Birthdays: Susan Tedeschi

 Happy 56th birthday to Susan Tedeschi! 

"I believe my character traits as an artist are my honesty, emotion, and empathetic approach to the audience. The importance or bringing joy and healing through musical intention is very important.

Looking back over her long career, Tedeschi, who started out as a six-year-old, has worked countless musical genres but always comes back to soul and blues. Blues music is always at the heart of everything she does, as she says: ‘Blues music is always there, it just is. It is always soulful, that gospel-blues music is the corner-stone of it all, all the genres.’

Photo by Ron Pownall

Don’s Tunes

 

Tole yoo!

Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings - At Unicef’s 50 Years of Rock and Roll (July 5th 2004) | VOODOO WAGON An XRay Special

 Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings - At Unicef’s 50 Years of Rock and Roll (July 5th 2004)

On 5 July 2004, Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings headlined Unicef’s 50 Years of Rock and Roll at Liverpool’s Kings Dock, delivering a star‑studded celebration of classic rock and roll with proceeds benefiting the United Nations Children’s Fund. Bill Wyman, then 67, led The Rhythm Kings — a blues‑rock band formed after his departure from the Rolling Stones in 1993 — alongside a rotating roster of veteran musicians 

The 2004 show featured:

Georgie Fame (keyboards/vocals)

Andy Fairweather‑Low (guitar)

Roger Chapman (vocals)

Martin Taylor (guitar)

Albert Lee (guitar)

Colin Blunstone (vocals)

Rod Argent (keyboards) 

Other guests included Mike Sanchez, Beverly Skeete, and others

We were talking about Bill’s bands (Rhythm Kings, Willie and The Poorboys etc) only t’other day so this is timely from the XRay!

Not the most staggering line-up but check the playlist

AWESOME!

Ibrahim Ferrer "Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer” 1999 | Twilightzone

 Ibrahim Ferrer "Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer" 1999

Singer from Cuba. Born 1927, died 2005 in Havana...

...He became known internationally through Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club in the late 1990s. Afterwards, although he had already finished his music career earlier, he released a few albums of his own. - discogs

trax:
1 Bruca Maniguá 2 Herido De Sombras 3 Marieta 4 Guateque Campesino 5 Mamí Me Gustó 6 Nuestra Ultima Cita 7 Cienfuegos Tiene Su Guaguancó 8 Silencio 9 Aquellos Ojos Verdes 10 Qué Bueno Baila Usted 11 Como Fue

John says ‘Good Morning, good morninga” (cover of the first penguin paperback)

   

John Lennon dressed up as “Superman”, photographed by Brian Duffy, designed by Alan Aldridge, 1966.

Molly Tuttle - Cold Rain And Snow (Live on eTown)

 This . . . . . algorithms schmalgorithms!?Winding down the day now . . . . 

Molly Tuttle - Cold Rain And Snow (Live on eTown)

Paul Brady -The Lakes Of Pontchartrain x2

again the algorithms threw this one up at me . . . . 

Paul Brady live on TG4

✨Tháinig cuid de na ceoltóirí is fearr sa tír le chéile sa gCeoláras Náisiúnta mí Mheán Fómhair 2025 chun albam d'fhilíocht ó bhéal le Micheál D Ó hUiginn 'Against All Certainty' a sheoladh.*✨

TG4

Paul Brady -The Lakes Of Pontchartrain

Paul Brady Videos

* Some of the country's finest musicians gathered at the National Concert Hall in September 2025 to launch an album of oral poetry by Micheál D Ó hUiginn 'Against All Certainty'

Dolores Keane and Paul Brady - 'Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore’ RTÉ 1988

 

Fond Memories of our Galway Girl Dolores Keane ❤

Dolores Keane is joined by Paul Brady to perform the classic Irish song 'Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore', originally broadcast on RTÉ in 1988.

Lyrics:

From Derry quay we sailed away On the twenty-third of May We were taken on board by a pleasant crew Bound for Amerikay Fresh water then we did take on Five thousand gallons or more In case we'd run short going to New York Far away from the shamrock shore

Then fare thee well, sweet Liza dear And likewise unto Derry town And twice farewell to my comrades brave That dwell on that sainted ground If fame or fortune shall favour me And I to have money in store I'll go back and I'll wed the wee lassie I left On Paddy's green shamrock shore

We sailed three days, we were all seasick Not a man on board was free We were all confined unto our bunks And no-one to pity poor me No father kind nor mother dear To lift up my head, it was sore Which made me think more on the lassie I left On Paddy's green shamrock shore

We safely reached the other side After fifteen and twenty days We were taken as passengers by a man And led round in six different ways Then each of us drank a parting glass In case we'd meet no more And we drank a health to old Ireland And Paddy's green shamrock shore

Then fare thee well, sweet Liza dear And likewise unto Derry town And twice farewell to my comrades brave That dwell on that sainted ground If fame or fortune shall favour me And I to have money in store I'll go back and I'll wed the wee lassie I left On Paddy's green shamrock shore

Brian Eno- Three Variations on the Canon in D by Pachelbel [DISCREET MUSIC] [Obscure Records]

 Long a favourite piece by Brian Eno . . . . . . .from his Obscure label project where my first copy of Gavin Bryars' Sinking of The Titanic came from

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John Fahey - When The Springtime Comes Again [The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick] | jt1674

 

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