So I didn’t post much Gary (Lucas) the past few days and sometimes we take a break and I don’t want anyone thinking I'm obsessive and choosing anything he posts. I am truly not but today he chose this to post and I thought it was really beautiful! In memoriam to his friend an collaborator Jeff Buckley
Welcome to The Boys of Dungeon Lane…Paul says: "This album is now yours. I just hope people can sit back, relax, and stick the vinyl on, or put on their headphones, play it on their phone, stream it, or whatever, and simply enjoy listening to it. That’s my aim: to bring something people can enjoy, and the more they enjoy it, the happier I am."@joshmac.tv
I've already posted albums from Cooder, so I won't say much about him. But I'll note this concert took place a couple of weeks before the release of his album "Paradise and Lunch.”* It was one of the most acclaimed albums of his music career. However, he only performed one song from that album, the medley of "Fool for a Cigarette - Feelin' Good."
As usual with these Ebbets Field concerts, the music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent.
This album is 56 minutes long.
01 talk by emcee
02 talk
03 Too Tight Blues
04 You've Been Doing Something Wrong [I Can Tell by the Way You Smell]
05 talk
06 Blind Man Messed Up by Tear Gas
07 talk
08 Great Dream from Heaven [Instrumental]
09 talk
10 How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
11 Ax Sweet Mama
12 talk
13 Floating Bridge
14 talk
15 Fool for a Cigarette - Feelin' Good
16 Crazy 'bout an Automobile [Every Woman I Know]
17 talk
18 Feelin' like a Submarine [Kentucky Blues]
19 Don't Take Everybody to Be a Friend
(all songs Ry Cooder)
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Paul notes: This is the third out of six "Covered" volumes for George Harrison.
I had a lot to say about the development of Harrison's songwriting in Volumes 1 and 2. But after a flurry of activity in the late 1980s with his very successful "Cloud Nine" album and two albums with the Traveling Wilburys, his music career slowed waaaay down for the rest of his life. In fact, after a short tour of Japan with Eric Clapton in 1992, he pretty much retired from the music business for the rest of his life. He made slow progress on another studio album, "Brainwashed," but it wasn't released until 2002, a year after his death.
Yet even though he spent many years away from music (with 15 years between his last two solo albums!), he did enough to get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 for his solo career, in addition to already being inducted in 1987 for being a member of the Beatles.
That brings us to his unfortunate death. He died on November 29, 2001, at the age of 58. On December 30, 1999, Harrison was attacked in his home by an insane man. He was stabbed over 40 times, and barely survived. He died in 2001 of lung cancer, probably a result of a life of smoking. But friends and family say he was physically strong until the knife attack on him in 1999, and quite weak after that. So they blamed the attack for putting him in a condition where he was unable to fight off the cancer.
At any rate, Harrison's songs weren't covered much in most of the time frame here. Only the first four songs in this volume were recorded prior to his death in 2001. But after he died, there was a flood of tribute concerts and cover versions to celebrate his great musical career.
One thing I want to address here is his role in the Traveling Wilburys, the short-lived supergroup consisting of Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. I've tried to include covers of all the good songs Harrison wrote or co-wrote from his Beatles career and his solo career, at least when there are worthy cover versions of them. But with the Traveling Wilburys, I wanted to be more selective. Technically, all the songs on both of that band's albums were co-written by all the members. But in reality, most of them were primarily, or sometimes entirely, written by one member. So it doesn't make sense for me to include a cover of a song like "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" here, when that one clearly sounds like a Bob Dylan song.
Thus, I did a little digging to figure out which Traveling Wilburys songs could be considered written or co-written by Harrison. Luckily, the band members gave some interviews where they talked about the songwriting process and who did what. I may well have missed some information though, so if anyone thinks I missed some songs by this band that are worthy of inclusion, please let me know.
Another problem I ran into with the Traveling Wilburys is that a few of their songs have been covered a lot, but many of them have very few covers. I had particular trouble with the song "Wilbury Twist." I found a Tom Petty interview where he explained that he co-wrote that one with Harrison, so that meant it merited inclusion. But I didn't find any cover versions I liked. So in the end, I just included the Traveling Wilburys version. I have a rule not to include songs by the songwriter highlighted by the "Covered" series unless there's some special reason. But in this case, a majority of the lead vocals are sung by other members in the band, so it's not exactly a cover of Harrison being the main singer anyway.
This album is one hour long.
01 Wilbury Twist (Traveling Wilburys)
02 That Kind of Woman (Gary Moore)
03 Cheer Down (Rainer, Joey Burns & John Convertino)
04 I Me Mine (Elliott Smith)
05 Horse to the Water (Jools Holland, Sam Brown & Jim Capaldi)
06 For You Blue (Paul McCartney)
07 Isn't It a Pity (Eric Clapton & Billy Preston)
08 You (Lisa Mychols)
09 When We Was Fab (Wendy Ip)
10 Love You To (Marshall Crenshaw)
11 Wah-Wah (Jeff Lynne & Eric Clapton)
12 Savoy Truffle (They Might Be Giants)
13 Old Brown Shoe (Leslie West)
14 Devil's Radio (Masters of Reality)
15 Give Me Love [Give Me Peace on Earth] (Dave Davies)
16 Long, Long, Long (Elliott Smith)
. . . . . Tripping Mantras post a number of songs today that folks might expect me to post (Felt, Spirit, Early Dead not least after the good Dr covering a John Martyn song he features the supposedly legendary live recording of Big Muff from his Live at Leeds album but frankly it is the worst of Martyn to these ears and hasn’t aged well post coke addiction and alcohol combined into this preposterous monotonous posing and somebody take this mans echoplex off him!. . . my least favourite Martyn era . . . . . go check it out . . .so as for bands who truly pushed the envelope this is the Incredibles and features our Liquorice and none the worst for the long missing maiden
. . . perhaps the last Dr John bought when it came out . .great cover
not my favourite Reggae variation, Dub but this will do! Wash Wash!
[aka michael scotland]
The Skatalites - Dub of love
King Tubby | Dub of a Woman
HERBERG DE KELDER
This was where I found to and thanks to them I post this Telecaster group text from Fred Bordeneuve’s page who I don’t happen to agree with but hey, each to their own! JUST TURN IT UP!
Fred says: Alright, granted : Albert Lee was already deep into his Music Man by then. But don’t touch that dial: there are still two Telecasters on that stage, and around here, that counts for something.1990... not that long ago, you might say. Except when this footage was shot, the internet was still science fiction and VHS tapes were considered high technology. Welcome to the vault.Right off the bat: Albert Lee, same face, same grin, same stance. Not a gray hair in sight, sure, but everything else ? That’s exactly him. Already that unmistakable style, that crystal-clear picking that hits you like a statement of fact. Nothing changed because nothing needed to change.Tommy Emmanuel is a whole different story. The hair, the look, the young-gun energy, you’d do a double-take before you place him. And then there’s an Telecaster in his hands, which, let’s be honest, is rare enough to be worth calling out. We know the man can play anything, but seeing him in this setting adds a whole different color to the picture. Alongside Dan Johnson, the two legends tear through “One Way Rider,” the Ricky Skaggs classic.“One Way Rider”? More like two riders not quite at the top of their game yet, and already nobody near the ditch. Thirty-six years later, they’re both still standing. That’s usually how real class gets measured ...
