Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Monday, April 24, 2023
Riley Keough :: Daisy Jones and The Six (2023)
ELVIS’ GRANDDAUGHTER!
I somehow never thought I would live to see Elvis’ granddaughter looking like this and starring in TV films . . . . . . . . . .we like her don’t we? I think we do . . . . . . . .
Danielle Riley Keough
daisy jones & the six (2023)
Riley too
XTC - THE PARADISO AMSTERDAM 1982 - Albums That Should Exist
This is interesting from a new source (for me) and welcome addition to the blogosphere pantheon a treat of an XTC in their prime . . . .
XTC - Live At The Paradiso Amsterdam 1982 - Albums That Should Exist
This is my first post for the music of the British band XTC. In the future, I plan to post some BBC albums by them. But in the meantime, this non-BBC bootleg is probably their best concert recording.What makes this the best has to do with timing. The band released records from 1977 to 2000. But in 1982, after only a few years of touring, the band's main singer-songwriter, Andy Partridge, had a nervous breakdown. It turned out that he had been addicted to Valium for years. His wife finally forced him to stop taking it. Once it was out of his system, he found he was terrified of performing on stage. He had a panic attack at the start of a concert in Paris, France, on March 18, 1982. After that, the band never really played concerts again, although they did sometimes still play songs for the BBC and other radio shows.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Notes from the Internet :: Laura Nyro - October 18th 1947 - April 8th 1997
Singer, songwriter and musician Laura Nyro passed away this month in 1997 (April 8)
I was going to share this one the anniversary of her passing but couldn’t find where I got it from and am now really annoyed so if its yours please get in touch and leave a message and I will credit you!
Laura Nyro was a creative genius, and is one of the most underrated artists in modern music.
Her compositions are a revelation, spanning genres, and often changing time signatures mid-song with breathtaking freedom of expression.
While in high school, she sang with a group of friends in subway stations and on street corners. She said, "I would go out singing, as a teenager, to a party or out on the street, because there were harmony groups there, and that was one of the joys of my youth."
The second time she ever played in front of a live audience was the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival with the likes of The Who and Hendrix. It was also where a young Janis Joplin made her big debut.
Laura Nyro was just 19 years old, and performed an 18-minute-long set after The Byrds and before the Jefferson Airplane.
She is not wildly famous in the general population, but her influence on her peers has been profound and wide-reaching.
Artists who have claimed to be influenced or inspired by Laura Nyro include Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Tori Amos, Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Bette Midler, Rickie Lee Jones, Janis Ian, Elton John, Jackson Browne, Alice Cooper, Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, Sarah Cracknell, Melissa Manchester, and Suzanne Vega.
Bob Dylan was also a fan, and she opened for him on occasions.
Todd Rundgren stated that once he heard her, he "stopped writing songs like The Who and started writing songs like Laura”.
Rundgren's debut solo album “Runt” (1970) includes the strongly Nyro-influenced "Baby Let's Swing" which was written about her and mentions her by name.
Rundgren and Nyro remained friends for much of her professional career and he subsequently assisted her with the recording of her album “Mother's Spiritual”.
Elton John and Elvis Costello discussed Nyro's influence on both of them during the premiere episode of Costello's interview show Spectacle. When asked by the host if he could name three great performer/songwriters who have largely been ignored, Elton John cited Nyro as one of his choices.
He said “She was the first person, songwriting-wise, where there were no rules.
There were tempo changes. There wasn’t a verse, chorus, verse, chorus, middle eight. She didn’t write in that kinda way.
She influenced more songwriters that came out—and successful songwriters—than probably anyone who came before her.”
“I idolized her," he concluded. "This is music so far ahead of its time that still sounds so unbelievable. The soul, the passion, just the out and out audacity of the way her rhythmic and melody changes come is like nothing I’d ever heard before.”
Janis Ian, who attended the High School of Music and Art in New York at the same time as Nyro, discussed her friendship with Nyro during the late 1960s in her autobiography, Society's Child. Ian described her as looking like a "Morticia Addams" caricature with her long, dark hair, and called her a "brilliant songwriter" but "oddly inarticulate" in terms of musical terminology.
In her memoir, “Last Chance Texaco”, Rickie Lee Jones describes discovering Nyro's music in the summer of 1970, saying “Somehow, the moment I fell in love with Laura I loved myself just a little more.
