stephen davis. I first saw David Bromberg at The Rainbow Music Hall in Denver back in 1977. Tkts were a cheap $10.00. I bought 12 tkts and took some friends to see an amazing show.
Funny story: I've been a Bromberg fan forever - since the early 70s - but like you I assumed he was mostly unhear of. Many years ago, I was visiting family in Tampa and he was appearing at a little dive restaurant/bar called Skipper's Smokehouse, near Univ. South Florida and I decided to go see him. The place was packed with a few hundred people, but it being a Friday night and a college town in the cultural desert of Florida (I used to live there), and with cheap Red Stripe beers, I still assumed nobody there knew who he was. So he starts into "I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning". He gets to the chorus for the first time, and I swear every last person in the bar sang along.
I'd heard of him through the 70's and in the 80's but only heard one or two tunes, till he came back in the business, then I made the effort to see him live, great show, w John Mceuen as a guest, great jokes and music :D Great entertainer
I believe you! I bought this album used, not really "into" such a bluegrass tinged folk kind of sound but I wore it out! Funny songs for the blue days, blues tunes with David's unique twist- I'm not a musician nor a music critic so I don't possess the " right" words- I just know extraordinary music when I hear it. My turntable broke. LPS sit in crates not forgotten but not enjoyed unless I had "bread" to replace it with a CD- damn tapes invariably stretched or tangled, whatever! John Hartford brought me here- forgive me David for forgetting all the joy this album gave me- my memory, letting life's turmoil take over- maybe I can afford that CD! Namaste
@@richintalent scroll through the list of inductees sometime. There are plenty that aren't exclusively rock and roll artists. Rock & roll and the genres that came after have their roots in folk, blues, and jazz which is why the field can and should be very diverse. 🤘
Lol, I'm only 23 years old but when I was 15 I bought this same album because I loved the album cover it was on 33 vinyl, bought that and a 1970 Panasonic all in one 8 track/turntable/Line In/AM/FM unit for like $10 at a local Salvation Army in Riverhead, NY. Needless to say that is the reason I'm probably the only person my age who listens to David Bromberg, I love him and his work, great stuff and Nice memories :)
First time I saw David was 1975 with Bonnie Raitt and Steve Goodman. The last time was a few years ago with Jorma in a small venue about 10 feet away. Whenever my Pandora plays him I always smile...
I started listening to Bromberg....so long ago. Early 70s and that lead to listening to Jerry Jeff Walker. Two artists I enjoyed through out that time period and still do.
I first saw David Bromberg at The Boarding House on Bush St. In San Francisco. John Prine opened for him !! 1972. David would always end with this song. There must have been 100 musicians on stage. I could have listened all nigjt !!
I saw Bromberg on my birthday Feb 9, I think 1978 or 79. He was playing a song with fiddles and the power went out. He calmed everyone down and came out in the aisle about 20 rows with 2 other guys with fiddles. The emergency lights were on and he was able to see what he was doing. They played like crazy for 10 minutes. They were still playing and the power came back on and they all ran back up on the stage and finished the song. If they planned this, it couldn't have been better.
Once upon a time there were devices called 8 tracks, and I had many in my VW camper van. I had all of David Bromberg's early ones, and they were played often during my many great road trips. This particular song always found my foot a just a little heavier on the gas pedal towards the end, at the fiddle breakdown, bouncing in our seats and big ole' smiles on our faces as we rolled on down the road. Always. Thanks, David Bromberg for some mighty fine memories.
+lonetoad  My late brother who was an audiophile gave me an 8 track recorder with stereo meters. I wish I had all those tapes, and that machine that we let go over all the years. I am not sure if I need to build a fifth music collection.
Handy Capo Whst an excellent collection that was. Real fine equipment. Ah heck, there's always a way to find a place and the time for music. C'mon now!
I had a summer job in 1974 and 1975 working for a moving company. They gave us a truck & put us on the road- From New Jersey we travelled to Michigan, Oklahoma, Maine, Georgia and all points in between. Me and a fellow driver-we were both 22 years old. This song captured those hauls for us better than anything out at the time (with the possible exception of "Radar Love" by Golden Earring)- Who can ever forget "eating cardboard pie" or fighting over nothing!! A dashboard filled with garbage!
anyone from nyc area remembers the bottom line. great club where record companies launched up and comers like bruce. but the anniversary show every year was david. they knew great players.my first was when i was 16 in 1975. with the chieftains damn that was good. saw many others there ty david
It must have been about the same time that I saw him and Jerry Jeff Walker at the Shaboo Inn somewhere in CT. Dynamite show...Pissin in the Wind and this gem..Yahooo!
