another Eno collaboration bought when it came out but not as striking as the Clust one t’other day for this listener . . . . #dieter moebius
#hans joachim roedelius#conny plank#brian eno#cluster#broken head#after the heatPossibly the best recorded mini set of Bob and the boys for Farm Aid 2025 that I have heard in many a year . . . .
A great live stream, thank you to the Farm Aid folks https://www.farmaid.org/ -- view the details /donate here if you wish. This is from the official Farm Aid live YouTube stream -- for any folks who missed it. HD recording directly from the stream. I will post a link to the full event video here if it shows back up on their channel. Bob Dylan and his band -- Tony Garnier, Bob Britt, Anton Fig, Doug Lancio, Matt Katz-Bohen (keyboard). Intro 0:00 All Along The Watchtower 0:54 I Can Tell (Samuel Smith) 5:27 To Ramona 9:02 Highway 61 Revisited 13:20 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 17:31
I Love This!
Mason seems to have been more popular on his own over in the States than the UK but I don’t get why, ever the mercurial star with his stalwart appearances with Traffic and hanging out and playing with Jimi Hendrix and others but rather eclectic and unsettled somehow and so this meant that he was destined to never be pigeon-holed but the UK never really understood that! . . . . . somehow!
This is what we were missing!
Paul Simon and his brother, Ed in 1967 interlude in a Simon and Garfunkel show
The first appearance of Chuck Berry on record was by backing up this calypso singer on guitar.
Hidden treasure https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/charles-berryn-chuck-berry-incognito/
HERBERG DE KELDER
formerly Le Ramasseur De Mégots,
In January 2025, Ringo Starr released a studio album called "Look Up." It was the first album since his very first solo album in 1970 that had a overt country sound to it. For his supporting musicians, he picked some of my favorite currently performing musical acts, like Larkin Poe, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, and Alison Krauss. They appeared for this concert (minus Alison Krauss), plus some other very well chosen guests, like Jack White, Sheryl Crow, and Rodney Crowell. I'm especially gratified to see the prominent role Larkin Poe had. I've been promoting their music for a long time now. It's nice to see them gradually breaking into the major leagues, despite the lack of obvious hit singles or hit albums, but just from building up a following through touring and being really talented.
Oddly, though, two famous guests only appeared on stage to help with the singalongs on the last two songs: Emmylou Harris and Brenda Lee.
Out of the four Beatles, Starr was the one most influenced by country music. This concert was meant to promote his latest studio album, for sure. But it also showed the country influence in his earlier works, including many country-influenced country songs. Starr sang and/or played drums on some of the songs. But for a majority of the songs, he let the guest stars sing lead vocals. About half of the time, he wasn't even on stage.
I was able to find a video file of this concert. Then I converted it into audio format and broke it into mp3s. So I don't think this has been shared as an audio bootleg until now. The music is all unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent.
This album is an hour and nine minutes long.
01 Matchbox (Ringo Starr with Jack White)
02 talk
03 It Don't Come Easy (Ringo Starr with Sheryl Crow, Mickey Guyton & Molly Tuttle)
04 talk
05 Time on My Hands
06 talk (Molly Tuttle)
07 Octopus's Garden (Molly Tuttle)
08 talk (Jack White)
09 Don't Pass Me By (Jack White)
10 talk
11 Thankful (Ringo Starr with Larkin Poe)
12 Honey Don't (Billy Strings)
13 talk (War & Treaty)
14 Without Her (War & Treaty)
15 talk (Sheryl Crow)
16 I Don't Want to Spoil the Party (Sheryl Crow with Molly Tuttle)
17 talk (emcee & Sheryl Crow)
18 Boys (Ringo Starr with Molly Tuttle, Sheryl Crow & Larkin Poe)
19 Have You Seen My Baby (Jamey Johnson)
20 talk (Mickey Guyton)
21 You Don't Know Me at All (Mickey Guyton)
22 talk (emcee)
23 Act Naturally (Rodney Crowell & Sarah Jarosz)
24 talk (Larkin Poe)
25 I Wanna Be Your Man (Larkin Poe)
26 talk (emcee)
27 What Goes On (Billy Strings & Molly Tuttle)
28 talk
29 Look Up (Ringo Starr with Molly Tuttle)
30 Photograph (Ringo Starr with Billy Strings)
31 talk (emcee)
32 Yellow Submarine (Ringo Starr & Everyone)
33 With a Little Help from My Friends (Ringo Starr & Everyone)
34 talk
all songs Ringo except where noted
(one of the recordings that was done with the original producer for Songs of Leonard Cohen, John Hammond, but wasn’t rerecorded with John Simon so was not included on the album, but was released on the 2007 reissue)
I prefer The Band WITH Robbie but this is excellent . . . . . .
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During this tour, Dylan rotated between four opening numbers. All were covers, all were acoustic, all came from the bluegrass tradition, all featured hearty backing vocals from Larry Campbell and Charlie Sexton. Three of the four were bluegrass-gospel tunes the Stanley Brothers sang. The fourth was a murder ballad the Stanley Brothers didn’t sing, but, sonically, it fits right in with the rest.
