Again someone posted this on Flickennabokk and the clip made me seek out the full version of Bob singing with Eric Clapton on a curiously up tempo country style Don’t Think Twice
The Yardbirds in the film 'Blow Up'
The Train Kept a Rollin’
From the 1966 movie "Blowup" starring David Hemmings, featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Birkin, Sarah Miles and model Veruschka. With Jeff Beck having a fit (unhappy to wreck the guitar it is said). The song "Stroll On" was a movie lyrics re-write of their hit song "Train Kept 'A Rollin'. Notice at the very end of the clip that no one was at all interested in Jeff Beck's discarded guitar. Well Hemmings character does run out carrying the neck and discards it on the street Also note all the Vox amps, which were all used during that period.
Happy birthday to Alan Price, born in Fatfield, County Durham on this day in 1942.
Tell your children not to do what I have done. Classic song about a brothel whatever else?
As the organist in the first Animals lineup, Alan Price was perhaps the most important instrumental contributor to their early run of hits. He left the group in 1965 after only a year or so of international success to work on a solo career. Leading the Alan Price Set, he had a Top Ten British hit in 1966 with a reworking of "I Put a Spell on You," complete with Animals-ish organ breaks and bluesy vocals. His subsequent run of British hits between 1966 and 1968 -- "Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo," "Simon Smith and His Dancing Bear," "The House That Jack Built," and "Don't Stop the Carnival" -- were in a much lighter vein, drawing from British music hall influences. "Simon Smith and His Dancing Bear," from 1967, was one of the first Randy Newman songs to gain international exposure, though Price's version -- like all his British hits -- went virtually unnoticed in the U.S. A versatile entertainer, Price collaborated with Georgie Fame, hosted TV shows, and scored plays in the years following the breakup of the Alan Price Set in 1968. He composed the score to Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man!, where his spare and droll songs served almost as a Greek chorus to the surreal, whimsical film (Price himself has a small role in the movie). His 1974 concept album Between Today and Yesterday was his most critically acclaimed work.- Allmusic
Fern Knight - The Dirty South - Music for Witches and Alchemists
Peter Green and Paul Butterfield - I loved Another Woman check the interplay here between two masters . . .
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Do you play rock and roll?
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown: I play rock and roll a lot of times. You see, what they call rock and roll today is not rock and roll, son. It’s a lot of noise. A lot of string bending and not even making a statement. Remember that tune of mine called “Chicken Shift”? That’s rock and roll. “Dolly Got the Blues” —that’s rock and roll. Louisiana zydeco is a mixture of rock and roll and Creole music. Then I play straight-ahead Cajun that has nothing to do with nothing else but Cajun.
What can you say to young rockers?
If a guy’s a heavy drinker or heavy dope user, don’t follow him, because he’s in misery in the first place. That’s why he’s playing that kind of music. And them hard rock players, well, all I can say for those kids is they’re being brainwashed to brainwash others. Why play music that loud and ruin yourself before you hit 20 years old? And what they’re playing is not understood—no way—because everything is so high volume. Why play something so loud where it’s going to tear you up inside? I’ve seen guys that was so loud, my stomach was hurting!
What do you look for in a tone?
Dynamics. Just what I do. And there’s four dynamics, all told: High volume, midrange, soft, and off. See, if you play in a high volume, you’ve got it goin’. Now, at a certain portion you drop it down and leave it to midrange. I go further than that: I go from a high volume to real soft, but just keep that drive going. And every time I do it, you can hear ’em scream all over the place because it feels good. I can rattle my guitar and almost tear out windows, and drop it to where you just barely hear it. Every man in my band knows when to do this. That makes music.
Interview: 1992, by Jas ObrechtPhoto: the legendary David Redfern
More Steeleye Span . . for Kostas to thank him for all he makes available and for dropping by to comment and anyone who cares enough . . . . . . British ‘roots’ music!
Steeleye Span are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by Fairport Convention bass player Ashley Hutchings and established London folk club duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior. The band were part of the 1970s British folk revival, and were commercially successful in that period, with four Top 40 albums and two hit singles: "Gaudete" and "All Around My Hat". A highly influential British band who helped deliver folk-rock to the mainstream in the mid-'70s, Steeleye Span have enjoyed a lengthy tenure at the vanguard of British roots music, innovating their country's traditional songs while adding a host of their own original material to its canon.
Alison Krauss is a star of bluegrass and country, and had her biggest success in the 1990s. Normally, I'm not a fan of bluegrass, but she does it in a very accessible way. Note for instance her cover of the song "Baby, Now that I've Found You," a Motown-styled 1960s song by the British band the Foundations, totally redone by her.
By the way, note that Krauss has a connection to the 2000 movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" She appeared in the movie, singing the song "Down to the River to Pray." But also, probably the best known song from that movie was "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow." Krauss, didn't sing that in the movie, but one member of Union Station, Dan Tyminski, did. So he sang it in this concert as well.
