I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Monday, August 03, 2026

Muireann Bradley - Not Going Back - New Single

We haven’t featured any Muireann for too long and by coincidence she has a new single out that the FB algorithms threw up at me (eeuygh!) 




Muireann says: 
My new Single 'Not Going Back' is out now Listen here: https://muireannbradley.lnk.to/NGB Join my mailing list for news, tour announcements, exclusives, competitions and more https://muireannbradley.lnk.to/newsle... Follow me online: Web - https://www.muireannbradley.ie/ IG -   / muireann_bradley   TT -   / muireann.bradley   FB -   / muireannbradley   Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/4kuuv... Apple Music -   / muireann-bradley   CREDITS: Creative Director - Lulu Vicedomini - @coolblockbustergirl Producer - Ella Griffith - @ellagriffith123 Production Manager - Lisette Reed - @reedliketheplant_

Authentic Mento Band (with thanks to Garth Williams)

 This delightful film on Mento music from Jamaica showed up in my memories from Facebook account


Authentic Mento Band

"Playing live Mento with narration from The Hon. Louise Simone Bennett-Coverly who is quite possibly Jamaica's most loved Folklorist, Writer
original poster 
Garth Williams

Bonnie Raitt & Paul Butterfield's Better Days - KMET Studio Los Angeles Ca USA 1973 | FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

 

Bonnie Raitt & Paul Butterfield's Better Days -

 KMET Studio, Los Angeles Ca. 5/27/1973

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Bonnie Raitt & Paul Butterfield's Better Days 

 KMET Studio Los Angeles Ca.

May 27th 1973


1. Audience Applause 00:06

2. Under The Falling Sky - Bonnie Raitt.03:53

3. Love Me Like A Man - Bonnie Raitt 05:17

4. Nothing Seems To Matter - Bonnie Raitt 04:09

5. You Got To Know How - Bonnie Raitt 04:52

6. Love Has No Pride - Bonnie Raitt 04:38

7. Intro to Paul Butterfield & Better Days 00:28

8. New Walkin' Blues - Butterfield's Better Days 04:45

9. Small Town Talk - Butterfield's Better Days 05:44

10. Buried Alive In The Blues - Butterfield's Better Days 03:49

11. Broke My Babys Heart - Butterfield's Better Days 06:57

12. Highway 28 - Butterfield's Better Days 04:42

13. He's Got All The Whiskey - Butterfield's Better Days 09:23


Live in-studio performance by Bonnie Raitt and Paul Butterfield's 

Better Days at KMET-FM Studio in Los Angeles, CA on 5/27/1973. 

BONNIE RAITT SET: Bonnie Raitt - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar; 

Freebo - Fender Fretless Bass; Bill Payne - Piano; 

Chris Parker - Drums; Paul Butterfield - Harmonica on tracks 1 & 2;  


BETTER DAYS SET: Paul Butterfield - Vocals, Harmonica, Keyboards; 

Geoff Muldaur - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards; Amos Garrett - Electric Guitar, 

Vocals; Ronnie Barron - Vocals, Piano, Organ; Billy Rich - Bass; 

Chris Parker - Drums; Bonnie Raitt - Additional Vocals on Better Days track 11.

Dave & Phil Alvin - “World’s In a Bad Condition” | TWILIGHTZONE

 Now TwilightZone intrigues me . . . .apart from me thinking I need to list ALL the Mambo collection the guys have done and reflecting that they featured reminders of Chuck Prophet so that I did a daily Prophet for a while they also have an all encompassing passion for Surf music! None of which I have tended to feature as it usually drives me nuts! But they also clearly have a passion for Dave & Phil Alvin as in here with this class act bratty of a number and not least because it seems to be particularly relevant today!!

Dave & Phil Alvin - “World’s In a Bad Condition


"LOVE CHARMS" A New Kind Of Mambo Vol. 18 | TWILIGHTZONE

 "LOVE CHARMS" A New Kind Of Mambo Vol. 18

Monster Mambo R&B! It doesn't get any better than this.
Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuba which was developed in the 1940s when the music genre of the same name became popular throughout Latin America. The original ballroom dance which emerged in Cuba and Mexico was related to the danzón, albeit faster and less rigid. In the United States, it replaced rhumba as the most fashionable Latin dance. Later on, with the advent of salsa and its more sophisticated dance, a new type of mambo dance including breaking steps was popularized in New York. This form received the name of "salsa on 2", "mambo on 2" or "modern mambo". - wiki

trax:
1. Louie Louie - Julie London 2. Sugar sugar - Celia Cruz 3. John Goldfarb, Please Come Home - Shirley McLaine 4. Fiebre - Los Camisas Negras 5. Fever - Little Willie John 6. Mondongo - Xavier Cugat 7. El Bantu - Ray Barretto 8. Guitarambo - Mickey Baker 9. Anabacoa - Perez Prado 10. Shawnee - The Premiers 11. Blockade - The Rumblers 12. jump back - The Fugitives 13. She Was A Mau Mau - Bob Ridgely 14. The Mix Up - Little Sonny and his Band 15. Somebody Told Me - Little Milton 16. Comin' Home Baby - Muddy Waters 17. Cream In My Coffee(Sugar In My Tea) - Piney Brown 18. I'm Lonesome Baby - Ike Turner 19. Keep Me On Your Mind - Austin Wright 20. Middle of the Mambo - Chuck Higgins 21. Preacher's Daughter - Roland Stone 22. Junco Partner (Down The Road) - Roland Stone 23. Looking For My Baby - Jimmy Dotson 24. Go Get A Wig - The Ideals 25. Comin Home Baby - Dee Dee Sharp 26. Don't Bother Me No More - Jacques Denjean 27. Louie Louie - Eddie Cano & His Quintet 28. Love Charms - Larry Williams 29. Ay, José - Graciela w/Machito Orchestra 30. Cosquillita - Rene Touzet

Compiled by Johnny Q from his music collection - originally served by Gyro1966

Now this is getting interesting if a trifle obscure but it has a version of Junco Partner which I collect so its a no-brainer . . . think I need to list all of these Mambo items from Twilight Zone at some point but download it and tel me what you think! 
Julie London covering Louie Louie!?!?

Throbbing Gristle - ab7a [D.o.A] | jt1674

  . . . think you know your Throbbing Gristle? Here a nice piece from Chris Carter . . . . 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/823849117046423552/throbbing-gristle-ab7a

Jeff Buckley - If You See Her Say Hello [ Live at Sin-é ] | jt1674

  . . . . extraordinary Dylan cover

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/823937440852115456/jeff-buckley-if-you-see-her-say-hello

Max Romeo - Ginal Ship (1971) | Guess I’m Dumb

Double A Side Ginalship & Version
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Max Romeo - Ginal Ship (1971)

Superb reggae tune produced by Lee “Scratch” Perry. In Jamaican patois, a ginal is a con man or hustler. Seems sort of appropriate for things in the U.S. today.

Ginalship mash up the country

Just the single as posted by Guess I’m Dumb

Good Rockin’ Gal of The Day - Rhian Teasdale (Wet Leg)


Wet Leg are from the Isle of Wight where a wet leg applies to anyone not from the island ie you have to have got a wet leg to get there!
Seems to me they are getting raunchier and raunchier!
Just me?



 

Good for anything that ails you!


 "And the Doctor said ‘Give him Jug Band Music it seems to make him feel just fine!’"