I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Tuesday, September 01, 2026

NAT MYERS - Young Mind Old Soul [SINGLE OF THE WEEK MONTH? SEPT)

 A heart wrenching message from our Nat (Myers that its) and letting us know some days just be like . . . . . . .well this . . . but he just keeps right on singin’!


I asked Nat if it was okay to post this and responded to his recent post on Flickennabok and he said 'you bin with me from the early days' and 'you don’t need too ask'
in reponse to my hearfelt response to yesterdays missive he called me “brother!”
So proud and it nearly brough a tear to my eye

Soldier on lil Brother Nat

Nat posted "One of those days you wake up tired like you stepping on a trapdoor in the floor of your bones. A loneliness aches in you like an old companion that won’t stop knocking on your door. You break your own heart, frustrated at your circumstances, envisioning the light and life you wanted vs the dark inertias you currently wade. But every day you get stronger, even with death sitting like a wolf in the shade of your heart, even when your eyes have difficulty making sense of the shadows that dog your path. Don’t be like me, sinking into yourself, wading in your woebegone-ness, feeling like you witnessing life go on without me. I know it well. Watching love move on from this minefield kind of living. I make mine my enemies, and deny the better parts of us. Is it any better to recognize it, if the agony sustains?
Today I woke up with a punch in my gut. I get asked all the time what the end goal of this is for me. Music, cancer—hell I ain’t too sure. I know my hearse will cut a lonesome figure headed to my grave. I know there’s work left to do. I know there is music and living left to know. Even with the pain, these days and struggles that nearly drive me to my early death—I survive em, and try to transfigure this heartbreak into something more than just its passing pain—as for me I'm glad & hopeful you will never know what im going thru, or talkin about. but i promise yal, despite these things, im still sitting on top of the world. #folkblues #deltablues #sittingontopoftheworld


Baby Face Leroy Trio - Rollin' And Tumblin' - thanks to Gary Lucas

Baby Face Leroy Trio - Rollin' And Tumblin' - unissued COMPLETE performance

Unissued complete performance of the legendary 1950 Parkway recording "Rollin' And Tumblin;" by the Baby Face Leroy Trio - Leroy Foster (vocals/drums), Little Walter Jacobs (harmonica/vocals) and Muddy Waters (guitar/vocals).   Only recently discovered, this recording - with 2 other unissued Parkway recordings - is available on limited edition 45rpm singles from www.louisrecords.com.    Note: this is a low-fi mp3 - the 45 sounds much better

from Gary (LUCAS that is!)

dedicated to Nat Myers who was feeling blue . . . .hardly a surprise with his constant sterling battle aginst cancer who posted the struggle with his health lays him low some days . . . we know that one don’t we?



The Doors "Been Down So Long (Alternate Version) [LA Woman]

 Some blues (For Nat Myers . . 

The Doors "Been Down So Long (Alternate Version)

By this time Paul Rothschild had walked off listening to what he said was a "lounge band"! and with engineer Bruce (Botnick) hey came up with this best sealing album of ALL TIME!
This is an alternate version of "Been Down So Long", taken from The Doors' L.A. Woman (40th Anniversary Edition). The musicians on the track are: Jim Morrison - vocals Robby Krieger - guitar Ray Manzarek - rhythm guitar John Densmore - drums Jerry Scheff - bass Marc Benno - rhythm guitar Produced by The Doors and Bruce Botnick

No Depression and Nanci Griffith's controversial shift in style . . . . . . .

 


For Tim (Curry) - In Memoriam! The Time Warp/ Sweet Transvestite!

 THE TIME WARP

The Rocky Horror Picture Show "Time Warp" (1975) 
although he isn’t even in the Time warp . . . too busy digging’ himself UP!?


The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - Sweet Transvestite Scene 

Bill Browning & His Echo Valley Boys - Dark Hollow (1958)

  . . . .random!


Bill Browning & His Echo Valley Boys - Dark Hollow (1958)
(n.b. released in Cleveland Ohio!)

Original version of the tune that was famously covered by the Grateful Dead on their live LP "Reckoning"
A-side "Borned with the Blues" -    • Bill Browning & His Echo Valley Boys - Bor...  
Songwriter: Bill Browning

The Pioneers - 'Long Shot Kick De Bucket'

An early classic (1969) so ubiquitous at the time we tend not to play it anymore so indelible is cast in the psyche of the Dance Hall . . .so that’s reason enough! 

The Pioneers 'Long Shot Kick De Bucket

Trojan says: Classic boss sounds from 1969, performed by leading Jamaican trio, the Pioneers.

Relating the sudden and dramatic demise of noted racehorse Long Shot at a race held at Kingston's famed Caymanas Park, 'Long Shot Kick The Bucket' became one of Trojan Records' earliest UK chart hits, with the record peaking at No.21 in the Official UK Singles Chart.

The track was since become a skinhead anthem, its enduring popularity due in part to a cover version by the Specials that featured on the UK ska band's chart-topping live EP entitled Too Much Too Young, which also featured their interpretations of 'Liquidator' and 'Skinhead  Moonstomp'.

played at EVERY house party I ever went in the late sixties and seventies come to that!

Other birthdays this week . . . . . . Van Morrison 81

 May be an image of text that says "Happy 81st birthday to Van Morrison"

With John Lee
Don’t Look Back

Monday, August 31, 2026

Ger O’Donnell - My Bonnie Bell

so again might sign off the day with this beauty from Ger and oor Rabbie Burns!


My Bonnie Bell - Here's a new old song.. Words were written in 1791 by Robert Burns, and the music was written 20 mins ago. It was about time I wrote a tune for it. Interestingly at the time Burns was unable to hold a pen easily, the manuscript for My Bonie Bell was transcribed by an amanuensis (assistant) before being submitted to his publisher."

More from the Earthquake appeal of 1989 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST [11 CDs] : Bonnie Raitt, Grateful Dead, Etta James, Taj Mahal, etc

Another set of ROIOs from Paul at ATSE remembering the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California.

and the Dead one is the last of these Paul tells us but what an achievement and good quality too

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 9 - Bonnie Raitt

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 12-6-1989 - The Grateful Dead




 

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 10 - John Fogerty



Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 8 - Etta James









with Michel Bastian (vocals)








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