I believe an invisible cord came out of me and attached itself to Laura Nyro that summer.
Or vice versa.”
Nyro turned down lucrative film-composing offers, although she contributed a rare protest song to the Academy Award-winning documentary “Broken Rainbow”, about the unjust relocation of the Navajo people.
The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, and the Late Show with David Letterman pursued Nyro for TV appearances, but she turned them down, citing her discomfort with appearing on television.
She performed increasingly in the 1980s and 1990s with female musicians, including her friend Nydia "Liberty" Mata, a drummer, and several others from the women's music subculture, such as members of the band Isis, appearing at such venues as the 1989 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the 1989 Newport Folk Festival.
In the early 1980s, Nyro began living with painter Maria Desiderio (1954–1999), a relationship that lasted 17 years, the rest of Nyro's life.
Nyro was a feminist and openly discussed it on a number of occasions, once saying, "I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life."
She commented: "I was always interested in the social consciousness of certain songs.
My mother and grandfather were progressive thinkers, so I felt at home in the peace movement and the women's movement, and that has influenced my music."
By the late 1980s, Nyro had become an animal rights activist and vegetarian, and began to offer literature on the subject at her concerts.
She passed away of ovarian cancer in Danbury, Connecticut, on April 8, 1997, at 49, the same age at which her mother died of the same disease.
On April 14, 2012, Laura Nyro was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The induction speech was delivered by Bette Midler and the song "Stoney End" was performed by singer Sara Bareilles at the induction ceremony.
Nyro had previously been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.
There are many songs I could have chosen, but here’s “I Met Him on a Sunday”, which echoes the formative days of her youth, singing harmonies in subways:
Saturday, April 22, 2023
JEFF BECK & Friends - ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON 2002 - HEAVYBOOTZ
Nice Jeff Beck set, brilliant track list and guest stars from Imogen Heap, The White Stripes and John McLaughlin to Terry Bozio and Paul Rogers, heck the house band features Clapton stalwart Andy Fairweather-Low and all warranted this being a great concert at the wonderful Royal Festival Hall back in late 2002
Jeff Beck - LONDON 14th Sept 2002 - Heavybootz
Jeff Beck - guitars (& host)The House Band: Tony Hymas, Jennifer Batten, Stephen Barney, Randy Hope-Taylor, & Andy Fairweather-LowSpecial Guests: Terry Bozzio, Jimmy Hall, The Big Town Playboys, The White Stripes, Imogen Heap, Aref Durvesh, John McLaughlin, & Paul Rodgers
Friday, April 21, 2023
Looking Out Of My Lonely Room...BADFINGER Live in Cleveland, 1974 :: HEAR ROCK CITY (a Rocket special)!
MO’ BADFINGER
Nearly missed this one from brother Rocket over at Hear Rock City again and this is a treat for Badfinger fans and the real source of the supposedly officially released disaster ‘Day After Day:Live’ remixed and messed up by guitarist Joey Molland for reasons best known to himself and without consulting anyone else but this being the original source concert it is ‘live' and sounds it but actually is a really listenable set, occasional adjustments, vocal weakness at times, stray feedback and balance issues but over all it is superb and really interesting in this largely forgotten band’s oeuvre who tragically never hit the heights they deserved largely due to mismanagement on a global scale.
BADFINGER - Live in Cleveland 1974 - Hear Rock City
Badfinger
Agora Ballroom
Cleveland OH
4th March 1974
Soundboard @320
1. Day After Day
2. Constitution
3. Baby Blue
4. I Don't Mind
5. Intro to Blind Owl
6. Blind Owl
7. Intro to Name of the Game
8. Name of the Game
9. Sometimes
10. Perfection
11. Timeless
12. Give It Up
13. Suitcase
14. Suitcase Jam
Pete Ham (vocals/guitar/piano)
Tom Evans (bass/vocals)
Joey Molland (guitar/vocals)
Mike Gibbins (drums)
VASHTI BUNYAN - Electric Proms FREEDM Studios The Roundhouse LONDON 2006 [October 26] : BIG O
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Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. Beginning her career in the mid-1960s, she released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970. The album sold very few copies and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career. By 2000, her album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released and Bunyan recorded more songs, initiating the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years. She subsequently released two more albums: Lookaftering in 2005, and Heartleap in 2014.
