Saturday, May 02, 2026

John Prine: Lake Marie, When I Get to Heaven, Paradise | Alan Bershaw

the last songs . . . . .

Another superb choice from

Alan Bershaw

who says: "That big stash of Capitol Theatre shows that recently surfaced didn’t just contain uncirculated footage of jambands and classic rock artists, but most thankfully THIS, which damn near qualifies as a national treasure!
This may even be the last professionally shot concert footage of John Prine ever, captured live at The Capitol Theatre in Portchester, NY on April 12, 2019 - just shy of a year before his death. There’s a bunch of cell phone footage from his final year, but nothing I’ve ever seen that can touch this. John was ailing plenty at that point, but he is so fully engaged in this performance, it’s inspiring to see.
He played for well over two hours, and this is the wonderful tail end of it, with better audio now synchronized. The songs speak for themselves and what songs they are! Nobody addressed the human condition in song better than John.
Lake Marie When I Get to Heaven Paradise
Personnel: John Prine - guitar, lead vocals Courtney Marie Andrews - vocals Fats Kaplan - pedal steel, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, vocals Jason Wilbur - guitar, vocals Dave Jacques - bass, vocals, kazoo Ken Blevins - drums

Except it always raises a tear but heck he could still cut it right til the end

We miss you JP!

Bo Diddley - Put The Shoes On Willie! | HERBERG DE KELDER

Put The Shoes On Willie

Flaco Jimenez - La Feria Polka [Flaco’s Amigos] | HERBERG DE KELDER

La Feria PolkaFlaco JimenezFlaco’s Amigos

Well it is Saturday and we love a Polka hey?

HERBERG DE KELDER

Lightnin' Hopkins - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, USA 24-4-1974 | Albums That Should Exist

Lightnin' Hopkins - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-24-1974

Paul says: The range of musical acts who performed at the Ebbets Field venue, which held about 250 people, was impressive. For instance, I wouldn't have imagined a recording like this from Lightnin' Hopkins in 1974. But here it is.

I tend to think of Hopkins as someone from decades earlier. But he was still very musically active in 1974. He was about 61 years old, which isn't really old for a blues musician. For instance, B.B. King lived to be 89 years old, and was still performing right up until the end.

Here's the Wikipedia entry intro about him: "[Hopkins] was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. The musicologist Robert 'Mack' McCormick opined that Hopkins is 'the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act.' He influenced Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Jr., and a generation of blues musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan... In his own lifetime, Hopkins was one of the initial inductees in 1980 to the Blues Hall of Fame."

Here's the rest of the entry:

Lightnin' Hopkins - Wikipedia

I'll add a bit more to that. His recording career began in the 1940s, when he was already in his 30s. He grew popular with Black audiences in the 1940s and 50s. In the 1960s, his career got a boost when his music was discovered by the folk revival, mostly made up of White audiences. That started in 1960, when he performed at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City with Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. From that point on, he often played at folk festivals and colleges, and even toured internationally. He died of cancer in 1982, at the age of 69.

This is a solo acoustic concert, with a lot of banter between songs. The music is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent.

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 talk
02 Nothing I Can Do
03 talk
04 Lord Have Mercy
05 talk
06 Lazy Woman Do
07 talk
08 I Got My Hook in Your Water
09 talk
10 Can You Tell Who's Coming In
11 talk
12 Cook My Breakfast
13 talk
14 Key to the Highway
15 talk
16 It's Time for You to Change Your Way
17 talk
18 Instrumental
19 talk
20 Rock Me Baby
21 talk
22 Ain't It Crazy [The Rub]
23 talk
24 70 Miles from Nowhere

all tracks Lightning Hopkins

Steve Winwood - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 4-24-2015 | Albums That Should Exist (or not!?)

Steve Winwood - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 4-24-2015

Pauls says :I posted about a week ago how there's been a recent leak of dozens of soundboard quality concerts at a Port Chester, New York venue. I'm still waiting on a lot of these. Every day, it seems someone or another is at least chopping up the single music files into songs. But since some are already converted, I can start posting those. I was feeling like listening to Steve Winwood, so I did this one.

Winwood hasn't released a new studio album since 2008. So he stuck to playing classics from earlier in his career. The only semi-recent song he played was "Dirty City," from 2008.

