I bought this beauty and somehow forgot that it was digital and I had been waiting for my postman to deliver the CD!?! 🙄🎄💜💝
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Wilco - Austin City Limits, Texas 2013 | Floppy Boot Stomp
Wilco - Austin City Limits, Texas 2013
A SILENT WAY SPECIAL
Wilco - Austin City Limits
Austin, TX.
October 12, 2013
Broadcast Source Rip @128
Austin, TX.
October 12, 2013
Broadcast Source Rip @128
As SW says: Rescued from our old home...NargoTheBorts Deviant Subculture
Set List:
01 Misunderstood
02 Give Back The Key To My Heart
03 Forget The Flowers
04 California Stars
05 I Am Trying To Break Your Hearts
06 Art of Almost
07 Hummingbird
08 Dawned on Me
09 Via Chicago
10 Impossible Germany
11 Heavy Metal Drummer
12 I’m The Man Who Loves You
13 A Shot In The Arm
Wilco - Get Lucky (Daft Punk Cover) · Solid Sound Festival ·
North Adams, MA June 21, 2013
Back to business? . . . . . normal service is resumed? Well we’ll see about THAT?!
Meanwhile . . . . back at base HQ is calling
TWO RORY GALLAGHER sets: Rory - Don Kirshner`s Rock Concert, Aquarius Theatre 1975 / Rory - Barry Richards Rock Show at WDCA-TV, Baltimore, MA 1973
again from the dread Flackennabokk! . . . . . . . can’t remember whose but here ’tis from YouTube
Rory - 1975-11-00 Don Kirshner`s Rock Concert, Aquarius Theatre
and again someone posted this Spanish TV clip of Rory doing ‘Hands Off’ from this set so here it is with two more tracks to boot (sic!) from Baltimore USA
Rory Gallagher - 1973-05-25 Barry Richards Rock Show at WDCA-TV, Baltimore, MA
Hands Off04:39 Walk On Hot Coals11:50 Bullfrog Blues
Norah Jones- Heart of Mine (Bob Dylan cover)
Norah Jones- Heart of Mine (Bob Dylan cover)
again someone posted this on line at Facebook and what a version it is!?
I know not everyone who visits likes or enjoys Bob Dylan and I do get it but heck you have to admit his songwriting is up there with the very best of them . . . . I love this song and it comes to full appreciation here from the wonderment that is Norah Jones
Bob Dylan - Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart (Infidels Outtake)
Bob Dylan - Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart (Infidels Outtake)
. . . .and for those of you still sceptical over our Bobby, this is the calibre of song discarded from album selection and again another staggering piece of work lyrically if not always to everyone’s taste o in music or singing style!
Friday, December 26, 2025
Singing The Dolphin Through - Mike Heron (Echo Coming Back)
Closing the day with some more Mike Heron . . . . . .
Also found on Echo Coming Back - The Best of Mike Heron if you can find any of them . . . . . . ?!!!!
Not exactly a Christmas song but echoes of Winter and colder climes this mystical eerie winter song will see us into the next days before the year ends . . Singing The Dolphin Through (Still Waters)
Farewell Plymouth, your morning cold and grey
Is painting shadows on my thoughts
And we're bound for Norway
Singing the dolphin through
Singing the dolphin through
Singing the dolphin through still waters
Joseph, I know you're trusting me to see you right
And I know you can't stand the fighting
Yes I know you can't stand the fighting
For one more, one more night
Joseph, the mud gives way to coral somewhere
And the hours of light they last and last
We'll see no hostile flag there from craft unknown
We will have grown free from sighing
Singing the dolphin through
Singing the dolphin throughSinging the dolphin through still waters
Vocals - Mike HeronAcoustic Guitar – Ulf RonquistBacking Vocals – Krysia Kocjan, Linda ThompsonBass – Amin Mohammed*Harmonium – Ron Leahy*Marimba, Drums – John GilstonWritten By – Mike Heron [not Manfred Mann - who coincidentally get the lyrics wrong!)
Lá Fhéile Stiofán or Lá an Dreoilín [St Stephen’s Day] WREN’S DAY
I was going to write something today about why it’s called Boxing Day but you all know that one . . . what many MAY not know is it is also known as Day of The Wren and essentially we don’t know why or what the poor and so dainty, most ubiquitous of birds, the lovely little British ‘Jenny' Wren has down to deserve to be hunted is beyond most decent and civilised thought (how in the hell do you ‘hunt’ a wren!?)
Wren - drawing by A.Swapp 21 June 2012
Today, St. Stephen's Day or in Irish, Lá Fhéile Stiofán or Lá an Dreoilín, the latter translates as the Day of the Wren or Wren's Day. The origins of the festival are lost in the mists of time, but tradition dictates that people carry either an effigy of a wren or an actual caged wren (live or dead) and travel from house to house playing music, singing and dancing. Depending on the region of the country, they are called Wrenboys and Mummers. A Mummer's Festival is held at this time every year in the village of New Inn, County Galway and Dingle in County Kerry.
Present day Wren boys in Dingle, Co, Kerry
Traditionally the frivolity starts with this ditty or variations thereof...
The wren, the wren, the king of all birds,
Saint Stephen's day he got caught in the furze,
Although he is little, his family is great,
Cheer up, landlady an' give us a treat,
Up with the kettle and down with the pan,
Give us some money to bury the wren!
The tradition of hunting the wren is an ancient one and while its exact origins are unclear, the words of the above ditty encapsulate the story. According to an old legend, all avian creatures assembled to elect a king. It was agreed that the one who could fly the highest would be the winner.
Young Wren boys with a flute and two Bodharáns - traditional frame drums
(The bat was the only creature which did not partake and ever since to hide his shame only comes out at night!) The eagle, being the strongest, soared above the rest and was confident of victory. However, the wily wren had hitched a ride under the eagle's feathers and when the eagle tired and could go no higher the wren emerged and went on to victory!
Because of the nature of his victory the wren has always been held in some odium by his fellow birds and humans. He stands accused of betraying Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr, and ever since has been hunted on Saint Stephen's day.
In olden times a wren would be hunted, killed and paraded by the wren boys attached to a pole but for centuries an effigy has been used.
The Wren boys at Cork Hall, 1843 by D. Maclise
A little flavour of the day and the craic from 1979.
The Wren Boys of Dublin, Ireland 1998
Drumming Wren boys
Steve Earle - Christmas in Washington (1997) | Guess I’m Dumb
Steve Earle - Christmas in Washington (1997)
Things do seem pretty hopeless these days. Steve Earle might remind you that things have been demoralizing many other times. Great song.
Come back Woody Guthrie to us now
Mood for a Boxing day and hope for all in Washington and Amerikay in general!
I do SO Hope 2026 brings y’all peace on earth and more common sense to prevail over your trials and tribulation . . . . . Come back Woody Guthrie , indeed
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