Lonesome Andy & his One Man Band : Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor

 Lonesome Andy & his One Man Band

Andy tells us: "Here's "Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor", an old traditional song. My version is most influenced by Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966)"

Macca-Ja-Wacca! | SPEEDY updates his Paul McCartney links

 Paul McCartney Live - 1980s & 1990s - Re-Post Folder

In our continuing series of folders containing re-posts of live shows previously shared on this blog, today, we bring you a folder of Paul McCartney shows from the 1980s & 1990s.  We've posted way to much of Sir Paul at So Many Roads to bring you everything all at once, so we split it up by decade.  We still owe you the 2000s and 2010s - probably next month!

Grab them while you can as due to space limitations this folder can't stay up forever. That said, please don't hammer the folder as that will set off alarm bells and may get it taken down by Mega. Grab a few shows each day, the come back for more the following day.

Enjoy the tunz!

PS: The re-post folders for the Neville Brothers, Marshall Crenshaw, SNL, America, and the Beach Boys are still up.  Just go here, scroll down to find the re-post folder you're looking for, and a new link will be availbe on that post.  And then go here to discover a host of other prior re-posts and how to find them!

 . . . . . check  it out you know it makes sense! 

Go on have a browse

 

For Speedy

Paul McCartney & Wings - Wild Life (Live from "The Bruce McMouse Show", 1972)

Birthdays: Feargal Sharkey (1958) Michael Bradley (1959) - The UNDERTONES

Happy birthday to (Seán) Feargal Sharkey and Michael Bradley, born in Derry on this day in 1958 and 1959 respectively. 

Are teenage dreams so hard to beat?

Didn’t John Peel say that this was the perfect single EVER!

Feargal now a pioneering activist trying to defend our water sources!

Route

Observatory Crest · Captain Beefheart [Blue Jeans And Moonbeams]

 For everyone who enjoyed yesterday’s Partial Eclipse of the Sun . . .there is this . . . . . . . . you won’t have see it from there but hey, we went up there to watch the city . . . . . . 

The Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Appreciation Society

Observatory Crest · Captain Beefheart Blue Jeans And Moonbeams ℗ 1974 Virgin Records Limited Released on: 1974-01-01 Bass ( Background Vocalist): Bob West Keyboards, Background Vocalist: Michael Smotherman Keyboards, Jimmy Caravan Background vocals: Ty Grimes Keyboards: Mark Gibbons Vocals, Composer Lyricist: Don Van Vliet Dean Smith Drums: Gene Pello Composer Lyricist: Ingber?

Producer: Andy Di Martino

P.S. yes I know I LIKE Blue Jeans and Moonbeams . . .

it is largely an album of love songs for his beloved wife Jan

Everybody else. . . . well all you ever do is blabber n smoke

Photo of the Day: Mick and Marianne (Happier Days)

Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull on the set of Rock & Roll Circus shortly before her solo performance, “Something Better ” 1968.

Aaaah the Beautiful People!

 

Headington Shark Oxford [

 It is the anniversary of local figure and character radio DJ and entrepreneur American born, Bill Heine’s statement of a shark through his roof (a sculpture by local artist John Buckley) in protest about Hiroshima (go figure) that became something of a landmark locally if not further afield. I met Bill a local radio broadcaster and character about town through MOMA Oxford and he attended many of local photographer Paddy Summerfield's garden parties and we always got on. He started a local cinema too up off the Cowley Road in the heart of Oxford’s multicultural heartland the Penultimate Picture Palace ( and later the Moulin Rouge as well)

Since Bill sadly died in 2019 it has became an Air BnB owned by Bill’s son Magnus so you can stay there if you come!

Other Birthdays this week . . . . .

 

Dylan’s guitarist Charlie Sexton

The Swell Season [source]

 This cropped up after all the tributes to dear Glen Hansard and I always wondered . . .my guess is Marketa found this Czech source and it’s poetry stuck them . . . . .

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Seam Crooked Sam

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Seam Crooked Sam

Don Van Vliet--vocals, words and music 

John French--guitar   John Thomas--keyboard bass

The mule kicked off a new one

and the stockings ran up Seam Crooked Sam

bandana frock stuffed with smoke

and ears out flopped like bowlin’ pins

hog troughs hocked and wallered in cool mud bins

and patent leather hooves

split in twos

rooms for rent down t’ Ben’s

Friends uh danced in a frenzy

choked a juke bird with froth glass ferns

and turpentine earns her sawdust daily keep

and whiskey creeps down her nape naked front

and red leatherette

peen button set where her fanny sweat

raised her wrist-a-fan and a mouse coughed cotton

through a screen door cracked sand

rooms rent only to friends

Hat Rack Hotel

architecture tincture of red agate

pinched the southern belle

and splayed his cracked nail hand

grey fedora–snappy band

and the camel walls yelluh like damp dead chickens

beak down the hard wood floor

and the music–O the music

harp man blew his best lung white shirt

his feet worked like a monkey out the door

and Dora robbed a baby through a dark bebop

licorice lenses fogged in hot sorrow

through the floorboards at the general store

yuh foods still in the hot hand oven

apple pie cooked through a seed bruised stem eye

sticky in the window of Momma Frame Broke

rope bell dingiln'

children I won't call you once more 

 

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Seam Crooked Sam

I think John (French) just posted this on his Flackennabok page

Posters From The Archive

 Check this line up and don’t you just wish you’d been there . . . . .