John Sebastian - 'Faithful Virtue' • The Reprise Recordings (1969-76) |Plain & Fancy [Rockasteria]

 I feel a bit odd always sharing John B’s work and am aware it was from my childhood that The Lovin’ Spoonful first hit me and ‘Hums' actually remains a favourite album - top thirty I would guess (Rain On The Roof, Darlin’ Companion, Nashville Cats Lovin’ You etc) all its songs still stick and I believe were his peak as a band member and songwriter but I do feel a tad embarrassed to keep on mentioning him as it does strike me as kids stuff now ( Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind, Daydream, Summer in The City all sound a bit hopelessly juvenile now0 . . . but as the album here underlines I do have a 'Faithful Virtue' for dear John and this set of three albums is a peach (check out quite who decides to play with him here . . . .an astonishing list)

John Sebastian - Faithful Virtue • The Reprise Recordings (1969-76 us, wonderful folk blended with various tunes, 2001 three disc set)

John Sebastian - Younger Generation Woodstock 1969

ROCKASTERIA says : This set is the final word on the '70s solo recordings of singer/songwriter John Sebastian. Compiled over three discs are all five of his LPs for the Reprise label: John B. Sebastian, Cheapo-Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live John Sebastian, The Four of Us, Tarzana Kid, and Welcome Back. Additionally, there is an extra half-hour of live material, most of which is issued here for the first time. 

As he had done with the Lovin' Spoonful, Sebastian's emotive and thought-provoking lyrics prove to be his strongest suit. "How Have You Been," "I Had a Dream," and "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" best reflect the continuation of the introspective musical and lyrical themes that he had first explored on tracks such as "Younger Generation" and "Darlin' Be Home Soon." However, the album was far from being acoustic and weepy. "Red-Eye Express," "What She Thinks About," and "Baby, Don't Ya Get Crazy" are up-tempo rockers featuring the likes of Dallas Taylor (drums), Harvey Brooks (bass), and Stephen Stills (guitar). 

Sebastian's second long-player -- Cheapo-Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live John Sebastian -- was issued to counteract the potential damage of a completely unauthorized live package released by MGM Records. The results are wholly fulfilling and feature a simple duo of Sebastian (guitar/vocals) and Paul Harris (piano). In addition to playing favorites such as "Nashville Cats," "Did You Ever Have to Make up Your Mind," and "Lovin' You," he also cooked up some vintage jug band blues on "Mobile Line" and a crowd-rousing loose aggregate of oldies including "In the Still of the Night" and "Blue Suede Shoes." 

 

John Sebastian - Lovin' You - 7/21/1970 - Tanglewood  

The Four of Us returns Sebastian back to his folk/blues roots on "Well, Well, Well" and "Black Snake Blues." The extended title track is a picturesque travelogue of places and events between two couples approaching middle age. Although the album did not do well at the cash register when it was issued, it has retained an irresistible harmony and sense of charm. Tarzana Kid suffered much the same fate as its predecessor. This is doubly unfortunate, as it likewise features some of Sebastian's best studio sides, including his serene cover of Jimmy Cliff's "Sitting in Limbo," Lowell George's "Dixie Chicken," and again a return to his roots with "Sportin' Life." 

Tarzana Kid is an all-star affair with the likes of David Grisman (mandolin), Ry Cooder (guitar), and David Lindley (guitar), and teamed Sebastian back up with his former producer from the Lovin' Spoonful, Erik Jacobsen. As he points out in his riveting liner notes essay, the only reason that the Welcome Back album was issued was in support of the title track, which had become a chart-topping hit as well as the theme song to the television situation comedy of the same name. That point aside, there are a few outstanding pieces, including reworked versions of "Didn't Want to Have to Do It" and "Warm Baby." 

