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 To the End (CD)

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Birthdays: Damon Albarn (58) GORILLAZ: DAMASCUS [Official]

Wishing a very happy 58th birthday to BLUR and GORILLAZ frontman DAMON ALBARN!

(Photo: supersonicshades)

 

Gorillaz - Damascus ft. Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey (Official)

Norah Jones Is Playing Along with Martha Wainwright (Podcast Season 2 Episode 24)

Norah Jones Is Playing Along with Martha Wainwrightght 

Country Joe McDonald - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1976 | Albums That Should Exist

 

Country Joe McDonald - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1976

Paul says: I left for a two-week vacation about two weeks ago. (I'm writing this in late March 2026.) Around the time I left, I heard that singer-songwriter Country Joe McDonald had died. Specifically, he died on March 7, 2026, at the age of 84, of complications from Parkinson's Disease. 

To be honest, I can't say I'm that familiar with his discography. But since he died, I wanted to see if there were any worthy albums I could post of his music. To my surprise, I found not one, not two, but three albums of unreleased material he performed for the BBC, all of it from the early 1970s. Here's the first one. It consists of BBC studio sessions. The other two I'll be posting feature BBC concerts.

The first seven tracks come from an appearance on John Peel's radio show, "Top Gear," in 1970. Tracks 8 and 9 are from the "One in Ten" radio show "One in Ten" in 1971. The rest of the songs are from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" TV show. Tracks 10 through 14 are from a 1972 episode. Tracks 15 through 17 are from a 1974 episode. The rest, tracks 16 through 21, are from a 1976 episode. Most of the songs were performed in solo acoustic mode.

By the way, there was one more song, "TV Blues," played on the 1974 episode which I couldn't find. If anyone has it (or other BBC sessions from him), I'll add it in. 

All the music here is unreleased. The sound quality is generally excellent, especially since there was no audience noise. 

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 Hold On, It's Coming 
02 Balancing on the Edge of Time 
03 talk 
04 It's So Nice to Have Love 
05 Maria 
06 talk 
07 Tell Me Where You're Bound 
08 talk 
09 Jean Desprez
10 Tricky Dick 
11 talk 
12 Trapped Inside a Fantasy 
13 talk
14 Coulene Anne 
15 Holy Roller
16 talk 
17 Living in the Country
18 Save the Whales
19 talk 
20 Our Wedding Day 
21 Breakfast for Two 

(all tracks Country Joe McDonald) 

Like Paul I wasn’t familiar with this set and it is a welcome addition to the earlier posts on Joe (follow the links below)

Covered: Neil Young, Volume 9: 2020-2022 | Albums That Should Exist

 Covered: Neil Young, Volume 9: 2020-2022

Paul says: Here's the ninth volume of the "Covered" series for Neil Young. We're getting near the end, with only one more volume after this. Once again, thanks to Fabio from Rio for doing most of the work putting this together. Here's Fabio's summary of this time period:

The early 2020s brought an unexpected new chapter in the long afterlife of Neil Young's songs. During the Covid pandemic years, musicians around the world turned to home recordings, livestream performances, and online collaborations. In that environment, Young's catalog proved once again remarkably adaptable: intimate acoustic songs worked perfectly in stripped-down home recordings, while his electric epics continued to inspire roots-rock and Americana bands. At the same time, Young himself remained a visible cultural figure, both through the expanding Neil Young Archives project and through public debates about streaming platforms and artists' rights. The covers in this volume reflect that moment: a mixture of independent artists, online collaborations, and established performers revisiting songs from every phase of Young's long career.

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Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Razor Love (Brandon Wolfe Scott with Stacey)
02 Unknown Legend (Mandolin Orange)
03 Eldorado (Sioux 13)
04 No Wonder (Blue Raincoat)
05 Lookout Joe (Marc Ford)
06 Be the Rain (Gil Michaels)
07 I'm the Ocean (Dark Wrangler)
08 It's a Dream (Cody Simpson & Ben Harper)
09 Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze (Rust for Glory)
10 Comes a Time (Jeff & Laura)
11 When God Made Me (Ronnie Drew & Eleanor Shanley)
12 Love in Mind (Cowboy Junkies)
13 Mother Earth (Zach)

Neil Young and The Shocking Pinks 1983| Hear Rock City

 After all the brilliant covers volumes of Neil Young songs have this unique item from Hear Rock City of Neil and ensemble covering other folks work!

They Went To My Baby's Head...

Neil Young goes Rockabilly.

A band put together just for the one album,

Everybody's Rockin' back in 1983.

Here they are live with a setlist 

(like the album) that's mostly covers.

Mississippi John Hurt ‘Candy Man’ | Mississippi John Hurt playing at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

 Speaking of music discovered through my brother Steve . . . . Mississippi John Hurt!

Mississippi John Hurt playing at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Roxy Music feat. Eno) - Do The Strand (OGWT)

 Roxy Music's second album For Your Pleasure was released on 23 March, 1973, beginning with "Do The Strand", seen here live on the Old Grey Whistle Test

again someone posted a fraction of a clip on Frickennabokk so here’s the whole thing . . . . 

What’s the first music you ever heard . . .or bought! Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in B flat (solo piano version arr Percy Grainger)

 Speaking of flamenco and early experiences of music . . . Music bought when it came out leads to what’s the first music you ever bought!? What's the first live music you ever saw and heard?

Amongst the greatest memories of my brother I have to thank him for loads of musical references and particularly his becoming aware of the Oxford University Guitar Society (he discovered anyone could join at that time and anyone could go see the artists they booked in halls around the campus (its the entire CITY!) and we got to see Segovia, (front row, feet away of The Sheldonian Theatre ) Manitas de Plata (in the New Theatre I think), the same room was enough!, a primal force of nature and Paco Peña first row in a small concert room somewhere inches away from him, staggering, never quite the same after that! 

Remembering the first time I ever heard live music was a concert I was taken to with primary school I think to see a piano recital of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto in B flat

Which was the first record I asked to buy (a 10” album of!) I guess I would have 10 or eleven

this is a very accomplished version I thought and close to my memory of the piece - 

I was spell bound all that could come from one instrument

Still dancin’ !

 Here’s a flamenco clip that grabbed me . . . . 

Antonia Singla, “La Singla,” 

From a Romani community in Barcelona, she lost most of her hearing shortly after birth due to infection. This notwithstanding, she developed her art to become of the greatest bailaoras in flamenco.