Rick(y) Nelson :: Live In Chicago - Voodoo Wagon (Jobe)

 

If you don't really see Ricky Nelson as one of the main inspirers of Rockabilly and fathers of Rock 'n'Roll then you have to open your eardrobes! Milkcow Blues which we played the other days is a stone classic of the genre without which etc etc . . . . It may have been his teenybopper appearance and strikingly handsome good looks that made him less of an icon than Elvis but he could rock and listen to this if you don't believe me! The management obviously made a mint from his charms and singing ability and will have doubtless chosen crooner type songs (Hello Mary Lou) for him to hit the teeny bopper gals right in the gussset and the purse but hey. A resurgence in interest gave him a swansong in the early eighties before his untimely death in 1985 . . . . . let that boy rock 'n' roll!

 Thanks for the dedication Jobe and I enjoyed this immensely ! As brother Jobe says I'm off down the shop to get me a soda pop!

Ricky Nelson - Live in Chicago - Voodoo Wagon

Believe What You Say

Boppin' The Blues

Rave On (1983)

Milk Cow Blues (1983) [check out the peerless Bobby Neal on geetar!)

The Lovin Spoonful - Do You Believe in Outtakes?? - Floppy Boot Stomp (Jobe)

The Lovin Spoonful Outtakes - Floppy Boot Stomp

Oh wow! Well this is a blast from the past and one for yours truly as I loved the Lovin'  Spoonful from the first appearances here in the UK and bought 'Hums' as soon as it came out here and cost 25/6d (ask your grandad!) and then everything I could lay my hands on.

I stayed with John Sebastian right up to Woodstock and the solo albums but the band hit me like a blast of summer sunshine and Nashville Cats, Darling Companion, Voodoo in My Basement, Rain on the Roof remain heartfelt songs in my own personal top playlist from the sixties so these outtakes which I had never seen before are especially true and resonant to me and I thank Jobe over at Floppy Boot Stomp and his unerring knack of hitting me with an all time favourite.

Thanks man!

Second Song of the Day :: Townes Van Zandt 'Blew Wind Blew (Live)'

Townes Van Zandt, “Blue Wind Blew (Live),” Villingen, Germany, 1989; originally released on At My Window LP (Sugar Hill, 1987)

Song of The Day:: The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company

Love this and found these guys trogging around t'interwebbie mc-thing-thang

Robert Cray Band - Philadelphia, PA. 1998 - FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

 This is nice and we haven't had any Robert Cray for a while so the Boss posting this back at HQ is a treat

Robert Cray Band -Philadelphia 1998 - Floppy Boot Stomp

Available here in FLAC so the quality is beyond question it is great! Tight band and what we have all come to expect with that mellifluous vocals and funky blues rhythms and I dedicate to a man of decency who pulled out of the last Eric Clapton tour for the highest of principled reasoning. Go Robert!

Robert Cray - Penn's Landing

Philadelphia, PA.

May 23, 1998

Soundboard @flac

The Players:
Robert Cray:    guitar & vocals
Jim Pugh:    keyboards
Kevin Hayes:    drums
Carl Sevareid:    bass

Set List
01-Nothing Against You
02-I Shiver
03-I’ll Go On
04-I Can't Quit
05-Right Next Door - Reconsider Baby
06-Our Last Time
07-The One In The Middle
08-Stay Or Go
09-Smoking Gun
10-Phone Booth
11-I Was Warned  

Robert Cray leaves Clapton tour on principle - New Musical Express

PATTI SMITH - NEW YORK 1997 :: The (Almost) Complete Sessions at West 54th Street - Big O

 

Patti Smith - The Sony Music Studios 1997

PATTI SMITH
New York 1997 [Two Of Us Master Series Volume 100, 1CD]
The (Almost) Complete “Sessions At West 54th”. Sony Music Studios, New York City, NY; July 23, 1997. Very good audience recording.

Thanks to mjk5510 & Two Of Us for sharing the show at Dime.

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Known Faults:
- Beneath The Southern Cross - end cut

Between 1983 and 2002 there was not any tapers more active than the “Two Of Us”. For the better part of two decades they taped over 250 artists with an array being taped multiple times. If you collect Springsteen then you are already familiar with some of their work, “fmcleanboots” has posted a half dozen or so of their “Tunnel Of Love” tour shows but has decided to pass the baton. What you don’t know is their passion was not just for Springsteen but for music and that passion runs deep. It is astonishing how many artists they taped.

