Dylan of The Day : My Back Pages

 Ignoring the quality of the video check these live versions out . . . . . but BEST?

BOB DYLAN - MY BACK PAGES (SPECTACULAR)

Bob Dylan "My Back Pages" LIVE 23 Oct 1998 Minneapolis

Both promoted as the BEST versions!?

My Choice?

Alrighty then

My Back Pages - 

Bob Dylan The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration

1992

Bob Dylan- My Back Pages

Courtesy Of Woolhall

Bob Dylan -vocal, guitar, & harmonica

John Jackson - guitar

Bucky Baxter - pedal steel guitar

Brendan O’Brien - keyboards

Tony Garnier - bass

Winston Watson - drums & percussion

or dare I?

Bob Dylan - My Back Pages (Official Audio)

Crimson flames tied through my ears, 

rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads 

using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon, " said I, 

proud 'neath heated brow

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth, 

"rip down all hate, " I screamed Lies that life is black and white 

spoke from my skull, I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers

foundationed deep, somehow

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now Girls' faces formed the forward path 

from phony jealousy To memorizing politics 

of ancient history Flung down by corpse evangelists, 

unthought of, though somehow

Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now

A self-ordained professor's tongue 

too serious to fool Spouted out that liberty

is just equality in school "Equality, " I spoke the word

as if a wedding vow

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand 

at the mongrel dogs who teach Fearing not that I'd become my enemy

in the instant that I preach My existence led by confusion boats, 

mutiny from stern to bow

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now Yes, my guard stood hard when 

abstract threats too noble to neglect Deceived me into thinking 

I had something to protect Good and bad, I define these terms 

quite clear, no doubt, somehow

Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now

Ear worms and Oner Hit Wonders: Jive Bunny and The Mastermixers : Swing The Mood

 Some heartless BASTARD played this to me earlier on!

(original video)

Swing The Mood was released in June 1989, becoming the first UK number one for Jive Bunny spending 5 weeks there and topping the charts around the world.

so now it’s YOURS!

YOU'RE WELCOME!

Soul Asylum: Twiddly Dee | HERBERG DE KELDER

 

Twiddly Dee

HERBERG DE KELDER

stuft:

Soul Asylum–Twiddly Dee

"how many songs do you know that employ the use of a Jew’s harp? are we allowed to call them Jew’s harps still? Mouth twangers? I don’t know."

stuft that’ll be a jaw harp or more recently, you know since about the sixties,(sic!)

  a Mouth Harp!! 

Bukka White - Pretty Baby Blues | HERBERG DE KELDER

 

Pretty Baby Blues

Play that slide Bukka

HERBERG DE KELDER

BUTTERBOY BEST OF| NINA SIMONE - Complete 1957-62 Singles [2020] & last years NINA SIMONE Let It All Out, Selected Singles 1961-1978 [2025]

Nina Simone - Complete 1957-62 Singles [2020] + Let It All Out, Selected Singles 1961-1978 [2025] (4 x CDs)

NINA SIMONE SINGLES

Nina Simone - Complete 1957-62 Singles [2020] + Let It All Out, Selected Singles 1961-1978 [2025] (4 x CDs)

Nina Simone’s story is often told through albums, but her singles reveal something different, a musician shaping her identity one recording at a time, responding to the world with clarity, courage and emotional truth. These two collections, the early Complete 1957–62 Singles and the expansive Let It All Out set, trace her evolution from a young pianist‑singer finding her voice to a fully formed artist whose work carried political weight, cultural pride and deep personal resonance.

The first set captures Simone before fame hardened into expectation. The singles from Bethlehem, Colpix and early Philips sessions show her balancing jazz phrasing, classical discipline and a quiet intensity that made even small songs feel significant. I Loves You, Porgy, He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, Will I Find My Love Today, each track carries a sense of discovery. Her piano lines are crisp, her vocals poised, and the arrangements leave space for her to shape mood with subtle shifts in tone. These recordings feel close, almost intimate, as if she is still deciding how much of herself to reveal.

The second collection widens the frame. By the early sixties Simone had become a force, and the singles from 1961 to 1978 show her pushing outward, emotionally, politically, musically. Mississippi Goddam, To Be Young, Gifted and Black, Backlash Blues, Four Women, songs that confront injustice with precision and fire. Alongside them sit ballads, folk interpretations, soul‑leaning arrangements and late‑period tracks shaped by exile and reflection. Her voice grows darker, richer, more deliberate. The piano becomes a weapon, the phrasing sharper, the emotional stakes higher. These singles document an artist who refused to soften her truth for commercial comfort. (Butterboy)

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This also worth checking and I think I have said before but once Nina covered any Bee Gee songs the UK Mods adopted her as one of their own oddly perhaps but they were de rigeur to be seen at Mod House Parties with a Nina Simone album under your arm! I kid you not!