A real treat awaits listeners at the end of disc three, with no less than two vintage live sets. The first includes Sebastian's entire five-song performance from the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The second is from Winterland Arena in San Francisco during the fall of 1969. For true fans, these recordings represent a grail of sorts. Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings also includes a 48-page liner notes booklet with previously unissued photos and memorabilia. Additionally, there is a separate six-panel foldout poster that also contains all the lyrics from the five long-players. The North American release is limited to an edition of 3,000 and is available via the Rhino HandMade Internet audio salon.

by Lindsay Planer

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Red Eye-Express - 2:57 

2. She's a Lady - 1:45 

3. What She Thinks About - 3:04 

4. Magical Connection - 2:49 

5. You're a Big Boy Now - 2:49 

6. Rainbows All Over Your Blues - 2:27 

7. How Have You Been - 4:12 

8. Baby, Don't Ya Get Crazy - 3:00 

9. The Room Nobody Lives In - 3:13 

10.Fa-Fana-Fa - 2:48 

11.I Had a Dream - 2:48 

12.Mobile Line (Gonna Carry Me Away from the Bull Frog Blues) (Peter Stampfel) - 2:31 

13.Lovin' You - 2:46 

14.Fishin' Blues - 3:42 

15.Younger Girl - 3:00 

16.Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind - 3:03 

17.Rooty-Toot - 2:52 

18.In the Still of the Night (Fred Parris) - 2:43 

19.Teen Angel (Jean Surrey) - 0:42 

20.Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins) - 1:49 

21.Ballad of a Teenage Queen (Jack Clement) - 0:49 

22.Nashville Cats - 2:56 

23.Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers) - 2:49 

24.My Gal (Steve Boone, Erik Jacobsen) - 3:16 

25.Younger Generation - 3:31 

26.Darling Be Home Soon - 4:12 

27.Blues for Dad and JB's Happy Harmonica - 3:41 

28.Amy's Theme - 1:49 

All songs by John B. Sebastian except where stated otherwise.

Disc 2

1. Goodnight Irene (Lead Belly, John A. Lomax) - 4:50 

2. Well, Well, Well (Traditional) - 2:20 

3. Black Snake Blues (Clifton Chenier) - 2:29 

4. I Don't Want Nobody Else - 3:17 

5. Apple Hill - 3:09 

6. Black Satin Kid - 2:39 

7. We'll See - 2:05 

8. Sweet Muse - 3:56 

9. The Four of Us - 15:58 

10.Give Us a Break - 3:41 

11.Music for People Who Don't Speak English - 3:53 

12.Sitting in Limbo (Gully Bright, Jimmy Cliff) - 3:27 

13.Friends Again - 2:29 

14.Dixie Chicken (Lowell George, Martin Kibbee) - 3:49 

15.Stories We Could Tell - 3:14 

16.Face of Appalachia (Lowell George) - 4:21 

17.Wildwood Flower (A.P. Carter) - 1:42 

18.Wild About My Lovin' (Traditional) - 3:05 

19.Singing the Blues (Melvin Endsley) - 2:22 

20.Sportin' Life (Steve Boone,,Zal Yanovsky) - 3:09 

21.Harpoon (Ricky Sebastain) - 2:21 

All songs by John B. Sebastian except where indicated

Disc 3
1. Hideaway - 2:55 
2. She's Funny - 3:34 
3. You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine - 2:57 
4. Didn't Wanna Have to Do It - 3:22 
5. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back - 4:36 
6. Welcome Back song review - 2:50 
7. I Needed Her Most When I Told Her to Go - 2:56 
8. A Song a Day in Nashville - 4:00 
9. Warm Baby - 2:34 
10.Let This Be Our Time to Get Along - 3:12 
11.How Have You Been - 7:19 
12.Rainbows All Over Your Blues - 3:09 
13.I Had a Dream - 3:23 
14.Darling Be Home Soon - 5:50 
15.Younger Generation - 3:35 
16.Sitting on Top of the World (Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vinson) - 3:39 
17.Magical Connection - 4:11 
18.You're a Big Boy Now - 4:17 
19.I Found a Dream (Lonnie Johnson) - 2:50 
20.Daydream - 3:32 
21.Younger Girl - 1:58 

