Well, that question was answered in the documentary, History of the Eagles (which I strongly recommend). When the Eagles reformed in 1994, Henley and Frey told the near dead drug addict and alcoholic Joe Walsh that they wanted him back in the band but only if he was stone cold sober. Walsh accepted the offer and has been sober ever since. I saw him and his band, Barnstorm, at the CSN&Y headlined Day on the Green in July, 1974. Needless to say, HE ROCKED HARD! (the other acts were the Band, Jesse Colin Young and Rick Derringer).
I caught that Harrison doc on Netflix a while back. Agreed, very good.
Not as well done as Scorsese, Amazon Prime has a bunch of music docs that focus on classic albums. They are all pretty solid and go through the album track by track focusing on song writing, context and production. Lots of interviews with the band members, producers and hired guns. Steely Dan and Nick Drake episodes were especially good.
Some record producer many years ago decided pairing the late Marty Robbin's voice with Hawaiian music was a winner. Corny? Yep. But would I listen to the album drinking a Mai Tai and floating around in a giant inflatable swan? Absolutely.
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A friend and co-worker is a musician who recently discovered and turned me on to James Hunter, whose voice and music recalls the 50's and 60's and Sam Cooke in particular:
Having said that, this is the kind of stuff I listen to on occasion while working or for background:
There are a ton of African American Cowboys.... Oakland - my hometown - has long had a group of AA cowboys that show up for various events and ride together... I absolutely love Old Town Road...
Cowboys in the movies not necessarily cowboys in real life. In a book by Dan Gordon that I read years ago he recounts how, as a young boy, he would occasionally visit his Canadian Jewish uncle, who was a cowboy. His uncle would take him to a nearby Indian reservation and the chief would come out and speak Yiddish with his uncle. He said that for years after that he thought Blazing Saddles was a documentary.
