I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Richard Thompson / Clark Gym, University of Buffalo NEW YORK USA 1987 | Voodoo Wagon

 Richard Thompson / Clark Gym, University at Buffalo, NY April 24, 1987

A Draftervoi Special 

 FLAC

Richard Thompson
15th Annual Buffalo Folk Festival
Clark Gym, University At Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
April 24, 1987

01 Richard Thompson - Intro
02 Richard Thompson - Turning Of The Tide
03 Richard Thompson - When The Spell Is Broken
04 Richard Thompson - Two Left Feet
05 Richard Thompson - How Will I Ever Be Simple Again
06 Richard Thompson - Killerman Gold Posse
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07 Richard Thompson - Air for Morris Ogg - Mrs. MacLeod's Reel
08 Richard Thompson - Valerie
09 Richard Thompson - Smiffy's Glass Eye
10 Richard Thompson - For Shame Of Doing Wrong
11 Richard Thompson - Not Fade Away
12 Richard Thompson - Wall of Death
13 Richard Thompson - Ghosts In The Wind
14 Richard Thompson - Devonside
15 Richard Thompson - She Twists The Knife Again
16 Richard Thompson - Real Gone
17 Richard Thompson - Pipeline
18 Richard Thompson - The End Of The Rainbow
19 Richard Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
20 Richard Thompson - Withered and Died

This is another multi-generation tape that I got back in the 1980s/1990s when I was trading cassette tapes through the mail.  While it's a few generations down the line from a master, it's a decent listen without ridiculous amounts of hiss.

Thompson mentions "the Buffalo Folk Festival" which is confirmed by a mention in the Buffalo News of April 10, 1987. The print ad proves it was the "15th Annual Buffalo Folk Festival."

I've tossed in a few vintage articles about the actual Killerman Gold Posse, who had been robbing people on the London subway ("the Underground," I believe they call it...). 18 year old criminals who would now be 56 years old here in 2025.

The guitar is low in the mix and the vocals are prominent for the first few songs.

 

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The Beatles play Blackpool - A Blackpool Night Out 1965 [ courtesy of Twilightzone)

 The Beatles play Blackpool (intro by Mike and Bernie Winters!) It wouldn’t be Christmas with some Fabs!

David Byrne - A Million Miles Away [Uh-Oh] | HERBERG DE KELDER


A Million Miles Away
David Byrne
Uh-Oh
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Brian Eno & David Byrne - Les Hommes Ne Sauront Jamais [My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts 1981]

Brian Eno & David Byrne - Les Hombres Ne Le Sauront Jamals and A Secret Life, 

Outtakes from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, released in 1981

Les Hommes Ne Sauront Jamais
Brian Eno & David Byrne
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
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HERBERG DE KELDER


again from the 'bought when they came out' section of my posts and a personal favourite album of all time


David Byrne - One Rainy Wish (Jimi Hendrix) |HERBERG DE KELDER

One Rainy Wish


lunoki:

One of my other all time favourite DB covers, One Rainy Wish by Jimi Hendrix.

I have to agree with Lunoki. This song is sooo beautiful and I love that David has covered this one. ❤︎


HERBERG DE KELDER 

formerly Le Ramasseur De Mégots

David covers Jimi!? Who knew? Not me!

John Renbourn - Blues in A

 