Today, on our fourth show, Dylan plays the fourth and final of those opening numbers: “Somebody Touched Me.” It follows “Duncan and Brady” (Night 1), “I Am the Man Thomas” (Night 2), and “Hallelujah I’m Ready to Go” (Night 3). He’d continue rotating through all four all tour.
That wouldn’t be the only bluegrass-cover representation at most shows either. In the sixth slot, the final of the opening acoustic set, he would draw from the songbook of the country-bluegrass duo Johnnie and Jack. He played either "Searching for a Soldier's Grave” (recently revived on the Outlaw Tour) or “This World Can’t Stand Long.” He’d soon begin doing a third Johnnie and Jack song too, “Humming Bird.” I guess both The Stanley Brothers and the lesser-known Johnnie and Jack were getting a lot of play on the tour bus.
The setlist songs switched a lot this tour as we’ll see (one reason it’s fun to do a deep-dive series like this), but the setlist structure remained pretty standard. Here’s how the shows generally went:
Six-song acoustic set
Bluegrass-gospel cover (Stanley Brothers songs mostly)
Three '60s chestnuts
“Tangled Up in Blue”
Another bluegrass cover (Johnnie and Jack song)
Six-song electric set
“Country Pie” *
Four (occasionally five) rotating songs—wide variety here
“Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”
First Encore
“Things Have Changed”/“Love Sick”
“Like A Rolling Stone”
Acoustic '60s chestnut
Electric song (wide variety)
“Blowin’ in the Wind”/“Forever Young” (acoustic)
Second Encore
Electric song (often “Highway 61”)
“Forever Young”/“Blowin’ in the Wind” (acoustic)
* Side note: Having listened to a lot of these tapes, it strikes me as very funny that, in the most-common pairing, “Searching for a Soldier’s Grave” went straight into “Country Pie.” What a wild transition. It’s thematic whiplash.
Some nights he’d slot a bonus song into the first encore, but otherwise this framework remained pretty rigid. That isn’t to imply these shows were static. In only 18 shows, he managed to play 74 different songs. (Compare that to last year, where in 78 shows he only played 53 different songs.)
New additions in Glasgow include aforementioned bluegrass covers “Somebody Touched Me” and “This World Can’t Stand Long” (both standouts with the backing vocals), “It's All Over Now Baby Blue,” “Most Likely You Go Your Way,” “It Ain’t Me Babe,” “To Be Alone with You,” and the one I previewed yesterday: “Highlands.” The song he didn’t play the night before in the actual Highlands. He saved it for the following night, here in the Lowlands.
be there or be an equilateral four-sided geometric shape!
The Master . . . . Sir Lord Ralph Stanley here with some pickin’ for a Saturday morn . . . . . fer yew!
YEE-HAWW!
“It was the most magical of times because here was my idol accepting me. Actually, he could eat me for breakfast [playing piano]. I came from England and being a huge fan of someone like him and to have him accept me and kind of take me under his wing and be really fantastic to me the whole time. It meant the whole world to me that someone could show me that generosity that you admired so much. It helped validate me by saying, ‘Well if he thinks I’m alright then I must be alright because he’s my hero.’”
Elton John, talking to Elvis Costello about meeting Leon Russell, who had come to see his first Los Angeles performance at the Troubadour in 1970, and who’d then invited Elton to come to his home.
“Elton came and found me in the ditch on the side of the highway of life and took me up to the high stages and treated me like a king.”
Leon Russell, speaking of Elton John contacting him after Leon having been out of the limelight for decades, suffering from health, alcohol, drug and financial problems.
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
C.O.D Steam Laundry, Iowa City, Iowa
February 20, 1976
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express 1976:
Brian Auger - Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3, Synth & Vocals
Jack Mills - Lead Guitar
Alex Ligertwood - Rhythm Guitar & Vocals
Clarence Stephens - Bass
David Dowle - Drums
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express had released 2 live albums and a studio album
between 1974 & 1976: Live Oblivion Vol. 1 (1974),
Reinforcements (1975) & Live Oblivion Vol. 2 (1976).
This set includes songs from all 3 albums.
Setlist:
"Well if you downloaded my last post and took the time to read the text you knowA Jobe ‘Birthday’ Special
1.Voodoo Chile
2.If Six Was Nine
3.Spanish Castle Magic
4.Gypsy Eyes
5.Little Wing
6.Bold As Love
7.All Along The Watchtower
8.Wind Cries Mary
9.Who Knows
10.Message To Love
11.Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
12.Star Spangled Banner
13.Instrumental
Now as anyone paying attention knows I have largely stopped sharing audience recordings as there is such a plethora of soundboards and better that it is rarely worth it, yet this is intriguing enough and Brother Jobe shares enough of a personal anecdote to make it still more fascinating. I knew nothing about Roth until the guys shared stuff and this has to be worth exploring . . . . . oh and it's his birthday I think!