A new album from Glenn's long-time collaborator (not to mention contributor to Eagles albums, including LROOE). More info here.
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A new album from Glenn's long-time collaborator (not to mention contributor to Eagles albums, including LROOE). More info here.
Tempchin's also doing some shows - one in California. More info here.
Thanks for the links, Soda. I'll look out for that on Amazon.
Another Tempchin show on Dec. 14 in Solona Beach, with Dave Mason. More info here.
This is a combo Jack Tempchin / JD Souther piece that mentions Glenn:
From North Country Times
Their paths first crossed at an open mic in San Diego 3 1/2 decades ago, and both found fleeting fame after separately penning hits for the Eagles. In the years since, they've pursued their own musical paths, mostly existing under the pop culture radar and occasionally turning out a solo album.
Given that old pals J.D. Souther and Jack Tempchin record only sporadically, what are the odds that both men would issue new albums within a couple of weeks of each other?
Pretty long odds, said Souther by phone from his home in Nashville, Tenn., where he'd just gotten a copy of Tempchin's new disc, "Songs." Tempchin, who has called Encinitas home for the past 14 years after living his whole life in San Diego proper, also allowed that it was a pretty weird coincidence that Souther's "If the World Was You" had come out right on the heels of his own album.
As to how they met, Souther (who's in town Dec. 10 for a show at Acoustic Music San Diego) said it was shortly after he had moved to L.A. from his childhood home in west Texas, when he was playing in San Diego regularly with future Eagle Glenn Frey.
"Glenn and I were down there all the time playing at those clubs ---- the Candy Company and the Heritage, the Belly Up. We played everything down there when we first started, when we were playing for free at open mics.
"We were all broke, and Jack had a big old house we used to stay in. That's where we know each other from.
"I think I played more gigs in San Diego that first year than I did in L.A. I think it was a great city ---- I often considered moving down there for sheer quality of life: great Mexican food and the dog-friendliest beach in America."
Tempchin was born and raised in San Diego, graduating from Crawford High and San Diego State with a degree in psychology.
But while in college, he fell in love with music and began playing around town.
"I was living in a garage, so I didn't have very many expenses when I went to college. At that time, they had coffeehouses ---- I worked at several of those doing the hoot nights, being the host when people sit in. That's how I made a living during college."
It was during this period that he began writing his own songs, performing them on harmonica and vocals.
"I always wrote my own stuff, because learning other people's songs was quite difficult ---- so I just started making up my own.
"From the second song I wrote onwards, I would play them in the coffeehouses, and other musicians would ask if they could learn them and play them. A guy named Ted Stock started playing my songs around town and people were saying how great it was, so I asked him to show me how to play it on guitar and he said, 'No way, that's my arrangement.' "
Souther's introduction to music started at birth.
"My dad was a big-band crooner; that's what we played in our house. That's what I heard until I started bringing rock 'n' roll and rockabilly home."
Even though Souther is best known for co-writing country-rock songs with the Eagles ("The Best of My Love," "Heartache Tonight," "New Kid in Town"), Roy Orbison ("Coming Home") and James Taylor ("Her Town Too"), he said the jazz that infuses his new record has been present throughout his career.
"I've never really been able to distinguish very much between different styles of music having more value than another. I was playing what they used to call pickups or casuals with jazz players in their 30s when I was 14, 15.
"I always wanted to be a really good band leader; the guys I always admired were guys like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Kenton."
And it was the modern jazz of his youth that in large part shaped his musical philosophy, Souther said.
"Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Evans and the Dave Brubeck Quartet changed my musical outlook."
For Tempchin, who wrote ("Peaceful Easy Feeling") or co-wrote ("Already Gone") two hits for the Eagles, joining Johnny Rivers' cover of "Slow Dancin'" and lesser-known gems like Glen Campbell's reading of "Rollin' (In My Sweet Baby's Arms)," the collapse of the big-label model of the music business and the rise of the Internet as distribution network has been both blessing and challenge.
"I think the Internet definitely makes it more democratic. I just finished working with a gal from Korea and a guy from Ireland who flew to Hollywood to work with me last week; they had not met each other other than through MySpace and then Skype."
And the new record was released on his own label, Night River. Tempchin said he likes the control of owning everything himself, but he admitted that the marketing muscle of the labels in the old days had a certain appeal to musicians.