JOHN RENBOURN
Marylebone, London (UK) (1944–2015)
"John Renbourn, the Architect of British Folk Fingerstyle, was one of the most influential and respected fingerstyle guitarists. He is widely recognized for his pioneering role in fusing different traditions, from British and American folk (blues and ragtime) to early music, classical and jazz into a unique and sophisticated acoustic guitar style. 
Renbourn began playing guitar as a teenager, developing an early interest in the blues of Blind Blake, Rev. Gary Davis and the British folk revival. By the early 1960s he was making a name for himself on the London folk scene, performing in clubs and honing his fingerstyle technique. 
He was a master of creating polyphonic textures on the acoustic guitar, where bass lines, harmonies and melodies moved independently but coherently, giving the impression of multiple instruments. 
His touch was incredibly refined and precise, capable of evoking a warm, clear and resonant sound from the guitar. 
The turning point came with his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch. Their musical understanding, explored on the album Bert and John (1966), was fundamental to the development of British fingerstyle, characterized by an intricate interplay between two guitars and an in-depth exploration of traditional melodies. 
In 1967, Renbourn and Jansch, along with singer Jacqui McShee, bassist Danny Thompson and drummer Terry Cox, formed Pentangle. This iconic group became a beacon of progressive folk rock. 
After Pentangle disbanded in 1972, Renbourn embarked on a solo career as a fingerstyle guitarist, focusing on ancient and medieval music. 
John Renbourn was not only a technical virtuoso, but a cultured and sensitive musician whose music pushed the boundaries of fingerstyle, bridging different eras and genres. 
SONG: BLUES IN A
This piece perfectly represents John Renbourn's vision: the blues not as a closed genre, but as a living material, capable of dialoguing with early European music, folk, and the modern sensibility of the lead guitarist. It's a piece often studied to understand his style, as it requires controlled touch, independent voices, and great musical maturity."
Video courtesy by GtrWorkShp

I don’t know but John (and indeed Bert) could sometimes disappear a bit inside The Pentangle at times and here a solo piece showing his very great virtuosity, my brother and I saw him very early on play solo in Oxford and I was blown away! 

Emmylou Harris - If I Needed You [live] 1982

Somebody posted a clip of this on Flackenabokk and here’s the full YouTube - of course it would be a Townes Van Zandt song 


the poster notes From 1982. That's Barry Tashian singing the duet vocals. In this 1982 incarnation of The Hot Band, it appears that drummer John Ware is the only original member

Kevin Ayers - whatevershebringswesing [The BBC Sessions 1970 -1976 ] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/803574477470482432/kevin-ayers-whatevershebringswesing

Stevie Wonder - Blame It On The Sun [Talking Book] | jt1674

 maestro . . . . . . . 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/803634145169489920

Stevie Wonder - Big Brother [Talking Book] | jt1674

  go straight here there’s more . . . . . . Trippin’ Mantras

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/803634164078379008

Stevie Wonder - Maybe Your Baby [Talking Book] | jt1674

  . . . again thanks to me old pal Leon we discovered the joys of Stevie Wonder’s out burst of staggering creativity with the three or four albums in a row from him and bought all when they came out

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/803634807401840640

Lily Allen - Madeline (Live) on Saturday Night Live

 Speaking of stranger things (sorry!)  . . . . . . . .but sad to hear that Lily has parted from her second husband (David Harbour) but boy she can get inspired to write from her life eh? I worry about our Lils and the family adore her from her first work onwards (introduced by my daughter Amy her first album and the first tack I heard sampled Professor Longhair - I KNOW!? - so I knew SOMETHING was going on ). . .best not get on the wrong side of her but then she is Keith Allen’s daughter so you knew she would be uncompromising and feisty!


Saturday Night Live and Lily Allen

CHRIS REA - the blues slide guitar player and popular Christmas hit maker from the North of England has died

 Gone Fishing . . . . Chris Rea



AUBERGE - Chris Rea


(both tracks from his hit album ‘Auberge’)
Chris Rea "Let's Dance" Live at the Old Fruit Market in Glasgow, 1994.  
From the album "DANCING WITH STRANGERS", 1987

Monday, December 22, 2025

Kelly Eldridge Boesch - “CHRISTMAS" TOO

 Kelly Eldridge Boesch


"Another Christmas video I made trying out a surreal Christmas theme. It was (a) fun experiment. I made images in #midjourney then used #Nanobanana inside of Photoshop to turn them into a Christmas image. It added lights and snow and made them more festive. The original images were slightly Christmas but nano banana really worked well. Animated using #VEO3 and song made using @suno. Available on my Bandcamp. It’s just called Christmas “        Kelly

might sign off with this one for the night . . . plenty more to come tomorrow and I should just say I will prolly post something daily still as I don’t really do very much for Christmas ike going away or closing down for family gatherings . . . Watch this space if you need a place to hang out amongst the madness and the tons of tinsel!

HEAR ROCK CITY Season's Wassnames from Rick and Smoker!!

 The Herald Angels Sing...


Rick says
"The Fab Four - HARK! 2008 
Please post before you settle down for Christmas, 
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year To You And Yours, From Me And Mine! 
 This will let the site know we are celebrating! 
It will blow your mind!  Rick!



