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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Jimmy Cliff : TIME WILL TELL | GUESS I’M DUMB / HERBERG DE KELDER (formerly Le Ramasseur De Mégots)

Time Will Tell

Jimmy CliffWonderful World, Beautiful People

Jimmy Cliff - Time Will Tell (1969)

R.I.P

After a storm, there’s got to be a calm
So I think I’ll wait a while

So Guess I’m Dumb and Herberg De Kelder both shared this and in the interest of sharing the wonders Speedy dropped by to tell us of a link to 18 Jimmy Cliff ROIO concert downloads over on mega.nz (his link is in the comments on my post yesterday)
Mind you it is worth stating that Speedy himself has 10 ROIOs listed on his wonderful blog So Many Roads - check them out here:
https://so-many-roads-boots.blogspot.com/search/label/Jimmy%20Cliff

Thanks Speedy always appreciate your work and dropping by to comment is brilliant, thanks my man!

If you listen to one thing today make it this of Jimmy on Later with Jools ‘Many Rivers To Cross'

Tori Amos - PBS Soundstage Chicago USA 2003 | Albums That Should Exist,

Tori Amos - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 5-2-2003

Paul says: Here's an episode of the great "PBS Soundstage" TV show, starring Tori Amos.

Amos had most of her commercial success in the 1990s and early 2000s. All five of her 1990s albums reached Platinum status (sales of a million or more) is the U.S. Her last Gold status album (sales of half a million or more) was in 2002, with "Scarlet's Walk," the album she was touring to support at the time of this concert. Also, if you look at the crowd-sourced ratings of her albums at rateyourmusic.com, her albums through "Scarlet's Walk" are her most highly rated ones. So this was a good time for a Soundstage episode from her.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 A Sorta Fairytale
02 Bliss
03 Horses
04 talk
05 Black-Dove [January]
06 Wednesday
07 China
08 Jackie's Strength
09 Taxi Ride
10 Precious Things
11 Cornflake Girl
12 Tombigbee

We like our Tori too!

Well its hecken freshen COLD this morning . . what’s to do?! Why follow Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell!

One thing to do wha it is THIS COLD . .

Keep DANCING!

Fred and Eleanor tell us its so!

Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell!

Our Ali in Oz : Alison Moyet - Australia 2025 | Albums That Should Exist

Alison Moyet - Plenary Hall, Melbourne, Australia, 6-1-2025

ATSE’s Paul says: Here's a concert recording from just five months ago as I post this in November 2025, starring Alison Moyet.

I don't post music from the recent past like this very often. One of the main reasons for that is sound quality. One can find a steady steam of audience recordings of concerts that happened mere days ago, but I try to avoid audience boots due to the sound quality issue. However, this one is different. It's a rare IEM (in ear monitor) recording. That's a broadcast within the concert venue so the band members can hear what the others are doing. Somehow, someone made a bootleg out of that here. The sound quality is like an excellent soundboard or FM radio broadcast, which is rare for a concert only a few months old.

Moyet was touring to support her new album "Key." This was her first album in seven years. It mostly consists of rerecordings of songs from earlier in her career, but given different arrangements, and most of the songs are deep cuts.

While the sound quality is great overall, there was one problem: for her banter between songs, there was a lot of reverb or echo on her voice. So I ran all the banter tracks through the Adobe voice enhancement program, which brings clarity to voices.

This album is an hour and 35 minutes long.

01 Fire
02 talk
03 More
04 talk
05 Such Small Ale
06 talk
07 Nobody's Diary
08 talk
09 The Impervious Me
10 So Am I
11 Can't Say It like I Mean It
12 This House
13 Changeling
14 Beautiful Gun
15 Only You
16 talk
17 Ordinary Girl
18 It Won't Be Long
19 Is This Love
20 talk
21 All Signs of Life
22 Footsteps
23 Whispering Your Name
24 talk
25 All Cried Out
26 talk
27 Situation
28 Love Resurrection
29 Don't Go

Just read what Paul says about this above and take a chance on this one . . . if anyone wondered where our Alison had got to!?

We love her and that VOICE!

Monday, November 24, 2025

John Prine: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert March 2018

Again someone posted a clip of Summers End from this mini set from John Prine at Bob Boilen’s Tiny Desk Concert over at the redoubtable NPR . . . . I was going to start the day with a frivolous funny Snoopy series but on hearing Jimmy Cliff had died I was in no mood to. So I will sign off the day with another favourite pioneer we miss sorely . . . . . . night all stay safe and cuddle up if you can thew loves are running. . . . . .

