Andy Kershaw - Renowned DJ dies

 

Saddened to hear of the death of DJ Andy Kershaw and his place in UK music broadcasting taking on the mantle in many respects from John Peel, he specialised in what we used to call ‘world musics’ but in his lauding of British folk legends too like the Waterson/Carthy family and so on it was really about his love of authentic folk music’s of the world that he will be mostly known for. Not least also for his hail fellow well met, good ole boy persona. He will be sorely missed and tributes have poured in across the media and rightly so.

Birthdays: Happy 84th birthday to Alan Price

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(Photo by Maurice Tibbles)

At one time he was playing in three bands and at the same time holding down a job as a tax inspector. He and Eric Burdon used to go round the clubs as if they were in a Western. Eric used to sit in the band and sing the blues while Alan would play the piano and before long the five piece Alan Price Combo had started a regular R & B night at the Downbeat club in Newcastle. The first night there were only six people there then the word spread and the next night there were about 600 and it wasn't long before the fans were referring to them as 'the animals' because of their wild antics on stage. In 1963 The Animals, as they'd renamed themselves moved to the larger Club A -Go-Go and within a year they'd topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with their version of House of the Rising Sun which Alan had heard on a Bob Dylan album.

The Animals pictured in Bath as they celebrate their song House of the Rising Sun reaching Number One in the UK charts. Group members are: Eric Burdon (vocals), Alan Price (organ and keyboards), Hilton Valentine (guitar), John Steel (drums), and Bryan 'Chas' Chandler (bass), 4th July 1964.

Alan covers Randy Newman . . . we were mesmerised!

News Just In! And today’s teaching concerns itself with the Philistines . . . . . . .

 

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"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children.  

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee." 

Q. Tarantino ‘Pulp Fiction’ [Oscar Winning Script Writer and legendary Film Director]

Raoul Malo- Dance The Night Away (Live) | from Drummer Paul Deakin

Paul Deakin posted [Flackennahoq] this and says:  "Throwing it back to this joyful moment when Raul Malo and The Mavericks had everyone smiling and moving to Dance the Night Away 🎶💃

Sharing this clip today with lots of love as we remember Raul and the happiness he brought to every stage. His voice, his charm, and that beautiful energy will always keep us dancing right along with him.

Still dancing with you in our hearts, Raul ❤️🎸"

from

Paul Deakin Drummer

Art of the Day : Jenny Holzer

 

Non-stop, Jenny Holzer

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan’s Dream [Freewheelin’]

 Bob Dylan classic revisited . . . I was reflecting as I listened to this earlier on and that we sometimes have such classic songs recognisable by cover or associated image we tend to not play them? Anymore . . . ? So played this and it was a real treat . . . totally recall echoes the first time I heard it and my brother brought home Freewheelin! as he did with some of the other early Dylan (starting with Times They Are . . ) and we never looked back . . . . . . Sunday morning . . . . . ? Play this  (how could you not after that invite!)

Post Modern Jukebox - The Cure's "Lovesong" (featuring Emma Smith)

 

The Cure's "Lovesong" travels back to the 1940s in our big band style cover featuring Emma Smith

Richard Thompson - Boxed Set, Cowcaddens, Glasgow, Britain, 8-16-1999 | Albums That Should Exist

Richard Thompson - Boxed Set, Cowcaddens, Glasgow, Britain, 8-16-1999

Paul notes: Here's a very nice Richard Thompson concert. It's from 1999, just after he released what I consider one of his best solo albums, "Mock Tudor," earlier that year.

I have to admit, I had planned to post this as the next album in my long series of Thompson's BBC albums. Most versions of this label it as a BBC concert. But right before posting, I did a little more digging and discovered this concert was done for a British TV show, but not a BBC one. "Boxed Set" was a short-lived music show around 1999 and 2000, done for Scottish Television (STV) in association with ITV. But, BBC or not, it's a worthy concert and one of his most high-profile TV appearances, so I'm posting it here.

I didn't have to do much audio editing. There was a short interview section with Thompson in the middle of the show that I got rid of, since it wasn't actually from the concert. Also, some of the cheering at the ends of songs got cut off as the TV show quickly went to commercial breaks and things like that. So, in those cases, I copied and pasted in some cheering from the ends of other songs. But that was about it.

Note that he was joined by his son Teddy Thompson to help sing the song "Persuasion." Teddy has had a successful music career of his own. *

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 talk 
02 Cooksferry Queen 
03 Bathsheba Smiles 
04 talk
05 Uninhabited Man 
06 Persuasion (Richard Thompson with Teddy Thompson)
07 Two Faced Love 
08 Al Bowlly's in Heaven 
09 I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 
10 The Sights and Sounds of London Town 
11 Tear-Stained Letter 

(all tracks Richard Thompson except where noted)

+ BUMP Now we’re talking and that is my weekend made up now! Can’t beat a Richard Thompson set of this quality (with the guest aappearance of his son Teddy who has a new album forthcoming himself ) especially after the post from Floppy Boot Stomp last of Richard in Denmark which I bump the link here (if you haven’t got it and are a fan it is frankly peerless quality and you really need it it is essential listening IMHO Richard Thompson live in Denmark 2000 here from Floppy Boot Stomp

Van Morrison - Almost Independence Day [St Dominic’s Preview] | jt1674

 . . . from an all time favourite album . . I think I always placed this second to Astral Weeks for reasons best known to someone else but I LOVE this album (it rotates but I come back around to it time after time . . . . oh Redwood Tree!)

https://jt1674.tumblr.com/post/814228787182157824/van-morrison-almost-independence-day

Lowell George - I Can’t Stand The Rain [Thanks I’ll Eat It Here] | jt1674

 one for all my loyal fellow Lowell George fans on here. . . . . . . wot? I like it!

https://jt1674.tumblr.com/post/814156718921662464/lowell-george-i-cant-stand-the-rain