Bob Dylan - 1997-12-08 - New York, NY + The Hyde Park Prince’s Trust 1996 | so many roads . . .

 Bob Dylan - 1997-12-08 - New York, NY (SBD)

Bob Dylan

1997-12-08

Irving Plaza

New York, NY

Soundboard Recording

CD 1:

01. Maggie's Farm

02. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

03. Cold Irons Bound 

04. You're A Big Girl Now 

05. Can't Wait 

06. Silvio 

07. Cocaine Blues 

08. To Ramona 

09. Tangled Up In Blue 

10. White Dove 

11. I And I 

CD 2:

01. 'Til I Fell In Love With You 

02. Highway 61 Revisited 

03. Don't Think Twice 

04. Love Sick 

05. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Bonus Tracks

1996-06-29

Prince's Trust Concert 

London, UK

06. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 

07. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 

08. Silvio 

09. Positively Fourth Street 

10. Highway 61 Revisited

Speedy says: I've seen Bob Dylan on 3 occasions - with the Grateful Dead serving as his back up band for a set in 1987 (after the Dead played 2 sets of their own!), as a headliner in 1989, and as the lead in band for the Dead in 1995, their last tour before Jerry Garcia passed away. 

This soundboard recording captures Dylan 2 years after the last time I saw him, at Irving Plaza in New York on December 8, 1997, 28 years ago today. 

Great Rough n Rowdy stuff!

 A SPEEDY SPECIAL

Bob Dylan - You're A Big Girl Now New York 1997

Bob Dylan - To Ramona New York 1997

KT TUNSTALL - Under The Weather

 She’s British so we’ve all been under the weather . . . it’s where we live!

KT says:

"Before the times of social media... us musicians had to be up early in the morning to perform on music TV shows!

Doing these shows was a lot of fun as you'd likely bump into whoever was releasing at the same time as you.

This clip is from the Under The Weather promo trail... meaning this was recorded not only early in the morning but in the middle of winter "

KT Tunstall 

 From Love and Theft . . and agsin some posted clip of this on Flickkennabokk  . . . ever have the feeling they’re playing you Swappy!? . . . 

Bob Dylan - Lonesome Day Blues

turn it up and you know what “PLAY IT F**kin’ LOUD!

Kelly Eldridge Boesch another “made by accident”!!?

"I made the first set of these images almost by accident. I was trying for something completely different but had my personalization settings on off and got these weird, surreal scenes. The look is a bit different from my usual videos but the strange style certainly fits. I just knew #VEO3 would do an amazing job animating these. And I was right. The song is called The Impossible. It’s about rolling with unusual things happening in life. "

Credits: Music: Original composition by Kelly Boesch (Created with @sunomusic ) Visuals: Kelly Boesch AI Art (Midjourney) Animation: VEO3

Made by accident?! How do you DO that Kelly!

Again this one really got to me . . .great great vuisuals but the song too top audio crafting IMHO 

Shawn Colvin, Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas - The Boxer [Paul Simon the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize 2007]

 FOR PAUL SIMON : Shawn Colvin & Alison Krauss - “The Boxer” (Live, 2007)

Shawn Colvin
 She says:

On May 23rd, 2007, I performed at a concert honoring Paul Simon in celebration of his winning the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize.Alison Krauss and I performed “The Boxer”, featuring Jerry Douglas. What incredibly amazing company to be in. 

The best of the best. Paul came into our dressing room while Alison and I were rehearsing.  

Jerry Douglas

"He seemed to approve of what we were doing. Phew! "

And the song….. 

I remember buying the Bridge Over Troubled Water album when I was a teenager. 

My appreciation of that recording - Paul’s stupendous writing and guitar playing the harmonies, the absolutely insane production by Roy Halee - has only multiplied a million fold every time I listen to it. 

I even got to see Simon and Garfunkel’s concert on that very tour in Carbondale, 

Illinois, where I attended high school. I’ll never forget it. 

I was already sure that I wanted to play and sing for a living, 

and shows like that made somebody like me want to reach for the stars. 

Paul Simon is a genius.

or  . . . .then I found this so will sign off for the weekend and tonight with this stunning performance of a favourite Paul Simon song 

Shawn Colvin - Shotgun Down The Avalanche [Live From The Paradiso]

 "Here’s “Shotgun Down the Avalanche” from “Live from the Paradiso”, (a personal favourite venue) a concert I played in Amsterdam in 2007. This was song number 5 in the set."