All songs by John B. Sebastian except where noted

Musicians
*John Sebastian - Vocals, Autoharp, Dulcimer, Guitars, Harmonica, Harmonium, Marimba, Native American Drums, Piano, Six String Banjo
*Kenny Altman - Bass
*Reinol Andino - Congas
*Jeff Baxter - Pedal Steel
*Richard Bell - Clavinet, Piano, Piano
*Blintzes - Vocal Harmony
*Harvey Brooks - Bass
*Ry Cooder - Mandolin, Slide Guitar
*David Crosby - Guitar
*Russell Dashiell - Guitars
*Buddy Emmons - Pedal Steel
*The Esso Trinidad Steel Band - Pans
*Phil Everly - Vocals
*Amos Garrett - Guitars
*Lowell George - Guitars, Vocals
*Jim Gordon - Drums
*David Grisman - Mandolin
*Bobbye Hall - Congas
*Emmylou Harris - Vocals
*Paul Harris - Harmonium, Keyboards, Orchestral Arrangements, Organ, Piano
*Milt Holland - Drums
*David Hungate - Bass
*The Ikettes - Vocals
*Reggie Knighton - Guitar, Vocal Harmony
*Ron Koss - Guitar
*Bruce Langhorne - Tambourine
*Gayle Levant - Harp
*Jon Lind - Vocal Harmony
*David Lindley - Fiddle
*Buzzy Linhart - Vibraphone, Voices
*Jerry Mckuen - Guitar
*Graham Nash - Vocal Harmony
*Ray Neopolitan - Bass
*Richie Olson - Clarinet
*Michael Omartian - Arp Synthesizer, Marimba
*David Paich - String Arrangements
*Felix Pappalardi - Bass
*The Pointer Sisters - Vocals
*Jeff Porcaro - Drums
*Greg Reeves - Bass
*Kelly Shanahan - Drums
*Peter Stampfel - Composer
*Stephen Stills - Guitar
*Stone Warblers - Handclapping, Instrumentation, Vocals
*Dallas Taylor - Drums
*Murray Weinstock - Piano
*Danny Weiss - Electric Harpsichord, Guitar

John Sebastian- Daydream- BBC In Concert (1970)

The Mighty Shadow - Every Body is Some Body (1976) | GUESS I'M DUMB

 Every Body is Some Body

The Mighty ShadowDreadness

The Mighty Shadow - Every Body is Some Body (1976)

I first heard Taj Mahal’s version which then led me to the original. Uplifting calypso

GUESS I'M DUMB

Ivy - Only A Fool Would Say That (2002) | GUESS I'M DUMB

Ivy - Only A Fool Would Say That (2002)

Ivy were (are?) Dominique Durand, Adam Chase and the late Adam Schlesinger. Here’s their fantastic cover of the Steely Dan’s mocking critique of John Lennon’s idealist Imagine.

I heard it was you
Talking ‘bout a world where all is free

GUESS I'M DUMB

I was going to go on a rant about this one but hey , make of it what you will . . . a riposte to one of the greatest songs ever written?

Hmmmmmmmm

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - I’ll Love You ‘till The End of The World | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/817306532175822848/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-ill-love-you-till

This seemed unlikely but hey; Leonard Cohen’s favourite version of Paul Anka’s 'My Way’?!

 

Sid Vicious - My Way (from Great Rock n Roll Swindle)

Covered: Neil Young: Alternates, Volume 1: 1966-2001 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)!! | Albums That Should Exist

 Covered: Neil Young: Alternates, Volume 1: 1966-2001 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

This struck me as hilarious after downloading the Ten Covers of Neil Young volumes that Paul [ATSE] made available to us and herewith Fabio joins in! More to come! Paul says: Back in March 2026, I posted no less than ten volumes of the "Covered" series for Neil Young. Surely, you'd think, that's enough. Ten volumes is more than any of the other dozens of artists in the "Covered" series. But no, there's more! In making those ten albums, guest posted Fabio from Rio did most of the hard work, collecting hundreds of different cover versions, and presenting them to me in an organized fashion. But I did most of the selecting of which songs made the final cut. This, by contrast, represents Fabio's choices for the best of the rest. I had a little say, but just a song or two here and there where I suggested a different version or something like that. 

Fabio found enough for four volumes of "Covered" alternates. Here's the first one. Across these four volumes, about half the songs are different versions of songs that were included on the previously posted ten Neil Young "Covered" volumes. But the other half are songs that didn't feature on those volumes at all.

Fabio has written some liner notes, which are included in the download zip. But since these volumes are more like an addendum to those earlier ten volumes, he wrote just one essay for all four volumes, without song-by-song explanations.