"Nowadays, I just put it up for sale on the Internet, and I have a distribution deal so it will be in stores as well. The real challenge is to just somehow have the public have the opportunity to hear it."
Souther, too, released his new album on his own label ---- and said he likes the way the music business works in the age of the Internet.
"I'm happy to be in the situation I'm in. I own my own record company, my own publishing, my own masters, and I have a great distribution deal.
"I get to do what I want ---- I'm perfectly happy to live without the big advance."
Jack Tempchin
When: 8 p.m. Dec. 9
Where: Calypso Cafe, 576 N Coast Highway 101, Leucadia
Admission: Free (dinner reservations suggested)
Info: (760) 632-8252 or calypsocafe.net
Web: tempchin.com
J.D. Souther
When: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10
Where: Acoustic Music San Diego, 4650 Mansfield St. (Normal Heights United Methodist Church), San Diego
Tickets: sold out
Info: (619) 303-8176 or acousticmusicsandiego.com
Web: jdsouther.net
Another interview, this time from the San Diego Reader (click link for photo):
“I’ve lived in San Diego all my life,” says singer-songwriter Jack Tempchin, “and I consider it my city — although I don’t mind sharing it with a few million people.”
Before writing songs for the Eagles and others, Tempchin lived in Banker’s Hill in 1970-’71. He often performed at a Mission Beach watering hole called the Heritage (where, for a time, Tom Waits manned the door).
In 1971, Tempchin managed SDSU’s Backdoor theater. While eating lunch one day at Der Wienerschnitzel on Washington and First in Hillcrest, inspired by “two pretty girls walking by,” he began writing the lyrics to “Peaceful Easy Feeling” on the back of a concert flyer. Friend and fellow musician Glenn Frey brought the song to his band the Eagles in 1972. The group recorded Tempchin’s “Already Gone” in 1973.
Every time the Eagles rerelease either song, Tempchin receives songwriter royalties. The Eagles’ album Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), featuring both tunes, has sold 27 million copies, making it one of the ten best-selling albums ever, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
Tempchin’s songs have been covered by locals the Paladins and Chris Hillman, as well as by George Jones, Glen Campbell, Tanya Tucker, Emmylou Harris, and Trisha Yearwood. Now living in Encinitas, Tempchin recently released a solo CD, Songs, which includes his new version of “Smuggler’s Blues,” cowritten with Glenn Frey and featured prominently in the TV show Miami Vice in the ’80s.
WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
1. “My friend Meiko was the bartender at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood, where I hang out. I didn’t know she was such a great songwriter and performer until I got her new album Meiko, which is a hit on the iTunes store.”
2. “Fishtank Ensemble is a band with a gypsy violinist. They’re an amazing group, unlike most anything I’ve ever heard. I’ve been playing their Samurai over Serbia album.”
3. “The Phantom Blues Band, featuring the incredible Mike Finnigan on vocals, recorded one of my songs on their album Out of the Shadows, which is great. They’re also the backup band for Taj Mahal.”
4. “Joe Sublett’s new solo album, Subtones, is instrumental and perfect for when you want to set a mood. He plays saxophone with the Rolling Stones and everybody else.”
5. “My longtime friend J.D. Souther has a new album called If the World Was You, and I can’t get enough of the song ‘I’ll Be Here at Closing Time.’ ”
WHAT ARE YOU READING?
1. “The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is a fantastic book. It tells how to recognize the three prongs of the corporate-devil’s pitchfork. One, eliminate all public services, like parks, beaches, [and] health care. Two, deregulate all business. Three, privatize everything, from toll roads to the water supply. This leads to people being either very rich or very poor and the end of democracy and freedom.”
2. “A Princess of Mars is a great pulp fantasy by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the writer of the Tarzan books. If you have an iPhone, you can download it and thousands of other books free and read them on your iPhone with the free Stanza program.”
3. “The Dumarest of Terra series is perhaps my favorite pulp science-fiction books of all time. The series consists of 32 books by E.C. Tubb that almost no one knows about. The more you read them, the better they get!”
4. “The Outfit by Richard Stark is part of the Parker book series. The movie Payback and five other films have been made from the Parker books. The main character is a very bad person. You wouldn’t want to meet him, but he’s great to read about.”
5. “The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret by Scott Olsen is about a mathematical relationship known to everyone from Pythagoras to Leonardo da Vinci. This relationship appears everywhere in nature, and the book claims that it’s the secret of everything. It contains the ultimate mumbo and jumbo, except it’s all math, and it’s all true.”
