There’s really no such thing as an overnight success!
Dreams can be experienced but it takes the work of time to find the crossroads between dreams and reality.
The Bros. Landreth dreamt of making music, just like their Dad Wally in Winnipeg.
Wally wanted that too because he kept spinning vinyl at home, like a music teacher. But no schlock..only the good stuff.
Little Feat, The Eagles, Neil Young, CS&Nash, and Bonnie Raitt.
Years later the Brothers are playing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival when they were approached by the headliner – none other than Bonnie Raitt.
She asked if they would send her songs to record because they reminded her of her friend Lowell George from Little Feat.
David and Joey Landreth wrote and rejected many songs. They felt they weren’t up to Bonnie’s standards but eventually – again years later – they sent a song they had recorded called… Made up mind.
Just so happens it’s the same song Bonnie heard them play and she said – that’s the song.
Two years later the boys hear from friends in Nashville that Bonnie is recording that song and then she makes it the first single off of Just Like That.
Both album and song go on to win Grammys this year and The Bros. Landreth have become “a thing”.
Because in the music world such stories are told again and again and just to get the story straight, here’s a discussion with David Landreth about those Grammy moments and the rest of the story. Well done boys. FYI Bros. Landreth will get to thank Bonnie personally when they play the Byron Bay Festival in Australia April 6-10
There’s really no such thing as an overnight success!
Dreams can be experienced but it takes the work of time to find the crossroads between dreams and reality.
The Bros. Landreth dreamt of making music, just like their Dad Wally in Winnipeg.
Wally wanted that too because he kept spinning vinyl at home, like a music teacher. But no schlock..only the good stuff.
Little Feat, The Eagles, Neil Young, CS&Nash, and Bonnie Raitt.
Years later the Brothers are playing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival when they were approached by the headliner – none other than Bonnie Raitt.
She asked if they would send her songs to record because they reminded her of her friend Lowell George from Little Feat.
David and Joey Landreth wrote and rejected many songs. They felt they weren’t up to Bonnie’s standards but eventually – again years later – they sent a song they had recorded Made up mind.
Just so happens it’s the same song Bonnie heard them play and she said – that’s the song.
Two years later the boys hear from friends in Nashville that Bonnie is recording that song and then she makes it the first single off of Just Like That.
Both album and song go on to win Grammys this year and The Bros. Landreth has become “a thing”.
Here’s a discussion with David Landreth about those Grammy moments and the rest of the story. Well done boys.
Congrats Wally!!
What a win for Bonnie and great music.
New music from Michael Kaeshammer, Andy Fairweather Low, Eilen Jewell, Marcus Mumford
Also – Harry Nilsson, Dave, and Phil Alvin, The Blasters, Dionne Taylor, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Sarah McLachlan
And a moment in time when Bob Dylan stood in front of a stage as an 18 years old and watched a 22-year-old Buddy Holly perform his last show. (Plane crash three days later)
As Bob tells it, Buddy was also watching him and when Bob later wrote and recorded the LP Time out of Mind he felt “Buddy was in the process with me”
So we’ll play them back to back to back and see what transpires.
Enjoy!!
PLAYLIST:
Mulligan Stew (Piano Special)
Terry Mulligan
Interview guest – David Landreth
Hip Hug Her
Booker T and the MGs
The Albums 62-68
Feeling Happy
Dave and Phil Alvin
Lost Time
Good to me (as I am to you)
Aretha Franklin
Lady Soul
Gravity
Tedeschi Trucks Band
I am the Moon Disc 3
A case of you
Prince
One Night Alone
Deane House and River Cafe
Coming Up on The Stew
Billy Preston, Stevie, Lennon, McCartney
Nothing for Nothing
Billy Preston
Ultimate Collection
Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder
Innervisions
Imagine
John Lennon
Imagine
Let it be
The Beatles
Let it be
Adia
Sarah McLachlan
Surfacing
The Stew – Piano/Keyboard Special
TDMulligan
Interview Guest David Landreth/Bros Landreth
Running
Dionne Taylor
Spirits in the Water
Let the good times roll
Harry Nilsson
Nilsson Schmilsson
coming UP – David Landreth on Bonnie at the Grammys