Shawn plays a new song clip every Monday and if you follow her Facebook account you will get them .  . . 

so think I may sign off for the day with this from Shawn

Shawn Colvin

Yes - Discography 1969 - 1977 (ROGER DEAN Artist) | URBANASPIRINES

 Yes: Discography 1969 - 1977

So Kostas over at Urbanaspirines does his usual reliable profile of Yes! Nine albums of the prog rock band par excellence and for me with real heroes of music not least Jon Anderson with that uniquely beautiful voice, Alan White (first drummer) Bill Bruford, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Rick Wakeman (Tony Kaye, Patrick Moraz keyboard players) and as Kostas tells us an ensemble cast over the years of some twenty players

Now I found we enjoyed the first two or three album and bought them pretty much as they came out checked the later albums but didn’t really buy them from the fifth Close To The Edge onward I stopped listening so avidly and cannot really explain why

Kostas tells us . . . . 

"Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968. Comprising 20 full-time musicians over their career, their most notable members include lead singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarists Steve Howe and Trevor Rabin, drummers Bill Bruford and Alan White, and keyboardists Tony Kaye and Rick Wakeman. Well-known and influential mainstream progressive from the 1970's, and still around in some form ever since, they were highly influential in their heyday, especially notable for the really creative "Relayer", which included at the time Swiss keyboardist Patrick MORAZ who replaced Rick Wakeman. Yes didn't invent progressive rock, but they helped bring it to mainstream audiences, steering the development and definition of the genre. “

read on here . . . .

Now I have said before I think that I asked Roger Dean to come to my Art and Poster shop (Blackwell’s Oxford) and he was one of the most agreeable artists to ever come to the shop amongst many and engage with one of the most extraordinary group of fans (SciFi Yes fans Osibisa fans - ME!, and so on) he was so tolerant of the geekiest of fan base and a thoroughly pleasant agreable man

Roger Dean - Yessongs

Roger Dean Yessongs artwork

Roger Dean - Yessongs inner

Roger Dean  - Relayer

The WHO Dallas TEXAS 1989 | HEAR ROCK CITY (from UFO Steve)

 

There Has To Be A Twist...

Here's an excellent sounding performance by the legendary 

English Rockers playing a fine collection of their greatest hits. 

Still with three original members at the time since their

 formation way back in 1964.

From UFO Steve and the legendary ’SMOKER’ 

Kelly Eldridge Boesch

 another from Kelly Eldridge Boesch

isn’t it funny were we get inspiration from . . . . . . . 

Kelly says: 

"I was inspired by the really cool graphics at the Oasis concert this weekend. Their giant screen was amazing. I made these images in #Midjourney combining a bunch of different art styles. Animated using @pika #pikaframes and song made using @sunomusic I originally made the song with lyrics but ended up hating the way the lyrics sounded. I tried to make an instrumental cover and it gave me these nonsense lyrics, which I always find it funny when Suno does that so I left them. "

Now frequent visitors will know I do not care for Oasis . . . at all! and yet this is inspirational! Keep has clearly gone to the lastest tour and been inspired to make this . . . . . and frankly (genuinely!!) I think it is substantially better than anything produced by the Manc boys!! I wasn’t going to let it stop me posting . . . . but it was a close run thing . . . it just happens to have been so good I post it hear anyway! Enjoy! I did! 

Birthdays : Happy birthday to Tom Waits,

 born in Pomona, California on this day in 1949.

Photo: LUKAS GÖBEL

Happy 76th birthday to Tom Waits! Songwriting, says Waits, is like “bird-watching,” or “looking for insects. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you’ll spend all day and find nothing. Same thing with songs. You’ve got to sneak up on them.” And there’s a particular recipe for making an album. “You write two songs, you put ‘em in a room and they have kids. Songs travel along the same line that jokes and stories do. They get written down, forgotten, and resurrected. You tear the wings off them for a while and they grow new ones. Songs are kind of like your memory of something, your homeland, or what you had for dinner last night; something for your kids. We all do it naturally, and kids do it better than any of us. So in a sense, it’s kind of like children’s work.”

