There is also a great 20-minute jam on Dr.
The best-selling single from the album was “I Don’t Need No Doctor.” which had been a hit for Ray Charles in 1966. Humble Pie were made up of singer and guitarist Steve Marriott, guitarist Peter Frampton, bassist Greg Ridley, and drummer Jerry Shirley. This live double-album from English blues-rock band Humble Pie was recorded over two days in May 1971 at the famous Fillmore East Club in Manhattan, which closed a month later. Live In Paris won a Grammy for Best Jazz Album.Ĥ9: Humble Pie: Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore (1971) Krall, backed by a band that included guest jazz stars of the caliber of Michael Brecker and Christian McBride, swings through standards – including from the Gershwins, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen – and brings her own sophisticated style to versions of modern classics by Billy Joel and Joni Mitchell (Krall delivers a delightful version of “A Case of You”). Verve Records has released live albums from dozens of great jazz singers down the years – including Billie Holiday, Anita O’Day, and Ella Fitzgerald – and one of their finest 21st-century releases is Canadian singer and pianist Diana Krall’s Live in Paris, recorded at the historic Olympia venue in the French capital. I accuse Flogging Molly of sitting on their laurels and letting themselves down by making consistently good yet predictable albums.Here are just a few of the best live albums ever put to tape. If folk music was never meant to change, Bob Dylan would've never picked up the electric guitar and the Pogues would play sober. And that is the disappointment: the lack of surprises the lack of challenge the lack of progress. These 11 tracks are a safe excursion into territory the band never leaves they are a tight and skilled band who are playing well within their comfort zone. King has a way with hooks and songs that are, in no uncertain terms, rabble rousing. But we got that on Drunken Lullabies - why bother making the same album for the fourth time? Even the Dropkick Murphys have grown, albeit from a cod-Irish but pretty good hardcore oi! band to a cliché-ridden embarrassment. It's easy to picture a crowd roused by "Requiem for a Dying Song," "Paddy's Lament," "You Won't Make a Fool Out of Me," "Us of Lesser Gods" and pretty much the rest of the album. Certainly, Float is an album of consistently well-written, well-played, well-structured songs. There is a struggle with most bands that last more than three albums and who are not of a progressive nature: They fail to grow, change and be interesting. It went all through Drunken Lullabies, into Within a Mile of Home and has gone all the way into Float, a million and a half album sales later. But back in 2002, with Drunken Lullabies, the band hit quite the unstoppable stride for writing good song after good song and they didn't really bother to stop. It was recorded in Ireland though, adding more legitimacy to their cause. So what does Float bring to the Flogging Molly boat, apart from celebrity fans and some more Irish punk? Innovative, interesting, intelligent ideas to take the sound further and forward? Perhaps some more metallic moments that harkens back to King's original band (Fastway, with "Fast" Eddie Clark from Motörhead)? And with the four years since the last studio album (the rather good Within a Mile Of Home in 2004), they've picked up a host of celebrity fans, name-checked by author Stephen King and actors Ewan McGregor, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and other imaginary people.
It also helps that King has surrounded himself by very talented musicians and can write quite a good tune ( Drunken Lullabies is a personal favourite Irish punk album of mine).
And so with that in mind, it is easier to listen to Flogging Molly without annoyance at the cod-ness that may come with other bands. Can you say that, Dropkick Muphys? Can you say that, Tossers? Even Shane McGowan (the Pogues' leading alcoholic) has a more tenuous link to Irishdom. One thing that Flogging Molly have over a large majority of Irish punk bands, and I'm sure this has been said many times before, is that lead man Dave King is actually Irish.