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that's Chris Wood on the flute...
also Van Morrison - Moondance www.youtube.com
Collin Tilton on flute https://credits.muso.ai/profile/24c44a8b-00bd-4ce6-bf69-46e8b240921d
#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-20 07:55 PM | Reply
credits.muso.ai
Hey, 2 posts already!
Two weeks ago was fifty something, last week 70 something... like LeetheAgent.
#2 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-20 07:57 PM | Reply
Flute? Everyone know the bagpipes are the one true instrument.
#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-20 08:02 PM | Reply
#3
In elementary school for Talent Show there was a kid who brought his accordion and stole the show. No bagpipes, though.
It was 3rd grade and I mimed Traveling Man by Ricky Nelson (because he closed his eyes a lot when he sang and I didn't have to look at the class)... you know, before the British Invasion destroyed him... which would be a good thread topic; US musicians and bands blown out by the Brits.
Here's Steve Hackett - Ian Mcdonald (flute) - John Wetton I Talk To The Wind - Live
www.youtube.com
#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-20 08:11 PM | Reply
What remains amazing about Stev(i)e Winwood is how much he did when he was in his teens. He's "still" "just" 77 years old.
Saw his daughter at a roots festival a few years back. Good show.
#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-03-20 09:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
The Allmans cover Donovan's "There Is A Mountain" Bliss www.youtube.com
#6 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-21 01:52 AM | Reply
The Big Man lets it rip. "Jungleland". www.youtube.com
#7 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-21 02:03 AM | Reply
Eddie Hazel & Michael Hampton "Maggot Brain" www.youtube.com
#8 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-21 02:08 AM | Reply
A couple of old farts just pickin'. Joe Maphis and Roy Clark www.youtube.com
#9 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-21 02:11 AM | Reply
Jeff and Tal cover Stevie Wonder. www.youtube.com
#10 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-21 02:15 AM | Reply
The Nuge before he sucked. www.youtube.com
#11 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-21 02:23 AM | Reply
The Clash cover Booker T. www.youtube.com
The Rev covers Booker T. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCX4-duwYWI
Booker T covers Dominic Frontiere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80k4qakPrqA
#12 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-21 02:41 AM | Reply
F Mac covers Jerry Lee Lewis. www.youtube.com
#13 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-21 02:53 AM | Reply
Ukulele Orchestra covers Wagner/Lemmy. www.youtube.com
#14 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-21 02:56 AM | Reply
Thanks, Morris! Good kitty! Nice tuneage.
The Petersons Live cover 'Caledonia'
(Caledonia is the Roman name for the region of Britain located north of their occupation, generally corresponding to modern-day Scotland, inhabited by the Caledonii tribes. It is often used today as a poetic or romantic name for Scotland and is famously associated with a 1977 folk song by Dougie MacLean.")
and
Lonesome Pine
Dougie MacLean - Caledonia
#15 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-21 04:20 PM | Reply
Their cover of Michael Murphy's 'Carolina in the Pines':
#16 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-21 06:38 PM | Reply
Favorite instrument? Vibes.
Bobby Hutcherson / Harold Land Quintet, "The Creators," live in Yugoslavia, 1973.
#17 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-03-21 07:08 PM | Reply
Some banjo ...
Béla Fleck - Magic Fingers (1992) www.youtube.com
... Banjo, Producer: Béla Fleck Acoustic Guitar: Béla Fleck Slide Guitar: Béla Fleck ...
(No lyrics, it's an instrumental ...)
#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-21 07:24 PM | Reply
@#17 ... Favorite instrument? Vibes. ...
Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - Jivin' The Vibes (1937) www.youtube.com
#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-21 07:30 PM | Reply
Sax ... .
Gerry Mulligan, Song for Strayhorn m.youtube.com
#20 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-03-21 07:30 PM | Reply
@#16 ... Michael Murphy's 'Carolina in the Pines'...
Speaking of Michael Murphey...
Michael Martin Murphey - Wildfire (1975) www.youtube.com
Well, there's that cool piano intro that is often cut from the shortened version the pop stations use ... :)
Lyrics excerpt ...
... he song's story led to a lot of speculations and detractors. Per Murphy " The song came from deep down in my subconsciousness. My grandfather told me a story when I was a little boy about a legendary ghost horse that the Indians talked about. In 1936, author J. Frank Dobie identified this ghost horse story as the most prominent one in the lore of the Southwest. From "cowboy singer" Michael Martin (middle name added later to his "official" title) Murphy's most successful 1975 album Blue Sky " Night Thunder [Verse 1] She comes down from Yellow Mountain On a dark, flat land she rides On a pony she named Wildfire With a whirlwind by her side On a cold Nebraska night [Interlude] [Verse 2] Oh, they say she died one winter When there came a killing frost And the pony she named Wildfire Busted down his stall In a blizzard, she was lost [Chorus] She ran calling Wildfire Calling Wildfire Calling Wildfire [Verse 3] So by the dark of the moon, I planted But there came an early snow Been a hoot-owl howling outside my window now 'Bout six nights in a row She's coming for me, I know And on Wildfire we're both gonna go [Chorus] We'll be ridin' Wildfire Ridin' Wildfire Ridin' Wildfire On Wildfire we're gonna ride Gonna leave sodbustin' behind Get the hard times right on out of our minds Riding Wildfire ...
Per Murphy "
The song came from deep down in my subconsciousness. My grandfather told me a story when I was a little boy about a legendary ghost horse that the Indians talked about. In 1936, author J. Frank Dobie identified this ghost horse story as the most prominent one in the lore of the Southwest.
From "cowboy singer" Michael Martin (middle name added later to his "official" title) Murphy's most successful 1975 album Blue Sky " Night Thunder
[Verse 1] She comes down from Yellow Mountain On a dark, flat land she rides On a pony she named Wildfire With a whirlwind by her side On a cold Nebraska night
[Interlude]
[Verse 2] Oh, they say she died one winter When there came a killing frost And the pony she named Wildfire Busted down his stall In a blizzard, she was lost
[Chorus] She ran calling Wildfire Calling Wildfire Calling Wildfire
[Verse 3] So by the dark of the moon, I planted But there came an early snow Been a hoot-owl howling outside my window now 'Bout six nights in a row She's coming for me, I know And on Wildfire we're both gonna go
[Chorus] We'll be ridin' Wildfire Ridin' Wildfire Ridin' Wildfire
On Wildfire we're gonna ride Gonna leave sodbustin' behind Get the hard times right on out of our minds Riding Wildfire ...
#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-21 07:40 PM | Reply
@#20 ... Sax ...
Ben Webster ...
Art Tatum - Have You Met Miss Jones? (1956) www.youtube.com
Mr Webster's sax starts around 1:35 into the song.
Emotional.
Also in that song is Mr Tatum's great piano playing. A little more, um, flowery, than I usually like,but excellent. At a level of Teddy Wilson's piano playing.
#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-21 07:50 PM | Reply
- Favorite instrument? Vibes.
#23 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-21 08:32 PM | Reply
In college I had learned a bit on flute, and then a friend offered to let me try their saxophone. Played riffs on it for like 45 mins straight, but when I put it down, the vibration from the reed stayed with me for longer than that... which was very weird.
Then I found out it was called the "Devil's Horn", and had been banned by Nazis, Communists, and the Vatican.
Because of the low tones, said to, 'encouraged immortality'!
Now I think I may should have switched instruments back then.
#24 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-21 08:43 PM | Reply
Playing flute at home.... really, really well:
#25 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-21 09:25 PM | Reply
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