therealljidol | Nov. 9th, 2018

TONIGHT's the night! https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1009402.html

Make sure to get your entries in.

Speaking of "Tonight's the night", I heard that Rod Stewart song at the grocery store the other day and it started me wondering why it was so catchy. Because I'm not a Rod Stewart song by any stretch of the imagination, but there's always been something appealing to me about it. So I looked it up.

Sure enough, the backing musicians on that song were the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section aka The Swampers. As in the line from "Sweet Home Alabama" from Lynyrd Skynrd "Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two (yes they do)
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue, now how bout you?"

Even if you don't think you know their work - you know their work. Glance through if you don't believe me. http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1247

(People talking about the recent death of Aretha Franklin obviously know her cover of "Respect" - that was the Swampers playing)

(and that's just some of the highlights)

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While we're talking about "Sweet Soul Music" (the Arthur Conley song that the Swampers played on, I'm on a theme - the final album from the late great Charles Bradley just came out.

I noticed that it was on Spotify this morning, so it's probably on whatever service you use as well. If you enjoy soul, you definitely should check out the Screaming Eagle (Bradley's nickname). :)

A few words from

clauderainsrm:

Wikipedia defines Kayfabe as “the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not of a staged or predetermined nature of any kind.”

Which is something that I thought was interesting, being that we are currently engaged in a competition where there are rivalries and relationships between participants. What is real? What is staged? Where are the lines between friends and rivals? (If only there was a mini season that explored that).

One real thing is that there were folks who byed-out this week. They are:

copyright1983
establishingaplace
soldevenus

Thank you to all of you for coming out, and I’m sorry that RL took you out. Please Home Game and I hope we will see you once Second Chance rolls around.

As for those remaining, there are a lot of really cool entries out there. Go forth and find your new favorites! Your actual favorites or your scripted favorites where you’ve planned out that someone is going to be your new favorite! ;)

The poll closes Monday, Nov 12th at 8pm EST. The bottom two will be eliminated! So make sure to support your favorites by reading, commenting and VOTING! Then tell your friends about what is happening here, so they can do the same!

Good luck to everyone.