LENNON OR McCARTNEY?
“Lennon credited McCartney with writing almost all the songs. They were both great on their own, but neither they nor anyone else ever achieved anything close to what they did together.”
DRINK OF CHOICE?
“PG Tips tea with heavy cream.”
SOMETHING ABOUT YOU FEW KNOW ABOUT?
“When no one is around and I straighten up, I am very tall. When people are around, I slouch down, to make them more comfortable.”
Tempchin's got a show coming up:
Time: January 5, 2009 9:00PM
Location: Dublin Square, 554 Fourth Ave, San Diego, California 92101
And... best of all...
It's FREE!
Another article:
Eagles Songwriter Emerges with New Album
Eagles songwriter Jack Tempchin may hold the rare distinction of being able to write a song over the telephone based on someone else's dream. That's what happened when he wrote the ballad 'Box of Memories,' with keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, about a girl and her possessions.
"[Bobby] just started telling me the whole dream," Tempchin recalls to Spinner, "and I was writing it down. Everything in the song is absolutely from his dream. By the end of the phone conversation we had written the song."
It is indicative of Tempchin's talent: The San Diego-based artist penned two of the Eagles' most popular songs in the '70s: 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' and 'Already Gone.' He later co-wrote several of Eagles founder Glenn Frey's big solo hits in the '80s including 'Smuggler's Blues' and 'You Belong to the City.' But few probably know that Tempchin is also a singer who has recorded seven albums since 1977, including the recent 'Songs,' his first work of original material in 12 years.
"I've always been performing but I never really emphasized that part of my career," Tempchin, 61, says. "I just made this album and I realized if people don't know who you are, they can't come to the show."
Songs contains eclectic styles including rock, romantic Parisian pop, country and Latin influences. Along with 'Box of Memories,' it features Tempchin's rendition of 'Smuggler's Blues,' which was originally recorded by Glenn Frey from 1983. "Towards the end of the album I realized I hadn't done any of the hits that I've written," says Tempchin. "I think it's still means just as much, if not more, in a whole world that's just going the wrong way on drug control."
The friendship with Frey began around the time Tempchin was playing the San Diego coffeehouses during the folk era. "[He and J.D. Souther] used to stay with me at my big house down in San Diego with a lot of hippies living there," Tempchin recalls. His biggest break came in the early '70s when he wrote 'Peaceful Easy Feeling,' inspired by his attempt to get a waitress's attention at a coffeehouse in El Centro.
"She went home and I ended up sleeping on the floor of the [place]," he says. "I wrote the first verse there. I came back to San Diego and met some other girls and I put them in the song. There was a Wienerschnitzel on Washington Boulevard, and I remember walking with my little $13 Stella guitar and writing the last verse."
He was visiting Jackson Browne's home when Frey dropped in. Tempchin performed the song he wrote for Frey's tape recorder. "[Glenn] came back the next day and said, 'Well, Jack, I got a new band. We've been together for eight days, and we just worked up your song.' Then he played it for me on the cassette [player]. He went to England and recorded [the Eagles] first album."
When the Eagles broke up in the early '80s, Frey collaborated with Tempchin for most of his solo career. Tempchin recalls a time when he came over to Frey's house where there was candlelight and a bottle of wine. "Glenn had a way of romancing a song," he says. "Then we hit an idea and all of a sudden, 'Whammo! Wow that's good!' I learned a lot about songwriting from him."
In the late '90s, Jay-Z and Coolio sampled 'You Belong to the City' and 'Smuggler's Blues' for their songs, respectively. "It was a pretty big thrill," Tempchin says with a chuckle, "to see my music re-circulated, although in a really different form. That feels pretty good."
Tempchin is still actively writing: his most recent composing credits are on the Eagles' last album 'Long Road Out of Eden.' He's been performing on the West Coast and hanging out at the Hotel Café, a music place in Los Angeles. "It's kind of like the early Troubadour bar scene over there," he says. "I'm so thankful to be back in the music scene where everyone is just into the music."
That was very interesting. Thanks Soda.
What a talented man! It's just amazing to me how all these people knew each other back in the late 60's and 70's.
Love the part about Peaceful Easy Feeling.
