(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Kitchen Table Kibitzing 8 [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2022-08-02 Anyway, the Playing for Change version of the Led Zeppelin arrangement includes, by way of star power, John Paul Jones himself on bass, plus Stephen Perkins, drummer of Jane's Addiction, and Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. As usual, though, it also includes many stellar performances by diverse musicians the world over. The linked brillig diary above lists them all out with links where available. Here’s the video, before I go on. [6:04] So, I bet you noticed the young man, billed as Buffalo Nichols, singing the first couple of verses. (For one thing, if you’re used to hearing Robert Plant, it gets your attention when Nichols comes in an octave below that.) I loved his voice, and I am all about slide guitar, so I went looking for more of his music. Carl “Buffalo” Nichols (link is to his website) turns out to be from Milwaukee originally, but he’s now situated in Austin. His “about” page tells his story in some detail. There’s not a huge amount of his music on YouTube, but luckily he’s promoting a new album so the number of available videos has gone up in recent months. Here is another recording that Playing for Change made, in the same spot we saw him in the previous video. It’s Lost & Lonesome, the lead single from his self-titled debut album on Fat Possum Records (he also performed it on Colbert back in March). [4:32] This is a Blind Willie Johnson song, God Don’t Ever Change. [2:40] These Things is another original track from his album. [3:00] Statesboro Blues sounded less like the Allman Brothers and more like this when Blind Willie McTell wrote it. [1:05] How to Love is another album track. [4:03] And one more album track, this one audio only: Back on Top. [3:25] In this short video, he talks about his music. [3:27] What I have left is several longer performances, of three and four songs each. In all cases, they have some songs we’ve already heard, but there are also songs that haven’t appeared yet. This one is an NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. [12:36] The House of Songs in Austin offers “microresidencies” to local artists, where they’re invited to use the facilities to work on their music. This little concert is part of such a microresidency. [18:35] And finally, the occasion of this performance was his receipt of KUTX Austin’s November 2021 “Artist of the Month” award. [15:03] As always, more music of any kind is welcome in the thread! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/2/2113995/-Kitchen-Table-Kibitzing-8-2-2022-Buffalo-Nichols Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/