I know you don’t care about this, but (a) there are a couple dozen substantive posts a day here so I’m entitled to a little fluff time and again; and (b) since it validates my source, I’m gonna post it anyway.
Derek Jeter is not getting married, and yes — as you heard EXCLUSIVELY from CTB, it is in fact Derek’s sister, Sharlee Jeter getting married in November [note: link launches to dumb talk radio show; don't say I didn't warn you].
Apparently she’s marrying some rapper named Skyzoo. According to his Wikipedia page, “He cites as influences hip hop artists such as Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Nas, N.W.A., Big Daddy Kane, and Kid ‘n Play, as well as artists such as Sade, Nirvana and John Coltrane, and cites Coltrane’s A Love Supreme as his favorite album.” Based on that list I think we can safely say that the Jeter family is getting a quality addition.
Not that, um, I’m a big, big Sade fan or anything. Anymore. Much. [hangs head in shame . . .you're my sweetest taboo, Sade. You're my sweetest taboo].
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- YamkeesfanLen - Jan 13, 2010 at 5:39 PM
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I’m beginning to prefer dumb stuff to steroids and HOF.
Skyzoo sounds like a good utility infielder, sure he’ll get along with Swisher.
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- Phil - Jan 13, 2010 at 5:57 PM
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I’m trying to find something to be self-righteous and indignant about, since it seems de rigueur around here these days, but it’s hard to criticize a guy who likes ‘Trane
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- TF in Tampa - Jan 13, 2010 at 6:39 PM
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That explains why the wedding reception is up in Long Island and not at Derek’s new 31,000 sq.ft. monster mansion on the water in Tampa. [can't wait for my invite to the first gig of Skyzoo n' friends at that palace]. Don’t forget to hook me up Big “D”.
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- Old Gator - Jan 13, 2010 at 6:45 PM
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A rapper, no less? Great, she can be the next celebrity trophy wife to wind up on a tabloid cover after getting bitchslapped around by her husband. Marry a punk rocker, kiddo. They’re gentle as lambs.
Craig, if you’ve burned out on Sade – which I did after her second album, by the way, back when people were still telling Salman Rushdie jokes – time you elevated your auditory gaze a little bit and started listening to Margo Timmins and the Cowboy Junkies. This otherwise unrepentant jazz snob ignored them for years thinking they were a punk or grunge band, then accidentally caught their sublime cover of Jerry Garcia’s “To Lay Me Down” on XM just about a year ago, and promptly ordered every goddamned thing they ever recorded and have been listening obsessively ever since. Compared to Margo, Sade’s a one-dimensional singer inured to one-dimensional songwriting; Margo’s brother Mike is a lyricist on a par with Robert Hunter and Townes Van Zandt with a shot of Wallace Stevens thrown in. Margo and the guys will do good things for your soul and your mind at a time when your disengagement from law suggests you might still head off the formation of scar tissue.
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- Craig Calcaterra - Jan 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM
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I own and obsessively play “Trinty Session,” Gator. I probably need to branch out from there, but it hasn’t gotten old in, like, 15 years, so why fuck with what ain’t broke?
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- APBA Guy - Jan 13, 2010 at 7:17 PM
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Craig and Gator-
To reinvigorate your Sade jones, try getting her DVD, Sade Live. It makes a refreshing break for me from Krokus and UFO. Not that I’m stuck in Hamburg and Liverpool, circa 1980 or anything…
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- Guy getting married - Jan 13, 2010 at 8:14 PM
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As someone planning a wedding, I can state that people booking wedding venues almost never bother learning the groom’s name. So, the wedding would have been listed as “Kelly wedding.”
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- Beanster - Jan 13, 2010 at 8:35 PM
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I still get chills every time I hear Margo’s cover of Sweet Jane. Although some days, nothing beats some good Diamond Life.
