Play All Night Playlist Project Chapter 4 part 3
A selection of tunes that comprised the Hour Glass live repertoire
Welcome back to Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads of Southern Music, History, and Culture and the eighth installment of the Play All Night Playlist Project.
The other seven are here:
This is the third playlist that accompanies Chapter 4. The first focused on California Rock and the second was Hour Glass’s two studio albums.
One thing that became VERY apparent as I researched this time in Duane’s life, was a huge dichotomy between Hour Glass as a live band and how Dallas Smith of Liberty Records produced them in the studio.
The band simply refused to play the songs on their studio albums, preferring a repertoire of blues and rhythm & blues covers.
I’ve pulled this together from the text in Chapter 4, the various cuts folks mentioned as part of Hour Glass’s repertoire.
This is not a comprehensive list nor am I 100% certain these are the arrangements Hour Glass used, but it’s close enough to give you an idea of how wildly different the band was live versus how Liberty Records wanted them to sound.
Some additional thoughts on the tracks:
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