...and then we'd ride. Boy do I remember this. Had a buddy who thought mounting his turntable to the wall was a good thing... until this song came along. Starting slowly, winding up to the wildest dance party ever known to man (listening to hillbilly music that is). Then the turntable started skipping... bodies slamming against the wall, floor, each other... and then the turntable hit the floor. The following 5 seconds were absolutely silent, followed by the loudest howling laughter you've ever heard. David has cemented a couple of memories in my mind that will last a lifetime.
oh yea, i know this, record player was flat, but by the time we got crazy it sure was skipping, then the law came, lolol he loved it let us finish and he joined in amazing memory i forgot. thanks for the memory
My dear friend Brian (RIP) & I ran away and left our hometown in the 70's...we used to sing this song to ourselves while on the road....on the way to eventually join a traveling Carnival. This song became our life. Saw David MANY times over the years & always had an exciting nite
I saw him years ago( 30 or so) a couple of times including at montclair state unit......totally awesome. This song and Yankees Revenge are timeless classic to a musician who just didn't get the recognition he so rightly deserved. Go David.....
I've seen him 6 times over the years, from his old big band to solo, playing his novelty stories to blue grass to blue to whatever. He probably never played the same song in any two performances. The only thing common was one incredibly talented musician devoted to authentic American music. Each show was thoroughly enjoyable and memorable in its own right.
hahha, makes me glad I started hitchhiking & traveling when I was just 15, saw so much of this country b4 it was SO CROWDED everywhere! The Rockies, Key West, hiked to bottom of Grand Canyon 1976, b4 waiting lines. These songs give me wanderlust still and I've still got time!
I used to do square dancing at school 50 years ago. The music was pretty much identical to the last 2 1/2 minutes of this song. What fun it was. This was in Australia mind you, so it was a bit of a strange anomaly to be doing a folk dance from a foreign country.
My Father saw me listening to this in 79. In Feb 79 I went to the Texas oilfield then. My father warned me that if I didn't get a new job then out. Carter was worse than Joe. So after Wanda Weave laid off I flogged my 73 VW Super Beetle. It was cold. I watched the illustrated man with Steiger and his character washed up in a stream. The location was NorCal. Worked, Hitchhiker. Then hit the jackpot. Got a job in 80 Offshore Oilfield. Flew home on a 727. I was the only one on the plane. The stews had me come to first class. Why? Duh? DB Cooper. That light bulb came on six months later. Great Album.
All through Northern Oregon Always at my side Sleeping in those narrow beds And then we'd ride Drinking in those dirty bars Keeping out of sight Sleeping in that cold back seat And then we'd ride You know that God damned road seemed like it went forever Exhaust fumes made our eyes turn red and swell With our clothes stuck to the seat and to our bodies It was a stinking summer trip to southern hell Eating carbonated crap Churning up inside Gas soaked service station johns And then we'd ride (fiddles solo) Silence in the front seat Trying not to start to fight Quiet as and all silent And then we'd ride You know you can grow to hate these...little one horse towns With the seamy.. Movie houses all closed down No where to go from here but up and down the road And nothing over there but the same goddamned town Another sour coffe cup One more piece of cardboard pie Buy a tooth brush and a change of clothes And then we'd ride
I had the pleasure of seeing Dave Bromberg at the Fox Hollow Folk Festival in 1970. He was the first guitarist anyone had ever heard of to play a dobro guitar off the shoulder, and he didn't slacken the strings like a lot of those who came after did.
Go visit him at his violin shop in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. That's where he hangs out when he's not touring. He's a great musician and a great guy! Best thing ever out if Philadelphia.
My old man was in his early 20’s at the time and was going 150km down an empty highway one day listening to this song and wasn’t aware that there was a cop casing after him 🤣🤣
Me and my dad were on a long road trip to Yosemite and we didn’t arrive at our motel until midnight, and this song came on just as we were driving into the valley. It was perfect
Thank you. For decades I've worried that I dreamed that show. Also saw him in a concert hall in D.C., not DAR, the other one. And on the last night of the Goin'Fishin' festival in Glen Rock PA.
Wonderful song that most people have never heard of. Great story telling that only Bromberg can deliver in his raspy sarcastic voice. The instruments in this song blows me away. Especially the Banjo and Fiddle. A unique Bluegrass Shit Kicking and Ass kicking song. This song is in my top 10.
