"One Home" music video w/ Gary Lucas, Feifei Yang, Carmen Borla & co | We Speak NYC

 ONE HOME!

Gary Lucas

Might sign off for the day with this one. It deserves it for a couple of reasons  

1/ it's beautiful!

2/ it’s in a really good cause that needs more awareness I thought

"One Home" music video w/ Gary Lucas, Feifei Yang, Carmen Borla & co

Created for We Speak NYC public television podcast series

commissioned by the NYC Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs

w/ Carmen Borla – Lead singer and acoustic guitar

Feifei Yang – Lead singer and erhu

Willie Martinez – Percussion and Spanish vocal

Yacouba Sissoko – Kora and Bambara vocal

Luis Roberto Cochimuel – Kena and Kichwa vocal

Gary Lucas – Electric slide guitar

Julie Acosta – Trumpet

Valeriya Sholokhova – Cello and Ukrainian vocal

Shoko Nagai – Accordion and Japanese vocal

Neel Murgai – Sitar and Hindi vocal

Nadwa Al Rifai – Arabic vocal

Featuring Valentina Gomez, Jair Woods and Carmen Borla as the diorama makers

Music by Gary Lucas

Lyrics by David Hellman

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Marc Urselli at EastSide Sound

Music Director: Jesse Heasly (and bass, on the recording) 

Directed by Marc Lesser

Creator and Executive Producer: David Hellman

Gary Lucas 

Stalk-Forest Group - Ragamuffin Dumplin' (1970 Version) | Gary Lucas

 Again something from Gary Lucas’ Facebook page and his musical taste is so catholic we share an awful lot of musical taste so I am always checking his page out. This is from the Blue Oyster Cult page

Stalk-Forest Group - Ragamuffin Dumplin' (1970 Version)

Renaissance - Academy of Music New York USA 1974 | Floppy Boot Stomp

 Renaissance - Academy of Music, New York on May 17, 1974

FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

From subadoo!

 

Source: FM Broadcast (WNEW - New York).

Sound Quality: Very good stereo mp3@320kbps.

Genre: Progressive rock, Folk.
Set: Full Set. 

Notes from original poster:
One of my all time favourite (officially released) live albums has to be 

Renaissance Live At Carnegie Hall from 1976. 

Despite the emergence of punk and the associated back lash to the 

'millionaire rock stars' and the music business excesses, somehow 

Renaissance seemed to sit outside of the fury.

For me it was simply a band that were both astonishing musicians 

and writers rather than posers and pretentious, and their live 

performances reflected this. Annie Haslam's five octave range, 

and the balanced use of a live orchestra just added to the bands credibility'

This is a recording originally broadcast live on WNEW from a

 concert at the Academy of Music, New York on the 17th May 1974. 

It makes a great companion to the subsequent Carnegie Hall album 

and the sound quality is crisp and clear.

Set List:

1. Introduction & music

2. Can You Understand

3. Black Flame

4. Carpet Of The Sun

5. Cold Is Being

6. Things I Don't Understand

7. Running Hard

8. Ashes Are Burning

9. Mother Russia

Comments:
Renaissance were accompanied by a 24 piece orchestra & conductor. 

Ashes Are Burning included Andy Powell (Wishbone Ash) on guitar 

and promoter Howard Stein on piano.

The Academy of Music was a theatre and opera house located at 

East 14th Street and Irving Place in Manhattan, New York City.

 The Academy was built in 1854 and seated approximately 1,500 people. 

It was rebuilt in 1866 after being destroyed by fire. It served as a venue

 for rock concerts in the 1970s, and in 1985 became the Palladium nightclub. 

