I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Take Me To The River! | Talking Heads, Steve Winwood (ARMS Concert), Booker T . . . . . AL GREEN [Live!]

 

Talking Heads - Take Me To The River (Live) Stop Making Sense

Take Me To The River" Steve Winwood,Eric Clapton,etc. @ The ARMS Concert,London 1983

Booker T Jones - Take Me to the River (Al Green cover) Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Now I reckon you have to have some huge cajones to take on an Al Green song but we will forgive The Talking Heads, Steve Winwood and the ARMS concert crew and Booker T too!

I loev this song and send it out to regular visitor and neighbour Diamond Dave (he’s a Diamond you know!?)

Al Green - Take Me To The River, One of Those Good Old Days, Look What You Done For Me (for DiamondDave)

We were talking with Diamond Dave about versions of 'Take Me To The River' after I posted the new(ish) version by Kaleida which was a straight lift from Talking Heads but Dave said he placed the Al Green original above any other (even the Heads?) and look Herberg De Kelder must have been listening in that he posted two Green numbers which I share too, here! 

    Take Me To The River 


     One Of Those Good Old Days

 


Al Green-"One Of These Good Old Days"

Look What You Done For Me

Al Green - “Look What You’ve Done For Me”








Peter Green on roots of the blues from Martin Celmis’ book 'Peter Green: Founder of Fleetwood Mac' | Don’s Tunes

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Photo: Pictorial Press Ltd

 

 Chicken Shack’s Stan Webb emphasises Peter Green’s unique taste: ‘Peter always acknowledged where he came from, but what happened in the end is that Peter’s style came from himself. He’s the only white player I’ve ever heard that has come from himself. He first did everything and everyone, like we all did with Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Mama Thornton, Buddy Guy, BB King and Freddie King; but then Peter developed into the only white player that ended up totally original. 

That’s not praise; it’s a fact. Eric Clapton’s another matter: back in the early days, Eric was far more selfish and self-centred. A few years ago, me and Eric bumped into each other at some cricket do and started talking about the old days. He said to me, “Do you know, I’m really selfish?” I said, “Yeah, Eric, I know. You never acknowledged Matt Murphy [Memphis Slim’s regular guitarist], did you?” And there was nothing Eric could say because he knew I was right. I’ve got old 1950s records in my collection of Matt Murphy which has stuff that is note for note what Eric played on John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers’ “Beano” album.’

This point illustrates well the hand-me-down nature of blues. One of Peter’s early inspirations for ‘Albatross’ was ‘a group of notes from an Eric Clapton solo played slower’. So who knows? perhaps Matt Murphy should get some remote credit for the hit instrumental.


Source: Peter Green: Founder of Fleetwood Mac by Martin Celmis

Don's Tunes



Original Albatross with Danny (Kirwan of course)

Still carried on (with Splinter)
Now I found this last shot quite sad until I remembered it was always a two hander for the guitar solo
R.I.P Greenie!

Neil Young performs "Helpless" at Farm Aid 6 in Ames, Iowa on April 24, 1993

 HELPLESS

I know another clip that pissed me off someone keeps posting the Helpless from 2000 and it features 3.13 minutes and then cuts as Steven takes the guitar break!!! F**K OFF!
Here’s a complete version . . . . . don’t post snippets people it’s what they (Flickennabok, TikenToken want you to do to reduce the little short span of attention! TURN IT UP and FIND THE FULL VERSIONS!


Neil Young performs "Helpless" at the Farm Aid 1993

Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin’ Good | courtesy Gary Lucas!

 

Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin' Good

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

HIS MASTER’S VOICE! | THE LEGEND That is the King of The Blues | JOHN LEE HOOKER 16 albums (10 CDs) | BUTTERBOY

 John Lee Hooker - 16 Original Albums & Bonus Tracks [2015] (10 x CDs)

JOHN LEE HOOKER

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 - June 21, 2001 was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. 

The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style 

adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated 

other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues. 

He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s-1940s 

piano-derived boogie-woogie. 

Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists and 

has been cited as one of the greatest male blues vocalists of all time. (Wikipedia)


There is a particular way to approach a set like 16 Original Albums & Bonus Tracks, 

and it usually begins with accepting what it is rather than what the title suggests. 

Issued in Germany in 2015 by Documents in association with Intense Media, the box 

gathers ten discs of early John Lee Hooker recordings, built from material originally 

released across the late 1950s and early 1960s.


The physical presentation suggests abundance more than narrative. 

Ten discs, sixteen album titles, and a final disc of bonus tracks, all laid out in a way

 that invites long stretches of listening rather than careful study. 

The sequence does not behave like a run of original LPs. Instead, it moves in blocks, 

albums grouped together, styles overlapping, familiar songs appearing in slightly 

different forms as the discs turn.


Early on, the core of Hooker’s sound settles in. 

Solo performances, electric and acoustic, built around repetition and rhythm rather 

than strict structure. 

Tracks from Burning Hell and I’m John Lee Hooker introduce that steady pulse, 

voice and guitar moving together in a way that feels self-contained. 

From there, the set widens. Studio recordings with fuller backing sit alongside 

more stripped performances, yet the underlying approach remains unchanged.


Because the material comes from multiple original sources, the pacing develops 

through accumulation. One song leads into another with a similar tempo, 

then shifts slightly, then returns again. The effect is less about contrast and 

more about immersion. Variations in recording quality, arrangement, and session 

context become part of the listening rather than interruptions.


By the later discs, the repetition has its own logic. 

Certain phrases, rhythms, and melodic patterns reappear often enough to feel 

like a language rather than a set of songs. 

The final disc of bonus material extends that feeling, adding more sides 

without changing direction.

This set does not organise the material into a strict narrative, 

it simply lays it out in volume, allowing the sound to build through time and familiarity. 

It plays like a long, continuous field of early Hooker recordings. (Butterboy)

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KALEIDA : Take Me To The River (cover Al Green and Mabon "Teenie” Hodges covered so famously by TALKING HEADS)

 Found this too . . . but this one’s just from me wondering about . . . . . . . and it’s a Talking Heads cover song so . . . .[original Al Green and Mabon "Teenie” Hodges]


 . . . . .what you gonna do? 

Do we know these gals? . . . . . . I didn’t! [yeah yeah we know . . .what you don’t know could fill books! - ED] RUDE!

. . . . . and another found via the algorithm on Facebook | Exposure Therapy by Khatumu Miatta

 Khatumu Miatta - Exposure Therapy



youngster yet to release an album I think but hark to that voice and the guitar virtuosity 


Khatumu - Matador (live)

now this is what the Internet is for!

Kelly Jean Carter - Yellow Back Novel (Facebook finds)

 Kelly Jean Carter - Yellow Back Novel 


Found this on the algorithm via Facebook . . . I like her!

LITTLE FEAT - Rock ’N’ Roll Doctor! Gary Lucas recommends !

 LITTLE FEAT - Rock ’N’ Roll Doctor!

now I am not the greatest fan of Little Feat despite buying Dixie Chicken as a single when it come out and I really don’t know why and I fully expect shock and horror from my regulars but I don’t know what it is. . .  they just don’t grab me and they always leave me wanting . . . . . Gary loved them, Bonnie (Raitt) loved them, heck every rocker and slide fan loves ‘em . . . .except this one! Sorry! I’ll get me coat!

as recommended by Gary Lucas (on his Flickennabok page) 
well you gots to follow Garry who says "one of my favorite songs, and the slide solo by Lowell is out of this world” which frankly coming from one of the planet’s finest guitarists is praise indeed!