 If I was religious at all (sic!) I would consider this as BLASPHEMOUS 
as it’s possible to get!
Haven't stopped laughing yet mind!






Remembering Joe Cocker (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014)

 May be a black-and-white image of one or more people and beard

In this June 1970 photo released by Linda Wolf, Joe Cocker appears in Los Angeles after the Joe Cocker — Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour and traveling party


Can you sing the blues without having suffered?

Joe Cocker: It's an emotion – a way of carrying an emotion. It's a very simple format but I find myself leaning that way as I get older. It's a very nice way to sing.

Where did your unique dancing style come from?

You mean my arm movements? I actually saw myself with Eric Clapton – you know you see all your old stuff on YouTube now – and I was horrified at myself, with my arms just flailing around. I guess that came with my frustration at never having played piano or guitar. If you see me nowadays I'm not quite so animated, but it's just a way of trying to get feeling out – I get excited and it all comes through my body.

You played at Woodstock, which looks like the worst experience on Earth from the movie. How was it for you?

We were kind of lucky because we got on stage real early. It took about half the set just to get through to everybody, to that kind of consciousness. You're in a sea of humanity and people aren't necessarily looking to entertain you. We did Let's Go Get Stoned by Ray Charles, which kind of turned everybody around a bit, and we came off looking pretty good that day. A lot of other artists didn't enjoy themselves at all.

The Guardian Interview 



For all my Visitors here . . . . . . many now become, well friends 
Seasons Greetings and Take it Easy out there . . . but take it!



Michael Hedges opens for Crosby, Stills,& Nash - 1989- UN Building, NY (FM) - Thanks to Speedy

 Crosby, Stills,& Nash - 1989-11-18 - UN Building, NY (FM)

Those of you who may read the comments will have spotted that Speedy dropped by to enlighten yours truly about Michael Hedges and sent us this link where he says he believes Michael plays along with the guys plus I managed to find Hedges’ own set before the CSN so this is very much a collaborative effort!

Crosby, Stills & Nash 
1989-11-18
Hungerthon 89
United Nations General Assembly Hall
New York NY
FM Broadcast


01. Wasted On The Way
02. Change Partners
03. Blackbird
04. The Lee Shore
05. Just A Song Before I Go
06. Helplessly Hoping
07. 4 + 20
08. Wind On The Water
09. House Of Broken Dreams
10. Tracks In The Dust
11. Almost Cut My Hair
12. Guinevere
13. Midnight Rider
14. Got It Made
15. Southern Cross
16. Wooden Ships
17. Our House
18. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
19. Teach Your Children
20. Daylight Again > Find The Cost Of Freedom

Speedy said:
As mentioned in several other posts, in 1975 by the late Harry Chapin and Bill Ayres founded Why Hunger, an organization whose goal was to put an end to hunger suffered by 49 million Americans and nearly 1 billion people worldwide. That same year, they came up with an idea to reach out for donations and aid using the power of the music and the radio. In conjunction with WNEW-FM (and later other stations), they launched Hungerthon, a 24 hour radio broadcast designed to raise awareness about the issue of hunger in the United States. Live music from rock artists concerned with this serious problem became a staple of each Hungerthon broadcast.  This FM broadcast captures CSN in support if Hungerthon on November 18, 189, 27 years ago today


UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS

Michael Hedges opens for CSN UN Historic concert 
UN General Assembly Hall, New York City, NY
 18Nov1989 Hungerthon 

