Mavis and Tweedy Tues 10/5 on Letterman

[Wilco75]

Don't know if this was posted, just a heads up on tomorrow's late show with david letterman, mavis staples and jeff tweedy perform!

[Wilco Worshipper]

Don't know if this was posted, just a heads up on tomorrow's late show with david letterman, mavis staples and jeff tweedy perform!

YAY!!!

[jerrycray]

Very Cool!!! Thanks for the heads up!! Mavis has a show tomorrow night @ the City Winery. Maybe Jeff will show up and sit in.

[sonicshoulder]

Rumor is Mavis will be on the bongos for Spiders...or they might play You Are Not Alone. MMJ next Tues. the 12th, f.y.i.

[nalafej]

I thought it was a good performance. I was surprised Jeff got some lead vocal lines and that they didn't play You are Not Alone. Very cool. Go Mavis.

[Smokestack Joe]

letterman seemed to really enjoy the performance. dave is still cool.

[nalafej]

letterman seemed to really enjoy the performance. dave is still cool.

He did seem excited about it. Did you watch the whole show? I found the first 30 minutes really hard to watch.

[LouisvilleGreg]

Wonder what Fogerty thinks of how Mavis and Jeff tackle his song? It's certainly more uptempo. The first time I remember playing the original on "Green River" I thought the record was dragging. The CCR original might be the most soulful song in their catalog, and that's saying a lot. Anyhow one of the better tv performances I've seen in quite sometime, we'll probably get "You Are Not Alone," tonight on Colbert.

[Atticus]

I guess I'm just really lost on the appeal of this. I tried to get excited, but found this performance a real yawn. I'm sure it's a fine thing to watch live, but I would never be jumping to this song on the ipod... maybe I just need to give it more listens.

[Turnips]

here's a bad quality version. god bless whoever actuallu stands in front of their TV with a camera lol

 

(Moderator edit - see next post for a better quality video)

 

 

[Magnetized]

Here's a little better clip, from Consequence of Sound: http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/10/06/mavis-staples-and-jeff-tweedy-cover-ccr-on-letterman/

[Plumplechook]

Thanks for the link to the better quality clip on Consequences of Sound site. I'd checked out the version someone had video-camed off their TV ( ) and was a bit underwhelmed. But I've just listened three times in a row to the quality version - and Mavis, Jeff, and the band knock it out of the park.

[Fritz]

Thanks for the link to the better quality clip on Consequences of Sound site. I'd checked out the version someone had video-camed off their TV ( ) and was a bit underwhelmed. But I've just listened three times in a row to the quality version - and Mavis, Jeff, and the band knock it out of the park.

 

I did the same thing and had the same reaction. Beautiful performance.

[Scalzunfield]

I think that performance demonstrates why I love music. Blissful.

[The Inside of Outside]

I was not wowed by an earlier TV appearance when Mavis did "Only the Lord Knows". This, however, was different. Chills and goosebumps different. Loved it.

[Bosco]

So Tuesday night my heart starts beating real fast, and it's hard to breath and this pressure in my chest, so my wife being a nurse rushes me to the ER, half way there I say we need to go back home and set the DVR for Letterman, she doesn't listen. So I'm in the ER for a few hours when they say I need to stay overnight for more evaluations, Letterman comes on and the nurse tells me he thinks they found me a bed, and I ask nicely if it can wait until after Letterman (I was in an ER room with a TV), he said we'll see and walks away. He shows back up during the long commercial break right before they are about to go on and starts moving me, I said "can you wait just 5 minutes", he said "are you serious?", I said "I've been waiting all night for this, this is Jeff Tweedy", he goes "but we found you a room", so I say, "good, is it going to go somewhere?", he rolls his eyes, turns the tv back on and leave the room :^) Turns out I'm ok, anyway.

[Magnetized]

So Tuesday night my heart starts beating real fast, and it's hard to breath and this pressure in my chest, so my wife being a nurse rushes me to the ER, half way there I say we need to go back home and set the DVR for Letterman, she doesn't listen. So I'm in the ER for a few hours when they say I need to stay overnight for more evaluations, Letterman comes on and the nurse tells me he thinks they found me a bed, and I ask nicely if it can wait until after Letterman (I was in an ER room with a TV), he said we'll see and walks away. He shows back up during the long commercial break right before they are about to go on and starts moving me, I said "can you wait just 5 minutes", he said "are you serious?", I said "I've been waiting all night for this, this is Jeff Tweedy", he goes "but we found you a room", so I say, "good, is it going to go somewhere?", he rolls his eyes, turns the tv back on and leave the room :^) Turns out I'm ok, anyway.

 

Oh my god, you had me laughing out loud! This is something I could totally see myself doing, but I'm not sure I could have pulled it off the way you did. My hat's off to you . And so glad you're OK!! (Is it possible the whole episode was due to anticipation of the Letterman appearance? Hope not--it wasn't THAT good!)

[KramkonG]

If you prefer a better version to the one above...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDa8t3sCXis

[kidsmoke]

So Tuesday night my heart starts beating real fast, and it's hard to breath and this pressure in my chest, so my wife being a nurse rushes me to the ER, half way there I say we need to go back home and set the DVR for Letterman, she doesn't listen. So I'm in the ER for a few hours when they say I need to stay overnight for more evaluations, Letterman comes on and the nurse tells me he thinks they found me a bed, and I ask nicely if it can wait until after Letterman (I was in an ER room with a TV), he said we'll see and walks away. He shows back up during the long commercial break right before they are about to go on and starts moving me, I said "can you wait just 5 minutes", he said "are you serious?", I said "I've been waiting all night for this, this is Jeff Tweedy", he goes "but we found you a room", so I say, "good, is it going to go somewhere?", he rolls his eyes, turns the tv back on and leave the room :^) Turns out I'm ok, anyway.

 

Now that's devotion! Bosco, so glad you are ok.

[smells like flowers]

To me, this song sounds a LOT like "The Weight" (take a load off) by The Band. Anyone else feeling it?

[Ghost of Electricity]

I haven't given much attention to the Mavis Staples project, but I was pleasantly surprised by this, and think I'll check out more.

 

I like the rootsy feel of it- twangy tele and all. It would be nice to have a bit of this vibe on the next Wilco record. Scratch that, it would be nice to have a truckload of that vibe on the next Wilco record.

 

I do hear a bit of "the weight" in there, but I also hear a little of Neil YOung's "Falling From Above" from Greendale.

[MeDave]

simply amazing.

[Guest Jules]

To me, this song sounds a LOT like "The Weight" (take a load off) by The Band. Anyone else feeling it?

 

Maybe this is why?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo

[Magnetized]

Maybe this is why?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo

 

I could watch this clip all day. Not sure how it addresses the point about "Wrote a Song for Everyone" sounding like "The Weight," but still, any chance to revisit that clip is OK by me. Mavis was a real looker in her younger days, wasn't she? (She's still a cutie, I think.)

 

And to the point about the songs' similarities, I hadn't thought about it, but I do see it. It was a really nice performance on the show, too, with Jeff taking a verse. Maybe that heightened the feeling of similarity between the songs as well.

[Beltmann]

To me, this song sounds a LOT like "The Weight" (take a load off) by The Band. Anyone else feeling it?

That's one of my all-time favorite songs, but I never noticed a similarity between them until you mentioned it--but I hear it now, at least a little.