John Hiatt - Fisk University Chapel Nashville 1988 (Rick Grenda's Music Video of the Day)

 Speaking of John Hiatt and favourite songs but heck check this line up! Why ain’t that Matchbox maestro Carl Perkins? I know, let’s all go to Memphis and The Meantime!?

Rick's Music Video of the Day John Hiatt Fisk University Chapel Nashville 1988

Rick Grenda

Sonny Landreth guitar . . . . . .

 Sonny juss Jammin'!

No Cover Charge Podcast

oh you wanted more guitar? Here’s another favourite . . . I always though there was nobody quite like Ry Cooder and yet there’s Sonny (both have played with Johnny Hiatt of course!!!)

Squeeze - Annie Get Your Gun [Live in Liverpool DVD] + Pulling Mussels From a Shell (Liverpool 2019) Annihilations in Newcastle 2019

 As if by magic the FB algorithms threw this at me this morning! I had been banging on about nobody seemingly appreciating how good a guitarist Glenn is

On this day in 1982, "Annie Get Your Gun" was released as a single, as the 'new' track on the Singles: 45s and Under greatest hits album. (This version is from the Live in Liverpool concert film/live album)

Squeeze

couldn’t find the Liverpool version in full so

Here they are in Newcastle 2019

Liverpool sounded like this Pulling Mussels From a Shell Live in Liverpool 2019

Talking Heads: “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)” The Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ their ‘Remain In Light’ tour

 

Alan Bershaw

Here’s “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On),” one of the greatest and most danceable government paranoia songs, shot live on stage at The Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ during Talking Heads ‘Remain In Light’ tour 45 years ago. 

What really knocks me out about this song, and this performance of it in particular, is the extremely original bass playing of Tina Weymouth. Until this footage surfaced, I mistakenly thought that the propulsive bassline that is prominent right from the start of this song was the other bass player in this configuration of the group, Busta Jones (who does get a cool solo later in the song), but it is unquestionably Tina’s bass playing that's propelling this sizzling performance. 

I’ve been fortunate to work with several verified master and first generation tape transfers of this particular show over the years. The best sources are the transfer in the Reelin’ In The Years Archive (the source of “Crosseyed And Painless” on the band’s Chronology DVD release) and the transfer from the Metropolitan Archive (the source of the Wolfgang’s Vault version of this show). Both of those master transfers are very well done, but despite a few flaws, I’ve found that this first generation Beta tape transfer sourced from another private archive easily rivals them and may have held up a little better in terms of video contrast and audio.

Give it a listen and watch what Tina is doing here, as it really is an astounding example of her bass playing, not to mention Talking Heads at this pivotal moment of transition into a much bigger band.

Personnel is:

David Byrne - guitar, lead vocals

Jerry Harrison - guitar

Tina Weymouth - bass

Chris Frantz -drums

Adrian Belew - lead guitar, vocals

Busta Jones - bass

Bernie Worrell - keyboards

Dolette McDonald - vocals, hand percussion

Alan’s  posts show up more and more on the algos

Birthdays: JOHN LENNON

 

Remembering John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)

"I grew up with blues music, country and western music which is also a big thing in Liverpool. One of the first visions I had was one of a fully dressed cowboy in the middle of Liverpool with his Hawaiian guitar, you know? That’s the first time I ever saw a guitar in my life. He had the full gear on.

The first music I got hooked on was blues. My earliest influences – the first black music I heard – was Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Sleepy John Estes, people like that. From that I went into Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and the early R&B artists, whether they were rhythm and blues or rock ’n’ roll or whatever you’d call it then. It wasn’t until the Sixties that we discovered B. B. King and Albert King."

Source: John Lennon's official website

Photo: Bob Gruen See less

Don's Tunes

THE BEATLES : BIRTHDAY (remastered 2009)

feat. Ritchie on my favourite drum solo!

I’m Only Sleeping

Forever

Leave the light on Auntie Mimi

Tuba Skinny ‘Don’t Mess With My Man’ Irma Thomas cover : Tryon Fine Arts Centre Tryon NC 21/02/2026 | Tuba skinny fans page,

 a personal favourite Irma Thomas song (second perhaps only to Hip Shakin’ Mama!!! )Start your day with this?!!

Tuba Skinny ‘Don’t Mess With My Man’ Irma Thomas cover

Tryon Fine Arts Centre Tryon NC 21/02/2026

Tuba skinny fans page

The Band "Don't Do It" Woodstock, Sunday August 17, 1969 [unpublished on the film or album]

 

The Band tearing through "Don't Do It" at Woodstock, Sunday August 17, 1969.

The song started as Marvin Gaye's "Baby Don't You Do It," a 1964 Motown single written by Holland-Dozier-Holland. The Band had been playing it since their bar band days, and by 1969 they'd turned it into their own, with Levon and Rick trading vocals over a groove that never lets up.

The festival took its name from the town The Band called home, though the show itself ended up 60 miles away in Bethel. They went on after Ten Years After to a tired, rain-soaked crowd, and their set never made it into the Woodstock film or the original soundtrack.

The Band: A History

Billy Strings trying a Martin D-18 (Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville, Tennessee)

 Billy Strings takes us to the end of the Day . . . . 

Billy Strings playing a 1935 Martin D-18 acoustic guitar 

at Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville, Tennessee

with thanks to

Johnny Palmer

New Voices, new Guitars: Irma · Human Nature [Michael Jackson cover]

 And again the algorithm just keeps throwing out new artists and you can see why in the case another guitarist and singer we need to see and hear from! I thought this was lovely . . . . 

IRMA!

Irma · Human Nature

A song a month until the album drops｜Une chanson par mois jusqu'à la sortie de l'album 

🌍World Tour 2027 

Irma- Human Nature (Michael Jackson cover)

Listen to "Human Nature" : https://lnk.to/HumanNature_IRMA https://lnk.to/LiveFromParis Irma's full discography and latest release & tour news : https://linktr.ee/irmasongs1 Human Nature written by Steve Porcaro & John Bettis Video by Inès Pany

Irma Facebook page (reels)

Annie Lennox- Why (live on TOTP x 2 1992) + official vid

 So . . . which. . . . . . TOTP LIVE TWICE!

Annie Lennox - Why (Live from Top of the Pops, 1992)

Annie Lennox - Why (live vocal) - Top Of The Pops - 19/03/1992

BOTH!

Why... Why... How many times do I have to try to tell you That I'm sorry for the things I've done, ooh, yeah But when I start to try to tell you That's when you have to tell me Hey... this kind of trouble's only just begun, yeah I told myself too many times Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut That's why it hurts so bad to hear the words That keep on falling from your mouth Falling from your mouth Falling from your mouth Tell me Why... Why… I may be mad I may be blind I may be viciously unkind But I can still read what you're thinking And I've heard it said too many times That you'd be better off

Besides... Why can't you see this boat is sinking (This boat is sinking, this boat is sinking, this boat is sinking) Let's go down to the water's edge And we can cast away those doubts Some things are better left unsaid But they still turn me inside out Turning inside out, turning inside out Tell me Why... Tell me Why...

This is the book I never read These are the words I never said This is the path I'll never tread These are the dreams I'll dream instead This is the joy that's seldom spread These are the tears... The tears we shed This is the fear This is the dread These are the contents of my head And these are the years that we have spent And this is what they represent And this is how I feel Do you know how I feel? 'Cause I don't think you know how I feel I don't think you know what I feel I don't think you know what I feel You don't know what I feel

The Official Video Annie Lennox - ‘WHY?’