00:00 Introduction by Pete Fornatale, WXRK, Radio host: If you are not familiar with our first guest, you're really in for a treat. He's been a regular visitor to my Sunday morning program and he's done a lot work recently with David & Graham. He's been described as a one man guitar army. You're about to see and hear why. Ladies and gentlemen, would you welcome please Windham Hill Recording Artist Michael Hedges 👏🏻
00:33 Pinball Wizard (The Who)(classic New Age hit ☺️Violent Acoustic Guitar)
03:55 Rickover's Dream (Heavy Mental Guitar){submarine fantasy piece w a big beam of harmonics}
09:18 Ritual Dance(Savage Myth Guitar)what i dedicated my studio with - in sort of a ritual ceremony
12:02 She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals)
16:23 Aerial Boundaries {MH's masterpiece, written in the foothills of Yosemite - while looking at the sky, thinking about the sky)
21:21 The Rootwitch (Savage Myth Guitar), healer character
25:13 Woman Of The World - i'd like to dedicate this next tune to Mischa and Jasper and Ollie and their mom (Mindy, who MH  was once married to; Mischa + Jasper{MH's children})
30:23 Silent Anticipations (MH's first guitar solo composition) i'd like to dedicate this next tune to two wonderful guitar players that kind of set me on my way early on. One's Leo Kottke + the other's Stephen Stills.  i was backstage; he finally told me the tuning to Suite Judy Blue Eyes
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♡CSN♡UN Historic Benefit Concert♡UN Assembly Hall♡NY ♡18Nov 1989🎟️ ➡️    • ♡Crosby, Stills & Nash ♡United Nations♡18N...    🎙Fans are grateful to have this precious concert recording. 🌟"CSN hit the stage for almost two hours of acoustic tunes soon after Hedges finished.~their guitar playing and vocal harmonies were perhaps the best they've ever been.~C/N~ witty selves" - full article in comments. 🤗Imagine Michael enjoying the music of his friends/rock heroes; and being touched by their praise of him during the concert!  Upon hearing Croz's beautiful performance of "Almost Cut My Hair", i wonder if that was the moment Michael decided to one day cover it! ♡🗽Of note: this concert took place a few days before CSN would perform a mini-concert at the recent "fallen" Berlin Wall 🇩🇪on Nov 21🕊 
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-I saw Michael Hedges perform with CSN at, of all places, the United Nations back in 1989. Dude did stuff with the guitar -- ACOUSTIC guitar -- he could get the strangest, most original sounds -- organically -- out of the instrument. If I knew what genius was, I'd guess he was one.
-It was broadcast live on WKRQ in New York with Michael Hedges opening for CSN. It was one of the most incredible concerts I have ever listened to. 
-I was at this concert back in 1989, when CSN performed at the UN. That was a historic event and I agree one of the best concerts ever. All the incredible energy that is present in the General Assembly Hall combined with the live music created an unforgettable event.
So Many Roads
A Speedy / Swappers Special

5 Easy Captain Beefheart Masterpieces - Far Out magazine

5 Easy Captain Beefheart Masterpieces - Far Out magazine

Callum MacHattie

Sat 20 December 2025 22:00, UK

Five Easy Masterpieces- an introduction to Captain Beefheart

This is really interesting and not what I expected an interesting choice . . . . he’s wrong obvs! but it is interesting!

I normally am rather critical of Far Out Magazine but . . read on



The Leopards - Dancing in the Snow (1978) | Guess I’m Dumb

 

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The Leopards - Dancing in the Snow (1978)

"A wonderful winter song from KC’s Leopards - as close to the Kinks as you’re ever gonna get.”

Guess I’m Dumb

The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes [The Complete Matrix Tapes 1969] | jt1674

 . . . always a favourite VU song 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/803548629324431360/the-velvet-underground-pale-blue-eyes

Public Image Ltd - Poptones - [John Peel Sessions] | jt1674

         . . . . . . .speaking of favourite songs

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/803545978099662848/public-image-ltd-poptones-peel-session

Jorma Kaukonen - Lord Have Mercy [Quah] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/803482595625254912/jorma-kaukonen-lord-have-mercy

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Happy Winter Solstice!


Season’s Greetings!

 

Frank Kinsel - At Home 1970 | Plain & Fancy

 

Frank Kinsel - At Home (1970 USA)




Marios says:
"Here’s an interesting album of folk blues with a tinge of country all played superbly by Frank Kinsel and various other famed musicians including Bill Wolfe (6 string guitar) Kevin Kelley (drums) Red Rhodes (steel guitar) and Wolfgang Melz (bass guitar).

My taster for the album is the loner vibration blues of ”Gamer.” This long player rarely turns up and not a great deal of information about it has ever surfaced. An obscure release on Epic.
The Monocled Alchemist"
”There I was in the middle of the grey on beige fifties and my older brother was diggin’ Etta James singing ’Roll With Me Henry’ (Dance With Me Henry was the successful mass media cop out).
music as an expression

There was some kind of a beginning for me in music as an expression, feeling, or movement at that time. It was the only way out – or in. It was either tan shoes and a clean smile or a beer and a ’50 Merc.