Nina Simone - To Love Somebody (Bee Gees)

“ I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why.” Nina Simone

VA - Digging Your Scene, New Pop And All That Jazz 1982-1987 (4 x CDs) | Butterboy

 Digging Your Scene, New Pop And All That Jazz 1982-1987 

JAZZ POP

"Digging Your Scene captures a moment when British pop stepped away from post‑punk austerity and embraced sophistication, rhythm and emotional colour. Between 1982 and 1987, a new kind of pop emerged — stylish, literate, jazz‑inflected, and shaped by musicians who wanted melody without blandness, groove without formula, and elegance without losing edge. This compilation gathers that world in motion, revealing how diverse the movement truly was.

The set opens in smoky, late‑night territory: Everything But The Girl, Robert Wyatt, Scritti Politti, Joe Jackson, Blue Rondo À La Turk. These tracks blend jazz phrasing with pop clarity, creating music that feels both urbane and intimate. Furniture, Weekend, Carmel and Mari Wilson add theatrical flair, turning everyday stories into small dramas carried by brass, brushed drums and cool‑blue harmonies.

As the mood widens, the compilation shows how New Pop absorbed influences from Latin rhythm, soul, art‑rock and dance culture. Working Week, The Special AKA, Malcolm McLaren and Jah Wobble bring global textures; David Sylvian, China Crisis and Virna Lindt add atmospheric depth; Alison Moyet and Fine Young Cannibals push toward emotional intensity. The sound becomes a blend of groove, intelligence and experimentation, pop that moves with confidence but thinks deeply.

Later selections highlight the era’s polished charm. Swing Out Sister, Heaven 17, ABC, Basia, The James Taylor Quartet and Mondo Kané deliver bright arrangements shaped by horns, synths and crisp rhythm sections. These tracks show how New Pop evolved into a mature, radio‑friendly style without losing its sense of craft.

What makes Digging Your Scene compelling is its sweep. It doesn’t treat New Pop as a narrow genre; it reveals a cultural moment when British musicians embraced sophistication and curiosity, creating songs that felt modern, stylish and emotionally resonant. For collectors, it’s a beautifully curated map of an era often overshadowed by louder movements. For listeners, it’s a reminder that the early‑to‑mid eighties produced some of the most inventive, elegant pop of its time, music built for night streets, quiet rooms and the thrill of discovery." (Butterboy)

This looks great fun and allowing my comments about Matt Bianco being left out earlier in a survey of the Eighties Matt and the band (incl. singer Basia) and everyone from The Higson’s to Soft Cell to the Communards and The Style Council feature here amongst an eclectic range of bands see track list by hitting the header title

Daniel Kachamba - ‘Putugizi guitar’ | Posted by Gary Lucas (Facebook page)

 Gary Lucas also posted this piece by Daniel Kachamba

"Another gem from Daniel Kachamba: a demonstration of the technique he called “Putugizi” featuring a right hand circular motion while the thumb and index strike the strings in a rumba rhythm. What Daniel called “high lumba” due to the speed of the music. The style may have originated in Mozambique. (“Putugizi” referring to “Portuguese”).

Recorded in 1972 at a film institute in Göttingen, Germany in collaboration with ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik / University of Vienna.”Gary Lucas

Birthdays: Tracey Thorn

 Happy birthday to Tracey Thorn, born in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire on this day in 1962. 

She misses you like the desert misses the rain.

Route

Massive Attack - Protection feat. Tracey Thorn

Liszt - METANOIA ( Yulianna Avdeeva)

So the algorithm at F/B also threw this at me maybe as I was trained by several Metanoia graduates the school of Psychotherapy from my head of Personal at BHBlackwell (H.R. these days) to Petruska Clarkson who I studied 

but here’s Liszt and this version by Yulianna Avdeeva

of course it could just be the search for piano pieces but I wanted to promote Jungian synchronicity!

her introduction to Metanoia here 

Yulianna Avdeeva - Topic Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178: I. Lento assai - Allegro energico

Lonesome Andy & his One Man Band : Tricks Aint Walking No More [Curly Weaver]+ Original Curley Weaver and NAT MYERS

So obviously (duh?) the algorithm threw this at me . . . . . .  

and of course we had to follow up COMPLETE on YouTube huh?

Tricks Aint Walking No More I Curly Weaver I Lonesome Andy & his One Man Band

so . . . . it behooves!

Curley Weaver

and I heard from our Nat [Myers y’all] so it behooves me doubly y’all

Nat Myers - Tricks Ain't Walking No More - Curley Weaver (2001)