Richard Thompson - Boxed Set, Cowcaddens, Glasgow, Britain, 8-16-1999 | Albums That Should Exist

Richard Thompson - Boxed Set, Cowcaddens, Glasgow, Britain, 8-16-1999

Paul notes: Here's a very nice Richard Thompson concert. It's from 1999, just after he released what I consider one of his best solo albums, "Mock Tudor," earlier that year.

I have to admit, I had planned to post this as the next album in my long series of Thompson's BBC albums. Most versions of this label it as a BBC concert. But right before posting, I did a little more digging and discovered this concert was done for a British TV show, but not a BBC one. "Boxed Set" was a short-lived music show around 1999 and 2000, done for Scottish Television (STV) in association with ITV. But, BBC or not, it's a worthy concert and one of his most high-profile TV appearances, so I'm posting it here.

I didn't have to do much audio editing. There was a short interview section with Thompson in the middle of the show that I got rid of, since it wasn't actually from the concert. Also, some of the cheering at the ends of songs got cut off as the TV show quickly went to commercial breaks and things like that. So, in those cases, I copied and pasted in some cheering from the ends of other songs. But that was about it.

Note that he was joined by his son Teddy Thompson to help sing the song "Persuasion." Teddy has had a successful music career of his own. *

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

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 talk 
02 Cooksferry Queen 
03 Bathsheba Smiles 
04 talk
05 Uninhabited Man 
06 Persuasion (Richard Thompson with Teddy Thompson)
07 Two Faced Love 
08 Al Bowlly's in Heaven 
09 I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 
10 The Sights and Sounds of London Town 
11 Tear-Stained Letter 

(all tracks Richard Thompson except where noted)

+ BUMP Now we’re talking and that is my weekend made up now! Can’t beat a Richard Thompson set of this quality (with guest of his son Teddy) especially after the post from Floppy Boot Stomp last of Richard in Denmark which I bump the link here (if you haven’t got it and are a fan it is frankly peerless quality and you really need it Richard Thompson live in Denmark 2000 here Floppy Boot Stomp

Van Morrison - Almost Independence Day [St Dominic’s Preview] | jt1674

 . . . from an all time favourite album . . I think I always placed this second to Astral Weeks for reasons best know by someone else but I LOVE this album (it rotes but I came back around to it time after time . . . . oh Redwood Tree!)

https://jt1674.tumblr.com/post/814228787182157824/van-morrison-almost-independence-day

Lowell George - I Can’t Stand The Rain [Thanks I’ll Eat It Here] | jt1674

 one for all my loyal fellow Lowell George fans on here. . . . . . . wot? I like it!

https://jt1674.tumblr.com/post/814156718921662464/lowell-george-i-cant-stand-the-rain

John Martyn - You Can Discover [Sunday’s Child] | jt1674

 

https://jt1674.tumblr.com/post/814171096601526272/john-martyn-you-can-discover

Florence and the Machine’s Green Day covers album | Will Howard - DANGEROUS MINDS

Florence and the Machine’s Green Day covers album

Will Howard

Fri 17 April 2026 12:00, UK Florence Welch is a little much. This is said with all the love in the world to her, it’s what makes her one of the best pop stars that the UK has given the world in the 21st century. 

She is invariably, unquestionably herself in every situation she finds herself in. It’s little wonder that she got her management deal by cornering the manager she wanted in a nightclub bathroom and singing at her without even really introducing herself. I can absolutely believe that the front woman of Florence and the Machine would have done that, whatever she sounded like, even if she didn’t have the God-given pipes she’s blessed us with for the past two decades.

The key to her star power has been that mix of genuine kookiness and utter unmistakability that makes throwaway projects like this so wonderful and unforgettable. In 2007, Welch was a year into her work as Florence and the Machine and was already getting noticed for her artistry and startling singing voice. One of the people who took notice was Dev Hynes, freshly shorn from Test Icicles and about to take on the world in his first solo project, the alt-country outfit Lightspeed Champion.

Welch and Hynes worked together a lot in that year, guesting at each other’s gigs and writing together. However, what wouldn’t come out until three years later was the fact that they’d formed a band together. Sort of. Under the name Team Perfect, Hynes and Welch had recorded a few songs together in the bare bones of fashion. Hynes thrashing away at a (slightly) out-of-tune acoustic guitar and Welch singing into Hynes’ laptop. It was clearly a lark, however, and you can see this from their choice of material.

These were not originals, they were covers. Specifically, Green Day covers. Even more specifically, from their 1997 album Nimrod.