Rhythm and Blues groups were a way of life and every party had a basement group composed of four or five guys who could carry on the most.

Detroit, I remember you. Expressways turned to freeways and time went by. Michigan, you looked very pretty when it snowed or when the sun set on your lakes. I sang songs for a while there: some were about you and some were about me, then I moved west.

California and San Francisco were like a new energy force that I hadn’t felt before, so I stayed and wrote and sang and experienced and experienced some more and came up with ideas to record. So I moved to the south into a somewhat populated city (plug for my new album) named Los Angeles.

This is a rather short summary of where I have been for awhile. If it seems incomplete, fill it in with your own life. Have a good day.” 
by Frank Kinsel

Tracks
1. You Know Why (Part 1) - 0:13
2. Gamer - 3:00
3. Revelations 100 - 3:14
4. Have A Good Day - 2:08
5. Like A Child - 2:43
6. "1964" - 2:05
7. Sparrow - 3:38
8. Overpopulated City - 5:19
9. Good Life Folk Bossa #1 - 2:38
10.You Know Why (Part 2) - 2:07
11.White Port And Lemon Juice (Donald Woods, Randolph Bryant, Willie Graham) - 1:23
12.Sunni - 3:57
13.Long Tall Sally's Sister - 2:03
14.Hey Who's Been Talking To You - 3:22
15.Anger Epilogue - 0:43 
All compositions by Frank Kinsel except track #11

Musicians
*Frank Kinsel - 12, 6 String Guitars, Vocals 
*Jimmy Smith - 12, 6 String Guitars
*Grant Johnson - Piano
*Bill Wolfe - 6 String Guitar
*Wolfgang Melz - Bass
*Kevin Kelley - Drums
*Paul Humphrey - Drums
*Anne Goodman - Cello
*Red Rhodes - Steel Guitar
*Nick Ceroli - Drums

(check the download on the title link or the YouTube playlist in the body text)


 Frank Kinsel - Sunni


Plain and Fancy

Films at The Weekend courtesy Swappers Mansions

 


What a weekend!


So far two films; one of the very worst ('Vicky Cristina Barcelona' - Woody Allen featuring Penelope Cruz, hubby Javier Bardem and the always watchable Rebecca Hall & Patricia Clarkson 2008) and  . . . .  *


one of the very best [Wake Up Dead Man - A Knives Out Mystery - Dir: Ryan Johnson feat. Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Andrew Scott, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close and Mila Kunis)




*Just watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona . . .

Largely to see what all the fuss was about in 2008


Truly dreadful and awful trite, little film. Slight, vacuous and two dimensional; it is barely redeemed by Javier Badem and wife Cruz. Rebecca Hall is always watchable but the stellar Patricia Clarkson is wasted here in a walk on bit part. This is the sort of stuff Allen can reel out by the yard (and arguably does!) it might have been written on a wine label whilst holidaying in Spain! Light and barely frothy. 

How this ended up being a top earner for him is beyond me. (Annie Hall anyone? This made more money!?)


Johannsson drifts through it as if in a day dream and brings nothing to it, acting is wooden barely registering any on-screen interest. Her acting here is appalling, stumbling through it with her bottled blonde, shapely, peasant blouse, jeans and espadrilles ‘pretty girl’ schtick as a kind of uniform; she plays a would-be ‘creative’ searching for herself which might be interesting to push a cliché but her acting is clumsy, trite and vacuous


The storyline is borderline racist with sloppy characterisations clichéd stereotypical ‘passionate’ fiery messed up artistic Spaniards, up tight buttoned up moneyed middle class Yanks and people who barely register as having any moral compass whatsoever! Why is it named after the two western characters who are unlikely friends? Why is Marie Elena not included and what Barcelona the key being the  report they go to whahere Bardem character wreaks his havoc with the two girls!? Really sad and predictable Men governed solely by their libido and promiscuous women trying to ‘find themselves! Laughable for all the wrong reasons it is described as a rom com! It isn’t!

3/10




Closing theme 

 to the Wake Up Dead Man film a stroke of genius