Start All Over Again - It's Not An Ending. It's A New Begininning

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We hate to start all over again. But then again we're always wishing for second chances. As rocky a road as my life has been, I'd love the chance to start all over again; maybe I've learned enough from a life littered with mistakes that I can get it right (or at least much, much better this time). Nothing else to say, except that I love this song, and so will you.

The artist was Tyrone Davis, and the title of the song was actually "Can I Change My Mind". The signature guitar riff is phenomenal, funky and tasty-sweet! I learned that thing and played it 'til I needed a new pick.The rest of the guitar work throughout the song is technically awe-inspiring. The brass plays along in a shadow of it from time to time.

Just click on the pick below, and let the music and the feelings flow.

Your Uncle DAZZ loves you. He hopes that you'll find a good reason to love him back. Step back, and give your friend a chance to reinvent himself...

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ODE TO BILLIE JOE - Tom Wopat - Amazing, Haunting, Country.

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Some years ago, Tom Wopat was a young actor on the television series "The Dukes Of Hazzard." I was amazing to see him some sixteen years ago with Bernadette Peters doing a wonderful acting and singing job on an award-winning Broadway remake of "Annie Get Your Gun." He and Bernadette Peters sang beautiful music with amazing spontaneity, smoothness and chemistry. Great songs. Great play.

About a year ago, I was listening to public radio (NPR) and I heard a recording of Tom Wopat singing (in studio, live and smoky) Bobby Gentry's haunting 1960's country and western tune "Ode To Billie Joe." Simple, soulful and elegant -- a hidden treasure, this one. Deep, deep southern feel -- like a wraith out of the early 1900's. Farm family on the edge of poverty. And that mystery: What was Billie Joe McCallister throwing off the bridge with his life's greatest love, before he took the lonesome plunge to his own death?

Tom has a fine bourbon- rough/mellow voice, with just the right part southern twang. His only accompaniment being an acoustic guitar (Key of E Major, funky strum), a haunting Hammond (creepin' in through the back), .... light, light drums and a gentle bass. Nice, smooth black velvet guitar solo, with gently bent strings like weeping wheat in the wind.

The song is a treat to the ears, the soul and the heart.

Gentry's impeccable lyrics ride well in Tom Wopat's gentle but masculine voice. You can feel a tornado coming in the distance ---

All in all, this song must be listened to. Get everybody you care about and tell them to listen to Tom Wopat's bayou-spooky version of "Ode To Billie Joe," here on The RadioDAZZ Blog.

Just click on the hyperlink or the video player and treat yourself to some deep, southern, country-fried soul. And y'all remember to wipe your feet. Y' hear?

The RadioDAZZ guy needs your love like the parched, sunburned desert craves a soaking rain.

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Shotgun - "Funk" Defined. Dazzology. - Jr. Walker

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Around 1966, Jr. Walker And The All Stars kicked out one of the funkiest brief pieces of funk ever to come out of the factory. "Shotgun." With its irrepressible beat, signature thundershock drumrolls, cool organ response chords, and ...the unforgettable A7 strum riff on the reverb-enhanced guitar... It's the classic garage or ghetto A7, with the G (on the B string) and the A (on the E string) clashing together to produce that pure, raw sound. Barre chords...portable, slid-able, -- Remember that unmistakable sound at the beginning of Sam The Sham's "Wooly Bully"?  Oh yes you do.

The song is a slow rock, train-steady, get-out-and-dance-on-the-floor classic. Do the Jerk, the Swim, the Mashed potato -- even the Monkey or the Frug (pronounced "froog").

Click to hear the starter's pistol, and then we're grinding out pure, unadulterated soul. Jr. Walker walked the line between Motown and Funk, but if you were to ask DAZZ, he'd say that Junior was way far over on the funky side. I dare you to listen only once....


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