happy labor day fellow americans. hopefully everyone everyone from the gulf coast is outta harms way. been watching coverage all morning and so far it seems as if everything is holding, but the worst is yet to come, supposedly.
captains dead favorites, the everybodyfields performed an impromptu and a capella version of the everly brothers’ “let it be me” for paste during their recent stop over in atlanta. a show i was not able to attend…. click here to check it out.
in case you missed these gems the first 10 times i posted em.
i will not deny my roots. therefore, i must contend that for the longest time, at least until i was 12, i worshipped huey lewis and the news’ picture this and sports. i believe i listened to em so much that i bought multiple copies of the cassettes, but of course had to upgrade to cd. “i want a new drug” was the first and oly song my mother ever barred me from listening to - that banning only lasted about a day or so. they still hold an odd place in my ever blackening heart.
here they are performing in the wttw studios, thats in chicago, in 1994. there are some edits that were probably done for commercial breaks and such.
3. stagger lee
4. blue monday
6. i thank you
8. good morning little school girl
11. personality
13. power of love
17. better to have and not need
the power of love - classic 6 minute version
hip to be square
Dude - great minds think alike…what a great show!
Because of this blog I bought the Everybodyfields’ Nothing Is Okay.
Which is a really beautiful album. As you are well aware.
So…thanks.
Won’t be buying Huey Lewis, though.
word em up, matthew! cant turn my back on where i came from.
@ vurwi, very cool… you mean you wont be purchasing sports or picure this? how disappointing! j/k…
Huey Lewis? Um, Huey Lewis?
did i stutter mother fucker? yeah huey lewis and the motha fuckin news.. if you were 9 years old in 1983 you would probably understand…
i applaud you for sticking with your roots sir. ’small world’ was one of my first cassette tapes. they were also one of the main reasons i chose to play the saxophone in 6th grade, which became a big part of my life and my perception of music.
too bad they didn’t play ‘walking on a thin line’ or ‘if this is it’ in that show — those were some of my favorites
Huey Lewis was the first rock concert I ever saw. I was in 7th grade and enamored of the 50s rock my parents had playing around the house all the time. I was a huge fan - I even had a copy of the CLOVER album - if anyone wonders that’s the band Huey Lewis was in BEFORE the news - now sure how I came across it, but I think it involved a cut-out bin at the local place where kids become obsessed with rockers.
I live in Knoxville - I know most of the members of The Everybodyfields - they are wonderfully talented people who make music that is beautiful - that is if beautiful was a more exclusive word. I love it. I have traveled to see them play in other cities. I love them both!!!
For some very different reasons, a bit of nostalgia in each case - and the music, ah the music.