Ry Cooder - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live |Top Hat Crew's "Live Music Archives"

 Who is my number One Guitarist?

 Why Mr Ryland P Cooder of course and here with a message to all my American pals out there as we approach the results of your votes . . . . . 

NB THIS IS HOW YOU PLAY THE SLIDE!

From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Very beautiful slide.

Band:

Ry Cooder: guitar, vox

Jim Keltner: drums

Van Dyke Parks: keys

Jorge Calderon: bass

Flaco Jimenez: accordion

Miguel Cruiz: percussion

Steve Douglas: sax

George Bohannon: trombone

Singers:

Bobby King: tenor

Terry Evans: baritone

Arnold McCuller: tenor

Willie Green Jr: bass

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BUMP! Ladies and Gentlemen Mr Bo DIDDLEY ‘CRACKIN’ UP’ (with Mr Ronald Wood)

 Ron Wood & Bo Diddley - Crackin' Up - 11/20/1987

Needed bumping to cheers us all up! If you play one thing today make it this!

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Rory Gallagher - LIVE! Walking Blues, Moonchild |Top Hat Crew's "Live Music Archives"

 

Walkin’ Blues

 

Moonchild

I have been taken to task by some about my dislike of lots of ‘heavier' guitarists not just American as some have suggested [it really isn’t just the Joe Bonamassa’s,  the Derk Trucks’ of this world. I don’t care for Jimmy Page (riff based rhythm guitarist maybe only), nor many others but if you really want to know who I rate RIGHT UP THERE

It’s this man

Rory!

This is how you play the slide acoustic guitar and then plug in and rock it to boot!

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To Banjo PICKIN’ Yeehawww! | I Don't Love Nobody · J.C. Sutphin, Bob Shanklin, and Hazel Dickens

 

I Don't Love Nobody · J.C. Sutphin, Bob Shanklin, and Hazel Dickens

ZYDECO! Fais Do Do! Ehhh TOI! Chez Seychelles - Beausoleil

Seeing as how we will all end up back in the woods sooner or later how about some Cajun?

Fais do-do! Doh!

Start the day with THE CLARKE FAMILY! : KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND BOOGIE SHOES! (cover!)

 

I defy you NOT TO SMILE!

I LOVE THIS BAND!

THE CLARKE FAMILY!

You’re welcome!

Half Man Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots (Live on Whistle Test 1986)

Speaking of Half Man Half Biscuit my ‘cousin’ Geoff reminded me of this The Trumpton Riots

⚽️ Half Man Half Biscuit - The Referree's Alphabet [The Cammell Laird Social Club.]

 The Referee’s alphabet - Half Man Half Biscuit!

For my ole pal Phil! (and my son)

They’ll know why!

⚽️

Deportees!

 As Facebook’s Alan Bershaw so wisely points out "Woody Guthrie wrote these lyrics 74 years ago and this penetrating performance is from 48 years ago, yet the song couldn't be more relevant today. "You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane. All they will call you will be deportees."

albums bought when they came out no.39

On November 2, 1973, Apple Records released "Ringo", Ringo Starr's third studio album, in the US. It is his biggest commercial and critical success. 

I loved this album and it contained a few tracks that still haunt me today and ones that I certainly still play

DUIT ON MON DEI!

 

QUINCY!

 

A legend a titan is gone and we won’t see his like again. 

There wasn’t a genre of music anywhere that this man didn’t touch!

Quincy Jones, the music producer and industry titan, has died aged 91. 
Jones was arguably the most versatile pop cultural figure of the 20th century, perhaps best known for producing the albums Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad for Michael Jackson in the 1980s, which made the singer the biggest pop star of all time. Jones also produced music for Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer and many others.
“Everybody, no matter what vocation they’re looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It’s so powerful.”

Photo: LA Times

Don's Tunes

Stuff Like That!

State of the Union! Nearly there . . . . . . (but not holding our breath!)

 I found this on a blog I visit regularly but just you wait and watch as Merkins vote him back in!

(for Jobe and the simpatico boys ( n gals!) Get out and for pity’s sake VOTE!)

"This is Donald Trump’s sick, sadistic closing argument in the final days of his third presidential run: a threat against the women of America.

At a rally Wednesday night, Trump insisted he’s going to “protect” women—against their will. Whether they like it or not. Because he’s the president.

[My people told me about four weeks ago, I would say, “No, I want to protect the people, I want to protect the women of our country. I want to protect the women.”

“Sir, please don’t say that.”

“Why?”

They said, “We think it’s—we think it’s very inappropriate for you to say.”

I say, “Why? I’m president. I want to protect the women of our country.”

They said, “Sir, I just think it’s inappropriate for you to say.” I pay these guys a lot of money, can you believe it?

I said, “Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them.”]

If that sounds all too familiar—that threat to force himself on women because he has the power and can do whatever he wants—it should.

[...]

These are the facts. This is who Trump is. This is who he tells us he is, over and over again. The man who grabs them by the pussy, without even waiting, because he believes he can get away with it.

The man who is going to “protect” women, whether they like it or not. Because he thinks he’s a star. Because he thinks he’s the president. Because he believes he can get away with it. 

Gross sexist pig Donald Trump demeaned women yet against at Wednesday night’s propaganda rally in Green Bay by threatening to “protect” women “whether the women like it or not.”

On Tuesday, this sexual assaulter and adjudicated rapist should be defeated at the ballot box."

Go on . . . . .you can do it!

