(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Kitchen Table Kibitzing 10/17/2023: The Dukes of September [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-17 Egon Schiele: Four Trees (1917) Good evening, Kibitzers! I made my monthly visit to New Jersey at the end of last week, to get my mail and catch up with a friend or two. I’m probably too old to drive that round trip inside of a three-day period, and I am tired. But it’s a reasonably pleasant drive, because I eschew my GPS’s insisted-on route going through the middle of Hartford and Waterbury on I-84, which is nasty, and instead stick to the legs of the right triangle, the Mass Pike/I-90 all the way across the Hudson, and the NY State Thruway (I-87) for the north-south part. In the Catskills and especially the Berkshires, the leaves are starting to turn; also, the traffic is light and there are regularly-spaced rest areas. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Would do again. Monthly, in fact. The Dukes of September made their way into my eternally in-progress basket of random KTK material a while ago, and they would have appeared in one of my unrelated-collection diaries except that, once I located a couple more tracks, there was no way I was going to be able to pick a favorite. I know September is over, but I’m not sitting on this for another 11 months. The Dukes of September were a supergroup consisting of Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald of The Doobie Brothers (and also Steely Dan), and Boz Skaggs. These three had initially toured together in the 1990s in the New York Rock and Soul Revue, along with a collection of other stars including Walter Becker and Phoebe Snow. The “Dukes of September Rhythm Revue” started touring in fall 2010 and, relevantly to this diary, had a 2012 live concert filmed in Carnegie Hall in New York and later released as a PBS Great Performances broadcast, as well as an album and video. I’m picking tracks from that concert, whose full playlist is on YouTube here. Wikipedia has a track list with individual song links. The band’s lead members chose from past repertoire of each of them, plus random songs they happen to like. Additional personnel in this concert: Jon Herington (guitar), Freddie Washington (bass), Shannon Forrest (drums), Jim Beard (organ), Jay Collins (horns), Michael Leonhart (horns), Walt Weiskopf (horns), Carolyn Leonhart (vocals) and Monet Owens (vocals). All of them are terrific, but Jon Herington, in particular, seriously tears it up in this concert and deserves special mention in more than one of these songs. Sweet Soul Music [3:43] The Same Thing [5:43] You Never Can Tell [3:38] What a Fool Believes [4:02] Hey Nineteen [5:45] Love T.K.O. [4:03] Peg [4:22] Lowdown [6:27] Takin' It to the Streets: additional lead vocal by Monet Owens. [6:40] Reelin' in the Years [6:58] Lido Shuffle [4:46] [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/17/2198059/-Kitchen-Table-Kibitzing-10-17-2023-The-Dukes-of-September?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/