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- Moses Green - Jan 13, 2010 at 9:52 PM
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Given that music affects us in all different ways, including helping to pin down our misconception of time as linear, I have to say that if you were between the ages of 20-40 in the 1990′s and it was time to put on that one record that could push the scales of a date towards “sexy-time”, Sade was the reigning queen and unchallenged belt-holder. Hands down. The sweetest taboo? Time to get lucky.
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- Old Gator - Jan 13, 2010 at 10:19 PM
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Yeah, I’m like that with After Bathing at Baxters and the Dead’s Cornell ’77 triple bootleg set.
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However:
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The Junkies have come worlds since then and only gotten better. And Margo has gotten better looking. Very difficult to fathom, but I suspect the low temperatures in Toronto have a lot to do with it. Strong recommendation: get ahold of the recently released Trinity Revisited; on the 20th anniversary of the recording of Trinity Session they went back to the church and played all of those songs in the same order, with two decades of experience and musical growth under their belts, and with Ryan Adams, Natalie Merchant and the recently, sadly late Vic Chesnutt as sidepersons. Not to deviate too far, but Adams’ version of “200 More Miles” is worth the price of the thing by itself, and Merchant sings “To Love is to Bury” just to break your heart, and duets with Margo on “Misguided Angel” to the same effect. Better: one disc is the CD, the second is a DVD of the entire process.
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Then, when you’re getting an inkling of what you’ve missed all these years, you come back to Papa Gator and I’ll point you at the Junkies’ web site where you can stream everything they’ve done since for free, including about five hundred hours of concert recordings you can only hear on their site and about fifty or sixty classic songs that haven’t been widely acknowledged outside of the cult, as it were, because they’re too sophisticated and demand some serious listening. And they’re also fucking gorgeous. Margo can’t help it. Listen to her take on “In My Time of Need” on the acoustic section, Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” and Neil Young’s “Helpless” on the “Neath your Covers” section, and then go ahead and listen to some originals like “First Recollection,” “I Just Want to See,” “Ring on the Sill,” “Notes Falling Slow” and “Crescent Moon” on the concert sections. Then you’ll be ready for the hard stuff….
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- Old Gator - Jan 13, 2010 at 10:27 PM
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Yeah, they were down here in December playing a private gig for the opening of a new art gallery owned by their pal, artist Enrique Celaya, and they invited the hardcore llamas in the area to attend for free. Which, by the way, is typical of them; they never blow their fans off like, say, Barry Bonds. I baked them a key lime pie and my wife got Margo a set of Christmas ornaments. They’re incredibly sweet regular people for all that genius. Funny, too. They closed the show with “Sweet Jane,” but even that has undergone a lot of metamorphic amping so if it jellied your knees before, you really have to check the grapevine for more recent performances. She closed the first set with a “Misguided Angel” that made you forget to breathe. Forget for a moment that she has a beautiful voice to begin with; she has really learned how to use it. I’ve listened to every note of every song that Billie Holliday ever recorded at least a thousand times for over 40 of my 60 years and I’m telling you, Margo in my mind is second only to Lady Day in the way she can inhabit the character in a song.
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- Richard Dansky - Jan 13, 2010 at 10:40 PM
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You’re going to hate me for this, but Sade’s new album drops on February 10.
Just thought you’d want to know…
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- Beanster - Jan 13, 2010 at 10:50 PM
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Thanks, Gator. I’m newly inspired by your posts and am heading over to the Junkies this instant. Loved the key lime pie story.
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- Old Gator - Jan 13, 2010 at 10:55 PM
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You’re going to hate me even more for this, but I have it on excellent authority that the Nemesis asteroid is going to hit the earth on February 9th. This is indeed unfortunate, in that Sarah Palin’s first commentary for FOX is going to be on February 8th.
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- Richard Dansky - Jan 13, 2010 at 11:13 PM
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I’ve got my Drive-By Truckers rarities disc. I can die happy.
