NEWS FOR MERKINS

The Vances are coming

Of course we advertised the fact with welcoming posters

"In classic “obnoxious American visits the Cotswolds”form 

 (sorry!) , JD Vance has been enjoying a delightful holiday in the village of Charlbury the past week. Well, as delightful as it can be - because many of the locals clearly want him absolutely nowhere near the place.  (This village is just up the road from us and borders onto true Cotswold country)

Attempting to hide from protestors, the VP booked dinner at The Bull, the local gastropub. There was just one problem.  

The mutinous staff all said they wouldn’t come to work if they had to serve Vance and his wife. Facing staff grumbles and a barrage of negative press attention The Bull refused his patronage.

(The same pub had hosted Kamala Harris the week before, as part of the pre-wedding dinner for Steve Jobs’ daughter.)” [ahem!]

we even advertised the Vance holiday with mobile welcomes on the side of local transport

I mean it would be churlish (nay even childish) to share such misfortune and share such feelings with the world but what ya gonna do!?

Mostly for the boys at HQ Brother Jobe Silent Way et al!

The Bull Charlbury

EMILY BARKER NEWS : blog entry for August 2025 with greetings from Warramboo!

Emily Barker Blog entry August ‘25

Emily in Warramboo

fascinating blog entry from ‘our’ Emily

She says on her Facebook page

Hello from York, WA!

I wrote a new blog post, this one is about the title track of my latest album, Fragile as Humans. It also mentions dongas, geckos, country halls, everlastings, bush lollies and love, to name a few other topics.

https://www.emilybarker.com/wild/fragile-as-humans/

Emily— feeling happy at York Town Hall.

Emily Barker - Fragile As Humans (acoustic version)

Bob Dylan - Reference Recording Studio Outtakes Vol.2, Voodoo Wagon

Bob Dylan - Reference Recording Studio Outtakes Vol.2

SILENT WAY

says

Bob Dylan
Reference Recording - Track Data
Studio Outtakes Vol.2
Now Your Mouth Cries Wolf
Studio soundboards @320

 

Tracklist

Bringing It All Back Home, January '65

1-1. Love Minus Zero / No Limit ...Dime Store
1-2. I'll Keep It With Mine ...Bank Account Blues
1-3. If You Gotta Go, Go Now
1-4. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
1-5. She Belongs To Me ...Worse Than Money
1-6. Subterranean Homesick Blues
1-7. California ...Goin' Down South
1-8. Farewell Angelina ...Alcatraz 5
1-9. You Don't Have To Do That

Levy's Recording Studio, London, 12 May 12 '65

1-10. Bob Dylan Convention Speech

Highway 61 Revisited, June - August '65

1-11. CO 86449
1-12. Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence
1-13. Phantom Engineer ...Train To Cry
1-14. Like A Rolling Stone
1-15. Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence
1-16. Positively 4th Street ...Black Dalli Rue
1-17. Desolation Row
1-18. From A Buick 6 ...Lunatic Princess
1-19. Can You Crawl Out Your Window?
1-20. Like A Rolling Stone ...Working Session

Blonde On Blonde, October '65 - March '66

2-1. Medicine Sunday ...Midnight Train
2-2. Can You Crawl Out Your Window?
2-3. I Wanna Be Your Lover ...(Partner)
2-4. Jet Pilot Eyes
2-5. Can You Crawl Out Your Window?
2-6. I Wanna Be Your Lover
2-7. Visions Of Johanna ...Freeze Out
2-8. She's Your Lover Now
2-9. I Wanna Be Your Lover
2-10. Number One ...Trk No Vocal
2-11. Visions Of Johanna
2-12. I'll Keep It With Mine
2-13. She's Your Lover Now ...Just A Little Glass Of Water
2-14. CO 83135 …Instrumental

- Filler -

Blonde On Blonde - UK Mono Mixes

2-15. Rainy Day Women
2-16. Pledging My Time ...Extended Fade
2-17. One Of Us Must Know ...Piano Edit
2-18. 4th Time Around ...Sparce Mix
2-19. Obviously 5 Believers ...Bass Mix 

Jimi - Jam x2 Record Plant | jt1674

 This is truly extraordinary and well worth sticking with until Miles and Cox join in and drop the beat as contemporary parlance would have it . . . . . . .Jimi exploring the moment here and Buddy and Billy matching how all the way

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/791857064876064768/jimi-hendrix-record-plant-2x-jam

Ry Cooder - Dirty Chateau (Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down) | jt1674

 I bought Pull up Some Dust . . when it came out but don’t guess I play it very much . . . .  

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/791853796885217280/ry-cooder-dirty-chateau

Pat Metheny - Ferry Cross The Mersey [One Quiet Night] | jt1674

 . . . for Gerry Marsden . . . . (presumably) I hate this sort of jazz improv around other folks songs and standards or classics . . seems so lazy to me but heck, this is the river I was born by the side of!

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/791775717963792384/pat-metheny-ferry-cross-the-mersey

John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat - You Talk Too Much [Hooker n Heat] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/791774910699749376/john-lee-hooker-and-canned-heat-you-talk-too

Taste - Sugar Mama - [What's Going On? live at The Isle of Wight] | jt1674

I was there . . . and to be fair I have no memory of it, these guys or anyone anymore! 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/791885001685975040/taste-sugar-mama

More Women of Popular Music

So in a world where billionaire Taylor Swift releasing a new album makes Headline News at the BBC [UK]

Diary of a Showgirl

and as Keith Lemon would have asked

So what’s the message?!

Marianne

Chaka

Annie Nightingale first woman DJ at the BBC (1970) - she once interviewed me for BBC at the Brighton showing of 'Stand Up To Be Discontinued' Captain Beefheart {Don Van Vliet] painting exhibition and I can only assume it was SO bad that it was never aired!

Pop stars now look like this (see Taylor above!)

Mind you . . . . . Tina Turner in Los Angeles in 1971

This shot of Cat Power always worried me as it looks like she is need of comfort . . she may well just be lying on the grass of course . . . 

Bonnie and friend Sleepy John Estes 1971 ( I wonder . . . . )

Little Simz [Simbi Ajikawo]

They rock too!

Victoria De Angelis of Måneskin

Fiona

Fiona Apple // photo- Harry Woods BankBoston Pavilion, 1999-07-21

Alexis Krauss, Sleigh Bells

Hope Sandoval in the California desert, 1993  📷 © Laura Levine

Olivia Rodrigo

Sheena post Prince

Kelsey [Walden to you]

Sade

Susannah

Lene

Patti

Paramore’s Hayley

Sade . . . again (so sue me!) Sade Adu, New York City, 1992

Dua Lipa (yes again . . . )

Björk

Siouxie

Cat Power by Lex van Rossen (2000).

LADY GAGA by Collier Schorr for T Magazine.

Emily (Barker)

Emmylou

Suzanne

Tal

Annie Lennox, 1984. Photo by Anton Corbijn.

Marsha Hunt - Bianca Rock musical Othello

Lana

Hope Sandoval | Mazzy Star (1994) © Ebet Roberts

Grace . . . 

Janis outside the Chelsea 1969

 For the boys!?

 . . .and doubtless some of the gals too!

Viola Smith!