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Despite their releasing six albums in the early 70s, I suspect you aren't familiar with the #FamleyGuitarBand. This is partly because their albums only ever saw release on #Quadraphonic #8Track - as well as on the even more obscure 7 ½ ips #ReelToReel format. Famley Guitar Band were a studio-only group that gave us loungy, guitar led instrumental versions of the hits of their day, and were surprisingly good at it - their winsome version of #DannyOKeefe's "Goodtime Charlie's Got the Blues" gets me every time.
Quad 8-tracks are a trip: since the format required twice the tape to create the surround-sound effect, it cut the available play time on a tape in half. You'd only be able to hear the full effect on special quad players, as playback on normal 8-track players resulted in hearing just half (i.e. 2 channels) of the music.
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#AlternateFridayMusic
May 10 2024
The prompt is JustDanny O’Keefe, “You Look Just Like a Girl Again” from "American Roulette" 1977
Oh, this song…it just does me in. The palpable melancholy…
But let’s do this properly.
You may be familiar with #DannyOKeefe and not realize it; he wrote “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues” which has been covered and covered and covered - or if you’re old enough, you may remember him as a part of the #SoftRock #70s - but the #YachtRock trappings of his American Roulette LP do nothing to diminish O’Keefe at his best, delivering lyrics that are sensual but not salacious with his warm, full voice.
If I said this song made me feel sad and old when I was young, you’d take it the wrong way; what I mean is that it got to me when I *was* still a girl.
“Oh these tender moments that we hang our dreams upon…were we ever really children, and are we now so far beyond?”
How is this song not a standard in the American songbook?