Ralph Towner - Icarus [Diary] ECM | jt1674

 This is just plain lovely. Great choice from Tripping Mantras to remember Ralph Towner

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Linton Kwesi Johnson - Regga Fi Peach | HERBERG DE KELDER

 

Regga Fi Peach

Everywhere you go its the talk of the day,
Everywhere you go you hear people say,
That the Special Patrol them are murderers (murderers),
We cant make them get no furtherer,
The SPG them are murderers (murderers),
We cant make them get no furtherer,
Cos they killed Blair Peach the teacher,
Them killed Blair Peach, the dirty bleeders.
Blair Peach was an ordinary man,
Blair Peach he took a simple stand,
Against the fascists and their wicked plans,
So them beat him till him life was done.

Everywhere you go its the talk of the day,
Everywhere you go you hear people say,
That the Special Patrol them are murderers (murderers),
We cant make them get no furtherer,
The SPG them are murderers (murderers),
We cant make them get no furtherer,
Cos they killed Blair Peach the teacher,
Them killed Blair Peach, the dirty bleeders.

Blair Peach was not an English man,
Him come from New Zealand,
Now they kill him and him dead and gone,
But his memory lingers on.

Oh ye people of England,
Great injustices are committed upon this land,
How long will you permit them, to carry on?
Is England becoming a fascist state?
The answer lies at your own gate,

The answer lies at your own fate

HERBERG DE KELDER

The Blair Peach Archive - Bishopsgate

John Prine & Steve Goodman - Souvenirs (live at Austin City Limits)

 Gets me every time . . . a favourite John Prine song and if you don’t have the album of the same name of John Revisiting some of his classic it is well worth it . . . .should be in every collection IMHO

Steve Goodman and John Prine Souvenirs on Austin City Limits

The Ink Spots - Address Unknown

 I don’t know where I heard this yesterday (on the teevee or radio . . . . )   but it’s great!

I love this sound and the Ink Spots especially

The Ink Spots - Address Unknown

Jeff Buckley - THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!

“Apparently orgasm is the only point where your mind becomes completely empty—you think of nothing for that second. That’s why it’s so compelling—it’s a tiny taste of death. Your mind is void—you have nothing in your head save white light.” 

- Jeff Buckley

'Le petit mort' as the French would say eh, Jeff?! Blimey!
 

Ralph Towner has died (18/01/2026)

 We have lost another peerless musician and Ralph Towner (85) is a unique ‘voice' and place in the pantheon of great guitarists. Legendary iconoclast and singular stylist crossing boundaries and genres we will not see his like again. He is known for being a true multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader but best know for his mastery of the guitar. He played the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, electric FRAME guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and various wind instruments (trumpet and French Horn specifically)

Ralph Towner - Anthem~Nardis (Live in Korea)

Remembering the great Lead Belly (January 20, 1889 - December 6, 1949)

Lead Belly lived a life that included poverty and long stretches in prison to become an emblem of authentic American music. He is renowned for his songs – the best known of which include Rock Island Line, Goodnight, Irene, The Midnight Special and Cotton Fields – as well as his prowess on the 12-string guitar. In his sixty-plus years, he essentially lived two distinctly different lives: first, as a field worker, blues singer, rambling man and prisoner in the rural South; second, as a city-dwelling folksinger, performer and recording artist in the urban North.

John A. Lomax, the esteemed Library of Congress folk music anthropologist, discovered Lead Belly serving time (for assault and murder) at the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in 1934. He immediately saw that Lead Belly was a walking anthology of African-American music, and arranged for him to come to New York, where he created a sensation. Reporters followed Lead Belly everywhere, theaters clamored to book him and celebrities thronged to his concerts. His influence on a later generation of popular musicians was massive: Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Van Morrison, Robert Plant and Beck have all paid their respects.

Photo: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

I have said how important Ledbelly was to me as a teenager and growing up with a precocious knowledge and affection for the early blues masters from Broonzy, John Hurt and Josh White to McGhee and Terry but Leadbelly somehow towered above even Wolf for me.   I wandered to streets of my little southern village belting out Good night Irene at the top of my lungs! Western Plains Cowboy too!  

Come a-cow cow yickie yickie yay!

