Throughout that wild and wacky A.D. 2020, one disc seemed to somehow find itself repeatedly, and most happily so, upon the ol’ Pig Player. A disc which via a mere 21 tracks in under 69 minutes presents an ideal, not to mention idyllic picture of two musical careers which, cannily overlapping more often than not, displays all that was/is unfailingly, musically sound; all that’s, in actual fact, proper with Pop.
Archive for Chuck Berry
GARY PIG GOLD and those SUNSHINE WALKERS
Posted in Interview, music, Opinion, Review with tags AC/DC, Beatles, Chuck Berry, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, Ivan Carling, Jimi Hendrix, Katrina and the Waves, Kimberley Rew, Lee Cave-Berry, segarini, Soft Boys, Status Quo, Sunshine Walkers, Troggs on March 17, 2021 by segariniPat Blythe – Women of Blues Revisited – Part II
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Alberta Hunter, Assassinators of the Blues, Bessie, Bessie Smith, Big Momma Thornton, Black Bottom, Black Pearls, Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame, Bo-Weavil Blues, Bob Dylan, Bob Segarini, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, Daphne Harrison, DBAWIS, Dinah, Dinah Washington, Don't Believe a Word I Say, doo-wop, Elvis Presley, Eric Burdon, Fat Chappelle, Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett, Grammy, Lead Belly, Lightnin' Hopkins, Louis Armstrong., Ma Rainey, minstrel, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, Mo'nique, Moonshine Blues, Mother of the Blues, Pa Rainey, Pat Blythe, Peggy Lee, Prove It On Me, Queen Latifah, Rabbit Foot Minstrels, Ray Charles, Roxanne Tellier, Sandra Lieb, See See Rider, Soon This Morning, tent shows, The Airdome, The Kingsmen, The Lyric, The Orioles, The Wild Cats Jazz Band, Thomas Dorsey, Tolliver's Circus and Musical Extravaganza, Tombstone Blues, Tommy Dorsey, vaudeville, Victoria Spivey Mayo Williams on August 2, 2017 by segarini
This piece first ran in DBAWIS just over two years ago. It all started with the a series called Women in Song, based on a collection of CDs (made in Canada dontcha know) I had rediscovered when cleaning out “stuff”. One thing leads to another, a name is mentioned, I start to poke around, one person leads to another and the next thing you know I’m down, waaaay down the rabbit hole. There are an incalculable number of stories and in one fashion or another, they are all linked. If one had to create a “family tree” of music…..well…..it would be “yuge” and nigh on impossible to follow. Just in our little music community here in Toronto, everybody is “related” somehow. I’m about to embark on another project and meet with an individual who has been around the business so long he is full of stories…..I’m sensing another rabbit hole….
Segarini on The Father of the Teen Age
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Chuck Berry, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, music, music videos, radio, Records, Rock and Roll, segarini, Toronto on March 20, 2017 by segarini
I was originally going to call this column “The Father of Teenage America”, but Chuck Berry’s influence on and understanding of that awkward stretch of road between 12 and 20 not only heralded America’s shift from buttoned-down conformity to unbuttoned rebellion, spread far past the borders of his home and native land and spilled out across the globe on the wings of three chords and poetic genius.
Fueled by unbridled energy, and embraced by a post war population of disenfranchised kids with No Particular Place to Go, Chuck Berry’s legacy continues unabated 50 years later.
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Segarini: Rerun – The Fat City Chronicles 2 – Short Stories about Long Ago
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Cherry Cola's, Chuck Berry, Cold Red, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Freitas, Miracle Music, music, RCA, Records, Roxy, Sandy Sanderov, segarini, Stockton California, The Family Tree on January 27, 2017 by segarini
Time for another rerun about my hometown. Was reminded of the story of Cold Red yesterday, and took it as a sign to find and post this nostalgic look back. Things have not been great for me lately…for a lot of us, really. Tough times come and go like the weather, but being able to look back on a life well lived, and the people and places that made you who you are and brought so much joy into your life will always be there to remember. I hope you have memories that mean as much to you as these do to me.
I am one lucky son of a bitch….
JAIMIE VERNON – CODGER WARS
Posted in Opinion with tags AC/DC, Aerosmith, alice cooper, Bob Dylan, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Chuck Berry, coachella, Coldplay, Cuba, DBAWIS, Desert Trip, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Hollywood Vampires, Jaimie Vernon, Joe Perry, John Lennon, Johnny Depp, Kiss, Nobel Prize, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Roger Waters, Rolling Stones, Silly Love Songs, Sloan, Steven Tyler, The Band, The Who, Toto on October 15, 2016 by segarini
It was touch and go in the early part of 2016 for Classic Rock. Half the people that have ever made music in my lifetime died in the first 6 months. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but it looked like it was going to be up to The Rolling Stones to save the planet. Well, since the release of The Beatles documentary “Eight Days A Week” the geezers are rallying.