Thanks for posting this, Soda. It was very interesting. Here was my favorite part:
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Tempchin recalls a time when he came over to Frey's house where there was candlelight and a bottle of wine. "Glenn had a way of romancing a song," he says. "Then we hit an idea and all of a sudden, 'Whammo! Wow that's good!' I learned a lot about songwriting from him."
I know, Dreamer, I know.:hug: :shy:
I found an interesting radio interview with Jack Tempchin. Although most of it is about the legalization of marijuana (which is informative), there are some interesting Eagle tidbits, mainly about his collaboration & friendship with Glenn. Once you access the link, you have to scroll down and click on "Hear our interview by clicking here".
http://www.radioornot.blogspot.com/2...and-humor.html
More Tempchin!
Jack Is One of the Greats by George Varga
Jack Tempchin, who performs Wednesday at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla with his band, should merit at least a few chapters when the definitive history of rock 'n' roll in San Diego is compiled.
A mainstay of the local scene since the 1960s, when he and musical pal Tom Waits completed the song “Tijuana” just moments before first performing it on stage, Tempchin managed the Back Door at SDSU during its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He later co-owned the Stingaree in Encinitas, one of North County's most popular live-music clubs.
His first band of note, the Funky Kings, recorded a lone album — 1976's “Funky Kings” on Arista Records — that was so full of terrific songs, including the future chart-topper “Slow Dancin',” that stardom seemed assured. They were promised as much by Arista president Clive Davis, the man who'd previously signed such budding stars as Janis Joplin, Santana, Chicago, Aerosmith and Earth, Wind & Fire.
“When the Funky Kings finished making our album, Clive sat us down in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel,” Tempchin recalled. “He said, ‘Look, you guys, you're all going to be hugely famous, and I hope you can handle it.’ Why that didn't happen, I still don't know.”
Yet, while fame eluded Tempchin, he struck gold as one of pop's most gifted and prolific songwriters. And while his latest album, 2007's self-produced “Songs,” is only his third solo outing since 1978, its title captures the essence of what he does best.
Indeed, it is Tempchin's gently infectious songs that strike a resounding chord with listeners, especially the versions recorded by other artists.
His songwriting credits include Johnny Rivers' “Slow Dancin' (Swayin' to the Music)” and The Eagles' “Already Gone” and “Peaceful Easy Feeling.” Together with Glenn Frey, whom he met here in the late 1960s before Frey joined The Eagles, Tempchin co-wrote “Smuggler's Blues” and “You Belong to the City” (which later were sampled on records by hip-hop stars Coolio and Jay-Z, respectively).
Other artists who have recorded songs by Tempchin over the years range from George Jones and Emmylou Harris to Richie Havens and such San Diego-bred artists as The Paladins and former Byrds member Chris Hillman. Songs written or co-written by Tempchin have been featured on the soundtracks of such films as “The Big Lebowski” and “Thelma and Louise.” He also co-wrote the “Seventh Heaven” TV series theme song.
“Jack is one of the greats,” said fellow San Diego troubadour Steve Poltz, during a Sunday songwriting panel with Tempchin at the North Park Music Thing.
“I used to hear (The Eagles') ‘Already Gone’ and ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling’ all the time, and they didn't do a lot for me. But then I heard Jack do them live at the old Casbah (in the early 1990s) and he owned those songs. It was the same with ‘Slow Dancin'.’ I didn't think much (of Rivers' version), but when Jack did it, it was the sexiest song I've ever heard.”
A San Diego native who now splits his time between Encinitas and Los Angeles, Tempchin celebrated his 36th wedding anniversary on Aug. 5. For the past decade, he has performed most Tuesday nights at Calypso Cafe in Encinitas with his local band, Rocket Science. For his 21-and-up Green Flash concert series gig Wednesday night at La Jolla's Birch Aquarium, he'll play with his four-man Los Angeles band, which features Neil Young bassist Rick Rosas and guitarist Burton Averre of The Knack.
“I always thought of myself as a performer,” Tempchin said. “I didn't think of being a writer until I wrote a bunch of songs and people said: ‘Hey, I'd like to sing that.’ After a while, I thought, ‘Maybe I can be a songwriter.’ ”
In 1967, Tempchin befriended Frey after the future Eagle began playing gigs here with J.D. Souther. Tempchin invited the duo to crash at his combination “hippie pad and candle factory” in North Park, and he and Frey became fast friends.
