I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Richard Thompson / Studio KAFE, Santa Rosa, CA March 11, 1991 | Voodoo Wagon

 

Richard Thompson / Studio KAFE, Santa Rosa, CA March 11, 1991 VOODOO WAGON

Richard Thompson
Studio KAFE
Santa Rosa, CA
March 11, 1991
Richard Thompson - Valerie - Toronto 91 with support act Shawn Colvin as part of the band!
01 Richard Thompson - Announcer
02 Richard Thompson - Talk
03 Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
04 Richard Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
05 Richard Thompson - Talk
06 Richard Thompson - Two Left Feet
07 Richard Thompson - Talk
08 Richard Thompson - Jenny
09 Richard Thompson - talk
10 Richard Thompson - Jerusalem On The Jukebox
11 Richard Thompson - talk
12 Richard Thompson - Pharaoh
13 Richard Thompson - talk
14 Richard Thompson - Now That I Am Dead
15 Richard Thompson - talk
16 Richard Thompson - She Moved Through The Fair
17 Richard Thompson - She Twists The Knife Again
18 Richard Thompson - How Can I Ever Be Simple Again
19 Richard Thompson - Wall of Death
20 Richard Thompson - talk
21 Richard Thompson - Time To Ring Some Changes
22 Richard Thompson - You're No Good
23 Richard Thompson - talk
24 Richard Thompson - Valerie
25 Richard Thompson - Encore break
26 Richard Thompson - Down Where The Drunkards Roll
27 Richard Thompson - Ca Plan Pour Moi
28 Richard Thompson - Reckless Kind (audience)
29 Richard Thompson - Mystery Wind (audience)
Ah, it's Sunday morning and time to dip into ĐR̃äⒻṬëŕṽöï's box of Richard Thompson tapes.  Members of Our Beloved V-W audience will recall these are multi-generation cassette tapes of unknown provenance, with a bit of hiss.  Back in the olden times, we ran classified ads in Goldmine magazine to connect with other collectors of live radio shows.  You copied the cassettes in real time, put them in padded mailers, stood in line at the post office, and then waited and hoped you'd get cassettes back from the person on the other side of the trade.

On this cassette, Thompson is in fine form, and the sound is pretty good, although with a bit too much echoey reverb for my taste.

Studio KAFE was a full-service restaurant and bar featuring live music and comedy acts.  They also had a radio booth, broadcasting on a local cable radio station (that is, you couldn't get it on your car radio). It was an interesting idea but didn't last: Studio KAFE was open from April 1987 to October 1992.  

According to the newspaper ad, Thompson played two sets.  I don't know if this is the early or late show.  There were two audience recordings from the other set added at the end of the tape. 
Richard Thompson - I Feel So Good [July 1991] LETTERMAN that same year

Simple Minds - 20th Century Promised Land [ Sister Feelings Call] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/atelieroblique/818882913876705280/simple-minds-20th-century-promised-land

Au Pairs - Fiasco [Sense & Sensuality] | jt1674

  . . . . .you remember the Au Pairs right?

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/818940152582963200/au-pairs-fiasco

Leonard and Anjelica


📸: #AnjelicaHuston © #ElisaLeonelli

📸#LeonardCohen ©  #GeorgeRose

 “I met Leonard Cohen through a mutual friend in Montreal when I was making a movie there in 1988. He took me to a pool hall, to a church, and then we ate pastrami sandwiches. Part wolf, part angel, his music speaks to the soul, his love songs from the dark recesses of the heart. He comes to my house in Venice, California wearing his usual uniform—white shirt, dark suit. His hair is cropped short. He has come from an ashram on Mount Baldy, in California, where he has been living for some time.”


— Anjelica Huston on Leonard Cohen, Interview Magazine, November 1995



a favourite subject and portrait Anjelica Houston by Eve Arnold 1968

HEAR ROCK CITY sad announcement: another music blogger takes a back seat

 


        An Announcement


"Hi everybody.
Just to let you all know I'll be taking an extended break from 
HRC for a while.I've been doing this stuff for a long time
and at the moment I just don't have the time or inclination
to post regularly.
So thanks to everybody who's helped with sending in shows.
Talk amongst yourselves until I'm back,
hammer those links that still work.
Above all...Keep Rockin'...Later. "

smoker.

I am saddened to hear this and whilst Smoker specialised in music that may not 
always have been MY taste the hard rock genre is the poorer for his standing down and 
we have posted links to many an  item that we DID share an interest in
Take it easy Smoker and Keep on Trucking’ whatever you do!