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- wickethewok - Jan 14, 2010 at 2:22 AM
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“…but it’s hard to criticize a guy who likes Kid ‘n Play”
/fixed
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- XTrust_No1X - Jan 14, 2010 at 7:49 AM
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Great, just what the Jeter family, DON’T need in their family, a gangsta rapper! the gangsta rap garbage is what caused the downfall of the NFL & The NBA, I don’t want the first family of MLB poluted, that’s a degeneration of the species, as in MLB species. She should’ve been breed to. first and foremost, an ex-Yankees player, or a young, up-n-comer minor leaguer, that way, it stays All in the Family!
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- XTrust_No1X - Jan 14, 2010 at 7:56 AM
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lyricist on a par with Robert Hunter…..
The only ones that were on par with Robert Hunter as a lyrist, well, let’s say, one half that combo passed on Dec 8, 1980 from an assassigns bullet! And, it was Robery Hunter that was on par with them…., not the other way around.
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- Joe Marin - Jan 14, 2010 at 7:56 AM
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Skyzoo is a very nice guy and is far from a gangster rapper. His middle name is Skyler!!! He’s not even a tough guy. He’s a good kid! He is a very postive rapper.
I just wanted to share my thoughts. He reminds me of Bambi in person hahaha
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- XTrust_No1X - Jan 14, 2010 at 8:52 AM
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While, I enjoy FoxNews and the O’Reilly factor, plu for that matter, all the different commenators and contributors on Fox News. That other news station pales in comparison, but, I do have to take FoxNews to task with them adding their brand new commentator on the O’Reilly factor. Why would they add someone, that didn’t know that Africa was a continent until they were told this little fact. And, they were just told this, when they were a fully grown adult, running for a certain political office and not while attending Elementary School. To me, they are not too stupid, they are four stupid!
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- XTrust_No1X - Jan 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM
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Excuse me for saying this, but in my humble opinion, NO Rap or Hip hop is good! It’s garbage that shouldn’t be confused with REAL MUSIC! NEITHER ARE MUSIC!!! CRAP is more like it, and the term I wantto descibe that trash can’t be used on this public forum with any decency. And, anyone associated with or preform that garbage isn’t and shouldn’t be labeled musicians, for, they are not! That’s insulting true musicians and composers. It’s sad really, because to me, December 8, 1980, is the REAL DAY, “That Music Died!!!” Also, with the passings of George Harrison, Jerry Garcia & Roy Orbison,trulu, there are No true Musicians left! But, they are REAl Musicians, all these Generation Xtra Stupids, Generation Y(Were you born), rappers & hip hop assw!pes are NOT MUSICIANS!
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- Guy - Jan 14, 2010 at 10:24 PM
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Minka Kelly is a well known pothead or ganja girl. Just google her she was listed as the top female celebrity stoners according to coed.com . Just google her and also rumored to have been the mistress who broke scrubs actor Donald faison and his wife up. There are a lot of pictures of she and Faison together and she’s a natural blonde. I say the jeter sibblings have some strange choices in soulmates. Minka Kelly is hot but a well known pothead and would like up a joint or ask where she could buy weed when she was living in Austin tx shooting Friday night lights. Just ask around. Wonder if jeter lights up with her. That would be interesting.
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- Guy - Jan 14, 2010 at 10:28 PM
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Minka Kelly is a well known pothead or ganja girl. Just google her she was listed as the top female celebrity stoners according to coed.com . Just google her and also rumored to have been the mistress who broke scrubs actor Donald faison and his wife up. There are a lot of pictures of she and Faison together and she’s a natural blonde. I say the jeter sibblings have some strange choices in soulmates. Minka Kelly is hot but a well known pothead and would like up a joint or ask where she could buy weed when she was living in Austin tx shooting Friday night lights. Just ask around. Wonder if jeter lights up with her. That would be interesting.
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- Mickey Factz - Jan 15, 2010 at 1:41 AM
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Much love – much love for this!
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- MVD - Jan 15, 2010 at 5:18 AM
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I care, Craig, really. Thank you.
