we have had this before but Twilightzone reposted it and who am I to argue!?
so we’ll strat the week with some Prophet! why it’s enough to wake the dead!. . . . . . . .
Chuck Prophet – "Wake The Dead”
Monday, September 07, 2026
Polly want a cracker! [why we loved Tim Curry so]
MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND (1996) dir. Brian Henson — [1/?]
| Celebrating Tim Curry as Long John Silver
It has been said the success of both Sir Michael Caine and Tim was that Caine treated his Muppet fellow cast as actors and Tim saw himself as a honorary fellow Muppet!
We shall miss him
ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST - Paul on the ISLE OF WIGHT 1970
The Isle of Wight 1970 Festival Revisited
In 2023, I posted the vast majority of all the music I could find from the 1970 Isle of Wight rock festival. It's a big one. In my opinion, it's right up there with the granddaddy of all rock festivals, Woodstock in 1969, in terms of the big name musicians and the musical quality of the festival. At that time, though, there were a few sets I didn't post, because the sound quality didn't meet my usual standards.
Now, I'm posting those missing bits. Specifically, I'm posting the sets by Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens. Most everything else I posted from the festival are from soundboard-level quality recordings. But for those three, we only have audience bootlegs, probably all recorded by the same person, since they sound similar. They all share the same problems. For instance, there was a lot of wind blowing against the microphones, which marred the recordings. There also were frequent airplanes flying overhead, sometimes quite loudly. There were people talking near to the taper. Worst of all, the sound quality of the recordings were just okay, probably due to mediocre tape recorders being used.
So that's why I didn't post these sets back then. But there has been a lot of improvement in audio editing technology in just the last three years. So I gave these a try. A big problem was the wind blowing on the microphone noises. Luckily, the audio editing program Izotope has a filter just to get rid of those exact kinds of noises. I ran most of the songs through that filter, and got rid of most of it (but not all!). I used other tricks, like separating out the lead vocals and boosting them over the muck. I also used MVSEP to reduce reverb and get rid of noise.
The good news is, I consider these sets sound decent enough for me to post them now. But beware! There's still a lot of problems. One can only do so much with problematic source material. I'll post the Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens sets after posting this.
It so happens that all three of these sets are from the last day of the festival, August 30, 1970. If you're going to download some of them, I'd also suggest re-downloading the other sets from that day. The reason is, the Donovan set is the second one, so that becomes the new "Part 2," and all the sets after that are renumbered with their album titles. By the end of the day, there are nine parts instead of six. Furthermore, the song numbering for each part continues from the last part, so all that changes too. There ends up being 163 songs instead of 115, so there are lots of changes on all the sets from that day.
On top of that, I've made some minor changes to the cover art of some of the other albums, now that the technology for that has been improving as well. That includes changing some of the covers from the other days of the festival, specifically the sets by Chicago, Procol Harum, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, the Who, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. So you might want to redownload those as well.
Sunday, September 06, 2026
Linda Ronstadt (feat. Emmylou Harris) - I Can’t Help It If I’m Still in Love With You
and might close it down for the day there . . . . .
Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris singing
“I Can’t Help It If I’m Still in Love With You”
Norah Jones - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-8-2015 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST
Norah Jones - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-8-2015
In 2015, Jones didn't really have an album to promote. Her most recent solo studio album at the time was "Little Broken Hearts," released in 2012. She would release "Day Breaks" in 2016. However, only two songs here are from that album ("Flipside" and "And Then There Was You"). So she performed songs from all over her career up until that point.
The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.
This album is an hour and 35 minutes long.
01 What Am I to You
02 Out on the Road
03 I've Got to See You Again
04 Carnival Town
05 talk
06 Black
07 talk
08 It Must Have Been the Roses
09 talk
10 Chasing Pirates
11 Flipside
12 talk
13 Stuck
14 talk
15 Lonestar
16 And Then There Was You
17 Painter
18 Little Broken Hearts
19 talk
20 Don't Know Why
21 Miriam
22 Sinkin' Soon
23 talk
24 Don't Know What It Means
25 talk
26 Come Away with Me
27 talk
28 Sunrise
29 Creepin' In
30 How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart
(all tracks Norah Jones)
Norah Jones - What Am I To You?
