First, I thought I’d post for a few guys out there who should dig these songs.

The first is Scott Amendola Band. Scott Amendola is the pretty f’n killer drummer in the first song (wait until about 6-7 minutes in — this guy just rips). I heard this song via the Pandora music player. Turns out he plays drums heavily for Charlie Hunter, which when you listen shouldn’t surprise you a bit… The rest of his songs are so-so (a little too new-school jazzy) but this one is pretty damn good…

The second song is qued up for “the tenor man,” who is some guy out there on the Internet who’s about to drop everything from his life in California and sell his house and relocate to work minimum wage in the dust and heat and beauty and mountains of St. George, Utah. More power to you man, sounds like a blast and way to follow your heart…

Tenor Man by the Greyboy Allstars is just a simple old song but it’s good, long and soulful.  If you’ve ever seen or met Karl Denson from Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe he is the nicest guy in the world…  And a hell of a saxophone player of course.  The original Tenor Man, I suppose.  For me this is one of the big hits by the Greyboy Allstars; the song that really ‘does it’ for me from these guys and one more of the instrumental bands I’ve liked for a long time but never got a chance to see.  They finally reunited maybe 2 or 3 years ago and came through our local venue, Club Suede (no longer in action unfortunately – but click this link for some more funky tunes) who I was doing the website marketing for at the time.  I was really psyched to see them and of course they rip.  It was a random Tuesday night though and one of those nights where hardly anyone comes out, everyone was just too busy.   I was excited to hear them maybe play this song but it turns out it’s a real classic and as it was a reunitement tour they’d actually forgotten how to play it – totally understandable considering all of their killer tunes…   But as mentioned, Karl Denson & crew were the nicest guys in the world about it.  Including his Hammond/Keyboard player, Robert Walter (and his band, 20th Congress).  These guys are pretty good.  Walter lives in New Orleans and is pretty funky but he’s still pretty damn while actually (in his style and feel) but is still pretty good:

I actually had a couple posts about a week ago but managed to have not 1, but 2 MYSQL databases crash in a two day period (a MYSQL database is what powers this site and most other php based web sites) so those posts disappeared. Doh But fear not, those posts weren’t that important other than a new, halfass, posting category called “jukeboxing” where I basically play music other than to create eclectic playlists (which is always fun) but doesn’t put into the thought and feeling and soul of some of the other, real, ‘jukeboxing’ on this site.   So in one regard it’s always sad to see your stuff disappear but in another regard maybe it was meant for the better…