So here is the full set

March 12, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- "An American treasure came to the Tiny Desk and even premiered a new song. John Prine is a truly legendary songwriter. For more than 45 years the 71-year-old artist has written some of the most powerful lyrics in the American music canon, including "Sam Stone," "Angel From Montgomery," "Hello In There" and countless others. John Prine's new songs are equally powerful and he opens this Tiny Desk concert with "Caravan of Fools," a track he wrote with Pat McLaughlin and Dan Auerbach. Prine adds a disclaimer to the song saying, "any likeness to the current administration is purely accidental." That song, and his second tune, the sweet tearjerker "Summer's End," are from John Prine's first album of new songs in 13 years, The Tree of Forgiveness, produced by Dave Cobb. It was recorded with his longtime band in Nashville's legendary RCA Studio A. Guests include Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires. There's even a songwriter's co-credit with Phil Spector. For this Tiny Desk Concert John Prine also reaches back to his great "kiss-off" song from 1991 called "All the Best," and then plays "Souvenirs," a song intended for his debut full-length but released the following year on his 1972 album Diamonds in the Rough. It's just one of the many sentimental ballads Prine has gifted us. Over the years, his voice has become gruffer and deeper, due in part to his battle with squamous cell cancer on the right side of his neck, all of which makes this song about memories slipping by feel all the more powerful and sad." "Broken hearts and dirty windows Make life difficult to see That's why last night and this mornin' Always look the same to me I hate reading old love letters For they always bring me tears I can't forgive the way they rob me Of my sweetheart's souvenirs"

Set List:
"Caravan of Fools"
"Summer's End” (John Prine, Pat McCoughlan)
"All the Best"
"Souvenirs"

MUSICIANS
John Prine, Jason Wilber, David Jacques, Kenneth Blevins

CREDITS

Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Maia Stern, Alyse Young; Production Assistant: Salvatore Maicki; Photo: Christina Ascani/NPR.

Aw heck we miss him

R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff

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Jimmy Cliff: "I'm a bit of a rebellious person”

Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now

NPR found this in the archives and hadn’t released it for the longest time . . .they made up for it

Jimmy Cliff - NPR Tiny Desk Concert - Sitting Here in Limbo; I got to Move on; You Can Get it If You Really Want

Jimmy with Jools on Later - Many Rivers to Cross

Simon & Garfunkel - First Time In Japan 1982 | Voodoo Wagon

Simon & Garfunkel - First Tour In Japan, Osaka Stadium May 8th 1982

Simon & Garfunkel - First Time In Japan

An Xray Special

By 1980, the solo careers of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were not doing well, and simultaneously, to help alleviate New York's economic decline, concert promoter Ron Delsener suggested a free concert in Central Park. Delsener contacted Simon with the idea of a Simon & Garfunkel reunion, and once Garfunkel had agreed, plans were drawn up. The concert, held on September 19, 1981 attracted more than 500,000 people, at that time the largest ever pop show attendance. Warner Brothers Records released a live album of the show, The Concert in Central Park, which went double platinum in the US. The event created a renewed interest in Simon & Garfunkel's work, and following a number of heart-to-heart talks attempting to put their disagreements behind them, the duo undertook a world tour beginning in May 1982. • During this time the pair played in Japan for the first time ever. Performing 5 shows in the country - 3 in Tokyo and 2 in Osaka - between the 5th and 12th of May ’82, the concerts attracted massive crowds and the pair’s gig at Osaka Stadium on 5th was recorded and broadcast live across the nation.

XRay

Simon and Garfunkel - First time in Japan

Simon and Garfunkel- Mrs Robinson - Osaka 1982

Louisiana Cajun Music Special Vol. 1 & 2 [1987-1992] | BUTTERBOY

VA - Louisiana Cajun Music Special Vol. 1 & 2 [1987-1992] (2 x CDs)

and there’s more . . . . . Bon Ton Roulet!

From Ace so you know it IS!

CAJUN

Louisiana Cajun Music Special Vol. 1 & 2 offers a definitive two-disc snapshot of Cajun music’s postwar evolution, curated by Ace Records in partnership with Swallow Records. Volume 1 was released in 1987 followed by Volume 2 in 1992, both issued in the UK and sourced from Swallow’s deep Louisiana catalog of 45s and LPs spanning the 1960s and ’70s.

Volume 1 spans 22 tracks, opening with Nolan Cormier & The L.A. Aces’ Hee Haw Breakdown and rolling through foundational cuts by Nathan Abshire (Pine Grove Blues, Choupique Two-Step), Belton Richard (The Cajun Stripper), and the Balfa Brothers (Lacassine Special). These selections were sourced from Swallow and La Louisianne 45s and LPs, many of which were pressed in limited regional runs and are now prized by collectors. The mastering preserves the analog warmth of the original tapes, with stereo and mono transfers that retain their dancehall vitality.

Volume 2 expands the scope to 25 tracks, diving deeper into Swallow’s vault with rarities from Shirley Bergeron, Austin Pitre, Doris Matte, and Aldus Roger. Highlights include La Valse De Grand Bois, Hold My False Teeth (And I'll Show You How To Dance), and La Chanson D'Amitie by Phil Menard and Don Guillory with the Louisiana Travellers. The compilation balances marquee names with lesser-known but culturally vital artists, many of whom never saw national distribution.

Together, these volumes form a definitive sonic archive of Cajun music’s golden era. They preserve rare recordings that rarely surface outside Louisiana and present them with editorial clarity and historical care. (B)

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again follow the link in the title to check out the track listing to download and read on . . . . .

The Ultimate Cajun Collection [1992] Various Artists | BUTTERBOY

VA - The Ultimate Cajun Collection [1992] (2 x CDs)

Now regulars will know I love me some Cajun and Zydeco music from Louisiana so Butterboy has excelled again here