might sign off the day now with this from the mercurial and phenomenal woman who is Imelda May singing a native Irish standard that fills me with such joy whilst known primarily for perhaps a different style and made everyone sit up with her collaborations with Jeff Beck, I am pretty sure she could turn that peerless voice to ANTHING!
Sunday, November 15, 2026
Santana - Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, MA, 8-18-1970 | Albums That Should Exist
Santana - Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, MA, 8-18-1970
By the way, this was part of a series of four concerts that promoter Bill Graham did in this Boston area venue in the summer of 1970. I've suggested to Jon that he post the others, since they're all available as soundboard bootlegs, and they involved lots of great musical acts (the Who, Jethro Tull, Chicago, etc...). Jon says he's going to work on it, so knock on wood on that.
Here's his notes. Take it away, Jon:
Formed in San Francisco in 1968, Santana was a product of the psychedelic rock era which produced Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin). Santana often shared bills at the Fillmore West (formerly the Carousel Ballroom) with one or more of the above bands. Originally a "jam band" in the mold of the aforementioned groups, the group began to expand its focus to commercially accessible songs at the encouragement of Fillmore impresario Bill Graham. A breakthrough performance at Fillmore West in June 1968 garnered them a Columbia Records contract. They recorded their first album in May of 1969.
Debuting for the greater public at Woodstock on August 16, 1969, Santana released its first album just six days after the legendary festival, but finally found its footing on a national stage after the film's release. After the momentum of their legendary Woodstock set, Carlos Santana and his band were redefining rock with a unique fusion of Latin rhythms, blues, jazz, and psychedelic fire.
In 1969, Bill Graham looked at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tanglewood was an open-air theater in the Berkshires, near Boston, with seating for 5,000 and more space for audience who chose to lie in the grass. In contrast, the Fillmore East in New York City would only hold around 2,700. As an experiment, Graham organized a single show as "The Fillmore at Tanglewood" for August 12, 1969, featuring B.B. King, the Who, and Jefferson Airplane, bringing the entire Fillmore East production and stage crews, including the Joshua Light Show using backdrop projections, mere days before Woodstock.
After its unexpected success, Graham organized more such shows in the summer of 1970. This, the fourth and final show with contemporary rock in an outdoor classical music setting, opened with the Voices of East Harlem (a youth choir with rhythm section) and jazz-soul artist Miles Davis with his current electric-era septet. As the headliner, Santana demonstrated why it became one of the most exciting live acts of the era.
The set contains music from the 1969 debut Santana, from the as-yet unreleased second album Abraxas, and from the still-developing Santana III album. After that third album in 1971, Santana (the band) would begin to lose the "single mind cohesion" that is so apparent in this performance, replacing it with forays into jazz as the band increasingly became Carlos' backup group before its breakup.
This performance at Tanglewood shows the band at its peak, pushing the boundaries of rock music. After a year of growing together in a national spotlight to understand each other on stage with a mere nod of the head, the interplay among the musicians here is sublime.
My hearing of three recordings of this show reveals that there was almost no speaking between songs, just a natural flow of music. My audio edits removed blips and silent gaps between songs from the prior poor edits of others, as well as deleting useless fades which broke up that natural flow that the audience heard in Tanglewood.
This album is an hour and 15 minutes long.
01 talk by Bill Graham
02 Batuka - Se a Cabo
03 Black Magic Woman - Gypsy Queen
04 Oye Como Va
05 Incident at Neshebur [Instrumental]
06 Toussaint L'Ouverture [Instrumental]
07 Evil Ways
08 Hope You're Feeling Better
09 Treat [Instrumental]
10 Savor - Jingo
11 Soul Sacrifice [Instrumental]
12 Gumbo [Instrumental]
13 Persuasion
14 talk by Bill Graham
(all tracks Santana)
My favourite line-up and in their absolute prime!
Santana - Soul Sacrifice | Live at Tanglewood (1970)
Santana - Full Concert [HD] | Live at Tanglewood (1970) in 12 chapters
Compay Segundo - Lo Mejor De La Vida 1998 | TWILIGHTZONE
Compay Segundo "Lo Mejor De La Vida" 1998
Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles (18 November 1907 – 13 July 2003), known professionally as "Compay Segundo", was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer...
...Compay (meaning compadre) Segundo, so called because he was always second voice in his musical partnerships, was born in Siboney, Cuba, and moved to Santiago de Cuba at the age of nine. His first engagement was in the Municipal Band of Santiago de Cuba, directed by his teacher, Enrique Bueno. In 1934, after a spell in a quintet, he moved to Havana, where he also played the clarinet in the Municipal Band. He also learned to play the guitar and the tres, which became his usual instruments. Compay Segundo also invented the armónico, a seven-stringed guitar-like instrument, to fill the harmonic jump between the Spanish guitar and the tres.[1] In the 1950s he became well known as the second voice and tres player in Los Compadres, a duo he formed with Lorenzo Hierrezuelo in 1947. Los Compadres were one of the most successful Cuban duos of their time. Greater international fame came later, in 1997, with the release of the Buena Vista Social Club album, a hugely successful recording which won several Grammy awards. Compay Segundo appeared in the Wim Wenders film of the same title
...to be continued... - wiki
track listing:
1 El Camisón De Pepa 2 Tú Querías Jugar 3 Desdichado 4 La Ternera 5 Para Vigo Me Voy 6 Fidelidad 7 Cuba Y España 8 Es Mejor Vivir Así 9 Frutas Del Caney 10 La Juma Del Ayer 11 Linda Graciela 12 La Pluma 13 Juliancito (Tu Novia Te Botó) 14 Son De Negros En Cuba
of all the stars to be that came from the Buena Vista Social Club album with Ry Cooder and filmed by Wim Wenders amongst several stand out performers came Compay Segundo
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
TWOFER! | from James Rigby this Sunday | Cugsy’s Cakewalk & latest Running With The Smiths
CUGSY'S CAKEWALK
CUGSY'S CAKEWALK - BY JAMES RIGBY
TUNED - DADDAD
3 days ago - missed this one , we like a cakewalk hey?
RUNNING WITH THE SMITHS
RUNNING WITH THE SMITHS - BY JAMES RIGBY
TUNED - CGCGCE
posted 9 hours ago
as someone posted one James’Facebook page
"There is skilled, and there is holy shit is he skilled!!!!!"
Flagging Down The Double E Newsletter November 26 | RAY PADGETT
David Mansfield Remembers Touring with Bob Dylan on Rolling Thunder 1976
“He might have been miserable, but we all got the benefit of it.”
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Six years ago, David Mansfield was one of the very first musicians I interviewed for this newsletter. Mansfield played pedal steel, mandolin, violin, and a host of other stringed instruments for Bob Dylan during both legs of Rolling Thunder and 1978 too. Joan Baez introduces him as “Little Davy” a couple times on the new box set, and she wasn’t exaggerating—he was only 19 years old at the time, the youngest member of the band by some distance.
Our first interview, though, was exclusively focused on Rolling Thunder 1975, then celebrating its 45th anniversary. So, for my recent MOJO cover story on Rolling Thunder 1976 (still on stands!), I wanted to reconnect with Mansfield to talk about the second leg of Rolling Thunder. I used a half-dozen quotes in that MOJO article, but there was so much great stuff left on the cutting room floor. So here is the extended version of my conversation with Mansfield a few months back.
If you can’t find the new issue of MOJO on a newsstand, you can buy it online here. Read a short sample from it here.
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Okay, on to my new interview with Rolling Thunder multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield…
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For Ray . . . mostly
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Live 1976)
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