Alice over at O MY Soul posts this song this morning (here) and it can’t be bad to revisit a fine fine Nanci Griffith live number . . . . . . I have no expectations. . . . . . but we MISS Nanci something rotten . . . . . think we have everything official and otherwise
Thanks Alice great reminder . . . . . .
The YouTube poster of this ORIGINAL song notes
Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band until 2012.
"The songs I like : Jake Holmes - Dazed and Confused (1967).
Page heard this song when Holmes was opening for the Yardbirds, and he covered it. Without crediting the original author. Page doesn’t like having to. Without Led Zeppelin, this song would have remained in the shadows, but still… a little mention of the author would have been honest. Page finally reached an out-of-court settlement with Holmes… in 2012! It is for this type of fact (among others, because it is not the most disturbing of the long list of stupid things committed during their great career) that, although I love their music (especially the first album in fact) I have not a lot of esteem for this group, humanly speaking.
Finally: the original version of Jake Holmes is excellent!!!”
Jimmy what did you think would happen?
Robert? What did Jimmy tell you? He’d written a song whilst with the Yardbirds that you should cover?!
Prolly! I admire Robert immensely and his later career is an inspiration as much as the first two Led Zeppelin albums were groundbreaking and truly astonishing but as for Jimmy? Not so much . . . . . .
Hell there’s even a magazine named after HOLMES' song!
It is called just desserts and you let the side down with this behaviour . . . . . . . . .
It is a cultural artefact
with an emphasis on the FACT! The singing and the descending bass accompaniment are straight lifts never mind the vocals and expression and delivery LET ALONE THE WORDS! written in 1967 and you sorted it out when? 45 years later . . . . . . . . .
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure (2022)
Setlist:
01. Pump It Up
02. The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
03. Waitin' For the End of the World >
04. There's No Action
05. Less Than Zero
06. The Beat
07. Where's That Rockin' Rollin' Bitch? (Ian Dury)
08. Big Tears (Mean Nothing When You're Lying In Your Coffin)
09. Radio Radio
10. You Belong To Me
11. Lipstick Vogue >
12. Watching the Detectives
This one from the Boss so you know its a belter!
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Nina Simone - July Tree (1965)
True love seed in the autumn ground
The mods I knocked around with deciding whether they were my tribe worshipped odd releases that crossed boundaries and genres, Nina singing Bee Gees To Love Somebody was an instant mod classic!
Here she is in quieter mood . . . . . . . . we loved her
The Fenders - Counterfeit Love (1966) DAMN! Another cut n paste job not working . . . . . bear with . . . . . . bear with
I’ll use someone else’s description: “Some raw, powerful, straight up garage-country from this incredible Navajo band out of New Mexico.” Great stuff!
here’s a bunch of Navajos! (can you say that?) . . . . . .hope so
the notion these guys are all from the 500 Nations fills me with glee!
Great sound . . . . love Guess I’m Dumb so that must make me dumb too!
DUMB AS SOUP! CLEARLY! . . . . . . .
I attended the First Reading Festival way back [On 25th-27th June 1971, National Jazz and Blues Festival the first one at Little John’s Farm on the banks of the River Thames and stayed there ever after - with thanks to the Hells Angels who looked after me for a while] and one of the first bands we caught was the ever amazing Sha Na Na and they burst right in to The Marcels 'Blue Moon' a la fifties style doo wop and then some!
“We gots just one thing to say to you F**ckin’ Hippies! And that is that Rock ’n’ Roll is here to STAY!"
Here’s the original!
The Marcels - Blue Moon
The Marcels were an American doo-wop group known for turning popular music songs into rock and roll. The group formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and signed to Colpix Records, with lead Cornelius Harp, bass Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, Ron Mundy, and Richard Knauss. The group was named after a popular hair style of the day, the marcel wave, by Fred Johnson's younger sister Priscilla. In 1961 many were surprised to hear a new version of the ballad "Blue Moon", that began with the bass singer saying, "bomp-baba-bomp" and "dip-da-dip." The record sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. It is featured in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The disc went to number one in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and UK Singles Chart.[5] In the U.S., additional revivals in the same vein as "Blue Moon" -- "Heartaches" and "Melancholy Baby" -- were less successful, although "Heartaches" peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually sold over one million copies worldwide. In August 1961, due to problems encountered in the Deep South while touring because of the group being bi-racial, the white members, Knauss and Bricker left and were replaced by Allen Johnson (brother of Fred) and Walt Maddox. Mundy left soon after, leaving the group a quartet. In 1962, Harp and Allen Johnson left, and were replaced by Richard Harris and William Herndon. There was a brief reunion of the original members in 1973. The group made several recordings in 1975 with Harp back on lead. Original member Gene Bricker died in 1983. Allen Johnson died in 1995. By the early 1990s the group included Johnson, Maddox, Harris, Jules Hopson, and Richard Merritt. The group split around 1995. Fred Johnson formed his own group with new members, while the other four members recruited new bassist Ted Smith. Maddox won a lawsuit against Sunny James Svetnic, the manager of Johnson's group, for trademark infringement in 1996. Johnson reunited with Harp, Mundy, and Knauss in 1999 for the PBS special Doo Wop 50. The Marcels were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002. Their original lead singer, Cornelius Harp, died in 2013.
