They’re Red Hot

Tracklist:

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band featuring Sam Moore: “Hold On, I’m Coming > Soul Man”
Billy Preston: “Nothing from Nothing”
Doors: “The Crystal Ship (Isolated Vocal)”
Sparks: “Nothing Is as Good as They Say It Is”
Van Morrison: “Coney Island”
Van Morrison: “I’m Tired Joey Boy”
Paul McCartney: “Calico Skies (Remastered 2020)”
Three Fates Project: “The Endless Enigma Suite, Pt. 2”
Faces: “Stay With Me”
Leon Russell: “Roll Away the Stone”
Todd Rundgren: “A Dream Goes on Forever”
Ryan Adam’s: “New York, New York”
Eric Clapton: “They’re Red Hot”
Warren Zevon: “Werewolves of London”
Three Dog Night: “Shambala (Single Version)”
Simon & Garfunkel: “Mrs. Robinson (Demo)”
Ennio Morricone: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
Ray Charles: “The ABC Song (edit)”
Grateful Dead: “Loose Lucy”
Keith Richard’s: “How I Wish”
Ben Kweller: “Walk on Me”
Elton John: “Take Me to The Pilot (Live)”

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band featuring Sam Moore: “Hold On, I’m Coming > Soul Man” Play this track

One of a few spectacular performances at the 25th Anniversary concert for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The band is on point and on fire. Bruce is successfully paying homage and letting it rip at the same time. Bravo! -John Stix

Pretty rockin’, I’d say. A good version of “Soul Man” is always welcome. -Rock Stamberg

Billy Preston: “Nothing from Nothing” Play this track

Billy Preston during his mega-hit days in the early-to-mid ‘70s. Still sounds great, too. -RS

Gospel rock at its best. Jerry Lee Lewis would be proud. This is a killer track. -JS

Doors: “The Crystal Ship (Isolated Vocal)” Play this track

All the mystery and danger are right here in the vocal. -JS

Sparks: “Nothing Is as Good as They Say It Is” Play this track

Trust me, this song *is* as good as I say it is. It’s good too. -RS

Up there with the best of a Zappa-like narrative for a song. The baby is born and almost immediately wants to return to the womb. It’s known that laughter is the best medicine. So, listen to the lyric and enjoy your medicine. -JS

Van Morrison: “Coney Island” Play this track

Van Morrison: “I’m Tired Joey Boy” Play this track

These two songs are inexorably tied together. Found on Van Morrison’s sublime Avalon Sunset album from 1989, these tracks define what’s beautiful about beautiful music. A+ stuff. -RS

Van the poet at his most commanding. It’s also the first appearance of the word “famished” on NHT. -JS

Paul McCartney: “Calico Skies (Remastered 2020)” Play this track

Melancholia made majestic. As good as any Beatles track. -RS

I didn’t follow the individual Beatles after the breakup. So, I didn’t know this song, nor its reason for being. A love song for the ages. I do hope you have someone to share this with. -JS

Three Fates Project: “The Endless Enigma Suite, Pt. 2” Play this track

I had the ELP album Trilogy, I just didn’t listen to it much. This orchestral version, I could barely hear KE anywhere, has all the drama, flourish and fanfare that made up the best of ELP. I am drawn the chorus melody and am stopped in my tracks every time it comes around. -JS

Faces: “Stay with Me” Play this track

Now *this* is great rock ‘n roll. Listen to how guitarist Ronnie Wood was already ready for The Rolling Stones three years prior to joining ‘em. -RS

The kind of raucous rock that rolls (because of that piano) that we heard in Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and become the backbone sound of Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and the Dominoes, and now The Tedeschi Trucks Band. It could be argued that The Faces achieved this sound more successfully than the Stones. -JS

Leon Russell: “Roll Away the Stone” Play this track

The opening part has hints of the Stones “Stupid Girl.” And there is a 50 second piano intro before the song comes in. That acoustic piano drives the song throughout, with a Blues-Rock/Gospel stew that both simmers and rocks. Need we any more proof that Leon Russell was a first-rate songwriter? -JS

Todd Rundgren: “A Dream Goes on Forever” Play this track

Armed with just his always insightful lyrics, an acoustic piano, and a Rock of Gibraltar melody, I am enthralled. What about you? -JS

Ryan Adam’s: “New York, New York” Play this track

This song just makes me feel good. I love the acoustic guitar/Hammond organ bed married to vocal harmonies delivering nothing but melodic hooks. Then there is almost chaotic sax part that resolves in the end. -JS

Eric Clapton: “They’re Red Hot” Play this track

Clapton sans guitar swinging with a smile. I looked up the Robert Johnson recording, and his version was just as up and happy. I didn’t know that. -JS

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