. . . .well, just because . . . . perhaps our (Scotland’s) greatest singing voice and a true gifted artist beyond compare
Annie Lennox - Why?
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Neil Young - Old Man [Live at The Cellar Door 1970] | jt1674
. . . . .well suddenly the Old Man is me!
Echo and the Bunnymen Facebook page: IAN McCULLOCH and RODDY FRAME perform THE KILLING MOON
Now I have gone banging on about Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera and his solo work especially) but also Ian McCulloch and Echo and The Bunyment too
IAN McCULLOCH and RODDY FRAME perform THE KILLING MOON on Spanish TV.
"It was a lovely thing, that week of touring; I was to play four dates in Spain and Roddy was doing photographs for his single 'Spanish Horses'," said Ian McCulloch in 1994.
"It was 1993; he phoned me up about a week before and said: "Hey, I'm in Barcelona at the same time you're playing - any chance of opening for you, just me and a guitar?" I said, "You can do all four dates, just fix it with your manager." It was the perfect week, beautiful."
"We had to perform on a TV programme in Barcelona and hadn't slept the night before. We drank a lot of bevvy - everyone's mini bar. We were jumping into the crew's rooms to get their mini bottles of champagne. It's not that we're champagne drinkers but... well, it was Barcelona. We were just bladdered but we were up at 8 o'clock in the morning to do the show.”
The Ting Tings - of course we remember . . .
The algorithms threw this one up and followed it with their great bit one hit wonder but this suggest they are still going strong and still worth falling!
Hey, we’re the Ting Tings. Remember us?
Dolly Parton - Train Train (again!) - Austin City Limits
Oh you wanted more?
Gal was authentic Bluegrass country and could sing and PLAY!
Dolly Parton - Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 7-23-2011 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST
Dolly Parton - Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 7-23-2011
After hearing she had died, I looked around to see what music I could post of hers that would be interesting. I found an ALD recording of this concert that apparently hasn't been shared much until now. ALD stands for "assistive learning device." By U.S. law, big concert venues must provide these devices for concert-goers who are hard of hearing. Sometimes, clever people manage to record the live signal going to these devices. This is one of those cases.
Typically, ALD recordings are excellent, very similar to soundboard recordings. However, one flaw is that they often don't have much of the audience cheering. That was very much the case for this one. In addition, when Parton spoke between songs, sometimes her voice was quite faint. So I ran every song through the MVSEP audio editing program. I separated out the crowd noise, and then drastically boosted it at the ends of songs. I also simply boosted the vocals of her banter, sometimes making adjustments line by line. I boosted those so much that it often resulted in a lot of hiss. So I then made more audio edits to get rid of the hiss.
I had extra trouble with the last song. For some reason, bursts of static came through repeatedly. I used both the MVSEP and UVR5 programs to use different noise-cleaning tools. I'm glad to say that got rid of nearly all of the problem. But that's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.
This fixing of the songs took a lot of work, but it was my way of paying tribute to the great Dolly Parton. Hopefully, this now will be considered one of her best, and best sounding, concert bootlegs. The concert took place during her tour for her 2011 album "Better Day." A New York Times newspaper review of that album praised her "almost ageless" vocals, and you can hear that vocal quality in this concert too. That album was well received by critics, but only sold moderately in the U.S. However, it Britain, it became her highest charting album, reaching Number One on the country chart there, and in the Top Ten in the main pop chart.
This album is two hours and 17 minutes long.
01 Light of a Clear Blue Morning
02 Walking on Sunshine
03 Better Get to Livin'
04 talk
05 Jolene
06 talk
07 Rocky Top
08 Mule Skinner Blues [Instrumental]
09 talk
10 Help
11 Shine
12 Stairway to Heaven
13 talk
14 My Tennessee Mountain Home
15 talk
16 Precious Memories
17 talk
18 Coat of Many Colors
19 talk
20 Smoky Mountain Memories
21 talk
22 Son of a Preacher Man
23 talk
24 Better Day
25 talk
26 Together You and I
27 talk
28 Holding Everything
29 talk
30 Rappin' Dolly
31 talk
32 He Will Take You Higher
33 talk
34 He's Everything
35 talk
36 White Limozeen
37 talk
38 Best of Both Worlds
39 talk
40 The Sacrifice
41 talk
42 In the Meantime
43 talk
44 Little Sparrow
45 River Deep, Mountain High
46 talk
47 Here You Come Again
48 Islands in the Stream
49 9 to 5
50 talk
51 I Will Always Love You
52 Light of a Clear Blue Morning [Reprise] [Edit]
(all tracks Dolly Parton)
DOLLY PARTON - from little acorns . . . . . . . DOLLY PARTON - TRAIN TRAIN Jay Leno 1999
. . . . . until superstardom beckoned
Dolly Parton photographed by Annie Leibovitz for her “Rainbow” album, 1987.
but lest we forget it was ALWAYS about the music!
posted his clip and if anyone doubted her musicianship check this with a country band!
From The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, November 1999…" I fell in love with her and her music when I was 10 yrs old, watching the early morning TV shows out of Nashville. Never dreaming then, that I would have the tremendous fortune of picking and singing and playing music on records and TV shows someday with the one and only Dolly Parton. She was a genuine genius, a true visionary, and as shrewd in business as she was in music. She knew what she wanted and how she wanted it and surrounded herself with talented people who could make her dreams happen. And she was FUNNY! A quick wit who found humor and goodness and kindness wherever she could. We laughed as much as we picked and sang. Thank you, Dolly. I am filled with grace and gratitude for your life and all you brought to us"
Whilst well said from Sam thewhole clip is a necessity IMHO
DOLLY ROCKS
The full clip Dolly Parton Train Train - Jay Leno 1999
now THAT’S BLUE GRASS!
David Byrne/Brian Eno - Help Me Somebody [My Life in The Bush of Ghosts] | jt1674
. . . . . . have we had this before? just the other day? . . . . . ..you know what? It’s worth it just to hear that guitar work!
Cili Marsall - Jimmy Dorsey’s Boogie Woogie
We have featured this wonderment Cili Marsall before but holy moly and buckets of blood this is amazing . . . I so wanted to play the piano like this but sadly it was not to be . . .check Cili’s left hand
After so many requests — here it is: the full version of "Jimmy Dorsey's Boogie" from the International Boogie Nights in Uster. 🎹A little story to go with it: Winifred Atwell, who made this boogie famous, was the first Black artist ever to reach #1 in the UK charts — in 1954, at a piano. Songs like this deserve to keep living on stage, and bringing it back with these two was pure joy: 🥁 Mario von Holten on drums 🎻 Arno Schulz on double bass
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