So perhaps we shall sign off with the master, The King of Soul himself : OTIS Redding - Try a Little Tenderness

Otis

Try A Little Tenderness

one of the finest songs ever written, certainly of soul music but right across modern writing in its entirety in my opinion as a plea as to how to treat the opposite sex

Glorious and thank you for your company this week I will bid you Goodnight and look forward to our continued musical journey nest week starting tomorrow . sleep well my compatriots in music - Andy

Apple Music: Click Here Spotify: Click Here DavidByrne.com: Click Here I’m almost finished with the 900-page world music tome “And the Roots of Rhythm Remain” by my friend Joe Boyd. Each long chapter covers a whole region. There’s an African chapter that covers Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Senegal, Guinea, Mali, and more. He writes about the evolution of the music, of course, but importantly, he includes the political, economic, and global forces that allowed some music to evolve and flourish and others to wither. I fell into a rabbit hole of Congo music in the mid- to late-80s, and Kanda Bongo Man was an act that always got my feet moving. The style was called soukous and was sometimes referred to as rhumba, though soukous is a very different groove than the fairly complex Cuban rumba, which of course itself has African roots. The influences crossed the Atlantic many times. The Congo musicians heard Cuban music (Trio Matamoros, for example) and reinterpreted that and other Cuban grooves with electric guitars. The Franco tune, Nguni Nguni, shares its Cuban roots with songs that will be familiar to Anglo listeners—Twist and Shout, La Bamba, and a hundred others—you can sing Twist and Shout over Franco’s guitar and percussion groove. Here’s a tutorial on a soukous guitar solo (they always play high up the guitar neck) - David Byrne, NYC Listen to November's Playlist! Apple Music: Click Here Spotify: Click Here DavidByrne.com: Click Here

Flagging Down the Double Es Newsletter | RAY PADGETT | Bob plays piano

Fall 2002: Bob Plays the Piano and Covers His Peers

2002-11-01 Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL / 2002-11-13 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

RAY PADGETT

By random coincidence, this month I have two subscriber requests for two November 2002 shows a couple weeks apart. 

One a famous and beloved show, the other a lesser-known gem.
So I thought I’d do ‘em both in one newsletter. First I’ll check in on where Dylan was at during the Fall 2002 tour 

and see what these shows share in common. Then I’ll share some individual highlights from each show.

Bob Dylan in Fall 2002

The big news: This is the first piano tour! Well, partially. Up until this tour—like, his entire career—Dylan almost entirely 

played guitar onstage. Soon after this tour—for the next twenty-plus years and counting—he almost entirely played piano. 

But, for this transitional tour, he picked a middle ground. Every show was half piano, half guitar. He switched back and forth all night. It makes less difference on the tapes than you might think. While you can hear the piano if you listen, it’s not yet very prominent. Perhaps the main change is you get a lot fewer aimless Bob guitar solos, and more space for the two hotshot guitarists flanking him to stretch out (including, in Larry Campbell’s case, playing a lot of instruments other than guitar).

read on here . . . .

Little Village - Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA April 26, 1992 [FM Broadcast] |soundaboard

Little Village Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA April 26, 1992

Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA

April 26, 1992

FM Broadcast (WBCN),

mp3 @ 256

(Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Nick Lowe, Jim Keltner)

Disc 1: 66:22

1. Introduction 1:03

2. She Runs Hot 3:57

3. Band introduction by Nick Lowe 2:53

4. The Action 3:37

5. Fool Who Knows 4:31

6. Crazy About an Automobile 6:06

7. Inside Job 5:23

8. Do You Want My Job? 6:36

9. Alone in the Dark 5:42

10. Take Another Look 4:57

11. Solar Sex Panel 4:57 (tape flip during applause)

12. Don't Think About Her When You're Trying to Drive 6:04

13. Memphis in the Meantime 5:28

14. Crying in My Sleep 5:06

Disc 2: 53:54

15: Don't Go Away Mad 5:10

16: Big Love 8:15

17: Little Sister 4:35

18: Across the Borderline 7:39

19: Carter Alan Encore Break #1 1:07

20: Don't Bug Me When I'm Workin' 5:58 [tape flip during applause]

21: Half a Boy and Half a Man 3:52

22: Announcer Encore Break #2 1:00

23: Thing Called Love 7:46

24: Lipstick Sunset 6:11

25: Carter Alan Closing Credits 2:19

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Classics pop songs revisited | K.D. Lang - Constant Craving 1992 | Route Books

 I don’t think I know anyone who doesn’t like this or bought it come to that!

Happy birthday to k.d. lang, born as Kathryn Dawn Lang in Edmonton, Alberta on this day in 1961. 

Route

Song of the Day | Pernice Brothers - Wait To Stop (Overcome By Happiness)

Wait To StopPernice BrothersOvercome By Happiness

More from the bros!

Sunday morning listening  . . . . .

Jorma Kaukonen - Embryonic Journey (live)

 Just because . . . . . . well Jorma

EMBRYONIC JOURNEY

back in the day someone said of the Joplin Band ‘Big Brother' and all the SF acolytes, the Dead and The Airplane that they couldn't play . . . . . . . I always played them this favourite track

Here at its best! I so wanted it to go on longer . . . . . . .say oooh, I don’t know, half an hour!?

Hoping they went to bed that night on a surrealist pillow?

this one posted and tidied up I think from guitar super fan :

Alan Bershaw

Who says of this "A new friend recently sent me some video to evaluate and possibly try to restore. It was the raw footage and the final edited footage for "Guitar Player News", a shortlived cable TV show that aired in the early 1980s. I'd never even heard of it, but the footage is for an episode with Jorma Kaukonen and David Bromberg, filmed at Studio West in San Francisco in September of 1983. Its cool footage and sharing all of it is already in the works, but here's a sweet preview of Jorma's signature song, "Embryonic Journey." He's probably played this song thousands of times, but I don't recall it ever being captured so well! Fingers crossed this stays in sync on the upload, as you can really see his fingers dancin' here!”

Spot on Alan