The theatre was demolished by New York University and replaced by the 

present Palladium Residence Hall.

a subadoo special

Curiously underrated somehow this US radio broadcast is great stuff 

and highly worth collecting for Brit-Folk fans especially I guess 

but deserved of a wider audience IMHO

Elliott Smith - Stupidity Tries | O My Soul

 

O My Soul

“I couldn’t think of a thing 
That I hope tomorrow brings
Oh what a surprise
Stupidity tries”

Robyn Hitchcock - Take Your Knife Out of My Back [You and Oblivion] | HERBERG DE KELDER

Take Your Knife Out of My BackRobyn HitchcockYou and Oblivion

HERBERG DE KELDER

Gary Moore - The Supernatural (Blues for Greeny) | jt1674

Moore’s tribute to Peter Green [obvs] 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/807557401155928064/gary-moore-the-supernatural

Jeff Beck - Big Block [Live at Ronnie Scott’s] | jt1674

 . . . what a line up a favourite set with Tal and Vinnie 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/807559662424784896/jeff-beck-big-block

Postmodern Jukebox - It Must Have Been Love (feat. Effie Passero)

Postmodern Jukebox are nothing if not prolific which means I don’t always like what they choose to cover but today I found this one and it made me smile so much 

They say: 

Roxette’s 1987 classic "It Must Have Been Love" but with a 60s “Wall of Sound” era twist, feat. the incredible Effie Passero✨

Go back in time with PMJ, live in concert! See our list of AU/ NZ/ UK / EU tour dates & get tix at www.pmjtour.com

Harry Sacksioni - In The Mood! (solo guitar)

 In The Mood by Harry Sacksioni

He said “ Extraordinary! I’m not on TikTok for that long and yesterday morning I posted the recording below of my version of In the Mood. When I looked at my phone this morning, I didn't know what I saw: from all over the world, people are incomprehensible showing their enthusiasm. Americans, English, Canadians, French, Czech, Danish and even languages that I can’t even memorize... In short, this video has gone viral. Within one day already more than 81000 views and counting. Nice start of the new year!"

A favourite toon and what a version - note perfect! Made my Day!

Harry Sacksioni

Harry expressed surprise at receiving such a blast of response from all over the world from people posting appreciating for this!?

I can understand why,  it is peerless and note perfect!

Tom Waits School Days | Don’s Tunes

Veins of blues, jazz and folk run through Tom Waits's sound and the former can be traced to his junior high days. "I was going to an all-black junior high*. I showed up at Balboa Stadium to see the Flames or else I didn't go to school the next day." Ray Charles remains his favorite singer. Jazz and folk entered his life when he was 20. He became involved in a strong social clique at the now defunct folk club, the Heritage, where he worked as a doorman. He got involved with jazz, ironically, after reading On the Road.

"Kerouac liked to consider himself a jazz poet, using words the same way Miles uses his horn. And it's a beautiful instrument. He had melody, a good sense of rhythm, structure, color, mood and intensity. I couldn't put the book down. And I got a subscription to down beat afterwards."

Waits and a friend, Sam Jones, undertook their own countrywide odyssey shortly thereafter. When he returned he decided to throw himself into entertaining and he took to the hoot circuits of San Diego and Los Angeles. He spent countless Mondays on the sidewalk outside the Troubadour for the chance to cast his ego to the Troubadour fates.

"It was frightening to hoot, to be rushed through like cattle. And at the Troubadour it's like the last resort. You see old vaudeville cats, bands that have hocked everything to come out here from the East Coast just to play the Troub one night. You also meet a lot of carnival barkers in polyester, smoking Roi-Tans and giving you some long Texas routine. They say, 'Hello sucker.' And I was a sucker. But you're desperate, you're broke."

Waits met Herb Cohen, manager of Frank Zappa, Tim Buckley and, at the time, Linda Ronstadt, at a Troub hoot one desperate and broke night in 1972. "I was disappointed. I had done my songs - I was still slumping in a semi-professional thing onstage at the time - and the audience had gone henna henna henna. And Herb came over to me, was very honest and upfront. And the next day I had a songwriting contract and $300 in my pocket. We've been together ever since."

Source: Rolling Stone magazine. January 30, 1975. Date: 1973/ 1974.

 

Photo: Jay Blakesberg

Don's Tunes

*Forgive me but can any of my American pals who visit me here enlighten me as to when he says he went to an “all-black junior highschool” !? How is that possible not least the logic tells me if he went it wasn’t all black but how rare would this be for a working class white boy end up at an all black school!? I don’t get it