JAIMIE VERNON – DEAD GENRE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Beale Street, Beverly Hillbillies, Big 'n' Rich, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Chuck Berry, CMT, Country Music, DBAWIS, Dolly Parton, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donny & Marie, Eddie Arnold, George Jones, Grand Ol’ Opry, Hank Williams, hayseed, Highwaymen, Jaimie Vernon, Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Kris Kristofferson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, Nashville, New Country, Rock and Roll, Roy Clark, Stetson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson on April 9, 2016 by segarini
It’s confession time. Some of my devoted readers are not going to like it. It’s related to my disdain for certain genres of music so if you’ve got a strong constitutional defense for the music you love you may want to read the ‘New Yorker’ in your smoking jacket instead. Or track down re-re-re-runs of the Grand Ol’ Opry on TVland. I’m a dyed-in-the-wool music snob. I have no patience or interest in Jazz, The Blues or Country music.
JAIMIE VERNON – THE COMEBACK SPECIAL
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 90125, ABBA, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Bob Segarini, British blues, Canadian Music, Captain & Tennille, Chuck Berry, Cliff Richard, comeback, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Frank Zappa, Jaimie Vernon, Jesus Christ Superstar, Las Vegas, Moon Unit Zappa, MTV, Murray Head, Neil Sedaka, Neil Young, New Year, Paul McCartney, Ray Stevens, resolutions, Suspicious Minds, The Beatles, The HOLLIES, Tim Rice, Valley Girl, Yes, ZZ Top on January 9, 2016 by segarini
Happy 2016, ev-ree-baw-daaaaay.
Woo! Howz everybody feel?
We’re all here to partaaaaaay!!
GARY PIG GOLD GETS UNDER KEITH RICHARDS
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Chuck Berry, Cross-Eyed Heart, DBAWIS, Documentary, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, Keith Richards, music, music videos, Netflix, radio, Records, Rock and Roll, segarini, The Rolling Stones, Under the Influence on October 5, 2015 by segarini
I love Keith. You love Keith. We ALL love Keith Richards. In fact, very personally speaking, if it wasn’t for my first encountering the hallowed words “Chuck” and “Berry” on some extremely early Rolling Stones record, and then seeking out “No Particular Place To Go” in particular, I probably never would have ventured past the second fret up my own childhood guitar.
Doug Thompson: ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE MISSES THE MARK…..AGAIN!
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Rolling Stone Magazine recently released their latest ‘list’, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters” rollingstone.com). Let me repeat that title, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters”. Their descriptive line states “From Brill Building tunesmiths to Punk poets, from Woody Guthrie to Max Martin, the visionaries who defined music history.”
Pat Blythe: Women of Blues 2 – Ma Rainey – Mother of the Blues
Posted in Opinion with tags Alberta Hunter, Assassinators of the Blues, Bessie, Bessie Smith, Big Momma Thornton, Black Bottom, Black Pearls, Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame, Bo-Weavil Blues, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, Daphne Harrison, DBAWIS, Dinah, Dinah Washington, Don't Believe a Word I Say, doo-wop, Elvis Presley, Eric Burdon, Fat Chappelle, Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett, Grammy, Lead Belly, Lightnin' Hopkins, Louis Armstrong., Ma Rainey, minstrel, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, Mo'nique, Moonshine Blues, Mother of the Blues, Pa Rainey, Pat Blythe, Peggy Lee, Prove It On Me, Queen Latifah, Rabbit Foot Minstrels, Ray Charles, Roxanne Tellier, Sandra Lieb, See See Rider, segarini, Soon This Morning, tent shows, The Airdome, The Kingsmen, The Lyric, The Orioles, The Wild Cats Jazz Band, Thomas Dorsey, Tolliver's Circus and Musical Extravaganza, Tombstone Blues, Tommy Dorsey, vaudeville, Victoria Spivey Mayo Williams on June 3, 2015 by segarini
I just finished watching the movie Bessie starring Queen Latifah as Bessie Smith and Mo’nique as Ma Rainey. Suggested watching by Roxanne, my friend and fellow writer, and an excellent recommendation it was. Thank you Rox…. the timing couldn’t be more perfect. A great segue for this column and also for the series. Ma and Bessie were two completely different women singing their own style of the blues together, and apart, one learning from the other and taking the blues to a whole new audience. I’ll start with the groundbreaker.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 