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Nice update to the appearance by Bob and The Knobs at Farm Aid here from Ray Padgett
As you undoubtedly heard, Bob Dylan made a surprise appearance at Farm Aid this past weekend. It was the first time he’s played the festival since 1986, and the first surprise onstage appearance he’s made of any kind in years.
As if that wasn’t surprising enough, he played accompanied by two longtime members of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, both of whom he’d toured with extensively in the ‘80s (read my interview with Tench about it here). Alongside them were the rest of Campbell’s current band The Dirty Knobs: Bassist Lance Morrison, guitarist Chris Holt, and drummer Steve Ferrone (himself a latter-day Heartbreaker following Stan Lynch’s departure).
They performed three songs, all ‘60s classics: “Maggie’s Farm,” “Positively 4th Street,” and “Ballad of a Thin Man.” The first two of those Dylan hasn’t played in over a decade. Another surprise. And, oh yeah, one more: He played guitar on all three.
Needless to say, the Dylan world was abuzz. And I had so many questions. So I was thrilled bassist Lance Morrison took some downtime on the road—this appearance came right in the middle of a Dirty Knobs tour—to tell me all about it.
He goes on to interview Lance Morrison the bass player here . . . . . . . .
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Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Girl Form The North Country
I’m a-wonderin’ if she remembers me at all
Many times I’ve often prayed
In the darkness of my night
In the brightness of my day
So if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives thereShe once was a true love of mine
Lily, Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts
Alternate take from the New York Blood On The Tracks sessions.
Thanks again as Alice over at O My Soul goes on a real Dylan run . . . . . I too was wondering what to say about the appearance on Farm Aid plying his telecaster and sat on stool having fun, visiting songs he hasn't visited with in a while. . . . . go Bob! This’ll do!
The Calvary Cross - Richard & Linda Thompson
Always enjoy revisiting with Richard and Linda and thanks as always again to O My Soul for the reminder
Found this on t’nterwebbie mcthingiemabob!
"In 1969, California musician Jim Sullivan released his album titled U.F.O. Many of the song lyrics were about him leaving his family behind after being abducted by aliens in the desert. On March 4th 1975, Jim left for Nashville alone in his VW Beetle.
The next day, the singer-songwriter was pulled over by highway patrol for his erratic driving. Later that day, he checked into the La Mesa Motel in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Even though he paid for his room, according to hotel staff he did not sleep there but left his key inside the room. A liquor store employee states that he bought vodka late at night.
The next day, he parked his car around 26 miles away, near a remote ranch in the desert owned by the Gennitti family. He was seen by witnesses walking away from his vehicle, and he was never seen again.
Search parties scoured the desert for any sign of the missing musician. Months after his disappearance, a decomposed corpse matching Jim’s description was later found in a remote area several miles away, but despite such a striking resemblance, DNA determined it was actually not him!
To this day, the case remains a mystery."
from the always fascinating blog Dead Strange
I spotted this in the soundtrack of new Daisy May Cooper’s extraordinary latest acting tour de force in Cash Carroway’s offering in ‘Rain Dogs’ (music references abounding) . . . . . . .
My burgeoning premise that there’s nothing on TV anymore is a dangerous one! How did I manage to miss family favourite Daisy May Cooper’s latest acting foray, the darkly comic (very dark! yummy!) Cash Carroway’s Rain Dogs. Binge watched a few last night and am hooked!
Starring a cameo Ade Edmundson as an elderly pervert (type cast much?), Daisy May’s borderline homeless character living on her wits and t*ts (dancing pole dancer cum cleaner sex worker!) is amazing. Opposite her fellow actors the stellar brilliance of Jack Farthing (Poldark baddy Warleggan and those of you who remember PG Wodehouse excellent Blandings ‘Freddie’) is a treat and guest appearance from Karl Pilkington!(?)! And where do they get these amazing child actors from with newcomer Fleur Tashjian as daughter Iris is yet another star in the making. Daisy May does it again. What’s not to love?!
It is little short of brilliant! Nothing could quite be further from This Country but nothing wrong with that. Not for the nervous or smaller eyes no doubt! I was originally put off by the stealing of the Tom Waits title Rain Dogs but I get it now* and cannot wait to carry on! Spoiler alert - the third episode got even darker still!
Watch it soon!!