The Brothers Comatose x Lech from The California Honeydrops - “Take It to the Limit” by the Eagles 😉

 Now as the Big Lebowski would have it I am not the biggest Eagles fan but heck the boys and their guests about transform this MOR classic!

The Brothers Comatose x Lech from The California Honeydrops - “Take It to the Limit” by the Eagles … w/ special guest @gottscates on mandolin.

The Brothers say 
“Man, come on. I had a rough night and I hate the f**kin’ Eagles, man!” - The Dude, “The Big Lebowski” (1998)
That iconic, perfectly delivered line carried enormous power...and man, did the Eagles get screwed by it! Almost overnight, it turned one of our biggest and most celebrated bands into a punchline, distilling everything they ever created down into one easily quotable joke. This was a band that defined the coolness of Los Angeles in the 70s, featured gorgeous 5-part male harmonies, and wrote hit...after hit...after hit!. Suddenly, in the increasingly cynical 90s,it became cooler to hate rather than appreciate them.
But if we could lose the cynicism and listen with fresh ears there’s a whole lot to love and discover about them. So dammit, we’re here to say “we love the f**kin’ Eagles, man!” and we don’t care who knows it. "


Fair enough! When you can sing and play as good as this who am I to disagree!  😏


Art of The Day [possibly the oldest I have featured!]



 Kimberley Rock Art

"Kimberley Rock Art is one of the world’s oldest and most remarkable surviving traditions of Aboriginal Rock Art, preserving tens of thousands of years of cultural history across the sandstone ranges of northern Western Australia. Rather than representing a single style, Kimberley rock art encompasses a sequence of artistic traditions including early hand stencils, Irregular Infill animal paintings, elegant Gwion Gwion (Bradshaw) figures, Dynamic Figures, and the powerful ancestral Wandjina beings. Together these traditions form one of the great achievements of human creativity. 

Unlike many ancient art traditions elsewhere in the world, Kimberley rock art remains deeply connected to Country, ceremony, and living Aboriginal spiritual traditions. The Wandjina figures continue to hold profound ceremonial significance for Worrorra, Ngarinyin, and Wunambal peoples, embodying rain, fertility, and creation. Kimberley painting traditions also form part of a wider network of Australian rock art extending through Arnhem Land Rock Art, the Kimberley, and Quinkan Rock Art traditions of Cape York. 

Unlike our dedicated Wandjina Art article, which focuses specifically on the sacred cloud and rain spirit traditions of the northwest Kimberley, this page explores the broader development of Kimberley rock art across immense spans of time. It examines the major styles, meanings, and chronology of the region while exploring the differences between Gwion Gwion and Wandjina imagery, the age of Kimberley cave paintings, and the ancestral beliefs that shaped these extraordinary works. Kimberley rock art is not simply ancient decoration but a visual record of Aboriginal religion, ceremonial law, and one of the world’s longest continuing artistic traditions."


https://www.aboriginal-bark-paintings.com 

Bob Wills "Trouble In Mind” [1935]

 another favourite song and I always had it as a blues standard but here is Bob Wills covering it 

Bob Wills "Trouble In Mind” Vocalion No. 03343 from 1935 / "King of Western Swing" / b1905 Kosse/Turkey, Texas USA / Texas Playboys / Light Crust Doughboys / Tommy Duncan vocals / June Whalin, tenor banjo / Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin / steel guitar / bass. Eldon Shamblin / Tulsa, Oklahoma / KVOO Radio / Leon McAuliffe . steel guitar / Al Stricklin / Smokey Dacus "San Antonio Rose" / Vocalion / Okeh / Columbia
more from



Photographer of The Day - MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER : ERNEST COLE

A self portrait of photographer Ernest Cole



Ernest Cole/Magnum Photos

its in French but none the worst for that , you can follow that eh? Zut! Allors




Ernest Cole, The House of Bondage 1967 ©

Ernest Cole, The House of Bondage 1967 ©

Ernest Cole, The House of Bondage 1967 ©

Ernest Cole, The House of Bondage 1967 ©

The story of Ernest Cole, a black photographer in South Africa during apartheid
en Anglais

Birthdays: Jackie Wilson

 Jackie Wilson was born in Highland Park, Michigan on this day in 1934. 

Lookabout Lookabout oooooh weeeee

Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite


Jackie Wilson Higher n Higher

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