VA - Alt-Country Round-Up Vol. 01 + Vol. 02 (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

Steve Earle - Guitar Town

 Aww shucks another Butterboy compilation to download . . . alt (ernative) country has always interested me from John Prine, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle to Gillian Welch and Neko Case, Nanci Griffith et al

ALT COUNTRY

Butterboy says: Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined sub-genre of country music and rock music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music. Alternative country artists are often influenced by alternative rock. However, the term has been used to describe country music bands and artists that have incorporated influences from alternative rock, indie rock, roots rock, bluegrass, neo traditional country, punk rock, rockabilly, punkabilly, honky-tonk, outlaw country, folk rock, indie folk, folk revival, hard rock, R&B, country rock, heartland rock, and Southern rock.

Here are the first of 2 Volumes, each 50 Tracks, of Alt Country songs from my collection. Some new, some old, some you know and some you may not know. But as always, some of my favorites. Enjoy!

Alt Country Round Up - here

oh you wanted a track list?

y’ere ’tis!

Track lists

Vol. 01 CD1

01 Handsome Family - Far From Any Road 2:44

02 Angaleena Presley - Wrangled 4:42

03 Green On Red - Easy way out 3:06

04 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires 3:37

05 Billy Bragg & Wilco - When the Roses Bloom Again 4:11

06 Lucinda Williams - Righteously 4:42

07 Band Of Horses - The Funeral 5:22

08 Drive-By Truckers - A Ghost To Most 4:41

09 Son Volt - Drown 3:18

10 Martha Scanlan - Abilene 5:40

11 Laurie & John - Ten Years Ago 3:37

12 Jayhawks - Waiting for the Sun 4:20

13 Steve Earle - Guitar Town 2:35

14 Mojave 3 - In Love With A View 6:09

15 Shelby Lynne - Leavin' 3:12

16 Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Let It Ride 3:23

17 Golden Smog - Looking Forward to Seeing You 2:47

18 Lyle Lovett - Cowboy Man 2:51

19 Long Ryders - Harriet Tubman's Gonna Carry Me Home 3:35

20 Victoria Williams - Crazy Mary 5:15

21 Sparklehorse - Sick Of Goodbyes 3:32

22 Gillian Welch - Elvis Presley Blues 4:53

23 Silos - When The Telephone Rings 4:03

24 Blue Mountain - Blue Canoe 4:24

25 Lucinda Williams - Blue 3:56

Vol. 01 CD2

26 Jayhawks - Blue 3:09

27 Buddy Miller - The River's Gonna Run 4:00

28 Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses 2:38

29 Steve Earle - Ben Mcculloch 4:09

30 Deslondes - Beautiful Friend 2:58

31 Kathleen Edwards - Copied Keys 5:07

32 Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed 3:46

33 Sam Outlaw - Tenderheart 4:36

34 Ryan Adams - New York, New York 3:47

35 Giant Giant Sand - Undiscovered Country 4:04

36 Infamous Stringdusters - Gravity 3:46

37 Audreys - Sometimes The Stars 4:32

38 Guy Clark - Hell Bent On a Heartache 3:34

39 Tin Cup Gypsy - Bury Me 3:49

40 Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat 3:09

41 Angaleena Presley - Groundswell 3:34

42 Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Soul Of A Man 4:16

43 Uncle Tupelo - Steal the Crumbs 3:43

44 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane 3:35

45 Green On Red - The Drifter 2:33

46 Gib Guilbeau - Sweet Rosie 3:30

47 Songs: Ohia - Almost Was Good Enough 4:28

48 Chuck Prophet - Love Won't Keep Us Apart 3:33

49 Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road 4:44

50 Calexico - Waitomo 3:30

Vol. 02 CD1

01 Billy Bragg & Wilco - One By One 3:25

02 Old 97's - Timebomb 3:08

03 Whiskeytown - Jacksonville Skyline 3:01

04 Steve Earle - Telephone Road 3:42

05 Uncle Tupelo - Still Be Around 2:44

06 Drive-By Truckers - Outfit 4:04

07 Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On 2:46