Paul Maher. Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters

For Dell . . . who dropped by

On The Nickel

801 - Third Uncle | jt1674

  . . . a favourite album (yes, yes bought when it came out!) a favourite track and what a line up. Especially for those who maybe wondered after Seven Deadly Finns whether Eno could actually rock  . . . the answer is HERE!

 https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/802219480144101376/801-third-uncle

Hubert Robinson - High Class Woman |

 High Class Woman

Hubert Robinson

Raucous early 50’s R&B out of Houston, Texas

HERBERG DE KELDER

“Forgotten Lives of Oxfordshire” Julie Ann Godson

Just giving a push to this wonderful woman and author of local history books which I have so enjoyed reading

 

 Dying alone outdoors on a winter’s night is a desperately sad end for anyone. In November 1771 a young man who needed warmth and care was turned away in a village near Witney, and by morning he had became little more than an administrative problem for the local authorities to tidy away. But by following a logical trail of clues, today it is possible to recreate a surprisingly full picture of a long-forgotten life. It is too late for us to do anything for him now, except to remember him as a real person and to acknowledge his contribution to his country. Find out who he was and how I tracked him down by subscribing to my online history newsletter “Forgotten Lives of Oxfordshire”

Julie Ann Godson 

Sir Douglas Quintet - Oh, What A Mistake! | HERBERG DE KELDER

 Oh, What A Mistake!

Sir Douglas QuintetIs Back!

HERBERG DE KELDER

Now let’s start the day proper with this; thanks to DIAMOND DAVE | 'Saving Grace' Robert Plant and ensemble at NPR (5 songs)

 So Diamond Dave dropped by to say had I seen the Robert Plant Tiny Desk Concert over at NPR knowing how much a fan I am of the latest band  and Robert’s extraordinary journey in music . . . . . 

 . . . . . you know what I hadn’t . . . . but I have now and it contains some of my favourite roots and Americana tracks (Gallows Pole, Gospel Plough and of course the Moby Grape track I [posted the other day It’s a Beautiful Day ) although as Robert points out they are Englisharcana! They all live nearby on the English Welsh border known as The Black Country (where Robert was born)

Robin Hilton | November 21, 2025

When Robert Plant first stepped behind the Tiny Desk on a blustery Halloween afternoon, he took stock of the relatively stripped-down setup. "This is just like Live Aid," he said with a smile. "I couldn't hear myself there either." He was referring to the fact we don't amplify voices or use monitors so artists can hear themselves.

But if ever there was someone up to the challenge, it's Robert Plant. With a voice that's only gotten better with age, Plant has deftly moved from the full-throated rock and swagger of Led Zeppelin to the more restrained and profoundly beautiful folk, blues and roots music found on more recent recordings. His latest solo album, Saving Grace, is a collection of covers that range from the traditional spiritual "Gospel Plough" to "It's A Beautiful Day Today" by Moby Grape, a psychedelic rock band that, Plant says, still makes him "weepy."

Plant and his band perform both songs for this set, along with a version of "Higher Rock" by the singer-songwriter Martha Scanlan and Low's "Everybody's Song." They close with a new arrangement of "Gallows Pole," another traditional Plant first reinterpreted for the Led Zeppelin III album in 1969.

SET LIST

"Gospel Plough"

"Higher Rock"

"Everybody's Song"

"It's a Beautiful Day Today"

"Gallows Pole"

MUSICIANS

Robert Plant: vocals, harmonica

Suzi Dian: vocals, accordion 

Matt Worley: guitar, banjo, cuatro, background vocals 

Tony Kelsey: guitar

Barney Morse-Brown: cello

Oli Jefferson: drums

This is what they page is all about! Recommendations from visitors and other blogs we check out. Stunning nay AWESOME performances mostly live and lifted from the blogosphere to encourage the sharing of ROIOs and live performances  This is it!

Floppy Boot Stomp - Voodoo Wagon look at the Arctic Monkeys

 Floppy Boot Stomp - Voodoo Wagon

“I was sitting there with my four-track and there was this riff that I had. I started singing this melody and saying that line, ‘I want to be yours…’ And I remembered the poem”: How Arctic Monkeys’ most popular song was created from early-’80s punk poetry | MusicRadar

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