This album is 54 minutes long.
01 Let Me Touch You for a While
02 The Lucky One
03 Baby, Now that I've Found You
04 talk
05 Bright Sunny South
06 Everytime You Say Goodbye
07 Stay
08 Forget about It
09 I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow
10 Maybe
11 talk
12 We Hide and Seek
13 talk
14 When You Say Nothing at All
15 Oh Atlanta
16 talk
17 Down to the River to Pray
18 There Is a Reason
Again Alice at O My Soul points me in a direction of interesting music unknown to me . . . . . . .
Golden Smog, “Radio King,” from Down by the Old Mainstream
Despite being put off recently from the right wing curmudgeonly anti-vaxxer stance and reactionary nonsense from the ole fella phoning in recent work to boot, this from 1973 as I left for Art College still stands as perhaps the finest live album EVER . . . . . .
BERT JANSCH & JOHN RENBOURNE (Pentangle) - Jack the Orion (1970)
Le Ramasseur De Mégots
Rory Gallagher - Rory Gallagher Live performing *Pistol Slapper Blues & *Too Much Alcohol
The Allman Brothers Warren Hayes Derek Trucks etc Statesboro Blues -
Don’t know where I found this . . . but Robyn we like . . . . Emma should I know (I am guessing - YES!)
1966
A duo of Day Trippers for you! 🎵🎵
Didn’t expect to stumble on this today… Nancy Sinatra covering Day Tripper!
Her take brings a whole new flair to The Beatles’ classic—sleek, stylish, and unmistakably hers!
There’s even a video version :
I’ve included the Beatles’ original for comparison—
1965
And if you’re curious to hear a totally different vibe, check out the instrumental version by Lee Moses I posted back in January.
UNIT 4 + 2 - Concrete and Clay
and second . . . . Hilliard to Hillier! see the connection? Well listen too! . . . . . . . . night all!
So I will sign of the evening with two pieces . . . quite extraordinary in their connectivity somehow
British musician Terry Reid is a relatively unsung legend. With his incredible voice (that earned him the nickname “Superlungs”), spot-on songwriting, and underrated guitar skills, Reid invented new sounds and others followed suit. His 1973 LP, River, is an under-the-radar but deeply loved album. Our special new release, The Other Side Of The River, features all previously unreleased material from the River sessions, including six never-before-heard Reid compositions and five very different alternate takes of tracks from River.Over the decades, as River went in and out of print, there were rumors of a mythological double album’s worth of unreleased material. The rumors turned out to be true, as the entire album was recorded twice: once with British producer Eddy Offord and again with the legendary Tom Dowd. The sessions captured Reid’s free-associative mix of folk, blues, rock, jazz, bossa-nova, soul, and samba, recalling at times Tim Buckley and Van Morrison, while featuring some remarkable guests including Gilberto Gil on percussion, Ike & Tina Turner’s Ikettes on vocals, and David Lindley, of psych band Kaleidoscope, on violin.The Other Side Of The River includes songs that even Terry had forgotten – rockers in the style of the River track “Dean,” Latin grooves with percussionist Willie Bobo, and beautifully sparse vocal material not unlike David Crosby’s If Only I Could Remember My Name and John Martyn’s Solid Air.Reid’s vocal prowess earned him offers to front both Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, but he turned down both opportunities to carve out a distinctive solo career. Instead, he rocked on the sidelines, ultimately touring with Cream and Fleetwood Mac, writing songs for CSNY, and opening for The Rolling Stones on their 1969 tour. More recently, Terry’s songs have been covered by a number of younger artists including the Raconteurs, and his voice can be heard on DJ Shadow’s track “Listen”. This spring he will be touring the East Coast and U.K. Though his “superlungs” would have no doubt served Zepp well, perhaps his solo status allowed him to be more experimental and nuanced than he would’ve been able to be as a mainstream frontman, and for that we are grateful. The Other Side Of The River stands alone as a fresh and utterly groundbreaking Terry Reid gem.
Tracks1. Let's Go Down - 6:512. Avenue (F# Boogie) - 6:043. Things To Try - 6:304. Country Brazilian Funk - 9:145. River - 5:556. Listen With Eyes - 3:487. Anyway - 5:468. Celtic Melody - 1:549. Funny - 8:0610.Late Night Idea - 2:2211.Sabyla - 5:33All compositions by Terry ReidPersonnel*Terry Reid - Guitar, Vocals*Leo Miles - Bass*Conrad Isidore - Drums*David Lindley - Steel Guitar, Slide Guitar, Electric Guitar*Willie Bobo - Percussion
More from Plain & Fancy 1966-69 Terry Reid - Superlungs / The Complete Studio Recordings (2004 two disc set)
1974 Terry Reid - Seed of Memory (2004 remaster)
