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The Five Stairsteps big one from the early 70s. Video was different then...but the song is a classic.

(per Wiki, the group was named by Mom as they were all hers "5 of 6 of the children of Betty and Clarence Burke, The Five Stairsteps, named by Mrs. Burke who thought her kids looked like stair steps when lined up according to their age") :)

 
Scud49 said:
BB- oh yea, the Roches - this one knocked me out when I first heard it in the early 80's:
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They are really different. Your choice led me to a couple of their others that I liked more. Your choice "too epic" for my small brain and lyric hearing ability!
 
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RockyMTblue2 said:
They are really different. Your choice led me to a couple of their others that I liked more. Your choice "too epic" for my small brain and lyric hearing ability!
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Yeah, they're an acquired taste. I love some of their stuff, am tepid on most of it, and really can't stand some of their songs. Thing is, this is on individual albums -- I've owned a couple of them, and never listened to them much because there would be a standout song on each side with a bunch of stuff that didn't speak to me.

Factoid: The youngest sister, Suzzy (pronounced SUH-zee), was romantically involved with Loudon Wainwright and had a daughter with him, Lucy, who's a singer and half-sister to Rufus and Martha.
 
RockyMTblue2 said:
They are really different. Your choice led me to a couple of their others that I liked more. Your choice "too epic" for my small brain and lyric hearing ability!
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Haha...I understand, it's kind of a sweeping, complex, epic, sort of a tune, you may grow to like it though...! :D:D
 
Beemer said:
I love Asleep At The Wheel! I think you're the only other person I've "known" who even knows who they are
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I lived in the Denver area for 12 years back in the 70's and early 80's, it was a bastion of country rock, country swing, when I was out there. I got a lot of exposure to Jerry Jeff Walker, New Riders of the Purple Sage, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, David Bromberg, the Dead, Marshall Tucker Band, Poco, the Dirt Band, Pure Prairie League, Little Feat- I guess I could go on and on. It was, and still is, some great, great music.
 
Although the Eagles made a big hit out of it, it was originally written and done by David Blue - and to my ears, a far better version:

"I am an outlaw, I was born an outlaw's son
The highway is my legacy
On the highway I will run
In one hand I've a Bible

In the other I've got a gun
Well, don' you know me
I'm the man who won"

 
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I couldn't find the full version from Electric Ladyland, but here's a live version of Voodoo Chile:

 
And here's a version from All Them Witches, a wicked cool "stoner doom metal" band from Texas:

 
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