The sound quality is excellent (though in mono). The only tinkering I did was to boost the volume of the applause at the ends of songs, plus boosting the banter. Oh, and I boosted the volume of all the songs in general. For some reason, most of these Port Chester boots seem to have quite low volume settings.

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long.

01 I'm a Man (Steve Winwood)
02 Them Changes (Steve Winwood)
03 Pearly Queen (Steve Winwood)
04 Can't Find My Way Home (Steve Winwood)
05 talk (Steve Winwood)
06 Dirty City (Steve Winwood)
07 The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Steve Winwood)
08 Glad [Instrumental] (Steve Winwood)
09 Light Up or Leave Me Alone (Steve Winwood)
10 talk (Steve Winwood)
11 Higher Love (Steve Winwood)
12 talk (Steve Winwood)
13 Dear Mr. Fantasy (Steve Winwood)
14 Gimme Some Lovin' (Steve Winwood)

Curiously throwaway cursory performance of his ‘greatest hits’ (sic) short set on content and performance still guess he got paid eh? Stevie phoned it in here after the days long Traffic concerts turning the fine band into the UK’s Grateful Dead with interminable stoned jam sessions now we get this 10 songs and outa there!

Disappointing but hey whatcha gonna do? For completists I guess

Kelly Boesch - From My Mouth To Yours

Kelly Boesch

Kelly says:

There is this thing that happens in meetings where a woman will say something and it goes unnoticed. Then a man at the table will take that idea and use it as his own and everyone loves it. I have heard so many of my women friends tell me this same thing. I overheard a conversation again recently where two women were talking about this happening. So I decided to do some research. There is a great article in Forbes about this and actually many others as well. And it doesn’t only happen to women....but mostly. So I wrote this song about it a few weeks back but was having a really hard time trying to figure out what kind of video I could make to go with it. It’s so much harder when the song comes first. I move toward the abstract. I actually don’t like when the scene matches the lyrics too much as then people try to work out the story without just using their imagination. I like people to write their own story lines with the visuals. It’s more fun that way. 

Additional production by Marshall Altman. 

From My Mouth To Yours

[Verse 1]
I let it fall between us both
A line I didn’t try to keep
It slipped out gently from my mouth
And landed somewhere at your feet

It lingered there, untouched, unseen
A passing thought, a minor thing
The kind that doesn’t make a sound
Unless it finds a voice to bring

[Pre-Chorus]
I’ve watched this kind of moment
Disappear, then reappear

[Chorus]
It moved from my mouth to yours
So quietly I missed
And when you said it back again
It landed with a twist

You held it like it started there
Like it was always planned
And suddenly the room leaned in
And listened to the man

[Verse 2]
No change in shape, no added weight
No brilliance newly found
Just something I had offered up
Returning louder, crowned

They nod along, they mark the point
As if it just arrived
I sit beside its origin
And watch it come alive

[Pre-Chorus]
I almost say, that was mine
But swallow it instead

[Chorus]
It moved from my mouth to yours
So seamless it was clean
And when you gave it back to them
It turned to something seen

You wear it like it grew from you
Like I was never there
And suddenly it carries weight
Just breathing different air

[Bridge] 
But somewhere down the table line
A glance that doesn’t stray
She heard it when it left my lips
And looked at me that way

No need to break the fragile spell
No need to disagree
Some things are known without a word
She knows, and so do I

[Chorus]
It moved from my mouth to yours
So seamless it was clean
And when you gave it back to them
It turned to something seen

You wear it like it grew from you
Like I was never there
And suddenly it carried weight
Just breathing different air

Birthdays: Lily Allen . . . .

Happy birthday to Lily Allen, born in Hammersmith, London on this day in 1985.

With a little help from her friends she found the light in the tunnel at the end.

Lily Allen - Smile - Live Leno

We worry about Lily and what she’s been going through post split from her Stage Thing of a fellah!

Hope she is okay!

Friday, May 01, 2026

Paolo Conte - Sparring Partner

Gary [Lucas that is!] does it again and posting this introduces me to yet more music that delights and again I have never come across before . . . might sign off this Friday night and wish you well wherever you are

*scenes from "Gänsehaut" di László Kish - Kurt Reinhard 1993 music : "Sparring Partner" di Paolo Conte