They followed tours taping club shows, theater shows, arena shows, big artists, mid-level artists and local artists. If they were following a tour and the tour had an off night they’d see who else was playing that night to tape. Always focused on enjoyment of the show as the priority, tickets were for the most part acquired outside of the venue as they worked to obtain the best possible seats, continually trading up until the correct seats were acquired.

The results of this were the captures are uniformly excellent but on occasion the start of the show was sacrificed as a trade-off for the seats. The heavy lifting was done by the Sony WM-D6C and an external Shure Mic before moving to DAT for the last couple of years. None of their masters have ever been circulated and have been safely stored for the past three to four decades in a climate controlled environment. Tapes transferred so far are in pristine condition.

Though we may do some mini releases of a series of shows in order for one portion of a tour for the most part shows will not be released in order, there are just too many of them. This will be a very exciting series and we hope along the way we upgrade existing circulating audio and offer up shows that do not have any circulating audio. We hope you enjoy the ride, this is definitely not a dark ride. 

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You guys will know by know I am so spoiled I don't normally post links to audience recordings as there are now so many fine quality soundboards or matrix recordings that I just don't bother but having listened to this, it is REALLY worth it and if you have the rest of the West 54th Street Sony Sessions then this is a treat not least because of Patti's chat between numbers which at times is hysterically funny! So relaxed and comfortable with her New York audience she plays games with the crowd. Great fun . . . . . . 

Enjoy!

Macca and his mate Inny! - the guy who taught Paul McCartney how to play guitar!

 This is a nice piece from Rainy Days and Mondays

Ian James photo Paul McCartney

Reading about Paul’s time at the Liverpool Institute and wondering why we don’t talk about Paul’s close friend from the ‘Inny’ Ian James more often. Especially considering Ian has provided quotes like:

“What brought us together as soulmates was our love of music.”

And: 

“Paul and I would walk to my home from school and sit in the back yard where I taught him his first chords, before he bought his own guitar, and I’d change the strings around so he could practice. I still have the guitar although it’s barely playable now.”

And: 

“Immediately following the Skiffle craze, Rock ‘n’ Roll arrived and we couldn’t get enough of it. We’d go to all the travelling fairs where they played it non-stop and where we wore our infamous matching white jackets (with sparkles in the material) and drainies [fancied being the British Everly Brothers].

And: 

“Paul and I would visit all the record shops in Liverpool and know all the female staff by name. They would play us all the R ‘n’ R and R & B records that had just been released. I remember the record shop where I bought my first rock record—the double-sider Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog. Paul was with me at the time and he was with me when I bought Lend Me Your Comb by Carl Perkins which I’ve probably still got in the original 78 rpm.

Which decades later resulted in: 

“On the last visit to his office I walked up the last flight of stairs and just as I turned the corner into his office I heard the strains of Hound Dog blasting from the juke box he keeps in one corner. A nice thought from an old pal.”

Picture of Paul strumming Ian’s guitar (so cool he still has it!) in his office at MPL in London.

 Note the vintage photo of Ian propped up on the guitar as above

 

Song of the Day - Fleetwood Mac ' Can't Do My Homework Anymore'

(the only incarnation of the Mac I cared for with Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, (Spencer notwithstanding - sic!) still it's a dodgy area in the 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl' vein . . . . ahem, but boy do we remember that feeling of noticing girls for the first time . . . . . . . . couldn't do my homework for an age! 

Thanks as ever to Ride Your Pony (TWILIGHTZONE!)

ROGER MILLER REMEMBERED:: Grand Ole Opry Nashville TN1997 - Big O

 

I loved Roger Miller and before I realised he was a country singer and writer we had loved King of The Road and Oodalally from the Robin Hood Cartoon but look at this tribute at the Grand Ole Opry with the glitterati of country (many favourites here!) from Lyle Lovett to Willie Nelson, The Mavericks to Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam to Reba MacEntire 

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This is a tribute show to Roger Miller and his music. Roger Dean Miller Sr (January 2, 1936 - October 25, 1992) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country and pop hits “King of the Road”, “Dang Me”, and “England Swings”, all from the mid-1960s Nashville sound era.

