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Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls: Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls 1980

The Invisible Girls were a British rock band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester in 1978 to provide a musical backdrop to the recorded output of Salford punk poet John Cooper Clarke. The band's nucleus was Joy Division and New Order producer Martin Hannett and keyboardist Steve Hopkins, with contributions from Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks and Bill Nelson of Be-Bop Deluxe, amongst others. The band played on the first solo album by Pauline Murray (lead singer of Penetration), the eponymous Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls and some singles, and later with Nico for her 1982 single "Procession".

The Invisible Girls was a band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 1978, to provide backing music for punk poet John Cooper Clarke*. It initially featured Factory Records producer Martin Hannett on bass guitar, Steve Hopkins on keyboards, 10cc drummer Paul Burgess, and guitarist Lyn Oakey. This line-up played on Cooper Clarke's debut album Où est la maison de fromage?, before they named themselves the Invisible Girls.   

*where and how I discovered them backing Dr John Cooper Clarke

An obviously brilliant follow up from Kostas today after the Penetration posting yesterday!

I bought their first single and album when they came out

read on here . . . . .

Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal (1968 usa, electric blues masterpiece, 2017 japan reissue) | Rockasteria

 Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal (1968 USA,  2017 Japanese reissue)

We mentioned Taj Mahal the other day and how it was his second album that my brother first brought a whole album to my attention after my hearing his Statesboro Blues from the compilation album Rock Machine Turns You On 1968 this is the debut album from which it comes. Sadly I didn’t get this album until long after its release!

Taj Mahal - Leaving Trunk

Taj Mahal's debut album was a startling statement in its time and has held up remarkably well. Recorded in August of 1967, it was as hard and exciting a mix of old and new blues sounds as surfaced on record in a year when even a lot of veteran blues artists (mostly at the insistence of their record labels) started turning toward psychedelia. The guitar virtuosity, embodied in Taj Mahal's slide work (which had the subtlety of a classical performance), Jesse Ed Davis's lead playing, and rhythm work by Ry Cooder and Bill Boatman, is of the neatly stripped-down variety that was alien to most records aiming for popular appeal, and the singer himself approached the music with a startling mix of authenticity and youthful enthusiasm. 

The whole record is a strange and compelling amalgam of stylistic and technical achievements -- filled with blues influences of the 1930s and 1940s, but also making use of stereo sound separation and the best recording technology. The result was numbers like Sleepy John Estes' "Diving Duck Blues," with textures resembling the mix on the early Cream albums, while "The Celebrated Walkin' Blues" (even with Cooder's animated mandolin weaving its spell on one side of the stereo mix) has the sound of a late '40s Chess release by Muddy Waters. Blind Willie McTell ("Statesboro Blues") and Robert Johnson ("Dust My Broom") are also represented, in what had to be one of the most quietly, defiantly iconoclastic records of 1968.

by Bruce Eder

Taj Mahal - Statesboro Blues

Tracks
1.Leaving Trunk (Sleepy John Estes) - 4:52
2.Statesboro Blues (Blind Willie McTell) - 2:59
3.Checkin' Up On My Baby (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 4:55
4.Everybody's Got To Change Sometime (Sleepy John Estes) - 2:58
5.E Z Rider (Taj Mahal) - 3:04
6.Dust My Broom (Robert Johnson) - 2:39
7.Diving Duck Blues (Sleepy John Estes) - 2:43
8.The Celebrated Walkin' Blues (Traditional) - 8:53

Musicians
*Taj Mahal - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals, Slide Guitar
*Ry Cooder - Rhythm Guitar, Mandolin
*Jessie Edwin Davis - Lead Guitar, Piano
*Bill Boatman - Rhythm Guitar
*Christopher Sisson - Acoustic Guitar
*James Thomas - Bass
*Gary Gilmore - Bass
*Sanford Konikoff - Drums
*Charles Blackwell - Drums

Taj Mahal "Ain't That A Lot Of Love" - The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus 1968

Birthdays: Norah Jones | Don's Tunes

 Happy 47th birthday to Norah Jones!

 

"Part of the reason I signed with Blue Note was because I knew they weren't going to turn me into some pop thing, and that's the concern with big labels. I'm not trying to sell zillions of records, I just want to keep making them and knew if I sold a small amount they'd keep me on. And I was excited by the fact they didn't put pressure on me.

"I know there are people who are very straight-ahead jazz snobs who don't listen to anything else. But the fact is times have changed. I come from a very strong jazz background and for about six years that was all I listened to, but right now this is the evolution I've taken with it. And I just happen to be on a jazz label."

Graham Reid Interview 2003

Photo: Danny Clinch

Don's Tunes

 

Mazzy Star - Live Black Session Studio 106 Maison De La Radio | Voodoo Wagon

 Mazzy Star - Black Session Paris, France 1993 

Silent Way Says: Back From The Dead...Again
Originally posted March 19, 2009 and August 19, 2015

Mazzy Star - Live Black Session Studio 106 
Maison De La Radio 
France-Inter 
October 26, 1993

Paris, France
FM Source @ 320

NOTE: This is a higher bitrate show than the original one posted in 2009 

A SILENT WAY RE_BOOT

Track List:

01. Mary Of Silence
02. Ghost Highway
03. She Hangs Brightly
04. Bell's Ring
05. Nalah
06. Blue Light
07. Ride It On
08. Into Dust
09. Give You My Lovin'
10. Blue Flower
11. Tonight That I Might See
12. Wasted
13. Rock Section

Mazzy Star Blue Flower Live Jools Holland 1994

Hope and Dave

R.I.P.

Dave Roback 

Born: 4 April 1958, Los Angeles, California, United States

Died: 24 February 2020 (age 61 years)

Glen Baxter (4 March 1944 – 29 March 2026)

So sad to report the death of my old friend and quite simply unique artist, Glen Baxter

the very kindest of men it was my very great privilege to have his work published as calendars and postcard books during my tenure with Pomegranate Inc in the USA. I am proud to own a number of works and as many of his books as I was able to find since discovering his work in the early eighties I think, at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery. I shall miss him sorely and we are the poorer for his passing as we need all the great humorists we can muster. 

amongst my collection his wonderful art books from the Impending Gleam to Blizzards of Tweed

piece commissioned by Liz Calder at Jonathan Cape when they Published 'The Impending Gleam' in 1981. The background of the work depicts the entrance to Jonathan Cape at Bedford Square, London.

The Easter Egg Hunt at Lower Chedley was known to be on of the Toughest in the Whole of Wiltshire

"Mr Baxter betrays all the ominous symptoms of genius" Edward Gorey

My thoughts go out to Carole, his wife, and their family

Glen Baxter Obituary here at Artlyst

Glen at It’s Nice That

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: JACK WHITE

 

Quite!

Artist/Poet of The Day : IVOR CUTLER

 Promo photo for Ivor Cutler’s Live in a Scotch Sitting Room

Photo of The Day - Dorothea Lange 1939 A Migrant family FSA Library of Congress

 

A migrant family from Arkansas playing old-time music. Farm Security Administration emergency migratory camp, Calipatria, California, February 1939 in a photograph by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress.

Jed Johnson with his (their!) dogs, Amos and Archie by Andy Warhol (1977)

 Not often seen and overlooked by many but Jed was Andy’s longest standing boyfriend/partner and they were considered a married couple by many close friends

snapshots taken by Andy 1977

Some people’s diary entries seem to bear more portent than others I guess

 

George Harrison's diary entry for when he left the Beatles

"chip supper with Klaus (Voorman) and Christine”