In 2008, Bunyan was labelled “the Godmother of Freak Folk” for her role in inspiring the “new generation of folk experimentalists including Devendra Banhart and Adem”. Her music has also been categorized as folk, psychedelic folk, or new folk. Despite these classifications, she has stated multiple times she is not a folk singer: “[…] I find it quite hard to read myself described as a folk singer, because I’m not.” - wikipedia
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An unusually appreciative audience was at the FreedM studio to see the legendary Vashti Bunyan. Augmented by a quartet of young musicians, she delivered a selection of her fragile lullabies, taken from her two albums.
The line-up of cello, piano, violin (plus occasional flute, thumb piano and concertina) made a lush, melancholic sound that was a perfect frame for Bunyan’s breathy whispers. Songs like “Just Another Diamond Day” and “I’d Like to Walk Around in Your Mind” seemed as fresh and unaffected as they did when they were written almost 40 years ago, though her newer material (from the recent ‘Lookaftering’ album) was received with equal rapture by the audience (one of whom had brought a large bunch of flowers for her heroine). - bbc.co.uk
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Track 01. Hidden 3:25
Track 02. Another Diamond Day 2:24
Track 03. Lately 3:39
Track 04. Here Before 2:54
Track 05. Against The Sky 3:32
Track 06. I’d Like To Walk Around In Your Mind 3:13
Track 07. Feet Of Clay 3:55
Track 08. Wayward 4:17
28 mins
Obviously being a BBC broadcast it is excellent quality
Thursday, April 20, 2023
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB STONER (75) | BOB DYLAN ‘SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE’ 11975
As the brilliant music publisher Route mentions this morning, it is Rob Stoner’s birthday today as featured here in this great clip
As Route says Happy birthday to Rob Stoner, born as Robert Rothstein in New York on this day in 1948.
Bob Dylan's appearance on the 1975 television special "The World of John Hammond" included this performance of "Simple Twist of Fate."
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL - GERMANY 1985 | Big O
EBTG - Bochum GERMANY 1985 - Big O
More Everything But The Girl again from Big O
As we noted before Big O says:
Everything but the Girl (occasionally referred to as EBTG) are an English musical duo formed in Kingston upon Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, producer and singer Ben Watt. hey have had four top ten singles and twelve top forty singles in the UK. Until 2022, the band were inactive, and have not performed publicly since 2000. After the group’s disbandment, Thorn and Watt released solo albums, and had indicated that it was unlikely they would ever record together again as Everything But the Girl. However, in November 2022, Thorn announced that a new album had been recorded for release in spring 2023.
Fuse is the upcoming eleventh studio album by British duo Everything but the Girl, scheduled to be released on April 21, 2023 through Buzzin’ Fly and Virgin Records. It is their first studio album in 24 years following Temperamental (1999). The album was preceded by the single “Nothing Left to Lose” on January 10, 2023, followed by “Caution to the Wind” and “Run a Red Light” in February and March, respectively.
The duo began working on the album in March 2021, recording it in secret at both their home and a studio outside of Bath, England with the engineer Bruno Ellingham, with Tracey Thorn stating that they were “aware of the pressures of such a long-awaited comeback, so we tried to begin instead in a spirit of open-minded playfulness”.
Ben Watt told the NME that they “wanted to come back with something modern-sounding. […] We just wanted to make a piece of work that would sound great now in 2023. That was the driver.” He also elaborated that Fuse is not “a pandemic album or a lockdown album - it just struck us that the time was right after 23 years of waiting”, also echoing Thorn’s statement that the intention was to be “a bit playful and experimental to see what happens. There wasn’t a masterplan.” - wikipedia
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Track 01. Frost And Fire 4:51
Track 02. Native Land 3:45
Track 03. Easy As Sin 4:39
Track 04. Ballad Of The Times 4:04
Track 05. Another Bridge 2:56
Track 06. Sean 4:14
Track 07. Angel 5:47
Track 08. Trouble And Strife 3:37
Track 09. Tender Blue 3:59
Track 10. band intros 0:58
Track 11. Are You Trying The Be Funny 3:30
Track 12. Soft Touch 2:51
Track 13. Each And Everyone 4:35
Track 14. Don’t You Go 6:09
Track 15. Never Could Have Been Worse 3:42
Track 16. Anytown 4:43
Track 17. Heaven Help Me 3:10
68 mins
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Click here to order Everything But The Girl releases.
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