James Taylor music: www.amazon.com Watch the full show: thesixtiesarchive.blogspot.com "Steamroller Blues", often labelled just "Steamroller", is a song written by James Taylor, that first appeared on his 1970 breakthrough album Sweet Baby James. The song title comes from the first line: "I'm a steamroller baby, I'm bound to roll all over you...". A satire on the blues rock fashion of the time, it was a multi-sectioned walking tune full of mock serious phrases such as "I'm a napalm bomb for you, baby" and "I'm a churnin' urn of burnin' funk." As such it exposed a humorous side of Taylor that was sometimes obscured by his more intensely personal work, and thus became one of Taylor's best-known songs. "Steamroller" was included on Taylor's diamond-selling Greatest Hits 1976 compilation in a live version recorded in August 1975 at the Universal Amphitheatre on Los Angeles; a different performance from 1992 was included on his 1993 album (LIVE). Indeed "Steamroller" was and is a James Taylor concert fixture, appearing in virtually every set list of his over the decades, often elongated with assorted on-stage parodistic antics, such as Taylor jumping up and down frantically, or his band's electric guitarist working in an interpolation of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker". During the 1970s Elvis Presley added "Steamroller Blues" to his concert repertoire, it being a good fit for his latter-era on-stage persona; it was also featured in his live televised January 1973 Aloha from ...
Sunday, February 17, 2013
James Taylor - Steamroller Blues
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James Taylor music: www.amazon.com Watch the full show: thesixtiesarchive.blogspot.com "Steamroller Blues", often labelled just "Steamroller", is a song written by James Taylor, that first appeared on his 1970 breakthrough album Sweet Baby James. The song title comes from the first line: "I'm a steamroller baby, I'm bound to roll all over you...". A satire on the blues rock fashion of the time, it was a multi-sectioned walking tune full of mock serious phrases such as "I'm a napalm bomb for you, baby" and "I'm a churnin' urn of burnin' funk." As such it exposed a humorous side of Taylor that was sometimes obscured by his more intensely personal work, and thus became one of Taylor's best-known songs. "Steamroller" was included on Taylor's diamond-selling Greatest Hits 1976 compilation in a live version recorded in August 1975 at the Universal Amphitheatre on Los Angeles; a different performance from 1992 was included on his 1993 album (LIVE). Indeed "Steamroller" was and is a James Taylor concert fixture, appearing in virtually every set list of his over the decades, often elongated with assorted on-stage parodistic antics, such as Taylor jumping up and down frantically, or his band's electric guitarist working in an interpolation of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker". During the 1970s Elvis Presley added "Steamroller Blues" to his concert repertoire, it being a good fit for his latter-era on-stage persona; it was also featured in his live televised January 1973 Aloha from ...
James Taylor music: www.amazon.com Watch the full show: thesixtiesarchive.blogspot.com "Steamroller Blues", often labelled just "Steamroller", is a song written by James Taylor, that first appeared on his 1970 breakthrough album Sweet Baby James. The song title comes from the first line: "I'm a steamroller baby, I'm bound to roll all over you...". A satire on the blues rock fashion of the time, it was a multi-sectioned walking tune full of mock serious phrases such as "I'm a napalm bomb for you, baby" and "I'm a churnin' urn of burnin' funk." As such it exposed a humorous side of Taylor that was sometimes obscured by his more intensely personal work, and thus became one of Taylor's best-known songs. "Steamroller" was included on Taylor's diamond-selling Greatest Hits 1976 compilation in a live version recorded in August 1975 at the Universal Amphitheatre on Los Angeles; a different performance from 1992 was included on his 1993 album (LIVE). Indeed "Steamroller" was and is a James Taylor concert fixture, appearing in virtually every set list of his over the decades, often elongated with assorted on-stage parodistic antics, such as Taylor jumping up and down frantically, or his band's electric guitarist working in an interpolation of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker". During the 1970s Elvis Presley added "Steamroller Blues" to his concert repertoire, it being a good fit for his latter-era on-stage persona; it was also featured in his live televised January 1973 Aloha from ...
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