Norah Jones - Don’t Know Why
Port Chester 2015 Soundboard （Uxbridge 2827）
Live At Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, USA
08th November 2015
More from James Rigby . . . . THE BUTTERFLY
approaching close of day . . . . .
THE BUTTERFLY - LATEST ORIGINAL BY JAMES RIGBY
TUNED - CGCGCE
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss | HERBERG DE KELDER
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Don’t think I would ever not re-post this favourite song from these two
HERBERG DE KELDER
Byrne sings Beefheart! [David Byrne — Between the Teeth (1992) ]
David Byrne — Between the Teeth (1992)
🎬 DAVID BYRNE — BETWEEN THE TEETH (1992)
Filmed at the Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, New Jersey, on Halloween night, 31 October 1992.
Directed by David Byrne and David Wild. Produced by Joel Hinman for Todo Mundo, Ltd.
Released on LaserDisc by Warner Reprise Video (9 38303-6) and never reissued since — no DVD, no Blu-ray, no streaming.
✨ FAN REMASTER 2026
Restored from the original NTSC LaserDisc.
No AI upscaling, no invented detail — a careful transfer, noise reduction and a colour pass that keeps the hard white light exactly as it was shot.
🎵 TRACKLIST / CHAPTERS
0:00 Well (Captain Beefheart)
2:13 (Nothing But) Flowers
6:54 Girls On My Mind
10:49 Mr. Jones
15:32 Something Ain't Right
19:15 Life During Wartime
24:27 Women vs. Men
30:09 Hanging Upside Down
34:38 Lie To Me
40:56 She's Mad
46:55 Blind
52:18 Make Believe Mambo
58:15 And She Was
1:01:54 Buck Naked
1:05:21 Road To Nowhere
✦ 10 CAR PILE-UP
David Byrne — vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
George Porter Jr. — bass
Jonathan Best — keyboards
Oscar Salas — drums
Bobby Allende — congas
Héctor Rosado — timbales
Ángel Fernández — musical director, trumpet
José "Ite" Jerez — trumpet
Lewis Kahn — trombone, violin
Steve Sacks — alto sax
✦ ABOUT THE FILM
The Uh-Oh tour caught Byrne five years out of Talking Heads and deep into Latin and Caribbean music. No rock band: a ten-piece with horns and Latin percussion.
The band wears black — "a bunch of funeral directors", Byrne called them — and every light is white. "It could almost be a black-and-white film," he said. Byrne and Wild planned a different camera treatment for each song, decided in advance which ones not to shoot, and held the audience out of frame until late in the film: "I don't like a film telling me what I'm supposed to be feeling."
Fifteen songs from a set that ran an hour and forty-five. Byrne opens alone and closes alone.
Remembering the great Jimmy Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976)
again as a precocious teen I think an early purchase was an EP with Jimmy’s Big Boss Man on it which I loved and thought one of the greatest songs ever written and applied to every job I EVER had! (Still do - True now and true then!)
Remembering the great Jimmy Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976)
Keith Richards: I love Jimmy Reed, a unique sound. There are thousands and thousands of Blues players out there and to find a unique sound and a way to play it is an extra touch of genius. Jimmy Reed had it.The list of artists who have recorded Reed’s songs or claimed to be influenced by him is quite staggering. They include Elvis Presley (Big Boss Man, Baby, What You Want Me To Do), The Rolling Stones (Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby, The Sun Is Shining, Bright Lights, Big City, Shame, Shame, Shame), The Yardbirds, Van Morrison, Grateful Dead, Wishbone Ash, The Steve Miller Band and last but not least, Bob Dylan, who wrote the song Goodbye Jimmy Reed as a tribute to the legendary bluesman.Photo by Michael Ochs Archives
Jimmy Reed with Eddie Taylor - Big Boss Man
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