One for Brother Jobe . . brother from another mother . . . comes this from Joe at the London Palladium 2019 . . . he’s a big fan you know!
RICK BUCKLER R.I.P.Rick Buckler, born on December 6, 1955, in Woking, Surrey, England, was best known as the drummer for the iconic rock band The Jam. Formed in 1972, The Jam quickly rose to fame with their mod revival sound, and Buckler's energetic drumming was a key element of their success. The band released five albums and 17 singles, including four UK number-one hits like "Town Called Malice" and "Going Underground."Despite the band's breakup in 1982, Buckler continued to be involved in music, forming new bands like Time UK and The Gift, which played The Jam's back catalogue. He also ventured into furniture design and restoration, and authored a biography titled "That's Entertainment: My Life In The Jam" in 2015.Rick Buckler passed away on February 17, 2025, at the age of 69, leaving behind a legacy of influential music and a lasting impact on the rock and punk genres. (B)https://mol.im/a/14410577Direction Reaction Creation is the ultimate Jam package, offering 117 tracks over five discs -- essentially the band's complete studio recordings. With a strict adherence to chronological order, the box presents each single followed by its B-side(s) (six of which appear on CD for the first time, including the brilliant "See Saw"), followed by the proper album tracks -- oddly, though, the album versions of the singles are chosen in most places. Unfortunately, this approach sometimes disrupts the flow of the albums, especially in the case of All Mod Cons, which loses three tracks to the treatment, and Setting Sons, which loses "Eton Rifles" to a separate disc. This is a small point for purists to debate -- the difference is really unnoticeable in light of the truly great music found on the discs. In addition to the regular studio tracks, disc five offers over an hour of studio demos -- 22 previously unreleased tracks of considerably different takes of better-known material, a few never-before-heard Weller and Foxton originals, and some interesting covers like "Rain," "Dead End Street," and "Every Little Bit Hurts." A lavish 88-page booklet accompanies the set with great liner notes, an extensive band chronology and discography, and the band's complete gig list, along with plenty of rare photos and memorabilia. The Jam, simply put, were one the finest bands in rock & roll history, and Direction Reaction Creation offers the proof, showing both their remarkably rapid growth and their incredible consistency. (AllMusic review by Chris Woodstra)Also Included in this post are the following albums:These have been thoughtfully shared by K.
01 The Jam - 1977 (40th Anniversary) (4CD) (2017)02 The Jam - All Mod Cons (2006, Deluxe Edition) (1978)03 The Jam - Setting Sons (2014, 35th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) (3CD) (1979)04 The Jam - Sound Affects (2010, 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2CD) (1980)05 The Jam - The Gift (2012, 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2CD) (1982)06 The Jam - Dig the New Breed (1982)07 The Jam - Snap! (2006 Deluxe Edition) (3CD) (1983)08 The Jam - Extras (1992)09 The Jam - Live Jam (1993)10 The Jam - At the BBC (3CD) (2002)11 The Jam - The Sound of The Jam (2CD) (2004)12 The Jam - That's Entertainment - The Collection (2012)13 The Jam - About the Young Idea - The Very Best of The Jam (2CD) (2015)14 The Jam - About the Young Idea - Sky Arts (2015) Video
Shoes - Turnaround (1984)
Shoes are a power pop group from Illinois who have never quite gotten the attention they’ve deserved. On this very appealing tune, they sound more than a little like Squeeze, which is not a bad thing.
Tinariwen (Tamasheq language: Meaning "desert") is a collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of southern Algeria and of northern Mali, in the region of Azawad. Tinariwen are a critically acclaimed Saharan Tuareg group who perform a guitar-centric branch of Malian music known as "Tishoumaren," a percussive, rock-oriented desert blues that often addresses social and political issues. Emerging out of the refugee and rebel camps of Algeria and Libya, the collective built a regional audience throughout the 1980s and returned to Mali in the '90s; they eventually earned global recognition with their first internationally released album, 2001's The Radio Tisdas Sessions. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . Tinariwen style is possibly a distant relative of blues music, via West African music, members of Tinariwen claim to have never heard actual American blues music until they began to travel internationally in the early 2000s. Tinariwen was also influenced by American and British rock acts whose bootlegged albums had made it to the Sahara region, such as Dire Straits, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix. Their most recent album Amatssou was released in 2023.
Guitar World: What have you learned after so many years of studying the blues greats?Jimmie Vaughan: When it’s time to solo, they hit it hard. They come out of the chute and play something so great that they could stop after a few notes and it would be the coolest thing you’ve ever heard. And they got that from the sax players I love, like Gene Ammons. The whole Texas single-note guitar school, starting with T-Bone Walker and Gatemouth Brown, which I am part of, was inspired by sax lines and the way that amplifiers first allowed guitars to come out of the rhythm section.Jimmie Vaughan:The best way I can think about it is, it’s like talking; you want to hear someone tell a really good story in his own voice. You can’t figure it out like a math problem, because you have to call on your feelings. It’s really hard to talk about an approach to soloing in a way that makes sense. It’s not like I intellectualize it. I’ve talked it about more right now than I have consciously thought about it in the last three or four years. Because for me it’s very physical and emotional.