Tempchin co-wrote two songs on 2007's “Long Road Out of Eden,” The Eagles' first new studio album since 1979. With two of his earlier songs featured on “Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975,” which has sold nearly 30 million copies in the U.S. alone, he could have retired long ago. But his passion for making music continues unabated.
“I'm 62, but nobody wants to quit,” said Tempchin, who laments the lack of opportunities for young and veteran singer-songwriters alike.
“In the 1960s, people dug the music, but they didn't all want to be rock stars. Now, it's a ‘career path,’ but there's no money for songwriters (in a digital music age). If I'm having trouble geting my songs placed, what can these people who don't have a bunch of hit songs in their pocket do? It's pretty frightening.”
Jack has a Facebook fanpage now! Don't tell Don Henley. ;)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eagles...in/42280894815
If you've never heard how Robb Strandlund sounded on the song Already Gone... here he is live at a little club in San Diego County back in the 70's... Bob Warford plays some mean guitar on it... you might know Bob from his fine playing with Linda Ronstadt specifically on her version of "Willin'"
Willin, is a great song written by Lowell George (the love of Linda's life) and the song that prompted Frank Zappa to tell Lowell (upon hearing it) that it was time for him to go do his own thing and quit the Mothers of Invention.....
When Willin' was set to be cut for the first little feat record Lowell had hurt his hand and Ry Cooder came by and played the slide part.... (which is why it is the one slide song that doesn't sound like the others!)
Anyway... this version of Already Gone is funky and cool... I hope you enjoy it!
Wow, that's very different indeed! The Eagles must have really played around with the arrangement to get what they got out of it, or he's mixing it up now himself.
He's played several places around that area - makes me wish I lived in California! ;)
Thanks for the link!
Oh yeah, his version was much 'funkier'... Glenn came up with the lick that I think made the song have a 'hook'... that and the very wild pick harmonics really made the song...
I've seen Jack probably 20 times over the years (of course I saw the Eagles at least 20 times or more in the 70's)... the recording is okay, but I can tell you that Jack's bands (especially when Bob played with him) were stormin' good nights!
Bob and Clarence White have a lot of the same 'sounds' on guitar... and Clarence was a huge influence on bernie (the whole bender thing came from Clarence's head) and Bob and Clarence were instrumental (ha, a pun!) in developing the whole 'country rock' sound... along with Eddie Black etc...
Some of Bobs best playing are on the Heart Like a Wheel record (I have an awesome KSAN live recording of Ronstadt too that has some great playing on it)
the Heart Like a Wheel record was produced by John Boylan who was also the producer of Ricky Nelsons comeback records that Randy was brought in on... kinda funny... Boylan pitched Meisner as legit to Nelson and RM is a HUGE Nelson fan... it is a small world after all....
Here is a picture and cool little thing Boylan used to put on the studio wall...
http://homepage.mac.com/macmanager/.Pictures/roxy.jpg
If you can correctly name the people in the photo... I'll give you a prize!
http://homepage.mac.com/macmanager/.Pictures/boylan.gif
The internet is full of rumors and stuff... and anyone can make anything up... but, I think if you asked folks would be pretty forthright that Linda and Lowell's thing was fo'real... the fact that Lowell was married makes it complicated...
What is kind of interesting is how these people kind of swirled around each other... the maryland connection where Hillman found Emmylou and when some more folks went out there, the gang found George Massenburg and lots of Linda Ronstadt history (and many others too) was made with George as the magician....
and of course, gram was involved....
I always thought Gram Parsons was involved with Emmylou Harris, before Linda Ronstadt was ever heard of.
from 74... and in Maryland no less.... this is probably, well... this is good stuff...
This is almost a year after Gram died and after Emmy and Linda became friends... I think that ELH came to LA and ended up living with LR while she grieved... talk about a community of artists... hard to imagine that kind of a scene today where folks would play for the music and help each other... but they did...
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I hope you enjoy this... it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
one other Bob Warford tidbit... he went to medical school but ended up becoming an attorney instead and is to this day one of the big dog medical malpractice attorneys... and still plays incredible guitar.
Linda predates both of them in the fame department. She was on the Glen Campbell Goodtime hour, the Johnny Cash show.. she charted Different Drum (written by Monkee Mike Nesmith) in 67... Emmy didn't meet Gram until the 1970's...
