The Kennedys Special Livestream #29: California Country Rock, Sunday Sept 27, 2020, 2pm eastern time

Sunday, September 27, The Kennedys Weekly Livestream Presents: California Country Rock, 2pm eastern time.

It was the late 60s, and from Sunset Blvd to Haight-Ashbury, hippies, flower children and peaceniks had been blissing out on a steady diet of psychedelic rock. On the street, there was a feeling that it might be time to flip the musical mandala from yin to yang. After the heavy sturm-und-drang of Marshall-amped power trios, a bit of acoustic strum-and-twang was a breath of fresh air that blew from Laurel Canyon all the way to Marin County. Hippie ensembles sought out rural band houses in emulation of The Band and Traffic, and a bit of roots music mixed with rock was a perfect fit for their laid-back ethic. The move to a simpler sound that combined down home singing and picking with progressive counter-culture values was led by a west coast advance guard including Buffalo Springfield, The Dillards, The Stone Poneys and Michael Nesmith in Los Angeles, and Moby Grape, acoustic-era Grateful Dead, and velvet voiced Kate Wolf to the north. The Byrds "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" was a clarion call, and Gram Parsons was the charismatic interlocutor who knitted together the disparate threads of traditional country and hippie subculture, especially when he joined forces with the once-and-future queen of country-rock, Emmylou Harris. The sound blew across the US and Europe like a fresh breeze.

We could all use a fresh breeze right about now, especially our viewers in the Golden State, so this week we celebrate California Country Rock. You don't have to be a Californian to dig it, as our viewers in Ireland, Scotland, England, Holland, Sweden, France and Norway will attest: all you have to do is settle in for an hour of, in the words of a Poco song, "a little bit of magic in the country music."

Scroll down to see t a list of the songs we played on this livestream.

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Here are the songs we played:
1) "Go And Say Goodbye" (song by Stephen Stills and recorded by Buffalo Springfield. Unrecorded by The Kennedys)

2) "Different Drum" (song by Mike Nesmith, Recorded by Linda Ronstadt, unrecorded by The Kennedys)

3) "Grievous Angel" (music by Gram Parsons and lyrics by Thomas Brown and recorded by Gram Parsons. Unrecorded by The Kennedys)

4) "Boulder To Birmingham" (song by Emmylou Harris and Bill Danoff, recorded by Emmylou Harris and unrecorded by The Kennedys)

5) "Full Circle" (song by Gene Clark, recorded by The Byrds and Gene Clark, and unrecorded by The Kennedys)

6) "Lodi" (song by John Fogerty, recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and unrecorded by The Kennedys)

7) "My Uncle" (song by Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons, recorded by the Flying Burrito Brothers, and unrecorded by The Kennedys)

8) "Someday Soon" (song by Ian Tyson, recorded by Judy Collins, and unrecorded by The Kennedys)

9) "Hickory Wind" (song by Gram Parsons and Bob Buchanan and recorded by The Byrds, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris and others. Unrecorded by The Kennedys)

10) "Some Of Shelly's Blues" (written by Mike Nesmith, recorded by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Linda Ronstadt, The Monkees, John Beland and others, and unrecorded by The Kennedys)

11) "Ripple" (song by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, recorded by the Grateful Dead and unrecorded by The Kennedys)

12) "Redtail Hawk" (song by Kate Wolf and unrecorded by The Kennedys)

13) "Ain't Livin' Long Like This" (song by Rodney Crowell and unrecorded by The Kennedys)

Visit our website at http://www.KennedysMusic.com to see a list of all the songs we've played so far.

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