Leon Russell / Delta Lady

[Tuesday Afternoon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBv7dNkl3A

Woman of the country now I've found you
Longing in your soft and fertile delta.
And I whisper sighs to satisfy your longing
for the warmth and tender shelter of my body.
Oh you're my, yes you're my Delta Lady
Yes, you're my, me oh my, Delta Lady.

Please don't ask how many times I found you
Standing wet and naked in the garden.
And I think of days and diff'rent ways I held you,
Held you closely to me, yes our heart was beating.
Oh you're my .....

Oh, and I'm over here in England;
But I think of you, think about you ....
Because I love you,

There are concrete mountains in the city
And pretty city women live inside them.
And yet it seems the city scene is lacking.
I'm so glad you're waiting for me in the country.
Oh you're my ....

[asdjrocky]

1. I like Joe Cockers version, on the Mad Dogs and English Men tour-

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

But both are good.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. that works too.

[Demoiselle]

5. Best of all possible worlds....

Joe Cocker singing, Leon Russell on keyboard.
I saw Mad Dogs live in the Academy of Music in Philly. Through a haze of pot smoke, rising all the way from the orchestra seats to the Peanut Galley. Great event and I don't know whether that lovely old gilt and red velvet palace hasever quite recovered.

[asdjrocky]

8. Must have been one hell of a show.

I think I went to the local movie house to see the movie at least a dozen times somewhere around '73. Just had to keep going back because there was so much to see.

[Demoiselle]

12. It was heaven.

The Academy is a big house by opera standards, but certainly small by today's arena rock concert standards, so there was an intimate quality to it all. The sound was fabulous.
And the cast of characters, even aside from the stars, was wonderful and fluid. Literally fluid. At one point somebody's dog wandered on stage and lifted his leg on some piece of equipment. Another high point, when a slightly dazed young groupie lounging around at the back of the stage flipped backwards over a big amplifier, her legs (in thigh high boots) waving in the air.
But it was the music....oh the music! (Well, you know, you've seen the movie a dozen times.)
I dragged my (then) new husband and my twelve year old stepson to the concert. My stepson viewed me with greater respect afterwards. My new husband, an old-school Englishman (pre Beatles) was tolerant, if not blown away.

[asdjrocky]

13. What a great story.

I was I think 12 at the time I saw it at the movies. Right after that my brother took me to see the Stones at Winterland...wow.

Before that all of my musical tastes ran toward Motown and the rhythm and blues charts only, it was Joe Cocker and the Stones that taught me about white soul.

Thanks for sharing the memories.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

25. Joe singing and Leon on keyboard

old gilt and red velvet...and a haze of pot smoke. far out.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Leon's inspiration for the song, Rita Coolidge...

...performing Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGC29fn8JFU

:toast:

I was a big fan of Leon, Joe...and Rita, back in the day.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. I used to think that Kris and Rita were the coolest couple ever ...

:toast:

[Red State Rebel]

6. Saw Leon almost a year ago at a small venue...

He can still sing and play like a fiend on the keyboards. It was the weirdest concert I've been to - he came in, sat down and played throug 1-1/2 hours of music then got up and left. Never said a word to the audience...not one word.

[triguy46]

17. Standard method past 20 years or so.

[darkstar]

7. Yeah! Love it.

Leon is a force of nature.

:hi:

[Ptah]

9. Thanks for playing the jukebox this weekend, Tuesday Afternoon

More to listen to than time in a week, but I try to keep up.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. ~

:D :hug: :hi:

[Ptah]

15. This would make an excelllent podcast. Great selection.

Dire Straits - So Far Away

Southern Culture on the Skids 8 Piece Box & Run Chicken Run

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Big Country

Darkness, Darkness

you're strange but don't change

Don't Let Me Down

Loretta Lynn Jack White "Portland, Oregon"

Joan Armatrading - (I Love It When You) Call Me Names

WHIPPING POST - Allman Brothers Band

Conquistador

The Corn Won't Grow, So Rock n' Roll

BOB SEGER - Sunspot Baby

She and I

Marshall Tucker Band / This Ol' Cowboy

The Pointer Sisters: Fire - Live on Midnight Special 1979

A masterful selection.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. aw, thanks. I am glad you enjoyed it.

I kind of spammed the Lounge, didn't I :blush:

[Ptah]

22. Well then, it's official,

I like your spam.

Excellent choices.

Thank you.

[Moondog]

18. What Ptah said, +1.

I'd love to have it as a podcast.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. Now that you guys brought it up, I wonder how it would sound

listening to them in that order, the flow of it all. Might make for some good driving music :shrug:

[Moondog]

21. Don't wonder - emulate Nike

just do it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. hee

I would but, I don't have a pod thingie...I guess I could burn a CD....I think I have some blank ones stashed back somewhere.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. I saw Leon Russell at the Fillmore back in 1970

or so with Joe Cocker and Van Morrison. Great, great show!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

11. Saw Leon in concert

about 1971 or so. Didn't know who he was. He blew the roof off the place!!!
:party:

[supernova]

16. Heh. DL is my personal anthem

:D

It picks me up when no other song will do.

:evilgrin:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. yeah

it rocks. :hi: