Deep Tracks 59

1. Wicked Path of Sin – Bill Monroe

2. Night Glider – Groove Holmes

3. Ain’t Nobody Home – Howard Tate

4. Playin in the Yard – Hampton Hawes

5. You’re Right Ray Charles – Joe Tex

6. Moanin’ – Ray Charles

7. I Thank You – Sam & Dave

8. Will It Go Round In Circles – Billy Preston

9. Spooky – The Howard Roberts Quartet

10. Feelin’ Alright? – Hubert Laws

11. Key to the Highway – Dave Hole

12. I Can’t Keep From Crying – Deidre Wilson Tabac

13. Big Change Comin’ – Delaney & Bonnie

14. Up on Crippled Creek – Bob Shad and his Shad Men

15. Cherry Ball Blues – Ry Cooder

16. Midnight Rider – Joe Cocker

17. Trouble In Mind – Aretha Franklin

18. Southern Fried Frijoles – Leroy Castor

19. Strausmania – Salinas

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For the completists amongst us, Take 2 of Bill Monroe's genre defining hillbilly gospel country blues. I always wondered what Monroe's headstone looks like. I imagine an epitaph like: "Here lies Bill Monroe. America has created only only three kinds of original music: blues, jazz, and bluegrass. Bill Monroe invented the last." And he was a total badass:

Groove Holmes was such an interesting musician. He could do the sappiest, Kraft versions of ballads and pop tunes. The very next track could be something like Night Glider which must have been sampled dozens of times.

Life could not have been much better for Billy Preston in 1975. As the cover demonstrates, he had one of the finest fros to ever flip, flop and fly. He played with the Beatles for their

Let It Be rooftop finale. Then the Stones picked him and had h im playing keyboards with them for several years. That stint led to his 1975 European tour. Frankly, and despite Mick Taylor's guitar, it's a key-tar of an album. But he looks so fuckin' cool, I had to get a track on here.

Couldn't help but drop a big band jam down from legendary producer Bob Shad and his eponymous Shad Men taking the Band's Up On Cripple Creek a place I never imagined.