![]() We at Treble are well aware that the film which made both John Travolta and disco household names takes place in Brooklyn. Various artists – Saturday Night Fever soundtrack Baez has had a prolific career, to which a number of standout albums can be pointed, but Farewell, Angelina is one of her strongest sets of songs, featuring a number of songs that Dylan himself made famous (“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”), as well as a prettier more vocally strong presence that sounds almost more akin to the English folk rock sounds of the time. But before crossing the Upper Bay to Manhattan, Baez was born and raised in Staten Island, later becoming involved in music as a student in Massachusetts. ![]() And for a time, Dylan and Baez had a personal relationship as well. – JTįolk revival sounds that were a staple of Joan Baez’s career were at the center of the Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, of which Bob Dylan was undoubtedly the biggest star. ![]() In any case, The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark is a fun, swinging set of instrumental country and surf rock that’s essential listening for anyone who’s ever loved the sound of a Fender Jazzmaster with the right amount of reverb. How much of an influence that part of his youth played on his music is perhaps negligible, but there’s a certain novelty about knowing that one of the most successful country artists of his era actually hailed from the same part of the city as Wu-Tang Clan. The host of Hee Haw and fast-plucking country surf artist Roy Clark-from New York City? As antithetical as it might seem to the country icon’s cred, he did indeed spend a significant part of his childhood in Staten Island. Roy Clark – The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark While the quantity of Staten Island’s gems might drop off sharply from the rest of the Big Apple, their quality can’t be questioned. But we also recognize the borough’s contributors to canon in different forms of pastoral Americana and the music of nightclubs across genres and decades. ![]() So for better or worse this top 10 will be “the Wu-Tang list,” acknowledging output from one of hip-hop’s most important cottage industries. Without quite the same urban buildup and attendant issues as its neighbors, the stories told and the storytellers available in Staten Island are harder to find. SI is New York City’s largest borough in area but smallest in population. We’re coming to the end of our musical journey through New York City’s boroughs, wrapping up in Staten Island after picking over experiential albums from Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. We consider representative releases on three levels: They were made by artists from a place, they contain music about or inspired by the place, and/or they were made in that place. After the turn of the millennium, however, Johansen put the Buster persona to rest as he began performing and recording with his country blues outfit David Johansen & the Harry Smiths and with a 21st century version of the New York Dolls.Welcome back to the Treble World Tour, a series of Top 10s covering albums that best represent certain locations-cities, states, territories, even entire nations. The character remained Johansen's focus in subsequent years as well, as evidenced by the albums Buster Goes Berserk in 1989 and Buster's Happy Hour in 1994, and by Buster's live appearance in the Catskills in the summer of 1992. In addition to reviving Johansen's career as a musical performer, Buster also renewed his long-dormant acting bug, and he was tapped to co-star in the 1988 features Married to the Mob and Scrooged. Eventually, the act won him a record contract with RCA, but it was basically a live attraction. Eschewing his hard rock solo career - which followed a stint as lead singer of the New York Dolls - Johansen turned up at the New York club Tramps in a tuxedo, with a band he dubbed the Banshees of Blue, and sang pop standards, jump blues, and various novelty material. Buster Poindexter was the pseudonym rock singer David Johansen adopted in the mid-'80s for a semi-comic nightclub singer act he began to perform.
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