Tuba Skinny - Biscuit Roller

 Tuba Skinny - Biscuit Roller (feat. Leonie Evans on vocals and guest pianist David Boeddinghaus)

Love this and just a heads up but been getting a tad frustrated with the number of fake sites and posts around on Facebook the guys have ONE page but in my experience go to their posts on YouTube and for purchases of their fine FINE albums go the website . . . you won’t be disappointed! Hence this . . . . 

oh and maybe just an aside Flickennabokk now issues a warning around the use of the word skinny which is an irritant if brave (sic!?) attempt at warning those with issues over bullying and weight I guess but there are more meanings to the word ‘skinny' . . . it can mean ‘info' as in the ‘beef’ or information as in "give me the skinny on it Jim!” 

Tuba Skinny official Facebook

Tuba Skinny 🕸

buy the music here . . . .

Tuba Skinny

Richard Thompson - The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA April 26, 1987 | VOODOO WAGON | A Draftervoi Special +

 

Richard Thompson - The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA April 26, 1987

 draftervoi

Richard Thompson
The Birchmere, 
Alexandria, VA 
April 26, 1987

01 Richard Thompson - (fades in) Turning of the Tide
02 Richard Thompson - When The Spell Is Broken
03 Richard Thompson - Two Left Feet
04 Richard Thompson - How Will I Ever Be Simple Again
05 Richard Thompson - The Killerman Gold Posse
06 Richard Thompson - Air For Morris Og
07 Richard Thompson - Valerie
08 Richard Thompson - Never Again
09 Richard Thompson - Smiffy's Glass Eye
10 Richard Thompson - Wall of Death
11 Richard Thompson - Ghosts In The Wind
12 Richard Thompson - Not Fade Away
13 Richard Thompson - Devonside
14 Richard Thompson - Real Gone
15 Richard Thompson - Al Bowlly's In Heaven
16 Richard Thompson - She Twists The Knife Again
17 Richard Thompson - Missy How You Let Me Down
18 Richard Thompson - A Bone Through Her Nose
19 Richard Thompson - The End of the Rainbow
20 Richard Thompson - Nearly In Love
21 Richard Thompson - (cuts in) Tear Stained Letter
22 Richard Thompson - The Fool
23 Richard Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights’

Brought to you by the supergroovy guys at the Collective For Live Music!

In this case, it's another forty year old cassette tape that draftervoi got in trade

 back in the days when we ran ads in Goldmine swapping recordings 

with other collectors around the world!  

This one is in pretty good shape, not much hiss, but it is down the road

 several generations from the master.

I tossed in some press coverage of the real-world Killerman Gold Posse, 

and also a few items about Al Bowlly, including a September 2, 1941 

notice that ""Al" Bowlly, popular English singer and dance 

orchestra conductor, was killed in a Nazi raid on London early in the summer."

News moved more slowly back then.  Wiki says "On 16 April 1941, 

Bowlly and Mesene had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in 

Oxford Street, High Wycombe. Both were offered an overnight stay

 in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke 

Street, Duke's Court, St James, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe

 parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at 3:10 a.m. 

His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not 

disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, 

and the impact against his head was fatal. He was buried 

with other bombing victims in a mass grave at Hanwell Cemetery, 

Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, where his name is given as Albert Alex Bowlly."

Mr. Bowlly died in the Blitz on April 16, 1941.  The Oakland Tribune in Oakland, 

California, mentioned his death the next day on the 17th.  

However, it didn't appear in the North Adams Transcript in 

Massachusetts until September 2, 1941.     draftervoi

for drafter and the boys at the wagon . . . . . . . 

Richard Thompson - Cambridge Folk Festival 1987 (we think) [28 mins set of highlights]

The White Friars Hornpipe/ Shreds and Patches/ reels 5 mins feat. John Kilpatrick accordion

08.07 A Bone Through Her Nose

11.00  Drowned Dog Black Night

17.50  Ghosts in the Wind

24.00  Two Left Feet

Pink Floyd 1976 The Animal Sessions | Floppy Boot Stomp

 Pink Floyd 1976 The Animal Sessions

a subadoo special

 subadoo says:

"There is not much info about this except that is an excellent bootleg. You can see the info on the back cover Pic.

Notes from Google:
The "Pink Floyd - Animal Sessions" refer to the 1976 recording period for their album Animals, primarily at Britannia Row Studios, marked by Roger Waters' increased control, reworked songs like "Raving and Drooling" (became "Sheep"), and the iconic inflatable pig photo shoot at Battersea Power Station, leading to a darker, more cynical sound reflecting social commentary and internal band shifts. Bootleg recordings capture these sessions, including variations of album tracks and live moments.

If you have not heard this and are a Pink Floyd fan this is a must have."

Always worth a visit in whatever incarnation the sessions for the Animals album