08 Hank Williams III - Country Heroes 3:29

09 Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission 7:22

10 Jayhawks - Martin's Song 2:57

11 My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday 5:21

12 Gillian Welch - Revelator 6:22

13 Ryan Adams - Oh My Sweet Carolina 4:55

14 Blue Mountain - Soul Sister 4:55

15 Richard Buckner - A Goodbye Rye 4:15

16 Lucero - Sweet Little Thing 3:42

17 Bottle Rockets - 1000 Dollar Car 4:46

18 Son Volt - Windfall 2:58

19 Tift Merritt - Country Cemetery 3:57

20 Golden Smog - Cowboy Song 5:28

21 Easy Leaves - For The Darkness 4:41

22 Calexico - Let It Slip Away 3:10

23 Gillian Welch - Tear My Stillhouse Down 4:34

24 Steve Earle - Hard Core Troubadour 2:41

25 Wilco - Misunderstood 6:28

Vol. 02 CD2

26 Uncle Tupelo - Graveyard Shift 4:44

27 Whiskeytown - Somebody Remembers the Rose 2:30

28 Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street 3:53

29 Magnolia Electric Co. - Hold On Magnolia 4:44

30 Drive-By Truckers - The Day John Henry Died 3:48

31 Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere and It's Now 4:12

32 Joe Henry - Reckless Child 2:54

33 Fred Eaglesmith - Alcohol And Pills 3:59

34 16 Horsepower - Black Soul Choir 3:51

35 Avett Brothers - Hand-Me-Down Tune 4:07

36 Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life 3:08

37 Mary Gauthier - I Drink 4:31

38 Whiskeytown - Yesterday's News 2:52

39 Green On Red - Easy way out 3:06

40 Wilco - Outtasite (Outta Mind) 2:34

41 Hayes Carll - Kmag YoYo 4:19

42 Alejandro Escovedo - Castanets 3:28

43 Robbie Fulks - The Buck Starts Here 3:44

44 Steve Earle & Emmylou Harris - Taneytown 5:13

45 Mekons - Last Dance 3:11

46 White Buffalo - One Lone Night 3:29

47 Kathleen Edwards - Six O'Clock News 4:36

48 Felice Brothers - Bird On Broken Wing 5:14

49 Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire 1:57

50 Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner 4:23

 

David Bowie - Station to Station (Harry Maslin 2010 Mix) | jt1674

 

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Mainhorse Airline (the missing Geneva Tapes) Roots of Patrick Moraz & David Kubinec | ROCKASTERIA

 

David Kubinec's Mainhorse Airline - The Geneva Tapes (1969-70 : 2007 remaster)

It has always been said that the origins of the Patrick Moraz debut recording group “Mainhorse” are not well documented. Now, with the discovery after 37 years of ‘The Geneva Tapes’ all that has changed.

These tapes provide a unique insight into how the band was formed and what its original aims and personnel were. In the late summer of 1969, Moraz and his friend, bass player and cellist Jean Ristori came over to England in search of an English rock drummer and singer. After putting an advertisement in Melody Maker they hired a rehearsal room in Shepherds Bush, London for 2 days.

On the first day they auditioned drummers and chose a then unknown 17 year old Bryson Graham. The 2nd day was spent listening to singers and finally the choice was reduced to 2. The singer from that great band “If” and cult rock figure David Kubinec aka ‘Kubie’ from pop-psych band “The World of Oz”. Finding it impossible to decide between them, they were given an exam in which they both had to write lyrics for ‘Pale Sky’ in 10 minutes but Kubinec raced through it in 3 or 4 and they can be heard here in their entirety for the 1st time. And so Kubie was chosen.

These 4 guys then flew over to Switzerland and joined up with Auguste De Antoni the renowned French jazz guitarist and Swiss jazz drummer Arnold who were part of The Patrick Moraz Quartet which had already played to great acclaim at The Montreux Jazz Festival, forming a 6 piece group with 2 drummers with differing styles which Moraz named “Integral Aim”.