For some musical acts in the "Covered" series, they had a lot of hits, and the choices of which covers to pick is pretty straight forward - the hit versions. But with Neil Young, it was much more subjective, since there have been tons of covers, but very few hits. So one person's trash is another person's treasure. You may well like some of these better. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

01 Flying on the Ground Is Wrong (Guess Who)
02 Down to the Wire (Yellow Hand)
03 Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing (Carpenters)
04 Down by the River (Buddy Miles)
05 Til the Morning Comes (Francoise Hardy)
06 I Believe in You (Linda Ronstadt)
07 Hold Back the Tears (Jessi Colter)
08 Revolution Blues (Band of Blacky Ranchette)
09 Already One (Aaron Springfield)
10 Human Highway (Jim Witter & Cassandra Vasik)
11 Borrowed Tune (Marc Jordan)
12 Pushed It Over the End (Rich Hand)
13 Big Time (Black Crowes)
14 The Old Laughing Lady (Stereophonics)
15 Motion Pictures (Mercury Rev)
16 Mellow My Mind (Hederos & Hellberg)

But is it ART!?

You bet your sweet bippy!

Crumb alone is enough on his own here as qualifying as an artist here but why not the rest - I THINK SO!

Zap Comix crew in the mid-1980s. Clay Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, Kim Deitch, and Spain Rodriguez.

Little Feat - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-19-1973, Early Show | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST [ATSE]

 Little Feat - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-19-1973, Early Show

Remembering the drubbing I got last time from disparaging Lowell and his guitar playing etc and my not being that much of a fan here’s one for the Little Featers! Paul says: Next up from the Ebbets Fields radio broadcasts is Little Feat. They did an early show and a late show, so naturally I'm starting with the early show.

I've already posted a couple of Little Feat albums, so I won't say much more about them here. But note that this was from relatively early in the band's history, before they became very famous. Near the start of 1973, they released their third album, "Dixie Chicken." It was their first album to go Gold in the U.S., which means sales of half a million. But I'm guessing most of those sales didn't happen until later, when the band's growing popularity caused some people to discover their earlier albums, because the album didn't make the charts at all.

Interestingly, you can hear by the emcee speaking at the end of this recording that the band was actually the opening act for Zephyr. (They probably were much less well know nationwide, but they were based in Denver and played there a lot, so they were local favorites.) Also, it seems only the late show sets of both Little Feat and Zephyr were actually broadcast on the radio. But somehow this recording survived too, probably due to Little Feat's later fame. 

In fact, I'd say these early and late shows by Little Feat are some of the most popular of all the Ebbets Fields recordings. There are very few concert recordings of this sound quality from this early in the band's career. But the recordings, going under names like "American Cutie" and "Late Night Truck Stop," are grey market releases. That means they exploit a loophole in European copyright law allowing for their legal sale in Europe, but the musical act doesn't get any of the profits. 

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Hamburger Midnight 
02 Got No Shadow 
03 talk
04 On Your Way Down 
05 talk
06 Walkin' All Night 
07 talk 
08 Two Trains 
09 talk 
10 Willin'
11 talk 
12 Cold, Cold, Cold
13 Dixie Chicken 
14 Tripe Face Boogie 
15 talk
16 Fat Man in the Bathtub
17 talk 

(all tracks Little Feat) 

Have at it you groovy people!

The Five Du-Tones - Shake a Tail Feather

 Gary [Lucas tha’ knows!] posted this beauty, the original as featured in the Blues Bros film! SUPERB!

The Five Du-Tones - Shake a Tail Feather

The Velvet Underground and Nico play Andy Warhol’s Plastic Inevitable Sunset Strip

I wasn’t sure about this poster it smacked of AI to me! ? It looked to modern somehow, Newsweek with a Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art rip off !? But hey . . . .until I do more research I will leave it there. Certainly Andy called the band's events as The “Exploding” Plastic Inevitable Show at times with Light Shows and film showings and as to whether they ever played the Sunset Strip I remain unsure so  . . . . . . watch this space!

Actually seem to be genuine despite the lack of the word ‘Exploding’ and the original poster seems to have gone for $10,000!