How does this Green Day covers album suit Florence Welch?

This might sound strange on the surface as none of the music that Welch and Hynes have ever made have all that much to do with the Bay Area pop punk kings, but once you look a little deeper, it makes perfect sense. Both of them grew up as rock kids, Hynes in particular citing the Smashing Pumpkins 2000 “farewell” gig at Wembley Arena as the thing that made him want to become a musician. Nimrod was released when they would have been around 11 and 12, and thus, the absolute target audience for that album.

One can hear their passion for it in the sheer, slightly stoned glee with which they attack the songs. These are songs they’d grown up with for a decade before Florence was howling them out into Dev’s laptop, and the love they have for them is plainly audible. Even in all of Dev’s guitar fluffs and Flo’s occasional deviations from the key. Yet that’s just it. This is still built around the voice of Florence Welch, and no matter how much of a throwaway curio this is, one that should probably have stayed in their personal collection, her sheer star power is still evident.

Her slurring through ‘Hitchin’ A Ride’ and ‘Nice Guys Finish Last’ is genuinely like stumbling on a Caravaggio’s toilet door graffiti. The person themselves probably wouldn’t want to be associated with it, but to everyone else, it’s an absolute hidden gem. One worth seeking out, even simply for the sheer novelty of it all. Two people whose musical genius was becoming deeply apparent, throwing together a few Green Day songs for the fuck of it.

Our heroes really are a lot more like us than we think.

Florence & The Machine and Dev Hynes Perform Green Day's "Hitchin' A Ride”

Everyone loves Green Day, right? We think so. Anyway, here's Dev Hynes (Blood Orange, Lightspeed Champion) joins Florence & The Machine covering Green Day's "Hitchin' A Ride" at Coachella in King's Highway at Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, CA.

Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will x 2

 Somebody posted a version of this complete with clicks na dear the needle drop on the record so here’s a cleaner version . . .  . plus a live in London favourite

Leonard Cohen If It Be Your Will (Various Positions 1984)

Leonard Cohen If It Be Your Will (Live in London) 2008

Big Joe Turner - Blues In The Night [Rockin’ The Blues] | Herberg De Kelder

 Blues In the Night

Big Joe Turner
Rockin’ the Blues

HERBERG DE KELDER

Acoustic Blues Vol. 1-4 The Roots Of It All [2013-2014] |

 VA - Acoustic Blues Vol. 1-4 The Roots Of It All (The Definitive Collection!) [2013-2014] (8 x CDs)

ACOUSTIC BLUES

"Four double discs can look like excess on the shelf, but this set settles into something quieter once it begins. 

Bear Family Records issued these volumes across 2013 and 2014, each one carrying its own booklet, 

yet the intention only becomes clear when they are heard together. 

Eight discs, nearly a century of recordings, arranged with patience rather than urgency.

It does not open with a statement. The earliest sides arrive plainly, voices and guitars set down 

with little separation between performer and room. Blind Lemon Jefferson, Papa Charlie Jackson, 

Lonnie Johnson appear without framing, each track carrying its own weight. The sound is direct, 

sometimes fragile, sometimes steady, but always close.

What changes is not the style but the surroundings. Moving through the first volumes, the recordings 

begin to widen. Small additions appear, a second guitar, a fiddle, a bass line that holds the rhythm a little tighter. 

By the time Robert Johnson enters the sequence, the language is already established, 

his recordings sit inside it rather than standing apart.

The later volumes shift the perspective again. Instead of ending the story in the 1930s, 

the set continues forward, showing how that same acoustic approach survives in later decades. 

Performers such as Taj Mahal and Etta Baker appear with clearer recording quality, 

but the structure remains familiar, voice, guitar, and space.

Across all four volumes, the sequencing works by accumulation. 

The shifts are gradual, almost unmarked, one performance leading to the next without needing explanation. 

Early field recordings, studio sides, revival era sessions, they sit together as part of the same line.

Taken as a whole, the set feels less like a history lesson and more like a long continuity of sound. 

Leave it playing long enough and the decades begin to blur, the differences still there, 

but held together by a shared approach that never really disappears." (Butterboy)

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Name that Film . . . . .clue its Anya Taylor Joy! (obvs)

[no Google, no reverse engineering!]

a personal favourite Anya is little short of mesmerising . . . .in pretty much everything!

 

Art of The Week: Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981)

   Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation.

Does anyone else recall the wonderful childhood animations of Lotte Reiniger? I grew up with these and was always mesmerised and got thoroughly absorbed by the stories

Papageno (1935) Directed by: Lotte Reiniger