An innovative project of free jazz, rock, psychedelia and classical fusion (which filled the gap between the Underground and Progressive-Rock and which would have taken the world of music by storm) was over, but it makes the recent emergence of these original tapes all the more exciting. This album is a must for any fan of what became known as Prog- Rock, laying down as it did one of the foundation stones for that genre and yet these particular recordings have never been heard before.

A truly fabulous and unexpected find that shines a light into the dark corners of late-sixties and early-seventies experimental music. Moraz went on to play with Refugee, Yes and The Moody Blues, recording several albums of his own when he left them after fifteen years. David Kubinec, a wonderful songwriter in his own right, recorded solo material and also albums with The Rats and John Cale of Velvet Underground. Bryson Graham teamed up with Gary Wright, Spooky Tooth and The Paul Kossoff Band and was with Paul when he died on the flight returning from the United States.

He rejoined Kubie in David Kubinec's Excess in 1978 to promote the A&M album "Some Things Never Change" with Chris Spedding, Ollie Halsall and John Cale. In 1979, Kubinec went to the former Yugoslavia to watch his only child Emily growing up, and he joined "Stijene" a rock band which enjoyed great national success before the Balkan Wars. After the war, it was rumoured that he had been killed in a crossfire between the Serbs and Croats. This has never been confirmed, but it's certain that he hasn't released a record since.

In 1997, Rick Davies of Supertramp, who had always been a big fan of Kubinec's songwriting talent, paid him the compliment of titling the Supertramp album released that year "Some Things Never Change".  A fitting tribute.

by Louise Campbell

Tracks
1. Overture and Beginners - 3:36
2. Blunt Needles - 6:28
3. Passing Years (David Kubinec, Patrick Moraz) - 3:28
4. Make It the Way You Are - 5:01
5. Pale Sky (David Kubinec, Jean Ristori) - 6:54
6. What the Government Can Do for You - 4:26
7. Daybreak of Eternity - 4:11
8. Directions for Use - 4:18
9. Very Small Child - 4:29
10.God Can Fix Anything - 11:27
All songs by David Kubinec except where stated

David Kubinec's Mainhorse Airline
*Patrick Moraz - Keyboards
*David Kubinec - Vocals
*Bryson Graham - Drums
*Jean Ristori - Bass, Cello
*Auguste De Antoni - Guitar
*Arnold Ott - Drums

‘SAVITRI’ Hellborg | Lane | Selvaganesh - Good People in Times of Evil | jt1674

 This from Hellborg, Lane and Selvagesh and I know I keep saying I don’t care for much jazz these days but check this out! Modernjazz that rocks! If you don’t know these guys CHECK this you won’t be disappointed!

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Jane Birkin in WONDERWALL (1968)

Film Still of the week . . . what IS she doing?

 

Drawing God’s portrait . . . . . . . .( thought for a Sunday)

 According to the late Sir Ken Robinson, reprimanding kids for making mistakes during school can ruin their creativity. Here’s how to nurture it instead: http://t.ted.com/LhvEnmj

Do schools kill creativity?

A favourite Ted Talk and a favourite human sorely missed we need educationalists like Sir Ken now more than ever . . . . .two of my favourite stories here not least the one about the little 6 year old girl drawing a picture of God and the famous quote from Picasso about seeing with the eyes of a child

TED

Today’s Top Article | I.T. : David Crosby by Alan Dearling

 International Times - David Crosby If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby: “If I could only remember my name…”

Alan Dearling On the music of David Crosby.

"So, now I want to tell you a little about the musicians who helped David create his first solo album, ‘If  I could only remember my name’. They included many ‘A-listers’ from the Grateful  Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, plus Joni Mitchell, C,S,N &Y and many more. In turn, many of them later turned up in the Planet Earth Rock ‘n’ Roll Orchestra – PERRO (but, hey that’s another story).

 But not everyone is aware that in 2021, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of David’s solo album, a rather wonderful double CD version of the album was produced by Rhino with Atlantic. The original album has been re-mastered from analogue tapes."

we were both at the CSNY, Band and Joni Mitchel gig at Wembley Stadium 1974 (like someone else we know?)

Read on (link at top of the page)