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here

Disc 1

Track 101. Intro/Roger Miller & The Cast - King Of The Road 5:29

Track 102. Intro 0:52

Track 103. The Mavericks - Invitation To The Blues/Ray Price - Invitation To The Blues 4:55

Track 104. Reba McEntire - Husbands and Wives 4:06

Track 105. Intro 1:41

Track 106. Lyle Lovett - My Uncle Used To Love Me, But She Died 1:02

Track 107. Lyle Lovett - England Swings 1:58

Track 108. Intro 1:34

Track 109. Dwight Yoakam with Dean Miller - It Only Hurts Me When I Cry 2:25

Track 110. Intro 0:58

Track 111. Willie Nelson - When Two Worlds Collide 3;21

Track 112. The Mavericks, Cast and Family - Muddy Water 3:45

Track 113. KT Oslin - River In The Rain 3:21

Track 114. Intro 2:07

Track 115. John Goodman - Guv’ment/John Goodman & Cast - Muddy Water reprise 6:16

Track 116. Clint Black and Roger Miller - Dang Me 1:45

46 mins

Disc 2

Track 201. Roger Miller - Oo-De-Lally 2:31

Track 202. Kathy Mattea - Worlds Apart 2:25

Track 203. Intro 2:09

Track 204. Kenny Rogers - Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town 0:53

Track 205. Kenny Rogers - Don’t We All Have The Right 1:54

Track 206. Intro 1:13

Track 207. Kenny Rogers, Kris Kristofferson & Roger Miller- Me & Bobby McGee 2:08

Track 208. Intro 2:46

Track 209. Dean Miller - Old Toy Trains 2:32

Track 210. Intro 1:56

Track 211. KT Oslin - I’ll Pick Up My Heart & Go Home 1:48

Track 212. Intro 1:52

Track 213. Jessi Colter - Walkin’ In The Sunshine 1:21

Track 214. Intro 2:53

Track 215. Willie Nelson - Sorry, Willie 1:37

Track 216. Intro 1:23

Track 217. Marty Stuart, Mary & Dean Miller - Don’t Tear The Honky Tonk Down 1:00

Track 218. Intro 1:06

Track 219. Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Waylon Jennings & Roger Miller - Old Friends 2:21

Track 220. Intro 2:53

Track 221. Trisha Yearwood & The Fisk Jubilee Singers - The Crossing 4:27

From a TV broadcast rip

Great fun!

Patti Smith :: Penn's Landing PHILADELPHIA 2000 - Soundaboard

Nice and interesting set from Soundaboard of Patti from 22 years ago and it is an intriguing soundboard quite 'bright' and you can hear the audience despite what Soundaboard says . . . . . it is of course highly listenable though

Patti Smith - Penns Landing Philadelphia 2000 - Soundaboard

Soundaboard says

An excellent show with Patti Smith and group at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, July 16 2000.

Being a raw soundboard lacks the presence of audience and could have more low end but has a really clean and detailed sound.

Sound Quality: 9.5

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

01 Glitter in Their Eyes

02 Dead City

03 So You Want To be a Rock and Roll

04 Waiting Underground

05 Beneath the Southern Cross

06 1959

07 Dancing Barefoot

08 Because the Night

09 Be My baby

10 Pissing in the River

11 People Have The Power 

Alan White (Pelton, England, June 14, 1949 - Seattle, United States, May 26, 2022) - YES 2001::FRESH & ALIVE

 

Alan White (Pelton, England, June 14, 1949 - Seattle, United States, May 26, 2022)  member of Yes (drummer) from 1972 until his death in 2022.

 In 1972 he replaced the then Yes drummer Bill Bruford.

Alan White - YES 2001 - Fresh & Alive

I liked Yes from the first album on but once this line up dissolved I was less interested, the combination of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White on drums made this the finest contemporary progressive rock bands of all time . . . . . plus they always used the wonderful Roger Dean on artwork ( one of the nicest men I ever met . . . . . .we had him come to my bookshop for a signing and he was a delight, the crowd full of freaks and the weirdest followers! Hah!)

Artpark Repertory Theater

Lewiston, New York, USA

Source: soundboard

line-up:

Jon Anderson - vocals

Steve Howe - guitars

Chris Squire - bass

Alan White - drums

Tom Brislin - keyboards

Set list:

cd 1 [1:19:59]

01 - Give Love Each Day [2:08]

02 - Close To The Edge [20:36]

03 - Listen To Your Heart [1:15]

04 - Long Distance Runaround [4:49]

05 - Don't Go [5:18]

06 - In The Presence Of [11:39]

07 - The Gates Of Delirium [22:46]

08 - Corkscrew [3:38]

09 - Mood For A Day [3:58]

10 - Wonderous Stories [3:43]

cd 2 [1:17:21]

11 - Perpetual Change [10:44]

12 - And You And I [12:02]

13 - Ritual [31:00]

14 - I've Seen All Good People [7:03]

15 - Starship Trooper [12:13]

16 - Roundabout [4:19]

The Verve - Black Session Studio 105, Paris, France - FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

 

The Verve :: Black Session Paris France - Floppy Boot Stomp

The Verve - Black Session
Studio 105, Paris, France
October 15, 1997
FM Source @320

Tracklist:

01 - Intro
02 - A Northern Soul
03 - This Is Music
04 - The Drugs Don't Work
05 - Life's An Ocean
06 - Bitter Sweet Symphony
07 - Lucky Man
08 - History
09 - Come On

Oh I wasn't meant to forget this!!! How did that happen? this is a treat and no mistake for all you Verve fans out there . . . . . . . enjoy . . . . . .sorry to be tardy but its been out for a while on the FBS page and really meant to post it days ago now and found it loitering around the waiting to be posted list!!!

