contained their version of the polka number "In Heaven There Is No Beer." This was always a crowd-pleaser at live shows, but Vanguard chose the song to release as a single, and it charted. Unfortunately, it had absolutely nothing to do with the overall sound and direction of the band. In terms of major label interest, they were pegged as a novelty act, and it hampered them for the rest of their career. They put out a second album Meadowmuffin that had the song Far North which garnered airplay, but the band split up in the late 1970s. A full history of the band can be found at https://www.mmone.org/clean-living/. In the early 2000s, I played the song Charles Street in the Morning on WUMB. Someone who heard it connected me with Norman Schell, and in 2005, I had the privilege of playing an opening set at a Clean Living reunion show in Greenfield, held in tribute to their pedal steel player Paul Lambert who'd just passed away. Clean Living's first self-titled album (Vanguard, 1972) is an absolutely wonderful record. The songwriting is first-rate, and the recording is clean, punchy, and resonant but without the reverb-soaked excess that plague many albums from this era. Like the band's live performances, it's a great mix of pedal steel and Telecaster twang along with beautiful singer-songwriter material. Unfortunately, it wasn't ever released on CD. CL drummer Tim Griffin remastered some of the tracks from both the first album and Meadowmuffin and has them on his reverbnation page here (https://www.reverbnation.com/timgriff..., but it's not the entire first album. In addition to Tim's page, some but not all of the songs can be found on YouTube if you hunt around. On 1/27/2022, I paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of this seminal album by playing a set of six songs off it on my Facebook live stream. It filled me with joy that several band members and their children tuned in. There are some references in the video to technical difficulties and a false start (doing the whole intro and the first two songs without it actually being broadcast). As I say at the end, thanks guys. You never know what the ripples will be 50 years later from some rocks you threw in a pond. our coats were hung and everyone was in tatters or too thin but sharing songs was warmer then to us than any coat could be and everyone of us somehow we'd slept beside the stream and when we woke the river that we saw had surged too deep to cross and the only bridge was Charles Street in the morning