Two things: 1) I don't think Gram and Linda were ever romantically linked. 2) Emmy and LR have been extremely private about their relationships and while it is easy to conclude that ELH and Gram were lovers... no one has ever admitted it.... my suspicion is to protect the families... similar to LR and LG.
http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/rs75-3.jpg
Gram didn't join the Byrds until 68 and didn't connect with Emmy til much later (like 2 or 3 years)
here is an RS article which substantiates that LG and LR umm, dated.
The article spends too much time being hip... there is another account... I cannot remember who I heard it from... I'll remember and post it... about their relationship...
there is no adequate testament to how cool Lowell was (or Linda) and the only concert footage I've seen that captures how truly cool the Eagles and guys like Danny Fogelberg were... is maybe the Kirshner footage of Joe Walsh's concert.....
The eagles back then were like a panther in a hurricane... oh well... sorry for the remembrances... probably kinda silly.
[QUOTE=bernie's bender;84139]from 74... and in Maryland no less.... this is probably, well... this is good stuff...
I hope you enjoy this... it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
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MINE TOO!
Not silly at all - I find this all very interesting! I didn't know much about all of this, and I love to hear about such behind-the-scenes things. Plus, those links... wow! Such great vocals and so clear, and when they start singing together - wonderful. Thanks for posting them.
As far as that photo - one of them is Linda Ronstadt I'm stumped as to the rest! :blush:
Well bender - this is some really interesting stuff. While it is easy for me to see why the rockin' energy-packed Eagles' version of Already Gone was a lot more successful, I think Jack's version does have a certain appeal. It is an interesting combination of country-flavored funk. I really enjoyed it. I think it is amazing how different the musical arrangements are for the two versions. If not for the lyrics, I would not have even recognized Jack's music as being the same song that I am so familiar with.
I also love Boylan's rules - those are sooo true! And I vaguely remember hearing talk about Linda being involved with Lowell, but, honestly, never had heard about how deeply involved they were before. Do you know the timeframe of their relationship?
I can't name all of the people in the picture either.
I knew I was wrong about something last night and it was bugging me... I'm sorting through old recordings and I remembered Bob being the guitar player correctly... but, it isn't Jack singing on that it is Robb Strandlund! sheesh, a brain fart deluxe!
I had all those files in the same folder with some other stuff (now you guys have me all sorting through old recordings and pics etc.)
I'll post the people in the picture in a bit....
sorry for the error, I'll make mistakes... but I usually fix'em.
I don't know for certain any timeline for LR and LG's thing... truthfully, I think they were always kinda linked... I'd bet only Linda would know for sure and she'd never say...
I promised I'd list the gang in the pic...
Bernie Leadon, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillman, Rick Roberts, Lowell George, Linda Ronstadt and Al Perkins
Here is another fun picture... this is of the 'legendary' Longbranch Pennywhistle...
John Beland, Glenn and JD
http://www.johnbeland.com/JBLONGBRAN...YWHISTLEsm.jpg
Man, I'm embarrassed about not recognizing Bernie Leadon. :blush:
Gotta love JD's outfit in that Longbranch Pennywhistle live photo!
Jack Tempchin performs Somebody:
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It's always interesting to hear other interpretations of Eagles songs. I'll let Jack slide since he wrote it, but our boy Glenn does it so-o-o-o-o much better!
OK.... I watched it out of respect for Jack. I will say something that you wouldn't expect, which is that those harmonies were totally anaemic, and make you realise how good Tim and Don sound on the song. If I said anything else it would be stating the bleeding obvious.
Interesting!
It does not sound bad but I prefer a clearly the version of the Eagles!
Jack talks about working with Glenn a bit!
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCi5Ca_7GmU[/ame]
Ver-r-r-r-ry interesting about the candles and the muse! Don't you wish you could have been a fly on the wall when The One You Love was being written? (Listening to it right now...) :sigh:
I had heard Jack tell the part of that story about the candles & red wine before. He made a comment at the time that Glenn really "knew how to romance a song". I must say that I am in complete agreement with that! :)
Just wanted to let all Tempchin fans know that you can join an e-mail listserv and get exclusive information, notification of his tour dates, and access to downloads, including free tracks! Here's the e-mail:
nightriverrecords@yahoo.com
Alternatively, you can sign up using this site:
http://www.reverbnation.com/jacktemp...07581_20904815
Tempchin is posting "a song a day" on YouTube and he's still got it!
I found the theme of this song pretty interesting...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CppDe99nVNQ[/ame]