SHOCKING I know (who ARE you talking to? ED)

Richard Thompson on Creating the Soundtrack to “Grizzly Man” - Daily Bandcamp

 

photo by Wes Dorman

Grizzly Man (2005) is one of Werner Herzog’s best-known films in the U.S., though it is just as complex and brutal and transfixing as anything else in the German director’s oeuvre. A documentary nominally about the life of wild animal obsessive Timothy Treadwell, it is also in large part about humanity’s connection to nature in all of its aspects, from admiration to awe to destruction. It might have become the cult hit it did in this country because of its semi-lurid aspects—who is to say, really—but to think of it that way elides so much of its beauty and subtlety. (Herzog declines to use the audio documentation of Treadwell’s death in the film, but does show himself reacting to it. It serves as meta-commentary on the way we consume violence and how art uses and portrays it—a theme in many of the director’s works—as well as having direct emotional impact.)

Richard Thompson - Grizzly Man Soundtrack Interview - Bandcamp

Richard Thompson's score for Grizzly Man – Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary film of real life and death in the Alaskan wilderness – is one of the best-kept secrets in the British guitarist's epic canon: an instrumental masterpiece disguised as a movie soundtrack. Recorded over two days as Thompson played live in the studio to Herzog's footage – mostly alone, at times in chamber settings with cello, piano and percussion – these tenderly detailed melodies and quietly visceral improvisations are cinema in their own right, rendered with pictorial instinct and the dazzling technique forged in Thompson's lifelong passage through traditional folk, psychedelia, North African modes and intensely personal songwriting. Here is Thompson at his natural best – finger-picking dance; snake-curl twang and singing-wire harmonics – in a solo clarity that runs from jig-like joy to deep-note meditation, the "Grizzly Man" blues march with its echoes of Fairport Convention's "Sloth" to the long night of "Treadwell No More," a harrowing darkness in slicing treble and tremolo shiver. Produced by guitarist Henry Kaiser, Grizzly Man is a record of powerful solitude – as bold and majestic as the land in Herzog's film; as intimate as prayer – and essential Richard Thompson. 

- David Fricke

 Richard and Werner working in the studio

Richard Thompson ' Grizzlyman' Sountrack GLENCOE

RORY GALLAGHER :: Alive in '75 - Record Plant, Sausalito CA 31/10/1975 - Hear Rock City

Rory in his prime

(here with his 1932 National Triolian Resonator)

 

A lifelong fan of Rory Gallagher from Taste onwards until his untimely death at 47 from liver disease caused by his alcoholism, we adored his style of playing and the no nonsense paired back deceptively simple blues style that set the standard for all particularly British blues guitar playing and his song research and singing too. He had it all.

This is really worth having and while it says a grab from FM broadcast it plays quite 'hot' to these ears but a quick twiddle with your equaliser and it sounds great and is highly enjoyable. So many boots of Rory live are almost unlistenable

Rory Gallagher - Can't You See The Shape I'm In - live 1975 - Hear Rock City

Rory is on record as having said his guitar, his beloved 1961 Stratocaster, lost all 'her' (guitars like cars and vehicles and ships are always female!?) varnish because he sweated so much in the clubs and venues he played. The wood would get so wet from his playing he had to hang it, sometimes just the neck, for days at a time for her to dry out! (see article below*)

He also said:

Rory Gallagher: People look at my guitar and think that I must treat it badly. I admit I used to throw it about a bit in the early days, but it's really just that I use it so much that over the years the paint has gone, one little chip at a time. I don't see guitars as things to be left in glass cases. I love all great guitars, but they have to be used and I can get a kick out of a $15 Silvertone too. It's not meanness, it's just that any guitar over x-hundred dollars just becomes a status symbol. Then again, I grew up in a time when I remember Telecasters and Strats being about $250 to $350, whatever.

