Sunday Evening Video: Instant PopCult
This week’s video is a bit of instant journamalism courtesy of your loyal PopCult Blogger. Friday night I attended the Randy Lee Walden Memorial Jam at The Blue Parrot. Over six hundred dollars was raised for Randy’s son, Jack. The entire night was memorable as all the bands came out to pay tribute to their fallen friend. Johnny “Hurricane” Compton, a member of The Diablo Blues Band, who will appear on Radio Free Charleston this Wednesday, turned in one of the most emotional sets I’ve ever witnessed. When he wrapped up with a cover of Lynyrd Skynrd’s “Simple Man,” there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
Tonight’s video, presented in glorious low-fi, as shot on my digital still camera, is from earlier in the set, when Johnny covered Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors.”
We’ll have photos from Randy’s Memorial show, and the rest of the PopCult weekend late Monday afternoon.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
[…] “The Price Of A Broken Heart” written by Johnny on the anniversary of his mother’s death. We recorded this at The Empty Glass July 11 during the Blues Summit, but last week we played an excerpt of this song from a July 3 performance at the Glass. This is a moving blues jam that kicks all kinds of major buttocks. You can see Johnny singing solo at the Randy Walden memorial jam right here. […]
July 29th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Very moving.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
[…] I will also keep you posted on any additional tribute jam sessions that might pop up. There was a great show on July 18, but I hear that there may be another in August. I’ll also keep you posted on whatever Randy’s band-mates, James, John, and Jaymes are doing in the future. I do know that James and John’s side project, Elemental Devices, will be featured on the next RFC “show without words,” tentatively scheduled for episode 51. […]