Gives me wanderlust...glad I started hitchhiking & traveling this country when I was just 14, Rocky Mts, Key west, hike to bottom Grand Canyon 1976, Laconia 1977, Sturgis 1990, all b4 EVERYTHING was crowded beyond belief! Time to get out there again......still lots to see........ His song 'Sharon' reminds me of the late 70's when the country fairs in Maine still had girly shows in tents and gypsies fortune telling, b4 everything went PC, cleaned up, sanitized, no beer tents, and BORING AS HELL! All 'family friendly', 'upscale' boring bullshit at 4 times the price and all the same shit from coast to coast. Used to be areas were more distinctive and it was GREAT!
reminds me of our road trips in the 80's from LA to berkeley buying sheets of blotter, later,all of us tripping balls in san fran, and ALL 6 in car seeing the same half man/half deer... strange days, going to the north beach bar to see johnny nitro/doorslammers. dancing with fat chicks til closing.
who doesn't want to play with bromberg?! this album has 4 members of the Grateful Dead, GEORGE HARRISON, andy statman, so more greats...thankfully, david comes to the west coast every so often, but i hear he's done touring...again
I never thought twice about the historic relevance of living on Lee Highway (or at least our little piece of it) in Northern Virginia or that the Lee Highway was more than the route that criss-crossed I-66 between the nation's capital in DC to the Civil War town of Warrenton, VA. But the Lee Highway stretches from New York to San Francisco using the US highway system. "You know you can grow to hate these…little one horse towns With the seamy..movie houses all closed down" Sadly, this is all too common in the country due to so many factors; industry consolidation, interstate highway system, politics, and off-shore production to name a few. But, for some, there is a longing for getting back to the simple life. David talks about how it used to be when the Lee Highway was the major southern thoroughfare between east and west. Most won't ever know about that time or how it used to be except in songs like these.
Hap Parsons Thanks for that. I’m Australian, been a huge Bromberg fan since the 70s, didn’t know the Lee Highway was an actual, well, highway...very interesting to read that little slice of history. (
I wore this L.P. out I wonder if I can afford the CD- another seminal "folkie" from "those" days- radio needs to get a life as they say...you shouldn't have to live in Nashville or Wheeling West Virginia, etc to hear this kind of music, by a musician of high calibre! Thanks David. Namaste
A special THANK YOU TO FRED...I HEAR YOU, MAN. Radio made itself "redundant" by playing too much commercial " but you can't see the video" muzak- I can't express what I want to say- thank you Fred- maybe you understand what I mean- music videos, MTV, - has it's place but when FM - once the commercial free, " underground" music's home and by underground sadly I can no longer use the term for music not suitable for pop airwaves- too long, ( exception being Dylan's, Like a Rolling Stone) X rated lyrics, ie anti-Vietnam war songs- dangerous men like Phil Ochs- I have a migraine which makes my brain fog foggier than that "floating about" in Tom Waits' wonderful song, especially when sung by the iconic, Marianne Faithfull, Strange Weather- so sad several generations have been "robbed" sort of, of part of their culture- genres of music which went into Rock and Rap- I am one of those people who really DOES go from a Medieval Passion Play to Marianne, The Beatles to Bach- that old catch phrase attributed to John Lennon- I can't recall. Israel! Wow! That is cool! I know who Gene Krupa is! I can't wait to put headphones on and "just dig this channel" - in the proverbial sea of conformity, a ship on the horizon- oi vey this is getting worse- THANK YOU FOR BEING A TRUE MUSIC LOVER- if you only listen to one genre children and only several entertainers in it, you aren't a genuine music lover- your loss. Namaste Mr. Dobbs. Wish I had your income so I could "splurge" on a rare Marianne Faithfull E.P- oh well...Namaste from Canada ( are you SERIOUS, SIRIUS?!) -
probably heard David in the seventies at the same Shaboo Inn (Willimantic/Mansfield Conn.) someone else mentioned, after hearing him as accompanist on records by the likes of Patrick Sky and Rosalie Sorrels. A wizard and an inspiration. Wonder if he ever shared a stage with Highwoods String Band (look for their great record of Lee Highway. )
Don't know if it's been mentioned, but the title of this GREAT (one of my all time favs) Album is a Joke...One side he has the (Grateful) Dead as his backing band, and the other side is aLIVE! Ever the jokster, he's a treasure! Go see him live, you won't regret it!
Thanks for posting this-I saw him for the first time since 1985(?)at the Tupelo Music Hall up here in New Hampshire last year-great show-but I would have loved to be able to ask him how he managed to get what I think was the Grateful Dead's entire lineup at the time to be HIS sidemen on Wanted Dead or Alive...