'I hate using your one-line clichés, but this guitar is part of my psychic make-up. I've had troubles with it, but I'm fortunate enough. It's like B.B. King has a hundred Lucilles, I've only got one Strat. I don't even call it a woman's name or whatever.  It's just, from where I came from, to own a Stratocaster was like monumental -it was impossible.

interview done by Ray Minhinnett 

photographed by ©Barrie Wentzell at Advision Studios during the recording of his eponymous debut album in 1971.

*The 61 Strat - Rory.com

He owned and played other guitars too . . . if only to give his Stratocaster a rest!?

(here with his 1966 Telecaster)

Rory Gallagher Montreux 1975-1985 (for Scottish Folkie because I couldn't find the OGWT gig he mentioned and this is great too! )

Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies (60)

 SAD NEWS

Saddened to hear of the death of Depeche Mode keyboard player Andy Fletcher suddenly and seemingly from natural causes aged only 60.

I was never a huge fan I must admit but appreciated them and to hear the driving force and signature keyboardist has died suddenly is terribly sad. Our thoughts go out to his family the band and all family and friends 

Nice tribute ROIO here from Fresh & Alive who say:

Andrew John Leonard Fletcher (Nottingham, July 8, 1961 - London, May 26, 2022) British bassist, keyboardist and record producer known for being a founding member of Depeche Mode.

He was born in Nottingham but grew up in Basildon, Essex, where as children he played with Martin Gore at school. In 1976 he formed a duet with Vince Clarke called No Romance in China, having achieved nothing, later Clarke formed precisely with Martin Gore a new group called French Look which he rejoined in 1979 to form the trio Composition of Sound that, shortly after , with the entry of singer David Gahan, changed its name to Depeche Mode.

Andrew Fletcher participated in all Depeche Mode albums. He passed away on May 26, 2022 of natural causes, the band made it known with a statement through social networks.

  

Depeche Mode 

Live @ Volt Festival, Hungary, 

26.06.2018

Depeche Mode Live Volt Festival HUNGARY - Fresh & Alive

BBC announces Andy's death

Neville Marcano - The Growling Tiger Of Calypso (Rounder, 1998)

Neville Marcano - The Growling Tiger of Calypso - Zero G Sounds

Having grown up with my best friends being the sons of a father born in Trinidad  and their wonderful mum, a local girl, and often spending more time in their house than I did in my own, I heard some of the most exciting musics to my ears, from the pans and joy of steel band music to Soca and the music across the islands from Martinique to Jamaican reggae and the music of this part of the world has therefore always appealed to me. Early reggae roots of Ska and Rock Steady was a given of course but it led me to explore the musics of Mento too and Neville Marcano strikes me as being early roots of Calypso of Trinidad as it has no pans and is rooted in the music of the thirties and consisting of the more traditional-styled band backing with flute, fiddle, guitar, bass, and percussion here recorded by the legendary Alan Lomax in 1962. 

Intriguingly there is also a boxing connection as the boy's dad was a superb and famous British professional feather/super feather/lightweight boxer and I was intrigued to find that Marcano was a teenage flyweight champion also. 

 This album is long out of print now (1998) and if anyone knows otherwise and wants me to take it down just let me know. 

Enjoy!

'Geography' - EMILY BARKER :: (Red Rooster Festival) BOPFLIX sessions

 The delightful wonderment that is Emily Barker recorded this for the Red Rooster Festival last year and had it out on the Tube but it seemed a tad hidden away to me so . . . . . . . here it is 'Geography' [from A Dark Murmuration of Words her last solo album 2021]

#bopflix #redrooster #emilybarker

This for Bobby from Aquarium Drunkard (yesterday) playlist

Bob Dylan :: Too Many Mornings (Revisited)

Last year around Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, we celebrated with a megamix of various renditions of “One Too Many Mornings.” Since there’s no such thing as too many “One Too Many Mornings,” here’s a sequel of sorts for Bob’s 81st — 24 different covers of the classic tune from a wide variety of artists, spanning the decades. Just as Bob never quite settled on a stock arrangement for this one, the interpretations here vary wildly, from gentle folk to raucous garage rock to soaring orchestral pop. Like the song says: “You’re right from your side and I’m right from mine …” | t wilcox

Too Many Mornings revisited . . . here

Ronnie Hawkins, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ The Association, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Joan Baez, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Turley Richards, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Julie Felix, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ The Beau Brummels, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Cliff Aungier, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Jaime Brockett, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Burl Ives, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Flatt & Scruggs, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Bap, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Bobby Sherman, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ John Hartford, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ E-Types, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ The Kingston Trio, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Noel Harrison, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Dion, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ The Hitch Hikers, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ The Dillards, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ Jerry Jeff Walker, “One Too Many Mornings” ++ The Band, “One Too Many Mornings”