O My Soul
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
The Björk Stalker: Will Howard | DANGEROUS MINDS
Bjork Stalker a parasocial relationship - DANGEROUS MINDS
Link here in aquamarine blue
The idea of the parasocial relationship is a meme these days.
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Ashtray Heart [Doc At The Radar Station] | jt1674
For all at The Radar Station (obvs) and all the gang at Floppy Boot Stomp!
Ry Cooder - Vigilante Man [Into The Purple Valley] | jt1674
. . . . .from a favourite album from Ryland P . . . . .bought when it came out (obvs!)
Buddy Guy - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, USA 1968 | Albums that Should Exist
Buddy Guy - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, 8-24-1968
If you look at the list of performers at this festival, this music seems out of place. Guy came to rock, with a full band, yet it was a folk festival. It must be one of the very few times songs like "I Got You (I Feel Good," originally by James Brown, were played at a folk festival! But hey, I'm not complaining. Since it seems most everything from these festivals were professionally recorded, this is one of the first live recording from Guy's long music career that has survived with excellent sound quality.
At least Guy started out in folky mode. The first three tracks here actually come from an afternoon performance at some kind of acoustic workshop. So the two songs there consisted of just Guy and an acoustic guitar. Later in his career, he performed many acoustic concerts, often with his frequently musical partner Junior Wells. But apparently this was very unusual for him at this point in his career.
The rest of the songs are from a concert that evening. That portion is 45 minutes long. In it, Guy and his band straddled the line between soul and blues. In addition to playing the James Brown song mentioned above, they also did a version of the soul classic "Knock on Wood."
This album is 51 minutes long.
01 talk
02 Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
03 Rock Me Baby
04 Instrumental
05 talk
06 Crazy about You Baby
07 talk
08 Sweet Sixteen
09 talk
10 I Got You [I Feel Good]
11 Knock on Wood
12 Call It Stormy Monday
13 Mary Had a Little Lamb
Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, USA 1968 | Albums that Should Exist
I don't have much more to say except that the sound quality is excellent, like all the music I've found from this festival. And, like all the music from this festival, this appears to be unreleased.
Oh, and note that the first two albums I posted from this festival (the Doc Watson and Joni Mitchell sets) are from August 23rd, but this one was from August 24th.
This album is 27 minutes long.
01 talk
02 Uncle Pen
03 talk
04 Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
05 talk
06 Train 45
07 talk
08 Blue Grass Breakdown [Instrumental]
09 talk
10 Down in the Willow Garden
11 talk
12 Wayfaring Stranger
13 talk
14 Dusty Miller
15 talk
16 Orange Blossom Special [Instrumental]
Joni Mitchell - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, USA 1968 | Albums That Should Exist
Joni Mitchell - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, 8-23-1968
Note that while I'm posting all I have from this festival in a bunch, I'm not attempting to organize the albums into "Part 1," Part 2," and so on. That's because it was a three day festival, and I only have a couple of sets from each day. I also don't know the order of the performances.
Joni Mitchell wasn't a big name yet in 1968, at the time of this concert. She was getting a lot of acclaim for her songwriting, and some famous musicians were already covering her songs. But she'd only released one album at the time of this concert, and that one, "Song to a Seagull," didn't make the charts. So it looks like she was only allowed a pretty short set. She only played one song ("Cactus Tree") from the sole album she'd released so far. Instead, three songs would come from her album "Ladies of the Canyon," one from "Clouds," and one from "Blue."
This album is 26 minutes long.
01 That Song about the Midway (Joni Mitchell)
02 talk (Joni Mitchell)
03 Cactus Tree (Joni Mitchell)
04 Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell)
05 talk (Joni Mitchell)
06 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
07 talk (Joni Mitchell)
08 The Circle Game - Little Green (Joni Mitchell)
not really that bothered about posting Mitchell works anymore but this is early and pre-Morgellons and all that Fag-ash Lil routine that so gets my goat! Gone right off her to be fair apart from the earliest more innocent work . . .so this is short enough but haven’t listened to it its only here because of the company she was in from Country and Bluegrass masters to blues master Buddy Guy who may have seemed out of place at this “Folk” festival but is worth a check!
Doc Watson - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, USA 1968
Doc Watson - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, 8-23-1968
The Philadelphia Folk Festival is one of the longest running folk festivals in the U.S., along with the Newport Folk Festival. It started in 1962, and it continues to this day (as I write this in January 2026). I've noticed that big portions, if not all, of these festivals have been professionally recorded. However, it seems only a few sets here and there leak out to the public, and almost none of it has been officially released. I noticed that there was an unusually big amount of recordings available to the public for the 1968 festival. I found enough material for six albums, all with soundboard quality, when most years I might find zero, one, or two. So I decided to focus on 1968, especially since I think it's important to try to save and share recordings of this quality that go all the way back to the 1960s. So here's the first album, a set by Doc Watson.
This album is 26 minutes long.
01 talk
02 When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland
03 talk
04 Anniversary Blue Yodel [Blue Yodel No. 7]
05 talk
06 Spikedriver Blues
07 talk
08 Otto Wood the Bandit
09 talk
10 Open Up Them Pearly Gates
11 talk
12 Southbound
13 talk
14 Bill Cheatham
15 talk
16 Blackberry Rag
Bob Dylan appears on The World Of John Hammond TV program September 10, 1975: Simple Twist of Fate
For my old pal Stephen Blackman whose birthday it is today and he would have been 69 I think . . . . a lifelong passion for all things Dylan just one of the things we shared and I miss sorely since his untimely loss in 2012
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