Delta Lady - Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs And Englishmen - DeltaDAZZ

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Joe Cocker performing the rock classic "Delta Lady" in 1970 on his "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" tour. An amazing song -- probably the daddy that influenced the birth of Bachman Turner Overdrive's "Takin' Care Of Business." I loved this song. Leon Russell also did a wild and wonderful version of the same song, but this (Joe Cocker) is the version that I'd choose to be stuck on an island with... I had to have a friend write the lyrics on a sheet for me (Mr. Cocker does not enunciate -- he emotes), but I couldn't get enough of this song.

Cocker, actually a native of Canada with an uncontained lust for Delta (i.e., Southern-Cooked) Rock and Blues, veritably screams his vocal cords out and gesticulates with his arms in moves that some surmised was a form of palsy, and some just called "he gone wild." He explodes with enthusiasm and energy. He, Leon Russell, and the undeniably bizarre (but madly talented) Winter Brothers (Johnny Winter and Edgar Winter) were a major force in the 1960s to 1970s Delta Rock craze. There's an unmistakable lilt of Ragin' Cajun (Doug Kershaw*) to all of the wonderful music that was born of this genre.

Please click on the link or the video player below and lose control for a minute with your Uncle DAZZ. If you find yourself singling along, make sure that you have some candy handy; you're going to have a whopper of a sore throat. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOz6Mt2t084



Click HERE to hear Doug Kershaw singing Diggy Diggy Lo. Now that's Ragin' Cajun! Etoile!

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GROOVELINE! - RadioDAZZ Rocks HEATWAVE [Get Set To Sweat]

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I was captured during my Disco days (daze?) by the funky, full "wall of sound" (an evolved form of Phil Specter's 60's hit-making mechanical mechanism) that Heatwave generated. It was as if they were surrounding us completely, from without and within. So aptly named, they were always on fire, with a pulse, a sense of urgency, a power of possession and mastery.

So you liked "Boogie Nights?" That's aight. It was a major breakthrough. I enjoyed it. But the Grooveline was so rich and soulful, with its signature bass line (an companion bass vocal), and its wildly eccentric but electric de-tuned tack piano riffs. They add to that ever-youthful feeling of adrenaline-infused happy panic and the magic of infinite possibilities. Music could make us feel invincible.

Love that twangy, trebly, guitar augmented ninth played way up on the fretboard (like a constant replay of the first chord of Blood, Sweat and Tears' "Spinning Wheel"0, and the staircase of discordant brass leading into each amazing verse. So busy. So much going on. All of it joyful. Somehow it all works.

If you just sit in your chair, and put this song on high volume and bass boost, I'll bet you'll feel the hair rise on your neck, and that your shoulders and legs will get a workout whether you want them to or not. The most effective and influential pop songs are the ones that bypass all of your conditioned defenses and take control of your body.

Enjoy this. Click. Feel the temperature rise...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJDPz4guxOQ&feature=related

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President Obama "Infuriated" With Douglas Castle. - AP News

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President Obama "Infuriated" With Douglas Castle.

AP- Tuesday, May 11

"I simply wanted to ask him a quick question about something that I'd read in The National Networker Weekly Newsletter, and he doesn't have the decency to stop what he's doing for one minute to take my call. Just who does this Douglas Castle think he is? Didn't his parents teach him any manners? I hear that the Pope has been waiting a week to get a return call from this guy."

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Radio DAZZ: Produced by Douglas Castle